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Yao H, Wang P, Davison G, Wang Y, McGowan PJK, Wang N, Xu J. How do Snow Partridge ( Lerwa lerwa) and Tibetan Snowcock ( Tetraogallus tibetanus) coexist in sympatry under high-elevation conditions on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau? Ecol Evol 2021; 11:18331-18341. [PMID: 35003676 PMCID: PMC8717327 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2020] [Revised: 10/13/2021] [Accepted: 11/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
Abstract
The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) has the highest elevations of all biodiversity hotspots. Difficulties involved in fieldwork at high elevations cause challenges in researching mechanisms facilitating species coexistence. Herein, we investigated Snow Partridge (Lerwa lerwa) and Tibetan Snowcock (Tetraogallus tibetanus), the only two endemic Galliformes on the QTP, to understand species coexistence patterns and determine how they live in sympatry for the first time. We assembled occurrence data, estimated habitat suitability differences and the underlying factors between two species at different scales using ecological niche models. Niche overlap tests were used to investigate whether niche differences between these species allow for their coexistence. We found that elevation was the most important factor determining habitat suitability for both species. At the meso-scale, two species have similar ecological niches with their suitable habitats lying predominantly along ridge crests. However, ridge crests were more influential for habitat suitability by L. lerwa than for that of T. tibetanus because the latter species ranges further afield than ridge crests. Thus, differences in habitat suitability between these species lead to habitat partitioning, which allows stable coexistence. At the macro-scale, temperature and precipitation were major factors influencing habitat suitability differences between these species. Tetraogallus tibetanus extended into the hinterland of the QTP and occurred at higher elevations, where colder and drier alpine conditions are commonplace. Conversely, L. lerwa occurred along the southeastern margin of the QTP with a lower snow line, an area prone to rainy and humid habitats. Niche overlap analysis showed that habitat suitability differences between these species are not driven by niche differentiation. We concluded that the coexistence of these two pheasants under high-elevation conditions could be an adaption to different alpine conditions.
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- Hongyan Yao
- School of Ecology and Nature ConservationBeijing Forestry UniversityBeijingChina
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation BiologyInstitute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
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- National Biodiversity CentreNational Parks BoardSingapore CitySingapore
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- Department of Biological and Environment SciencesAlabama Agricultural and Mechanical UniversityHuntsvilleAlabamaUSA
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- School of Ecology and Nature ConservationBeijing Forestry UniversityBeijingChina
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- School of Ecology and Nature ConservationBeijing Forestry UniversityBeijingChina
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Qi Y, Zhao W, Li Y, Zhao Y. Environmental and geological changes in the Tarim Basin promoted the phylogeographic formation of Phrynocephalus forsythii (Squamata: Agamidae). Gene 2020; 768:145264. [PMID: 33129850 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2020.145264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2020] [Revised: 10/17/2020] [Accepted: 10/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Environmental factors can promote genetic divergence among populations. The Tarim Basin has experienced a series of environmental and geological changes since the late Pliocene. Phrynocephalus forsythii (Agamidae) has a continuous and circular distribution around the Tarim Basin, and the evolutionary history of this species remains unclear. In the present study, mitochondrial DNA and single nucleotide polymorphism sequences were obtained from 195 P. forsythii samples in the Tarim Basin to examine the phylogeographic structure and evolutionary history of this species. All populations of P. forsythii formed three distinct clusters: the Minfeng, low-elevation, and high-elevation groups. The Minfeng group was the first to separate from all other groups at 4.26 Ma after the original desert environment emerged in the Tarim Basin. The uplift of the Kunlun Mountains created a new high-altitude environment along the southwestern edge of the basin and promoted the divergence of low-elevation and high-elevation groups at 3.67 Ma. Subsequently, the gradual development of deserts and rivers in the Tarim Basin accelerated the dispersal of P. forsythii, eventually forming the current distribution pattern. Our results indicate that ecological separation caused by environmental and geological changes in the Tarim Basin was the main cause for the genetic divergence of P. forsythii.
