Bioregion heterogeneity correlates with extensive mitochondrial DNA diversity in the Namaqua rock mouse, Micaelamys namaquensis (Rodentia: Muridae) from southern Africa - Evidence for a species complex

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Russo, Isa Rita M ^a,b   Chimimba, Christian T ^a   Bloomer, Paulette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRYPSIS; CYTOCHROME; DIVERSITY INDEX; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOMETRY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; RODENT; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA;

MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; MURINAE; MYA; RODENTIA;

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MURIDAE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

AFRICA, SOUTHERN; ANIMALS; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; MURIDAE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

EID: 77957724503     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-307     Document Type: Article

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