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Prakas P, Butkauskas D, Balčiauskienė L, Balčiauskas L. Low Genetic Variability of the Tundra Vole in Lithuania. Animals (Basel) 2024; 14:270. [PMID: 38254439 PMCID: PMC10812506 DOI: 10.3390/ani14020270] [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: 11/22/2023] [Revised: 01/10/2024] [Accepted: 01/12/2024] [Indexed: 01/24/2024] Open
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The distribution and spread of the tundra vole (Alexandromys oeconomus) in Lithuania have been documented over the last 70 years, but the genetic diversity of the species has not been studied. In this study, we examined A. oeconomus trapped in three sites in northern and western Lithuania using mtDNA sequence analysis of the cytb and control region. The western and northern sites are separated by anthropogenic landscape barriers. The western site is subject to regular spring flooding. Phylogenetic analyses of the studied individuals placed them in the Central European phylogroup, suggesting that Lithuanian A. oeconomus originated from northeastern Poland. In Lithuania, the genetic diversity of A. oeconomus at both mtDNA loci was relatively low (Hd < 0.6, π < 0.002) compared to that found in other European samples (Hd = 0.833-0.958; π = 0.00402-0.01552). Individuals analyzed in Lithuania were genetically different from samples collected in Poland and Northern Europe (ΦST > 0.15, p < 0.05). The genetic divergence between the western and northern samples of A. oeconomus in Lithuania, together with the low genetic variability among the voles studied, provides new insights into the phylogeography of the species and the influence of barriers on the colonization of the country.
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- Petras Prakas
- Nature Research Centre, Akademijos Str. 2, LT-08412 Vilnius, Lithuania; (D.B.); (L.B.); (L.B.)
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Niedziałkowska M, Tarnowska E, Babik W, Konczal M, Gharbi K, Cezard T, Jędrzejewska B. Different waves of postglacial recolonisation and genomic structure of bank vole populations in NE Poland. Heredity (Edinb) 2023; 130:269-277. [PMID: 36944856 PMCID: PMC10163242 DOI: 10.1038/s41437-023-00600-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2022] [Revised: 02/02/2023] [Accepted: 02/06/2023] [Indexed: 03/23/2023] Open
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Previous studies indicated that in some species phylogeographic patterns obtained in the analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) markers can be different. Such mitonuclear discordance can have important evolutionary and ecological consequences. In the present study, we aimed to check whether there was any discordance between mtDNA and nuclear DNA in the bank vole population in the contact zone of its two mtDNA lineages. We analysed the population genetic structure of bank voles using genome-wide genetic data (SNPs) and diversity of sequenced heart transcriptomes obtained from selected individuals from three populations inhabiting areas outside the contact zone. The SNP genetic structure of the populations confirmed the presence of at least two genetic clusters, and such division was concordant with the patterns obtained in the analysis of other genetic markers and functional genes. However, genome-wide SNP analyses revealed the more detailed structure of the studied population, consistent with more than two bank vole recolonisation waves, as recognised previously in the study area. We did not find any significant differences between individuals representing two separate mtDNA lineages of the species in functional genes coding for protein-forming complexes, which are involved in the process of cell respiration in mitochondria. We concluded that the contemporary genetic structure of the populations and the width of the contact zone were shaped by climatic and environmental factors rather than by genetic barriers. The studied populations were likely isolated in separate Last Glacial Maximum refugia for insufficient amount of time to develop significant genetic differentiation.
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- Mammal Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, 17-230, Białowieża, Poland
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences Jagiellonian University, 30-387, Kraków, Poland
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- Evolutionary Biology Group, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, 60-614, Poznań, Poland
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- Edinburgh Genomics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FL, UK
- Earlham Institute, Norwich, NR4 7UZ, UK
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- Edinburgh Genomics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FL, UK
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Ferrari G, Scaravelli D, Mustoni A, Armanini M, Zibordi F, Devineau O, Cagnacci F, Grasso DA, Ossi F. A Comparison of Small Rodent Assemblages after a 20 Year Interval in the Alps. Animals (Basel) 2023; 13:ani13081407. [PMID: 37106970 PMCID: PMC10135415 DOI: 10.3390/ani13081407] [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: 02/14/2023] [Revised: 04/14/2023] [Accepted: 04/15/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023] Open
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Human-induced environmental alterations in the Alps may importantly affect small mammal species, but evidence in this sense is limited. We live-trapped small rodents in the Central-Eastern Italian Alps in three close-by habitat types (rocky scree, alpine grassland, and heath) at 2100 m a.s.l. during summer-fall, in 1997 and 2016. We compared small rodent assemblages through a Redundancy Detrended Analysis (RDA). In both surveys, we detected two specialist species, i.e., the common vole (Microtus arvalis) and the snow vole (Chionomys nivalis), and, unexpectedly, the forest generalist bank vole (Myodes glareolus). In 1997, grassland was mainly occupied by the common vole, while the bank vole and the snow vole were sympatric in the other habitats. In 2016, the snow vole was detected only in the scree, while other species did not show distribution changes. We discuss a series of hypotheses that might have driven the differences observed across decades, among which is a species-specific response to abiotic and biotic environmental alterations, with the alpine habitat specialist moving out of sub-optimal habitats. We encourage further research on this topic, e.g., via long-term longitudinal studies.
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- Giulia Ferrari
- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11/a, 43124 Parma, Italy
- Faculty of Applied Ecology, Agricultural Science and Biotechnology, Campus Evenstad, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, 2480 Koppang, Norway
- Research and Innovation Centre, Edmund Mach Foundation, Via Mach 1, 38098 San Michele all'Adige, Italy
- NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, 90133 Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Via Selmi 3, 40126 Bologna, Italy
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- Research and Environmental Education, Adamello Brenta Nature Park, Via Nazionale 24, 38080 Strembo, Italy
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- Research and Environmental Education, Adamello Brenta Nature Park, Via Nazionale 24, 38080 Strembo, Italy
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- Faculty of Applied Ecology, Agricultural Science and Biotechnology, Campus Evenstad, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, 2480 Koppang, Norway
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- Research and Innovation Centre, Edmund Mach Foundation, Via Mach 1, 38098 San Michele all'Adige, Italy
- NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, 90133 Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11/a, 43124 Parma, Italy
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- Research and Innovation Centre, Edmund Mach Foundation, Via Mach 1, 38098 San Michele all'Adige, Italy
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Yap JYS, Rossetto M, Das S, Wilson PD, Beaumont LJ, Henry RJ. Tracking habitat or testing its suitability? Similar distributional patterns can hide very different histories of persistence versus nonequilibrium dynamics. Evolution 2022; 76:1209-1228. [PMID: 35304742 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2021] [Revised: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 12/29/2021] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The expansions and contractions of a species' range in response to temporal changes in selective filters leave genetic signatures that can inform a more accurate reconstruction of their evolutionary history across the landscape. After a long period of continental decline, Australian rainforests settled into localized patterns of contraction or expansion during the climatic fluctuations of the Quaternary. The environmental impacts of recurring glacial and interglacial periods also intensified the arrival of new lineages from the Sunda shelf, and it can be expected that immigrant versus locally persistent taxa responded to environmental challenges in quantifiably different manner. To investigate how such differences impact on species' distribution, we contrast landscape genomic patterns and changes in habitat availability between a species with a long continental history on Doryphora sassafras and a Sunda-derived species (Toona ciliata), across a distributional overlap. Extensive landscape-level homogeneity across chloroplast and nuclear genomes for the Sunda-derived T. ciliata, characterize the genetic signature of a very recent invasion and a rapid southern "exploratory" expansion that had not been previously recorded in the Australian flora (i.e., of Gondwanan origin or Sahul-derived). In contrast, D. sassafras is consistent with other Sahul-derived species characterized by strong geographical divergence and regional differentiation. Interestingly, our findings suggest that admixture between genetically divergent populations during expansion events might be a contributing factor to the successful colonization of novel habitats. Overall, this study identifies some of the mechanisms regulating the rearrangements in species distributions and assemblage composition that follow major environmental shifts, and reminds us how a species' current range might not necessarily define species' habitat preference, with the consequence that estimates of past or future range might not always be reliable.
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- Jia-Yee Samantha Yap
- Research Centre for Ecosystem Resilience, Australian Institute of Botanical Science, The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.,Queensland Alliance of Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Research Centre for Ecosystem Resilience, Australian Institute of Botanical Science, The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.,Queensland Alliance of Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Brisbane, New South Wales, Australia.,Department of Forestry and Environmental Science, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh
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- Research Centre for Ecosystem Resilience, Australian Institute of Botanical Science, The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.,Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Brisbane, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Brisbane, New South Wales, Australia
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- Queensland Alliance of Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Kotlík P, Marková S, Horníková M, Escalante MA, Searle JB. The Bank Vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) as a Model System for Adaptive Phylogeography in the European Theater. Front Ecol Evol 2022. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.866605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The legacy of climatic changes during the Pleistocene glaciations allows inferences to be made about the patterns and processes associated with range expansion/colonization, including evolutionary adaptation. With the increasing availability of population genomic data, we have the opportunity to examine these questions in detail and in a variety of non-traditional model species. As an exemplar, here we review more than two decades of work by our group and others that illustrate the potential of a single “non-model model” mammal species - the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus), which is particularly well suited to illustrate the complexities that may be associated with range expansion and the power of genomics (and other datasets) to uncover them. We first summarize early phylogeographic work using mitochondrial DNA and then describe new phylogeographic insights gained from population genomic analysis of genome-wide SNP data to highlight the bank vole as one of the most compelling examples of a forest mammal, that survived in cryptic extra-Mediterranean (“northern”) glacial refugia in Europe, and as one of the species in which substantial replacement and mixing of lineages originating from different refugia occurred during end-glacial colonization. Our studies of bank vole hemoglobin structure and function, as well as our recent ecological niche modeling study examining differences among bank vole lineages, led us to develop the idea of “adaptive phylogeography.” This is what we call the study of the role of adaptive differences among populations in shaping phylogeographic patterns. Adaptive phylogeography provides a link between past population history and adaptation that can ultimately help predict the potential of future species responses to climate change. Because the bank vole is part of a community of organisms whose range has repeatedly contracted and then expanded in the past, what we learn from the bank vole will be useful for our understanding of a broad range of species.
