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River islands, refugia and genetic structuring in the endemic brown frog Rana kukunoris (Anura, Ranidae) of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jan 2013
Zhou Weiwei, Yan Fang, Fu Jinzhong, Wu Shifang, Murphy Robert W, Che Jing, Zhang Yaping
Abstract excerpt
Frequently, Pleistocene climatic cycling has been found to be the diver of genetic structuring in populations, even in areas that did not have continental ice sheets, such as on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP). Typically, species distributed on the plateau have been hypothesized to re-treat to south-eastern refugia, especially during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). We evaluated sequence variation in the...
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