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| Arntzen, J.W.; García-París, M.. |
| Three competing phylogenetic hypotheses for the genus Alytes (midwife toads) are evaluated. Based on quantitative coding of protein characters the most parsimonious solution shows a sister taxon relationship for Alytes dickhilleni and A. muletensis. The alternatives in which A. obstetricans has its sister group in either A. dickhilleni or A. muletensis lack support. Using calibrations derived from protein evolutionary rates, the vicariant events giving rise to A. obstetricans and the lineage leading to the A. muletensis and A. dickhilleni clade and the subsequent splitting between A. muletensis and A. dickhilleni cannot be placed much earlier than the Miocene-Pliocene boundary. Biogeographical scenarios invoking an earlier time of divergence should be... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Allozymes; Alytes; Biogeography; Midwife toads; Phylogenetics; Spain; Taxonomy; Vicariance. |
| Ano: 1997 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/504096 |
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| Arntzen, J.W.; García-París, M.. |
| Allozyme variation in 31 to 50 presumptive loci of 12 populations of European midwife toads of the genus Alytes show appreciable genetic divergences (DiNe from 0.29 to 0.72) among four groups. These groups correspond to A. cisternasii Boscá, 1879, A. obstetricans (Laurenti, 1768), A. muletensis (Sanchiz & Adrover, 1979), and a new species from the Betic mountains described here as A. dickhilleni n. sp. Smaller divergences among geographic groups of populations of A. obstetricans (up to DNei = 0.17) support the existence of three geographic units in Europe corresponding to the previously recognized subspecies A. o. obstetricans and A. o. boscai Lataste, 1879, plus a third one described here under the designation of A. o. almogavarii n. ssp. The analysis... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Allozymes; Alytes; Midwife toads; Morphometry; Spain; Taxonomy. |
| Ano: 1995 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/504393 |
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| Altaba, Cristian R.. |
| The allozyme data base of Arntzen & García-París (1995) on midwife toads (Alytes, Discoglossidae) is reanalysed considering each locus as a discrete character. The phylogeny thus inferred differs from the one obtained with genetic distances in the position of A. dickhilleni from the Betic region – it appears that its sister species is the widespread A. obstetricans, not the Mallorcan endemic A. muletensis. This phylogenetic hypothesis agrees with the taxonomic treatment of the genus based on morphology. A testable biogeographic hypothesis is proposed to account for the diversification of midwife toads in Iberia and the Balearics. The postulated underlying geological changes were the spread of inland saline lakes that divided Iberia (16 mY B.P.), the... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Alytes; Midwife toads; Taxonomy; Phylogeny; Biogeography; Western Mediterranean; Iberia; Balearic Islands. |
| Ano: 1997 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/504192 |
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