title: Concerted evolution in the mitochondrial control region of the Amazon small-bodied frog Pseudopaludicola canga (Anura, Leiuperidae).
abstract: This study presents evidence of concerted evolution in the mitochondrial control region of the frog Pseudopaludicola canga. Four repeat units of 88 bp (as well as a fifth, incomplete unit) were observed in the 5' domain, with the duplicated segments of the same specimen being more related to one another than to the equivalent regions in other specimens, as a result of concerted evolution. We highlight that drawing conclusions from phylogeographical analysis using the control region containing VNTRs must be interpreted with caution, because it violated a basic assumption of phylogeny, since the regions cannot be treated as independent characters.
authors.affiliation: a Laboratório de Evolução , Instituto de Estudos Costeiros (IECOS), Universidade Federal do Pará , Bragança Campus, Bragança-PA , Brazil.
authors.forename: Camila
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gomes
authors.affiliation: a Laboratório de Evolução , Instituto de Estudos Costeiros (IECOS), Universidade Federal do Pará , Bragança Campus, Bragança-PA , Brazil.
authors.forename: Luis Fernando
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Rodrigues-Filho
authors.affiliation: a Laboratório de Evolução , Instituto de Estudos Costeiros (IECOS), Universidade Federal do Pará , Bragança Campus, Bragança-PA , Brazil.
authors.forename: Davidson
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sodré
authors.affiliation: b Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia , Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina , Florianópolis, SC , Brazil.
authors.forename: Selvino
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Neckel-Oliveira
authors.affiliation: c Departamento de Biologia , Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas , Manaus , AM , Brazil.
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gordo
authors.affiliation: d Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi , Belém, PA , Brazil , and.
authors.forename: Ulisses
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Gallati
authors.affiliation: e CIBIO-InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão , Universidade do Porto, Vairão , Portugal.
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sequeira
authors.affiliation: a Laboratório de Evolução , Instituto de Estudos Costeiros (IECOS), Universidade Federal do Pará , Bragança Campus, Bragança-PA , Brazil.|e CIBIO-InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão , Universidade do Porto, Vairão , Portugal.
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vallinoto
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001001:Anura / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial
keywords: Amphibians; evolutionary process; microendemic; mtDNA; tandem repeats units