Where does diversity come from? Linking geographical patterns of morphological, genetic, and environmental variation in wall lizards.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding how phenotypic variation scales from individuals, through populations, up to species, and how it relates to genetic and environmental factors, is essential for deciphering the evolutionary mechanisms that drive biodiversity. We used two species of Podarcis wall lizards to test whether phenotypic diversity within and divergence across populations follow concordant patterns, and to examine how phenotypic variation responds to genetic and environmental variability across different hierarchical levels of biological organization, in an explicit geographic framework.

Results

We found a general concordance of phenotypic variation across hierarchical levels (i.e. individuals and populations). However, we also found that within-population diversity does not e

SUBMITTER: Kaliontzopoulou A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6113677 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature