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Cold-blooded in the Ice Age: "refugia within refugia", inter-and intraspecific biogeographic diversification of European whipsnakes (Squamata, Colubridae, Hierophis).
Zoology (Jena, Germany) - 1 Apr 2018
Mezzasalma Marcello, Di Febbraro Mirko, Guarino Fabio Maria, Odierna Gaetano, Russo Danilo
Abstract excerpt
In this work, we performed a biogeographic analysis with Bayesian binary MCMC (BBM) statistical dispersal-vicariance analysis (S-DIVA) and species distribution models (SDM) on three phylogenetically closely related Mediterranean whipsnakes (Hierophis gemonensis, H. carbonarius, H. viridiflavus), to investigate the pathways of their geographical diversification and locate putative refugial areas in the last...
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