A climate for speciation: Rapid spatial diversification within the Sorex cinereus complex of shrews

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 671-684

  Hope, Andrew G ^a,b   Speer, Kelly A ^a   Demboski, John R ^c   Talbot, Sandra L ^b   Cook, Joseph A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Beringia; Demography; Ecological speciation; North America; Pleistocene; Species tree

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SHREW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CLIMATE; GENETIC SPECIATION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHREWS;

MAMMALIA; SOREX CINEREUS; SORICIDAE;

EID: 84863084731     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.05.021     Document Type: Article

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