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Phylogenomics of the African laminate-toothed rats (Rodentia, Muridae, Otomys) in the Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot: three colonisation waves followed by allopatric diversification on sky islands

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P.J. Taylor
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J.C. Kerbis Peterhans
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T.C. Demos
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Josef Bryja *
DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2026.108668delete
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• highest species diversity of the African laminate-toothed rats Otomys in the Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot (EABH) • Phylogenomic approach with the most comprehensive sampling of the group to date. • Presence of three major clades that independently colonized EABH and diverged in allopatry on ‘sky islands’ • Taxonomic revision of two major Otomys groups.
Keywords:
Afromontane
ddRAD
Eastern Africa
Morphometry
Phylogeography
Vlei rats
Taxonomy
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