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Phylogeography of higher Diptera in glacial and postglacial grasslands in western North America.
BMC ecology - 20 Dec 2019
Solecki Anna M, Skevington Jeffrey H, Buddle Christopher M, Wheeler Terry A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Pleistocene glaciations have had an important impact on the species distribution and community composition of the North American biota. Species survived these glacial cycles south of the ice sheets and/or in other refugia, such as Beringia. In this study, we assessed, using mitochondrial DNA from three Diptera species, whether flies currently found in Beringian grasslands (1) survived glaciation as...
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