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Pleistocene persistence and expansion in tarantulas on the Colorado Plateau and the effects of missing data on phylogeographical inferences from RADseq.
Molecular ecology - 1 Oct 2020
Graham Matthew R, Santibáñez-López Carlos E, Derkarabetian Shahan, Hendrixson Brent E
Abstract excerpt
Montane species endemic to the "sky islands" of the North American southwest were significantly impacted by changing climates during the Pleistocene. We combined mitochondrial and genomic data with species distribution modelling to determine whether Aphonopelma marxi, a large tarantula from the nearby Colorado Plateau, was similarly impacted by glacial climates. Genetic analyses revealed that the species...
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