Evolutionary history of a vanishing radiation: isolation-dependent persistence and diversification in Pacific Island partulid tree snails

• Published in: BMC Evolutionary Biology
• Main Authors: Lee, Taehwan, Li, Jingchun, Churchill, Celia K, Foighil, Diarmaid Ó
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Austral; Pacific; Refuge Islands
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/109542; https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-014-0202-3

Abstract Background Partulid tree snails are endemic to Pacific high islands and have experienced extraordinary rates of extinction in recent decades. Although they collectively range across a 10,000 km swath of Oceania, half of the family’s total species diversity is endemic to a single Eastern Pac...