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Speciation of Iberian diving beetles in Pleistocene refugia (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae).
Molecular ecology - 1 Jan 2004
Ribera Ignacio, Vogler Alfried P
Abstract excerpt
The Mediterranean basin is an area of high diversity and endemicity, but the age and origin of its fauna are still largely unknown. Here we use species-level phylogenies based on approximately 1300 base pairs of the genes 16S rRNA and cytochrome oxidase I to establish the relationships of 27 of the 34 endemic Iberian species of diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae, and to investigate their level of divergence....
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