Article
Replaying the tape: recurring biogeographical patterns in Cape Verde Conus after 12 million years.
Molecular ecology - 1 Feb 2008
Cunha Regina L, Tenorio Manuel J, Afonso Carlos, Castilho Rita, Zardoya Rafael
Abstract excerpt
Isolated oceanic islands are excellent natural laboratories to test the relative role of historical contingency and determinism in evolutionary diversification. Endemics of the marine venomous snail Conus in the Cape Verde archipelago were originated from at least two independent colonizations of 'small' and 'large' shelled species separated by 12 million years. In this study, we have reconstructed phylogenetic...
Topics
- Animals
- Atlantic Islands
- Base Sequence
- Bayes Theorem
- Conus Snail
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Electron Transport Complex IV
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Variation
- Haplotypes
- Molecular Sequence Data
