Population and species boundaries in the South American subterranean rodent Ctenomys in a dynamic environment

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 368-383

  Mirol, Patricia ^a   Giménez, Mabel D ^b,c   Searle, Jeremy B ^c   Bidau, Claudio J ^d   Faulkes, Chris G ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MISIONES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Genetic structure; Habitat fragmentation; Iber wetland; Metapopulation; Microsatellites

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; DIVERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HYBRIDIZATION; ISOLATED POPULATION; METAPOPULATION; MORPHOLOGY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RODENT; SPECIES COMPLEX; SUBTERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; TAXONOMY;

ARGENTINA; CORRIENTES; IBERA WETLANDS;

CTENOMYS; CTENOMYS DORBIGNYI; CTENOMYS ROIGI; RODENTIA;

EID: 77954128037     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01409.x     Document Type: Article

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