Taxonomic relationships among Turkish water frogs as revealed by phylogenetic analyses using mtDNA gene sequences

We assessed taxonomic relationships among Turkish water frogs through estimation of phylogenetic relationships among 62 adult specimens from 44 distinct populations inhabiting seven main geographical regions of Turkey using 2897 bp sequences of the mitochondrial Cytb, 12S rRNA and 16S rRNA genes wit...

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Published inZoological science Vol. 28; no. 12; p. 930
Main Authors Bülbül, Ufuk, Matsui, Masafumi, Kutrup, Bilal, Eto, Koshiro
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Japan 01.12.2011
Subjects
Animals
Demography
DNA, Mitochondrial - genetics
Phylogeny
Pigments, Biological
Ranidae - anatomy & histology
Ranidae - classification
Ranidae - genetics
Ranidae - physiology
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - genetics
Turkey
Turkey
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Summary:We assessed taxonomic relationships among Turkish water frogs through estimation of phylogenetic relationships among 62 adult specimens from 44 distinct populations inhabiting seven main geographical regions of Turkey using 2897 bp sequences of the mitochondrial Cytb, 12S rRNA and 16S rRNA genes with equally-weighted parsimony, likelihood, and Bayesian methods of inference. Monophyletic clade (Clade A) of the northwesternmost (Thrace) samples is identified as Pelophylax ridibundus. The other clade (Clade B) consisted of two monophyletic subclades. One of these contains specimens from southernmost populations that are regarded as an unnamed species. The other subclade consists of two lineages, of which one corresponds to P. caralitanus and another to P. bedriagae. Taxonomic relationships of these two species are discussed and recognition of P. caralitanus as a subspecies of P. bedriagae is proposed.
ISSN:0289-0003
DOI:10.2108/zsj.28.930