10.5061/DRYAD.C59ZW3R4N
Bryson, Robert
0000-0003-2197-2207
University of Washington
Grummer, Jared
University of Washington
Connors, Elizabeth
Occidental College
Tirpak, Joseph
University of Washington
McCormack, John
Occidental College
Klicka, John
University of Washington
Cryptic diversity across the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt of Mexico in the
montane bunchgrass lizard Sceloporus subniger (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae)
Dryad
dataset
2020
National Science Foundation
https://ror.org/021nxhr62
DEB- 1257785
National Science Foundation
https://ror.org/021nxhr62
DEB- 1258205
2021-06-18T00:00:00Z
2021-06-18T00:00:00Z
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Sceloporus subniger Poglaygen & Smith is a montane bunchgrass
lizard distributed across pine-oak forests of central Mexico. Prompted by
the discovery of a new population of this lizard in far western Mexico,
and by recent studies suggesting S. subniger may be a composite of several
distinct species, we examined in more detail the genetic structure of S.
subniger. We generated a mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) dataset from 81
specimens and an ultraconserved elements (UCE) dataset representing
thousands of genomic regions from 12 specimens to specifically evaluate
the genetic distinctiveness of populations from western Michoacán and
adjacent Jalisco along with the newly discovered population in the Sierra
de Mascota in western Jalisco. We also recorded morphological data from 47
museum specimens to compare to our genetic data. Results from our analyses
of the genetic data, augmented by specimen measurements and scale counts,
support the notion that S. subniger is indeed a composite of distinct
species. Montane bunchgrass lizards from western Michoacán and adjacent
Jalisco, and from the Sierra de Mascota in western Jalisco, each represent
distinct new species, which we describe and name here.
file: subnigerND4.nex Nexus file with aligned ND4 sequences. See
ReadMe_mtDNA file to match sample names with species and locality. file:
subniger_tRNAs.txt Nexus file with aligned tRNA sequences. See
ReadMe_mtDNA file to match sample names with species and locality. file:
subnigerSTRUCTURE.txt Input file with SNPs for STRUCTURE analyses. See
ReadMe_SNPs file to match sample names with species and locality. file:
subnigerSNAPP.nex Nexus file with SNPs for BFD* analyses in SNAPP. See
ReadMe_SNPs file to match sample names with species and locality.