Molecular phylogeny of Lytorhynchus diadema (Reptilia, Colubridae) populations in Saudi Arabia

By

Alshammari, Ahmed
Badry, Ahmed
Busais, Salem
A. Ibrahim, Adel
El-Abd, Eman

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021-12-21

Original Publication

Herpetozoa

Volume

34

Pages

271--276

Subjects

Colubridae , Lytorhynchus , mtDNA , Phylogeny , Saudi Arabia

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.34.e74009

 

Abstract

This study presents the molecular phylogenetic relationships amongLytorhynchus diadema(Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) populations in Saudi Arabia relative to populations from Africa and Asia. This phylogenetic analysis was based on mitochondrial 16S and 12S rRNA partial gene fragments using Neighbor-joining, Maximum Parsimony, and Bayesian methods. The results strongly support the monophyly ofLytorhynchusbased on two concatenated genes and the 12S rRNA gene separately. Also, a significant separation is observed between the Arabian samples from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Oman, and the African populations from Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco.