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Ohdachi SD, Fujiwara K, Shekhar C, Sơn NT, Suzuki H, Osada N. Phylogenetics and Population Genetics of the Asian House Shrew, Suncus murinus-S. montanus Species Complex, Inferred From Whole-Genome and Mitochondrial DNA Sequences, with Special Reference to the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Zoolog Sci 2024; 41:216-229. [PMID: 38587917 DOI: 10.2108/zs230030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2023] [Accepted: 11/09/2023] [Indexed: 04/10/2024]
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The house shrew (Suncus murinus-S. montanus species complex) colonized regions across southern Asia and the Indian Ocean following human activity. The house shrew is distributed on islands of the Ryukyu Archipelago, the southernmost part of Japan, but the evolutionary history of the shrew on those islands and possible associations between these populations and humans remain unknown. In this study, we conducted phylogenetic and population genetic analyses based on both nuclear and mitochondrial genome sequences of house shrews. Phylogenetic analyses based on mitochondrial cytochrome b (cytb) sequences revealed that shrews from the Ryukyu Archipelago showed strong genetic affinity to Vietnamese and southern Chinese shrews. Demographic analyses of cytb sequences indicated a rapid population expansion event affecting the haplotype group in Vietnam, southern China, and the Ryukyu Archipelago 3300-7900 years ago. Furthermore, gene flow between Ryukyu (Yonaguni Island) and Taiwan and between Ryukyu and Vietnam inferred from f4 statistics of the nuclear genomes suggested repeated immigration to Ryukyu in recent years. The present study demonstrates that the Nagasaki population has a different origin from the Ryukyu population. These findings elucidate the complex pattern of genetic admixture in house shrews and provide insights into their evolutionary history.
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- Satoshi D Ohdachi
- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan,
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- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0814, Japan
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- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0814, Japan
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- Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources and Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
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- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0814, Japan
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Talavera A, Palmada-Flores M, Burriel-Carranza B, Valbuena-Ureña E, Mochales-Riaño G, Adams DC, Tejero-Cicuéndez H, Soler-Membrives A, Amat F, Guinart D, Carbonell F, Obon E, Marquès-Bonet T, Carranza S. Genomic insights into the Montseny brook newt ( Calotriton arnoldi), a Critically Endangered glacial relict. iScience 2024; 27:108665. [PMID: 38226169 PMCID: PMC10788218 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.108665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2023] [Revised: 10/09/2023] [Accepted: 12/05/2023] [Indexed: 01/17/2024] Open
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The Montseny brook newt (Calotriton arnoldi), considered the most endangered amphibian in Europe, is a relict salamandrid species endemic to a small massif located in northeastern Spain. Although conservation efforts should always be guided by genomic studies, those are yet scarce among urodeles, hampered by the extreme sizes of their genomes. Here, we present the third available genome assembly for the order Caudata, and the first genomic study of the species and its sister taxon, the Pyrenean brook newt (Calotriton asper), combining whole-genome and ddRADseq data. Our results reveal significant demographic oscillations which accurately mirrored Europe's climatic history. Although severe bottlenecks have led to depauperate genomic diversity and long runs of homozygosity along a gigantic genome, inbreeding might have been avoided by assortative mating strategies. Other life history traits, however, seem to have been less advantageous, and the lack of land dispersal has driven to exceptional levels of population fragmentation.
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- Adrián Talavera
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain
- Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, Pº Picasso s/n, Parc Ciutadella, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50010, USA
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Faculty of Biology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Departament de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d'Ecologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Àrea d’Herpetologia, BiBIO, Museu de Granollers – Ciències Naturals. Palaudàries 102, Granollers, Barcelona, Spain
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- Servei de Gestió de Parcs Naturals, Diputació de Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre de fauna salvatge de Torreferrussa (Forestal Catalana, SA), Santa Perpètua de Mogoda, Spain
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- Centre de fauna salvatge de Torreferrussa (Forestal Catalana, SA), Santa Perpètua de Mogoda, Spain
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain
- CNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
- Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
- Catalan Institution of Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain
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Baca M, Popović D, Agadzhanyan AK, Baca K, Conard NJ, Fewlass H, Filek T, Golubiński M, Horáček I, Knul MV, Krajcarz M, Krokhaleva M, Lebreton L, Lemanik A, Maul LC, Nagel D, Noiret P, Primault J, Rekovets L, Rhodes SE, Royer A, Serdyuk NV, Soressi M, Stewart JR, Strukova T, Talamo S, Wilczyński J, Nadachowski A. Ancient DNA of narrow-headed vole reveal common features of the Late Pleistocene population dynamics in cold-adapted small mammals. Proc Biol Sci 2023; 290:20222238. [PMID: 36787794 PMCID: PMC9928523 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.2238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023] Open
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The narrow-headed vole, collared lemming and common vole were the most abundant small mammal species across the Eurasian Late Pleistocene steppe-tundra environment. Previous ancient DNA studies of the collared lemming and common vole have revealed dynamic population histories shaped by climatic fluctuations. To investigate the extent to which species with similar adaptations share common evolutionary histories, we generated a dataset comprised the mitochondrial genomes of 139 ancient and 6 modern narrow-headed voles from several sites across Europe and northwestern Asia covering approximately the last 100 thousand years (kyr). We inferred Bayesian time-aware phylogenies using 11 radiocarbon-dated samples to calibrate the molecular clock. Divergence of the main mtDNA lineages across the three species occurred during marine isotope stages (MIS) 7 and MIS 5, suggesting a common response of species adapted to open habitat during interglacials. We identified several time-structured mtDNA lineages in European narrow-headed vole, suggesting lineage turnover. The timing of some of these turnovers was synchronous across the three species, allowing us to identify the main drivers of the Late Pleistocene dynamics of steppe- and cold-adapted species.
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- Mateusz Baca
- Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology and.,Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Zoology, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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- Department of Archaeology, Anthropology and Geography, University of Winchester, Winchester, UK
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- Institute of Archaeology, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Toruń, Poland
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- Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia
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- Department of Human and Environment, (HNHP) UMR 7194MNHN-CNRS-UPVD, National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France.,Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES-CERCA), Tarragona, Spain.,Department of History and Art History, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain
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- Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
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- Senckenberg Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology, Weimar, Germany
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- Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Research Group Prehistory, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- DRAC/SRA Poitou-Charentes, Ministry of Culture and Communications, Poitiers, France
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- Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wrocław, Poland
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behavior, University of Algavre, Faro, Portugal
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- Biogéosciences, UMR 6282 CNRS, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France
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- Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK
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- Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia
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- Department of Chemistry G. Ciamician, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
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- Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
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Saitoh T, Murakami S, de Guia APO, Ohnishi N, Kawai K. Estimation of Evolutionary Rates for Mitochondrial Control Region in Sibling Species of Myodes (Rodentia) by Calibrations Based on Island Formation. MAMMAL STUDY 2022. [DOI: 10.3106/ms2022-0013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Takashi Saitoh
- Field Science Center, Hokkaido University, Kita 11, Nishi 10, Sapporo 060-0811, Japan
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- Department of General Systems Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Animal Biology Division, Institute of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Los Baños, College, Laguna 4031, Philippines
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- Tohoku Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Nabeyashiki, Morioka 020-0123, Japan
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- School of Biological Sciences, Tokai University, Minamisawa, Sapporo 005-0825, Japan
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Inoue Y, Suzuki H. Temporal dynamics of mildly deleterious nonsynonymous substitutions in mitochondrial gene sequences in rodents and moles. Gene 2022; 97:111-121. [PMID: 35753758 DOI: 10.1266/ggs.21-00079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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We have previously estimated the evolutionary rate (number of substitutions/site/million years) of mitochondrial cytochrome b gene (Cytb) sequences in rodents and moles to be about 0.11 at more recent divergence times of tens of thousands of years, and to decrease rapidly to about 0.03 at more distant divergence times. Because this time dependency is thought to be caused by the removal of mildly deleterious substitutions in later generations, we focused in this study on the abundance of nonsynonymous substitutions. We collected 23 haplogroups of Cytb with signals of late Quaternary population expansion events from rodents and moles and categorized them into three groups for comparison based on predicted expansion start time: 5,000-15,000 years ago (Group I), ca. 53,000 years ago (Group II) and 130,000-230,000 years ago (Group III). We counted the numbers of nonsynonymous and synonymous substitutions in all haplogroups. The rates of nonsynonymous substitutions were lowest in Groups II and III (0.08-0.22), whereas those in Group I varied markedly. We further classified Group I into two subgroups based on high (0.29-0.43) and low (0.09-0.20) nonsynonymous substitution rates, which were likely to be associated with the start of the expansion within 10,000 years and at around 15,000 years ago, respectively. The Group II and III networks had two- or three-step star-shaped structures and tended to exhibit frequent and less frequent nonsynonymous substitutions on exterior and interior branches, respectively. Based on temporal dynamics, nonsynonymous mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) substitutions in small mammals accounted for at most 40% of all substitutions during the early evolutionary stage and then rapidly declined, dropping to approximately 15%. The results of this study provide a good explanation of the time-dependent trend in the mtDNA evolution rate predicted in previous work.