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Forcina G, Camacho-Sanchez M, Cornellas A, Leonard JA. Complete mitogenomes reveal limited genetic variability in the garden dormouse Eliomys quercinus of the Iberian Peninsula. ANIMAL BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION 2022. [DOI: 10.32800/abc.2022.45.0107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The garden dormouse Eliomys quercinus is a poorly known Western Palearctic species experiencing a global decline. Even though the availability of genetic information is key to assess the driversunderlying demographic changes in wild populations and plan adequate management, data on E. quercinus are still scant. In this study, we reconstructed the complete mitogenomes of four E. quercinus individuals from southern Spain using in–solution enriched libraries, and found evidence of limited genetic variability. We then compared their cytochrome b sequences to those of conspecifics from other countries and supported the divergent but genetically depauperate position of this evolutionarily significant unit (ESU). The information produced will assist future conservation studies on this little–studied rodent.
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- G. Forcina
- Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Sevilla, Spain
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- Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Sevilla, Spain
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- Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Sevilla, Spain
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- Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Sevilla, Spain
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Machado AP, Cumer T, Iseli C, Beaudoing E, Ducrest AL, Dupasquier M, Guex N, Dichmann K, Lourenço R, Lusby J, Martens HD, Prévost L, Ramsden D, Roulin A, Goudet J. Unexpected post-glacial colonisation route explains the white colour of barn owls (Tyto alba) from the British Isles. Mol Ecol 2021; 31:482-497. [PMID: 34695244 PMCID: PMC9298239 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2021] [Revised: 09/16/2021] [Accepted: 10/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The climate fluctuations of the Quaternary shaped the movement of species in and out of glacial refugia. In Europe, the majority of species followed one of the described traditional postglacial recolonization routes from the southern peninsulas towards the north. Like most organisms, barn owls are assumed to have colonized the British Isles by crossing over Doggerland, a land bridge that connected Britain to northern Europe. However, while they are dark rufous in northern Europe, barn owls in the British Isles are conspicuously white, a contrast that could suggest selective forces are at play on the islands. Yet, our analysis of known candidate genes involved in coloration found no signature of selection. Instead, using whole genome sequences and species distribution modelling, we found that owls colonised the British Isles soon after the last glaciation, directly from a white coloured refugium in the Iberian Peninsula, before colonising northern Europe. They would have followed a hitherto unknown post‐glacial colonization route to the Isles over a westwards path of suitable habitat in now submerged land in the Bay of Biscay, thus not crossing Doggerland. As such, they inherited the white colour of their Iberian founders and maintained it through low gene flow with the mainland that prevents the import of rufous alleles. Thus, we contend that neutral processes probably explain this contrasting white colour compared to continental owls. With the barn owl being a top predator, we expect future research will show this unanticipated route was used by other species from its paleo community.
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- Ana Paula Machado
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Bioinformatics Competence Centre, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Bioinformatics Competence Centre, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Ornithology, Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development, IIFA, University of Évora, Évora, Portugal
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- BirdWatch Ireland, Kilcoole, Co., Wicklow, Ireland
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- Association CHENE, Centre d'Hébergement et d'Etude sur la Nature et l'Environnement, Allouville-Bellefosse, France
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Escalante MA, Horníková M, Marková S, Kotlík P. Niche differentiation in a postglacial colonizer, the bank vole Clethrionomys glareolus. Ecol Evol 2021; 11:8054-8070. [PMID: 34188871 PMCID: PMC8216960 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2021] [Revised: 03/30/2021] [Accepted: 04/13/2021] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Species-level environmental niche modeling has been crucial in efforts to understand how species respond to climate variation and change. However, species often exhibit local adaptation and intraspecific niche differences that may be important to consider in predicting responses to climate. Here, we explore whether phylogeographic lineages of the bank vole originating from different glacial refugia (Carpathian, Western, Eastern, and Southern) show niche differentiation, which would suggest a role for local adaptation in biogeography of this widespread Eurasian small mammal. We first model the environmental requirements for the bank vole using species-wide occurrences (210 filtered records) and then model each lineage separately to examine niche overlap and test for niche differentiation in geographic and environmental space. We then use the models to estimate past [Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and mid-Holocene] habitat suitability to compare with previously hypothesized glacial refugia for this species. Environmental niches are statistically significantly different from each other for all pairs of lineages in geographic and environmental space, and these differences cannot be explained by habitat availability within their respective ranges. Together with the inability of most of the lineages to correctly predict the distributions of other lineages, these results support intraspecific ecological differentiation in the bank vole. Model projections of habitat suitability during the LGM support glacial survival of the bank vole in the Mediterranean region and in central and western Europe. Niche differences between lineages and the resulting spatial segregation of habitat suitability suggest ecological differentiation has played a role in determining the present phylogeographic patterns in the bank vole. Our study illustrates that models pooling lineages within a species may obscure the potential for different responses to climate change among populations.
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- Marco A. Escalante
- Laboratory of Molecular EcologyInstitute of Animal Physiology and Genetics of the Czech Academy of SciencesLiběchovCzech Republic
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- Laboratory of Molecular EcologyInstitute of Animal Physiology and Genetics of the Czech Academy of SciencesLiběchovCzech Republic
- Department of ZoologyFaculty of ScienceCharles UniversityPragueCzech Republic
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- Laboratory of Molecular EcologyInstitute of Animal Physiology and Genetics of the Czech Academy of SciencesLiběchovCzech Republic
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- Laboratory of Molecular EcologyInstitute of Animal Physiology and Genetics of the Czech Academy of SciencesLiběchovCzech Republic
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Horníková M, Marková S, Lanier HC, Searle JB, Kotlík P. A dynamic history of admixture from Mediterranean and Carpathian glacial refugia drives genomic diversity in the bank vole. Ecol Evol 2021; 11:8215-8225. [PMID: 34188881 PMCID: PMC8216894 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2021] [Accepted: 04/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Understanding the historical contributions of differing glacial refugia is key to evaluating the roles of microevolutionary forces, such as isolation, introgression, and selection in shaping genomic diversity in present-day populations. In Europe, where both Mediterranean and extra-Mediterranean (e.g., Carpathian) refugia of the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) have been identified, mtDNA indicates that extra-Mediterranean refugia were the main source of colonization across the species range, while Mediterranean peninsulas harbor isolated, endemic lineages. Here, we critically evaluate this hypothesis using previously generated genomic data (>6,000 SNPs) for over 800 voles, focusing on genomic contributions to bank voles in central Europe, a key geographic area in considering range-wide colonization. The results provide clear evidence that both extra-Mediterranean (Carpathian) and Mediterranean (Spanish, Calabrian, and Balkan) refugia contributed to the ancestry and genomic diversity of bank vole populations across Europe. Few strong barriers to dispersal and frequent admixture events in central Europe have led to a prominent mid-latitude peak in genomic diversity. Although the genomic contribution of the centrally located Carpathian refugium predominates, populations in different parts of Europe have admixed origins from Mediterranean (28%-47%) and the Carpathian (53%-72%) sources. We suggest that the admixture from Mediterranean refugia may have provisioned adaptive southern alleles to more northern populations, facilitating the end-glacial spread of the admixed populations and contributing to increased bank vole diversity in central Europe. This study adds critical details to the complex end-glacial colonization history of this well-studied organism and underscores the importance of genomic data in phylogeographic interpretation.
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- Michaela Horníková
- Laboratory of Molecular Ecology Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences Liběchov Czech Republic
- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science Charles University Prague Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Molecular Ecology Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences Liběchov Czech Republic
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- Department of Biology, Program in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology University of Oklahoma Norman OK USA
- Sam Noble Museum University of Oklahoma Norman OK USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Cornell University Ithaca NY USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Ecology Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences Liběchov Czech Republic
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Wendt M, Husemann M, Kramp K, Schmitt T. Reconstruction of forest dynamics in the Western Palaearctic based on phylogeographic analysis of the ringlet butterfly Erebia aethiops. Sci Rep 2021; 11:201. [PMID: 33420130 PMCID: PMC7794548 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-79376-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2020] [Accepted: 11/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Glacial refugia are centers of high biodiversity. Therefore, knowledge on their locations and reactions of associated populations and landscapes to climatic changes is crucial for conservation management. We here investigated the biogeography of a butterfly species linked to open forest habitats. Using mitochondrial and nuclear markers in combination with Bayesian simulations, we analyzed the location and age of potential glacial refugia of the species. We identified five putative refugia in Europe. Considering the ecological needs of our study species, tree density within these refugial areas, in contrast to earlier assumptions, must have exceeded the level of individually scattered trees. Our results also provide evidence that especially the refuge areas in the Carpathians were previously underestimated regarding their age: the refugia in the Southern Carpathians presented suitable conditions throughout several glacial cycles, probably since the Mindel or Riss cycles. Additionally, our analyses provided support for a forest refugium near the Tatra Mountains persisting the last glacial maximum. Our results underline the usefulness of this and probably other butterfly species as indicators of forest refugia.
