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Nuclear and mitochondrial phylogeography of the European fire-bellied toads Bombina bombina and Bombina variegata supports their independent histories.
Molecular ecology - 1 Aug 2011
Fijarczyk Anna, Nadachowska Krystyna, Hofman Sebastian, Litvinchuk Spartak N, Babik Wiesław, Stuglik Michał, Gollmann Günter, Choleva Lukáš, Cogălniceanu Dan, Vukov Tanja, Džukić George, Szymura Jacek M
Abstract excerpt
Exact location and number of glacial refugia still remain unclear for many European cold-blooded terrestrial vertebrates. We performed a fine-scaled multilocus phylogeographic analysis of two Bombina species combining mitochondrial variation of 950 toads from 385 sites and nuclear genes (Rag-1, Ncx-1) from a subset of samples to reconstruct their colonization and contemporary variation patterns. We identified the...
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