Article
Steady Plio-Pleistocene diversification and a 2-million-year sympatry threshold in a New Zealand cicada radiation.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Sept 2008
Marshall David C, Slon Karen, Cooley John R, Hill Kathy B R, Simon Chris
Abstract excerpt
Estimation of diversification rates in evolutionary radiations requires a complete accounting of cryptic species diversity. The rapidly evolving songs of acoustically signaling insects make them good model organisms for such studies. This paper examines the timing of diversification of a large (30 taxon) group of New Zealand cicadas (genus Kikihia Dugdale). We use Bayesian relaxed-clock methods and phylogenetic...
Topics
- Acoustics
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Evolution, Molecular
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Hemiptera
- Insecta
- Male
- Models, Genetic