@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref2189, author = {H. Bradley Shaffer and Phillip Q. Spinks}, title = {Conflicting Mitochondrial and Nuclear Phylogenies For The Widely Disjunct Emys (Testudines: Emydidae) Species Complex, And What They Tell Us About Biogeography And Hybridization.}, year = {2009}, keywords = {}, doi = {10.1093/sysbio/syp005}, url = {}, pmid = {}, journal = {Systematic Biology}, volume = {58}, number = {1}, pages = {1--20}, abstract = {Understanding the mechanisms by which widely disjunct members of a clade came to occupy their current distribution is one of the fundamental challenges of biogeography. Here, we used data from seven nuclear and one mitochondrial gene to examine the phylogenetic and biogeographic history of Emys, a clade of turtles that is broadly disjunct in western and eastern North America and Europe. We found strong disagreement between mitochondrial and nuclear gene trees, with mitochondrial DNA supporting the monophyly of the North American taxa (marmorata + blandingii) to the exclusion of the European orbicularis, and nuclear genes supporting the monophyly of (blandingii + orbicularis) to the exclusion of marmorata. We used fossil-calibrated molecular chronograms, in combination with supporting evidence from the fossil record and paleoclimatology, to identify a potential example of ancient hybridization and mitochondrial gene capture 12 million years ago that explains this discrepancy. Based on the weight of evidence, we argue that the invasion of Eurasia by E. orbicularis occurred about 16 Ma via a trans-Beringian land bridge. The case of Emys emphasizes how single gene trees can be strongly affected by population processes including hybridization, and that these processes can persist through long periods of evolutionary history. Given the chaotic state of the current taxonomy of these turtles, our work also emphasizes the care that should be used in implementing taxonomic changes based on one or a few gene trees and the importance of taking a conservative approach to renaming or splitting higher taxa based on apparent non-monophyly.} }

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