Article
Evolutionary history of Lissotriton helveticus: multilocus assessment of ancestral vs. recent colonization of the Iberian Peninsula.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Jul 2011
Recuero Ernesto, García-París Mario
Abstract excerpt
The Pleistocene was characterized by climatic changes that greatly altered the distribution of organisms. Population extinctions, bottlenecks, isolation, range expansions and contractions were often associated with glaciations, leaving signatures in the spatial patterns of genetic diversity across species. Lissotriton helveticus belongs to a Pan-European lineage of newts that were strongly affected by glaciations...
Topics
- Animals
- Bayes Theorem
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Europe
- Genetic Variation
- Haplotypes
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Phylogeography
- Salamandridae