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A tale of two flatties: different responses of two terrestrial flatworms to past environmental climatic fluctuations at Tallaganda in montane southeastern Australia.
Molecular ecology - 1 Dec 2006
Sunnucks Paul, Blacket Mark J, Taylor Jody M, Sands Chester J, Ciavaglia Sherryn A, Garrick Ryan C, Tait Noel N, Rowell David M, Pavlova Alexandra
Abstract excerpt
Comparative phylogeographic studies of animals with low mobility and/or high habitat specificity remain rare, yet such organisms may hold fine-grained palaeoecological signal. Comparisons of multiple, codistributed species can elucidate major historical events. As part of a multitaxon programme, mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI) variation was analysed in two species of terrestrial flatworm, Artioposthia...
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