Phylogenetic relationships of the tooth-carpAphanius(Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae) in the river systems of southern and south-western Iran based on mtDNA sequences

2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamid Reza Esmaeili ◽  
Azad Teimori ◽  
Golnaz Sayyadzadeh ◽  
Mojtaba Masoudi ◽  
Bettina Reichenbacher
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Mtdna Sequences ◽  
River Systems ◽  
Western Iran

scholarly journals Comparing mitogenomic timetrees for two African savannah primate genera (Chlorocebus and Papio)

2017 ◽  
Vol 181 (2) ◽  
pp. 471-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofya Dolotovskaya ◽  
Juan Torroba Bordallo ◽  
Tanja Haus ◽  
Angela Noll ◽  
Michael Hofreiter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Phylogenetic Reconstruction ◽  
Divergence Times ◽  
Mtdna Sequences ◽  
East Division ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Statistical Support ◽  
Green Monkeys ◽  
Complete Mtdna

Abstract Complete mitochondrial (mtDNA) genomes have proved to be useful in reconstructing primate phylogenies with higher resolution and confidence compared to reconstructions based on partial mtDNA sequences. Here, we analyse complete mtDNA genomes of African green monkeys (genus Chlorocebus), a widely distributed primate genus in Africa representing an interesting phylogeographical model for the evolution of savannah species. Previous studies on partial mtDNA sequences revealed nine major clades, suggesting several cases of para- and polyphyly among Chlorocebus species. However, in these studies, phylogenetic relationships among several clades were not resolved, and divergence times were not estimated. We analysed complete mtDNA genomes for ten Chlorocebus samples representing major mtDNA clades to find stronger statistical support in the phylogenetic reconstruction than in the previous studies and to estimate divergence times. Our results confirmed para- and polyphyletic relationships of most Chlorocebus species, while the support for the phylogenetic relationships between the mtDNA clades increased compared to the previous studies. Our results indicate an initial west–east division in the northern part of the Chlorocebus range with subsequent divergence into north-eastern and southern clades. This phylogeographic scenario contrasts with that for another widespread African savannah primate genus, the baboons (Papio), for which a dispersal from southern Africa into East and West Africa was suggested.

scholarly journals Phylogenetic position of Dendropsophus gaucheri (Lescure and Marty 2000) highlights the need for an in-depth investigation of the phylogenetic relationships of Dendropsophus (Anura: Hylidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3035 (1) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANTOINE FOUQUET ◽  
BRICE P. NOONAN ◽  
MICHEL BLANC ◽  
VICTOR GOYANNES DILL ORRICO
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Genetic Distances ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Phylogenetic Position ◽  
Guiana Shield ◽  
Mtdna Sequences ◽  
Species Groups

Dendropsophus gaucheri is a recently described species which inhabits open areas of the eastern part of the Guiana Shield and is currently assigned to the D. parviceps species group based on the presence of a subocular cream spot. Herein we investigate its phylogenetic position including material from the type locality and newly documented populations from Suriname and Brazil based on mtDNA sequences. The species, as well as D. riveroi which is assigned to the D. minimus species group, were recovered nested within the D. microcephalus species group which implies the paraphyly of the three Dendropsophus species groups. Such result, along with other evidences, highlights the need for a thorough revision of the genus. The genetic distances among D. gaucheri samples studied are low confirming their conspecificity and suggesting recent connections among populations from open areas currently isolated by rainforest in the lowlands of the Guiana Shield.

scholarly journals Phylogenetic relationships of Atherina hepsetus and Atherina boyeri (Pisces: Atherinidae) populations from Greece, based on mtDNA sequences

2007 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELENI KLOSSA-KILIA ◽  
VASILIS PAPASOTIROPOULOS ◽  
GEORGE TRYFONOPOULOS ◽  
STAMATIS ALAHIOTIS ◽  
GEORGE KILIAS
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Mtdna Sequences

scholarly journals Phylogenetic analysis of Michigan’s freshwater sponges (Porifera, Spongillidae) using extended COI mtDNA sequences

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen H. Kolomyjec ◽  
Roger A. Willford ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Mtdna Sequences ◽  
Freshwater Sponges ◽  
Coi Mtdna ◽  
The North

