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Renaud S, Delépine C, Ledevin R, Pisanu B, Quéré J, Hardouin EA. A sharp incisor tool for predator house mice back to the wild. J ZOOL SYST EVOL RES 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Sabrina Renaud
- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive UMR5558 CNRS Université Lyon 1 Villeurbanne France
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- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive UMR5558 CNRS Université Lyon 1 Villeurbanne France
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- Centre d’Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation, UMR 7204, Sorbonne Universités Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris France
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- Centre de Biologie et Gestion des Populations (INRA/IRD/Cirad/Montpellier SupAgro) Montferrier‐sur‐Lez Cedex France
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- Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology Bournemouth University Poole UK
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Yuan S, Fu H, Wu X, Yang S, Malqin X, Yue X. Effects of grazing on the northern three-toed jerboa pre- and post-hibernation. J Wildl Manage 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.21550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Shuai Yuan
- College of Grassland; Resources and Environment; Inner Mongolia Agricultural University; 29 Erdos East Street, Saihan District Hohhot Inner Mongolia 010011 P. R. China
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- College of Grassland; Resources and Environment; Inner Mongolia Agricultural University; 29 Erdos East Street, Saihan District Hohhot Inner Mongolia 010011 P. R. China
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- College of Grassland; Resources and Environment; Inner Mongolia Agricultural University; 29 Erdos East Street, Saihan District Hohhot Inner Mongolia 010011 P. R. China
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- College of Grassland; Resources and Environment; Inner Mongolia Agricultural University; 29 Erdos East Street, Saihan District Hohhot Inner Mongolia 010011 P. R. China
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- College of Grassland; Resources and Environment; Inner Mongolia Agricultural University; 29 Erdos East Street, Saihan District Hohhot Inner Mongolia 010011 P. R. China
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- Institute of Forestry Monitoring and Planning of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region; Hohhot 010020 P. R. China
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Renaud S, Ledevin R, Pisanu B, Chapuis JL, Quillfeldt P, Hardouin EA. Divergent in shape and convergent in function: Adaptive evolution of the mandible in Sub-Antarctic mice. Evolution 2018. [PMID: 29528493 DOI: 10.1111/evo.13467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Convergent evolution in similar environments constitutes strong evidence of adaptive evolution. Transported with people around the world, house mice colonized even remote areas, such as Sub-Antarctic islands. There, they returned to a feral way of life, shifting towards a diet enriched in terrestrial macroinvertebrates. Here, we test the hypothesis that this triggered convergent evolution of the mandible, a morphological character involved in food consumption. Mandible shape from four Sub-Antarctic islands was compared to phylogeny, tracing the history of colonization, and climatic conditions. Mandible shape was primarily influenced by phylogenetic history, thus discarding the hypothesis of convergent evolution. The biomechanical properties of the jaw were then investigated. Incisor in-lever and temporalis out-lever suggested an increase in the velocity of incisor biting, in agreement with observations on various carnivorous and insectivorous rodents. The mechanical advantage related to incisor biting also revealed an increased functional performance in Sub-Antarctic populations, and appears to be an adaptation to catch prey more efficiently. The amount of change involved was larger than expected for a plastic response, suggesting microevolutionary processes were evolved. This study thus denotes some degree of adaptive convergent evolution related to changes in habitat-related changes in dietary items in Sub-Antarctic mice, but only regarding simple, functionally relevant aspects of mandible morphology.
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- Sabrina Renaud
- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR 5558, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, Campus de la Doua, F-69100 Villeurbanne, France
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- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR 5558, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, Campus de la Doua, F-69100 Villeurbanne, France.,Current Address: UMR5199 PACEA, Université de Bordeaux, Allée Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, Bâtiment B8, F-33615 Pessac, France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation, UMR 7204, Sorbonne Universités, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 61 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation, UMR 7204, Sorbonne Universités, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 61 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Justus-Liebig-Universität, AG Verhaltensökologie und Ökophysiologie der Tiere, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 38, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Bournemouth University, Christchurch House, Talbot Campus, Poole, Dorset, BH12 5BB, United Kingdom
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McClelland GTW, Altwegg R, van Aarde RJ, Ferreira S, Burger AE, Chown SL. Climate change leads to increasing population density and impacts of a key island invader. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS : A PUBLICATION OF THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2018; 28:212-224. [PMID: 29055070 DOI: 10.1002/eap.1642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2017] [Accepted: 10/02/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The considerable threats of invasive rodents to island biodiversity are likely to be compounded by climate change. Forecasts for such interactions have been most pronounced for the Southern Ocean islands where ameliorating conditions are expected to decrease thermal and resource restrictions on rodents. Firm evidence for changing rodent populations in response to climate change, and demonstrations of associated impacts on the terrestrial environment, are nonetheless entirely absent for the region. Using data collected over three decades on sub-Antarctic Marion Island, we tested empirically whether mouse populations have changed through time and whether these changes can be associated significantly with changing abiotic conditions. Changes in invertebrate populations, which have previously been attributed to mouse predation, but with little explicit demographic analysis, were also examined to determine whether they can be associated with changing mouse populations. The total number of mice on the island at annual peak density increased by 430.0% between 1979-1980 and 2008-2011. This increase was due to an advanced breeding season, which was robustly related to the number of precipitation-free days during the non-breeding season. Mice directly reduced invertebrate densities, with biomass losses of up to two orders of magnitude in some habitats. Such invertebrate declines are expected to have significant consequences for ecosystem processes over the long term. Our results demonstrate that as climate change continues to create ameliorating conditions for invasive rodents on sub-Antarctic islands, the severity of their impacts will increase. They also emphasize the importance of rodent eradication for the restoration of invaded islands.
