| first assessment on the molecular phylogeny of anatololacerta (squamata, lacertidae) distributed in southern anatolia: insights from mtdna and ndna markers. | the genus anatololacerta (lacertidae) occurs mainly in anatolia (western and southern turkey) and on the aegean islands samos, ikaria, and rhodos. although its taxonomy has long been debated and is currently nascent, three morphological species have been attributed to this genus: anatololacerta anatolica, anatololacerta oertzeni, and anatololacerta danfordi. here, we investigated the evolutionary history of a. oertzeni and anatololacerta danfordi based on both mitochondrial and nuclear markers ( ... | 2016 | 25489775 |
| cryptic diversity within the anatololacerta species complex (squamata: lacertidae) in the anatolian peninsula: evidence from a multi-locus approach. | the rapid development of innovative molecular tools for characterizing biodiversity is leading to an extensive and sometimes unexpected renovation of taxonomic classifications. particularly, for species having allopatric or parapatric distributions or resulting from recent speciation processes, the absence of clear phenotypic differentiation may hinder the recognition of closely related taxa, while intraspecific polymorphism may be confused with the presence of more than one single species. in t ... | 2015 | 25315886 |