Abstract The Iberian Peninsula was one of the most important Pleistocene glacial refugia in
Europe. A number of recent studies have documented the phylogeography of Iberian taxa …

Background Leuciscinae is a subfamily belonging to the Cyprinidae fish family that is widely
distributed in Circum-Mediterranean region. Many efforts have been carried out to …

Valvatiform gastropods of the family Hydrobiidae are frequently found in European spring-
fed systems. Their simplified and sometimes convergent morphological structures and …

The phylogenetic relationships of cyprinid species from the Middle East and neighboring
biogeographical areas were investigated using cytochrome b sequence variation in order to …

River capture is potentially a key geomorphological driver of range expansion and
cladogenesis in freshwater‐limited taxa. While previous studies of freshwater fish, in …

The phylogeographic studies of unrelated species that share overlapping distributions lead
to new perspectives. Indeed, if different species with similar distributions shared the same …

The order Cypriniformes is the most diverse clade of freshwater fishes and is natively
distributed on all continents except South America, Australia, and Antarctica. Despite the …

In the ancient Lake Baikal in East Siberia, cottoid fishes have diversified into an endemic
flock of 33 species. From an ancestral shallow-water, benthic life-style, Baikalian cottoids …

The family Cyprinidae is one of the largest families of fishes in the world and a well-known
component of the East Asian freshwater fish fauna. However, the phylogenetic relationships …

The taxonomy and biogeographic history of the bivalve family Margaritiferidae are
controversial because previous molecular studies did not provide a well-resolved …