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Postglacial recolonizations, watershed crossings and human translocations shape the distribution of chub lineages around the Swiss Alps.
BMC evolutionary biology - 9 Sept 2016
Gouskov Alexandre, Vorburger Christoph
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BACKGROUND: Distributions of European fish species were shaped by glaciations and the geological history of river networks until human activities partially abrogated the restrictions of biogeographical regions. The nearby origins of the Rhine, Rhone, Danube and Po rivers in the Swiss Alps allow the examination of historical and human-influenced patterns in fish genetic structure over a small geographic scale. We...
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