A long-standing Pleistocene refugium in southern Africa and a mosaic of refugia in East Africa: Insights from mtDNA and the common eland antelope

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 571-581

  Lorenzen, Eline D ^a   Masembe, Charles ^b   Arctander, Peter ^a   Siegismund, Hans R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

African savanna; Bovidae; Coalescence; MtDNA; Phylogeography; Pleistocene refugia; Southern Africa; Taurotragus oryx; Ungulates

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; EXTINCTION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MUTATION; PALYNOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; REFUGIUM; RUMINANT; SAVANNA;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

BOVIDAE; TRAGELAPHUS DERBIANUS; TRAGELAPHUS ORYX; UNGULATA;

EID: 75149148041     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02207.x     Document Type: Article

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