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Genetics, morphology, advertisement calls, and historical records distinguish six new polyploid species of African clawed frog (Xenopus, Pipidae) from West and Central Africa
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SYSNO ASEP 0453495 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Genetics, morphology, advertisement calls, and historical records distinguish six new polyploid species of African clawed frog (Xenopus, Pipidae) from West and Central Africa Author(s) Evans, B. J. (CA)
Carter, T. F. (CA)
Greenbaum, E. (US)
Gvoždík, Václav (UBO-W) RID, SAI, ORCID
Kelley, D. B. (US)
McLaughlin, P. J. (US)
Pauwels, O. S. G. (BE)
Portik, D. M. (US)
Stanley, E. L. (US)
Tinsley, R. C. (GB)
Tobias, M. L. (CZ)
Blackburn, D. C. (US)Number of authors 12 Article number e0142823 Source Title PLoS ONE. - : Public Library of Science - ISSN 1932-6203
Roč. 10, č. 12 (2015)Number of pages 51 s. Language eng - English Country US - United States Keywords host-defense peptides ; genus Xenopus ; skin secretions ; South Africa ; evolutionary relationships ; model organism Subject RIV EG - Zoology R&D Projects GJ15-13415Y GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Institutional support UBO-W - RVO:68081766 UT WOS 000366722700005 EID SCOPUS 84957097611 DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0142823 Annotation African clawed frogs, genus Xenopus, are extraordinary among vertebrates in the diversity of their polyploid species and the high number of independent polyploidization events that occurred during their diversification. Here we update current understanding of the evolutionary history of this group and describe six new species from west and central sub-Saharan
Africa, including four tetraploids and two dodecaploids. We provide information on molecular variation, morphology, karyotypes, vocalizations, and estimated geographic ranges, which support the distinctiveness of these new species. We resurrect Xenopus calcaratus from synonymy of Xenopus tropicalis and refer populations from Bioko Island and coastal Cameroon (near Mt. Cameroon) to this species. To facilitate comparisons to the new species, we also provide comments on the type specimens, morphology, and distributions of X. epitropicalis, X. tropicalis, and X. fraseri. This includes significantly restricted application of the names X. fraseri and X. epitropicalis, the first of which we argue is known definitively only from type specimens and possibly one other specimen. Inferring the evolutionary histories of these new species allows refinement of species groups within Xenopus and leads to our recognition of two subgenera (Xenopus and Silurana) and three species groups within the subgenus Xenopus (amieti, laevis, and muelleri species groups).Workplace Institute of Vertebrate Biology Contact Hana Slabáková, slabakova@ivb.cz, Tel.: 543 422 524 Year of Publishing 2016
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