Phylogeography of two cryptic species of African desert jerboas (Dipodidae: Jaculus)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 27-38

  Ben Faleh, Abderraouf ^a   Granjon, Laurent ^b   Tatard, Caroline ^c   Boratyński, Zbyszek ^d   Cosson, Jean Francois ^c   Said, Khaled ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^b CIRAD   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Africa; Jaculus deserti; Jaculus jaculus; Middle East; MtDNA; Phylogeography; Quaternary history; Sahara

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; CLADISTICS; CLIMATE VARIATION; CRYPSIS; CYTOCHROME; DESERT; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRY; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; RODENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TYPE LOCALITY;

MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 84864842725     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01920.x     Document Type: Article

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