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- Martin Wendt
- Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Systematik Und Biogeographie, Eberswalder Str. 90, 15374, Müncheberg, Germany.
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- Centrum Für Naturkunde, Universität Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146, Hamburg, Germany
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- Leibniz-Zentrum Für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) E.V., PB 2: "Landnutzung Und Governance", AG: Biotische Interaktionen Zwischen Wald- Und Agrarflächen, Eberswalder Str. 84, 15374, Müncheberg, Germany
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- Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Systematik Und Biogeographie, Eberswalder Str. 90, 15374, Müncheberg, Germany
- Zoology, Institute of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences I, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06099, Halle (Saale), Germany
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Zolotareva KI, Belokon MM, Belokon YS, Rutovskaya MV, Hlyap LA, Starykov VP, Politov DV, Lebedev VS, Bannikova AA. Genetic diversity and structure of the hedgehogs Erinaceus europaeus and Erinaceus roumanicus: evidence for ongoing hybridization in Eastern Europe. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Secondary contact zones between related species are key to understanding speciation mechanisms. The Central European sympatry zone of West European (Erinaceus europaeus) and northern white-breasted (Erinaceus roumanicus) hedgehogs is well studied, whereas data on the Eastern European sympatry zone are scarce. We examined the genetic variation in Russian populations using the mitochondrial Cytb gene, TTR intron 1 and 11 microsatellites to assess genetic variability and distribution patterns. In contrast to the Central European sympatry zone, we found evidence of ongoing hybridization between the two species in the sympatry zone of European Russia, where the proportion of individuals with mixed ancestry was c. 20%. Our data indicate bi-directional mtDNA introgression, but with a higher frequency of E. europaeus haplotypes in hybrids. The proportion of pure specimens with introgressed mitotypes is higher in E. roumanicus than in E. europaeus. Nuclear data showed the prevalence of the genetic contribution from E. roumanicus in admixed individuals. Demographic analyses indicated recent population growth in E. europaeus and little change in E. roumanicus, suggesting that E. europaeus colonized East Europe later than E. roumanicus.
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- Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Pons J, Campión D, Chiozzi G, Ettwein A, Grangé J, Kajtoch Ł, Mazgajski TD, Rakovic M, Winkler H, Fuchs J. Phylogeography of a widespread Palaearctic forest bird species: The White‐backed Woodpecker (Aves, Picidae). ZOOL SCR 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Jean‐Marc Pons
- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité CNRS MNHN UPMC EPHE Sorbonne Universités Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7205 Paris Cedex France
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- Área de Biodiversidad, Biodibertsitate Arloa, Padre Adoain Pamplona‐Iruñea Spain
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- Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals Polish Academy of Sciences Kraków Poland
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Evolution Konrad Lorenz‐Institute of Ethology Vienna Austria
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- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité CNRS MNHN UPMC EPHE Sorbonne Universités Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7205 Paris Cedex France
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Němcová L, Marková S, Kotlík P. Gene Expression Variation of Candidate Endogenous Control Genes Across Latitudinal Populations of the Bank Vole (Clethrionomys glareolus). Front Ecol Evol 2020. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2020.562065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Tarnowska E, Niedziałkowska M, Stojak J, Jędrzejewska B. Polymorphism of TLR2 in bank vole populations in North Eastern Poland is not associated with Borrelia afzelii infection prevalence. MAMMAL RES 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s13364-020-00518-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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AbstractPolymorphism in innate immune genes in host populations can structure spatial variation in the prevalence of infectious diseases. In Europe, Borrelia afzelii is an important tick-borne pathogen of small mammals including the bank voles (Myodes glareolus). The Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) is an innate immune receptor that is important for detecting Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato pathogens. The TLR2 gene is polymorphic in bank vole populations and is classified into four distinct clusters: C1, C2, C3, and C4. The C2 and C4 clusters versus the C1 and C3 clusters are associated with lower versus higher infection prevalence, respectively. We detected three TLR2 clusters in 487 bank voles from 30 populations in NE Poland: 84.2% of the obtained sequences belonged to the C1 variant, 7.2% to C2, and 8.6% to C3. However, no clear spatial structure of TLR2 clusters among the populations was detected. B. afzelii infection prevalence across all studied individuals was 12.1% and varied from 0 to 37.5% among populations. There were no significant differences in B. afzelii prevalence among voles carrying alleles of different TLR2 clusters, or between individuals belonging to two mtDNA lineages. Most infected individuals were adults, and males were infected more often than females. There was no significant relationship between the prevalence of TLR2 clusters in the vole populations and climatic and environmental factors within the study area. We therefore could not confirm an adaptive role of the TLR2 C2 alleles in reducing B. afzelii infection prevalence in bank voles.
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Marková S, Horníková M, Lanier HC, Henttonen H, Searle JB, Weider LJ, Kotlík P. High genomic diversity in the bank vole at the northern apex of a range expansion: The role of multiple colonizations and end-glacial refugia. Mol Ecol 2020; 29:1730-1744. [PMID: 32248595 DOI: 10.1111/mec.15427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2019] [Revised: 03/10/2020] [Accepted: 03/25/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The history of repeated northern glacial cycling and southern climatic stability has long dominated explanations for how genetic diversity is distributed within temperate species in Eurasia and North America. However, growing evidence indicates the importance of cryptic refugia for northern colonization dynamics. An important geographic region to assess this is Fennoscandia, where recolonization at the end of the last glaciation was restricted to specific routes and temporal windows. We used genomic data to analyse genetic diversity and colonization history of the bank vole (Myodes glareolus) throughout Europe (>800 samples) with Fennoscandia as the northern apex. We inferred that bank voles colonized Fennoscandia multiple times by two different routes; with three separate colonizations via a southern land-bridge route deriving from a "Carpathian" glacial refugium and one via a north-eastern route from an "Eastern" glacial refugium near the Ural Mountains. Clustering of genome-wide SNPs revealed high diversity in Fennoscandia, with eight genomic clusters: three of Carpathian origin and five Eastern. Time estimates revealed that the first of the Carpathian colonizations occurred before the Younger Dryas (YD), meaning that the first colonists survived the YD in Fennoscandia. Results also indicated that introgression between bank and northern red-backed voles (Myodes rutilus) took place in Fennoscandia just after end-glacial colonization. Therefore, multiple colonizations from the same and different cryptic refugia, temporal and spatial separations and interspecific introgression have shaped bank vole genetic variability in Fennoscandia. Together, these processes drive high genetic diversity at the apex of the northern expansion in this emerging model species.
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- Silvia Marková
- Laboratory of Molecular Ecology, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Liběchov, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Molecular Ecology, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Liběchov, Czech Republic.,Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biology, Program in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.,Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Biology, Program in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Ecology, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Liběchov, Czech Republic
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Kloch A, Biedrzycka A. Post-glacial phylogeography and variation in innate immunity loci in a sylvatic rodent, bank vole Myodes glareolus. Mamm Biol 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s42991-020-00016-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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AbstractIn the northern hemisphere, the spatial structure of many taxa has been shaped by migration patterns after the last glaciation, and phylogeography based on mtDNA variation may reflect the post-glacial demography. The mtDNA lineages are expected to differ in their adaptations to local conditions but little is known about the impact of these conditions on functional genetic variation. Here, we answer this question through an analysis of geographic variation and selection patterns in seven innate immunity genes in free-living bank voles Myodes glareolus from 10 localities across species range assigned to different lineages based on mtDNA. We found clear discrepancies between population structure in mtDNA and each of the studied innate immunity genes. There was no uniform pattern of spatial variation at immunity loci, they differed in the levels of polymorphism, and the results of neutrality tests were not consistent over loci. Each locus comprised a few common haplotypes shared between mitochondrial lineages and studied locations, plus numerous haplotypes unique for each studied site. Our results suggest that the diversity of innate immunity genes cannot be explained solely in terms of demographic processes, and that the observed polymorphism may be attributed to local selection. The strength and direction of selection differed between loci, even within the same gene family, which underlines how crucial it is to take a complex approach while studying the selection patterns acting on immune-related genes.
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Kryštufek B, Tesakov AS, Lebedev VS, Bannikova AA, Abramson NI, Shenbrot G. Back to the future: the proper name for red-backed voles is Clethrionomys Tilesius and not Myodes Pallas. MAMMALIA 2020. [DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2019-0067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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AbstractTwo names (Clethrionomys and Myodes) are used interchangeably for red-backed voles, which is contrary to one of the fundamental principles of zoological nomenclature, that each taxon has a single and unique valid name. Fixation of Mus lemmus Linnaeus, 1758, as the type of Myodes Pallas, 1811, meets the requirements stipulated in the Article 69.1.1 of the 4th edition of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, and is therefore valid. Hence, the genus group name Myodes is a junior synonym of Lemmus Link, 1795, and is not available for red-backed voles. The oldest valid name for red-backed voles is Clethrionomys Tilesius, 1850, with the type species (Mus rutilus Pallas, 1779) subsequently designated by Palmer (1928).
