Sympatric incipient speciation of spiny mice Acomys at "Evolution Canyon," Israel

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

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1043-1048

  Hadid, Yarin ^a   Pavlíček, Tomáš ^a   Beiles, Avigdor ^a   Ianovici, Ron ^b   Raz, Shmuel ^a,c   Nevo, Eviatar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Ecological speciation; Microscale; Rodents

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ACOMYS CAHIRINUS; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AFRICA; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; EUROPE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOSSIL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HABITAT; HAPLOTYPE; ISRAEL; MATE CHOICE; MICROCLIMATE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATRY;

ADAPTATION; ECOLOGICAL-SPECIATION; MICROSCALE; RODENTS;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; ISRAEL; KARYOTYPING; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURINAE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMPATRY;

EID: 84892923873     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1322301111     Document Type: Article

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