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Dufresnes C, Monod-Broca B, Bellati A, Canestrelli D, Ambu J, Wielstra B, Dubey S, Crochet PA, Denoël M, Jablonski D. Piecing the barcoding puzzle of Palearctic water frogs (Pelophylax) sheds light on amphibian biogeography and global invasions. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2024; 30:e17180. [PMID: 38465701 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2023] [Revised: 01/04/2024] [Accepted: 01/11/2024] [Indexed: 03/12/2024]
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Palearctic water frogs (genus Pelophylax) are an outstanding model in ecology and evolution, being widespread, speciose, either threatened or threatening to other species through biological invasions, and capable of siring hybrid offspring that escape the rules of sexual reproduction. Despite half a century of genetic research and hundreds of publications, the diversity, systematics and biogeography of Pelophylax still remain highly confusing, in no small part due to a lack of correspondence between studies. To provide a comprehensive overview, we gathered >13,000 sequences of barcoding genes from >1700 native and introduced localities and built multigene mitochondrial (~17 kb) and nuclear (~10 kb) phylogenies. We mapped all currently recognized taxa and their phylogeographic lineages (>40) to get a grasp on taxonomic issues, cyto-nuclear discordances, the genetic makeup of hybridogenetic hybrids, and the origins of introduced populations. Competing hypotheses for the molecular calibration were evaluated through plausibility tests, implementing a new approach relying on predictions from the anuran speciation continuum. Based on our timetree, we propose a new biogeographic paradigm for the Palearctic since the Paleogene, notably by attributing a prominent role to the dynamics of the Paratethys, a vast paleo-sea that extended over most of Europe. Furthermore, our results show that distinct marsh frog lineages from Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Near East, and Central Asia (P. ridibundus ssp.) are naturally capable of inducing hybridogenesis with pool frogs (P. lessonae). We identified 14 alien lineages (mostly of P. ridibundus) over ~20 areas of invasions, especially in Western Europe, with genetic signatures disproportionally pointing to the Balkans and Anatolia as the regions of origins, in line with exporting records of the frog leg industry and the stocks of pet sellers. Pelophylax thus emerges as one of the most invasive amphibians worldwide, and deserves much higher conservation concern than currently given by the authorities fighting biological invasions.
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- Christophe Dufresnes
- Laboratory of Amphibian Systematics and Evolutionary Research (LASER), College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, Paris, France
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- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, ENTPE, UMR 5023 LEHNA, Villeurbanne, France
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- Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
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- Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
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- Laboratory of Amphibian Systematics and Evolutionary Research (LASER), College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Ecology and Conservation of Amphibians (LECA), FOCUS, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Department of Zoology, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
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Copilaș-Ciocianu D, Sidorov D, Šidagytė-Copilas E. Global distribution and diversity of alien Ponto-Caspian amphipods. Biol Invasions 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-022-02908-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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The Tanais Bay of the Eastern Paratethys Sea at the Sarmatian–Maeotian Transition (Late Miocene): Widespread Desiccations and Local Uplifts in the Light of Historical Information. JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/jmse10070915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The Late Miocene evolution of the Eastern Paratethys Sea was marked by significant palaeogeographical transformations. The knowledge of them should be improved with the information from the peripheral parts of this semi-enclosed marine basin. The study area corresponds to the Rostov Dome where the northern shore of the Eastern Paratethys is widely documented. The information from the previously published work, going back to the beginning of the 20th century, is collected. Its analysis allows us to document the spatial distribution of Middle Sarmatian–Late Maeotian (Tortonian–Messinian) deposits. The results shed light into the palaeogeographical changes in the Tanais Bay of the Eastern Paratethys Sea, which included the short-term hiatus at the Middle/Late Sarmatian boundary, the Early Maeotian regression, and the gradual Late Maeotian ingression when the bay re-established, but with a different configuration. These changes and the overall spatial distribution of the studied deposits cannot be explained by only the fluctuations in the level of the Eastern Paratethys and the desiccation episodes established in its central part. Most probably, the local tectonic uplifts were an important driver of the Late Miocene evolution of the Tanais Bay.
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Morhun H, Copilas-Ciocianu D, Rewicz T, Son MO, Khomenko A, Huseynov M, Utevsky S, Grabowski M. Molecular markers and SEM imaging reveal pseudocryptic diversity within the Ponto-Caspian low-profile amphipod invader Dikerogammarus bispinosus. THE EUROPEAN ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/24750263.2021.2018056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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- H. Morhun
- Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
- National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Marine Biology, Odesa, Ukraine
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- Laboratory of Evolutionary Ecology of Hydrobionts, Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland
- Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Marine Biology, Odesa, Ukraine
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- Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
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- National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan Republic, Zoology Institute, Baku, Azerbaijan
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- Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland
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Evolution: Back to heavy bones in salty seas. Curr Biol 2022; 32:R42-R44. [PMID: 35015995 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.11.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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In amniote vertebrates that transitioned from land to sea, bone mass typically increases and later decreases as active swimming evolves. A new study now has found that heavy bones re-evolved in some fossil marine mammals, suggesting that this trajectory can be reversed.
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Dewaele L, Gol'din P, Marx FG, Lambert O, Laurin M, Obadă T, de Buffrénil V. Hypersalinity drives convergent bone mass increases in Miocene marine mammals from the Paratethys. Curr Biol 2021; 32:248-255.e2. [PMID: 34813730 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.10.065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2021] [Revised: 10/15/2021] [Accepted: 10/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Pachyosteosclerosis-a condition that creates dense, bulky bones-often characterizes the early evolution of secondarily aquatic tetrapods like whales and dolphins1-3 but then usually fades away as swimming efficiency increases.4 Here, we document a remarkable reversal of this pattern, namely the convergent re-emergence of bone densification in Miocene seals, dolphins, and whales from the epicontinental Paratethys Sea of eastern Europe and central Asia. This phenomenon was driven by imbalanced remodeling and inhibited resorption of primary trabeculae and coincided with hypersaline conditions-the Badenian salinity crisis-that affected the Central Paratethys between 13.8 and 13.4 Ma.5 Dense bones acting as ballast would have facilitated efficient swimming in the denser and more buoyant water and hence were likely adaptive in this setting. From the Central Paratethys, pachyosteosclerosis subsequently spread eastward, where it became a defining feature of the endemic late Miocene whale assemblage.6,7.
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- Leonard Dewaele
- EDDy Lab, Department of Geology, Liège University, Quartier Agora, 14 Allée du six Août, Liège 4000, Belgium; Directorate Earth and History of Life, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, 29 Rue Vautier, Brussels 1000, Belgium.
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- Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, vul. Bogdana Khmelnytskogo 15, Kyiv 01030, Ukraine; Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea, Frantsuzsky Blvrd. 89, Odessa 65009, Ukraine.
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- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 169 Tory Street, Wellington 6011, New Zealand; Department of Geology, University of Otago, 360 Leith Walk, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand.
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- Directorate Earth and History of Life, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, 29 Rue Vautier, Brussels 1000, Belgium.
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- UMR 7207 (CNRS ⁄ MNHN ⁄ UPMC, Sorbonne Universités), Centre de Recherches de Paléontologie - Paris (CR2P), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 75005, France.
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- Institute of Zoology, Academy of Sciences of Moldova, str. Academiei, 1 MD-2028, Chișinău, Moldova.
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- UMR 7207 (CNRS ⁄ MNHN ⁄ UPMC, Sorbonne Universités), Centre de Recherches de Paléontologie - Paris (CR2P), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 75005, France.
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