The roles of barriers, refugia, and chromosomal clines underlying diversification in Atlantic Forest social wasps

Abstract Phylogeographic studies have sought to explain the genetic imprints of historical climatic changes and geographic barriers within the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (AF) biota, and consequently two processes of diversification (refugia and barriers) have been proposed. Additionally, there is evi...

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Main Authors: Rodolpho S. T. Menezes, Seán G. Brady, Antônio F. Carvalho, Marco A. Del Lama, Marco A. Costa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07776-7