Evolution of mitochondrial relationships and biogeography of Palearctic green toads (Bufo viridis subgroup) with insights in their genomic plasticity

Abstrakt

Taxa involving three bisexually reproducing ploidy levels make green toads a unique amphibian system. We put a cytogenetic dataset from Central Asia in a molecular framework and apply phylogenetic and demographic methods to data from the entire Palearcti

Klíčová slova

• PHYLOGENETIC-RELATIONSHIPS
• TESTING HYPOTHESES
• MULTIPLE ORIGINS
• LAUDAKIA-CAUCASIA
• IRANIAN PLATEAU
• AREA CLADOGRAM
• HIGH MOUNTAINS
• GROUP AMPHIBIA
• EURASIAN BUFO
• SPECIES GROUP