Colonization history of the carrion beetle Necrophila jakowlewi (Coleoptera: Silphidae) in Japan inferred from phylogeographic analysis.

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Community compositions in continental islands have been strongly affected by the connection and separation of land via land bridges during the cycle of glacial and interglacial periods. The biota of the Japanese archipelago is a result of colonization from the adjacent mainland of East Asia via land bridges at the north and south that existed during the Pliocene and in glacial periods during the Pleistocene. The...

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