scholarly journals Neandertal Evolutionary Genetics: Mitochondrial DNA Data from the Iberian Peninsula

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 1077-1081 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Lalueza-Fox
2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 681-690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos A. Fernandes ◽  
Catarina Ginja ◽  
Iris Pereira ◽  
Rogério Tenreiro ◽  
Michael W. Bruford ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. ALMEIDA ◽  
R. SIMÕES ◽  
M. J. COIMBRA-DORES ◽  
F. ROSA ◽  
D. DIAS

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in higher animals is rapidly becoming a well characterized genetic system at the molecular level. In this paper, I shift the focus to consider questions in organismal evolution that can be addressed by mtDNA assay. For the first time, it is possible to estimate empirically matriarchal phylogeny; to determine directionality in crosses producing hybrids; and to study the population genetic consequences of varying female demographies and life histories. The data obtainable from mtDNA may be especially well suited for studies of population genetic structure, dispersal, and historical zoogeography. The female-mediated, clonal transmission of mtDNA is also stimulating new ways of thinking about times to common ancestry of asexual lineages within otherwise sexually reproducing populations; about the possible relevance of mtDNA-nuclear DNA interactions to reproductive isolation; and about the very meaning of the phylogenetic status of related species with respect to particular kinds of genetic characters. These and other topics are reviewed.


2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 576-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvador Carranza ◽  
Alfredo Salvador ◽  
Joaquín Verdú-Ricoy ◽  
José Díaz ◽  
Stephen Busack

AbstractRelationships among Psammodromus algirus populations from the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, including recently described P. jeanneae and P. manuelae, were estimated from mitochondrial DNA gene sequences. This enlarged data set confirmed the presence of two divergent eastern and western mitochondrial DNA lineages on the Iberian Peninsula, the distributions for which are separated by a narrow zone of contact across the centre of the Peninsula. Paratypes of P. jeanneae and topotypes of P. manuelae represent southern and northern clades of the western lineage, respectively, making P. algirus paraphyletic. This, together with the low level of allozymic and mitochondrial DNA substructuring within western populations, is not sufficient to retain P. jeanneae and P. manuelae as valid species, and we relegate them to the status of junior synonyms of P. algirus.


2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (9) ◽  
pp. 1794-1809 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuria Sanz ◽  
Rosa M. Araguas ◽  
Oriol Vidal ◽  
Jordi Viñas

PLoS ONE ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. e0159735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Barral-Arca ◽  
Sara Pischedda ◽  
Alberto Gómez-Carballa ◽  
Ana Pastoriza ◽  
Ana Mosquera-Miguel ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 1139-1152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenyfer Fernández-Pérez ◽  
Ana Nantón ◽  
Alberto Arias-Pérez ◽  
Ruth Freire ◽  
Dorotea Martínez-Patiño ◽  
...  

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