Climatic change as an engine for speciation in flightless Orthoptera species inhabiting African mountains

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 93-108

  Voje, Kjetil Lysne ^a   Hemp, Claudia ^b   Flagstad, Øystein ^a,c   Sætre, Glenn Peter ^a   Stenseth, Nils Chr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate change; East Africa; Hot spots; Orthoptera; Radiation; Speciation

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ORTHOPTERA; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AFRICA, EASTERN; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CLIMATE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, GENETIC; ORTHOPTERA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ORTHOPTERA; TETTIGONIIDAE;

EID: 58149085065     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.04002.x     Document Type: Article

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