Cladogenesis and endemism in Tanzanian mole-rats, genus Fukomys: (Rodentia Bathyergidae): A role for tectonics?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 337-352

  Faulkes, Chris G ^a   Mgode, Georgies F ^b   Le Comber, Steven C ^a   Bennett, NIGEL C ^c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

African mole rats; Eastern Arc Mountains; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogeography; Rift Valley

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CYTOCHROME; DIVERGENCE; ENDEMISM; ISOLATED POPULATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RIFT ZONE; VICARIANCE;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

BATHYERGIDAE; CRYPTOMYS HOTTENTOTUS; HELIOPHOBIUS; HYSTRICOGNATHI; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 77954124824     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01418.x     Document Type: Article

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