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Integrating Paleodistribution Models and Phylogeography in the Grass-Cutting Ant Acromyrmex striatus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Southern Lowlands of South America.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Cristiano Maykon Passos, Clemes Cardoso Danon, Fernandes-Salomão Tânia Maria, Heinze Jürgen
Abstract excerpt
Past climate changes often have influenced the present distribution and intraspecific genetic diversity of organisms. The objective of this study was to investigate the phylogeography and historical demography of populations of Acromyrmex striatus (Roger, 1863), a leaf-cutting ant species restricted to the open plains of South America. Additionally, we modeled the distribution of this species to predict its...
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