1. Plate tectonics and biogeographical patterns of the Pseudophoxinus (Pisces: Cypriniformes) species complex of central Anatolia, Turkey
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Fevzi Bardakci, Axel Meyer, R. H. Wildekamp, Kai N. Stölting, Tomas Hrbek, Fahrettin Küçük, Univ Konstanz, Dept Biol, D-78464 Constance, Germany -- Cumhuriyet Univ, Fac Sci & Literature, Dept Biol, TR-58140 Sivas, Turkey -- Suleyman Demirel Univ, Egirdir Su Urunlen Fak, TR-32500 Egirdir, Turkey -- Royal Museum Cent Africa, B-3080 Tervuren, Belgium -- Washington Univ, Sch Med, Dept Anat & Neurobiol, St Louis, MO 63110 USA, Meyer, Axel -- 0000-0002-0888-8193, and Hrbek, Tomas -- 0000-0003-3239-7068
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Species complex ,Turkey ,Speciation ,Allopatric speciation ,Aphanius ,Molecular phylogeny ,DNA, Mitochondrial ,Evolution, Molecular ,Paleontology ,Species Specificity ,Pseudophoxinus ,Cypriniformes ,ddc:570 ,Genetics ,Animals ,Anatolia ,Tethys ,Molecular Biology ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Phylogeny ,Leuciscinae ,Likelihood Functions ,biology ,Phylogenetic tree ,Geography ,Pseudophoxinus sp complex ,DNA ,Cytochromes b ,biology.organism_classification ,Maximum parsimony ,Pseudophoxinus sp. complex ,Biogeography - Abstract
WOS: 000222291400024, PubMed ID: 15186815, We investigated the phylogenetic relationships of Pseudophoxinus (Cyprinidae: Leuciscinae) species from central Anatolia, Turkey to test the hypothesis of geographic speciation driven by early Pliocene orogenic events. We analyzed 1141 aligned base pairs of the complete cytochrome b mitochondrial gene. Phylogenetic relationships reconstructed by maximum likelihood, Bayesian likelihood, and maximum parsimony methods are identical, and generally well supported. Species and clades are restricted to geologically well-defined units, and are deeply divergent from each other. The basal diversification of central Anatolian Pseudophoxinus is estimated to have occurred approximately 15 million years ago. Our results are in agreement with a previous study of the Anatolian fish genus Aphanius that also shows a diversification pattern driven by the Pliocene orogenic events. The distribution of clades of Aphanius and Pseudophoxinus overlap, and areas of distribution comprise the same geological units. The geological history of Anatolia is likely to have had a major impact on the diversification history of many taxa occupying central Anatolia; many of these taxa are likely to be still unrecognized as distinct. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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- 2004