Andean uplift promotes lowland speciation through vicariance and dispersal in Dendrocincla woodcreepers

@article{Weir2011AndeanUP,
  title={Andean uplift promotes lowland speciation through vicariance and dispersal in Dendrocincla woodcreepers},
  author={Jason T. Weir and Momoko Price},
  journal={Molecular Ecology},
  year={2011},
  volume={20}
}
Andean uplift contributed importantly to the build‐up of high Neotropical diversity. Final uplift of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia separated once‐contiguous lowland faunas east and west of the Andes between 5 and 3.5 million years ago (Ma hereafter). We used DNA sequences from several moderate‐ to fast‐evolving mitochondrial and two slow‐evolving nuclear genes to generate a well‐supported phylogeny of Dendrocincla woodcreepers, a genus with multiple species endemic to lowland regions both… 
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