| environmentally caused dwarfism or a valid species--is testudo weissingeri bour, 1996 a distinct evolutionary lineage? new evidence from mitochondrial and nuclear genomic markers. | we examine the evolutionary relationships of the five traditionally recognized species of the western palearctic tortoise genus testudo (t. graeca, t. hermanni, t. horsfieldii, t. kleinmanni, and t. marginata) and the newly described dwarfed species t. weissingeri by using sequence data of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene and nuclear genomic fingerprints with inter-simple sequence repeats (issr). testudo weissingeri differs from t. marginata mainly by its smaller size and some color-pattern c ... | 2005 | 16223676 |