Comparative Phylogeography of Amphibians and Reptiles in Algeria Suggests Common Causes for the East-West Phylogeographic Breaks in the Maghreb
RESEARCH ARTICLE Comparative phylogeography of amphibians and reptiles in Algeria suggests common causes for the east-west phylogeographic breaks in the Maghreb Menad Beddek1,2*, Saliha Zenboudji-Beddek1, Philippe Geniez1, Raouaa Fathalla1,3, Patricia Sourouille1, VeÂronique Arnal1, Boualem Dellaoui4, Fatiha Koudache4, Salah Telailia5, Olivier Peyre2, Pierre-Andre Crochet1 a1111111111 a1111111111 1 CEFE, CNRS, Univ. Montpellier, Univ Paul ValeÂry Montpellier 3, INRA, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France, 2 Naturalia Environnement, Site Agroparc, Avignon, France, 3 Unite de recherche de biodiversite et biologie a1111111111 des populations, Faculte des sciences de Tunis, Universite de Tunis Elmanar, Tunis, Tunisie, 4 DeÂpartement a1111111111 de l'Environnement, Faculte des Sciences, Universite Djillali Liabes, Sidi Bel Abbes, AlgeÂrie, 5 DeÂpartement a1111111111 des Sciences Agronomiques, Faculte des Sciences de la Nature et de la Vie, Universite Chadli Bendjedid, El Tarf, AlgeÂrie * menad.beddek@hotmail.com OPEN ACCESS Citation: Beddek M, Zenboudji-Beddek S, Geniez P, Abstract Fathalla R, Sourouille P, Arnal V, et al. (2018) Comparative phylogeography of amphibians and A series of phylogeographic studies in the Maghreb identified a repeated pattern of deep reptiles in Algeria suggests common causes for the genetic divergence between an eastern (Tunisia) and western (Morocco) lineage for several east-west phylogeographic breaks in the Maghreb. taxa but lack of sampling in Algeria made it difficult to know if the range limits between the PLoS ONE 13(8): e0201218. https://doi.org/ eastern and western lineages were shared among taxa or not. To address this question, we 10.1371/journal.pone.0201218 designed a comparative phylogeographic study using 8 reptile and 3 amphibian species Editor: Ulrich Joger, State Museum of Natural with wide distribution in the Maghreb as models.
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