Phylogeny of the land snail Levantina reveals long-distance dispersal in the Middle East
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12526" target="_blank" >10.1111/zsc.12526</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Phylogeny of the land snail Levantina reveals long-distance dispersal in the Middle East
Original language description
Populations of rock-dwelling snails are often isolated from each other due to outcrops of suitable rock forming islands separated by uninhabitable habitats. By chance, some snail taxa were able to rapidly extend their distribution ranges or colonise distant areas. The helicid Levantina from the Middle East has a very large range compared with related rock-dwelling genera. We present here the first comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Levantina suggesting that its range is not extended due to Levantina being an old taxon, but rather as a result of a rapid expansion, probably during the Pliocene. These snails originated in the south-east of present-day Turkey, from where they colonised the Levant, the Asir Mountains in Saudi Arabia, the Alborz Mountains and the Central Taurus as well as the island of Cyprus. Eventually, these snails also reached the south-eastern Aegean region by several independent expansion events. In particular, the Arabian species are not closely related to those from the Levant as previously presumed, but are sister to one of the species from south-eastern Turkey. The occurrence of a Levantina spiriplana complex in the Aegean is most likely a result of intentional transport of these edible snails, as all three lineages found there originated from the Levant. Our results further suggest that the species-level taxonomy of the genus needs an integrative revision.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10613 - Zoology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Zoologica Scripta
ISSN
0300-3256
e-ISSN
1463-6409
Volume of the periodical
51
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
161-172
UT code for WoS article
000742597100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85122721775