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Pleistocene glacial cycle effects on the phylogeography of the Chinese endemic bat species, Myotis davidii.
BMC evolutionary biology - 10 Jul 2010
You Yuyan, Sun Keping, Xu Lijie, Wang Lei, Jiang Tinglei, Liu Sen, Lu Guanjun, Berquist Sean W, Feng Jiang
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BACKGROUND: Global climatic oscillations, glaciation cycles and the unique geographic topology of China have profoundly influenced species population distributions. In most species, contemporary distributions of populations cannot be fully understood, except in a historical context. Complex patterns of Pleistocene glaciations, as well as other physiographic changes have influenced the distribution of bat species...
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