Authors
Miguel Vences, J Susanne Hauswaldt, Sebastian Steinfartz, Oliver Rupp, Alexander Goesmann, Sven Künzel, Pablo Orozco-terWengel, David R Vieites, Sandra Nieto-Roman, Sabrina Haas, Clara Laugsch, Marcelo Gehara, Sebastian Bruchmann, Maciej Pabijan, Ann-Kathrin Ludewig, Dirk Rudert, Claudio Angelini, Leo J Borkin, Pierre-André Crochet, Angelica Crottini, Alain Dubois, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Pedro Galán, Philippe Geniez, Monika Hachtel, Olga Jovanovic, Spartak N Litvinchuk, Petros Lymberakis, Annemarie Ohler, Nazar A Smirnov
Publication date
2013/9/1
Journal
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
Volume
68
Issue
3
Pages
657-670
Publisher
Academic Press
Description
We reconstruct range–wide phylogeographies of two widespread and largely co-occurring Western Palearctic frogs, Rana temporaria and R. dalmatina. Based on tissue or saliva samples of over 1000 individuals, we compare a variety of genetic marker systems, including mitochondrial DNA, single-copy protein-coding nuclear genes, microsatellite loci, and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of transcriptomes of both species. The two focal species differ radically in their phylogeographic structure, with R. temporaria being strongly variable among and within populations, and R. dalmatina homogeneous across Europe with a single strongly differentiated population in southern Italy. These differences were observed across the various markers studied, including microsatellites and SNP density, but especially in protein-coding nuclear genes where R. dalmatina had extremely low heterozygosity values across its …
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