Phylogeography of the brown hare (Lepus europaeus) in Europe: A legacy of south-eastern Mediterranean refugia?

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 515-528

  Stamatis, Costas ^a   Suchentrunk, Franz ^b   Moutou, Katerina A ^a,i   Giacometti, Marco ^c   Haerer, Gunther ^d   Djan, Mihajla ^e   Vapa, Ljiljana ^e   Vukovic, Marijana ^f   Tvrtković, Nikola ^f   Sert, Hakan ^g   Alves, Paulo C ^h   Mamuris, Zissis ^a,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c Wildvet Projects   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^f Department of Zoology   (Croatia)

^g AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^h CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE AND REHABILITATION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brown hare; Europe; Lepus europaeus; MtDNA; Phylogeography; Population genetics; Post glacial colonization

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HOLOCENE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LAGOMORPH; LATE GLACIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; REFUGIUM;

ANATOLIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; TURKEY;

LEPUS CAPENSIS; LEPUS EUROPAEUS; SUBGROUP A; SUBGROUP B;

EID: 60349114162     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.02013.x     Document Type: Article

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