2024-03-28T18:56:52Zhttp://digital.csic.es/dspace-oai/requestoai:digital.csic.es:10261/1517492018-09-27T07:29:46Zcom_10261_9676com_10261_8col_10261_9677
2017-06-21T08:00:59Z
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Hidden relationships and genetic diversity: Molecular phylogeny and phylogeography of the Levantine lizards of the genus Phoenicolacerta (Squamata: Lacertidae)
Tamar, Karin
Carranza, Salvador
Bosch, Herman in den
Sindaco, Roberto
Moravec, Jiří
Meiri, Shai
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
European Commission
Ministry of Culture (Czech Republic)
National Museum (Czech Republic)
Israel Taxonomic Initiative
Multilocus phylogeny
Haplotype networks
Molecular clocks
Biogeography
Convergence
Systematics
The Levant region witnessed dramatic tectonic events and climatic fluctuations that changed the historical landscape of the area and consequently influenced the cladogenesis and distribution of the local biota. In this study we use information from two mitochondrial and two nuclear genes and species delimitation methods in order to obtain the first robust time-calibrated molecular phylogeny of the Levantine rock lizards of the genus Phoenicolacerta. We sampled from across its distributional range with the aim to clarify its systematics, biogeography and evolution. Our results suggest that the genus includes two well-supported clades, one comprising solely the montane species Phoenicolacerta kulzeri, and the other including the three remaining species, the relatively widespread, P. laevis, the Syrian-Turkish P. cyanisparsa and the Cypriot endemic P. troodica. We found that both P. laevis and P. cyanisparsa are not monophyletic, as the Turkish populations of P. laevis branch within P. cyanisparsa. We found high levels of undescribed diversity within P. laevis which necessitate a thorough revision. We suggest that Phoenicolacerta started radiating during the mid-late Miocene, and that both vicariance and dispersal events shaped the diversification and distribution of the genus concomitantly with the formation of major geological structures and climatic fluctuations in the Levant. These results highlight the region as an important center of speciation, contributing to the species diversity of the eastern Mediterranean.
2017-06-21T08:00:59Z
2017-06-21T08:00:59Z
2015-10
artículo
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 91: 86-97 (2015)
1055-7903
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/151749
10.1016/j.ympev.2015.05.002
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003329
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000780
eng
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2015.05.002
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closedAccess
Elsevier