Linking lineage diversification to climate and habitat heterogeneity: Phylogeography of the southern African shrew Myosorex varius

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1976-1991

  Willows Munro, Sandi ^a,b   Matthee, Conrad A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Hypervariable control region; Mammalia; Myosorex; Nuclear intron; Phylogeny; Soricidae; South Africa

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CAPE FLORISTIC REGION; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENERALIST; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GRASSLAND; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HABITAT TYPE; HETEROGENEITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RAINFALL; RODENT; SAMPLING; SAVANNA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

SOUTHERN AFRICA;

MAMMALIA; MYOSOREX; MYOSOREX VARIUS; SORICIDAE;

EID: 80052738805     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02543.x     Document Type: Article

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