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DOI	10.2108/zs200094
	Phylogeographic Patterns in a Semi-lithophilous Burrowing Scorpion, Opistophthalmus pallipes, from South Africa
	Visser, Jacobus H.; Geerts, Sjirk; van Vuuren, Bettine Jansen
通讯作者	Visser, JH (corresponding author), Cape Peninsula Univ Technol, Dept Conservat & Marine Sci, POB 652, ZA-8000 Cape Town, South Africa.
来源期刊	ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE
ISSN	0289-0003
出版年	2021
卷号	38 期号:1 页码:36-44
英文摘要	Southern Africa has a diverse endemic scorpion fauna, but a paucity of information currently confounds conservation of the group. Phylogeographic approaches represent a useful tool to identify the patterns and processes which underpin scorpion diversity, but these studies are lacking for southern African species. Among southern African scorpions, the semi-lithophilous Opistophthalmus pallipes has strict habitat requirements, and a distribution historically subjected to profound environmental turnover. As such, the species offers a model system to investigate the interplay between intrinsic and extrinsic factors as drivers of diversity and endemism. To investigate spatial genetic patterns within O. pallipes and the possible drivers thereof, the current study combines mitochondria! DNA and ecological information under a phylogeographic approach. The species is characterized by several genetically discrete and divergent populations. The factors which shape these genetic patterns appear to be both intrinsically (ecological specificity) and extrinsically (landscape structure and ecogeographic conditions) influenced, with major divergences corresponding to periods of profound environmental changes. Taken together, the findings of this study provide evidence of spatial genetic isolation and genetic diversity within a stenotopic southern African scorpion species. These findings partly explain the staggering diversity and endemism in southern African scorpions, but further phylogeographic studies are necessary to propose conservation scenarios for this group.
英文关键词	ecogeographic areas Knersvlakte Region Namaqua burrowing scorpion Opistophthalmus pallipes phylogeography South Africa
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000614266700005
WOS关键词	DESERT ; DIVERSIFICATION ; EVOLUTION ; IMPACT ; VICARIANCE ; DIVERSITY ; MODEL ; RIVER ; TOOL
WOS类目	Zoology
WOS研究方向	Zoology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/348281
作者单位	[Visser, Jacobus H.; Geerts, Sjirk] Cape Peninsula Univ Technol, Dept Conservat & Marine Sci, POB 652, ZA-8000 Cape Town, South Africa; [van Vuuren, Bettine Jansen] Univ Johannesburg, Ctr Ecol Genom & Wildlife Conservat, Dept Zool, POB 524, ZA-2000 Auckland Pk, South Africa
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Visser, Jacobus H.,Geerts, Sjirk,van Vuuren, Bettine Jansen. Phylogeographic Patterns in a Semi-lithophilous Burrowing Scorpion, Opistophthalmus pallipes, from South Africa[J],2021,38(1):36-44.
APA	Visser, Jacobus H.,Geerts, Sjirk,&van Vuuren, Bettine Jansen.(2021).Phylogeographic Patterns in a Semi-lithophilous Burrowing Scorpion, Opistophthalmus pallipes, from South Africa.ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE,38(1),36-44.
MLA	Visser, Jacobus H.,et al."Phylogeographic Patterns in a Semi-lithophilous Burrowing Scorpion, Opistophthalmus pallipes, from South Africa".ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE 38.1(2021):36-44.