Phylogeography of the Cape velvet worm (Onychophora: Peripatopsis capensis) reveals the impact of Pliocene/Pleistocene climatic oscillations on Afromontane forest in the Western Cape, South Africa

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 824-835

  Mcdonald, D E ^a   Daniels, S R ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bayesian clock; Cape Floristic Region; Climatic oscillations; Cryptic species; MtDNA; Peripatopsis; Phylogeography; Pliocene; South Africa

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RAIN;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOME; CAPE FLORISTIC REGION; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CRYPSIS; DEHYDRATION; DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HETEROGENEITY; INVERTEBRATE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SPECIALIST; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE; MITOCHONDRION; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; TREE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; INVERTEBRATES; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

INVERTEBRATA; ONYCHOPHORA; PERIPATOPSIS; PERIPATOPSIS CAPENSIS;

EID: 84859439225     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02482.x     Document Type: Article

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