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Magnussen E, Stensvold CR, Berg R, Jokelainen P, Haukisalmi V. Identification of the tapeworm Mosgovoyia pectinata (Anoplocephalidae) in Faroese mountain hares (Lepus timidus). INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY: PARASITES AND WILDLIFE 2023; 21:17-21. [PMID: 37025621 PMCID: PMC10070078 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijppaw.2023.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2022] [Revised: 03/17/2023] [Accepted: 03/17/2023] [Indexed: 03/22/2023]
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The mountain hares (Lepus timidus L., 1758) in the Faroe Islands, an archipelago located in the North Atlantic, are known to be commonly infected by tapeworms, the identity of which was unknown. The mountain hare, which now populates 15 of the 18 islands, was introduced from Norway in 1855. In this study, tapeworms collected from four mountain hares from four geographic areas of the Faroe Islands were subjected to molecular identification using the nuclear ribosomal DNA (28S), the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (cox1) and the NADH dehydrogenase subunit 1 (nad1) genes. The results indicate unambiguously that the tapeworms were Mosgovoyia pectinata (Goeze, 1782) (Cestoda: Anoplocephalidae sensu stricto). The phylogenetic position and origin of the Faroese M. pectinata are discussed. Given that the parasite is quite common in Norway, from where the mountain hares were introduced, it is conceivable that co-introduction of M. pectinata from Norway to the Faroe Islands took place. The phylogenetic analyses revealed high similarity of the M. pectinata sequences from three regions and the position of the Faroese isolate as the sister lineage of the isolates from Finland and East Siberia.
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Rodrigues NT, Saranholi BH, Angeloni TA, Pasqualotto N, Chiarello AG, Galetti Jr PM. DNA mini-barcoding of leporids using noninvasive fecal DNA samples and its significance for monitoring an invasive species. Ecol Evol 2020; 10:5219-5225. [PMID: 32607145 PMCID: PMC7319127 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [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: 04/23/2019] [Revised: 10/15/2019] [Accepted: 10/25/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Introduced in South America at the end of the 19th century, the European hare population has expanded dramatically and now represents a risk to native Brazilian forest rabbits. Monitoring the invasive Lepus europaeus and its coexistence with native Sylvilagus brasiliensis is a challenge that can be efficiently addressed by the use of molecular tools. This work describes a set of primers useful for amplifying three mini-barcodes for the molecular identification of both invasive and native leporid species using degraded fecal DNA. In addition, tests in silico indicate that these mini-barcodes can successfully amplify the DNA sequences of a number of leporids. These mini-barcodes constitute a powerful tool for the monitoring and management of the invasive L. europaeus and the conservation of native rabbits.
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- Nayra T. Rodrigues
- Departamento de Genética e EvoluçãoUniversidade Federal de São CarlosSão CarlosBrazil
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- Departamento de Genética e EvoluçãoUniversidade Federal de São CarlosSão CarlosBrazil
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- Departamento de Genética e EvoluçãoUniversidade Federal de São CarlosSão CarlosBrazil
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- Programa Interunidades de Pós‐Graduação em Ecologia Aplicada (PPGI‐EA)Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz” (ESALQ/USP) e Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA/USP)Universidade de São PauloPiracicabaBrazil
- Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão PretoUniversidade de São PauloRibeirão PretoSão PauloBrazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão PretoUniversidade de São PauloRibeirão PretoSão PauloBrazil
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- Departamento de Genética e EvoluçãoUniversidade Federal de São CarlosSão CarlosBrazil
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Loboda S, Buddle CM. Small to large-scale patterns of ground-dwelling spider (Araneae) diversity across northern Canada. Facets (Ott) 2018. [DOI: 10.1139/facets-2018-0007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We examined how Arctic spider (Araneae) biodiversity is distributed at multiple spatial scales in northern Canada using a standardized hierarchical sampling design. We investigated which drivers, environmental or spatial, influence the patterns observed. Spatial patterns of Arctic spider species richness and composition were assessed in 12 sites located in arctic, subarctic, and north boreal ecoclimatic regions, spanning 30 degrees of latitude and 80 degrees of longitude. Variation in diversity was partitioned in relation to multiple environmental and spatial drivers of diversity patterns. Over 23 000 adult spiders, representing 306 species in 14 families, were collected in northern Canada, with 107 species (35% of the total species collected) representing new territorial or provincial records. Spider diversity was structured at the regional scale across ecoclimatic regions but was not structured with latitude. Longitudinal patterns of spider diversity across Canada may be explained by post-glacial dispersal. At local scales, diversity was non-randomly distributed and possibly limited by biotic interactions. We recommend the use of ecoclimatic regions as a framework for conservation of biodiversity in northern Canada and spiders as useful bioindicators that can help us understand the effects of climate change across ecoclimatic regions of northern Canada.
