0000000000696815
AUTHOR
Graciela Sotelo
Additional file 1 of Evolutionary history of two cryptic species of northern African jerboas
Additional file 1: Microsatellite optimization. Supplementary Tables and Figures.
Evolutionary history of two cryptic species of northern African jerboas
Abstract Background: Climatic variation and geologic change both play significant roles in shaping species distributions, thus affecting their evolutionary history. In Sahara-Sahel, climatic oscillations shifted the desert extent during the Pliocene-Pleistocene interval, triggering the diversification of several species. Here, we investigated how these biogeographical and ecological events have shaped patterns of genetic diversity and divergence in African Jerboas, desert specialist rodents. We focused on two sister and cryptic species, Jaculus jaculus and J. hirtipes, where we (1) evaluated their genetic differentiation, (2) reconstructed their evolutionary and demographic history; (3) tes…