Article
Multi-locus sequence data illuminate demographic drivers of Pleistocene speciation in semi-arid southern Australian birds (Cinclosoma spp.).
BMC evolutionary biology - 22 Oct 2016
Dolman Gaynor, Joseph Leo
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: During the Pleistocene, shifts of species distributions and their isolation in disjunct refugia led to varied outcomes in how taxa diversified. Some species diverged, others did not. Here, we begin to address another facet of the role of the Pleistocene in generating today's diversity. We ask which processes contributed to divergence in semi-arid southern Australian birds. We isolated 11 autosomal...
Topics
- Animals
- Australia
- Bayes Theorem
- Birds
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Demography
- Genetic Loci
- Genetic Speciation
- Genetic Variation
- Geography
- Phylogeny
- Population Density