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- Sarah Loboda
- Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Macdonald campus, McGill University, 21111 Lakeshore Road, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC H9X 3V9, Canada
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- Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Macdonald campus, McGill University, 21111 Lakeshore Road, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC H9X 3V9, Canada
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Szuma E. Evolutionary and climatic factors affecting tooth size in the red foxVulpes vulpes in the Holarctic. MAMMAL RES 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/bf03195193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Awadi A, Suchentrunk F, Makni M, Ben Slimen H. Variation of partial transferrin sequences and phylogenetic relationships among hares (Lepus capensis, Lagomorpha) from Tunisia. Genetica 2016; 144:497-512. [PMID: 27485731 DOI: 10.1007/s10709-016-9916-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2015] [Accepted: 07/11/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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North African hares are currently included in cape hares, Lepus capensis sensu lato, a taxon that may be considered a superspecies or a complex of closely related species. The existing molecular data, however, are not unequivocal, with mtDNA control region sequences suggesting a separate species status and nuclear loci (allozymes, microsatellites) revealing conspecificity of L. capensis and L. europaeus. Here, we study sequence variation in the intron 6 (468 bp) of the transferrin nuclear gene, of 105 hares with different coat colour from different regions in Tunisia with respect to genetic diversity and differentiation, as well as their phylogenetic status. Forty-six haplotypes (alleles) were revealed and compared phylogenetically to all available TF haplotypes of various Lepus species retrieved from GenBank. Maximum Likelihood, neighbor joining and median joining network analyses concordantly grouped all currently obtained haplotypes together with haplotypes belonging to six different Chinese hare species and the African scrub hare L. saxatilis. Moreover, two Tunisian haploypes were shared with L. capensis, L timidus, L. sinensis, L. yarkandensis, and L. hainanus from China. These results indicated the evolutionary complexity of the genus Lepus with the mixing of nuclear gene haplotypes resulting from introgressive hybridization or/and shared ancestral polymorphism. We report the presence of shared ancestral polymorphism between North African and Chinese hares. This has not been detected earlier in the mtDNA sequences of the same individuals. Genetic diversity of the TF sequences from the Tunisian populations was relatively high compared to other hare populations. However, genetic differentiation and gene flow analyses (AMOVA, FST, Nm) indicated little divergence with the absence of geographically meaningful phylogroups and lack of clustering with coat colour types. These results confirm the presence of a single hare species in Tunisia, but a sound inference on its phylogenetic position would require additional nuclear markers and numerous geographically meaningful samples from Africa and Eurasia.
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- Asma Awadi
- Unité de recherche Génomique des Insectes ravageurs des Cultures d'intérêt agronomique, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia.
