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Pleistocene climatic oscillations in Neotropical open areas: Refuge isolation in the rodent Oxymycterus nasutus endemic to grasslands.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Peçanha Willian T, Althoff Sergio L, Galiano Daniel, Quintela Fernando M, Maestri Renan, Gonçalves Gislene L, Freitas Thales R O
Abstract excerpt
Pleistocene climatic oscillations favoured the expansion of grassland ecosystems and open vegetation landscapes throughout the Neotropics, and influenced the evolutionary history of species adapted to such environments. In this study, we sampled populations of the rodent Oxymycterus nasutus endemic to open areas in the Pampas and Atlantic Forest biomes to assess the tempo and mode of population divergence using...
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