Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

The evolutionary origin of Indian Ocean tortoises (Dipsochelys).

Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Aug 2002

Palkovacs Eric P, Gerlach Justin, Caccone Adalgisa

Abstract excerpt

Today, the only surviving wild population of giant tortoises in the Indian Ocean occurs on the island of Aldabra. However, giant tortoises once inhabited islands throughout the western Indian Ocean. Madagascar, Africa, and India have all been suggested as possible sources of colonization for these islands. To address the origin of Indian Ocean tortoises (Dipsochelys, formerly Geochelone gigantea), we sequenced...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Bayes Theorem
Share to Biological Evolution
Share to Cytochrome b Group

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to DNA, Mitochondrial

Share to Indian Ocean

Share to Madagascar

Share to RNA, Ribosomal, 16S

Share to Turtles

Source

Identifiers

PMID: 12144758
DOI: 10.1016/s1055-7903(02)00211-7

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 7 Sept 2026. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-07.1.

Source receipt: pubmed, retrieved 7 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

The evolutionary origin of Indian Ocean tortoises (Dipsochelys).PMID 12144758Read ↗

A molecular phylogeny of four endangered Madagascar tortoises based on MtDNA sequences.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Phylogeny and evolution of Malagasy plated lizards.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Was there a second adaptive radiation of giant tortoises in the Indian Ocean? Using mitochondrial DNA to investigate speciation and biogeography of Aldabrachelys (Reptilia, Testudinidae).Semantic proximity Read ↗

Gecko phylogeography in the Western Indian Ocean region: the oldest clade of Ebenavia inunguis lives on the youngest islandSemantic proximity Read ↗

Multilocus phylogenetic and geospatial analyses illuminate diversification patterns and the biogeographic history of Malagasy endemic plated lizards (Gerrhosauridae: Zonosaurinae).Semantic proximity Read ↗

Biogeography and diversification of hermit spiders on Indian Ocean islands (Nephilidae: Nephilengys).Semantic proximity Read ↗

A molecular approach to comparative phylogeography of extant Malagasy lemurs.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Madagascar sheds new light on the molecular systematics and biogeography of grammitid ferns: New unexpected lineages and numerous long-distance dispersal events.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Insights into the evolution of a cryptic radiation of bats: dispersal and ecological radiation of Malagasy Miniopterus (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae).Semantic proximity Read ↗

Origin and spatial population structure of Malagasy native chickens based on mitochondrial DNASemantic proximity Read ↗

DNA barcoding assessment of genetic variation in two widespread skinks from Madagascar, Trachylepis elegans and T. gravenhorstii (Squamata: Scincidae).Semantic proximity Read ↗

Tracing a toad invasion: lack of mitochondrial DNA variation, haplotype origins, and potential distribution of introduced Duttaphrynus melanostictus in MadagascarSemantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.