Subject: Austropotamobius torrentium, Species delimitation, Species validation, MOTU, ESU, Phylogeographic patterns, nuDNA, mtDNA, Evolutionary history
Year: 2020
Type: Article
Title: New insights into the genetic diversity of the stone crayfish: taxonomic and conservation implications
Author: Lovrenčić, Leona
Author: Bonassin, Lena
Author: Boštjančić, Ljudevit Luka
Author: Podnar, Martina
Author: Jelić, Mišel
Author: Klobučar, Göran
Author: Jaklič, Martina
Author: Slavevska-Stamenković, Valentina
Author: Hinić, Jelena
Author: Maguire, Ivana
Abstract: Austropotamobius torrentium is a freshwater crayfish species native to central and south-eastern Europe, with an intricate evolutionary history and the highest genetic diversity recorded in the northern-central Dinarides (NCD). Its populations are facing declines, both in number and size across its entire range. By extanding current knowledge on the genetic diversity of this species, we aim to assist conservation programmes. Multigene phylogenetic analyses were performed using different divergence time estimates based on mitochondrial and, for the first time, nuclear DNA markers on the largest data set analysed so far. In order to reassess taxonomic relationships within this species we applied several species delimitation methods and studied the meristic characters with the intention of finding features that would clearly separate stone crayfish belonging to different phylogroups.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Relation: BMC evolutionary biology
Identifier: oai:repository.ukim.mk:20.500.12188/12501
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/12501Identifier: 10.1186/s12862-020-01709-1
Identifier: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s12862-020-01709-1.pdfIdentifier: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-020-01709-1/fulltext.htmlIdentifier: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s12862-020-01709-1.pdfIdentifier: 20
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