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- Yuta Inoue
- Laboratory of Ecology and Genetics, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University
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- Laboratory of Ecology and Genetics, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University
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Baca M, Popović D, Lemanik A, Fewlass H, Talamo S, Zima J, Ridush B, Popov V, Nadachowski A. The Tien Shan vole ( Microtus ilaeus; Rodentia: Cricetidae) as a new species in the Late Pleistocene of Europe. Ecol Evol 2021; 11:16113-16125. [PMID: 34824815 PMCID: PMC8601874 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2021] [Accepted: 10/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Grey voles (subgenus Microtus) represent a complex of at least seven closely related and partly cryptic species. The range of these species extends from the Atlantic to the Altai Mountains, but most of them occur east of the Black Sea. Using ancient DNA analyses of the Late Pleistocene specimens, we identified a new mtDNA lineage of grey voles in Europe. Phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b sequences from 23 voles from three caves, namely, Emine-Bair-Khosar (Crimea, Ukraine), Cave 16 (Bulgaria), and Bacho Kiro (Bulgaria), showed that 14 specimens form a previously unrecognized lineage, sister to the Tien Shan vole. The average sequence divergence of this lineage and the extant Tien Shan vole was 4.8%, which is similar to the divergence of grey vole forms, which are considered distinct species or being on the verge of speciation; M. arvalis and M. obscurus or M. mystacinus and M. rossiaemeridionalis. We estimated the time to the most recent common ancestor of the grey voles to be 0.66 Ma, which is over twice the recent estimates, while the divergence of the extant Tien Shan vole and the new lineage to be 0.29 Ma. Our discovery suggests that grey voles may have been more diversified in the past and that their ranges may have differed substantially from current ones. It also underlines the utility of ancient DNA to decipher the evolutionary history of voles.
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- Mateusz Baca
- Centre of New TechnologiesUniversity of WarsawWarszawaPoland
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- Institute of Systematics and Evolution of AnimalsPolish Academy of SciencesKrakówPoland
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- Department of Human EvolutionMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary AnthropologyLeipzigGermany
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- Department of Human EvolutionMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary AnthropologyLeipzigGermany
- Department of Chemistry G. CiamicianUniversity of BolognaBolognaItaly
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- Institute of Vertebrate BiologyAcademy of Sciences of Czech RepublicBrnoCzech Republic
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- Department of Physical Geography, Geomorphology and PaleogeographyYuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National UniversityChernivtsiUkraine
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem ResearchBulgarian Academy of SciencesSophiaBulgaria
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- Institute of Systematics and Evolution of AnimalsPolish Academy of SciencesKrakówPoland
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Nakamoto A, Harada M, Mitsuhashi R, Tsuchiya K, Kryukov AP, Shinohara A, Suzuki H. Influence of Quaternary environmental changes on mole populations inferred from mitochondrial sequences and evolutionary rate estimation. ZOOLOGICAL LETTERS 2021; 7:2. [PMID: 33588942 PMCID: PMC7885446 DOI: 10.1186/s40851-021-00169-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2020] [Accepted: 01/27/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Quaternary environmental changes fundamentally influenced the genetic diversity of temperate-zone terrestrial animals, including those in the Japanese Archipelago. The genetic diversity of present-day populations is taxon- and region-specific, but its determinants are poorly understood. Here, we analyzed cytochrome b gene (Cytb) sequences (1140 bp) of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) to elucidate the factors determining the genetic variation in three species of large moles: Mogera imaizumii and Mogera wogura, which occur in central and southern mainland Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu), and Mogera robusta, which occurs on the nearby Asian continent. Network construction with the Cytb sequences revealed 10 star-shaped clusters with apparent geographic affinity. Mismatch distribution analysis showed that modes of pairwise nucleotide differences (τ values) were grouped into five classes in terms of the level, implying the occurrence of five stages for rapid expansion. It is conceivable that severe cold periods and subsequent warm periods during the late Quaternary were responsible for the population expansion events. The first and third oldest events included island-derived haplotypes, indicative of the involvement of land bridge formation between remote islands, hence suggesting an association of the ends of the penultimate (PGM, ca. 130,000 years ago) and last (LGM, ca. 15,000 years ago) glacial maxima, respectively. Since the third event was followed by the fourth, it is plausible that the termination of the Younger Dryas and subsequent abrupt warming ca. 11,500 years ago facilitated the fourth expansion event. The second event most likely corresponded to early marine isotope stage (MIS) 3 (ca. 53,000 years ago) when the glaciation and subsequent warming period were predicted to have influenced biodiversity. Utilization of the critical times of 130,000, 53,000, 15,000, and 11,500 years ago as calibration points yielded evolutionary rates of 0.03, 0.045, 0.10 and 0.10 substitutions/site/million years, respectively, showing a time-dependent manner whose pattern was similar to that seen in small rodents reported in our previous studies. The age of the fifth expansion event was calculated to be 5800 years ago with a rate of 0.10 substitutions/site/million years ago during the mid-Holocene, suggestive of the influence of humans or other unspecified reasons, such as the Jomon marine transgression.
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- Azusa Nakamoto
- Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, North 10, West 5, Sapporo, 060-0810 Japan
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- Laboratory Animal Center, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medical School, Osaka, 545-8585 Japan
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- Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, North 10, West 5, Sapporo, 060-0810 Japan
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- Oyo-seibutsu Co. Ltd., 4-12-3, Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 107-0062 Japan
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- Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022 Russia
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- Frontier Science Research Center, University of Miyazaki, Kihara 5200, Miyazaki, 889-1692 Japan
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- Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, North 10, West 5, Sapporo, 060-0810 Japan
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SUZUKI HITOSHI. The time-dependent evolutionary rate of mitochondrial DNA in small mammals inferred from biogeographic calibration points with reference to the late Quaternary environmental changes in the Japanese archipelago. ANTHROPOL SCI 2021. [DOI: 10.1537/ase.201201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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- HITOSHI SUZUKI
- Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo
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Raspopova AA, Bannikova AA, Sheftel BI, Kryštufek B, Kouptsov AV, Illarionova NA, Pavlova SV, Lebedev VS. A never-ending story of the common shrew: searching for the origin. MAMMAL RES 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s13364-020-00498-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Vega R, McDevitt AD, Stojak J, Mishta A, Wójcik JM, Kryštufek B, Searle JB. Phylogeographical structure of the pygmy shrew: revisiting the roles of southern and northern refugia in Europe. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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AbstractSouthern and northern glacial refugia are considered paradigms that explain the complex phylogeographical patterns and processes of European biota. Here, we provide a revisited statistical phylogeographical analysis of the pygmy shrew Sorex minutus Linnaeus, 1766 (Eulipotyphla, Soricidae), examining its genetic diversity, genetic differentiation and demographic history in the Mediterranean peninsulas and in Western and Central Europe. The results showed support for genetically distinct and diverse phylogeographical groups consistent with southern and northern glacial refugia, as expected from previous studies. We also identified geographical barriers concordant with glaciated mountain ranges during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), early diversification events dated between the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene for the main phylogeographical groups, and recent (post-LGM) patterns of demographic expansions. This study is the most comprehensive investigation of this species to date, and the results have implications for the conservation of intraspecific diversity and the preservation of the evolutionary potential of S. minutus.
