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Sinsch U, Werding S, Kaya U. Diversity of Water Frogs Pelophylax spp. in Turkey: Do Mating Vocalizations Mirror Nominal Taxon Delimitation? Animals (Basel) 2023; 13:1725. [PMID: 37889639 PMCID: PMC10251903 DOI: 10.3390/ani13111725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2023] [Revised: 05/19/2023] [Accepted: 05/20/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
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Informed conservation management requires exact knowledge on the species diversity of the taxon group in focus within a geographic area, specifically on the occurrence of endemics. In Turkey, there are three water frog taxa of the genus Pelophylax; one is the widespread P. bedriagae, the other two are geographically restricted to either Thrace (P. ridibundus) or to the Anatolian Lake district (P. caralitanus). The species status of the Beyşehir frog P. caralitanus has been questioned since its proposal in 2001. We recorded and analyzed advertisement and release vocalizations at representative populations of Pelophylax taxa to assess the degree of inter-taxon differentiation and the potential for premating isolation. We found that P. bedriagae and P. caralitanus have much more similar vocalizations than both have compared to P. ridibundus. A functional bioacoustic premating barrier between bedriagae and caralitanus in syntopy does not exist according to our study. The low degree of bioacoustic differentiation mirrors earlier genetic, karyological, and morphological findings. We conclude that the Beyşehir frogs do not deserve species status and that P. caralitanus should be considered a junior synonym of P. bedriagae. Therefore, the number of endemic anuran species in Turkey decreases to one.
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- Ulrich Sinsch
- Institute of Integrated Sciences, Department of Biology, University of Koblenz, D-56070 Koblenz, Germany;
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- Institute of Integrated Sciences, Department of Biology, University of Koblenz, D-56070 Koblenz, Germany;
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- Biology Section, Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Ege University, Bornova-İzmir 35100, Turkey;
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Duarte-Marín S, Rada M, Rivera-Correa M, Caorsi V, Barona E, González-Durán G, Vargas-Salinas F. Tic, Tii and Trii calls: advertisement call descriptions for eight glass frogs from Colombia and analysis of the structure of auditory signals in Centrolenidae. BIOACOUSTICS 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/09524622.2022.2077833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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- Sebastián Duarte-Marín
- Conservación (EECO), Programa de Biología, Universidad del Quindío Grupo Evolución, Ecología y, Armenia, Colombia
- Entropía Co, Pereira, Colombia
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- Laboratório de Anfibios, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Laboratorio de Anfibios, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul (UFGRS), Porto Alegre, Brasil
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- Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Villa de Leyva, Colombia
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- Conservación (EECO), Programa de Biología, Universidad del Quindío Grupo Evolución, Ecología y, Armenia, Colombia
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Lukanov S, Tzankov N, Simeonovska-Nikolova D. A comparative study of the mating call ofPelophylax ridibundusandPelophylax kurtmuelleri(Anura: Ranidae) from syntopic and allotopic populations. J NAT HIST 2013. [DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2013.791942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Bülbül U, Matsui M, Kutrup B, Eto K. Taxonomic Relationships among Turkish Water Frogs as Revealed by Phylogenetic Analyses using mtDNA Gene Sequences. Zoolog Sci 2011; 28:930-6. [DOI: 10.2108/zsj.28.930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Akın Ç, Bilgin CC, Beerli P, Westaway R, Ohst T, Litvinchuk SN, Uzzell T, Bilgin M, Hotz H, Guex GD, Plötner J. Phylogeographic patterns of genetic diversity in eastern Mediterranean water frogs have been determined by geological processes and climate change in the Late Cenozoic. JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY 2010; 37:2111-2124. [PMID: 22473251 PMCID: PMC3004368 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02368.