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- Boris Kryštufek
- Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Prešernova 20, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Laboratory of Quaternary Stratigraphy, Geological Institute RAS, Pyzhevsky lane 7, 119017 Moscow, Russia
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- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory 1/12, Moscow, Russia
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- Laboratory of Molecular Systematics, Zoological Institute RAS, Universitetskaya nab.1, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel
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Vega R, McDevitt AD, Stojak J, Mishta A, Wójcik JM, Kryštufek B, Searle JB. Phylogeographical structure of the pygmy shrew: revisiting the roles of southern and northern refugia in Europe. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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AbstractSouthern and northern glacial refugia are considered paradigms that explain the complex phylogeographical patterns and processes of European biota. Here, we provide a revisited statistical phylogeographical analysis of the pygmy shrew Sorex minutus Linnaeus, 1766 (Eulipotyphla, Soricidae), examining its genetic diversity, genetic differentiation and demographic history in the Mediterranean peninsulas and in Western and Central Europe. The results showed support for genetically distinct and diverse phylogeographical groups consistent with southern and northern glacial refugia, as expected from previous studies. We also identified geographical barriers concordant with glaciated mountain ranges during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), early diversification events dated between the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene for the main phylogeographical groups, and recent (post-LGM) patterns of demographic expansions. This study is the most comprehensive investigation of this species to date, and the results have implications for the conservation of intraspecific diversity and the preservation of the evolutionary potential of S. minutus.
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- Rodrigo Vega
- Ecology Research Group, Section of Natural and Applied Sciences, School of Human and Life Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University, Becket, Canterbury, Kent, UK
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- Ecosystems and Environment Research Centre, School of Science, Engineering and Environment, University of Salford, Salford, UK
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- Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża, Poland
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- Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
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- Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża, Poland
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- Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Prešernova, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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García JT, Domínguez‐Villaseñor J, Alda F, Calero‐Riestra M, Pérez Olea P, Fargallo JA, Martínez‐Padilla J, Herranz J, Oñate JJ, Santamaría A, Motro Y, Attie C, Bretagnolle V, Delibes J, Viñuela J. A complex scenario of glacial survival in Mediterranean and continental refugia of a temperate continental vole species (
Microtus arvalis
) in Europe. J ZOOL SYST EVOL RES 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Jesús T. García
- IREC, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (CSIC‐UCLM‐JCCM) Ciudad Real Spain
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- Museum of Natural Science, Department of Biological Sciences Louisiana State University Baton Rouge Louisiana USA
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- IREC, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (CSIC‐UCLM‐JCCM) Ciudad Real Spain
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- Terrestrial Ecology Group (TEG), Departamento de Ecología Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Madrid Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales MNCN‐CSIC Madrid Spain
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- Terrestrial Ecology Group (TEG), Departamento de Ecología Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Madrid Spain
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- Terrestrial Ecology Group (TEG), Departamento de Ecología Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Madrid Spain
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- IREC, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (CSIC‐UCLM‐JCCM) Ciudad Real Spain
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- Plant Protection and Inspection Services Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Bet Dagan Israel
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- Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, UMR 7372 CNRS and Université de la Rochelle La Rochelle France
- LTSER Zone Atelier Plaine and Val de Sèvre CNRS Villiers‐en‐Bois France
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- IREC, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (CSIC‐UCLM‐JCCM) Ciudad Real Spain
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Sato T, Abramov AV, Raichev EG, Kosintsev PA, Väinölä R, Murakami T, Kaneko Y, Masuda R. Phylogeography and population history of the least weasel ( Mustela nivalis) in the Palearctic based on multilocus analysis. J ZOOL SYST EVOL RES 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [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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- Takuma Sato
- Department of Natural History Sciences, Graduate School of Science Hokkaido University Sapporo Japan
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- Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences St. Petersburg Russia
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- Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences Ekaterinburg Russia
- Ural Federal University Ekaterinburg Russia
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland
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- Faculty of Agriculture Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Fuchu Japan
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- Department of Natural History Sciences, Graduate School of Science Hokkaido University Sapporo Japan
- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science Hokkaido University Sapporo Japan
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Phylogeography of the striped field mouse, Apodemus agrarius (Rodentia: Muridae), throughout its distribution range in the Palaearctic region. Mamm Biol 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s42991-019-00001-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Dvořáková V, Horníková M, Němcová L, Marková S, Kotlík P. Regulatory Variation in Functionally Polymorphic Globin Genes of the Bank Vole: A Possible Role for Adaptation. Front Ecol Evol 2020. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Phylogeography of Puumala orthohantavirus in Europe. Viruses 2019; 11:v11080679. [PMID: 31344894 PMCID: PMC6723369 DOI: 10.3390/v11080679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2019] [Revised: 07/12/2019] [Accepted: 07/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Puumala virus is an RNA virus hosted by the bank vole (Myodes glareolus) and is today present in most European countries. Whilst it is generally accepted that hantaviruses have been tightly co-evolving with their hosts, Puumala virus (PUUV) evolutionary history is still controversial and so far has not been studied at the whole European level. This study attempts to reconstruct the phylogeographical spread of modern PUUV throughout Europe during the last postglacial period in the light of an upgraded dataset of complete PUUV small (S) segment sequences and by using most recent computational approaches. Taking advantage of the knowledge on the past migrations of its host, we identified at least three potential independent dispersal routes of PUUV during postglacial recolonization of Europe by the bank vole. From the Alpe-Adrian region (Balkan, Austria, and Hungary) to Western European countries (Germany, France, Belgium, and Netherland), and South Scandinavia. From the vicinity of Carpathian Mountains to the Baltic countries and to Poland, Russia, and Finland. The dissemination towards Denmark and North Scandinavia is more hypothetical and probably involved several independent streams from south and north Fennoscandia.
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Horreo JL, Griffiths AM, Machado-Schiaffino G, Stevens JR, Garcia-Vazquez E. Northern areas as refugia for temperate species under current climate warming: Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) as a model in northern Europe. JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY 2019; 95:304-310. [PMID: 30281146 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.13825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2018] [Accepted: 09/26/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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In this work, patterns of geographical genetic diversity in Atlantic salmon Salmo salar were studied across the whole Atlantic Arc; whether these patterns (and thus genetic population structure) were affected by water temperatures was also evaluated. Salmo salar populations were characterized using microsatellite loci and then analysed with reference to ocean surface temperature data from across the region. Analysis showed the presence of a latitudinal cline of genetic variability (higher in northern areas) and water temperatures (sea surface temperatures) determining genetic population structure (the latter in combination with genetic drift in southern populations). Under the current global change scenario, northern areas of Europe would constitute refugia for diversity in the future. This is effectively the inverse of what appears to have happened in glacial refugia during the last glacial maximum. From this perspective, the still abundant and large northern populations S. salar should be considered as precious as the small almost relict southern ones and given appropriate protection. Careful management of the species, coordinated across countries and latitudes, is needed in order to avoid its extinction in Europe.
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- Jose L Horreo
- Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biosciences, Hatherly Laboratories, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Department of Biosciences, Hatherly Laboratories, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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Stojak J, Tarnowska E. Polish suture zone as the goblet of truth in post-glacial history of mammals in Europe. MAMMAL RES 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s13364-019-00433-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Czarnomska SD, Niedziałkowska M, Borowik T, Jędrzejewska B. Winter temperature correlates with mtDNA genetic structure of yellow-necked mouse population in NE Poland. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0216361. [PMID: 31067251 PMCID: PMC6505929 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2018] [Accepted: 04/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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We analysed a fragment (247 bp) of cytochrome b of mitochondrial DNA sequenced using 353 samples of yellow-necked mice Apodemus flavicollis trapped in seven forests and along three woodlot transects in north-eastern Poland. Our aims were to identify the phylogeographic pattern and mtDNA structure of the population and to evaluate the role of environmental conditions in shaping the spatial pattern of mtDNA diversity. We found out that three European haplogroups occurred sympatrically in north-eastern Poland. Inferences based on mtDNA haplotype distribution and frequency defined five subpopulations. The mtDNA-based structure of mice significantly correlated with winter temperature: frequency of Haplogroup 1 was positively, and that of Haplogroup 3 negatively correlated to mean temperature of January in the year of trapping. Synthesis of the published pan-European data on the species phylogeography also showed that the possibly 'thermophilous' Haplogroup 1 has the westernmost occurrence, whereas the more 'cold-resistant' Haplogroup 3 occurs much further to north-east than the other haplogroups. The observed patter may be a byproduct of the tight coevolution with nuclear genes, as we have earlier found that - in mice population in NE Poland - the spatial pattern of nuclear DNA was best explained by January temperature. Alternatively, the observed association of mitochondrial genetic variation with temperature is possible to be adaptive as cytochrome b is involved in the process of ATP production via oxidative phosphorylation.
