Two different mental disc forms in the Tashan cave Garra: different species or ecotypes?
Hashemzadeh Segherloo, I.; Najafi Chaloshtory, S.; Naser, M. D.; Yasser, A. G.; Tabatabaei, S. N.; Piette-Lauziere, G.; Mashtizadeh, A.; Elmi, A.; Sedighi, O.; Changizi, A.; Hallerman, E.; Bernatchez, L.
Show abstract
In the Tashan Cave barb Garra tashanensis, inhabiting a small cave in south west Iran, two mental disc forms were observed. To assess their phylogenetic relationships, disc-less and disc-bearing individuals were analyzed using mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) partial DNA sequences. Both mental disc forms nested within one clade with absolute bootstrap support (BS = 100), and the genetic distances between the disc-bearing and disc-less individuals (0.3-0.7%) was considerably lower than inter-species mtDNA sequence distances reported among members of the genus Garra. Hence, the observed mental disc variation was not inferred to be a taxonomic feature or a consequence of character displacement. Instead, it was inferred as a case of character release to diversify among ecological niches in the limited subterranean habitat, which should be clarified in follow-up ecological and population genetic studies in more detail.
Matching journals
The top 8 journals account for 50% of the predicted probability mass.
Similar papers in this journal
- Morphological and molecular evidence for range extension and first occurrence of the Japanese seahorse, Hippocampus mohnikei (Bleeker 1853) in a bay-estuarine system of Goa, central west coast of India 94%
- A conservative approach for species delimitation based on multi-locus DNA sequences: a case study of the genus Giraffa (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla) 94%
- Genetic population subdivision of Blue Swimming Crab (Portunus pelagicus) across Indonesia inferred from mitochondrial DNA: implication to sustainable fishery 94%
Similar papers in this journal
- Shedding light on the Ophel biome: The Trans-Tethyan phylogeography of the sulfide shrimp Tethysbaena (Peracarida: Thermosbaenacea) in the Levant 96%
- Stock identification of Mediterranean horse mackerel (Trachurus mediterraneus) through the analysis of morphometric characters in the Adriatic Sea. 96%
- Genetic analyses reveal population structure and recent decline in leopards (Panthera pardus fusca) across Indian subcontinent 93%
Similar papers in this journal
- Changes over a 10-year Period in the Distribution Ranges and Genetic Hybridization of Three Pelophylax Pond Frogs in Central Japan 96%
- The unseen invaders: tracking phylogeographic dynamics and genetic diversity of cryptic Pomacea canaliculata and P. maculata (Golden Apple Snails) across Taiwan 95%
- Hybridization and Low Genetic Diversity in the Endangered Alabama Red-Bellied Turtle (Pseudemys alabamensis) 95%
Similar papers in this journal
- Molecular identification of whole squids and calamari at fairs and markets in regions of Latin America 96%
- Body size variability across habitats in the Brachionus plicatilis cryptic species complex 94%
- Fish diversity in a doubly landlocked country - a description of the fish fauna of Uzbekistan using DNA barcoding 94%
Similar papers in this journal
- Charrs of the genus Salvelinus (Salmonidae): hybridization, phylogeny and evolution 97%
- Genetic Structuring and Conservation of Asian Sockeye Salmon: Identification of Regional Stock Complexes 95%
- Assessing the haplotype and spectro-functional traits interactions to explore the intraspecific diversity of common reed in Central Italy 91%
"Similar papers" are the closest papers from that journal in the model's embedding space. They show what the match is built on, but the ranking comes mostly from a classifier over the whole training set, not from these examples alone.