Evidence for Gondwanan vicariance in an ancient clade of gecko lizards
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Vicariance hypotheses of Gondwanan fragmentation have been the prevailing explanation for the distributions of plant and animal taxa in the Southern Hemisphere since the widespread acceptance of plate tectonics in the late, 1960s (Bauer, 1993; Sanmartı́n & Ronquist, 2004). Recently, several molecular studies comparing the timing of cladogenic and vicariant Conservation Biology Graduate Program, Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA, Department of Biology, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA 19085, USA
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