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- Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża, Poland
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Chiocchio A, Colangelo P, Aloise G, Amori G, Bertolino S, Bisconti R, Castiglia R, Canestrelli D. Population genetic structure of the bank vole
Myodes glareolus
within its glacial refugium in peninsular Italy. J ZOOL SYST EVOL RES 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Andrea Chiocchio
- Department of Ecological and Biological Science Università degli Studi della Tuscia Viterbo Italy
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- National Research Council, Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems Rome Italy
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- Museo di Storia Naturale ed Orto Botanico Università della Calabria Rende Italy
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- National Research Council, Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems Rome Italy
- Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin” University of Rome La Sapienza Roma Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology Università degli Studi di Torino Torino Italy
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- Department of Ecological and Biological Science Università degli Studi della Tuscia Viterbo Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin” University of Rome La Sapienza Roma Italy
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- Department of Ecological and Biological Science Università degli Studi della Tuscia Viterbo Italy
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Michaux JR, Hürner H, Krystufek B, Sarà M, Ribas A, Ruch T, Vekhnik V, Renaud S. Genetic structure of a European forest species, the edible dormouse ( Glis glis): a consequence of past anthropogenic forest fragmentation? Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/bly176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- J R Michaux
- Conservation Genetics Laboratory, Institut de Botanique, Chemin de la Vallée, Liège, Belgium
- CIRAD/INRA UMR117 ASTRE, Campus International de Baillarguet, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Conservation Genetics Laboratory, Institut de Botanique, Chemin de la Vallée, Liège, Belgium
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- Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Presernova, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Dipartimento STEBICEF, Via Archirafi, Palermo, Italy
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- Museu de Granollers-Ciències Naturals C/Francesc Macià, Granollers, Spain
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- Institute for Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Johann Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Zhiguli State Nature Reserve, Bakhilova Polyana Village, Samara Oblast, Russia
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- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR 5558, Université Lyon, CNRS, Villeurbanne, France
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Strážnická M, Marková S, Searle JB, Kotlík P. Playing Hide-and-Seek in Beta-Globin Genes: Gene Conversion Transferring a Beneficial Mutation between Differentially Expressed Gene Duplicates. Genes (Basel) 2018; 9:genes9100492. [PMID: 30321987 PMCID: PMC6209878 DOI: 10.3390/genes9100492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2018] [Revised: 10/07/2018] [Accepted: 10/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Increasing evidence suggests that adaptation to diverse environments often involves selection on existing variation rather than new mutations. A previous study identified a nonsynonymous single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in exon 2 of two paralogous β-globin genes of the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) in Britain in which the ancestral serine (Ser) and the derived cysteine (Cys) allele represent geographically partitioned functional variation affecting the erythrocyte antioxidative capacity. Here we studied the geographical pattern of the two-locus Ser/Cys polymorphism throughout Europe and tested for the geographic correlation between environmental variables and allele frequency, expected if the polymorphism was under spatially heterogeneous environment-related selection. Although bank vole population history clearly is important in shaping the dispersal of the oxidative stress protective Cys allele, analyses correcting for population structure suggest the Europe-wide pattern is affected by geographical variation in environmental conditions. The β-globin phenotype is encoded by the major paralog HBB-T1 but we found evidence of bidirectional gene conversion of exon 2 with the low-expression paralog HBB-T2. Our data support the model where gene conversion reshuffling genotypes between high- and low- expressed paralogs enables tuning of erythrocyte thiol levels, which may help maintain intracellular redox balance under fluctuating environmental conditions. Therefore, our study suggests a possible role for gene conversion between differentially expressed gene duplicates as a mechanism of physiological adaptation of populations to new or changing environments.
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- Michaela Strážnická
- Laboratory of Molecular Ecology, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Rumburská 89, 27721 Liběchov, Czech Republic.
- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 7, 12844 Prague 2, Czech Republic.
- Department of Animal Science and Food Processing, Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Prague 6-Suchdol, Czech Republic.
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- Laboratory of Molecular Ecology, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Rumburská 89, 27721 Liběchov, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
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- Laboratory of Molecular Ecology, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Rumburská 89, 27721 Liběchov, Czech Republic.
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
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Poplavskaya N, Bannikova A, Neumann K, Pavlenko M, Kartavtseva I, Bazhenov Y, Bogomolov P, Abramov A, Surov A, Lebedev V. Phylogeographic structure in the chromosomally polymorphic rodent Cricetulus barabensis
sensu lato (Mammalia, Cricetidae). J ZOOL SYST EVOL RES 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- Natalia Poplavskaya
- A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution; Russian Academy of Sciences; Moscow Russia
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology; Moscow State University; Moscow Russia
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- Institute of Pathology; City Hospital Dessau; Dessau-Rosslau Germany
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- Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity Far East Branch; Russian Academy of Sciences; Vladivostok Russia
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- Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity Far East Branch; Russian Academy of Sciences; Vladivostok Russia
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- Institute of Natural Resources, Ecology and Cryology; Siberian Branch; Russian Academy of Sciences; Chita Russia
- State Nature Biosphere Reserve “Daursky”; Nizhny Tsasuchey; Zabaykalsky Kray Russia
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- A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution; Russian Academy of Sciences; Moscow Russia
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- Zoological Institute; Russian Academy of Sciences; Saint Petersburg Russia
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- A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution; Russian Academy of Sciences; Moscow Russia
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Sutherland BL, Galloway LF. Effects of glaciation and whole genome duplication on the distribution of the Campanula rotundifolia polyploid complex. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2018; 105:1760-1770. [PMID: 30312483 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2018] [Accepted: 06/26/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY Both intrinsic and extrinsic factors contribute to a species distribution. Among plants, the extrinsic effects of glaciation and intrinsic effects of whole genome duplication are powerful drivers of biogeographical patterns, but the interplay of these factors is poorly understood. Here, we investigate the roles glaciation and whole-genome duplication have played in the evolution of the widespread polyploid complex Campanula rotundifolia. METHODS We assessed the cytotype of 37 populations that spanned the geographic and cytotypic range of the C. rotundifolia complex. We constructed a chloroplast phylogeny for these populations and used RAD-seq to create nuclear phylogenies and networks for a subset of 23 populations; and estimated divergence times of major clades using Bayesian estimation of substitution rates. KEY RESULTS Campanula rotundifolia originated in south-central Europe and underwent range expansion throughout much of Europe and North America. Multiple genome duplications have occurred in C. rotundifolia-at least two tetraploid and three hexaploid formations. CONCLUSIONS Nuclear and chloroplast phylogenies are largely congruent with a history of populations surviving glacial maxima in known Pleistocene refugia in Europe and North America. Divergent European clades are consistent with two disjunct glacial refugia within Europe. North America was colonized by hexaploids derived from Western European lineages. A glacial refugium in Midwestern North America likely facilitated post-glacial recolonization of North America and limited genetic divergence. These results implicate both glaciation and whole-genome duplication as contributing factors to the extant biogeography of C. rotundifolia.
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- Brittany L Sutherland
- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904-4328, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904-4328, USA
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Cornetti L, Hilfiker D, Lemoine M, Tschirren B. Small-scale spatial variation in infection risk shapes the evolution of a Borrelia resistance gene in wild rodents. Mol Ecol 2018; 27:3515-3524. [PMID: 30040159 DOI: 10.1111/mec.14812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2017] [Revised: 07/04/2018] [Accepted: 07/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Spatial variation in pathogen-mediated selection is predicted to influence the evolutionary trajectory of host populations and lead to spatial variation in their immunogenetic composition. However, to date few studies have been able to directly link small-scale spatial variation in infection risk to host immune gene evolution in natural, nonhuman populations. Here, we use a natural rodent-Borrelia system to test for associations between landscape-level spatial variation in Borrelia infection risk along replicated elevational gradients in the Swiss Alps and Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) evolution, a candidate gene for Borrelia resistance, across bank vole (Myodes glareolus) populations. We found that Borrelia infection risk (i.e., the product of Borrelia prevalence in questing ticks and the average tick load of voles at a sampling site) was spatially variable and significantly negatively associated with elevation. Across sampling sites, Borrelia prevalence in bank voles was significantly positively associated with Borrelia infection risk along the elevational clines. We observed a significant association between naturally occurring TLR2 polymorphisms in hosts and their Borrelia infection status. The TLR2 variant associated with a reduced likelihood of Borrelia infection was most common in rodent populations at lower elevations that face a high Borrelia infection risk, and its frequency changed in accordance with the change in Borrelia infection risk along the elevational clines. These results suggest that small-scale spatial variation in parasite-mediated selection affects the immunogenetic composition of natural host populations, providing a striking example that the microbial environment shapes the evolution of the host's immune system in the wild.
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- Luca Cornetti
- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Zoological Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK
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García-Vázquez D, Bilton DT, Foster GN, Ribera I. Pleistocene range shifts, refugia and the origin of widespread species in western Palaearctic water beetles. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2017. [PMID: 28624516 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Quaternary glacial cycles drove major shifts in both the extent and location of the geographical ranges of many organisms. During glacial maxima, large areas of central and northern Europe were inhospitable to temperate species, and these areas are generally assumed to have been recolonized during interglacials by range expansions from Mediterranean refugia. An alternative is that this recolonization was from non-Mediterranean refugia, in central Europe or western Asia, but data on the origin of widespread central and north European species remain fragmentary, especially for insects. We studied three widely distributed lineages of freshwater beetles (the Platambus maculatus complex, the Hydraena gracilis complex, and the genus Oreodytes), all restricted to running waters and including both narrowly distributed southern endemics and widespread European species, some with distributions spanning the Palearctic. Our main goal was to determine the role of the Pleistocene glaciations in shaping the diversification and current distribution of these lineages. We sequenced four mitochondrial and two nuclear genes in populations drawn from across the ranges of these taxa, and used Bayesian probabilities and Maximum Likelihood to reconstruct their phylogenetic relationships, age and geographical origin. Our results suggest that all extant species in these groups are of Pleistocene origin. In the H. gracilis complex, the widespread European H. gracilis has experienced a rapid, recent range expansion from northern Anatolia, to occupy almost the whole of Europe. However, in the other two groups widespread central and northern European taxa appear to originate from central Asia, rather than the Mediterranean. These widespread species of eastern origin typically have peripherally isolated forms in the southern Mediterranean peninsulas, which may be remnants of earlier expansion-diversification cycles or result from incipient isolation of populations during the most recent Holocene expansion. The accumulation of narrow endemics of such lineages in the Mediterranean may result from successive cycles of range expansion, with subsequent speciation (and local extinction in glaciated areas) through multiple Pleistocene climatic cycles.