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- Yue Qi
- Gansu Key Laboratory of Biomonitoring and Bioremediation for Environmental Pollution, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Gansu Key Laboratory of Biomonitoring and Bioremediation for Environmental Pollution, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
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- School of Life Sciences and Engineering, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, China
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- Gansu Key Laboratory of Biomonitoring and Bioremediation for Environmental Pollution, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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Joshi B, Lyngdoh S, Singh SK, Sharma R, Kumar V, Tiwari VP, Dar SA, Maheswari A, Pal R, Bashir T, Reshamwala HS, Shrotriya S, Sathyakumar S, Habib B, Kvist L, Goyal SP. Revisiting the Woolly wolf (Canis lupus chanco) phylogeny in Himalaya: Addressing taxonomy, spatial extent and distribution of an ancient lineage in Asia. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0231621. [PMID: 32298359 PMCID: PMC7162449 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0231621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2020] [Accepted: 03/27/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Of the sub-species of Holarctic wolf, the Woolly wolf (Canis lupus chanco) is uniquely adapted to atmospheric hypoxia and widely distributed across the Himalaya, Qinghai Tibetan Plateau (QTP) and Mongolia. Taxonomic ambiguity still exists for this sub-species because of complex evolutionary history anduse of limited wild samples across its range in Himalaya. We document for the first time population genetic structure and taxonomic affinity of the wolves across western and eastern Himalayan regions from samples collected from the wild (n = 19) using mitochondrial control region (225bp). We found two haplotypes in our data, one widely distributed in the Himalaya that was shared with QTP and the other confined to Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand in the western Himalaya, India. After combining our data withpublished sequences (n = 83), we observed 15 haplotypes. Some of these were shared among different locations from India to QTP and a few were private to geographic locations. A phylogenetic tree indicated that Woolly wolves from India, Nepal, QTP and Mongolia are basal to other wolves with shallow divergence (K2P; 0.000-0.044) and high bootstrap values. Demographic analyses based on mismatch distribution and Bayesian skyline plots (BSP) suggested a stable population over a long time (~million years) with signs of recent declines. Regional dominance of private haplotypes across its distribution range may indicate allopatric divergence. This may be due to differences in habitat characteristics, availability of different wild prey species and differential deglaciation within the range of the Woolly wolf during historic time. Presence of basal and shallow divergence within-clade along with unique ecological requirements and adaptation to hypoxia, the Woolly wolf of Himalaya, QTP, and Mongolian regions may be considered as a distinct an Evolutionary Significant Unit (ESU). Identifying management units (MUs) is needed within its distribution range using harmonized multiple genetic data for effective conservation planning.
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- Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun, India
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- Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun, India
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- Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun, India
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- Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun, India
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- Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun, India
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- Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun, India
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- Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun, India
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- Department of Biology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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An B, Zhang L, Liu N, Wang Y. Refugia persistence of Qinghai-Tibetan plateau by the cold-tolerant bird Tetraogallus tibetanus (Galliformes: Phasianidae). PLoS One 2015; 10:e0121118. [PMID: 25822918 PMCID: PMC4378977 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2014] [Accepted: 02/10/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Most of the temperate species are expected to have moved to lower altitudes during the glacial periods of the Quaternary. Here we tested this hypothesis in a cold-tolerant avian species Tibetan snowcock (Tetraogallus tibetanus) using two segments of mitochondrial gene (a 705bp Cytochrome-b; abbrev. Cyt-b and an 854 bp Control Region; abbrev. CR) and eight microsatellite loci by characterizing population differentiation and gene flow across its range. Combined (Cyt-b + CR) datasets detected several partially lineages with poor support. Microsatellite data, however, identified two distinct lineages congruent with the geographically separated western and central regions of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP). The phylogeographic patterns that we observed might be explained by a combination of vicariance events that led to local isolation of T. tibetanus during warm periods and range expansions and population intermixing during cold periods. The results of this study add to our knowledge of population differentiation and connectivity in high altitude mountain ecosystems.
