Article
Onset of glaciation drove simultaneous vicariant isolation of Alpine insects in New Zealand.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jul 2010
McCulloch Graham A, Wallis Graham P, Waters Jonathan M
Abstract excerpt
The origin of the New Zealand "beech gap," a low-diversity zone in the central South Island corresponding with a disjunction in the distribution of many taxa, has been the focus of biogeographical debate for many decades. Here, we use comparative phylogeographic analysis (COI; H3) of six alpine stonefly genera (116 individuals, 102 localities) to test a vicariant evolutionary hypothesis for the origin of this...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Bayes Theorem
- Biodiversity
- DNA Primers
- Demography
- Genetic Variation
- Geography
- Ice Cover
- Insecta
- Models, Genetic
- Molecular Sequence Data