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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AIM: Our aims were to assess the phylogeographic patterns of genetic diversity in eastern Mediterranean water frogs and to estimate divergence times using different geological scenarios. We related divergence times to past geological events and discuss the relevance of our data for the systematics of eastern Mediterranean water frogs. LOCATION: The eastern Mediterranean region. METHODS: Genetic diversity and divergence were calculated using sequences of two protein-coding mitochondrial (mt) genes: ND2 (1038 bp, 119 sequences) and ND3 (340 bp, 612 sequences). Divergence times were estimated in a Bayesian framework under four geological scenarios representing alternative possible geological histories for the eastern Mediterranean. We then compared the different scenarios using Bayes factors and additional geological data. RESULTS: Extensive genetic diversity in mtDNA divides eastern Mediterranean water frogs into six main haplogroups (MHG). Three MHGs were identified on the Anatolian mainland; the most widespread MHG with the highest diversity is distributed from western Anatolia to the northern shore of the Caspian Sea, including the type locality of Pelophylax ridibundus. The other two Anatolian MHGs are restricted to south-eastern Turkey, occupying localities west and east of the Amanos mountain range. One of the remaining three MHGs is restricted to Cyprus; a second to the Levant; the third was found in the distribution area of European lake frogs (P. ridibundus group), including the Balkans. MAIN CONCLUSIONS: Based on geological evidence and estimates of genetic divergence we hypothesize that the water frogs of Cyprus have been isolated from the Anatolian mainland populations since the end of the Messinian salinity crisis (MSC), i.e. since c. 5.5-5.3 Ma, while our divergence time estimates indicate that the isolation of Crete from the mainland populations (Peloponnese, Anatolia) most likely pre-dates the MSC. The observed rates of divergence imply a time window of c. 1.6-1.1 million years for diversification of the largest Anatolian MHG; divergence between the two other Anatolian MHGs may have begun about 3.0 Ma, apparently as a result of uplift of the Amanos Mountains. Our mtDNA data suggest that the Anatolian water frogs and frogs from Cyprus represent several undescribed species.
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- Çiğdem Akın
- Biodiversity and Conservation Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara, Turkey
- Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Invalidenstraβe 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Biodiversity and Conservation Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Scientific Computing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4120, USA
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- Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology, The Open University, Abbots Hill, Gateshead NE8 3DF, UK, and IRES, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
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- Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Invalidenstraβe 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tikhoretsky prospekt 4, 194064 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Laboratory for Molecular Systematics and Ecology, Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 B. F. Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA
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- Edward R. Madigan Laboratory, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Invalidenstraβe 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
- Institut für Evolutionsbiologie und Umweltwissenschaften, Universität Zürich-Irchel, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institut für Evolutionsbiologie und Umweltwissenschaften, Universität Zürich-Irchel, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Invalidenstraβe 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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Holsbeek G, Maes GE, De Meester L, Volckaert FAM. Conservation of the introgressed European water frog complex using molecular tools. Mol Ecol 2009; 18:1071-87. [PMID: 19222752 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2009.04087.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In Belgium, the Pelophylax esculentus complex has recently been subjected to multiple introductions of non-native water frogs, increasing the occurrence of hybridisation events. In the present study, we tested the reliability of morphometric and recently developed microsatellite tools to identify introgression and to determine the origin of exotic Belgian water frogs. By analysing 150 individuals of each taxon of the P. esculentus complex and an additional 60 specimens of the introduced P. cf. bedriagae, we show that neither of the currently available tools appears to have sufficient power to reliably distinguish all Belgian water frog species. We therefore aimed at increasing the discriminatory power of a microsatellite identification tool by developing a new marker panel with additional microsatellite loci. By adding only two new microsatellite loci (RlCA5 and RlCA1b20), all taxa of the P. esculentus complex could be distinguished from each other with high confidence. Three more loci (Res3, Res5 and Res17) provided a powerful discrimination of the exotic species.
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- G Holsbeek
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
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Lüddecke H, Sánchez OR. Are Tropical Highland Frog Calls Cold-adapted? The Case of the Andean Frog Hyla labialis1. Biotropica 2002. [DOI: 10.1646/0006-3606(2002)034[0281:athfcc]2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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