In 1996, researchers Steven Goodman and Olivier Langrand suggested that the ring-tailed lemur may demonstrate regional variations, particularly a high mountain population at Andringitra Massif that has a thicker coat, lighter coloration, and variations in its tail rings.
Total ITS sequences were always 890 bp long and showed 4 different ribotypes, 1 for the populations of the Gelbison massif, 2 for the populations of the Sila massif and 1 for the populations of the Aspromonte massif.
On the other hand, diversity was extremely low for populations from the Massif of Chartreuse (R. rupicapra cartusiana) and from the Apennines (R. pyrenaica ornata).
Beside these two morphs, atypical non-blotched individuals (concolor with or without a middorsal line; Figure 1) are found in high proportions in the French Alps (; >50% in some Mont Blanc massif populations based on mark-recapture analyses; [ 33, 34]), whereas this morph is rarely encountered in other regions and never in such proportions [ 33]).
In particular, the glandular hairs from the populations of the Gelbison massif were shorter than those from the populations of the Calabrian Apennines, had longer and wider terminal cells as well as shorter basal and middle cells (Table 2, Fig. 7).
The attribution of the population on the Gelbison massif to S. calabrella, was based on the observation of the glandular hairs, that are considered the main differential trait among the species of Soldanella [ 2].
The main objective of our study was to investigate the genetic signal of dispersal in the mountain gorilla population of the Virunga Massif by means of spatial genetic structure analyses.
Specifically, the populations from the Gelbison massif had the longest petioles and the greatest leaf surface, whereas the populations of the Sila and Aspromonte massifs had similar leaf traits (Table 2, Fig. 7).
The populations of the Sila and Aspromonte massifs diverged from the populations of the Gelbison massif around 380000 years ago and are probably undergoing a progressive differentiation due to their isolation.
The populations from the Sila and the Aspromonte massifs showed the same sequence, whereas the populations from the Gelbison massif showed a transversion A <— > C at alignment position 960.
