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Hansen CCR, Láruson ÁJ, Rasmussen JA, Ballesteros JAC, Sinding MHS, Hallgrimsson GT, von Schmalensee M, Stefansson RA, Skarphédinsson KH, Labansen AL, Leivits M, Sonne C, Dietz R, Skelmose K, Boertmann D, Eulaers I, Martin MD, Helgason AS, Gilbert MTP, Pálsson S. Genomic diversity and differentiation between island and mainland populations of white-tailed eagles (Haliaeetus albicilla). Mol Ecol 2023; 32:1925-1942. [PMID: 36680370 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2021] [Revised: 01/03/2023] [Accepted: 01/13/2023] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
Abstract
Divergence in the face of high dispersal capabilities is a documented but poorly understood phenomenon. The white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) has a large geographic dispersal capability and should theoretically be able to maintain genetic homogeneity across its dispersal range. However, following analysis of the genomic variation of white-tailed eagles, from both historical and contemporary samples, clear signatures of ancient biogeographic substructure across Europe and the North-East Atlantic is observed. The greatest genomic differentiation was observed between island (Greenland and Iceland) and mainland (Denmark, Norway and Estonia) populations. The two island populations share a common ancestry from a single mainland population, distinct from the other sampled mainland populations, and despite the potential for high connectivity between Iceland and Greenland they are well separated from each other and are characterized by inbreeding and little variation. Temporal differences also highlight a pattern of regional populations persisting despite the potential for admixture. All sampled populations generally showed a decline in effective population size over time, which may have been shaped by four historical events: (1) Isolation of refugia during the last glacial period 110-115,000 years ago, (2) population divergence following the colonization of the deglaciated areas ~10,000 years ago, (3) human population expansion, which led to the settlement in Iceland ~1100 years ago, and (4) human persecution and exposure to toxic pollutants during the last two centuries.
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- Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.,Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics, The Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.,Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics, The Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.,deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.,Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics, The Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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Verhoeven MA, Loonstra AHJ, McBride AD, Kaspersma W, Hooijmeijer JCEW, Both C, Senner NR, Piersma T. Age-dependent timing and routes demonstrate developmental plasticity in a long-distance migratory bird. J Anim Ecol 2021; 91:566-579. [PMID: 34822170 PMCID: PMC9299929 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2020] [Accepted: 11/18/2021] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
Abstract
Longitudinal tracking studies have revealed consistent differences in the migration patterns of individuals from the same populations. The sources or processes causing this individual variation are largely unresolved. As a result, it is mostly unknown how much, how fast and when animals can adjust their migrations to changing environments. We studied the ontogeny of migration in a long‐distance migratory shorebird, the black‐tailed godwit Limosa limosa limosa, a species known to exhibit marked individuality in the migratory routines of adults. By observing how and when these individual differences arise, we aimed to elucidate whether individual differences in migratory behaviour are inherited or emerge as a result of developmental plasticity. We simultaneously tracked juvenile and adult godwits from the same breeding area on their south‐ and northward migrations. To determine how and when individual differences begin to arise, we related juvenile migration routes, timing and mortality rates to hatch date and hatch year. Then, we compared adult and juvenile migration patterns to identify potential age‐dependent differences. In juveniles, the timing of their first southward departure was related to hatch date. However, their subsequent migration routes, orientation, destination, migratory duration and likelihood of mortality were unrelated to the year or timing of migration, or their sex. Juveniles left the Netherlands after all tracked adults. They then flew non‐stop to West Africa more often and incurred higher mortality rates than adults. Some juveniles also took routes and visited stopover sites far outside the well‐documented adult migratory corridor. Such juveniles, however, were not more likely to die. We found that juveniles exhibited different migratory patterns than adults, but no evidence that these behaviours are under natural selection. We thus eliminate the possibility that the individual differences observed among adult godwits are present at hatch or during their first migration. This adds to the mounting evidence that animals possess the developmental plasticity to change their migration later in life in response to environmental conditions as those conditions are experienced.
