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Multilocus phylogeography of the European ground squirrel: cryptic interglacial refugia of continental climate in Europe.
Molecular ecology - 1 Aug 2013
Říčanová Štěpánka, Koshev Yordan, Říčan Oldřich, Ćosić Nada, Ćirović Duško, Sedláček František, Bryja Josef
Abstract excerpt
The theory of classical and cryptic Pleistocene refugia is based mainly on historical changes in temperature, and the refugia are usually defined within a latitudinal gradient. However, the gradient of oceanic-continental climate (i.e. longitudinal) was also significantly variable during glacial cycles with important biotic consequences. Range-wide phylogeography of the European ground squirrel (EGS) was used to...
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