Reconstructing the evolutionary history of the radiation of the land snail genus <it>Xerocrassa </it>on Crete based on mitochondrial sequences and AFLP markers

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>A non-adaptive radiation triggered by sexual selection resulted in ten endemic land snail species of the genus <it>Xerocrassa </it>on Crete. Only five of these species and a more widespread species are monophyletic in a m...

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Main Authors: Sauer Jan, Hausdorf Bernhard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-10-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/299