Is evolution of blind mole rats determined by climate oscillations?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hadid, Yarin ^a   Németh, Attila ^b   Snir, Sagi ^a   Pavlíček, Tomáš ^a   Csorba, Gábor ^c   Kázmér, Miklós ^b   Major, Ágnes ^c   Mezhzherin, Sergey ^d   Rusin, Mikhail ^d   Coşkun, Yüksel ^e   Nevo, Eviatar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^d SCHMALHAUSEN INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^e DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALEOCLIMATE; PERIODICITY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RAT; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BLINDNESS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLE RAT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

LEUCODON; MUROIDEA; NANNOSPALAX; PHYLO; RODENTIA; SPALACIDAE; SPALACINAE; SPALAX; SPALAX GRAECUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BLINDNESS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MOLE RATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84855485291     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030043     Document Type: Article

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