Possible incipient sympatric ecological speciation in blind mole rats (Spalax)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2587-2592

  Hadid, Yarin ^a   Tzur, Shay ^a,b   Pavlíček, Tomáš ^a   Šumbera, Radim ^c   Šklíba, Jan ^c   Lövy, Matěj ^c   Fragman Sapir, Ori ^d   Beiles, Avigdor ^a   Arieli, Ran ^e   Raz, Shmuel ^a,f   Nevo, Eviatar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^e ISRAEL NAVAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (Israel)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Ecological stress; Metabolism; Microscale; Radio tracking

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BASALT; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGY; HABITAT; HAPLOTYPE; MOLE RAT; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYMPATRY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; ISRAEL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SPALAX; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84873740219     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1222588110     Document Type: Article

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