Alternating glacial and interglacial periods resulted in range shifts, persistence in distinct glacial refugia and extinction events in various temperate organisms. The integrative analysis of molecular markers and spatial distribution models carried out for multiple taxa allows the detection of phylogeographical pat- terns. In this study, molecular analysis of cytochrome b gene sequences from 40 individuals showed that there are some clues, indicating an initiating of the genetic differentiation among populations in Iran due to absence of gene flow among them. In addition, 133 specimens were studied using outline-based geo- metric morphometrics method on the first lower molar. The results revealed that populations of Central Iran, as an isolated area, are differentiated from other populations in both size and shape of the first lower molar. The study of spatial distribution model on 80 recorded points showed potential habitats where this species dispersed from 21ky to now. It seems that low intraspecific divergence in this species might be at least partly owing to its high tolerance to environmental factors that facilitate its dispersal ability. There- fore, it seems that climatic oscillations may not have very distinct influences on genetic structure of the species at the level of a taxonomic rank.

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