Maintaining microendemic primate species along an environmental gradient - parasites as drivers for species differentiation

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 4751-4765

  Sommer, Simone ^a,b   Rakotondranary, Solofomalla Jacques ^c   Ganzhorn, Jörg U ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

MHC; Helminths; Hybrids; Lemurs; Local adaptations; Madagascar; Microcebus spp.; Primates; Species differentiation

Indexed keywords

LEMURIDAE; MICROCEBUS; MICROCEBUS GRISEORUFUS; MICROCEBUS MURINUS; MICROCEBUS RUFUS; PRIMATES; VERMES;

EID: 84919873868     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1311     Document Type: Article

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