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Ecological niche and phylogeography elucidate complex biogeographic patterns in Loxosceles rufescens (Araneae, Sicariidae) in the Mediterranean Basin.

BMC evolutionary biology - 9 Oct 2014

Planas Enric, Saupe Erin E, Lima-Ribeiro Matheus S, Peterson A Townsend, Ribera Carles

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BACKGROUND: Understanding the evolutionary history of morphologically cryptic species complexes is difficult, and made even more challenging when geographic distributions have been modified by human-mediated dispersal. This situation is common in the Mediterranean Basin where, aside from the environmental heterogeneity of the region, protracted human presence has obscured the biogeographic processes that shaped...

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PMID: 25297820
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-014-0195-y
PMCID: PMC4236462

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