Biome specificity of distinct genetic lineages within the four-striped mouse Rhabdomys pumilio (Rodentia: Muridae) from southern Africa with implications for taxonomy

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 75-86

  du Toit, Nina ^a   Jansen van Vuuren, Bettine ^b   Matthee, Sonja ^a   Matthee, Conrad A ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biomes; Ecological niche modeling; Relaxed molecular clock; Rhabdomys; Southern Africa; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; MURIDAE; PHYLOGENY;

AFRICA, SOUTHERN; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MURIDAE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

MURIDAE; RHABDOMYS; RHABDOMYS PUMILIO; RODENTIA;

EID: 84864562829     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.05.036     Document Type: Article

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