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- Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Unité de recherche Génomique des Insectes ravageurs des Cultures d'intérêt agronomique, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Unité de recherche Génomique des Insectes ravageurs des Cultures d'intérêt agronomique, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
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Banguera-Hinestroza E, Hayano A, Crespo E, Hoelzel AR. Delphinid systematics and biogeography with a focus on the current genus Lagenorhynchus: multiple pathways for antitropical and trans-oceanic radiation. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2014; 80:217-30. [PMID: 25130419 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2013] [Revised: 07/20/2014] [Accepted: 08/03/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The six species currently classified within the genus Lagenorhynchus exhibit a pattern of antitropical distribution common among marine taxa. In spite of their morphological similarities they are now considered an artificial grouping, and include both recent and the oldest representatives of the Delphinidae radiation. They are, therefore, a good model for studying questions about the evolutionary processes that have driven dolphin speciation, dispersion and distribution. Here we used two different approaches. First we constructed a multigenic phylogeny with a minimum amount of missing data (based on 9 genes, 11,030bp, using the 6 species of the genus and their closest relatives) to infer their relationships. Second, we built a supermatrix phylogeny (based on 33 species and 27 genes) to test the effect of taxon sampling on the phylogeny of the genus, to provide inference on biogeographic history, and provide inference on the main events shaping the dispersion and radiation of delphinids. Our analyses suggested an early evolutionary history of marine dolphins in the North Atlantic Ocean and revealed multiple pathways of migration and radiation, probably guided by paleoceanographic changes during the Miocene and Pliocene. L. acutus and L. albirostris likely shared a common ancestor that arose in the North Atlantic around the Middle Miocene, predating the radiation of subfamilies Delphininae, Globicephalinae and Lissodelphininae.
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- Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8203, Japan
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- Centro Nacional Patagonico (CONICET), Blvd. Brown 3600 (9120), Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina
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- Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, University of Durham, South Road DH1 3LE, UK.
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Eidesen PB, Ehrich D, Bakkestuen V, Alsos IG, Gilg O, Taberlet P, Brochmann C. Genetic roadmap of the Arctic: plant dispersal highways, traffic barriers and capitals of diversity. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2013; 200:898-910. [PMID: 23869846 DOI: 10.1111/nph.12412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2013] [Accepted: 06/12/2013] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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We provide the first comparative multispecies analysis of spatial genetic structure and diversity in the circumpolar Arctic using a common strategy for sampling and genetic analyses. We aimed to identify and explain potential general patterns of genetic discontinuity/connectivity and diversity, and to compare our findings with previously published hypotheses. We collected and analyzed 7707 samples of 17 widespread arctic-alpine plant species for amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs). Genetic structure, diversity and distinctiveness were analyzed for each species, and extrapolated to cover the geographic range of each species. The resulting maps were overlaid to produce metamaps. The Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, the Greenlandic ice cap, the Urals, and lowland areas between southern mountain ranges and the Arctic were the strongest barriers against gene flow. Diversity was highest in Beringia and gradually decreased into formerly glaciated areas. The highest degrees of distinctiveness were observed in Siberia. We conclude that large-scale general patterns exist in the Arctic, shaped by the Pleistocene glaciations combined with long-standing physical barriers against gene flow. Beringia served as both refugium and source for interglacial (re)colonization, whereas areas further west in Siberia served as refugia, but less as sources for (re)colonization.
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- Pernille Bronken Eidesen
- National Centre for Biosystematics, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, PO Box 1172, Blindern, NO-0318, Oslo, Norway
- The University Centre in Svalbard, PO Box 156, NO-9171, Longyearbyen, Norway
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- National Centre for Biosystematics, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, PO Box 1172, Blindern, NO-0318, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Biology, University of Tromsø, NO-9037, Tromsø, Norway
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- National Centre for Biosystematics, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, PO Box 1172, Blindern, NO-0318, Oslo, Norway
- NINA, Gaustadalleen 21, NO-0349, Oslo, Norway
