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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
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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...
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