Comparative mitochondrial phylogeography of water frogs (Ranidae: Pelophylax spp.) from the southwestern Balkans

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00023272:_____/23:10136271 RIV/00216224:14310/23:00132188 RIV/61988987:17310/23:A2402O24 RIV/00216208:11310/23:10472383

Result on the web

<a href="https://vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/95220/" target="_blank" >https://vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/95220/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/vz.73.e95220" target="_blank" >10.3897/vz.73.e95220</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Comparative mitochondrial phylogeography of water frogs (Ranidae: Pelophylax spp.) from the southwestern Balkans

Original language description

The genus Pelophylax (water frogs) includes relatively common, widely distributed, and even invasive species, but also endemic taxa with small ranges and limited knowledge concerning their ecology and evolution. Among poorly studied species belong endemics of the southwestern Balkans, namely Pelophylax shqipericus, P. epeiroticus and P. kurtmuelleri. In this study, we focused on the genetic variability of these species aiming to reveal their phylogeographic patterns and Quaternary history. We used 1,088 published and newly obtained sequences of the mitochondrial ND2 gene and a variety of analyses, including molecular phylogenetics and dating, historical demography, and species distribution modeling (SDM). We revelated the existence of two mitochondrial lineages within P. epeiroticus and P. shqipericus that diverged at ~ 0.9 Mya and ~ 0.8 Mya, respectively. Contrarily, no deeply diverged lineages were found in P. kurtmuelleri. Pelophylax kurtmuelleri also shows a close phylogenetic relationship with widely distributed P. ridibundus, suggesting that both represent one evolutionary clade called here P. ridibundus/kurtmuelleri. The estimated split between both lineages in the clade P. ridibundus/kurtmuelleri date back to ~ 0.6 Mya. The divergence between the ridibundus and kurtmuelleri lineages on the ND2 gene is thus lower than the divergence between the two lineages found in P. epeiroticus and P. shqipericus. According to haplotype networks, demographic analyses, and SDM, endemic water frogs survived the last glacial maximum (LGM) in Balkan microrefugia, and their distribution has not changed significantly or even retracted since the LGM. Haplotypes of the kurtmuelleri lineage were also found in northern parts of Europe, where haplotype diversity is however much lower than in the Balkans, suggesting the possible hypothesis of their postglacial expansion to the north.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-24559S" target="_blank" >GA19-24559S: Programmed DNA elimination: on the functions and mechanisms regulating the process in animal genomes with hemiclonal heredity</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Vertebrate zoology

ISSN

1864-5755

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

73

Issue of the periodical within the volume

May 26

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

525-544

UT code for WoS article

001044395100002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85165058243