High-latitude diversification within Eurasian least shrews and Alaska tiny shrews (Soricidae)

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1041-1057

  Hope, Andrew G ^a   Waltari, Eric ^b   Dokuchaev, Nikolai E ^c   Abramov, Sergey ^d   Dupal, Tamara ^d   Tsvetkova, Albina ^e   Henttonen, Heikki ^f   MacDonald, S O ^a   Cook, Joseph A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF THE NORTH   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMATICS AND ECOLOGY OF ANIMALS   (Russian Federation)

^e SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^f FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bayesian skyline plot; Beringia; ecological niche model; multiple loci; phylogeography; Pleistocene refugia; Sorex minutissimus; Sorex yukonicus

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COALESCENCE; DIVERGENCE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATITUDE; NICHE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEA LEVEL; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ALASKA; BERING STRAIT; EURASIA; UNITED STATES;

SOREX MINUTISSIMUS; SOREX YUKONICUS; SORICIDAE;

EID: 77958489026     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/09-MAMM-A-402.1     Document Type: Article

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