TY - JOUR AU - Freilich, Xenia AU - Anadón, José D. AU - Bukala, Jolanta AU - Calderon, Ordaliza AU - Chakraborty, Ronveer AU - Boissinot, Stéphane AU - Calderon, Dina AU - Kanellopoulos, Anastasia AU - Knap, Ewelina AU - Marinos, Paul AU - Mudasir, Maryam AU - Pirpinas, Stephen AU - Rengifo, Ryan AU - Slovak, Jayson AU - Stauber, Alyssa AU - Tirado, Edwin AU - Uquilas, Ivonne AU - Velasquez, Michelle AU - Vera, Elizabeth AU - Wilga, Anna AU - Evolutionary Genetics - Class of 2013 PY - 2016 DA - 2016/10/10 TI - Comparative Phylogeography of Ethiopian anurans: impact of the Great Rift Valley and Pleistocene climate change JO - BMC Evolutionary Biology SP - 206 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - The Ethiopian highlands are a biodiversity hotspot, split by the Great Rift Valley into two distinct systems of plateaus and mountains. The Rift Valley is currently hot and dry and acts as a barrier to gene flow for highland-adapted species. It is however unlikely that the conditions in the Rift were inhospitable to highland species during the entire Pleistocene. To assess the significance of the Ethiopian Rift as a biogeographic barrier as well as the impact Pleistocene climatic changes have had on the evolution of Ethiopian organisms, we performed phylogeographic analyses and developed present and past niche models on seven anuran species with different elevational and ecological preferences. SN - 1471-2148 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0774-1 DO - 10.1186/s12862-016-0774-1 ID - Freilich2016 ER -