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Comparative phylogeography and speciation of dung beetles from the Australian Wet Tropics rainforest.
Molecular ecology - 1 Dec 2007
Bell Karen L, Moritz Craig, Moussalli Adnan, Yeates David K
Abstract excerpt
In tropical rainforests, insects show especially high species richness and local endemism of species relative to vertebrates. One possible cause is that insects respond to historical fluctuations of rainforests on a smaller spatial scale than do vertebrates. To evaluate this hypothesis, we combine environmental niche models and mitochondrial DNA phylogeography for two pairs of sister species of the dung beetle...
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