Table 1.
Samples used in the DNA barcoding analysis.
Table 2.
Genetic divergences within families of Comoran squamates.
Table 3.
Maximum genetic divergences between and within island populations of Comoran squamates.
Figure 1.
Bayesian tree of the COI dataset.
Nodes with Bayesian PP and ML bootstrap support ≥ 90% are marked with filled black circles, nodes with Bayesian PP or ML bootstrap support ≥ 90% are marked with empty black circles. Island lineages of endemic species are marked in colors.
Figure 2.
A comparison of topologies from our DNA barcoding analyses with topologies from multigene analyses for 5 genera of squamates with endemic Comoran lineages.
Nodes with at least two values out of Bayesian PP, ML bootstrap, or Parsimony bootstrap support ≥ 90% are marked with filled black circles, nodes with at least one value out of Bayesian PP, ML bootstrap, or Parsimony bootstrap support ≥ 90% are marked with empty black circles. If only a single support value is available for the phylogeny, black circles filled with grey mark nodes with support values of ≥ 90%, and 'X' mark nodes with support values of ≥ 80%. The topologies were cropped to highlight lineages that are endemic to a single island, marked by color. Lineages that are present in the Comoros, but not endemic, are not highlighted. The multigene topologies are taken from the following studies: Cryptoblepharus [25], Ebenavia (unpublished data by O. Hawlitschek), Lycodryas [31], Paroedura [31], Phelsuma [27].
Table 4.
Results of the objective clustering analyses of species.
Table 5.
Results of the objective clustering analyses of island populations.