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Phylogeography of the sand dune ant Mycetophylax simplex along the Brazilian Atlantic Forest coast: remarkably low mtDNA diversity and shallow population structure.
BMC evolutionary biology - 10 Jun 2015
Cardoso Danon Clemes, Cristiano Maykon Passos, Tavares Mara Garcia, Schubart Christoph D, Heinze Jürgen
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BACKGROUND: During past glacial periods, many species of forest-dwelling animals experienced range contractions. In contrast, species living outside such moist habitats appear to have reacted to Quaternary changes in different ways. The Atlantic Forest represents an excellent opportunity to test phylogeographic hypotheses, because it has a wide range of vegetation types, including unforested habitats covered...
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