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MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION
卷 16, 期 2, 页码 263-270出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.2000.0793
关键词
tree snails; land snails; Achatinella; Partulina; hybridization
Hawaiian tree snails in the endemic subfamily Achatinellinae display a staggering variety of shell colors and banding patterns. Despite numerous attempts to classify this morphological variation, a conclusive phylogeny has not been proposed, To improve conservation efforts, we sought to better understand the species identities and phylogenetic relationships among the extant species of Achatinella and Partulina using partial mitochondrial 16S ribosomal DNA sequences. The reconstructed phylogeny showed a high degree of support for more recent branches, but gave little support to deeper nodes. The most confident branches challenge previous systematic arrangements of these snails, grouping species that previously had been placed into different subgenera, High levels of sequence divergence within some species may reflect the long-term isolation of subpopulations. Rapid rates of sequence divergence may have saturated base substitutions and contributed to the lack of resolution of higher-order relationships. We did not find support for the monophyly of the Achatinella species, nor thus for a single colonization of O'ahu from Maul Nui, (C) 2000 Academic Press.
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