Does a moving hybrid zone leave a genomic footprint?

Project Information

GENOMIC FOOTPRINT

Grant agreement ID: 655487

DOI

10.3030/655487

Project closed

EC signature date 16 March 2015

Start date 1 February 2016

End date 31 January 2019

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 269 857,80

EU contribution

€ 269 857,80

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (19)

Next-generation phylogeography of the banded newts (Ommatotriton): A phylogenetic hypothesis for three ancient species with geographically restricted interspecific gene flow and deep intraspecific genetic structure

Author(s): Isolde van Riemsdijk, Jan W. Arntzen, Wiesław Babik, Sergé Bogaerts, Michael Franzen, Konstantinos Kalaentzis, Spartak N. Litvinchuk, Kurtuluş Olgun, Jan Willem P.M. Wijnands, Ben Wielstra
Published in: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Issue 167, 2022, Page(s) 107361, ISSN 1055-7903
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107361

Hybridisation complicates the conservation of Natrix snakes in the Netherlands

Author(s): van Riemsdijk, I., Struijk, R.P.J.H., Pel, E., Janssen, I.A.W., Wielstra, B.
Published in: Salamandra, 2020, ISSN 0036-3375
Publisher: Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde e.V

Two transects reveal remarkable variation in gene flow on opposite ends of a European toad hybrid zone

Author(s): I. van Riemsdijk, J. W. Arntzen, G. M. Bucciarelli, E. McCartney-Melstad, M. Rafajlović, P. A. Scott, E. Toffelmier, H. B. Shaffer, B. Wielstra
Published in: Heredity, Issue 131, 2023, Page(s) 15-24, ISSN 0018-067X
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41437-023-00617-6

Moving Hybrid Zones; When Two Species Meet, Mate, and Compete

Author(s): Nienke Prins, Ben Wielstra
Published in: Frontiers for Young Minds, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 2296-6846
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/frym.2024.1207354

"<p class=""HeadingRunIn""><strong>Description of a new species of crested newt, previously subsumed in <em>Triturus ivanbureschi </em>(Amphibia: Caudata: Salamandridae)</strong></p>"

Author(s): B. WIELSTRA, J.W. ARNTZEN
Published in: Zootaxa, Issue 4109/1, 2016, Page(s) 73, ISSN 1175-5326
Publisher: Magnolia Press
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4109.1.6

Efficient screening for ‘genetic pollution’ in an anthropogenic crested newt hybrid zone

Author(s): B. Wielstra, T. Burke, R. K. Butlin, O. Schaap, H. B. Shaffer, K. Vrieling, J. W. Arntzen
Published in: Conservation Genetics Resources, Issue 8/4, 2016, Page(s) 553-560, ISSN 1877-7252
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12686-016-0582-3

The Carpathians hosted extra-Mediterranean refugia-within-refugia during the Pleistocene Ice Age: genomic evidence from two newt genera

Author(s): Ben Wielstra, Piotr ZieliŃski, WiesŁaw Babik
Published in: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Issue 122/3, 2017, Page(s) 605-613, ISSN 0024-4066
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blx087

A signature of dynamic biogeography: enclaves indicate past species replacement

Author(s): B. Wielstra, T. Burke, R. K. Butlin, J. W. Arntzen
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 284/1868, 2017, Page(s) 20172014, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2014

Molecular data reveal the hybrid nature of an introduced population of banded newts (Ommatotriton) in Spain

Author(s): Isolde van Riemsdijk, Laurens van Nieuwenhuize, Iñigo Martínez-Solano, Jan W. Arntzen, Ben Wielstra
Published in: Conservation Genetics, Issue 19/1, 2018, Page(s) 249-254, ISSN 1566-0621
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-017-1004-0

The Near East as a cradle of biodiversity: A phylogeography of banded newts (genus Ommatotriton ) reveals extensive inter- and intraspecific genetic differentiation

