Southern crossroads of the Western Palaearctic during the Late Pleistocene and their imprints on current patterns of genetic diversity: insights from the mosquito Aedes caspius

Porretta, D; Canestrelli, D; Urbanelli, S; Bellini, R; Schaffner, Francis; Petric, D; Nascetti, G

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02385.x

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Porretta, D., Canestrelli, D., Urbanelli, S., Bellini, R., Schaffner, F., Petric, D., & Nascetti, G. (2011). Southern crossroads of the Western Palaearctic during the Late Pleistocene and their imprints on current patterns of genetic diversity: insights from the mosquito Aedes caspius. Journal of Biogeography, 38(1), 20–30. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02385.x

Abstract

Aim: Climatic changes have strongly reshaped the Western Palaearctic biota throughout the Late Pleistocene. For animals, most studies so far have focused on species having low to moderate dispersal abilities, while strong dispersers have remained understudied, despite their abundance. With the aim of contributing to filling this gap, we here investigate the Late Pleistocene evolutionary history of one such species, the mosquito Aedes caspius. Location: Western Palaearctic. Methods: Sequences of the cytochrome c oxidase subunits I and