Article
Quaternary climate and environmental changes have shaped genetic differentiation in a Chinese pheasant endemic to the eastern margin of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Apr 2013
Gu Langyu, Liu Yang, Que Pinjia, Zhang Zhengwang
Abstract excerpt
The geological complexity generated by the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and the resulting habitat heterogeneity have functioned together with climatic oscillations in the Quaternary to have a profound impact on the patterns of genetic diversity and demography of the fauna in this region. To understand the effect of the climatic and environmental shifts of the Quaternary on intraspecific genetic patterns...
Topics
- Animals
- Bayes Theorem
- China
- Climate
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Evolution, Molecular
- Galliformes
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Genotype
- Microsatellite Repeats
