AFLP analysis shows high incongruence between genetic differentiation and morphology-based taxonomy in a widely distributed tortoise

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081766%3A_____%2F13%3A00388818" target="_blank" >RIV/68081766:_____/13:00388818 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/62157124:16270/13:43872440
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01999.x" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01999.x</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01999.x" target="_blank" >10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01999.x</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
AFLP analysis shows high incongruence between genetic differentiation and morphology-based taxonomy in a widely distributed tortoise
Original language description
Morphology has traditionally been used to diagnose the taxa of various taxonomic ranks. However, there is growing evidence that morphology is not always able to reveal cryptic taxa, and that pronounced morphological variation could reflect phenotypic plasticity rather than evolutionary divergence. Spur-thighed tortoises (the Testudo graeca complex), distributed in the western Palaearctic region, are characterized by high morphological variability and complicated taxonomy, which are under debate. Previous molecular studies using mainly mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences have revealed incongruence between genetic differentiation and morphology-based taxonomy, suggesting that morphological variability is the result of phenotypic plasticity and stabilizing selection, which masks the true genealogies. In the present study, we used a range-wide sampling and nuclear Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers to investigate genetic differentiation within the T. graeca complex. We f
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EG - Zoology
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP506%2F11%2F1738" target="_blank" >GAP506/11/1738: Population structure and evolutionary relationships of the intracellular parasite Hemolivia mauritanica (Sergent and Sergent, 1904)</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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