title: Extreme genetic diversity in the lizard Atlantolacerta andreanskyi (Werner, 1929): a montane cryptic species complex.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Atlantolacerta andreanskyi is an enigmatic lacertid lizard that, according to the most recent molecular analyses, belongs to the tribe Eremiadini, family Lacertidae. It is a mountain specialist, restricted to areas above 2400 m of the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco with apparently no connection between the different populations. In order to investigate its phylogeography, 92 specimens of A. andreanskyi were analyzed from eight different populations across the distribution range of the species for up to 1108 base pairs of mitochondrial DNA (12S, ND4 and flanking tRNA-His) and 2585 base pairs of nuclear DNA including five loci (PDC, ACM4, C-MOS, RAG1, MC1R).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results obtained with both concatenated and coalescent approaches and clustering methods, clearly show that all the populations analyzed present a very high level of genetic differentiation for the mitochondrial markers used and are also generally differentiated at the nuclear level.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results indicate that A. andreanskyi is an additional example of a montane species complex.
authors.affiliation: CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Vairão 4485-661, Portugal. mrbarata@gmail.com
authors.forename: Mafalda
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barata
authors.forename: Salvador
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Carranza
authors.forename: D James
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Harris
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000235:genetics; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics; D014644:Genetic Variation; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D008116:Lizards / Q000235:genetics*; D008957:Models, Genetic; D009018:Morocco; D010802:Phylogeny; D058974:Phylogeography; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial