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Relics of the Europe's warm past: Phylogeography of the Aesculapian snake

SYSNO ASEP	0356670
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	Relics of the Europe's warm past: Phylogeography of the Aesculapian snake
Author(s)	Musilová, Radka (UZFG-Y) Zavadil, V. (CZ) Marková, Silvia (UZFG-Y)_{RID, ORCID} Kotlík, Petr (UZFG-Y)_{RID, ORCID}
Source Title	Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. - : Elsevier - ISSN 1055-7903 Roč. 57, - (2010), s. 1245-1252
Number of pages	8 s.
Language	eng - English
Country	US - United States
Keywords	Elaphe longissima ; Holocene climatic optimum ; Isolated populations
Subject RIV	EB - Genetics ; Molecular Biology
R&D Projects	LC06073 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS)
CEZ	AV0Z50450515 - UZFG-Y (2005-2011)
UT WOS	000285231500024
DOI	10.1016/j.ympev.2010.09.017
Annotation	Understanding how species responded to past climate change can provide information about how they may respond to the current global warming. The present-day distribution of the Aesculapian snake Zamenis longissimus in the southern half of Europe is a remnant of much wider range during the Holocene climatic optimum, approximately 5,000-8,000 years ago, when populations occurred as far north as Denmark. The northern populations went extinct as the climate cooled, and presently the species is extinct from all central Europe, except a few relic populations in Germany and the Czech Republic. The phylogenetic analyses identified two major clades that expanded from their respective western and eastern refugia after the last glacial maximum. Snakes from the relic populations carried the Eastern clade, showing that it was the snakes from the Balkan refugium that occupied the central and northern Europe during the Holocene climatic optimum. If, as these results suggest, some populations responded to the mid-Holocene global warming by shifting their ranges further north than other populations of the same species, knowing what populations were able to expand in different species may provide information about what populations will be important for a species' ability to cope with the current global warming.
Workplace	Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics
Contact	Jana Zásmětová, knihovna@iapg.cas.cz, Tel.: 315 639 554
Year of Publishing	2011

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