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Multiple dispersal out of…

AutorInnen: 
Ahmadzadeh, F., Flecks, M., Rödder, D., Böhme, W., Ilgaz, C., Harrris, D.J., Engler, J.O., Üzüm, N., Carretero, M.
Erscheinungsjahr: 
2013
Vollständiger Titel: 
Multiple dispersal out of Anatolia: biogeography and evolution of oriental green lizards.
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Publiziert in: 
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Publikationstyp: 
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI Name: 
doi: 10.1111/bij.12129
Bibliographische Angaben: 
Ahmadzadeh, F., Flecks, M., Rödder, D., Böhme, W., Ilgaz, C., Harris, D.J., Engler, J.O., Üzüm, N., Carretero, M. (2013) Multiple dispersal out of Anatolia: biogeography and evolution of oriental green lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 110: 398-408.
Abstract: 

The oriental green lizards of the Lacerta trilineata group are widely distributed in Greece, Anatolia, the eastern Mediterranean, the southern Caucasus, and the Zagros mountains in Iran. We studied their phylogeography using three mitochondrial markers with comprehensive sampling from most representatives of the group. Their phylogeny and divergence times (implementing fossil-based molecular clock calibrations) were inferred using Bayesian methods, and haplotype networks were reconstructed to assess how genetic diversity and current distributional patterns were shaped. According to our phylogenetic analyses, the group constitutes a well-supported monophylum containing several distinct evolutionary lineages with high haplotype diversity. Vicariance might explain the divergences within most lineages that have accumulated by range restriction and expansion of populations as a result of Quaternary climate oscillations and glacial refugia. However, niche divergence appears to be a major force promoting speciation, and large scale distributional patterns between lineages were shaped earlier by multiple, independent dispersals out of Anatolia during the Pliocene and early Pleistocene. The results of the present study also suggest that the group is in need of a taxonomical revision because the identified lineages and genetic diversity are not congruent with the currently recognized subspecies. 

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