The absence of a well-resolved and supported phylogeny has frustrated attempts to test hypotheses for the origin and evolutionary history of morphological, physiological, or behavioral traits in ground-dwelling squirrels (Dobson, 1984; Blumstein and Armitage, 1997, …show more content…
2007); and the Asia Minor Ground Squirrel, Spermophilus xanthoprymnus (Bennett,1835) that has special global conservation status in the IUCN Red List, listed as ‘Near Threatened’(IUCN, 2017). Highlighting the need for a detailed examination of the molecular variation within individual species to better understand their major subdivisions and, perhaps, to find new species (Harrison et al,2003; Herron et al, 2004) lead us to carry out studies of this sort within yellow and Asia Minor ground squirrel and here report our findings for Spermophilus in