Shedding Light on a Secretive Tertiary Urodelean Relict: Hynobiid Salamanders (<em>Paradactylodon persicus</em> s.l.) from Iran, Illuminated by Phylogeographic, Developmental, and Transcriptomic Data

Shedding Light on a Secretive Tertiary Urodelean Relict: Hynobiid Salamanders (<em>Paradactylodon persicus</em> s.l.) from Iran, Illuminated by Phylogeographic, Developmental, and Transcriptomic Data

The Hyrcanian Forests present a unique Tertiary relict ecosystem, covering the northern Elburz and Talysh Ranges (Iran, Azerbaijan), a poorly investigated, unique biodiversity hotspot with many cryptic species. Since the 1970s, two nominal species of Urodela, Hynobiidae, <i>Batrachuperus</i...

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Main Authors: Matthias Stöck, Fatemeh Fakharzadeh, Heiner Kuhl, Beata Rozenblut-Kościsty, Sophie Leinweber, Riddhi Patel, Mehregan Ebrahimi, Sebastian Voitel, Josef Friedrich Schmidtler, Haji Gholi Kami, Maria Ogielska, Daniel W. Förster
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-04-01
Series:Genes
Subjects:
Urodela
Hynobiidae
phylogeography
RNAseq
genomics
gene expression
gonadal development
histology
systematics
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/10/4/306

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