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Takagi E. Colonization success of a tree-killing bark beetle: Geographic variation and mismatch with host preference. Ecol Evol 2023; 13:e10274. [PMID: 37424940 PMCID: PMC10322651 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2023] [Revised: 06/18/2023] [Accepted: 06/26/2023] [Indexed: 07/11/2023] Open
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The preference-performance hypothesis (PPH) predicts that female insects maximize their fitness by ovipositing on hosts where their offspring perform the best. The preference-performance relationships in bark beetles are complex because before offspring development can occur in the phloem, adult bark beetles must first successfully invade host trees, and then construct galleries beneath the bark. Therefore, a positive correlation between host preference and successful colonization is necessary for the PPH in bark beetles to hold (i.e., the preference-colonization hypothesis in bark beetles). In this study, through field choice experiments, I investigated the successful colonization of the bark beetle, Polygraphus proximus, within four allopatrically distributed Abies species across a distinct biogeographic boundary in Japan. The results of this study showed that the biogeographic boundary did not limit the successful colonization by P. proximus. I observed that successful colonization was low in A. firma, despite it being an exotic species in the study sites and the most preferred at the study sites, indicating a mismatch between preference and colonization success. Additionally, I observed that A. sachalinensis had a high colonization success rate, even though it was the least preferred species at the study sites.
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- Etsuro Takagi
- Department of Tourism ScienceTokyo Metropolitan UniversityTokyoJapan
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Body Length and Craniometrics of Non-Native Raccoons in Two Regions in Middle Japan during Early Invasion Stages. Animals (Basel) 2022; 13:ani13010055. [PMID: 36611665 PMCID: PMC9817695 DOI: 10.3390/ani13010055] [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] [Received: 11/24/2022] [Revised: 12/19/2022] [Accepted: 12/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Although the genetic distribution of introduced raccoons (Procyon lotor) in recent years is well known, few studies have examined their morphometrics, especially the relationships between sex and age in the introduced populations. The aim of this study was to describe the morphological characteristics of raccoons from parts of eastern and western Japan during their early invasion stages, focusing on the relationships between body length and the principal component of craniometrics, with region, sex, age class, body length, and body mass index using a regression model. The body length increased more in males than females and in the older age class, supporting the association with intrasexual selection and competition for food resources. Positive relationships for body length and body mass index were found in craniometric analyses, particularly regarding cranial size components, in addition to age class for both sexes, while cranial size also differed between regions for females. The relationship between body length and craniometrics was inconsistent with that of subspecies originating in North America. Given the sympatric distribution of haplotypes of multiple subspecies without reproductive-isolating barriers in North America and in several introduced areas, hybridization must have occurred prior to the introduction or naturalization of this species.
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Korablev NP, Korablev MP, Korablev AP, Korablev PN, Zinoviev AV, Zhagarayte VA, Tumanov IL. Factors of Polymorphism of Craniometric Characters in the Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes, Carnivora, Canidae) from the Center of European Russia. BIOL BULL+ 2020. [DOI: 10.1134/s1062359019080053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Size of the lower carnassial in the arctic and the red fox from Late Pleistocene in Belgium compared to other ancient and extant populations. MAMMAL RES 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s13364-019-00459-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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AbstractLengths, widths, and size proportions (length to width) of the lower carnassial were measured in 45 teeth of the arctic fox and 35 teeth of the red fox from Belgium radiocarbon dated to 46 640–14 120 ka BP. Data the Late Pleistocene foxes from Belgium were compared to 20 ancient and extant populations form Europe, Asia, and North America. The Pleistocene arctic fox from Belgium showed larger carnassial than in all recent samples of this species, whereas the Belgian fossil red foxes were characterized by the carnassial size comparable to that of the recent Siberian red foxes. Both fox species from the Pleistocene of Belgium showed the highest index of the carnassials length to width, which means increase in carnivorous adaptation. We conclude that the higher level of carnivorous specialization reached by the Belgian arctic and red foxes at the end of the Late Pleistocene reflected their scavenging on kills of large carnivores and human hunters (remains of megafauna). Harsh environmental conditions of that period and specific composition of ecosystems led to adapting to a more carnivorous food niche in both foxes.
