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Radiating on oceanic islands: patterns and processes of speciation in the land snail genus Theba (Risso 1826).
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Greve Carola, Gimnich France, Hutterer Rainer, Misof Bernhard, Haase Martin
Abstract excerpt
Island radiations have played a major role in shaping our current understanding of allopatric, sympatric and parapatric speciation. However, the fact that species divergence correlates with island size emphasizes the importance of geographic isolation (allopatry) in speciation. Based on molecular and morphological data, we investigated the diversification of the land snail genus Theba on the two Canary Islands of...
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