Supporting Information 1 Table S1 Details of loci and PCR primers used. Accession No.‡ JX284248 - JX284284 JX284366 - JX284378 JX284379 - JX284389 Y JX269135, JX269139, JX269141 - JX269142 SMCY7 637 SMCY7Fc CCCCTGCAGACCKRCAT AAGGCCAAGTTGATRAARCT TD 65-55 JX284390 - JX284397 SMCY7Rc Chr 2* RAG1 1234 S70d TCCGAGTGGAAATTTAAGMTGTT S73d GAGGAAGGTRTTGACACGGATG 55 JX284319 - JX284365 Chr11* BRCA1 1313 BRCA1MF ACAAGGAGCCAACGGAACAGAT BRCA1MR ATGGACCGGTTCCTTGAGGTTT 65 JX284285 - JX284318 *Location based on the position on the mouse genome; †Tn is the annealing temperature used in the PCR (where “TD” represents a touchdown procedure); ‡ GenBank Accession numbers of the sequences produced in this study per locus; a Jaarola M, Searle JB (2002) Phylogeography of field voles (Microtus agrestis) in Eurasia inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Ecology, 11, 2613–2621. b Hellborg L, Ellegren H (2004) Low levels of nucleotide diversity in mammalian Y chromosome. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 21, 158-163. c Hellborg L, Ellegren H (2003) Y chromosome conserved anchored tagged sequences (YCATS) for the analysis of mammalian male specific DNA. Molecular Ecology, 12, 283-291. d Steppan SJ, Storz BL, Hoffmann RS (2004) Nuclear DNA phylogeny of the squirrels (Mammalia: Rodentia) and the evolution of arboreality from c-myc and RAG1. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 30, 703-719. mtDNA X Locus Cytb DBX5 DBX6 DBY7 Size (bp) 1143 287 367 501 Forward primer L14727-SPa GACAGGAAAAATCATCGTTG DBX5Fb CAACAACTGTCCTCCACA DBX6Fb AGACTTGATGGCTTGTGC DBY7Fc GGTCCAGGAGARGCTTTGAA Reverse primer Tn† H15915-SPa GTCTTGTAAACCAGTAATGAA 55 CATGATAATTTCTCCCATCTC TD 65-55 DBX5Rb ATGCTGCAGTTTTTCCAGA TD 65-55 DBX6Rb DBY7Rc CAGCCAATTCTCTTGTTGGG TD 65-55 2 Table S2 Assessment of species delimitation for clocklike loci† and all loci, considering θp (0.0056) and θma (0.0268) (see text). AICc Δi L(Model|data) ωi Lineage composition θ = 0.0056 Clocklike loci† P, S, N, Marv, Mcab P, S_N, Marv, Mcab P_N, S, Marv, Mcab P_S, N, Marv, Mcab P_S_ N, Marv, Mcab -lnL k -4266.975 -4326.658 -4383.610 -4378.537 -4487.254 4 3 3 3 2 8543.432 8660.173 8774.077 8763.931 8978.923 0 116.741 230.254 220.499 435.490 1.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 1.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 All loci P, S, N, Marv, Mcab P, S_N, Marv, Mcab P_N, S, Marv, Mcab P_S, N, Marv, Mcab P_S_ N, Marv, Mcab -8160.782 -8278.564 -8362.429 -8364.292 -8573.301 4 3 3 3 2 16331.046 16563.984 16731.715 16735.441 17151.017 0 232.939 400.669 404.395 819.971 1.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 1.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 θ = 0.0268 Clocklike loci† P, S, N, Marv, Mcab P, S_N, Marv, Mcab P_N, S, Marv, Mcab P_S, N, Marv, Mcab P_S_ N, Marv, Mcab -1349.555 -1368.282 -1381.729 -1389.382 -1411.981 4 3 3 3 2 2708.591 2743.422 2770.314 2785.622 2828.376 0 34.831 61.724 77.031 119.785 1.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 1.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 All loci P, S, N, Marv, Mcab -2447.600 4 4905.121 0 1.000 1.000 P, S_S, Marv, Mcab -2479.967 3 4966.791 61.669 0.000 0.000 P_N, S, Marv, Mcab -2494.755 3 4996.366 91.245 0.000 0.000 P_S, N, Marv, Mcab -2503.074 3 5013.005 107.884 0.000 0.000 P_S_N, Marv, Mcab -2551.600 2 5107.614 202.493 0.000 0.000 P – Portuguese lineage ; S – Southern lineage ; N – Northern lineage ; Marv – Microtus arvalis, Mcab – Microtus cabrerae, -lnL, log-likelihood of the model given the data; k, number of parameters; AICc, corrected Akaike Information Criteria; Δi, AICc differences; L, relative likelihood of the model given the data; ωi, model probability. †Includes introns 5 and 6 from the DBX gene, intron 7 from the DBY gene, intron 7 from the SMCY gene and the RAG1 exon. 3 Fig. S1 Consensus species tree inferred with ML in STEM for clocklike loci (a, b, e) and for all loci (c, d), with θp = 0.0056 (a, c), θma = 0.0268 (b, d) and θa = 0.0118 (e). Grey bars show 95% highest posterior density intervals of branch lengths in coalescent units (number of 2Ne generations). Bootstrap support (above) and branch lengths (mean and 95%HPD, below) are shown for each node. 4 (a) (c) (b) (d) (e) 5 Fig. S1 6