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Morphometrics and genetics highlight the complex history of Eastern Mediterranean spiny mice.

Renaud, S., Hardouin, E.A., Chevret, P., Papayiannis, K., Lymberakis, P., Matur, F., García-Rodríguez, O., Andreou, D., Çetintaş, O., Sözen, M., Hadjisterkotis, E. and Mitsainas, G.P., 2020. Morphometrics and genetics highlight the complex history of Eastern Mediterranean spiny mice. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 130 (3), 599 - 614.

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DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa063

Abstract

© 2020 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. Spiny mice of the Acomys cahirinus group display a complex geographical structure in the Eastern Mediterranean area, as shown by previous genetic and chromosomal studies. To better elucidate the evolutionary relationships between insular populations from Crete and Cyprus and continental populations from North Africa and Cilicia in Turkey, genetic and morphometric variations were investigated, based on mitochondrial D-loop sequences, and the size and shape of the first upper molar. The Cypriot and the Cilician populations show idiosyncratic divergence in molar size and shape, while Cretan populations present a geographical structure with at least three differentiated subpopulations, as shown by congruent distributions of haplogroups, Robertsonian fusions and morphometric variation. A complex history of multiple introductions is probably responsible for this structure, and insular isolation coupled with habitat shift should have further promoted a pronounced and rapid morphological evolution in molar size and shape on Crete and Cyprus.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:0024-4066
Uncontrolled Keywords:Acomys minous, Acomys cilicicus, Acomys nesiotes, Crete, Cyprus, D-loop, geometric morphometrics, insular evolution, molar shape, phylogeography
Group:Faculty of Science & Technology
ID Code:34554
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:21 Oct 2020 11:21
Last Modified:14 Mar 2022 14:24

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