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Phylogeography of the fire-bellied toads Bombina: independent Pleistocene histories inferred from mitochondrial genomes.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jun 2007
Hofman Sebastian, Spolsky Christina, Uzzell Thomas, Cogălniceanu Dan, Babik Wiesław, Szymura Jacek M
Abstract excerpt
The fire-bellied toads Bombina bombina and Bombina variegata, interbreed in a long, narrow zone maintained by a balance between selection and dispersal. Hybridization takes place between local, genetically differentiated groups. To quantify divergence between these groups and reconstruct their history and demography, we analysed nucleotide variation at the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene (1096 bp) in 364...
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