Molecular taxonomy of European plethodontid salamanders (Genus hydromantes)

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 161-183

  Nascetti, Giuseppe ^a   Cimmaruta, Roberta ^b   Lanza, Benedetto ^c   Bullini, Luciano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIUMA MEANS; CAUDATA; HYDROMANTES; HYDROMANTES AMBROSII; HYDROMANTES FLAVUS; HYDROMANTES GENEI; HYDROMANTES ITALICUS; HYDROMANTES SUPRAMONTIS; PLETHODONTIDAE;

EID: 0030432343     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1565507     Document Type: Article

References (74)

1. AELLEN, V. 1958. Sur une nouvelle forme d'Hydromantes (Amphibia: Plethodontidae). Senck, Biol. 39:155-163.
2. ALVAREZ, W. 1972. Rotation of the Corsica-Sardinia microplate. Nature 235:103-105.
3. ARNOLD, S. J., N. L. REAGAN, AND P. A. VERRELL. 1993. Reproductive isolation and speciation in plethodontid salamanders. Herpetologica 49:216-228.
4. AYALA, F., J. R. POWELL, M. L. TRACEY, C. A. MOURÃO, AND S. PÉREZ-SALAS. 1972. Enzyme variability in the Drosophila willistoni group. IV. Genetic variation in natural populations of Drosophila willistoni. Genetics 70:113-139.
5. BELLON, H., C. COULON, AND J. B. EDEL. 1977. Le déplacement de la Sardaigne. Synthèse des données géochronologiques, magmatiques et paléomagnétiques. Bull. Soc. geol. France XIX:825-831.
6. BERTOLANI-MARCHETTI, D. 1985. Pollen paleoclimatology in the Mediterranean since the Messinian time. In D. J. Stanley and F. C. Wezel (eds.), Geological Evolution of the Mediterranean Basin, pp. 525-543. Springer-Verlag, New York.
7. BREWER, G. J., AND C. F. SING. 1970. An Introduction to Isozyme Techniques. Academic Press, New York and London.
8. BRUNO, S., AND M. BOLOGNA. 1973. L'Hydromantes italicus Dunn, 1923 nella Liguria occidentale e descrizione di una nuova sottospecie. Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Museo Civ. Stor. Nat. Milano 144:81-92.
9. BULLINI, L. 1983. Taxonomic and evolutionary inferences from electrophoretic studies of various animal groups. In G. S. Oxford and D. Rollinson (eds.), Protein Polymorphism: Adaptive and Taxonomic Significance, pp. 179-192. Academic Press, London and New York.
10. CACCONE, A., M. C. MILINKOVITCH, V. SBORDONI, AND J. R. POWELL. 1994. Molecular biogeography: using the Corsica-Sardinia microplate disjunction to calibrate mitochondrial rDNA evolutionary rates in mountain newts (Euproctus). J. Evol. Biol. 7:227-245.
11. CAPULA, M., G. NASCETTI, B. LANZA, L. BULLINI, AND E. G. CRESPO. 1985. Morphological and genetic differentiation between the Iberian and the other west Mediterranean Discoglossus species (Amphi-bia Salientia Discoglossidae). Monitore zool. ital. 19:69-90.
12. CIMMARUTA, R. 1993. Ricerche di ecologia genetica ed evolutiva in. pletodontidi del genere Speleomantes (Amphibia: Plethodontidae). Ph.D. Diss. University of Rome "La Sapienza," Rome.
13. COCOZZA, T. 1975. Structural pattern of Sardinia. In: Structural model of Italy, pp. 183-201. Quaderni del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR).
14. CROW, J. F., AND K. AOKI. 1984. Group selection for a polygenic behavioral trait; estimating the degree of a population subdivision. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 81:6073-6077.
15. DE QUEIROZ, K. 1992. Phylogenetic relationships and rates of allozyme evolution among the lineages of sceloporine sand lizards. Biol. J. Linnean Soc. 45:333-362.
16. DUNN, E. R. 1923. The Salamanders of the Family Plethodontidae. Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.
17. _. 1926. The Salamanders of the Family Plethodontidae. Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.
18. ELSTON, R. C., AND R. FORTHOFER. 1977. Testing for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in small samples. Biometrica 33:536-542.
19. FITCH, W. M 1971. Toward defining the course of evolution: minimal change for a specific tree topology. Syst. Zool. 20:406-416.
20. FITCH, W. M., AND E. MARGOLIASH. 1967. Construction of phylogenetic trees. Science 155:279-284.
21. GILLESPIE, S. H. 1991. The Causes of Molecular Evolution. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford and New York.