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- David García-Vázquez
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Passeig Maritim de la Barceloneta 37, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK
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- Aquatic Coleoptera Conservation Trust, 3 Eglinton Terrace, Ayr KA7 1JJ, Scotland, UK
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Passeig Maritim de la Barceloneta 37, 08003 Barcelona, Spain.
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Estrada-Peña A, de la Fuente J, Cabezas-Cruz A. Functional Redundancy and Ecological Innovation Shape the Circulation of Tick-Transmitted Pathogens. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2017; 7:234. [PMID: 28620590 PMCID: PMC5450623 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2017.00234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2017] [Accepted: 05/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Ticks are vectors of pathogens affecting human and animal health worldwide. Nevertheless, the ecological and evolutionary interactions between ticks, hosts, and pathogens are largely unknown. Here, we integrated a framework to evaluate the associations of the tick Ixodes ricinus with its hosts and environmental niches that impact pathogen circulation. The analysis of tick-hosts association suggested that mammals and lizards were the ancestral hosts of this tick species, and that a leap to Aves occurred around 120 M years ago. The signature of the environmental variables over the host's phylogeny revealed the existence of two clades of vertebrates diverging along a temperature and vegetation split. This is a robust proof that the tick probably experienced a colonization of new niches by adapting to a large set of new hosts, Aves. Interestingly, the colonization of Aves as hosts did not increase significantly the ecological niche of I. ricinus, but remarkably Aves are super-spreaders of pathogens. The disparate contribution of Aves to the tick-host-pathogen networks revealed that I. ricinus evolved to maximize habitat overlap with some hosts that are super-spreaders of pathogens. These results supported the hypothesis that large host networks are not a requirement of tick survival but pathogen circulation. The biological cost of tick adaptation to non-optimal environmental conditions might be balanced by molecular mechanisms triggered by the pathogens that we have only begun to understand.
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- SaBio. Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC-CSIC-UCLM-JCCMCiudad Real, Spain.,Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State UniversityStillwater, OK, United States
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- UMR BIPAR, Animal Health Laboratory, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, ANSES, ENVAMaisons Alfort, France.,Faculty of Science, University of South BohemiaBudejovice, Czechia.,Biology Centre, Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of SciencesCeske Budejovice, Czechia
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Laggis A, Baxevanis AD, Charalampidou A, Maniatsi S, Triantafyllidis A, Abatzopoulos TJ. Microevolution of the noble crayfish (Astacus astacus) in the Southern Balkan Peninsula. BMC Evol Biol 2017; 17:122. [PMID: 28558646 PMCID: PMC5450353 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-017-0971-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2016] [Accepted: 05/17/2017] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Background The noble crayfish (Astacus astacus) displays a complex historical and contemporary genetic status in Europe. The species divergence has been shaped by geological events (i.e. Pleistocene glaciations) and humanly induced impacts (i.e. translocations, pollution, etc.) on its populations due to species commercial value and its niche degradation. Until now, limited genetic information has been procured for the Balkan area and especially for the southernmost distribution of this species (i.e. Greece). It is well known that the rich habitat diversity of the Balkan Peninsula offers suitable conditions for genetically diversified populations. Thus, the present manuscript revisits the phylogenetic relationships of the noble crayfish in Europe and identifies the genetic make-up and the biogeographical patterns of the species in its southern range limit. Results Mitochondrial markers (i.e. COI and 16S) were used in order to elucidate the genetic structure and diversity of the noble crayfish in Europe. Two of the six European haplotypic lineages, were found exclusively in Greece. These two lineages exhibited greater haplotypic richness when compared with the rest four (of “Central European” origin) while they showed high genetic diversity. Divergence time analysis identified that the majority of this divergence was captured through Pleistocene, suggesting a southern glacial refugium (Greece, southern Balkans). Furthermore, six microsatellite markers were used in order to define the factors affecting the genetic structure and demographic history of the species in Greece. The population structure analysis revealed six to nine genetic clusters and eight putative genetic barriers. Evidence of bottleneck effects in the last ~5000 years (due to climatic and geological events and human activities) is also afforded. Findings from several other research fields (e.g. life sciences, geology or even archaeology) have been utilized to perceive the genetic make-up of the noble crayfish. Conclusions The southernmost part of Balkans has played a major role as a glacial refugium for A. astacus. Such refugia have served as centres of expansion to northern regions. Recent history of the noble crayfish in southern Balkans reveals the influence of environmental (climate, geology and/or topology) and anthropogenic factors. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12862-017-0971-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Anastasia Laggis
- Department of Genetics, Development and Molecular Biology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
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- Department of Genetics, Development and Molecular Biology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
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- Scientific Computing Office, Information Technology (IT) Center, School of Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
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- Department of Genetics, Development and Molecular Biology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
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- Department of Genetics, Development and Molecular Biology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
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- Department of Genetics, Development and Molecular Biology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece.
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Borisov YM, Kryshchuk IA, Gaiduchenko HS, Cherepanova EV, Zadyra SV, Levenkova ES, Lukashov DV, Orlov VN. Karyotypic differentiation of populations of the common shrew Sorex araneus L. (Mammalia) in Belarus. COMPARATIVE CYTOGENETICS 2017; 11:359-373. [PMID: 28919969 PMCID: PMC5596991 DOI: 10.3897/compcytogen.11i2.11142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2016] [Accepted: 04/08/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The common shrews, Sorex araneus Linnaeus, 1758, inhabiting the territory of Belarus, are characterized by a significant variation in the frequency of Robertsonian (Rb) translocations. The frequency clines for translocations specific of three chromosome races: the West Dvina (gm, hk, ip, no, qr), Kiev (g/m, hi, k/o, n, p, q, r), and Białowieża (g/r, hn, ik, m/p, o, q) have already been studied in this territory. In this communication we report new data on polymorphic populations with Rb metacentrics specific of the Neroosa race (go, hi, kr, mn, p/q) in south-eastern Belarus, analyse the distribution of karyotypes in southern and central Belarus and draw particular attention to the fixation of the acrocentric variants of chromosomes in this area. The results show that certain Rb metacentrics specific of the Neroosa, West Dvina, Kiev, and Białowieża races (namely, go and pq; ip; ko; hn and ik, respectively) are absent in many polymorphic populations. Thus, the karyotypic differentiation of S. araneus in the studied area is determined by unequal spread of different Rb translocations and by fixation of acrocentric variants of specific chromosomes.
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- Yury M. Borisov
- Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskij Prosp. 33, 119071 Moscow, Russia
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- Scientific and Practical Center for Bioresources, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Akademicheskaya St. 27, 220072 Minsk, Republic of Belarus
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- Scientific and Practical Center for Bioresources, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Akademicheskaya St. 27, 220072 Minsk, Republic of Belarus
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- Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskij Prosp. 33, 119071 Moscow, Russia
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- Shevchenko Kiev National University, Educational–Scientific Center Institute of Biology, Kiev, 03187 Ukraine
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- Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskij Prosp. 33, 119071 Moscow, Russia
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- Shevchenko Kiev National University, Educational–Scientific Center Institute of Biology, Kiev, 03187 Ukraine
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- Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskij Prosp. 33, 119071 Moscow, Russia
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Phylogeography of European moose (Alces alces) based on contemporary mtDNA data and archaeological records. Mamm Biol 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2017.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Rosenfeld UM, Drewes S, Ali HS, Sadowska ET, Mikowska M, Heckel G, Koteja P, Ulrich RG. A highly divergent Puumala virus lineage in southern Poland. Arch Virol 2017; 162:1177-1185. [PMID: 28093611 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-016-3200-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2016] [Accepted: 11/24/2016] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Puumala virus (PUUV) represents one of the most important hantaviruses in Central Europe. Phylogenetic analyses of PUUV strains indicate a strong genetic structuring of this hantavirus. Recently, PUUV sequences were identified in the natural reservoir, the bank vole (Myodes glareolus), collected in the northern part of Poland. The objective of this study was to evaluate the presence of PUUV in bank voles from southern Poland. A total of 72 bank voles were trapped in 2009 at six sites in this part of Poland. RT-PCR and IgG-ELISA analyses detected three PUUV positive voles at one trapping site. The PUUV-infected animals were identified by cytochrome b gene analysis to belong to the Carpathian and Eastern evolutionary lineages of bank vole. The novel PUUV S, M and L segment nucleotide sequences showed the closest similarity to sequences of the Russian PUUV lineage from Latvia, but were highly divergent to those previously found in northern Poland, Slovakia and Austria. In conclusion, the detection of a highly divergent PUUV lineage in southern Poland indicates the necessity of further bank vole monitoring in this region allowing rational public health measures to prevent human infections.