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- Bei An
- School of Basic Medicine Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
- Gansu Key Laboratory of Biomonitoring and Bioremediation for Environmental Pollution, Lanzhou, China
- * E-mail: (LZ); (NL)
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- School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
- * E-mail: (LZ); (NL)
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- Pediatric Research Institute, Qilu Children's Hospital of Shandong University, Ji'nan, Shandong, China
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Liu D, Hou F, Liu Q, Zhang X, Yan T, Song Z. Strong population structure of Schizopygopsis chengi and the origin of S. chengi baoxingensis revealed by mtDNA and microsatellite markers. Genetica 2015; 143:73-84. [DOI: 10.1007/s10709-015-9815-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2014] [Accepted: 01/04/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Cao M, Jin Y, Liu N, Ji W. Effects of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau uplift and environmental changes on phylogeographic structure of the Daurian Partridge (Perdix dauuricae) in China. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2012; 65:823-30. [PMID: 22940153 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2009] [Revised: 07/23/2012] [Accepted: 08/07/2012] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Data from eight microsatellite loci were used to assess the evolutionary demographic processes of Daurian Partridges from 285 individuals distributed among 23 populations throughout much of the species' distribution range in China. Phylogenetic analysis using microsatellite DNA data indicated that the species were geographically structured and were split into two distinctive phylogroups A and B, splitting partridges geographically from high plateaus vs. lowlands in northern China with high bootstrap support in phylogenetic trees. Each of cluster A and cluster B was comprised with two subgroups respectively. Cluster A was further subdivided into the Loess Plateau group and the Qinghai-Tibetan group. Two subgroups of cluster B corresponded to populations of Liupan Mountains and northern China, respectively. This subdivision was confirmed by Bayesian clustering and population assignment analyses of microsatellite genotypes which indicated strong isolation of these groups/populations. Our results suggested that the vicariance patterns of genetic structures of Daurian Partridge may have resulted from: (1) the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and the Loess Plateau followed by the increased aridification and desertification in northern China in Middle Pleistocene, (2) the monsoon and the existence of Qinling Mountains and Liupan Mountains, and (3) the glacial cycles from the late of Middle Pleistocene to early of Late Pleistocene. In addition, BOTTLENECK analysis indicated that Daurian Partridge had been experienced recent evolutionary bottlenecks.
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- Manman Cao
- School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, PR China
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Laurence S, Coltman DW, Gorrell JC, Schulte-Hostedde AI. Genetic structure of muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) and its concordance with taxonomy in North America. J Hered 2011; 102:688-96. [PMID: 21810770 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esr071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Extrinsic factors such as physical barriers play an important role in shaping population genetic structure. A reduction in gene flow leading to population structuring may ultimately lead to population divergence. These divergent populations are often considered subspecies. Because genetic differentiation may represent differences between subspecies, patterns of genetic structure should reflect subspecies groupings. In this study, we examine the contemporary population genetic structure of muskrat (n = 331) and assess the relevance of 4 geographically distinct subspecies designations across northern North America using 9 microsatellite loci. We predicted that patterns of gene flow and genetic structure would reflect the described subspecies. We found evidence of genetic differentiation between western and eastern regions, and muskrats from Newfoundland (NF) showed significantly lower genetic diversity than central regions. A strong isolation by distance pattern was also detected within the eastern cluster. Our results did not differentiate Ondatra zibethicus spatulus (northwest) from O. z. albus (central), but they suggest a distinction between O. z. obscurus (NF) and O. z. zibethicus (east). This study highlights the need for more phylogenetic studies in order to better understand intraspecific divergence and the genetic characterization of subspecies.
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- Sophie Laurence
- Department of Biology, Laurentian University, 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
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HU YIBO, GUO YU, QI DUNWU, ZHAN XIANGJIANG, WU HUA, BRUFORD MICHAELW, WEI FUWEN. Genetic structuring and recent demographic history of red pandas (Ailurus fulgens) inferred from microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA. Mol Ecol 2011; 20:2662-75. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2011.05126.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Arbeláez-Cortés E, Nyári AS, Navarro-Sigüenza AG. The differential effect of lowlands on the phylogeographic pattern of a Mesoamerican montane species (Lepidocolaptes affinis, Aves: Furnariidae). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2010; 57:658-68. [PMID: 20601011 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2010] [Revised: 06/11/2010] [Accepted: 06/18/2010] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Enrique Arbeláez-Cortés
- Museo de Zoología, Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70-399, México D.F. 04510, Mexico.
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Chen W, Liu S, Liu Y, Hao H, Zeng B, Chen S, Peng H, Yue B, Zhang X. Phylogeography of the Large White-Bellied RatNiviventer excelsiorSuggests the Influence of Pleistocene Glaciations in the Hengduan Mountains. Zoolog Sci 2010; 27:487-93. [DOI: 10.2108/zsj.27.487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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