22. GOOD, D. A., AND WAKED. B. 1992. Geographic variation and speciation in the torrent salamanders of the genus Rhyacotriton (Caudata: Rhyacotritonidae). Univ. California Publ. Zool. 126:1-91.
23. HALDANE, J. B. S. 1954. Heterozygote frequencies in small populations. Theor. Popul. Biol 8:31-48.
24. HANKEN, J. 1983. Genetic variation in a dwarfed lineage, the Mexican salamander genus Thorius (Amphibia: Plethodontidae): taxonomic, ecologic and evolutionary implications. Copeia 1983:1051-1073.
25. _, AND D. B WAKE. 1994. Five new species of minute salamanders, genus Thorius (Caudata: Plethodontidae), from Northern Oaxaca, Mexico. Copeia 1994:573-590.
26. HARRIS, H. 1966. Enzyme polymorphism in man. Proc. Roy. Soc. London, ser. B 164:298-310.
27. _, AND D. A. HOPKINSON. 1976. Handbook of Enzyme Electrophoresis in Human Genetics. North-Holland Publishing Company Inc., New York.
28. HIGHTON, R. 1989. Geographic protein variation. In R. Highton, G. C. Maha, and L. R. Maxson (eds.), Biochemical Evolution in the Slimy Salamanders of the Plethodon glutinosus Complex in the Eastern United States, pp. 1-78. Illinois Biological Monographs 57. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago.
29. _, AND A. LARSON. 1979. The genetic relationships of the salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Syst. Zool. 28:579-599.
30. HOWARD, J. H., L. W. SEEB, AND R. WALLACE. 1993. Genetic variation and population divergence in the Plethodon vandykei species group (Caudata: Plethodontidae). Herpetologica 49:238-247.
31. KARLIN, A. A., AND S. I. GUTTMAN. 1986. Systematics and geographic isozyme variation in the plethodontid salamander Desmognatus fuscus. Herpetologica 42:283-301.
32. KOEHN, R. K., AND W. F. EANES. 1978. Molecular structure and protein variation within and among populations. Evol. Biol. 11:39-100.
33. LANZA, B. 1952. Su una nuova forma di Hydromantes (Amphibia Plethodontidae). Archo zool. ital. 37:327-347.
34. _. 1955. Notizie sulla distribuzione in Italia del geotritone (Hydromantes italicus Dunn) e descrizione di una nuova razza (Amphibia Plethodontidae). Archo zool. ital. 39:145-160.
35. _. 1983. Ipotesi sull'origine del popolamento erpetologico della Sardegna. Lav. Soc. ital. Biogeogr. (n.s.) 8 (1980):723-744.
36. _, AND S. VANNI. 1981. On the biogeography of plethodontid salamanders (Amphibia Caudata) with a description of a new genus. Monitore zool. ital. 15:117-121.
37. _, V. CAPUTO, G. NASCETTI, AND L. BULLINI. 1995. Morphologic and genetic studies on the European plethodontid salamanders: taxonomic inferences (genus Hydromantes). Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. (Torino), Monografie. Torino.
38. _, G. NASCETTI, AND L. BULLINI. 1982. Tassonomia biochimica del genere Hydromantes (Amphibia: Plethodontidae). Boll. Zool. 49(suppl.):103.
39. _, _, M. CAPULA, AND L. BULUNI. 1984. Genetic relationships among west Mediterranean Discoglossus with the description of a new species (Amphibia Salientia Discolossidae). Monitore zool. ital. 18:133-152.
40. _, _, AND L. BULLINI. 1986. A new species of Hydromantes from eastern Sardinia and its genetic relationships with the other Sardinian plethodontids (Amphibia Urodela). Boll. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. (Torino) 4:261-289.
41. LARSON, A., AND P. CHIPPINDALE. 1993. Molecular approaches to the evolutionary biology of plethodontid salamanders. Herpetologica 49:204-215.
42. _, D. B. WAKE, AND K. P. YANEV. 1984. Measuring gene flow among populations having high levels of genetic fragmentation. Genetics 108:293-308.
43. MABEE, P. M., AND J. HUMPRIES. 1993. Coding polymorphic data: examples from allozymes and ontogeny. Syst. Biol. 42:166-181.
44. MAXSON, L. R., AND R. D. MAXSON. 1979. Comparative albumin and biochemical evolution in plethodontid salamanders. Evolution 33:1057-1062.
45. NARDI, I., F. ANDRONICO, S. DE LUCCHINI, AND R. BATISTONI. 1986. Cytogenetics of the European plethodontid salamanders of the genus Hydromantes (Amphibia, Urodela). Chromosoma 94:377-388.
46. NASCETTI, G., F. ANDREONE, M. CAPULA, AND L. BULLINI. 1988. A new Salamandra species from south-western Alps. Boll. Mus. Reg. Sc. Nat. (Torino) 6:617-638.
