Morphological and genetic differentiation in the anguid lizard Pseudopus apodus supports the existence of an endemic subspecies in the Levant
| Autor: | David Jandzik, Dušan Jelić, Marina Chirikova, Peter Mikulíček, Daniel Jablonski, Marco Antônio Ribeiro-Júnior, Oleg V. Kukushkin, Shai Meiri, Angelika Pirosová, Erez Maza |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Reptilia phenotype Zoology mitochondrial DNA Subspecies Biology 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences microsatellites Middle East 03 medical and health sciences sheltopusik biology.animal Squamata Animalia Chordata Ophisaurus Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Lizard Pseudopus Reptiles Genetic differentiation 030104 developmental biology Anguidae QL1-991 Pseudopus apodus |
| Zdroj: | Vertebrate Zoology, Vol 71, Iss, Pp 175-200 (2021) Vertebrate Zoology 71: 175-200 |
| ISSN: | 2625-8498 |
| Popis: | The Levant represents one of the most important reptile diversity hotspots and centers of endemism in the Western Palearctic. The region harbored numerous taxa in glacial refugia during the Pleistocene climatic oscillations. Due to the hostile arid conditions in the warmer periods they were not always able to spread or come into contact with populations from more distant regions. One large and conspicuous member of the Levantine herpetofauna is the legless anguid lizardPseudopus apodus. This species is distributed from the Balkans to Central Asia with a portion of its range running along the eastern Mediterranean coast. Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences, microsatellite genotypes, and morphology show that populations in this region differ from the two named subspecies and presumably had a long independent evolutionary history during the Quaternary. Here we describe the Levantine population as a new subspecies and present biogeographic scenarios for its origin and diversification. The new subspecies is genetically highly diverse, and it forms a sister lineage toPseudopusfrom the remaining parts of the range according to mtDNA. It is the largest-bodied of the three subspecies, but occupies the smallest range. |
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