A Mitochondrial DNA Phylogeny of Extant Species of the Genus Trachemys with Resulting Taxonomic Implications

Jacob T. Jackson; David E. Starkey; Robert W. Guthrie; Michael R. J. Forstner

doi:10.2744/CCB-0692.1

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Jacob T. Jackson,¹ David E. Starkey,² Robert W. Guthrie,³ Michael R. J. Forstner¹

¹Biology Department, Texas State University, 601 University Drive, San Marcos, Texas 78666 USA [ ] jj1161@txstate.edu; mf@txstate.edu
²Department of Biology, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas 72035 USA [ ] dstarkey@uca.edu
³Guthrie Turtles, Birmingham, Alabama 35244 USA

Abstract

The phylogenetic relationships among taxa within the emydid genus Trachemys have largely remained unresolved. A 768-basepair fragment of ND4, as well as the histidine, serine, and leucine tRNAs were sequenced from 18 of 26 of the extant species and subspecies of Trachemys. The aligned sequences were analyzed using maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian methods. The results support the taxonomy of the genus as proposed by Seidel.

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Jacob T. Jackson, David E. Starkey, Robert W. Guthrie, and Michael R. J. Forstner "A Mitochondrial DNA Phylogeny of Extant Species of the Genus Trachemys with Resulting Taxonomic Implications," Chelonian Conservation and Biology 7(1), 131-135, (1 August 2008). https://doi.org/10.2744/CCB-0692.1

Received: 21 March 2007; Accepted: 1 February 2008; Published: 1 August 2008

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