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Kathryn M Rodríguez-Clark1, María A Oliveira-Miranda2, Marisol Aguilera Meneses2

  • 1From the Centro de Ecología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Apartado 20632, Caracas 1020-A, Venezuela (Rodríguez-Clark); Provita, Av. Rómulo Gallegos, Edf. Pascal, Ofc 171B, Caracas 1071, Venezuela (Oliveira-Miranda); Departamento de Estudios Ambientales, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Apartado 89.000, Caracas 1080-A, Venezuela (Aguilera Meneses and de Oliveira-Miranda); Centro de Investigaciones en Ecología y Zonas Áridas (CIEZA), Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda, Calle Maparari entre calles Las Flores y Cristal, Coro 4101, Falcón, Venezuela (Martino); Laboratorio de Genética y Evolución, Departamento de Ciencias Ecológicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Las Palmeras 3425, CP 780-0003, Santiago, Chile (Méndez); Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 277. 05508-090. São Paulo, SP, Brazil (Miyaki); ReGeneC, Grupo BioEvo, Pabellon II, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Sartenejas, Caracas 1070-A, Venezuela (Montiel-Villalobos); Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad, Departamento de Ciencias Ecológicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Las Palmeras 3425, CP 780-0024 Santiago, Chile (Poulin); Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4R2 Canada (Ruzzante); and Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Bloco A-CCS-Ilha do Fundao, 21941-590-Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil (Solé-Cava). kmrc@ivic.gob.ve kmrodriguezclark@gmail.com.

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|August 7, 2015
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