A northern glacial refugium for bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus).

ABSTRACT: There is controversy and uncertainty on how far north there were glacial refugia for temperate species during the Pleistocene glaciations and in the extent of the contribution of such refugia to present-day populations. We examined these issues using phylogeographic analysis of a European woodland mammal, the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus). A Bayesian coalescence analysis indicates that a bank vole population survived the height of the last glaciation (approximately 25,000-10,000 years B.P.) in the vicinity of the Carpathians, a major central European mountain chain well north of the Mediterranean areas typically regarded as glacial refugia for temperate species. Parameter estimates from the fitted isolation with migration model show that the divergence of the Carpathian population st

SUBMITTER: Kotlik P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1595441 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature