Multiple dispersal out of Anatolia: biogeography and evolution of oriental green lizards

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Ahmadzadeh F., Flecks M., Roedder D., Boehme W., ILGAZ Ç., James Harris D., ...Daha Fazla

BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, cilt.110, sa.2, ss.398-408, 2013 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 110 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2013
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1111/bij.12129
  • Dergi Adı: BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.398-408
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: eastern Mediterranean, Greece, fossil calibration, haplotype network, Lacerta media, Lacerta trilineata, Lacerta pamphylica, molecular clock, mtDNA lineages, phylogeography, MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA SEQUENCES, POSTGLACIAL COLONIZATION ROUTES, PHYLOGENETIC-RELATIONSHIPS, HERPETOFAUNAL DIVERSITY, ECOLOGICAL SPECIATION, GENETIC DIVERSITY, LACERTID LIZARDS, MOLECULAR CLOCK, PHYLOGEOGRAPHY, VICARIANCE
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

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.(c) 2013 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2013, 110, 398-408.