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- Rodrigo Vega
- Ecology Research Group, Section of Natural and Applied Sciences, School of Human and Life Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University, Becket, Canterbury, Kent, UK
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- Ecosystems and Environment Research Centre, School of Science, Engineering and Environment, University of Salford, Salford, UK
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- Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża, Poland
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- Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
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- Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża, Poland
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- Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Prešernova, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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Impact of past climate warming on genomic diversity and demographic history of collared lemmings across the Eurasian Arctic. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:3026-3033. [PMID: 31988125 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1913596117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The Arctic climate was warmer than today at the last interglacial and the Holocene thermal optimum. To reveal the impact of past climate-warming events on the demographic history of an Arctic specialist, we examined both mitochondrial and nuclear genomic variation in the collared lemming (Dicrostonyx torquatus, Pallas), a keystone species in tundra communities, across its entire distribution in northern Eurasia. The ancestral phylogenetic position of the West Beringian group and divergence time estimates support the hypothesis of continental range contraction to a single refugial area located in West Beringia during high-magnitude warming of the last interglacial, followed by westward recolonization of northern Eurasia in the last glacial period. The West Beringian group harbors the highest mitogenome diversity and its inferred demography indicates a constantly large effective population size over the Late Pleistocene to Holocene. This suggests that northward forest expansion during recent warming of the Holocene thermal optimum did not affect the gene pool of the collared lemming in West Beringia but reduced genomic diversity and effective population size in all other regions of the Eurasian Arctic. Demographic inference from genomic diversity was corroborated by species distribution modeling showing reduction in species distribution during past climate warming. These conclusions are supported by recent paleoecological evidence suggesting smaller temperature increases and moderate northward forest advances in the extreme northeast of Eurasia during the Late Pleistocene-to-Holocene warming events. This study emphasizes the importance of West Beringia as a potential refugium for cold-adapted Arctic species under ongoing climate warming.
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Arslan Y, Demi̇rtaş S, Herman JS, Pustilnik JD, Searle JB, Gündüz İ. The Anatolian glacial refugium and human-mediated colonization: a phylogeographical study of the stone marten (Martes foina) in Turkey. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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AbstractThe Anatolian Peninsula, comprising most of modern Turkey, is situated at the junction of Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Together with its complex geomorphological and climatic history, this has given rise to a rich fauna and flora, which exhibits a wide range of historical biogeographical patterns. The stone marten (Martes foina) is a small carnivore that is found across the temperate Palaearctic region including Anatolia, where it is often associated with habitats modified by humans, but few genetic data exist for this species. We sequenced a 1840-bp region of the mitochondrial genome from 97 martens sampled across the peninsula and intron 7 of the nuclear β-fibrinogen gene from 53 of these. Two mitochondrial lineages were recovered, with overlapping eastern and western distributions, but there was no geographical structure for the autosomal marker. Coalescent analyses indicated that both of the lineages originated during the Last Glacial Maximum, one of them within an eastern Anatolian refugium and the other in a western Anatolian or Balkan refugium. The western lineage colonized most of Europe in the Holocene, while the eastern lineage may be endemic to Anatolia, from where it colonized the Iberian Peninsula via human translocation. The presence of at least one refugial stone marten population highlights the importance of Anatolia to the preservation of genetic variation and biodiversity.
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- Yağmur Arslan
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey
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- Department of Natural Sciences, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey
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Fletcher NK, Acevedo P, Herman JS, Paupério J, Alves PC, Searle JB. Glacial cycles drive rapid divergence of cryptic field vole species. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:14101-14113. [PMID: 31938506 PMCID: PMC6953675 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2019] [Accepted: 10/24/2019] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Understanding the factors that contribute to the generation of reproductively isolated forms is a fundamental goal of evolutionary biology. Cryptic species are an especially interesting challenge to study in this context since they lack obvious morphological differentiation that provides clues to adaptive divergence that may drive reproductive isolation. Geographical isolation in refugial areas during glacial cycling is known to be important for generating genetically divergent populations, but its role in the origination of new species is still not fully understood and likely to be situation dependent. We combine analysis of 35,434 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with environmental niche modeling (ENM) to investigate genomic and ecological divergence in three cryptic species formerly classified as the field vole (Microtus agrestis). The SNPs demonstrate high genomic divergence (pairwise F ST values of 0.45-0.72) and little evidence of gene flow among the three field vole cryptic species, and we argue that genetic drift may have been a particularly important mechanism for divergence in the group. The ENM reveals three areas as potential glacial refugia for the cryptic species and differing climatic niches, although with spatial overlap between species pairs. This evidence underscores the role that glacial cycling has in promoting genetic differentiation and reproductive isolation by subdivision into disjunct distributions at glacial maxima in areas relatively close to ice sheets. Future investigation of the intrinsic barriers to gene flow between the field vole cryptic species is required to fully assess the mechanisms that contribute to reproductive isolation. In addition, the Portuguese field vole (M. rozianus) shows a high inbreeding coefficient and a restricted climatic niche, and warrants investigation into its conservation status.
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- Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos, IREC (UCLM‐CSIC‐JCCM)Ciudad RealSpain
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- Department of Natural SciencesNational Museums ScotlandEdinburghUK
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- CIBIO/InBio, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos GenéticosUniversidade do Porto, Campus de VairãoVairãoPortugal
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- CIBIO/InBio, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos GenéticosUniversidade do Porto, Campus de VairãoVairãoPortugal
- Departamento de BiologiaFaculdade de CiênciasUniversidade do PortoPortoPortugal
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyCornell UniversityIthacaNYUSA
- CIBIO/InBio, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos GenéticosUniversidade do Porto, Campus de VairãoVairãoPortugal
- Departamento de BiologiaFaculdade de CiênciasUniversidade do PortoPortoPortugal
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Highly divergent lineage of narrow-headed vole from the Late Pleistocene Europe. Sci Rep 2019; 9:17799. [PMID: 31780683 PMCID: PMC6882798 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-53937-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2019] [Accepted: 10/01/2019] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
Abstract
During the Late Pleistocene, narrow-headed voles (Lasiopodomys gregalis) inhabited Eurasia’s vast territories, frequently becoming the dominant small mammal species among steppe-tundra communities. We investigated the relationship between this species’ European and Asiatic populations by sequencing the mtDNA genomes of two extant specimens from Russia and 10 individuals from five Central European sites, dated to the post-LGM period. Phylogenetic analyses based on a large portion of mtDNA genomes highly supported the positioning of L. gregalis within Arvicolinae. The phylogeny based on mtDNA cytochrome b sequences revealed a deep divergence of European narrow-headed voles from Asiatic ones and their sister position against the extant L. gregalis and L. raddei. The divergence of the European lineage was estimated to a minimum 230 thousand years ago. This suggest, contrary to the current biogeographic hypotheses, that during the interglacial periods narrow-headed vole did not retreat from Europe but survived the unfavourable conditions within the refugial areas. Based on this result, we propose to establish a cryptic species status for the Late Pleistocene European narrow-headed vole and to name this taxon Lasiopodomys anglicus.
