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SUBMITTER: Oliver PM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4272201 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biology letters 20141001 10
The region between the Asian and Australian continental plates (Wallacea) demarcates the transition between two differentiated regional biotas. Despite this striking pattern, some terrestrial lineages have successfully traversed the marine barriers of Wallacea and subsequently diversified in newly colonized regions. The hypothesis that these dispersals between biogeographic realms are correlated with detectable shifts in evolutionary trajectory has however rarely been tested. Here, we analyse th ...[more]