| mitochondrial sequence analysis of salamandra taxa suggests old splits of major lineages and postglacial recolonizations of central europe from distinct source populations of salamandra salamandra. | representatives of the genus salamandra occur in europe, northern africa and the near east. many local variants are known but species and subspecies status of these is still a matter of dispute. we have analysed samples from locations covering the whole expansion range of salamandra by sequence analysis of mitochondrial d-loop regions. in addition, we have calibrated the rate of divergence of the d-loop on the basis of geologically dated splits of the closely related genus euproctus. phylogeneti ... | 2000 | 10736043 |