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Sosale MS, Roelke-Parker M, Machange GA, Edwards CW, Figueiró HV, Koepfli KP. The complete mitochondrial genome of Meller's mongoose ( Rhynchogale melleri). Mitochondrial DNA B Resour 2024; 9:432-436. [PMID: 38586507 PMCID: PMC10993741 DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2024.2333567] [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: 08/08/2023] [Accepted: 03/15/2024] [Indexed: 04/09/2024] Open
Abstract
Meller's mongoose (Rhynchogale melleri) is a member of the family Herpestidae (Mammalia: Carnivora) and the sole species in the genus Rhynchogale. It is primarily found in savannas and open woodlands of eastern sub-Saharan Africa. Here, we report the first complete mitochondrial genome for a female Meller's mongoose collected in Tanzania, generated using a genome-skimming approach. The mitogenome had a final length of 16,644 bp and a total of 37 annotated genes. Phylogenetic analysis validated the placement of this species in the herpestid subfamily Herpestinae. Ultimately, the outcomes of this research offer a genetic foundation for future studies of Meller's mongoose.
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- Medhini S. Sosale
- Department of Bioengineering, Volgenau School of Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
- Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation, George Mason University, Front Royal, Virginia, USA
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- Laboratory Animal Science Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation, George Mason University, Front Royal, Virginia, USA
- Department of Biology, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
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- Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation, George Mason University, Front Royal, Virginia, USA
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- Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation, George Mason University, Front Royal, Virginia, USA
- Center for Species Survival, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Virginia, USA
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Veron G, Daniel C, Pagani P, Do Linh San E, Kitchener AC, Hassanin A. A tale of two African mongooses (Carnivora: Herpestidae): differing genetic diversity and geographical structure across a continent. Mamm Biol 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s42991-022-00321-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Kusuma IF, Damia U, Megawati EI, Saputra F, Karnati S, Kusindarta DL, Wihadmadyatami H. Morphology of lingual papillae in the Javan mongoose (
Herpestes javanicus
) by scanning electron microscopy and light microscopy. Anat Histol Embryol 2022; 51:756-768. [DOI: 10.1111/ahe.12848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2021] [Revised: 07/04/2022] [Accepted: 07/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Isna Fitranuansa Kusuma
- Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta Indonesia
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- Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta Indonesia
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- Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta Indonesia
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- Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta Indonesia
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology Julius Maximillian University Wurzburg Wurzburg Germany
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- Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta Indonesia
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- Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta Indonesia
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Veron G, Patou ML, Debruyne R, Couloux A, Fernandez DAP, Wong ST, Fuchs J, Jennings AP. Systematics of the Southeast Asian mongooses (Herpestidae, Carnivora): solving the mystery of the elusive collared mongoose and Palawan mongoose. Zool J Linn Soc 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Géraldine Veron
- UMR 7205 ISYEB; CNRS MNHN UPMC EPHE; Institut de Systématique; Evolution, Biodiversité, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle; CP 51, 57 rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris Cedex 05 France
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- UMR 7205 ISYEB; CNRS MNHN UPMC EPHE; Institut de Systématique; Evolution, Biodiversité, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle; CP 51, 57 rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris Cedex 05 France
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- UMS CNRS MNHN 2700; Outils et Méthodes de la Systématique Intégrative; Département Systématique & Evolution; Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle; CP 26, 57 Rue Cuvier 75231 Paris Cedex 05 France
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- Genoscope; Centre National de Séquençage; 2 rue Gaston Crémieux, CP 5706, 91057 Evry Cedex France
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- Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Center; PPM 219, Elopura 90000 Sandakan Sabah Malaysia
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- UMR 7205 ISYEB; CNRS MNHN UPMC EPHE; Institut de Systématique; Evolution, Biodiversité, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle; CP 51, 57 rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris Cedex 05 France
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- UMR 7205 ISYEB; CNRS MNHN UPMC EPHE; Institut de Systématique; Evolution, Biodiversité, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle; CP 51, 57 rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris Cedex 05 France
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Sonet G, Colyn M, Verheyen E, Nagy ZT, Wendelen W, Van Rompaey H, Hulselmans J. Afrotropical forest-dwelling mongooses (Mammalia: Herpestidae: Crossarchus
) investigated by craniometry and mitochondrial DNA. J ZOOL SYST EVOL RES 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Gontran Sonet
- Joint Experimental Molecular Unit; Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences; Brussels Belgium
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- CNRS, UMR 6553, ECOBIO; University of Rennes 1; Station Biologique de Paimpont; Paimpont France
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- Evolutionary Ecology Group; University of Antwerp; Antwerp Belgium
- Directorate, Taxonomy and Phylogeny; Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences; Brussels Belgium
