The role of dispersal for shaping phylogeographical structure of flightless beetles from the Andes

Background Páramo is a tropical alpine ecosystem present in the northern Andes. Its patchy distribution imposes limits and barriers to specialist inhabitants. We aim to assess the effects of this habitat distribution on divergence across two independently flightless ground beetle lineages, in the ge...

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Main Authors: Sofia I. Muñoz-Tobar, Michael S. Caterino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2019-07-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/7226.pdf