<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Poulakakis, N.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lymberakis, P.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Valakos, E.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pafilis, P.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zouros, E.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mylonas, M.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Phylogeography of Balkan wall lizard (Podarcis taurica) and its relatives inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Molecular EcologyMolecular Ecology</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">balkan peninsula</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">electrophoretic investigations</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">family lacertidae</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">genetics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">genus lacerta</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">islands</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">maximum-likelihood</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">model</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">molecular clock</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">molecular phylogenetics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Molecular phylogeny</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mtdna markers</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Podarcis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">reptilia</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">substitution</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2005</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jul</style></date></pub-dates></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">14</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2433-2443</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">0962-1083</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wall lizards of the genus Podarcis (Sauria, Lacertidae) comprise 17 currently recognized species in southern Europe, where they are the predominant reptile group. The taxonomy of Podarcis is complex and unstable. Based on DNA sequence data the species of Podarcis falls into four main groups that have substantial geographical conherence (western island group, southwestern group, Italian group and Balkan group). The Balkan species are divided in two subgroups: the subgroup of Podarcis taurica (P. taurica, P. milensis, P. gaigeae and perhaps P. melisellensis), and the subgroup of Podarcis erhardii (P. erhardii and P. peloponnesiaca). We addressed the question of phylogenetic relations among the species of the P. taurica subgroup encountered in Greece, as they can be inferred from partial mtDNA (cyt b and 16S) sequences. Our data support the monophyly of P. taurica subgroup and suggest that P. gaigeae, P. milensis and P. melisellensis form a clade, which thereinafter connects to P. taurica. Within the previous clade, P. gaigeae is more closely related to P. milensis than to P. melisellensis. However, the specimens of P. taurica were subdivided in two different groups. The first one includes the specimens from northeastern Greece, and the other group includes the specimens from the rest of continental Greece and Ionian islands. Because the molecular clock of the cyt b and 16 rRNA genes was not rejected in our model test, it is possible to estimate times of speciation events. Based on the splitting of the island of Crete from Peloponnisos [c. 5 million years ago (Ma)], the evolutionary rate for the cyt b is 1.55% per million years (Myr) and for the 16S rRNA is 0.46% per Myr. These results suggest that the evolutionary history of P. taurica in Greece is more complex than a single evolutionary invasion. The data analysed, stress the need for a reconsideration of the evolutionary history of Greek Podarcis species and help overcome difficulties that classical taxonomy has encountered at both the species level.</style></abstract><accession-num><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ISI:000229961500015</style></accession-num><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">937YBTimes Cited:18Cited References Count:62</style></notes><auth-address><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Poulakakis, NUniv Crete, Nat Hist Museum Crete, Mol Systemat Lab, Knossos Av,POB 2208, GR-71409 Iraklion, GreeceUniv Crete, Nat Hist Museum Crete, Mol Systemat Lab, GR-71409 Iraklion, GreeceUniv Athens, Dept Biol, Sect Human &amp; Anim Physiol, Athens 15784, GreeceUniv Crete, Dept Biol, GR-71409 Iraklion, Greece</style></auth-address></record></records></xml>