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- Ulrike M Rosenfeld
- Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Südufer 10, Greifswald-Insel Riems, 17493, Germany
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- Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Südufer 10, Greifswald-Insel Riems, 17493, Germany
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- Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Südufer 10, Greifswald-Insel Riems, 17493, Germany
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 30-387, Poland
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 30-387, Poland
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- Computational and Molecular Population Genetics (CMPG), Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Bern, CH-3012, Switzerland.,Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Genopode, Lausanne, CH-1015, Switzerland
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 30-387, Poland
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- Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Südufer 10, Greifswald-Insel Riems, 17493, Germany.
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Stojak J, McDevitt AD, Herman JS, Kryštufek B, Uhlíková J, Purger JJ, Lavrenchenko LA, Searle JB, Wójcik JM. Between the Balkans and the Baltic: Phylogeography of a Common Vole Mitochondrial DNA Lineage Limited to Central Europe. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0168621. [PMID: 27992546 PMCID: PMC5161492 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0168621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2016] [Accepted: 12/02/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The common vole (Microtus arvalis) has been a model species of small mammal for studying end-glacial colonization history. In the present study we expanded the sampling from central and eastern Europe, analyzing contemporary genetic structure to identify the role of a potential 'northern glacial refugium', i.e. a refugium at a higher latitude than the traditional Mediterranean refugia. Altogether we analyzed 786 cytochrome b (cytb) sequences (representing mitochondrial DNA; mtDNA) from the whole of Europe, adding 177 new sequences from central and eastern Europe, and we conducted analyses on eight microsatellite loci for 499 individuals (representing nuclear DNA) from central and eastern Europe, adding data on 311 new specimens. Our new data fill gaps in the vicinity of the Carpathian Mountains, the potential northern refugium, such that there is now dense sampling from the Balkans to the Baltic Sea. Here we present evidence that the Eastern mtDNA lineage of the common vole was present in the vicinity of this Carpathian refugium during the Last Glacial Maximum and the Younger Dryas. The Eastern lineage expanded from this refugium to the Baltic and shows low cytb nucleotide diversity in those most northerly parts of the distribution. Analyses of microsatellites revealed a similar pattern but also showed little differentiation between all of the populations sampled in central and eastern Europe.
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- Joanna Stojak
- Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża, Poland
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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- Ecosystems and Environment Research Centre, School of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Natural Sciences, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Vertebrate Department, Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecology, Institute of Biology, University in Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
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- Department of Mammalian Microevolution, A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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- Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża, Poland
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Herman JS, Jóhannesdóttir F, Jones EP, McDevitt AD, Michaux JR, White TA, Wójcik JM, Searle JB. Post-glacial colonization of Europe by the wood mouse,Apodemus sylvaticus: evidence of a northern refugium and dispersal with humans. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Jeremy S. Herman
- National Museums of Scotland; Chambers Street Edinburgh EH1 1JF UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Cornell University; Corson Hall Ithaca NY 14853-2701 USA
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- Ecosystems and Environment Research Centre; School of Environment and Life Sciences; University of Salford; Salford M5 4WT UK
- Mammal Research Institute; Polish Academy of Sciences; 17-230 Białowieża Poland
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- Unité de génétique de la conservation; Institut de Botanique; Université de Liège; 4000 Liège Belgique
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Cornell University; Corson Hall Ithaca NY 14853-2701 USA
- Lancaster Environment Centre; Lancaster University; Lancaster LA1 4YQ UK
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- Mammal Research Institute; Polish Academy of Sciences; 17-230 Białowieża Poland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Cornell University; Corson Hall Ithaca NY 14853-2701 USA
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Ait Belkacem A, Gast O, Stuckas H, Canal D, LoValvo M, Giacalone G, Päckert M. North African hybrid sparrows (Passer domesticus, P. hispaniolensis) back from oblivion - ecological segregation and asymmetric mitochondrial introgression between parental species. Ecol Evol 2016; 6:5190-206. [PMID: 27551376 PMCID: PMC4984497 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2016] [Revised: 05/31/2016] [Accepted: 06/03/2016] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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A stabilized hybrid form of the house sparrow (Passer domesticus) and the Spanish sparrow (P. hispaniolensis) is known as Passer italiae from the Italian Peninsula and a few Mediterranean islands. The growing attention for the Italian hybrid sparrow and increasing knowledge on its biology and genetic constitution greatly contrast the complete lack of knowledge of the long‐known phenotypical hybrid sparrow populations from North Africa. Our study provides new data on the breeding biology and variation of mitochondrial DNA in three Algerian populations of house sparrows, Spanish sparrows, and phenotypical hybrids. In two field seasons, the two species occupied different breeding habitats: Spanish sparrows were only found in rural areas outside the cities and bred in open‐cup nests built in large jujube bushes. In contrast, house sparrows bred only in the town centers and occupied nesting holes in walls of buildings. Phenotypical hybrids were always associated with house sparrow populations. House sparrows and phenotypical hybrids started breeding mid of March, and most pairs had three successive clutches, whereas Spanish sparrows started breeding almost one month later and had only two successive clutches. Mitochondrial introgression is strongly asymmetric because about 75% of the rural Spanish sparrow population carried house sparrow haplotypes. In contrast, populations of the Italian hybrid form, P. italiae, were genetically least diverse among all study populations and showed a near‐fixation of house sparrow haplotypes that elsewhere were extremely rare or that were even unique for the Italian Peninsula. Such differences between mitochondrial gene pools of Italian and North African hybrid sparrow populations provide first evidence that different demographic histories have shaped the extant genetic diversity observed on both continents.
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- Abdelkrim Ait Belkacem
- Faculty of Sciences of nature and lifes Department of Agropastoralism University of Djelfa BP. 3117 17000 Djelfa Algeria
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- Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Königsbrücker Landstraße 159D-01109 Dresden Germany; Institute of Vertebrate Biology Czech Academy of Sciences External Research Facility Studenec Studenec 122675 02 Koněšín Czech Republic
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- Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Königsbrücker Landstraße 159 D-01109 Dresden Germany
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC Avda. Américo Vespucio s/n 41092 Seville Spain
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche Chimiche e Farmaceutiche Via Archirafi 18 I-90123 Palermo Italy
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- Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Königsbrücker Landstraße 159 D-01109 Dresden Germany
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Jablonski D, Jandzik D, Mikulíček P, Džukić G, Ljubisavljević K, Tzankov N, Jelić D, Thanou E, Moravec J, Gvoždík V. Contrasting evolutionary histories of the legless lizards slow worms (Anguis) shaped by the topography of the Balkan Peninsula. BMC Evol Biol 2016; 16:99. [PMID: 27165497 PMCID: PMC4863322 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-016-0669-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2016] [Accepted: 04/25/2016] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Background Genetic architecture of a species is a result of historical changes in population size and extent of distribution related to climatic and environmental factors and contemporary processes of dispersal and gene flow. Population-size and range contractions, expansions and shifts have a substantial effect on genetic diversity and intraspecific divergence, which is further shaped by gene-flow limiting barriers. The Balkans, as one of the most important sources of European biodiversity, is a region where many temperate species persisted during the Pleistocene glaciations and where high topographic heterogeneity offers suitable conditions for local adaptations of populations. In this study, we investigated the phylogeographical patterns and demographic histories of four species of semifossorial slow-worm lizards (genus Anguis) present in the Balkan Peninsula, and tested the relationship between genetic diversity and topographic heterogeneity of the inhabited ranges. Results We inferred phylogenetic relationships, compared genetic structure and historical demography of slow worms using nucleotide sequence variation of mitochondrial DNA. Four Anguis species with mostly parapatric distributions occur in the Balkan Peninsula. They show different levels of genetic diversity. A signature of population growth was detected in all four species but with various courses in particular populations. We found a strong correlation between genetic diversity of slow-worm populations and topographic ruggedness of the ranges (mountain systems) they inhabit. Areas with more rugged terrain harbour higher genetic diversity. Conclusions Phylogeographical pattern of the genus Anguis in the Balkans is concordant with the refugia-within-refugia model previously proposed for both several other taxa in the region and other main European Peninsulas. While slow-worm populations from the southern refugia mostly have restricted distributions and have not dispersed much from their refugial areas, populations from the extra-Mediterranean refugia in northern parts of the Balkans have colonized vast areas of eastern, central, and western Europe. Besides climatic historical events, the heterogeneous topography of the Balkans has also played an important role in shaping genetic diversity of slow worms. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12862-016-0669-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Daniel Jablonski
- Department of Zoology, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia.