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Jeske K, Hiltbrunner M, Drewes S, Ryll R, Wenk M, Špakova A, Petraitytė-Burneikienė R, Heckel G, Ulrich RG. Field vole-associated Traemmersee hantavirus from Germany represents a novel hantavirus species. Virus Genes 2019; 55:848-853. [PMID: 31573059 DOI: 10.1007/s11262-019-01706-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2019] [Revised: 09/17/2019] [Accepted: 09/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Vole-associated hantaviruses occur in the Old and New World. Tula orthohantavirus (TULV) is widely distributed throughout the European continent in its reservoir, the common vole (Microtus arvalis), but the virus was also frequently detected in field voles (Microtus agrestis) and other vole species. TULV and common voles are absent from Great Britain. However, field voles there harbor Tatenale and Kielder hantaviruses. Here we screened 126 field voles and 13 common voles from Brandenburg, Germany, for hantavirus infections. One common vole and four field voles were anti-TULV antibody and/or TULV RNA positive. In one additional, seropositive field vole a novel hantavirus sequence was detected. The partial S and L segment nucleotide sequences were only 61.1% and 75.6% identical to sympatrically occurring TULV sequences, but showed highest similarity of approximately 80% to British Tatenale and Kielder hantaviruses. Subsequent determination of the entire nucleocapsid (N), glycoprotein (GPC), and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase encoding sequences and determination of the pairwise evolutionary distance (PED) value for the concatenated N and GPC amino acid sequences confirmed a novel orthohantavirus species, tentatively named Traemmersee orthohantavirus. The identification of this novel hantavirus in a field vole from eastern Germany underlines the necessity of a large-scale, broad geographical hantavirus screening of voles to understand evolutionary processes of virus-host associations and host switches.
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- Kathrin Jeske
- Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute of Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Südufer 10, 17493, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 6, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
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- Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute of Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Südufer 10, 17493, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany
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- Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute of Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Südufer 10, 17493, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany
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- Landesbetrieb Forst Brandenburg, Fachbereich 4.3 Waldschutz, A.-Möller-Str. 1, 16225, Eberswalde, Germany
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- Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio al. 7, 10257, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio al. 7, 10257, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 6, 3012, Bern, Switzerland.,Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Genopode, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute of Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Südufer 10, 17493, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany.
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Reilly SB, Stubbs AL, Karin BR, Arida E, Iskandar DT, McGuire JA. Recent colonization and expansion through the Lesser Sundas by seven amphibian and reptile species. ZOOL SCR 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Sean B. Reilly
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Integrative Biology University of California Berkeley California USA
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- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Integrative Biology University of California Berkeley California USA
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- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Integrative Biology University of California Berkeley California USA
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- Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) Cibinong Indonesia
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- School of Life Sciences and Technology Institut Teknologi Bandung Bandung Indonesia
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- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Integrative Biology University of California Berkeley California USA
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Stojak J, Tarnowska E. Polish suture zone as the goblet of truth in post-glacial history of mammals in Europe. MAMMAL RES 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s13364-019-00433-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Herman JS, Stojak J, Paupério J, Jaarola M, Wójcik JM, Searle JB. Genetic variation in field voles ( Microtus agrestis) from the British Isles: selective sweeps or population bottlenecks? Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/bly213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- Mammal Research Institute of Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża, Poland
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- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Sweden
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- Mammal Research Institute of Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża, Poland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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Queirós J, Acevedo P, Santos JPV, Barasona J, Beltran-Beck B, González-Barrio D, Armenteros JA, Diez-Delgado I, Boadella M, Fernandéz de Mera I, Ruiz-Fons JF, Vicente J, de la Fuente J, Gortázar C, Searle JB, Alves PC. Red deer in Iberia: Molecular ecological studies in a southern refugium and inferences on European postglacial colonization history. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0210282. [PMID: 30620758 PMCID: PMC6324796 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2018] [Accepted: 12/19/2018] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
Abstract
The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is a widespread wild ungulate in Europe that has suffered strong anthropogenic impacts over their distribution during the last centuries, but also at the present time, due its economic importance as a game species. Here we focus on the evolutionary history of the red deer in Iberia, one of the three main southern refugial areas for temperate species in Europe, and addressed the hypothesis of a cryptic refugia at higher latitudes during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). A total of 911 individuals were sampled, genotyped for 34 microsatellites specifically developed for red deer and sequenced for a fragment of 670 bp of the mitochondrial (mtDNA) D-loop. The results were combined with published mtDNA sequences, and integrated with species distribution models and historical European paleo-distribution data, in order to further examine the alternative glacial refugial models and the influence of cryptic refugia on European postglacial colonization history. Clear genetic differentiation between Iberian and European contemporary populations was observed at nuclear and mtDNA levels, despite the mtDNA haplotypes central to the phylogenetic network are present across western Europe (including Iberia) suggesting a panmictic population in the past. Species distribution models, fossil records and genetic data support a timing of divergence between Iberian and European populations that overlap with the LGM. A notable population structure was also found within the Iberian Peninsula, although several populations displayed high levels of admixture as a consequence of recent red deer translocations. Five D-loop sub-lineages were found in Iberia that belong to the Western European mtDNA lineage, while there were four main clusters based on analysis of nuclear markers. Regarding glacial refugial models, our findings provide detailed support for the hypothesis that red deer may have persisted in cryptic northern refugia in western Europe during the LGM, most likely in southern France, southern Ireland, or in a region between them (continental shelf), and these regions were the source of individuals during the European re-colonization. This evidence heightens the importance of conserving the high mitochondrial and nuclear diversity currently observed in Iberian populations.
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- João Queirós
- Centro de Investigacão em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CIBIO)/InBio Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto, R. Monte-Crasto, Vairão, Portugal
- Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (FCUP), Porto, Portugal
- SaBio Research Group, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ronda de Toledo s/n, Ciudad Real, Spain
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- Centro de Investigacão em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CIBIO)/InBio Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto, R. Monte-Crasto, Vairão, Portugal
- SaBio Research Group, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ronda de Toledo s/n, Ciudad Real, Spain
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- SaBio Research Group, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ronda de Toledo s/n, Ciudad Real, Spain
- Departamento de Biologia & CESAM, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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- SaBio Research Group, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ronda de Toledo s/n, Ciudad Real, Spain
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- SaBio Research Group, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ronda de Toledo s/n, Ciudad Real, Spain
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- SaBio Research Group, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ronda de Toledo s/n, Ciudad Real, Spain
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- SaBio Research Group, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ronda de Toledo s/n, Ciudad Real, Spain
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- SaBio Research Group, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ronda de Toledo s/n, Ciudad Real, Spain
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- SaBio Research Group, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ronda de Toledo s/n, Ciudad Real, Spain
- SABIOtec. Ed. Polivalente UCLM, Ciudad Real, Spain
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- SaBio Research Group, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ronda de Toledo s/n, Ciudad Real, Spain
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- SaBio Research Group, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ronda de Toledo s/n, Ciudad Real, Spain
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- SaBio Research Group, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ronda de Toledo s/n, Ciudad Real, Spain
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- SaBio Research Group, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ronda de Toledo s/n, Ciudad Real, Spain
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States of America
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- SaBio Research Group, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ronda de Toledo s/n, Ciudad Real, Spain
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- Centro de Investigacão em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CIBIO)/InBio Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto, R. Monte-Crasto, Vairão, Portugal
- Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (FCUP), Porto, Portugal
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America
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- Centro de Investigacão em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CIBIO)/InBio Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto, R. Monte-Crasto, Vairão, Portugal
- Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (FCUP), Porto, Portugal
- Wildlife Biology Program, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States of America
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Climatic influences on the genetic structure and distribution of the common vole and field vole in Europe. MAMMAL RES 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s13364-018-0395-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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The Microtus voles: Resolving the phylogeny of one of the most speciose mammalian genera using genomics. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2018; 125:85-92. [PMID: 29574272 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.03.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2017] [Revised: 01/03/2018] [Accepted: 03/14/2018] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Sequential rapid radiations pose some of the greatest difficulties in phylogenetics, especially when analysing only a small number of genetic markers. Given that most of the speciation events occur in quick succession at various points in time, this creates particular challenges in determining phylogenetic relationships, i.e. branching order and divergence times. With the development of high throughput sequencing, thousands of markers can now readily be used to tackle these issues. Microtus is a speciose genus currently composed of 65 species that evolved over the last 2 million years. Although it is a well-studied group, there is still phylogenetic uncertainty at various divergence levels. Building upon previous studies that generally used small numbers of mitochondrial and/or nuclear loci, in this genomic-scale study we used both mitochondrial and nuclear data to study the rapid radiation within Microtus, using partial mitogenomes and genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) on seven species representing five Microtus subgenera and the main biogeographic ranges where this group occurs. Both types of genome (mitochondrial and nuclear) generated similar tree topologies, with a basal split of the Nearctic (M. ochrogaster) and Holarctic (M. oeconomus) species, and then a subdivision of the five Palearctic species into two subgroups. These data support the occurrence of two European radiations, one North American radiation, and a later expansion of M. oeconomus from Asia to both Europe and North America. We further resolved the positioning of M. cabrerae as sister group of M. agrestis and refute the claim that M. cabrerae should be elevated to its own genus (Iberomys). Finally, the data support ongoing speciation events, especially within M. agrestis, with high levels of genetic divergence between the three Evolutionarily Significant Units (ESUs) previously identified. Similar high levels of divergence were also found among ESUs within M. oeconomus and M. arvalis.
