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A combination of long term fragmentation and glacial persistence drove the evolutionary history of the Italian wall lizard Podarcis siculus.
BMC evolutionary biology - 5 Jan 2017
Senczuk Gabriele, Colangelo Paolo, De Simone Emanuela, Aloise Gaetano, Castiglia Riccardo
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The current distribution of genetic diversity is the result of a vast array of microevolutionary processes, including short-term demographic and ecological mechanisms and long-term allopatric isolation in response to Quaternary climatic fluctuations. We investigated past processes that drove the population differentiation and spatial genetic distribution of the Italian wall lizard Podarcis siculus by...
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