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Diversification in a fluctuating island setting: rapid radiation of Ohomopterus ground beetles in the Japanese Islands.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 27 Oct 2008
Sota Teiji, Nagata Nobuaki
Abstract excerpt
The Japanese Islands have been largely isolated from the East Asian mainland since the Early Pleistocene, allowing the diversification of endemic lineages. Here, we explore speciation rates and historical biogeography of the ground beetles of the subgenus Ohomopterus (genus Carabus) based on nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences. Ohomopterus diverged into 15 species during the Pleistocene. The speciation rate...
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