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Limited, episodic diversification and contrasting phylogeography in a New Zealand cicada radiation.
BMC evolutionary biology - 11 Sept 2012
Marshall David C, Hill Kathy B R, Marske Katharine A, Chambers Colleen, Buckley Thomas R, Simon Chris
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The New Zealand (NZ) cicada fauna contains two co-distributed lineages that independently colonized the isolated continental fragment in the Miocene. One extensively studied lineage includes 90% of the extant species (Kikihia + Maoricicada + Rhodopsalta; ca 51 spp.), while the other contains just four extant species (Amphipsalta - 3 spp. + Notopsalta - 1 sp.) and has been little studied. We examined...
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