Latitude drives diversification in Madagascar's endemic dry forest rodent eliurus myoxinus (subfamily Nesomyinae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 500-517

  Shi, Jeff J ^a,e   Chan, Lauren M ^a,f   Rakotomalala, Zafimahery ^b,c   Heilman, Amy M ^a   Goodman, Steven M ^c,d   Yoder, Anne D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTANANARIVO   (Madagascar)

^c ASSOCIATION VAHATRA   (Madagascar)

^d FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f KECK GRADUATE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endemism; Phylogeography; Watersheds

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BOOTSTRAPPING; CYTOCHROME; DRY FOREST; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENDEMISM; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GROWTH; LATITUDE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RODENT; WATERSHED;

MADAGASCAR;

ELIURUS MYOXINUS; NESOMYINAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 84885853439     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12143     Document Type: Article

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