Author(s): Isolde van Riemsdijk, Jan W. Arntzen, Sergé Bogaerts, Michael Franzen, Spartak N. Litvinchuk, Kurtuluş Olgun, Ben Wielstra
Published in: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Issue 114, 2017, Page(s) 73-81, ISSN 1055-7903
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.05.028

A genomic footprint of hybrid zone movement in crested newts

Author(s): Ben Wielstra, Terry Burke, Roger K. Butlin, Aziz Avcı, Nazan Üzüm, Emin Bozkurt, Kurtuluş Olgun, Jan W. Arntzen
Published in: Evolution Letters, Issue 1/2, 2017, Page(s) 93-101, ISSN 2056-3744
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/evl3.9

Phylogenomics of the adaptive radiation of Triturus newts supports gradual ecological niche expansion towards an incrementally aquatic lifestyle

Author(s): B. Wielstra, E. McCartney-Melstad, J.W. Arntzen, R.K. Butlin, H.B. Shaffer
Published in: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Issue 133, 2019, Page(s) 120-127, ISSN 1055-7903
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.12.032

The distributions of the six species constituting the smooth newt species complex (Lissotriton vulgaris sensu lato and L. montandoni) – an addition to the New Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles of Europe

Author(s): Ben Wielstra, Daniele Canestrelli, Milena Cvijanović, Mathieu Denoël, Anna Fijarczyk, Daniel Jablonski, Marcin Liana, Borislav Naumov, Kurtuluş Olgun, Maciej Pabijan, Alice Pezzarossa, Georgi Popgeorgiev, Daniele Salvi, Yali Si, Neftalí Sillero, Konstantinos Sotiropoulos, Piotr Zieliński, Wiesław Babik
Published in: Amphibia-Reptilia, Issue 39/2, 2018, Page(s) 252-259, ISSN 0173-5373
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/15685381-17000128

Testing an hypothesis of hybrid zone movement for toads in France

Author(s): I van Riemsdijk, R K Butlin, B Wielstra, J W Arntzen
Published in: Molecular Ecology, 2019, Page(s) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mec.15005, ISSN 0962-1083
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/mec.15005

Absence of heterosis in hybrid crested newts

Author(s): Jan W. Arntzen, Nazan Üzüm, Maja D. Ajduković, Ana Ivanović, Ben Wielstra
Published in: PeerJ, Issue 6, 2018, Page(s) e5317, ISSN 2167-8359
Publisher: PeerJ
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5317

Cracking cryptic species: external characters to distinguish two recently recognized banded newt species (Ommatotriton ophryticus and O. nesterovi)

Author(s): Üzüm, N., A. Avcı, K. Olgun, U. Bülbül, M. Fahrbach, S.N. Litvinchuk & B. Wielstra
Published in: Salamandra, Issue 55(2), 2019, Page(s) 131-134, ISSN 0036-3375
Publisher: Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde e.V

Historical hybrid zone movement: More pervasive than appreciated

Author(s): Ben Wielstra
Published in: Journal of Biogeography, 2019, ISSN 0305-0270
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13600

Scientists’ warning on genetic pollution

Author(s): Anagnostis Theodoropoulos, Kathryn A. Stewart, Ben Wielstra
Published in: Discover Conservation, Issue 2, 2025, ISSN 3004-9784
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s44353-025-00041-3

Hybrid zone analysis confirms cryptic species of banded newt and does not support competitive displacement since secondary contact

Author(s): Konstantinos Kalaentzis, Jan W. Arntzen, Aziz Avcı, Victor van den Berg, Wouter Beukema, James France, Kurtuluş Olgun, Isolde van Riemsdijk, Nazan Üzüm, Manon C. de Visser, Ben Wielstra
Published in: Ecology and Evolution, Issue 13, 2024, ISSN 2045-7758
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10442

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

Triturus newts

Author(s): Ben Wielstra
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 29/4, 2019, Page(s) R110-R111, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.12.049

Hybrid zones

Author(s): Ben Wielstra
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 31, 2024, Page(s) R108-R109, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.11.046