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SUBMITTER: Taniguchi S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7924830 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Taniguchi Shoji S Bertl Johanna J Futschik Andreas A Kishino Hirohisa H Okazaki Toshio T
Genes 20210221 2
The Japanese archipelago is located at the periphery of the continent of Asia. Rivers in the Japanese archipelago, separated from the continent of Asia by about 17 Ma, have experienced an intermittent exchange of freshwater fish taxa through a narrow land bridge generated by lowered sea level. As the Korean Peninsula and Japanese archipelago were not covered by an ice sheet during glacial periods, phylogeographical analyses in this region can trace the history of biota that were, for a long time ...[more]