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Bartolini Lucenti S. “Measure my teeth and you'll know what I ate”: The molar ratio method and an updated interpretation of the diet of Nyctereutes sinensis
(Carnivora, Canidae). ACTA ZOOL-STOCKHOLM 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/azo.12232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Saverio Bartolini Lucenti
- Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze della Terra; Università di Pisa; Pisa Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra; Università di Firenze; Firenze Italy
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Asahara M, Takai M. Estimation of diet in extinct raccoon dog species by the molar ratio method. ACTA ZOOL-STOCKHOLM 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/azo.12179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Masakazu Asahara
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Mie University; Kurima-Machiya-Cho Tsu Mie 514-8507 Japan
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- Primate Research Institute; Kyoto University; Inuyama Aichi 484-8506 Japan
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Dental polymorphism of the raccoon dog in indigenous and invasive populations: internal and external causation. MAMMAL RES 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s13364-016-0293-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Amaike Y, Oishi T, Uraguchi K, Abramov AV, Masuda R. Geographical Variation in Skull Morphology in the Hokkaido Population of the Red Fox,Vulpes vulpes. MAMMAL STUDY 2015. [DOI: 10.3106/041.040.0405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Kim SI, Oshida T, Lee H, Min MS, Kimura J. Evolutionary and biogeographical implications of variation in skull morphology of raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides, Mammalia: Carnivora). Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Sang-In Kim
- Conservation Genome Resource Bank for Korean Wildlife (CGRB) and Research Institute for Veterinary Science; College of Veterinary Medicine; Seoul National University; Seoul 151-742 Korea
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology; College of Veterinary Medicine; Seoul National University; Seoul 151-742 Korea
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- Laboratory of Wildlife Biology; Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine; Obihiro 080-8555 Japan
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- Conservation Genome Resource Bank for Korean Wildlife (CGRB) and Research Institute for Veterinary Science; College of Veterinary Medicine; Seoul National University; Seoul 151-742 Korea
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- Conservation Genome Resource Bank for Korean Wildlife (CGRB) and Research Institute for Veterinary Science; College of Veterinary Medicine; Seoul National University; Seoul 151-742 Korea
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology; College of Veterinary Medicine; Seoul National University; Seoul 151-742 Korea
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ASAHARA MASAKAZU, CHANG CHUNHSIANG, KIMURA JUNPEI, SON NGUYENTRUONG, TAKAI MASANARU. Re-examination of the fossil raccoon dog ( Nyctereutes procyonoides) from the Penghu channel, Taiwan, and an age estimation of the Penghu fauna. ANTHROPOL SCI 2015. [DOI: 10.1537/ase.150710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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- MASAKAZU ASAHARA
- Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Mie University, Tsu
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- Laboratory of Veterinary Anatomy and Cell Biology and Research Institute for Veterinary Science, College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Sciences and Technology, Hanoi
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Asahara M. Evolution of Relative Lower Molar Sizes Among Local Populations of the Raccoon Dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) in Japan. MAMMAL STUDY 2014. [DOI: 10.3106/041.039.0308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Shape variation in the Skull Within and Between Wild Populations of the Raccoon Dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) in Japan. MAMMAL STUDY 2014. [DOI: 10.3106/041.039.0206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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KIM SI, SUZUKI S, OH J, KOYABU D, OSHIDA T, LEE H, MIN MS, KIMURA J. Sexual Dimorphism of Craniodental Morphology in the Raccoon Dog Nyctereutes procyonoides from South Korea. J Vet Med Sci 2012; 74:1609-16. [DOI: 10.1292/jvms.12-0281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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- Sang-In KIM
- Conservation Genome Resource Bank for Korean Wildlife (CGRB), Research Institute for Veterinary Science, College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul 151–724, Korea
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul 151–742, Korea
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- The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto 606–8501, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul 151–742, Korea
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- The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto 606–8501, Japan
- Palaeontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Zurich 8006, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Wildlife Biology, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro 080–8555, Japan
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- Conservation Genome Resource Bank for Korean Wildlife (CGRB), Research Institute for Veterinary Science, College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul 151–724, Korea
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- Conservation Genome Resource Bank for Korean Wildlife (CGRB), Research Institute for Veterinary Science, College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul 151–724, Korea
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul 151–742, Korea
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Meiri S, Simberloff D, Dayan T. Community-wide character displacement in the presence of clines: A test of Holarctic weasel guilds. J Anim Ecol 2011; 80:824-34. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01827.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Kitao N, Fukui D, Hashimoto M, Osborne PG. Overwintering strategy of wild free-ranging and enclosure-housed Japanese raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides albus). INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY 2009; 53:159-165. [PMID: 19101736 DOI: 10.1007/s00484-008-0199-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2008] [Revised: 11/09/2008] [Accepted: 11/11/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The raccoon dog, Nyctereutes procyonoides, is a canid with a passive overwintering strategy in northern Europe. However, the behaviour and physiology of the Japanese subspecies, N. p. albus, which has fewer chromosomes than the other subspecies, remain unknown. We measured body temperature, body composition and blood biochemistry of wild free-ranging and fasted enclosure-housed N. p. albus during boreal winter in Hokkaido, Japan. Body temperature of N. p. albus decreased from 38 degrees C in autumn to 35.9-36.7 degrees C while maintaining a circadian rhythm in late February (n = 3). A transient 18-36% decrease in resting heart rate occurred when body temperature was low (n = 2). Despite a 33-45% decrease in body weight due to winter fasting, circulating glucose, total protein and triglyceride levels were maintained (n = 4). Serum urea nitrogen dropped by 43-45% from autumn to spring, suggesting protein conservation during fasting. The overwintering survival strategy of N. p. albus in central Hokkaido is based upon large changes in seasonal activity patterns, winter denning and communal housing without the large decrease in body temperature that is characteristic of subarctic animals exhibiting hibernation or torpor.
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- Naoya Kitao
- Department of Physiology, Asahikawa Medical College, Midorigaoka-higashi, Hokkaido, Japan.
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