Evolutionary history of the Karoo bush rat, Myotomys unisulcatus (Rodentia: Muridae): Disconcordance between morphology and genetics

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 510-526

  Edwards, Shelley ^a   Claude, Julien ^b   Van Vuuren, Bettine J ^a   Matthee, Conrad A ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Cranium; Cytochrome b; Geometric morphometrics; Mammal; Mitochondrial DNA; Phenotypic plasticity; Phylogeography; South Africa

Indexed keywords

BIOME; CRANIUM; CYTOCHROME; ESCARPMENT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; MAMMAL; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RODENT; TAXONOMY;

SOUTH AFRICA;

CRANIA; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; RATTUS; RATTUS FUSCIPES; RODENTIA;

EID: 79751522680     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01583.x     Document Type: Article

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