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Evolution underground: A molecular phylogenetic investigation of Australian burrowing freshwater crayfish (Decapoda: Parastacidae) with particular focus on Engaeus Erichson
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Schultz, MB and Smith, SA and Horwitz, P and Richardson, AMM and Crandall, KA and Austin, CM, Evolution underground: A molecular phylogenetic investigation of Australian burrowing freshwater crayfish (Decapoda: Parastacidae) with particular focus on Engaeus Erichson, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 50, (3) pp. 580-598. ISSN 1055-7903 (2009) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.11.025
Abstract
Phylogenetic relationships and species boundaries of Australian burrowing freshwater crayfish belonging to the genera Engaeus, Engaewa, Geocharax, Gramastacus and Tenuibranchiurus are investigated using combined mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data and Bayesian and Maximum Parsimony methods. Phylogenies are statistically compared to previously published hypotheses. Engaeus, Engaewa, Geocharax, Gramastacus and Tenuibranchiurus form a strongly supported monophyletic clade. This grouping is independently supported by morphology but unites geographically highly disjunct lineages. Our data show two cryptic species in Geocharax, one cryptic species in Gramastacus and two cryptic species within the highly divergent Engaeus lyelli lineage. Using a Bayesian relaxed molecular clock method, the 16S rDNA data show generic-level diversification coinciding with the transition from a wet to arid palaeoclimate near the mid Miocene.
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| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | Phylogenetics; Biogeography; Evolution; Relaxed molecular clock; Burrowing freshwater crayfish; Mitochondrial ribosomal; Nuclear protein-coding DNA; 16S; GAPDH; Systematics; Australia |
| Research Division: | Biological Sciences |
| Research Group: | Ecology |
| Research Field: | Freshwater Ecology |
| Objective Division: | Environment |
| Objective Group: | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity |
| Objective Field: | Fresh, Ground and Surface Water Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity |
| Author: | Richardson, AMM (Associate Professor Alastair Richardson) |
| ID Code: | 59776 |
| Year Published: | 2009 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 21 |
| Deposited By: | Zoology |
| Deposited On: | 2009-12-17 |
| Last Modified: | 2010-04-27 |
| Downloads: | 3 View Download Statistics |
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