- Title
- Diversification of the African legless skinks in the subfamily Acontinae (Family Scincidae)
- Creator
- Zhao, Zhongning, Conradie, Werner C, Pietersen, Darren W, Jordaan, Adriaan, Nicolau, Gary K, Edwards, Shelley, Riekert, Stephanus, Heideman, Neil
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/461495
- Identifier
- vital:76207
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107747"
- Description
- Cladogenic diversification is often explained by referring to climatic oscillations and geomorphic shifts that cause allopatric speciation. In this regard, southern Africa retains a high level of landscape heterogeneity in vegetation, geology, and rainfall patterns. The legless skink subfamily Acontinae occurs broadly across the southern African subcontinent and therefore provides an ideal model group for investigating biogeographic patterns associated with the region. A robust phylogenetic study of the Acontinae with comprehensive coverage and adequate sampling of each taxon has been lacking up until now, resulting in unresolved questions regarding the subfamily’s biogeography and evolution. In this study, we used multi-locus genetic markers (three mitochondrial and two nuclear) with comprehensive taxon coverage (all currently recognized Acontinae species) and adequate sampling (multiple specimens for most taxa) of each taxon to infer a phylogeny for the subfamily.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (21 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- SpringerLink
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Zhao, Z., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D.W., Jordaan, A., Nicolau, G., Edwards, S., Riekert, S. and Heideman, N., 2023. Diversification of the African legless skinks in the subfamily Acontinae (Family Scincidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 182, p.107747, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution volume 182 p. 107747 2023 1095-9513
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RU Department of Zoology and Entomology
SDG 15. Life On Land
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