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- National Centre for Biosystematics, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, PO Box 1172, Blindern, NO-0318, Oslo, Norway
- Tromsø University Museum, NO-9037, Tromsø, Norway
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- Laboratoire Biogéosciences, UMR CNRS 5561, Université de Bourgogne, 21000, Dijon, France
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- Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Université Joseph Fourier, PO Box 53, F-38041, Grenoble Cedex 09, France
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- National Centre for Biosystematics, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, PO Box 1172, Blindern, NO-0318, Oslo, Norway
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Canu A, Scandura M, Luchetti S, Cossu A, Iacolina L, Bazzanti M, Apollonio M. Influence of management regime and population history on genetic diversity and population structure of brown hares (Lepus europaeus) in an Italian province. EUR J WILDLIFE RES 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s10344-013-0731-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Kim SI, An J, Choi SK, Lee YS, Park HC, Kimura J, Kim KS, Min MS, Lee H. Development and characterization of nine microsatellite loci from the Korean hare (Lepus coreanus) and genetic diversity in South Korea. Anim Cells Syst (Seoul) 2012. [DOI: 10.1080/19768354.2011.640351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022] Open
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Hoberg EP, Galbreath KE, Cook JA, Kutz SJ, Polley L. Northern host-parasite assemblages: history and biogeography on the borderlands of episodic climate and environmental transition. ADVANCES IN PARASITOLOGY 2012; 79:1-97. [PMID: 22726642 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-398457-9.00001-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Diversity among assemblages of mammalian hosts and parasites in northern terrestrial ecosystems was structured by a deep history of biotic and abiotic change that overlies a complex geographic arena. Since the Pliocene, Holarctic ecosystems assembled in response to shifting climates (glacial and interglacial stages). Cycles of episodic dispersal/isolation and diversification defined northern diversity on landscape to regional scales. Episodes of geographic expansion and colonisation linked Eurasia and North America across Beringia and drove macroevolutionary structure of host and parasite associations. Asynchronous dispersal from centres of origin in Eurasia into the Nearctic resulted in gradients in parasite diversity in the carnivoran, lagomorph, rodent and artiodactyl assemblages we reviewed. Recurrent faunal interchange and isolation in conjunction with episodes of host colonisation have produced a mosaic structure for parasite faunas and considerable cryptic diversity among nematodes and cestodes. Mechanisms of invasion and geographic colonisation leading to the establishment of complex faunal assemblages are equivalent in evolutionary and ecological time, as demonstrated by various explorations of diversity in these high-latitude systems. Our ability to determine historical responses to episodic shifts in global climate may provide a framework for predicting the cascading effects of contemporary environmental change.
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Hope AG, Waltari E, Dokuchaev NE, Abramov S, Dupal T, Tsvetkova A, Henttonen H, MacDonald SO, Cook JA. High-latitude diversification within Eurasian least shrews and Alaska tiny shrews (Soricidae). J Mammal 2010. [DOI: 10.1644/09-mamm-a-402.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Zachos FE, Ben Slimen H, Hackländer K, Giacometti M, Suchentrunk F. Regional genetic
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differentiation despite phylogenetic heterogeneity in Alpine mountain hares. J Zool (1987) 2010. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2010.00710.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- F. E. Zachos
- Zoological Institute, Christian‐Albrechts‐University, Kiel, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Immunologie et Biotechnologie, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Campus Universitaire El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, Institute of Wildlife Biology and Game Management, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
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PROST S, KNAPP M, FLEMMIG J, HUFTHAMMER AK, KOSINTSEV P, STILLER M, HOFREITER M. SHORT COMMUNICATION: A phantom extinction? New insights into extinction dynamics of the Don-hare Lepus tanaiticus. J Evol Biol 2010; 23:2022-9. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02062.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [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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Alves PC, Melo-Ferreira J, Branco M, Suchentrunk F, Ferrand N, Harris DJ. Evidence for genetic similarity of two allopatric European hares (Lepus corsicanus and L. castroviejoi) inferred from nuclear DNA sequences. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2007; 46:1191-7. [PMID: 18178109 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2007] [Revised: 11/02/2007] [Accepted: 11/15/2007] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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- P C Alves
- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal.
