Evolutionary history of mole rats (genus Nannospalax) inferred from mitochondrial cytochrome b sequence

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 446-455

  Kryštufek, Boris ^a   Ivanitskaya, Elena ^b   Arslan, Atilla ^c   Arslan, Emine ^c   Bužan, Elena V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Molecular phylogeny; Nannospalax ehrenbergi; Nannospalax leucodon; Nannospalax xanthodon; Spalax; Species delimitation

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; CHROMOSOME; DIVERGENCE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; RECONSTRUCTION; RODENT; TAXONOMY;

EGYPT; ISRAEL; TURKEY;

NANNOSPALAX; NANNOSPALAX EHRENBERGI; NANNOSPALAX LEUCODON; RATTUS; SPALAX;

EID: 84855503700     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01795.x     Document Type: Article

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