Unmasking the Desert Phantom: Genetic Evidence Does Not Support the Validity of the Enigmatic Boehme's Horned Viper

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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023272%3A_____%2F25%3A10136855" target="_blank" >RIV/00023272:_____/25:10136855 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216208:11310/25:10507967

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zsc.70013" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zsc.70013</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zsc.70013" target="_blank" >10.1111/zsc.70013</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Unmasking the Desert Phantom: Genetic Evidence Does Not Support the Validity of the Enigmatic Boehme's Horned Viper

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The viperid genus Cerastes contains four desert-adapted species distributed throughout the Saharo-Arabian arid belt that are typically associated with loose sands. Cerastes boehmei is restricted to one locality in Tunisia and is known only from the holotype. Since its description, it has been speculated that this species, which exhibits distinctive horn-like supraocular scales, could be an aberrant specimen of another desert-adapted viper of the same genus, C. vipera. In this study, we present genetic data from the holotype specimen of C. boehmei for the first time. We used Sanger and Illumina sequencing and obtained sequences for three mitochondrial genes (12S, 16S, cytb) and three nuclear genes (MC1R, NT-3, VIM) and constructed two separate phylogenetic trees based on these data sets. Additionally, we generated a phylogenetic analysis based on the coding regions of mitogenomes of all the Cerastes species. The analyses of both the mitochondrial and the nuclear data clearly show that the C. boehmei holotype is nested within C. vipera. Based on our results, we formally synonymise Cerastes boehmei Wagner &amp; Wilms, 2010 with Cerastes vipera (Linnaeus, 1758). This taxonomic revision is supported by robust genetic evidence and will help to resolve the long-lasting debate concerning the validity of the species.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Unmasking the Desert Phantom: Genetic Evidence Does Not Support the Validity of the Enigmatic Boehme's Horned Viper

Popis výsledku anglicky

The viperid genus Cerastes contains four desert-adapted species distributed throughout the Saharo-Arabian arid belt that are typically associated with loose sands. Cerastes boehmei is restricted to one locality in Tunisia and is known only from the holotype. Since its description, it has been speculated that this species, which exhibits distinctive horn-like supraocular scales, could be an aberrant specimen of another desert-adapted viper of the same genus, C. vipera. In this study, we present genetic data from the holotype specimen of C. boehmei for the first time. We used Sanger and Illumina sequencing and obtained sequences for three mitochondrial genes (12S, 16S, cytb) and three nuclear genes (MC1R, NT-3, VIM) and constructed two separate phylogenetic trees based on these data sets. Additionally, we generated a phylogenetic analysis based on the coding regions of mitogenomes of all the Cerastes species. The analyses of both the mitochondrial and the nuclear data clearly show that the C. boehmei holotype is nested within C. vipera. Based on our results, we formally synonymise Cerastes boehmei Wagner &amp; Wilms, 2010 with Cerastes vipera (Linnaeus, 1758). This taxonomic revision is supported by robust genetic evidence and will help to resolve the long-lasting debate concerning the validity of the species.

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CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10613 - Zoology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA25-17736S" target="_blank" >GA25-17736S: Evoluční diverzita pouštních plazů napříč fylogenetickou a prostorovou škálou: hotspoty, refugia a jejich ochrana</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Zoologica Scripta

ISSN

0300-3256

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

54

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

July

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

6

Strana od-do

817-822

Kód UT WoS článku

999

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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