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- Gregory T W McClelland
- Department of Botany and Zoology, Centre for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa
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- Department of Statistical Sciences, Centre for Statistics in Ecology, Environment and Conservation, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa
- African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa
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- Conservation Ecology Research Unit, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, Pretoria, 0083, South Africa
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- Conservation Ecology Research Unit, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, Pretoria, 0083, South Africa
- Scientific Services, SANParks, Kruger National Park, South Africa
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- Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 3N5, Canada
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, 3800, Australia
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Ledevin R, Chevret P, Ganem G, Britton-Davidian J, Hardouin EA, Chapuis JL, Pisanu B, da Luz Mathias M, Schlager S, Auffray JC, Renaud S. Phylogeny and adaptation shape the teeth of insular mice. Proc Biol Sci 2017; 283:rspb.2015.2820. [PMID: 26842576 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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By accompanying human travels since prehistorical times, the house mouse dispersed widely throughout the world, and colonized many islands. The origin of the travellers determined the phylogenetic source of the insular mice, which encountered diverse ecological and environmental conditions on the various islands. Insular mice are thus an exceptional model to disentangle the relative role of phylogeny, ecology and climate in evolution. Molar shape is known to vary according to phylogeny and to respond to adaptation. Using for the first time a three-dimensional geometric morphometric approach, compared with a classical two-dimensional quantification, the relative effects of size variation, phylogeny, climate and ecology were investigated on molar shape diversity across a variety of islands. Phylogeny emerged as the factor of prime importance in shaping the molar. Changes in competition level, mostly driven by the presence or absence of the wood mouse on the different islands, appeared as the second most important effect. Climate and size differences accounted for slight shape variation. This evidences a balanced role of random differentiation related to history of colonization, and of adaptation possibly related to resource exploitation.
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- Ronan Ledevin
- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR 5558, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, Campus de la Doua, Villeurbanne 69622, France
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- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR 5558, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, Campus de la Doua, Villeurbanne 69622, France
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, UMR 5554, Université Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier 34095, France
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, UMR 5554, Université Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier 34095, France
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- Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Bournemouth University, Christchurch House, Talbot Campus, Poole, Dorset BH12 5BB, UK
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation, UMR 7204, Muséum National d'Histoire, Naturelle, 61 rue Buffon, Paris 75005, France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation, UMR 7204, Muséum National d'Histoire, Naturelle, 61 rue Buffon, Paris 75005, France
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- Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e Mar and Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, Lisboa 1749-016, Portugal
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- Anthropologie, Medizinische Fakultät der Albert Ludwigs, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg 79104, Germany
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, UMR 5554, Université Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier 34095, France
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- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR 5558, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, Campus de la Doua, Villeurbanne 69622, France
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Parker GC, Black A, Rexer-Huber K, Sommer E, Cuthbert RJ. Low population density and biology of an island population of house mice Mus musculus on South Georgia. Polar Biol 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s00300-015-1831-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Treasure AM, Chown SL. Antagonistic effects of biological invasion and temperature change on body size of island ectotherms. DIVERS DISTRIB 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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- Anne M. Treasure
- Centre for Invasion Biology; Department of Botany and Zoology; Stellenbosch University; Private Bag X1 Matieland 7602 South Africa
- Department of Oceanography; University of Cape Town; Rondebosch 7701 South Africa
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- Centre for Invasion Biology; Department of Botany and Zoology; Stellenbosch University; Private Bag X1 Matieland 7602 South Africa
- School of Biological Sciences; Monash University; Victoria 3800 Australia
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Renaud S, Hardouin EA, Pisanu B, Chapuis JL. Invasive house mice facing a changing environment on the Sub-Antarctic Guillou Island (Kerguelen Archipelago). J Evol Biol 2013; 26:612-24. [PMID: 23331296 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2012] [Revised: 10/16/2012] [Accepted: 11/19/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Adaptation to new environments is a key feature in evolution promoting divergence in morphological structures under selection. The house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) introduced on the Sub-Antarctic Guillou Island (Kerguelen Archipelago) had and still has to face environmental conditions that likely shaped the pattern and pace of its insular evolution. Since mouse arrival on the island, probably not more than two centuries ago, ecological conditions dramatically differed from those available to their Western European commensal source populations. In addition, over the last two decades, the plant and animal communities of Guillou Island were considerably modified by the eradication of rabbits, the effects of climate change and the spread of invasive species detrimental to native communities. Under such a changing habitat, the mouse response was investigated using a morphometric quantification of mandible and molar tooth, two morphological structures related to food processing. A marked differentiation of the insular mice compared with their relatives from Western Europe was documented for both mandibles and molar shapes. Moreover, these shapes changed through the 16 years of the record, in agreement with expectations of drift for the molar, but more than expected by chance for the mandible. These results suggest that mice responded to the recent changes in food resources, possibly with a part of plastic variation for the mandible prone to bone remodelling. This pattern exemplifies the intricate interplay of evolution, ecology and plasticity that is a probable key of the success of such an invasive rodent facing pronounced shifts in food resources exploitation under a changing environment.
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- S Renaud
- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR 5558, CNRS, Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France.
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Mokotjomela T, Schwaibold U, Pillay N. Population Surveys of the Ice RatOtomys Sloggetti Robertsiin the Lesotho Drakensberg. AFRICAN ZOOLOGY 2010. [DOI: 10.3377/004.045.0201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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