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Integrative taxonomic revision of the African thicket rats (Murinae: Grammomys): how genomics decreases the number of currently recognized species
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- 1. Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic & Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- 2. Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605, USA & College of Arts & Science, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
- 3. A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- 4. Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, 75005 Paris, France
- 5. Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
- 6. Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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Bryja, Josef, Kerbis Peterhans, Julian C., Lavrenchenko, Leonid A., Nicolas, Violaine, Denys, Christiane, Bryjová, Anna, Šumbera, Radim, Mikula, Ondřej (2025): Integrative taxonomic revision of the African thicket rats (Murinae: Grammomys): how genomics decreases the number of currently recognized species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Statistics in Society) 203 (2): 1-20, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae057, URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae057
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