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- Joint Experimental Molecular Unit; Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences; Brussels Belgium
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- Vertebrate Department; Royal Museum for Central Africa; Tervuren Belgium
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- Evolutionary Ecology Group; University of Antwerp; Antwerp Belgium
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Rapson SA, Goldizen AW, Seddon JM. Species boundaries and possible hybridization between the black mongoose (Galerella nigrata) and the slender mongoose (Galerella sanguinea). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2012; 65:831-9. [PMID: 22940151 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2011] [Revised: 05/28/2012] [Accepted: 08/09/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Major climatic oscillations since the mid-Miocene climatic optimum are known to have played a key role in promoting speciation events. In this study we use molecular data to elucidate the evolutionary history of Galerella nigrata and link its divergence to known major climatic events. A total of 51 samples from G. nigrata and 17 from Galerella sanguinea were used to provide the first molecular evidence that G. nigrata may be a species in its own right. Both mitochondrial cytochrome b and the nuclear ß-fibrinogen intron seven sequences of G. nigrata form distinct monophyletic clades, separate from its sister species G. sanguinea. We estimate the divergence of these two species to have occurred 3.85-4.27 million years ago, coinciding with a period of the Plio-Pleistocene that was characterised by cooling global temperatures and strong aridity in southern Africa. However, evidence for potential hybridization between the two species was documented for ten individuals using phenotypic (pelage colouration) and/or molecular (nuclear and mtDNA sequences and microsatellite loci) data. There appeared to be a bias towards unidirectional hybridization with all potential hybrids showing mtDNA haplotypes from G. nigrata. We suggest that as the desert expanded across Namibia, G. sanguinea likely retreated with the savanna, leaving some mongooses stranded on the granite inselbergs of north-western Namibia. Subsequent adaptation of these mongooses to local conditions on granite inselbergs could have led to ecological speciation. Secondary contact zones would have been re-established with subsequent global warming events. It appears that the two species have not yet undergone complete reproductive isolation.
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- Sara A Rapson
- The University of Queensland, School of Biological Sciences, St. Lucia Campus, Australia.
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Patou ML, McLenachan PA, Morley CG, Couloux A, Jennings AP, Veron G. Molecular phylogeny of the Herpestidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) with a special emphasis on the Asian Herpestes. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2009; 53:69-80. [PMID: 19520178 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.05.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2008] [Revised: 05/11/2009] [Accepted: 05/28/2009] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Until now, phylogenetic studies of the mongooses (Carnivora, Herpestidae) have not included an exhaustive sampling of the Asian members of this family. In this study, we used mitochondrial (Cytochrome b and ND2), nuclear (beta-fibrinogen intron 7 and Transthyretin intron 1) sequences from almost all of the recognized mongoose species to produce a well-resolved phylogeny of the Herpestidae. We also performed molecular dating analyses to infer divergence dates of the different lineages within the Herpestidae. Our results confirmed the paraphyly of the Herpestes genus and other phylogenetic relationships, which previously had only been moderately supported. The Asian herpestid species were found to form a monophyletic group within the Herpestidae. Within the Asian species, a cyto-nuclear conflict was discovered between the small Indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus), the Indian gray mongoose (Herpestes edwardsii) and the Javan mongoose (Herpestes javanicus), which may have occurred through interspecific hybridization. This study inferred an Early Miocene origin for the Herpestidae and a Middle Miocene origin for the Asian mongooses.
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- Marie-Lilith Patou
- Unité Origine, Structure et Evolution de la Biodiversité (CNRS UMR 7205), Département Systématique et Evolution, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CP 51, 57 rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
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le Roux A, Cherry MI, Gygax L, Manser MB. Vigilance behaviour and fitness consequences: comparing a solitary foraging and an obligate group-foraging mammal. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2009. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-009-0762-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Dehghani R, Wanntorp L, Pagani P, Källersjö M, Werdelin L, Veron G. Phylogeography of the white-tailed mongoose (Herpestidae, Carnivora, Mammalia) based on partial sequences of the mtDNA control region. J Zool (1987) 2008. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2008.00502.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Patou ML, Debruyne R, Jennings AP, Zubaid A, Rovie-Ryan JJ, Veron G. Phylogenetic relationships of the Asian palm civets (Hemigalinae & Paradoxurinae, Viverridae, Carnivora). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2008; 47:883-92. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.03.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2006] [Revised: 03/06/2008] [Accepted: 03/12/2008] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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le Roux A, Cherry MI, Manser MB. The audience effect in a facultatively social mammal, the yellow mongoose, Cynictis penicillata. Anim Behav 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Veron G, Patou ML, Pothet G, Simberloff D, Jennings AP. Systematic status and biogeography of the Javan and small Indian mongooses (Herpestidae, Carnivora). ZOOL SCR 2007. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00261.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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