47. NEEL, M. 1973. Private variance and the frequency of mutations among South American Indians. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 70:3311-3315.
48. NEI, M. 1972. Genetic distance between populations. Amer. Natur. 106:283-292.
49. _. 1975. Molecular Population Genetics and Evolution. Am. Elsevier, New York.
50. _. 1987. Molecular Evolutionary Genetics. Columbia University Press, New York.
51. POULIK, M. D. 1957. Starch gel electrophoresis in a discontinuous system of buffers. Nature 180:1477.
52. RICHARDSON, R. H., P. R. BAVERSTOCK, AND M. ADAMS. 1986. Allozyme Electrophoresis. A Handbook for Animal Systematics and Population Studies. Academic Press, New York.
53. SARICH, V. M. 1977. Rates, sample size and the neutrality hypothesis for electrophoresis in evolutionary studies. Nature 263:24-28.
54. _, AND A. C. WILSON. 1967. Immunological time scale for hominid evolution. Science 158:1200-1203.
55. _, AND _. 1973. Generation time and genomic evolution in primates. Science 179:1144-1147.
56. SBORDONI, V., A. CACCONE, G. ALLEGRUCCI, AND D. CESARONI. 1990. Molecular island biogeography. In Azzaroli (ed.), Biogeographical Aspects of Insularity, pp. 55-83. Atti Conv. Lincei, 85. Acc. Naz. Lincei, Roma.
57. SCHERER, S. 1990. The protein molecular clock: time for a reevaluation. Evol. Biol. 24:83-196.
58. SELANDER, R. K., M. H. SMITH, S. Y. YANG, W. E. JOHNSON, AND J. B. GENTRY. 1971. Biochemical polymorphism and systematics in the genus Peromyscus. I. Variation in the old-field mouse. In Studies in Genetics, pp. 49-90. Univ. Tex. Publ. 7013.
59. SHAW, C. R., AND R. PRASAD. 1970. Starch gel electrophoresis of enzymes - a compilation of recipes. Biochem. Genet. 4:297-320.
60. SLATKIN, M. 1987. Gene flow and the geographic structure of natural populations. Science 236:787-792.
61. _, AND N. H. BARTON. 1989. A comparison of three indirect methods for estimating the average levels of gene flow. Evolution 43:1349-1368.
62. STEFANI, R. 1969. La distribuzione geografica e 1'evoluzione del geotritone sardo (Hydromantes genet Schleg.) e del geotritone continentale europeo (Hydromantes italicus Dunn). Archo zool. ital. 53(1968):207-244.
63. STEININGER, F. F., AND F. ROGL. 1984. Paleogeography and plainspastic reconstruction of the Neogene of the Mediterranean and Paratethys. In J. E. Dixon and A. H. F. Robertson (eds.), The Geological Evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean, pp. 659-668. Blackwell Scientific Publications, London.
64. SWOFFORD, D. L. 1989. PAUP: Phyilogenetic Analysis using Parsimony, Version 3.0. A User's Manual. Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign.
65. TEMMINCK, C. J., AND H. SCHLEGEL. 1838. Reptilia. In Siebold Ph. Fr. (ed.), Fauna japonica (1833-1838), pp. 1-114. Lugdunum Batavorum.
66. TlLLEY, S. G., AND P. M. SCHWERDTFEGER. 1981. Electrophoretic variation in Appalachian populations of the Desmognatus fuscus complex (Amphibia: Plethodontidae). Copeia 1981:109-119.
67. _, P. A. VERRELL, AND S. J. ARNOLD. 1990. Correspondence between sexual isolation and allozyme differentiation: a test in the salamander Desmognathus ochrophaeus. Proc, Natl, Acad. Sci. USA 87:2715-2719.
68. WAKE, D. B. 1981. The application of allozyme evidence to problems in the evolution of morphology. In G. G. E. Scudder and J. L. Reveal (eds.), Evolution Today, Proc. 2nd Int. Congr. Syst. Evol. Biol., pp. 257-270.
69. _, AND A. LARSON. 1987. Multidimensional analysis of an evolving lineage. Science 238:42-48.
70. _, AND J. F. LYNCH. 1982. Evolutionary relationships among Central American salamanders of the Bolitoglossa franklini group, with a description of a new species from Guatemala. Herpetologica 38:257-272.
71. _, L. R. MAXSON, AND G. Z. WURST. 1978. Genetic differentiation, albumin evolution, and their biogeographic implications in plethodontid salamanders of California and Southern Europe, Evolution 32:529-539.
72. _, G. ROTH, AND M. H. WAKE. 1983. On the problem of stasis in organismal evolution. J. Theor. Biol. 101:211-224.
73. WRIGHT, S. 1943. Isolation by distance. Genetics 28:114-138.
74. _. 1951. The genetical structure of populations. Ann. Eugen. 15:323-354.