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Johnson JA, Burnham KK, Burnham WA, Mindell DP. Genetic structure among continental and island populations of gyrfalcons. Mol Ecol 2007; 16:3145-60. [PMID: 17651193 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2007.03373.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Little is known about the possible influence that past glacial events have had on the phylogeography and population structure of avian predators in the Arctic and sub-Arctic. In this study, we use microsatellite and mitochondrial control region DNA variation to investigate the population genetic structure of gyrfalcons (Falco rusticolus) throughout a large portion of their circumpolar distribution. In most locations sampled, the mtDNA data revealed little geographic structure; however, five out of eight mtDNA haplotypes were unique to a particular geographic area (Greenland, Iceland, or Alaska) and the Iceland population differed from others based on haplotype frequency differences (F(ST)). With the microsatellite results, significant population structure (F(ST), principal components analysis, and cluster analysis) was observed identifying Greenland and Iceland as separate populations, while Norway, Alaska and Canada were identified as a single population consistent with contemporary gene flow across Russia. Within Greenland, differing levels of gene flow between western and eastern sampling locations was indicated with apparent asymmetric dispersal in western Greenland from north to south. This dispersal bias is in agreement with the distribution of plumage colour variants with white gyrfalcons in much higher proportion in northern Greenland. Lastly, because the mtDNA control region sequence differed by only one to four nucleotides from a common haplotype among all gyrfalcons, we infer that the observed microsatellite population genetic structure has developed since the last glacial maximum. This conclusion is further supported by our finding that a closely related species, the saker falcon (Falco cherrug), has greater genetic heterogeneity, including mtDNA haplotypes differing by 1-16 nucleotide substitutions from a common gyrfalcon haplotype. This is consistent with gyrfalcons having expanded rapidly from a single glacial-age refugium to their current circumpolar distribution. Additional sampling of gyrfalcons from Fennoscandia and Russia throughout Siberia is necessary to test putative gene flow between Norway and Alaska and Canada as suggested by this study.
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- Jeff A Johnson
- The Peregrine Fund, 5668 West Flying Hawk Lane, Boise, ID 83709, USA.
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Angelici FM, Luiselli L. Body Size and Altitude Partitioning of the Hares Lepus Europaeus and L. Corsicanus Living in Sympatry and Allopatry in Italy. WILDLIFE BIOLOGY 2007. [DOI: 10.2981/0909-6396(2007)13[251:bsaapo]2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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Phylogenetic analysis of mtCR-1 sequences of Tunisian and Egyptian hares (Lepus sp. or spp., Lagomorpha) with different coat colours. Mamm Biol 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2006.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Scandura M, Iacolina L, Ben Slimen H, Suchentrunk F, Apollonio M. Mitochondrial CR-1 Variation in Sardinian Hares and Its Relationships with Other Old World Hares (Genus Lepus). Biochem Genet 2007; 45:305-23. [PMID: 17333330 DOI: 10.1007/s10528-007-9076-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2006] [Accepted: 10/31/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Among the European fauna, the Sardinian hare (Lepus sp.) is peculiar in that it differs from all other hares inhabiting the continent. Here, we report on the variation of a 461 bp sequence of hypervariable domain 1 of the mitochondrial control region, examined in 42 hares collected throughout Sardinia and compared to the corresponding sequences of different Lepus taxa. Seventeen novel haplotypes were found in the Sardinian population, resulting in a haplotype diversity of 0.840 and a nucleotide diversity of 0.012. As a result of Bayesian and principal coordinates analyses, Sardinian hares were grouped with North African hares, constituting a monophyletic clade that diverges from all other Old World hares, including Cape hares from South Africa and East Asia. Hence, our data agree that populations inhabiting North Africa and Sardinia form a distinct taxon, which could possibly be included in the L. capensis superspecies. Moreover, two corresponding lineages can be found in Sardinia and Tunisia, providing evidence of a common origin of the two populations and thus supporting the hypothesis that North African hares were introduced into the island in historical times. Our data show that the two lineages differ in their geographic distribution throughout the island and that the wild Sardinian population also shows the signature of a postintroduction demographic expansion.
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- Massimo Scandura
- Department of Zoology and Evolutionary Genetics, University of Sassari, Via Muroni 25, I-07100 Sassari, Italy.
