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Alpine crossroads or origin of genetic diversity? Comparative phylogeography of two sympatric microgastropod species.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Weigand Alexander M, Pfenninger Markus, Jochum Adrienne, Klussmann-Kolb Annette
Abstract excerpt
The Alpine Region, constituting the Alps and the Dinaric Alps, has played a major role in the formation of current patterns of biodiversity either as a contact zone of postglacial expanding lineages or as the origin of genetic diversity. In our study, we tested these hypotheses for two widespread, sympatric microgastropod taxa--Carychium minimum O.F. Müller, 1774 and Carychium tridentatum (Risso, 1826)...
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