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Kuwayama T, Nunome M, Kinoshita G, Abe K, Suzuki H. Heterogeneous genetic make-up of Japanese house mice (Mus musculus) created by multiple independent introductions and spatio-temporally diverse hybridization processes. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blx076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Bell RC, Parra JL, Badjedjea G, Barej MF, Blackburn DC, Burger M, Channing A, Dehling JM, Greenbaum E, Gvoždík V, Kielgast J, Kusamba C, Lötters S, McLaughlin PJ, Nagy ZT, Rödel M, Portik DM, Stuart BL, VanDerWal J, Zassi‐Boulou AG, Zamudio KR. Idiosyncratic responses to climate‐driven forest fragmentation and marine incursions in reed frogs from Central Africa and the Gulf of Guinea Islands. Mol Ecol 2017; 26:5223-5244. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.14260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2017] [Revised: 07/03/2017] [Accepted: 07/12/2017] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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- Rayna C. Bell
- Department of Vertebrate Zoology National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution Washington DC USA
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology University of California, Berkeley CA USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Cornell University Ithaca NY USA
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- Grupo de Ecología y Evolución de Vertebrados Instituto de Biología Universidad de Antioquia Medellín Colombia
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- Département d'Ecologie et Biodiversité des ressources Aquatiques Centre de Surveillance de la Biodiversité Kisangani Democratic Republic of the Congo
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- Museum für Naturkunde ‐ Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science Berlin Germany
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- Florida Museum of Natural History University of Florida Gainesville FL USA
- Department of Herpetology California Academy of Sciences San Francisco CA USA
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- African Amphibian Conservation Research Group Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management North‐West University Potchefstroom South Africa
- Flora Fauna & Man, Ecological Services Ltd. Tortola British Virgin Islands
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- Biodiversity and Conservation Biology Department University of the Western Cape Bellville South Africa
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- Abteilung Biologie Institut für Integrierte Naturwissenschaften Universität Koblenz‐Landau Koblenz Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences University of Texas at El Paso El Paso TX USA
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- Institute of Vertebrate Biology Czech Academy of Sciences Brno Czech Republic
- Department of Zoology National Museum Prague Czech Republic
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- Section of Freshwater Biology Department of Biology University of Copenhagen Copenhagen Denmark
- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate Natural History Museum of Denmark Copenhagen Denmark
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- Laboratoire d'Herpétologie Département de Biologie Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles Lwiro Democratic Republic of the Congo
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- Museum für Naturkunde ‐ Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science Berlin Germany
- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Brussels Belgium
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- Museum für Naturkunde ‐ Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science Berlin Germany
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- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology University of California, Berkeley CA USA
- Department of Biology University of Texas Arlington TX USA
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- Centre for Tropical Biodiveristy & Climate Change College of Science and Engineering James Cook University Townsville Qld Australia
- Division of Research and Innovation eResearch Centre James Cook University Townsville Qld Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Cornell University Ithaca NY USA
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Mathias MDL, Hart EB, Ramalhinho MDG, Jaarola M. Microtus agrestis (Rodentia: Cricetidae). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/mspecies/sex003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Barbosa S, Paupério J, Herman JS, Ferreira CM, Pita R, Vale-Gonçalves HM, Cabral JA, Garrido-García JA, Soriguer RC, Beja P, Mira A, Alves PC, Searle JB. Endemic species may have complex histories: within-refugium phylogeography of an endangered Iberian vole. Mol Ecol 2017; 26:951-967. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.13994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2016] [Revised: 11/18/2016] [Accepted: 12/13/2016] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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- S. Barbosa
- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos; InBIO Laboratório Associado; Universidade do Porto; 4485-661 Vairão Portugal
- Departamento de Biologia; Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto; Rua do Campo Alegre s/n 4169-007 Porto Portugal
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Corson Hall, Cornell University; Ithaca NY 14853-2701 USA
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- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos; InBIO Laboratório Associado; Universidade do Porto; 4485-661 Vairão Portugal
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- Department of Natural Sciences; National Museums Scotland; Chambers Street Edinburgh EH1 1JF UK
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- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos; InBIO Laboratório Associado; Universidade do Porto; 4485-661 Vairão Portugal
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- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos; InBIO Laboratório Associado; Universidade de Évora; 7000-890 Évora Portugal
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- CITAB, Centro de Investigação e Tecnologias Agroambientais e Biológicas; Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD); 5001-801 Vila Real Portugal
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- CITAB, Centro de Investigação e Tecnologias Agroambientais e Biológicas; Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD); 5001-801 Vila Real Portugal
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC); Avda Américo Vespucio s/n, Isla de la Cartuja 41092 Sevilla Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC); Avda Américo Vespucio s/n, Isla de la Cartuja 41092 Sevilla Spain
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- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos; InBIO Laboratório Associado; Universidade do Porto; 4485-661 Vairão Portugal
- Departamento de Biologia; Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto; Rua do Campo Alegre s/n 4169-007 Porto Portugal
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- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos; InBIO Laboratório Associado; Universidade de Évora; 7000-890 Évora Portugal
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- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos; InBIO Laboratório Associado; Universidade do Porto; 4485-661 Vairão Portugal
- Departamento de Biologia; Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto; Rua do Campo Alegre s/n 4169-007 Porto Portugal
- Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC, CSIC-UCLM-JCCM); 13005 Ciudad Real Spain
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- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos; InBIO Laboratório Associado; Universidade do Porto; 4485-661 Vairão Portugal
- Departamento de Biologia; Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto; Rua do Campo Alegre s/n 4169-007 Porto Portugal
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Corson Hall, Cornell University; Ithaca NY 14853-2701 USA
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Shalabi MA, Abramov AV, Kosintsev PA, Lin LK, Han SH, Watanabe S, Yamazaki K, Kaneko Y, Masuda R. Comparative phylogeography of the endemic Japanese weasel (Mustela itatsi) and the continental Siberian weasel (Mustela sibirica) revealed by complete mitochondrial genome sequences. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Mohammed A. Shalabi
- Department of Natural History Sciences; Graduate School of Science; Hokkaido University; Sapporo 060-0810 Japan
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- Zoological Institute; Russian Academy of Sciences; St Petersburg 199034 Russia
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- Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology; Ural Branch; Russian Academy of Sciences; Ekaterinburg 620144 Russia
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- Department of Life Science; Tunghai University; Taichung 407 Taiwan
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- National Institute of Biological Resources; Environmental Research Complex; Incheon 404-708 South Korea
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- Faculty of Regional Environment Science; Tokyo University of Agriculture; Tokyo 156-8502 Japan
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- Carnivore Ecology and Conservation Research Group; Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology; Tokyo 183-8509 Japan
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- Department of Natural History Sciences; Graduate School of Science; Hokkaido University; Sapporo 060-0810 Japan
- Department of Biological Sciences; Faculty of Science; Hokkaido University; Sapporo 060-0810 Japan
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Herman JS, Jóhannesdóttir F, Jones EP, McDevitt AD, Michaux JR, White TA, Wójcik JM, Searle JB. Post-glacial colonization of Europe by the wood mouse,Apodemus sylvaticus: evidence of a northern refugium and dispersal with humans. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Jeremy S. Herman
- National Museums of Scotland; Chambers Street Edinburgh EH1 1JF UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Cornell University; Corson Hall Ithaca NY 14853-2701 USA
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- Ecosystems and Environment Research Centre; School of Environment and Life Sciences; University of Salford; Salford M5 4WT UK
- Mammal Research Institute; Polish Academy of Sciences; 17-230 Białowieża Poland
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- Unité de génétique de la conservation; Institut de Botanique; Université de Liège; 4000 Liège Belgique