AbstractKolomyjec et al. (2020). Phylogenetic analysis of Michigan’s freshwater sponges (Porifera, Spongillidae) using extended COI mtDNA sequences. – Zoologica Scripta, 00, 000-000. The phylogenetic relationships of eight species of freshwater sponges sampled throughout the State of Michigan in the North American Great Lakes region were examined as part of a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE). An extended version of the standard cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) metazoan DNA was used for sequencing and Bayesian phylogenetic inference. The extended gene region (COI-ext) produces a 1,200 bp amplicon instead of the standard 640 bp fragment which compensates for the standard amplicon’s low informatics value in Phylum Porifera. The species examined clustered into strongly supported monophyletic species groups within the family Spongillidae. This study represents the first look at the phylogenetic relationships of freshwater sponges in the Great Lakes Region.Per Kolomyjec, College of Science and the Environment, Lake Superior State University, 650 W Easterday Ave., Sault Sainte Marie, MI 49783, USA. E-mail [email protected]

scholarly journals Phylogenetic relationships amongst the snake-eyed lizards of the genus Ablepharus Fitzinger, 1823 (Sauria, Scincidae) in the Iranian Plateau based on mtDNA sequences

Herpetozoa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 183-194
Author(s):  
Rasoul Karamiani ◽  
Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani ◽  
Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani
Keyword(s):  
16S Rrna ◽  
Late Miocene ◽  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Phylogenetic Trees ◽  
Genetic Distances ◽  
12S Rrna ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Western Iran ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
West Azerbaijan

We recovered molecular phylogenetic relationships amongst species of the genus Ablepharus in Iran and Iraq. Partial sequences of three mitochondrial genes (cytochrome C oxidase subunit I – COI, 12S rRNA and 16S rRNA) were analysed. In addition, phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic evaluation of Ablepharus species in Cyprus, India, Greece, Turkey and Syria were performed using partial sequences of the 16S rRNA gene. Phylogenetic trees and estimated genetic distances showed that the Ablepharus populations of Iran and Iraq clustered into three distinct clades. One is found in northwest Iran (A. bivittatus in Ardabil, East and West Azerbaijan and Hamedan Provinces). The second clade, formed by A. chernovi, is found only in Uromia. The third and most heterogeneous clade is divided into two subclades, the first includes two lineages of Ablepharus in Khorasan Razavi and Semnan Provinces (A. pannonicus) and in eastern and south-eastern Iran (A. grayanus); the second subclade is distributed in the eastern part of Iraq and west and south-western Iran (Ablepharus sp.). Our analyses indicated that splitting of A. chernovi within the genus occurred in the early Miocene [about 22.5 million years ago (Mya)]. Ablepharus bivittatus diverged 15.2 Mya, in the middle Miocene. Ablepharus pannonicus diverged in the late Miocene (8.4 Mya) and A. grayanus separated in the late Miocene (6.7 Mya). The lineages of eastern Iraq and south-western Iran (Ablepharus sp.) diverged also in the late Miocene (7.0 Mya).

Revised classification of the genus Eryx Daudin, 1803 (Serpentes: Erycidae) in Iran and neighbouring areas, based on mtDNA sequences and morphological data

2020 ◽  
pp. 2-12
Author(s):  
Naeimeh Eskandarzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Ecological Niche Modeling ◽  
Phylogenetic Reconstruction ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Niche Overlap ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Western Iran ◽  
Distribution Ranges ◽  
Morphological Differences

Several attempts have recently been made to elucidate taxonomic status and phylogenetic relationships among the species and subspecies of sand boas of the genus Eryx throughout their distribution range, with no stable consensus about their taxonomy. Here the phylogenetic relationships among the populations of Eryx in Iran and adjacent areas are studied based on two mitochondrial markers (cytb and 16S). Sixteen morphological characters were examined for evaluation of morphological differences among major populations. Ecological niche modeling was applied to demonstrate the potential distribution of the populations in Iran. ENMtools was also used to measure the degree of niche overlap among the major populations in Iran. Based on phylogenetic reconstruction and considering the genetic distances with specimens from type localities, E. tataricus is a junior synonym of E. miliaris and the subspecies rank for E. m. nogaiorum seems to be invalid. Considering the genetic distance of populations in western Iran and Iraq, and the habitat and morphological differences among the populations of Eryx in western Iran, Iraq and Egypt, the population of Eryx in western Iran is suggested as a different species from E. jaculus, named here as Eryx sp. and the ones from Iraq as Eryx cf. jaculus. Here, the evaluation and revision of taxonomic status, distribution ranges and descriptions of morphological characters of the studied species have been done.

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