Multi‐locus species delimitation in closely related animals and fungi: one marker is not enough

JR Dupuis, AD Roe, FAH Sperling - Molecular ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Despite taxonomy's 250‐year history, the past 20 years have borne witness to remarkable
advances in technology and techniques, as well as debate. DNA barcoding has generated a …

Morphology of the Podarcis wall lizards (Squamata: Lacertidae) from the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa: patterns of variation in a putative cryptic species complex

A Kaliontzopoulou, MA Carretero… - Zoological Journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Cryptic species complexes represent groups that have been classified as a single species,
because of the difficulty in distinguishing its members morphologically. Morphological …

Lizards on Ice: Evidence for Multiple Refugia in Liolaemus pictus (Liolaemidae) during the Last Glacial Maximum in the Southern Andean Beech Forests

I Vera-Escalona, G D'Elía, N Gouin, FM Fontanella… - PLoS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Historical climate changes and orogenesis are two important factors that have shaped
intraspecific biodiversity patterns worldwide. Although southern South America has …

[PDF][PDF] Molecular survey and microscopic examination of Hepatozoon Miller, 1908 (Apicomplexa: Adeleorina) in lacertid lizards from the western Mediterranean

JPMC Maia, A Perera, DJ Harris - Folia Parasitologica, 2012 - folia.paru.cas.cz
the genus Hepatozoon Miller, 1908 (apicomplexa: adeleorina) is composed of intracellular
haemogregarine parasites that are widely distributed among all tetrapod groups. the present …

Extreme genetic diversity in the lizard Atlantolacerta andreanskyi(Werner, 1929): A montane cryptic species complex

M Barata, S Carranza, DJ Harris - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2012 - Springer
Background Atlantolacerta andreanskyi is an enigmatic lacertid lizard that, according to the
most recent molecular analyses, belongs to the tribe Eremiadini, family Lacertidae. It is a …

Fine-scale genetic breaks driven by historical range dynamics and ongoing density-barrier effects in the estuarine seaweed Fucus ceranoides L.

J Neiva, GA Pearson, M Valero, EA Serrão - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2012 - Springer
Background Factors promoting the emergence of sharp phylogeographic breaks include
restricted dispersal, habitat discontinuity, physical barriers, disruptive selection, mating …

Origin and genetic diversity of an introduced wall lizard population and its cryptic congener

U Schulte, F Gassert, P Geniez, M Veith, A Hochkirch - Amphibia-Reptilia, 2012 - brill.com
The Common Wall Lizard (Podarcis muralis) has been introduced within large parts of
Central Europe, the UK and parts of North America. In an introduced population of this …

[HTML][HTML] The Pleistocene glacial cycles shaped the historical demography and phylogeography of a pine fungal endophyte

R Salas-Lizana, NS Santini, A Miranda-Pérez… - Mycological …, 2012 - Springer
The fungal endophyte Lophodermium nitens is an obligate symbiont of soft pines inhabiting
only two pine species in Mexico with a broad distribution of geographically isolated …

Molecular systematics of Batrachoseps (Caudata, Plethodontidae) in southern California and Baja California: mitochondrial-nuclear DNA discordance and the …

Í Martínez-Solano, A Peralta-García… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2012 - Elsevier
Inferences about species boundaries and evolutionary history are often complicated by
discordance between datasets. In recent times, considerable effort has been devoted to …

Genetic variability and relationships within the skinks Eumeces algeriensis and Eumeces schneideri using mitochondrial markers

A Perera, F Sampaio, S Costa, D Salvi… - African Journal of …, 2012 - journals.co.za
The skinks Eumeces algeriensis and Eumeces schneideri are two of the most widespread
species of the E. schneideri group. Despite this, data on their intra-specific variation are …