Cryptic diversity and species boundaries within the Paragalago zanzibaricus species complex
| Autor: | Todd R. Disotell, Simon K. Bearder, Johan Karlsson, Anna Penna, Andrew Perkin, Luca Pozzi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Species complex Species diversity Bayes Theorem Galagidae Biology Cytochromes b Forests Multiple species 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Mitochondria 03 medical and health sciences 030104 developmental biology Species Specificity Evolutionary biology Genetics Animals Molecular Biology Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Phylogeny |
| Zdroj: | Molecular phylogenetics and evolution. 150 |
| ISSN: | 1095-9513 |
| Popis: | The recently described genus Paragalago is a complex of several nocturnal and morphologically cryptic species distributed in the forests of eastern Africa. Species diversity within this genus has been mainly described using species-specific differences in their loud calls. However, molecular data are still lacking for this group and species boundaries remain unclear. In this study, we explore species diversity within the zanzibaricus-complex using a combination of mitochondrial and nuclear data and comparing multiple species delimitation methods. Our results consistently support the existence of three independent lineages, P. cocos, P. zanzibaricus, and P. granti, confirming previous hypotheses based on vocal data. We conclude that these three lineages represent valid cryptic species and we hypothesize that speciation within this complex was characterized by cycles of forest expansion and contraction in the Plio-Pleistocene. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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