The role of repeated sea-level fluctuations in the generation of shrew (Soricidae: Crocidura) diversity in the Philippine Archipelago

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 171-181

  Esselstyn, Jacob A ^a   Brown, Rafe M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Divergence time estimation; Diversification; Phylogeny; Pleistocene; Southeast Asia

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHILIPPINES; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; SHREW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, GENETIC; PHILIPPINES; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHREWS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CROCIDURA; SORICIDAE;

EID: 67949121764     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.05.034     Document Type: Article

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