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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Divergence of scent pheromones in allopatric populations of acanthodactylus boskianus (Squamata: Lacertidae)
Zoological Science, Volume 30, No. 5, Year 2013
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The evolutionary phenomena associated with divergence in chemical signals between populations of the same species help to understand the process of speciation. Animals detect and react to semiochemicals and pheromones used in communication. Comparison between populations of the same species that are geographically isolated from one another allows us to determine the genetic or environmental factors responsible for chemical differentiation. Acanthodactylus boskianus from the east and west of Egypt were used as an example to compare the geographical diversity in chemical fingerprints of this species' femoral gland secretions and its phylogeography. Chemical analysis via GC-MS showed that the two geographically distinct populations' odor fingerprints are quantitatively different despite sharing the same components of the secretions. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the eastern and western Egyptian populations are genetically distinct and that chemical divergence of these lizards' odor profiles may be an example of signal evolution. © 2013 Zoological Society of Japan.
Authors & Co-Authors
Khannoon, Eraqi R.R.
Egypt, Fayoum
Faculty of Science
United Kingdom, Hull
University of Hull
Lunt, David H.
United Kingdom, Hull
University of Hull
Schulz, Stefan A.L.
Germany, Braunschweig
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Hardege, Jörg D.
United Kingdom, Hull
University of Hull
Statistics
Citations: 14
Authors: 4
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.2108/zsj.30.380
ISSN:
02890003
Research Areas
Genetics And Genomics
Study Locations
Egypt