Sympatric morphotypes of the restricted-range Tashan Cave Garra: distinct species or a case of phenotypic plasticity?

• Published in: Environmental biology of fishes Vol. 105; no. 9; pp. 1251 - 1260
• Main Authors: Hashemzadeh Segherloo, Iraj, Najafi Chaloshtory, Sajad, Naser, Murtada D., Yasser, Amaal Gh, Tabatabaei, Seyedeh Narjes, Piette-Lauziere, Gabriel, Mashtizadeh, Amirhossein, Elmi, Amirmohammad, Sedighi, Omid, Changizi, Alieh, Hallerman, Eric, Bernatchez, Louis
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.09.2022; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Algorithms; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Character displacement; cytochrome-c oxidase; Cytochromes; DNA; DNA sequences; Ecological distribution; Ecological niches; Environment; Freshwater & Marine Ecology; Garra; Gene sequencing; Genetic distance; habitats; Iran; Life Sciences; Mitochondria; Mitochondrial DNA; morphs; mouth; Nature Conservation; Niches; Nucleotide sequence; nucleotide sequences; Phenotypic plasticity; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; Population genetics; Population studies; Species; Sympatric populations; sympatry; Taxonomy; Zoology; Iran; Taxonomic feature; Character release; Tashan Cave; Character displacement

Among Tashan cave barb Garra tashanensis inhabiting a small cave in southwest Iran, two mental disc (sucking mouth disc) forms were observed. To assess their phylogenetic relationships, disc-less and disc-bearing individuals were analyzed using mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I ( COI ) part...