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Secondary contact erodes Pleistocene diversification in a wide-ranging freshwater mussel (Quadrula).
Molecular ecology - 1 Jan 2025
Keogh Sean M, Johnson Nathan A, Smith Chase H, Sietman Bernard E, Garner Jeffrey T, Randklev Charles R, Simons Andrew M
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The isolated river drainages of eastern North America serve as a natural laboratory to investigate the roles of allopatry and secondary contact in the evolutionary trajectories of recently diverged lineages. Drainage divides facilitate allopatric speciation, but due to their sensitivity to climatic and geomorphological changes, neighboring rivers frequently coalesce, creating recurrent opportunities of isolation...
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