Divergent and reticulate processes in evolution of Ethiopian Lophuromys flavopunctatus species complex: evidence from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA differentiation patterns

• Published in: Biological journal of the Linnean Society Vol. 83; no. 3; pp. 301 - 316
• Main Authors: LAVRENCHENKO, LEONID A., VERHEYEN, ERIK, POTAPOV, SERGEI G., LEBEDEV, VLADIMIR S., BULATOVA, NINA SH, ANISKIN, VLADIMIR M., VERHEYEN, WALTER N., RYSKOV, ALEXEY P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Science Ltd 01.11.2004; Blackwell
• Subjects: chromosomes; convergent evolution; Ethiopia; genes; haplotypes; hybridization; karyotyping; mitochondria; mitochondrial DNA; nuclear genome; phylogeny; random amplified polymorphic DNA technique; RAPD analysis; speciation; sympatry; Ethiopia

Molecular study of mitochondrial and nuclear genes and cytogenetic analysis were performed to examine possible patterns of speciation in the diverse Lophuromys flavopunctatus species complex of Ethiopia. Phylogenetic analysis of mtDNA data resulted in an unresolved bush of ten deeply diverged haplot...