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Patterns of phylogeographic evolution seen in Berylmys correlate well with what is known of climate and landscape conditions in south Asia over the past 5 million years and are consistent with an in-situ divergence of a widespread ancestral population. While B. bowersi adapted t…

In an effort to better understand patterns of genetic variation in modern African populations, I surveyed nucleotide variability at four loci in five diverse sub-Saharan African populations. First, I analyzed the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and the non-recombining portion of the Y…

Hermit and king crabs represent a considerable portion of decapod biodiversity, yet the evolutionary relationships among them remain poorly understood. Much of this uncertainty results from intraspecific variation and convergence in morphological characters historically used for…