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- Mo A Verhoeven
- Conservation Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Conservation Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Conservation Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Conservation Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Conservation Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Conservation Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Conservation Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Conservation Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.,Department of Coastal Systems, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, The Netherlands
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Lawson DM, Williams CK, Lavretsky P, Howell DL, Fuller JC. Mallard–Black Duck Hybridization and Population Genetic Structure in North Carolina. J Wildl Manage 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.22085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Daniel M. Lawson
- University of Delaware, 531 South College Avenue Newark DE 19716 USA
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- University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W University Avenue El Paso TX 79968 USA
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- North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission 132 Marine Drive Edenton NC 27699 USA
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- North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission 132 Marine Drive Edenton NC 27699 USA
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Sakurayama S, Nojima D, Yoshizawa M, Takeuchi T, Ito M, Kitano T. Genetic diversity of two populations of the tufted puffin Fratercula cirrhata (Pallas, 1769). Genes Genet Syst 2021; 96:119-128. [PMID: 34135205 DOI: 10.1266/ggs.20-00051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The tufted puffin Fratercula cirrhata (Charadriiformes: Alcidae) is distributed throughout the boreal and low Arctic areas of the North Pacific, from California, USA to Hokkaido, Japan. Few studies have investigated the genetic diversity of this species. Therefore, we analyzed the genetic diversity of two captive populations using nucleotide sequences of two mitochondrial loci (COX1 and D-loop) and one nuclear locus (RHBG). We sequenced these loci for birds from Tokyo Sea Life Park (Kasai Rinkai Suizokuen), originally from Alaska, and birds from Aqua World Oarai, originally from far eastern Russia. We found five COX1 haplotypes and 17 D-loop haplotypes for the mitochondrial loci, and obtained 14 predicted haplotypes for the nuclear RHBG locus. The major haplotypes of all three loci occurred in individuals from both populations. Thus, there were no clear genetic differences between the populations with respect to these three loci. Although the breeding range of the tufted puffin covers the boreal and low Arctic from California to Hokkaido, our results suggest that the species has not genetically diverged within its breeding range.
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University
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Tan HZ, Ng EYX, Tang Q, Allport GA, Jansen JJFJ, Tomkovich PS, Rheindt FE. Population genomics of two congeneric Palaearctic shorebirds reveals differential impacts of Quaternary climate oscillations across habitats types. Sci Rep 2019; 9:18172. [PMID: 31796810 PMCID: PMC6890745 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-54715-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2019] [Accepted: 11/08/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Intracontinental biotic divisions across the vast Palaearctic region are not well-characterized. Past research has revealed patterns ranging from a lack of population structure to deep divergences along varied lines of separation. Here we compared biogeographic patterns of two Palaearctic shorebirds with different habitat preferences, Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) and Eurasian curlew (N. arquata). Using genome-wide markers from populations across the Palaearctic, we applied a multitude of population genomic and phylogenomic approaches to elucidate population structure. Most importantly, we tested for isolation by distance and visualized barriers and corridors to gene flow. We found shallow Palaearctic population structure in subpolar bog and tundra-breeding whimbrels, consistent with other species breeding at a similarly high latitude, indicating connectivity across the tundra belt, both presently and during southward shifts in periods of global cooling. In contrast, the temperate grassland-breeding Eurasian curlew emerged in three distinct clades corresponding to glacial refugia. Barriers to gene flow coincided with areas of topographic relief in the central Palaearctic for whimbrels and further east for Eurasian curlews. Our findings highlight the interplay of historic and ecological factors in influencing present-day population structure of Palaearctic biota.
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- Hui Zhen Tan
- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 16 Science Drive 4, Singapore, 117558, Singapore
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- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 16 Science Drive 4, Singapore, 117558, Singapore
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- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 16 Science Drive 4, Singapore, 117558, Singapore
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- BirdLife International, The David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QZ, UK
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Zoological Museum, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Bolshaya Nikitskaya Str. 2, Moscow, 125009, Russia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 16 Science Drive 4, Singapore, 117558, Singapore.
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