10.6084/m9.figshare.2059545.v1
Khaled Merabet
Khaled
Merabet
Eugenia Sanchez
Eugenia
Sanchez
Abdelhak Dahmana
Abdelhak
Dahmana
Sergé Bogaerts
Sergé
Bogaerts
David Donaire
David
Donaire
Sebastian Steinfartz
Sebastian
Steinfartz
Ulrich Joger
Ulrich
Joger
Miguel Vences
Miguel
Vences
Mokrane Karar
Mokrane
Karar
Aissa Moali
Aissa
Moali
Phylogeographic relationships and shallow mitochondrial divergence of Algerian populations of Salamandra algira
Brill Online
2015
Algeria
Amphibia
biogeography
Caudata
Morocco
phylogeography
Salamandra algira
Salamandridae
Zoology
Genetics
2015-12-31 07:28:21
Dataset
https://brill.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Phylogeographic_relationships_and_shallow_mitochondrial_divergence_of_Algerian_populations_of_Salamandra_algira/2059545
The North African fire salamander, <i>Salamandra algira</i>, is
distributed in Algeria, Morocco and Ceuta (Spanish territory located on the
north coast of Africa), but until now rather limited information has been
available on the populations across the Algerian part of its range. We here
provide a first analysis of the phylogeography of this species in Algeria,
based on 44 samples from populations distributed across 15 localities in
Central Algeria. We sequenced three segments of mitochondrial DNA, covering 12S
rRNA, cytochrome <i>b </i>(Cytb) and the D-loop. The mtDNA sequences of the
Algerian samples were strongly different from the Moroccan populations
occurring west of the Moulouya River (corresponding to the subspecies <i>S. a.
tingitana </i>and <i>S. a. splendens</i>) but sister to the genetically rather
similar population from the Beni Snassen Massif in eastern Morocco (subspecies <i>S.
algira spelaea</i>). Among the Algerian specimens studied, those from the
westernmost site, Chrea Massif, were the sister clade to the remaining
populations, and the overall genetic divergence was low, with a maximum of five
mutational steps in a 295 bp fragment of cytochrome <i>b</i>.