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Cornell University; Corson Hall Ithaca NY 14853-2701 USA
- Lancaster Environment Centre; Lancaster University; Lancaster LA1 4YQ UK
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- Mammal Research Institute; Polish Academy of Sciences; 17-230 Białowieża Poland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Cornell University; Corson Hall Ithaca NY 14853-2701 USA
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Combe FJ, Ellis JS, Lloyd KL, Cain B, Wheater CP, Harris WE. After the Ice Age: The Impact of Post-Glacial Dispersal on the Phylogeography of a Small Mammal, Muscardinus avellanarius. Front Ecol Evol 2016. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2016.00072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Conroy CJ, Patton JL, Lim MCW, Phuong MA, Parmenter B, Höhna S. Following the rivers: historical reconstruction of California volesMicrotus californicus(Rodentia: Cricetidae) in the deserts of eastern California. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Chris J. Conroy
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology; University of California; 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building Berkeley CA 94720 USA
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- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology; University of California; 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building Berkeley CA 94720 USA
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- Department of Ecology & Evolution; Stony Brook University; 650 Life Sciences Building Stony Brook NY 11794-5245 USA
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; University of California; 612 Charles E. Young Dr. South Los Angeles CA 90095 USA
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- Department of Biology; Warren Wilson College; P.O. Box 9000 Asheville NC 28815 USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology; University of California; 1005 Valley Life Sciences Building #3140 Berkeley CA 94720 USA
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Stojak J, Wójcik JM, Ruczyńska I, Searle JB, McDevitt AD. Contrasting and congruent patterns of genetic structuring in two Microtus vole species using museum specimens. MAMMAL RES 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s13364-015-0260-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Gargan LM, Cornette R, Yearsley JM, Montgomery WI, Paupério J, Alves PC, Butler F, Pascal M, Tresset A, Herrel A, Lusby J, Tosh DG, Searle JB, McDevitt AD. Molecular and morphological insights into the origin of the invasive greater white-toothed shrew (Crocidura russula) in Ireland. Biol Invasions 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-016-1056-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Hoareau TB. Late Glacial Demographic Expansion Motivates a Clock Overhaul for Population Genetics. Syst Biol 2015; 65:449-64. [PMID: 26683588 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syv120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2014] [Accepted: 12/10/2015] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The molecular clock hypothesis is fundamental in evolutionary biology as by assuming constancy of the molecular rate it provides a timeframe for evolution. However, increasing evidence shows time dependence of inferred molecular rates with inflated values obtained using recent calibrations. As recent demographic calibrations are virtually non-existent in most species, older phylogenetic calibration points (>1 Ma) are commonly used, which overestimate demographic parameters. To obtain more reliable rates of molecular evolution for population studies, I propose the calibration of demographic transition (CDT) method, which uses the timing of climatic changes over the late glacial warming period to calibrate expansions in various species. Simulation approaches and empirical data sets from a diversity of species (from mollusk to humans) confirm that, when compared with other genealogy-based calibration methods, the CDT provides a robust and broadly applicable clock for population genetics. The resulting CDT rates of molecular evolution also confirm rate heterogeneity over time and among taxa. Comparisons of expansion dates with ecological evidence confirm the inaccuracy of phylogenetically derived divergence rates when dating population-level events. The CDT method opens opportunities for addressing issues such as demographic responses to past climate change and the origin of rate heterogeneity related to taxa, genes, time, and genetic information content.
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- Thierry B Hoareau
- Molecular Ecology and Evolution Programme, Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria, Private bag X20, Hatfield, Pretoria 0028, South Africa
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Suzuki Y, Tomozawa M, Koizumi Y, Tsuchiya K, Suzuki H. Estimating the molecular evolutionary rates of mitochondrial genes referring to Quaternary ice age events with inferred population expansions and dispersals in Japanese Apodemus. BMC Evol Biol 2015; 15:187. [PMID: 26373638 PMCID: PMC4571126 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-015-0463-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2015] [Accepted: 08/21/2015] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Background Determining reliable evolutionary rates of molecular markers is essential in illustrating historical episodes with phylogenetic inferences. Although emerging evidence has suggested a high evolutionary rate for intraspecific genetic variation, it is unclear how long such high evolutionary rates persist because a recent calibration point is rarely available. Other than using fossil evidence, it is possible to estimate evolutionary rates by relying on the well-established temporal framework of the Quaternary glacial cycles that would likely have promoted both rapid expansion events and interisland dispersal events. Results We examined mitochondrial cytochrome b (Cytb) and control region (CR) gene sequences in two Japanese wood mouse species, Apodemus argenteus and A. speciosus, of temperate origin and found signs of rapid expansion in the population from Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan. Assuming that global warming after the last glacial period 7–10 thousand years before present (kyr BP) was associated with the expansion, the evolutionary rates (sites per million years, myr) of Cytb and CR were estimated as 11–16 % and 22–32 %, respectively, for A. argenteus, and 12–17 % and 17–24 %, respectively, for A. speciosus. Additionally, the significant signature of rapid expansion detected in the mtDNA sequences of A. speciosus from the remaining southern main islands, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, provided an estimated Cytb evolutionary rate of 3.1 %/site/myr under the assumption of a postglacial population expansion event long ago, most probably at 130 kyr BP. Bayesian analyses using the higher evolutionary rate of 11–17 %/site/myr for Cytb supported the recent demographic or divergence events associated with the Last Glacial Maximum. However, the slower evolutionary rate of 3.1 %/site/myr would be reasonable for several divergence events that were associated with glacial periods older than 130 kyr BP. Conclusions The faster and slower evolutionary rates of Cytb can account for divergences associated with the last and earlier glacial maxima, respectively, in the phylogenetic inference of murine rodents. The elevated evolutionary rate seemed to decline within 100,000 years.
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- Yutaro Suzuki
- Laboratory of Ecology and Genetics, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Ecology and Genetics, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Bioresources, Ooyo Seibutsu Co. Ltd., Tokyo, 107-0062, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Ecology and Genetics, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan.
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Stojak J, McDevitt AD, Herman JS, Searle JB, Wójcik JM. Post-glacial colonization of eastern Europe from the Carpathian refugium: evidence from mitochondrial DNA of the common voleMicrotus arvalis. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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- Joanna Stojak
- Mammal Research Institute; Polish Academy of Sciences; 17-230 Białowieża Poland
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- Mammal Research Institute; Polish Academy of Sciences; 17-230 Białowieża Poland
- Laboratory of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Genomics; University of Leuven; 3000 Leuven Belgium
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- Department of Natural Sciences; National Museums Scotland; Edinburgh EH1 1JF UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Cornell University; Ithaca NY 14853-2701 USA
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- Mammal Research Institute; Polish Academy of Sciences; 17-230 Białowieża Poland
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Kotlík P, Marková S, Vojtek L, Stratil A, Slechta V, Hyršl P, Searle JB. Adaptive phylogeography: functional divergence between haemoglobins derived from different glacial refugia in the bank vole. Proc Biol Sci 2015; 281:rspb.2014.0021. [PMID: 24827438 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Over the years, researchers have used presumptively neutral molecular variation to infer the origins of current species' distributions in northern latitudes (especially Europe). However, several reported examples of genic and chromosomal replacements suggest that end-glacial colonizations of particular northern areas may have involved genetic input from different source populations at different times, coupled with competition and selection. We investigate the functional consequences of differences between two bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) haemoglobins deriving from different glacial refugia, one of which partially replaced the other in Britain during end-glacial climate warming. This allows us to examine their adaptive divergence and hence a possible role of selection in the replacement. We determine the amino acid substitution Ser52Cys in the major expressed β-globin gene as the allelic difference. We use structural modelling to reveal that the protein environment renders the 52Cys thiol a highly reactive functional group and we show its reactivity in vitro. We demonstrate that possessing the reactive thiol in haemoglobin increases the resistance of bank vole erythrocytes to oxidative stress. Our study thus provides striking evidence for physiological differences between products of genic variants that spread at the expense of one another during colonization of an area from different glacial refugia.
