Spatiotemporal Diversification of Tree Squirrels: Is the South American Invasion and Speciation Really That Recent and Fast?

Spatiotemporal Diversification of Tree Squirrels: Is the South American Invasion and Speciation Really That Recent and Fast?

Tree squirrels (Sciurinae, Sciurini) represent a diverse radiation that successfully colonized Europe, Asia and the Americas during the Miocene-Pliocene, but information on their evolutionary history remains unclear. In the Neotropics, they have been shown to exhibit the highest rate of diversificat...

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Main Authors: Edson Fiedler de Abreu-Jr, Silvia E. Pavan, Mirian T. N. Tsuchiya, Don E. Wilson, Alexandre R. Percequillo, Jesús E. Maldonado
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Subjects:
ancestral range
founder-event speciation
Isthmus of Panama
mitogenome
Neotropics
Sciurini
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fevo.2020.00230/full

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