TY - JOUR AU - Stelbrink, Björn AU - Shirokaya, Alena A. AU - Föller, Kirstin AU - Wilke, Thomas AU - Albrecht, Christian PY - 2016 DA - 2016/12/15 TI - Origin and diversification of Lake Ohrid’s endemic acroloxid limpets: the role of geography and ecology JO - BMC Evolutionary Biology SP - 273 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - Ancient Lake Ohrid, located on the Albania-Macedonia border, is the most biodiverse freshwater lake in Europe. However, the processes that gave rise to its extraordinary endemic biodiversity, particularly in the species-rich gastropods, are still poorly understood. A suitable model taxon to study speciation processes in Lake Ohrid is the pulmonate snail genus Acroloxus, which comprises two morphologically distinct and ecologically (vertically) separated endemic species. Using a multilocus phylogenetic framework of Acroloxus limpets from the Euro-Mediterranean subregion, together with molecular-clock and phylogeographic analyses of Ohrid taxa, we aimed to infer their geographic origin and the timing of colonization as well as the role of geography and ecology in intra-lacustrine diversification. SN - 1471-2148 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0826-6 DO - 10.1186/s12862-016-0826-6 ID - Stelbrink2016 ER -