Systematic Relationships of Hynobius okiensis among Japanese Salamanders (Amphibia: Caudata) |
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Authors: | Matsui Masafumi Nishikawa Kanto Misawa Yasuchika Tanabe Shingo |
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Institution: | Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. fumi@zoo.zool.kyoto-u.ac.jp |
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Abstract: | We conducted an electrophoretic survey to examine systematic relationships of a lotic-breeding salamander Hynobius okiensis endemic to Dogo Island of the Oki Islands, Japan, with several lentic and lotic-breeding Japanese species. Genetically H. okiensis with 2n=56 chromosomes was closer to the lentic-breeding H. nebulosus group (H. nebulosus and H. dunni) with the same chromosome number than to the lotic-breeding H. naevius group (H. naevius and H. kimurae) and H. boulengeri with 58 chromosomes. Chromosome number reduction from 58 to 56, possibly accompanied with a change in breeding environment from streams to still waters, is estimated to have first occurred in the nebulosus group of Hynobius. A reversal only in breeding habits then seems to have followed in steep, montane environments of the small island of Dogo, resulting in the speciation of H. okiensis. |
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