Phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of Podarcis species from the Balkan Peninsula, by bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses of mitochondrial DNA sequences

Poulakakis, Nikos; Lymberakis, Petros; Valakos, Efstratios D.; Ζούρος, Ε.; Mylonas, M.

doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.06.005

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“…. Phylogenetic relationships of P. taurica group and the proposed interaction with the P. erhardii group after [17]. Taxa respect the 12-9 MYA boundaries and contemporary species, such as P. erhardii, differentiate near the Messinian crisis.…”

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Three Continents Claiming an Archipelago: The Evolution of Aegean’s Herpetofaunal Diversity

Lymberakis

Poulakakis

2010

Diversity

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Abstract:The area of the Aegean can be described as one of nature's most active laboratories. The contemporary geomorphology of the Aegean is a result of diverse and still ongoing geological events, which coupled with climate changes, have created mountains and thousands of islands. The Aegean bridges three continents, where human activity has been recorded for at least 10,000 years. Herpetofauna diversity offered early researchers the possibility of describing patterns in the Aegean, especially as the distributional limit for several species and faunal elements. The patterns initially described at a rather coarse scale formed the frame on which the application of new techniques opened new views and permitted finer analyses. Here, we assess recent works on the Aegean's herpetofauna, outlining the role of sea barriers, especially the Mid Aegean Trench (MAT). We propose four basic patterns (pre-MAT, post-MAT, newcomers, and that of an outlier) and discuss exceptions to these patterns, to interpret the diversity recorded. The interdisciplinary study of taxonomy helps explaining the observed diversity and provides powerful arguments for how exploring diversity can be used to explain more than biological processes.

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Three Continents Claiming an Archipelago: The Evolution of Aegean’s Herpetofaunal Diversity

Lymberakis

Poulakakis

2010

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“…One was the phylogeny of the Balkan peninsula Podarcis spp. clades published by Poulakakis et al (2005b), which includes all five species investigated in the present study. Poulakakis et al (2005b) inferred phylogenetic relationships from mtDNA cyt b and 16S genes using methods of maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference.…”

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“…clades published by Poulakakis et al (2005b), which includes all five species investigated in the present study. Poulakakis et al (2005b) inferred phylogenetic relationships from mtDNA cyt b and 16S genes using methods of maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference. Since the association between P. sicula and P. muralis proposed by Poulakakis et al (2005b) is not concordant with the more recent studies (Harris et al, 2005;Podnar et al, 2007), we also used the phylogeny proposed by Harris et al (2005).…”

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“…The association of P. erhardii or P. peloponnesiaca to the other Podarcis species varies in different studies (Harris and Arnold, 1999;Poulakakis et al, 2003Poulakakis et al, , 2005aHarris et al, 2005;Arnold et al, 2007). P. muralis and P. sicula clades were considered sister groups (Harris and Arnold, 1999;Poulakakis et al, 2005b). However, new analyses revealed the numt-sic pseudogene in the nuclear DNA of P. sicula which is very similar to the P. muralis mitochondrial DNA cyt b sequences.…”

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Variation in the cranium shape of wall lizards (Podarcis spp.): effects of phylogenetic constraints, allometric constraints and ecology

Urošević

Ljubisavljević

Jelić

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“…Poulakakis et al, 2005a;Iliopoulos et al, 2012), suggesting that a land bridge still existed. Molecular biogeographic studies of extant lizards and gastropods suggest final separation between western Crete and mainland Greece by 5 million years BP (Poulakakis et al, 2005b). The Trachilos trackmaker may thus have inhabited a south-east-trending peninsula of the Greek mainland rather than an island.…”

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Possible hominin footprints from the late Miocene (c. 5.7 Ma) of Crete?

2018

Fuß & Sprunggelenk

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A B S T R A C TWe describe late Miocene tetrapod footprints (tracks) from the Trachilos locality in western Crete (Greece), which show hominin-like characteristics. They occur in an emergent horizon within an otherwise marginal marine succession of Messinian age (latest Miocene), dated to approximately 5.7 Ma (million years), just prior to the Messinian Salinity Crisis. The tracks indicate that the trackmaker lacked claws, and was bipedal, plantigrade, pentadactyl and strongly entaxonic. The impression of the large and non-divergent first digit (hallux) has a narrow neck and bulbous asymmetrical distal pad. The lateral digit impressions become progressively smaller so that the digital region as a whole is strongly asymmetrical. A large, rounded ball impression is associated with the hallux. Morphometric analysis shows the footprints to have outlines that are distinct from modern non-hominin primates and resemble those of hominins. The interpretation of these footprints is potentially controversial. The print morphology suggests that the trackmaker was a basal member of the clade Hominini, but as Crete is some distance outside the known geographical range of pre-Pleistocene hominins we must also entertain the possibility that they represent a hitherto unknown late Miocene primate that convergently evolved human-like foot anatomy.

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Phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of Podarcis species from the Balkan Peninsula, by bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses of mitochondrial DNA sequences

Cited by 82 publications

References 43 publications

Three Continents Claiming an Archipelago: The Evolution of Aegean’s Herpetofaunal Diversity

Three Continents Claiming an Archipelago: The Evolution of Aegean’s Herpetofaunal Diversity

Variation in the cranium shape of wall lizards (Podarcis spp.): effects of phylogenetic constraints, allometric constraints and ecology

Possible hominin footprints from the late Miocene (c. 5.7 Ma) of Crete?

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