Article
Hares on ice: phylogeography and historical demographics of Lepus arcticus, L. othus, and L. timidus (Mammalia: Lagomorpha).
Molecular ecology - 1 Sept 2005
Waltari Eric, Cook Joseph A
Abstract excerpt
Phylogeographical investigations of arctic organisms provide spatial and temporal frameworks for interpreting the role of climate change on biotic diversity in high-latitude ecosystems. Phylogenetic analyses were conducted on 473 base pairs of the mitochondrial control region in 192 arctic hares (Lepus arcticus, Lepus othus, Lepus timidus) and two individual Lepus townsendii. The three arctic hare species are...
Topics
- Animals
- Arctic Regions
- Bayes Theorem
- Cold Climate
- DNA
- Europe
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Variation
- Hares
- Locus Control Region
- North America
- Phylogeny
