Article
Pleistocene niche stability and lineage diversification in the subtropical spider Araneus omnicolor (Araneidae).
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Peres Elen A, Sobral-Souza Thadeu, Perez Manolo F, Bonatelli Isabel A S, Silva Daniel P, Silva Márcio J, Solferini Vera N
Abstract excerpt
The influence of Quaternary climate oscillations on the diversification of the South American fauna is being increasingly explored. However, most of these studies have focused on taxa that are endemic to tropical environments, and relatively few have treated organisms restricted to subtropical biomes. Here we used an integrative phylogeographical framework to investigate the effects of these climate events on the...
Topics
- Animal Distribution
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Bayes Theorem
- Brazil
- Climate
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- DNA, Ribosomal Spacer
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Haplotypes