J Biol. 2008 Nov 3;7(9):32.

Islands in the sky: the impact of Pleistocene climate cycles on biodiversity.

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Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. allanb@rom.on.ca

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Genetic studies of organisms based on coalescent modeling and paleoenvironmental data, including a new study in BMC Biology of Mexican jays in the sky islands of Arizona and northern Mexico, show that populations differentiated in multiple refugia during and after glacial cycles.

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