4a ; nearly all were significant at the 0.05 level) and the Mantel test revealed a highly significant correlation between Φ ST and geographic distance, indicating isolation-by-distance ( Table 2 ) at this geographic level.
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Flying with the birds? Recent large-area dispersal of four Australian Limnadopsis species (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata).
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The transition from the Pliocene to the Pleistocene (2.5 mya) marked the initiation of glacial cycling, which corresponded in Australia with cold/dry glacial and warm/wet interglacial periods and an overall trend toward aridity.