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Putze M, Nürnberg S, Fickel J. Y-chromosomal markers for the European brown hare (Lepus europaeus, Pallas 1778). EUR J WILDLIFE RES 2007. [DOI: 10.1007/s10344-007-0093-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Hamill RM, Doyle D, Duke EJ. Spatial patterns of genetic diversity across European subspecies of the mountain hare, Lepus timidus L. Heredity (Edinb) 2006; 97:355-65. [PMID: 16896342 DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Fossil evidence shows that populations of species that currently inhabit arctic and boreal regions were not isolated in refugia during glacial periods, but instead maintained populations across large areas of central Europe. These species commonly display little reduction in genetic diversity in northern areas of their range, in contrast to many temperate species. The mountain hare currently inhabits both temperate and arctic-boreal regions. We used nuclear microsatellite and mtDNA sequence data to examine population structure and alternate phylogeographic hypotheses for the mountain hare, that is, temperate type (lower genetic diversity in northern areas) and arctic-boreal type (high northern genetic diversity). Both data sets revealed concordant patterns. Highest allelic richness, expected heterozygosity and mtDNA haplotype diversity were identified in the most northerly subspecies, indicating that this species more closely maps to phylogeographic patterns observed in arctic-boreal rather than temperate species. With regard to population structure, the Alpine and Fennoscandian subspecies were most genetically similar (F(ST) approximately 0.1). These subspecies also clustered together on the mtDNA tree and were assigned with highest likelihood to a common Bayesian cluster. This is consistent with fossil evidence for intermediate populations in the central European plain, persisting well into the postglacial period. In contrast, the geographically close Scottish and Irish populations occupied separate Bayesian clusters, distinct clades on the mtDNA maximum likelihood tree and were genetically divergent from each other (F(ST) > 0.4) indicating the influence of genetic drift, long isolation (possibly dating from the late glacial era) and/or separate postglacial colonisation routes.
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- R M Hamill
- UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
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Alves PC, Harris DJ, Melo-Ferreira J, Branco M, Ferrand N, Suchentrunk F, Melo-Ferreira J, Boursot P. Hares on thin ice: Introgression of mitochondrial DNA in hares and its implications for recent phylogenetic analyses. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2006; 40:640-1. [PMID: 16624594 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.02.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2005] [Revised: 01/19/2006] [Accepted: 02/19/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Cook JA, Hoberg EP, Koehler A, Henttonen H, Wickström L, Haukisalmi V, Galbreath K, Chernyavski F, Dokuchaev N, Lahzuhtkin A, MacDonald SO, Hope A, Waltari E, Runck A, Veitch A, Popko R, Jenkins E, Kutz S, Eckerlin R. Beringia: Intercontinental exchange and diversification of high latitude mammals and their parasites during the Pliocene and Quaternary. MAMMAL STUDY 2005. [DOI: 10.3106/1348-6160(2005)30[33:bieado]2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Waltari E, Cook JA. Hares on ice: phylogeography and historical demographics of Lepus arcticus, L. othus, and L. timidus (Mammalia: Lagomorpha). Mol Ecol 2005; 14:3005-16. [PMID: 16101770 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2005.02625.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
Abstract
Phylogeographical investigations of arctic organisms provide spatial and temporal frameworks for interpreting the role of climate change on biotic diversity in high-latitude ecosystems. Phylogenetic analyses were conducted on 473 base pairs of the mitochondrial control region in 192 arctic hares (Lepus arcticus, Lepus othus, Lepus timidus) and two individual Lepus townsendii. The three arctic hare species are closely related. All L. othus individuals form one well-supported clade, L. arcticus individuals form two well-supported clades, and L. timidus individuals are scattered throughout the phylogeny. Arctic hare distribution was altered dramatically following post-Pleistocene recession of continental ice sheets. We tested for genetic signatures of population expansion for hare populations now found in deglaciated areas. Historical demographic estimates for 12 arctic hare populations from throughout their range indicate that L. arcticus and L. othus persisted in two separate North American arctic refugia (Beringia and High Canadian Arctic) during glacial advances of the Pleistocene, while the high genetic diversity in L. timidus likely reflects multiple Eurasian refugia.
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Affiliation(s)
- Eric Waltari
- Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83209-8007, USA.
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