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Diversification of the arboreal mice of the genus Habromys (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Neotominae) in the Mesoamerican highlands.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Mar 2007
León-Paniagua Livia, Navarro-Sigüenza Adolfo G, Hernández-Baños Blanca E, Morales Juan Carlos
Abstract excerpt
The arboreal mice of the genus Habromys (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Neotominae) are among the most poorly known Neotropical rodents. We investigated species-level phylogenetic relationships among the seven described Habromys species using 1331 aligned bases from the mitochondrial ND3 and ND4 regions. Sequences were obtained from 30 specimens of the seven known species of Habromys and we performed maximum parsimony,...
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