Contrasting Patterns of Phylogeographic Relationships in Sympatric Sister Species of Ironclad Beetles (Zopheridae: Phloeodes spp.) in California's Transverse Ranges

Authors

Michael S. Caterino, Clemson UniversityFollow
Maxi Polihronakis, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2010

Publication Title

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Publisher

BioMed Central

Abstract

Comparative phylogeography of sympatric sibling species provides an opportunity to isolate the effects of geography and demographics on the evolutionary history of two lineages over the same, known time scale. In the current study, we investigated the phylogeographic structure of two zopherid beetle species, Phloeodes diabolicus and P. plicatus, where their ranges overlap in California's Transverse Ranges.

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Originally published open access. Published version found here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/195

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