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- Petr Kotlík
- Laboratory of Molecular Ecology, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Liběchov 27721, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Molecular Ecology, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Liběchov 27721, Czech Republic
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- Department of Animal Physiology and Immunology, Institute of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno 61137, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Molecular Ecology, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Liběchov 27721, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Fish Genetics, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Liběchov 27721, Czech Republic
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- Department of Animal Physiology and Immunology, Institute of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno 61137, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Filipi K, Marková S, Searle JB, Kotlík P. Mitogenomic phylogenetics of the bank vole Clethrionomys glareolus, a model system for studying end-glacial colonization of Europe. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2014; 82 Pt A:245-57. [PMID: 25450101 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.10.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2014] [Revised: 10/17/2014] [Accepted: 10/22/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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We have revisited the mtDNA phylogeny of the bank vole Clethrionomys glareolus based on Sanger and next-generation Illumina sequencing of 32 complete mitochondrial genomes. The bank vole is a key study species for understanding the response of European fauna to the climate change following the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and one of the most convincing examples of a woodland mammal surviving in cryptic northern glacial refugia in Europe. The genomes sequenced included multiple representatives of each of the eight bank vole clades previously described based on cytochrome b (cob) sequences. All clades with the exception of the Basque - likely a misidentified pseudogene clade - were highly supported in all phylogenetic analyses and the relationships between the clades were resolved with high confidence. Our data extend the distribution of the Carpathian clade, the marker of a northern glacial refugium in the Carpathian Mountains, to include Britain and Fennoscandia (but not adjacent areas of continental Europe). The Carpathian sub-clade that colonized Britain and Fennoscandia had a somewhat different history from the sub-clade currently found in or close to the Carpathians and may have derived from a more north-westerly refugial area. The two bank vole populations that colonized Britain at the end of the last glaciation are for the first time linked with particular continental clades, the first colonists with the Carpathian clade and the second colonists with the western clade originating in a more southerly refugium in the vicinity of the Alps. We however found no evidence that a functional divergence of proteins encoded in the mitochondrial genome promoted the partial genetic replacement of the first colonists by the second colonists detected previously in southern Britain. We did identify one codon site that changed more often and more radically in the tree than expected and where the observed amino acid change may affect the reductase activity of the cytochrome bc1 complex, but the change was not specific to a particular clade. We also found an excess of radical changes to the primary protein structure for geographically restricted clades from southern Italy and Norway, respectively, possibly related to stronger selective pressure at the latitudinal extremes of the bank vole distribution. However, overall, we find little evidence of pervasive effects of deviation from neutrality on bank vole mtDNA phylogeography.
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- Karolína Filipi
- Laboratory of Molecular Ecology, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Rumburská 89, 27721 Liběchov, Czech Republic; Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 5, 12844 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Molecular Ecology, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Rumburská 89, 27721 Liběchov, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Ecology, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Rumburská 89, 27721 Liběchov, Czech Republic.
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Herman JS, McDevitt AD, Kawałko A, Jaarola M, Wójcik JM, Searle JB. Land-bridge calibration of molecular clocks and the post-glacial Colonization of Scandinavia by the Eurasian field vole Microtus agrestis. PLoS One 2014; 9:e103949. [PMID: 25111840 PMCID: PMC4128820 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2014] [Accepted: 07/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Phylogeography interprets molecular genetic variation in a spatial and temporal context. Molecular clocks are frequently used to calibrate phylogeographic analyses, however there is mounting evidence that molecular rates decay over the relevant timescales. It is therefore essential that an appropriate rate is determined, consistent with the temporal scale of the specific analysis. This can be achieved by using temporally spaced data such as ancient DNA or by relating the divergence of lineages directly to contemporaneous external events of known time. Here we calibrate a Eurasian field vole (Microtus agrestis) mitochondrial genealogy from the well-established series of post-glacial geophysical changes that led to the formation of the Baltic Sea and the separation of the Scandinavian peninsula from the central European mainland. The field vole exhibits the common phylogeographic pattern of Scandinavian colonization from both the north and the south, however the southernmost of the two relevant lineages appears to have originated in situ on the Scandinavian peninsula, or possibly in the adjacent island of Zealand, around the close of the Younger Dryas. The mitochondrial substitution rate and the timescale for the genealogy are closely consistent with those obtained with a previous calibration, based on the separation of the British Isles from mainland Europe. However the result here is arguably more certain, given the level of confidence that can be placed in one of the central assumptions of the calibration, that field voles could not survive the last glaciation of the southern part of the Scandinavian peninsula. Furthermore, the similarity between the molecular clock rate estimated here and those obtained by sampling heterochronous (ancient) DNA (including that of a congeneric species) suggest that there is little disparity between the measured genetic divergence and the population divergence that is implicit in our land-bridge calibration.
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- Jeremy S. Herman
- Department of Natural Sciences, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża, Poland
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- Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża, Poland
- Statistical Office, Centre for Forestry and Preservation of Nature, Białystok, Poland
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża, Poland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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Lischer HE, Excoffier L, Heckel G. Ignoring Heterozygous Sites Biases Phylogenomic Estimates of Divergence Times: Implications for the Evolutionary History of Microtus Voles. Mol Biol Evol 2013; 31:817-31. [DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mst271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Martínková N, Barnett R, Cucchi T, Struchen R, Pascal M, Pascal M, Fischer MC, Higham T, Brace S, Ho SYW, Quéré JP, O'Higgins P, Excoffier L, Heckel G, Hoelzel AR, Dobney KM, Searle JB. Divergent evolutionary processes associated with colonization of offshore islands. Mol Ecol 2013; 22:5205-20. [PMID: 23998800 PMCID: PMC4159590 DOI: 10.1111/mec.12462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2013] [Revised: 07/02/2013] [Accepted: 07/09/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Oceanic islands have been a test ground for evolutionary theory, but here, we focus on the possibilities for evolutionary study created by offshore islands. These can be colonized through various means and by a wide range of species, including those with low dispersal capabilities. We use morphology, modern and ancient sequences of cytochrome b (cytb) and microsatellite genotypes to examine colonization history and evolutionary change associated with occupation of the Orkney archipelago by the common vole (Microtus arvalis), a species found in continental Europe but not in Britain. Among possible colonization scenarios, our results are most consistent with human introduction at least 5100 bp (confirmed by radiocarbon dating). We used approximate Bayesian computation of population history to infer the coast of Belgium as the possible source and estimated the evolutionary timescale using a Bayesian coalescent approach. We showed substantial morphological divergence of the island populations, including a size increase presumably driven by selection and reduced microsatellite variation likely reflecting founder events and genetic drift. More surprisingly, our results suggest that a recent and widespread cytb replacement event in the continental source area purged cytb variation there, whereas the ancestral diversity is largely retained in the colonized islands as a genetic ‘ark’. The replacement event in the continental M. arvalis was probably triggered by anthropogenic causes (land‐use change). Our studies illustrate that small offshore islands can act as field laboratories for studying various evolutionary processes over relatively short timescales, informing about the mainland source area as well as the island.
