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Postglacial expansion of the southern red-backed vole (Clethrionomys gapperi) in North America.
Molecular ecology - 1 Apr 2005
Runck Amy M, Cook Joseph A
Abstract excerpt
Dynamic climatic oscillations of the Pleistocene dramatically changed the distributions of high latitude species. Molecular investigations of a variety of organisms show that processes of postglacial colonization of boreal regions were more complex than initially thought. Phylogeographical and coalescent analyses were conducted on partial sequences of the cytochrome b gene (600 bp) from 64 individuals of...
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