A new species of fish-eating rat, genus Neusticomys (Sigmodontinae), from Ecuador.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Inthis study, the genetic substructure and morphology of the species Neusticomysmonticolus was evaluated. A nuclear marker and mitochondrial maker were used to examine phylogeographic structure and to estimategenetic distances. Two statistical measurement analyses were applied to morphological data. RESULTS:These data recovered two morphologically distinct phylogeographic groups corresponding to populations on the eastern and western slopes of the Andes. Further, these eastern and western Andean slope populations of N. monticolus are 8.5 % divergent using sequence data from cytochrome-b (0.8 % divergent in the interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein gene). CONCLUSIONS:Populationscurrently assigned to N.monticolus constitutea species complex. The name N.monticolus is here res

SUBMITTER: Hanson JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6661509 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature