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Kunde MN, Barlow A, Klittich AM, Yakupova A, Patel RP, Fickel J, Förster DW. First mitogenome phylogeny of the sun bear Helarctos malayanus reveals a deep split between Indochinese and Sundaic lineages. Ecol Evol 2023; 13:e9969. [PMID: 37082317 PMCID: PMC10111171 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2022] [Revised: 03/04/2023] [Accepted: 03/14/2023] [Indexed: 04/22/2023] Open
Abstract
The sun bear Helarctos malayanus is one of the most endangered ursids, and to date classification of sun bear populations has been based almost exclusively on geographic distribution and morphology. The very few molecular studies focussing on this species were limited in geographic scope. Using archival and non-invasively collected sample material, we have added a substantial number of complete or near-complete mitochondrial genome sequences from sun bears of several range countries of the species' distribution. We here report 32 new mitogenome sequences representing sun bears from Cambodia, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo. Reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships revealed two matrilines that diverged ~295 thousand years ago: one restricted to portions of mainland Indochina (China, Cambodia, Thailand; "Mainland clade"), and one comprising bears from Borneo, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia but also Thailand ("Sunda clade"). Generally recent coalescence times in the mitochondrial phylogeny suggest that recent or historical demographic processes have resulted in a loss of mtDNA variation. Additionally, analysis of our data in conjunction with shorter mtDNA sequences revealed that the Bornean sun bear, classified as a distinct subspecies (H. m. euryspilus), does not harbor a distinctive matriline. Further molecular studies of H. malayanus are needed, which should ideally include data from nuclear loci.
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- Miriam N. Kunde
- Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife ResearchAlfred‐Kowalke‐Str. 1710315BerlinGermany
- School of EnvironmentGriffith UniversityNathan Campus, 170 Kessels Road, NathanBrisbaneQueensland4111Australia
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- School of Natural SciencesBangor UniversityBangorGwyneddLL57 2DGUK
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- Institute for Biochemistry and BiologyUniversity of PotsdamKarl‐Liebknecht‐Str. 24–2514476PotsdamGermany
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- Computer Technologies LaboratoryITMO University197101Saint PetersburgRussia
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- Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife ResearchAlfred‐Kowalke‐Str. 1710315BerlinGermany
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- Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife ResearchAlfred‐Kowalke‐Str. 1710315BerlinGermany
- Institute for Biochemistry and BiologyUniversity of PotsdamKarl‐Liebknecht‐Str. 24–2514476PotsdamGermany
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- Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife ResearchAlfred‐Kowalke‐Str. 1710315BerlinGermany
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Yakupova A, Tomarovsky A, Totikov A, Beklemisheva V, Logacheva M, Perelman PL, Komissarov A, Dobrynin P, Krasheninnikova K, Tamazian G, Serdyukova NA, Rayko M, Bulyonkova T, Cherkasov N, Pylev V, Peterfeld V, Penin A, Balanovska E, Lapidus A, OBrien SJ, Graphodatsky A, Koepfli KP, Kliver S. Chromosome-Length Assembly of the Baikal Seal (Pusa sibirica) Genome Reveals a Historically Large Population Prior to Isolation in Lake Baikal. Genes (Basel) 2023; 14:genes14030619. [PMID: 36980891 PMCID: PMC10048373 DOI: 10.3390/genes14030619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2022] [Revised: 01/31/2023] [Accepted: 02/24/2023] [Indexed: 03/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Pusa sibirica, the Baikal seal, is the only extant, exclusively freshwater, pinniped species. The pending issue is, how and when they reached their current habitat—the rift lake Baikal, more than three thousand kilometers away from the Arctic Ocean. To explore the demographic history and genetic diversity of this species, we generated a de novo chromosome-length assembly, and compared it with three closely related marine pinniped species. Multiple whole genome alignment of the four species compared with their karyotypes showed high conservation of chromosomal features, except for three large inversions on chromosome VI. We found the mean heterozygosity of the studied Baikal seal individuals was relatively low (0.61 SNPs/kbp), but comparable to other analyzed pinniped samples. Demographic reconstruction of seals revealed differing trajectories, yet remarkable variations in Ne occurred during approximately the same time periods. The Baikal seal showed a significantly more severe decline relative to other species. This could be due to the difference in environmental conditions encountered by the earlier populations of Baikal seals, as ice sheets changed during glacial–interglacial cycles. We connect this period to the time of migration to Lake Baikal, which occurred ~3–0.3 Mya, after which the population stabilized, indicating balanced habitat conditions.
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- Aliya Yakupova
- Computer Technologies Laboratory, ITMO University, 19701 Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Correspondence: (A.Y.); (A.G.)
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- Computer Technologies Laboratory, ITMO University, 19701 Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
- Department of the Diversity and Evolution of Genomes, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology SB RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Computer Technologies Laboratory, ITMO University, 19701 Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
- Department of the Diversity and Evolution of Genomes, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology SB RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Department of the Diversity and Evolution of Genomes, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology SB RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, 121205 Moscow, Russia
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- Department of the Diversity and Evolution of Genomes, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology SB RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Applied Genomics Laboratory, SCAMT Institute, ITMO University, 9 Ulitsa Lomonosova, 191002 Saint Petersburg, Russia
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- Computer Technologies Laboratory, ITMO University, 19701 Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Human Genetics Laboratory, Vavilov Institute of General Genetics RAS, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Centre for Computational Biology, Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University, 195251 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of the Diversity and Evolution of Genomes, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology SB RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Center for Bioinformatics and Algorithmic Biotechnology, St. Petersburg State University, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Laboratory of Mixed Computations, A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems SB RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Centre for Computational Biology, Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University, 195251 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Laboratory of Human Population Genetics, Research Centre for Medical Genetics, 115522 Moscow, Russia
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- Baikal Branch of State Research and Industrial Center of Fisheries, 670034 Ulan-Ude, Russia
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- Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 127051 Moscow, Russia
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- Laboratory of Human Population Genetics, Research Centre for Medical Genetics, 115522 Moscow, Russia
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- Center for Bioinformatics and Algorithmic Biotechnology, St. Petersburg State University, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- The Center for Genome Architecture, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center, Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, NOVA Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33004, USA
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- Department of the Diversity and Evolution of Genomes, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology SB RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
- Correspondence: (A.Y.); (A.G.)
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- Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation, George Mason University, 1500 Remount Road, Front Royal, VA 22630, USA
- Center for Species Survival, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, 1500 Remount Road, Front Royal, VA 22630, USA
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- Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics, The Globe Institute, The University of Copenhagen, 5A, Oester Farimagsgade, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark
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