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- Natália Martínková
- Department of Biology, University of York, Wentworth Way, York, YO10 5DD, UK; Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Květná 8, Brno, 603 65, Czech Republic
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Grindon AJ, Davison A. Irish Cepaea nemoralis Land Snails Have a Cryptic Franco-Iberian Origin That Is Most Easily Explained by the Movements of Mesolithic Humans. PLoS One 2013; 8:e65792. [PMID: 23840368 PMCID: PMC3686809 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2013] [Accepted: 05/02/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The origins of flora and fauna that are only found in Ireland and Iberia, but which are absent from intervening countries, is one of the enduring questions of biogeography. As Southern French, Iberian and Irish populations of the land snail Cepaea nemoralis sometimes have a similar shell character, we used mitochondrial phylogenies to begin to understand if there is a shared “Lusitanian” history. Although much of Europe contains snails with A and D lineages, by far the majority of Irish individuals have a lineage, C, that in mainland Europe was only found in a restricted region of the Eastern Pyrenees. A past extinction of lineage C in the rest of Europe cannot be ruled out, but as there is a more than 8000 year continuous record of Cepaea fossils in Ireland, the species has long been a food source in the Pyrenees, and the Garonne river that flanks the Pyrenees is an ancient human route to the Atlantic, then we suggest that the unusual distribution of the C lineage is most easily explained by the movements of Mesolithic humans. If other Irish species have a similarly cryptic Lusitanian element, then this raises the possibility of a more widespread and significant pattern.
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- Adele J. Grindon
- School of Biology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
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- School of Biology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
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Igea J, Aymerich P, Fernández-González A, González-Esteban J, Gómez A, Alonso R, Gosálbez J, Castresana J. Phylogeography and postglacial expansion of the endangered semi-aquatic mammal Galemys pyrenaicus. BMC Evol Biol 2013; 13:115. [PMID: 23738626 PMCID: PMC3682870 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2012] [Accepted: 05/28/2013] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Background Species with strict ecological requirements may provide new insights into the forces that shaped the geographic variation of genetic diversity. The Pyrenean desman, Galemys pyrenaicus, is a small semi-aquatic mammal that inhabits clean streams of the northern half of the Iberian Peninsula and is endangered in most of its geographic range, but its genetic structure is currently unknown. While the stringent ecological demands derived from its aquatic habitat might have caused a partition of the genetic diversity among river basins, Pleistocene glaciations would have generated a genetic pattern related to glacial refugia. Results To study the relative importance of historical and ecological factors in the genetic structure of G. pyrenaicus, we used mitochondrial and intronic sequences of specimens covering most of the species range. We show, first, that the Pyrenean desman has very low levels of genetic diversity compared to other mammals. In addition, phylogenetic and dating analyses of the mitochondrial sequences reveal a strong phylogeographic structure of a Middle Pleistocene origin, suggesting that the main lineages arose during periods of glacial isolation. Furthermore, both the spatial distribution of nuclear and mitochondrial diversity and the results of species distribution modeling suggest the existence of a major glacial refugium in the northwestern part of the Iberian Peninsula. Finally, the main mitochondrial lineages show a striking parapatric distribution without any apparent exchange of mitochondrial haplotypes between the lineages that came into secondary contact (although with certain permeability to nuclear genes), indicating incomplete mixing after the post-glacial recolonization. On the other hand, when we analyzed the partition of the genetic diversity among river basins, the Pyrenean desman showed a lower than expected genetic differentiation among main rivers. Conclusions The analysis of mitochondrial and intronic markers in G. pyrenaicus showed the predominant effects of Pleistocene glaciations on the genetic structure of this species, while the distribution of the genetic diversity was not greatly influenced by the main river systems. These results and, particularly, the discovery of a marked phylogeographic structure, may have important implications for the conservation of the Pyrenean desman.
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- Javier Igea
- Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta 37, Barcelona 08003, Spain
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Jones EP, Eager HM, Gabriel SI, Jóhannesdóttir F, Searle JB. Genetic tracking of mice and other bioproxies to infer human history. Trends Genet 2013; 29:298-308. [PMID: 23290437 DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2012.11.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2012] [Revised: 11/13/2012] [Accepted: 11/29/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The long-distance movements made by humans through history are quickly erased by time but can be reconstructed by studying the genetic make-up of organisms that travelled with them. The phylogeography of the western house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus), whose current widespread distribution around the world has been caused directly by the movements of (primarily) European people, has proved particularly informative in a series of recent studies. The geographic distributions of genetic lineages in this commensal have been linked to the Iron Age movements within the Mediterranean region and Western Europe, the extensive maritime activities of the Vikings in the 9th to 11th centuries, and the colonisation of distant landmasses and islands by the Western European nations starting in the 15th century. We review here recent insights into human history based on phylogeographic studies of mice and other species that have travelled with humans, and discuss how emerging genomic methodologies will increase the precision of these inferences.
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- Eleanor P Jones
- Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, 17-230 Białowieża, Poland
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Palsbøll PJ, Zachariah Peery M, Olsen MT, Beissinger SR, Bérubé M. Inferring recent historic abundance from current genetic diversity. Mol Ecol 2012. [PMID: 23181682 DOI: 10.1111/mec.12094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Recent historic abundance is an elusive parameter of great importance for conserving endangered species and understanding the pre-anthropogenic state of the biosphere. The number of studies that have used population genetic theory to estimate recent historic abundance from contemporary levels of genetic diversity has grown rapidly over the last two decades. Such assessments often yield unexpectedly large estimates of historic abundance. We review the underlying theory and common practices of estimating recent historic abundance from contemporary genetic diversity, and critically evaluate the potential issues at various estimation steps. A general issue of mismatched spatio-temporal scales between the estimation itself and the objective of the estimation emerged from our assessment; genetic diversity-based estimates of recent historic abundance represent long-term averages, whereas the objective typically is an estimate of recent abundance for a specific population. Currently, the most promising approach to estimate the difference between recent historic and contemporary abundance requires that genetic data be collected from samples of similar spatial and temporal duration. Novel genome-enabled inference methods may be able to utilize additional information of dense genome-wide distributions of markers, such as of identity-by-descent tracts, to infer recent historic abundance from contemporary samples only.
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- Per J Palsbøll
- Marine Evolution and Conservation, Centre of Evolutionary and Ecological Studies, University of Groningen, PO Box 11103 CC, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Paupério J, Herman JS, Melo-Ferreira J, Jaarola M, Alves PC, Searle J. Cryptic speciation in the field vole: a multilocus approach confirms three highly divergent lineages in Eurasia. Mol Ecol 2012; 21:6015-32. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.12024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2012] [Revised: 07/14/2012] [Accepted: 07/25/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- CIBIO; Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos; Universidade do Porto; InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus Agrário de Vairão; 4485-661; Vairão; Portugal
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine; Linköping University; 581 85; Linköping; Sweden
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Hung CM, Drovetski SV, Zink RM. Recent allopatric divergence and niche evolution in a widespread Palearctic bird, the common rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2012; 66:103-11. [PMID: 23022139 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.09.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2011] [Revised: 09/08/2012] [Accepted: 09/14/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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A previously published phylogeographic analysis of mtDNA sequences from the widespread Palearctic common rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus) suggested the existence of three recently diverged groups, corresponding to the Caucasus, central-western Eurasia, and northeastern Eurasia. We re-evaluated the mtDNA data using coalescence methods and added sequence data from a sex-linked gene. The mtDNA gene tree and SAMOVA supported the distinctiveness of the Caucasian group but not the other two groups. However, UPGMA clustering of mtDNA Φ(ST)-values among populations recovered the three groups. The sex-linked gene tree recovered no phylogeographic signal, which was attributed to recent divergence and insufficient time for sorting of alleles. Overall, coalescence methods indicated a lack of gene flow among the three groups, and population expansion in the central-western and northeastern Eurasia groups. These three groups corresponded to named subspecies, further supporting their validity. A species distribution model revealed potential refugia at the Last Glacial Maximum. These three groups, which we hypothesized are in the early stages of speciation, provided an opportunity for testing tenets of ecological speciation. We showed that the early stages of speciation were not accompanied by ecological niche divergence, consistent with other avian studies.
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- Chih-Ming Hung
- Bell Museum, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA.
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Giant sex chromosomes retained within the Portuguese lineage of the field vole (Microtus agrestis). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s13364-012-0087-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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MCDEVITT ALLAND, ZUB KAROL, KAWAŁKO AGATA, OLIVER MATTHEWK, HERMAN JEREMYS, WÓJCIK JANM. Climate and refugial origin influence the mitochondrial lineage distribution of weasels (Mustela nivalis) in a phylogeographic suture zone. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2012. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01840.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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