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Persistence across Pleistocene ice ages in Mediterranean and extra-Mediterranean refugia: phylogeographic insights from the common wall lizard.
BMC evolutionary biology - 11 Jul 2013
Salvi Daniele, Harris D James, Kaliontzopoulou Antigoni, Carretero Miguel A, Pinho Catarina
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BACKGROUND: Pleistocene climatic oscillations have played a major role in structuring present-day biodiversity. The southern Mediterranean peninsulas have long been recognized as major glacial refugia, from where Northern Europe was post-glacially colonized. However, recent studies have unravelled numerous additional refugia also in northern regions. We investigated the phylogeographic pattern of the widespread...
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