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Phylogeography of a widespread terrestrial vertebrate in a barely-studied Palearctic region: green toads ( Bufo viridis subgroup) indicate glacial refugia ... The phylogeography of western Palearctic species is relatively well studied, but data on Eastern Central Asia are scarce.We present one of th...
These are Bufo variabilis (PALLAS, 1769) on the eastern Balkan Peninsula, in Asia Minor, and northern Central Asia, B. viridis (LAURENTI 1768), on the western Balkan Peninsula and in Central Europe, B. balearicus (BOETTGER, 1880) on the Apennine Peninsula, Corsica, Sardinia and the ...
First, it is hypothesized that the origin and development of the Central Asian Deserts generated a biogeographic barrier that fragmented past continuous distributions in Eastern and Western domains. Second, Pleistocene glaciations have been proposed as the main process driving the regional diversification ...
The B. balearicus clade is widespread on the Apennine Peninsula, from the Po Plain (study area) to southern Italy, and also found on Sardinia, the Balearic Islands and easternmost Sicily. Interestingly, two individuals (Po16, loc. 30; BV247, loc. 1, Figure 3) harbored an allele from ...