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- Department of Zoology, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EBIO), University of Colorado, Ramaley N122, Campus, Box 334, 80309-0334, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Zoology, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković", 11060, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković", 11060, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Vertebrates, National Museum of Natural History, Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd. 1, 1000, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Croatian Institute for Biodiversity, Croatian Herpetological Society Hyla, I, Breznička 5a, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Biology, Section of Animal Biology, School of Natural Sciences, University of Patras, GR-26500, Patras, Greece
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- Department of Zoology, National Museum, 193 00, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology, National Museum, 193 00, Prague, Czech Republic.,Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, 603 65, Brno, Czech Republic
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The clinal variation of metacentric frequency in the populations of the common shrew, Sorex araneus L., in the Dnieper and Pripyat interfluve. MAMMAL RES 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s13364-016-0272-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Tarnowska E, Niedziałkowska M, Gerc J, Korbut Z, Górny M, Jędrzejewska B. Spatial distribution of the Carpathian and Eastern mtDNA lineages of the bank vole in their contact zone relates to environmental conditions. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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- Ewa Tarnowska
- Mammal Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences; 17-230 Białowieża Poland
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- Mammal Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences; 17-230 Białowieża Poland
- Nicolaus Copernicus University; Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum 85-067 Bydgoszcz Poland
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- Mammal Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences; 17-230 Białowieża Poland
- Institute of Biology; University of Białystok; 15-245 Białystok Poland
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- Mammal Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences; 17-230 Białowieża Poland
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Brahimi A, Tarai N, Benhassane A, Henrard A, Libois R. Genetic and morphological consequences of Quaternary glaciations: A relic barbel lineage (Luciobarbus pallaryi, Cyprinidae) of Guir Basin (Algeria). C R Biol 2016; 339:83-98. [PMID: 26874458 DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2015.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2015] [Revised: 12/23/2015] [Accepted: 12/25/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Climatic variations during the Quaternary period had a considerable impact on landscapes and habitat fragmentation (rivers) in North Africa. These historical events can have significant consequences on the genetic structure of the populations. Indeed, geographically separated and genetically isolated populations tend to differentiate themselves through time, eventually becoming distinct lineages, allowing new species to emerge in later generations. The aim of the present study is to use genetic and morphological techniques to evaluate the major role of the Saalian glaciation (Middle Quaternary) in the establishment of the geographic space and in the evolution of the intraspecific genetic diversity, by tracing the demographic history of barbels belonging to the Luciobarbus pallaryi (Cyprinidae) species in the Guir Basin (Algeria). In this context, two populations, from two distinct and isolated sites, were studied. Analysis of the cytochrome b (cyt b) mitochondrial markers and of the "D-loop" control region has shown that the "upstream" and "downstream" Guir populations are genetically differentiated. The molecular analyses suggest that the upstream population was disconnected from this hydrographic system during the Saalian glaciation period of the Quaternary. Subsequently, it was isolated in the foggaras underground waters in the Great Western Erg, at approximately 320 000 years BP, creating, through a bottleneck effect, a new allopatric lineage referred to as "Adrar". Conversely, the high genetic diversity in the upstream Guir (Bechar) population suggests that the stock is globally in expansion. These barbels (n=52) were also examined with meristic, morphometric, osteological, and biological features. These data also reveal a complete discrimination between the two populations, with a remarkable and distinctive behavioural adaptation for the Adrar specimens: neoteny.
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- Amina Brahimi
- Department of Agronomy, University of Mohamed Kheider, 07000 Biskra, Algeria; Zoogeography Research Unit, Department of Biology, Ecology and Evolution, University of Liège, chemin de la vallée 4 (bâtiment B22), 4000 Sart Tilman, Belgium.
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- Department of Agronomy, University of Mohamed Kheider, 07000 Biskra, Algeria
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- Earth and life Institute, Biodiversity research Center, UCL-17. 07. 04, bâtiment Carnoy, Croix-du-Sud, 5, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; Royal Museum for Central Africa, 3080 Tervuren, Belgium
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- Zoogeography Research Unit, Department of Biology, Ecology and Evolution, University of Liège, chemin de la vallée 4 (bâtiment B22), 4000 Sart Tilman, Belgium
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Cornetti L, Lemoine M, Hilfiker D, Morger J, Reeh K, Tschirren B. Higher genetic diversity on mountain tops: the role of historical and contemporary processes in shaping genetic variation in the bank vole. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Luca Cornetti
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies; University of Zurich; Winterthurerstrasse 190 8057 Zurich Switzerland
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies; University of Zurich; Winterthurerstrasse 190 8057 Zurich Switzerland
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies; University of Zurich; Winterthurerstrasse 190 8057 Zurich Switzerland
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies; University of Zurich; Winterthurerstrasse 190 8057 Zurich Switzerland
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies; University of Zurich; Winterthurerstrasse 190 8057 Zurich Switzerland
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies; University of Zurich; Winterthurerstrasse 190 8057 Zurich Switzerland
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Çolak R, Olgun Karacan G, Kandemir I, Çolak E, Kankiliç T, Yigit N, Michaux J. Genetic variations of Turkish bank vole, Myodes glareolus (Mammalia: Rodentia) inferred from mtDNA. Mitochondrial DNA A DNA Mapp Seq Anal 2015; 27:4372-4379. [PMID: 26540489 DOI: 10.3109/19401736.2015.1089537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The bank vole, Myodes glareolus, lives in deciduous forests throughout the Palearctic region. In Turkey, this species is distributed only in northern Anatolia (the Black Sea region) where these forests exist. This study reveals genetic differentiation among bank vole populations based on two regions of mitochondrial DNA (cytochrome b and D-loop). Populations in northern Anatolia are divided into two genetic lineages (the "eastern" and "western Black Sea" lineages) by the Kızılırmak Valley. While the western Black Sea lineage is close to the Balkan lineage, in accordance with their geographical proximities, surprisingly, the Uludag lineage, also situated in Western Turkey appears related to the eastern Black Sea population. The divergence time analyses suggest a separation between the Balkan and Turkish groups around 0.26 Mya, whereas the split between the eastern and western Black sea lineages appeared a little bit later (0.20 Mya). Our results suggest that regional refuges existed for this species in Turkey and that small-scale habitat fragmentations led to genetic differentiations between Myodes populations.
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- Reyhan Çolak
- a Department of Biology , Faculty of Science, Ankara University , Tandoğan, Ankara , Turkey
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- b Department of Biology , Faculty of Science and Letters, Aksaray University , Aksaray , Turkey
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- a Department of Biology , Faculty of Science, Ankara University , Tandoğan, Ankara , Turkey
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- a Department of Biology , Faculty of Science, Ankara University , Tandoğan, Ankara , Turkey
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- c Department of Biology , Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Niğde University , Niğde , Turkey , and
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- a Department of Biology , Faculty of Science, Ankara University , Tandoğan, Ankara , Turkey
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- d Conservation Genetics Unit, Botany Institute (Bat. 22), University of Liège , Liège , Belgium
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Morger J, Råberg L, Hille SM, Helsen S, Štefka J, Al-Sabi MM, Kapel CMO, Mappes T, Essbauer S, Ulrich RG, Bartolommei P, Mortelliti A, Balčiauskas L, van den Brink NW, Rémy A, Bajer A, Cheprakov M, Korva M, García-Pérez AL, Biek R, Withenshaw S, Tschirren B. Distinct haplotype structure at the innate immune receptor Toll-like receptor 2 across bank vole populations and lineages in Europe. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Jennifer Morger
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies; University of Zurich; Winterthurerstrasse 190 8057 Zurich Switzerland
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- Department of Biology; Lund University; Sölvegatan 35 223 62 Lund Sweden
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- Institute of Wildlife Biology and Game Management; University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences; Gregor Mendel-Strasse 33 1180 Vienna Austria
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- Evolutionary Ecology Group; Department of Biology; University of Antwerp; Groenenborgerlaan 171 2020 Antwerp Belgium
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- Faculty of Science; Biology Centre ASCR; Institute of Parasitology and University of South Bohemia; Branišovská 31 37005 České Budějovice Czech Republic
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences; Faculty of Science; University of Copenhagen; Thorvaldsensvej 40 1871 Frederiksberg C Denmark
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences; Faculty of Science; University of Copenhagen; Thorvaldsensvej 40 1871 Frederiksberg C Denmark
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science; University of Jyväskylä; PO Box 35 40014 Jyväskylä Finland
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- Department Virology and Rickettsiology; Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology; Neuherbergstrasse 11 80937 Munich Germany
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- Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut; Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases; Federal Research Institute for Animal Health; Südufer 10 17493 Greifswald - Insel Riems Germany
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- Fondazione Ethoikos; Convento dell'Osservanza Radicondoli 53030 Siena Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology ‘Charles Darwin’; University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’; Viale dell'Università 32 00185 Rome Italy
- National Environmental Research Program; Fenner School of Environment and Society; Australian Research Council Centre for Environmental Decisions; The Australian National University; Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
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- Alterra, Wageningen UR; PO-Box 47 6700 AA Wageningen the Netherlands
- Sub-Department of Toxicology; Wageningen University Wageningen UR; PO-Box 8000 6700 EA Wageningen the Netherlands
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- Faculty of Applied Ecology and Agricultural Sciences; Hedmark University College; Anne Evenstadsvei 80 2480 Koppang Norway
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- Department of Parasitology; Faculty of Biology; Institute of Zoology; University of Warsaw; 1 Miecznikowa Street 02-096 Warsaw Poland
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- Ural Branch; Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology; Russian Academy of Sciences; Str 8 Marta 202 Yekaterinburg 620144 Russia
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- Faculty of Medicine; Institute of Microbiology and Immunology; Zaloška 4 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia
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- Department of Animal Health; NEIKER - Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario; Berreaga 1 48160 Derio Bizkaia Spain
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- College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences; Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health; Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine; University of Glasgow; Glasgow G12 8QQ UK
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour; Institute of Integrative Biology; University of Liverpool; Crown Street Liverpool L69 7ZB UK
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies; University of Zurich; Winterthurerstrasse 190 8057 Zurich Switzerland
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