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Schmidtea mediterranea phylogeography: an old species surviving on a few Mediterranean islands?
BMC evolutionary biology - 26 Sept 2011
Lázaro Eva M, Harrath Abdul Halim, Stocchino Giacinta A, Pala Maria, Baguñà Jaume, Riutort Marta
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BACKGROUND: Schmidtea mediterranea (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Continenticola) is found in scattered localities on a few islands and in coastal areas of the western Mediterranean. Although S. mediterranea is the object of many regeneration studies, little is known about its evolutionary history. Its present distribution has been proposed to stem from the fragmentation and migration of the Corsica-Sardinia...
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