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Jeanjean M, McGrath K, Valenzuela-Lamas S, Nieto-Espinet A, Schafberg R, Parés-Casanova PM, Jiménez-Manchón S, Guintard C, Tekkouk F, Ridouh R, Mureau C, Evin A. ZooMS confirms geometric morphometrics species identification of ancient sheep and goat. R Soc Open Sci 2023; 10:230672. [PMID: 37771960 PMCID: PMC10523075 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.230672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2023] [Accepted: 08/25/2023] [Indexed: 09/30/2023]
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Geometric morphometrics can effectively distinguish isolated third lower molars of present-day sheep and goat, but its applicability to archaeological specimens has yet to be established. Using a modern reference collection of 743 sheep and goats and a two-dimensional landmark-based geometric morphometric (GMM) protocol, this study aimed to morphometrically identify 109 archaeological specimens, used as case studies, dating from the Late Neolithic to the modern period/era. These morphometric identifications were then compared to molecular identifications via collagen peptide mass fingerprinting, known as Zooarcheology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS). ZooMS confirmed the morphometric identifications for 104 specimens, with the five misidentified specimens all morphometrically identified as goat. Modern sheep and goats have larger teeth and distinct shapes compared to their archaeological counterparts, suggesting strong differences between archaeological and modern specimens potentially linked with recent breed improvement or geographical origin of the specimens. In addition, for both species, some of the archaeological dental morphologies do not match with any of our modern references. This study validates the applicability of geometric morphometrics for identifying isolated archaeological sheep and goat teeth. It represents a stepping stone for future, non-destructive, bioarchaeological studies of the two species.
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- Marine Jeanjean
- Institute of Evolutionary Science-Montpellier (ISEM), University of Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Prehistory & Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Barcelona, Spain
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- Archaeology of Social Dynamics (ASD), Institució Milà i Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IMF-CSIC), C/ Egipcíaques 15, 08001 Barcelona, Spain
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- Grup d'Investigació Prehistòrica (GIP), Departament d'Història, Universidad de Lleida, 25005 Lleida, Spain
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- Central Natural Science Collections, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Domplatz 4, 06108 Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Archaeology of Social Dynamics (ASD), Institució Milà i Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IMF-CSIC), C/ Egipcíaques 15, 08001 Barcelona, Spain
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- Laboratoire d'Anatomie comparée, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, de l'Agroalimentaire et de l'Alimentation, Nantes Atlantique – ONIRIS, Nantes Cedex 03, France
- GEROM, UPRES EA 4658, LABCOM ANR NEXTBONE, Faculté de santé de l'Université d'Angers, Angers, France
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- Institut des Sciences Vétérinaires, Laboratoire « Gestion de la santé et productions animales », Université des frères Mentouri, El Khroub, Algérie
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- Institut des Sciences Vétérinaires, Laboratoire « Gestion de la santé et productions animales », Université des frères Mentouri, El Khroub, Algérie
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- Institute of Evolutionary Science-Montpellier (ISEM), University of Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- Institute of Evolutionary Science-Montpellier (ISEM), University of Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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Jesus A, Bonhomme V, Evin A, Soteras R, Jacomet S, Bouby L, Antolín F. Morphometrics of waterlogged archaeological seeds give new insights into the domestication and spread of Papaver somniferum L. in Western Europe. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0286190. [PMID: 37228077 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0286190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2022] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 05/27/2023] Open
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Domesticated opium poppy Papaver somniferum L. subsp. somniferum probably originated in the Western Mediterranean from its possible wild progenitor, Papaver somniferum L. subsp. setigerum and spread to other European regions. Seeds of opium poppy have been identified in different European regions since the Early Neolithic (from the 6th millennium cal. BC onwards) period. However, until recently, the absence of morphological identification criteria has prevented the discrimination between wild and domestic morphotypes. New morphometric approaches to distinguish modern subspecies have been proven to be applicable to waterlogged archaeological remains, opening the possibility of understanding the process of domestication of the plant in both time and space. This paper applies seed outline analyses, namely elliptic Fourier transforms, combined with size and number of cells to archaeological waterlogged Papaver seeds throughout the Neolithic period in the NW Mediterranean and the surroundings of the Alps. Furthermore, one example from the Late Bronze Age (LBA) was added to see what kind of differences appeared during the >1000 years between the end of the Neolithic and the LBA. The aim of the study is to classify the archaeological seeds as domestic or wild morphotypes and observe morphometric changes in connection to geographical and chronological patterns that can explain the spread and domestication process(es) of this important crop. A total of 295 archaeological seeds coming from 10 waterlogged sites dating between 5300-2300 cal. BC (Neolithic), and one LBA site dating to 1070 cal. BC were analysed. The results indicate the presence of seeds, similar to the wild morphotype, in the Mediterranean sites and larger seeds, similar to the domestic morphotype, in the regions surrounding the Alps. The number of cells mainly increased during the Late Neolithic (3300 to 2300 cal. BC) and, finally, in the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1050-800 cal. BC), larger, morphologically domesticated seeds are clearly predominant. A change in the shape of the seeds is only clearly visible in the LBA material. Altogether our results suggest that opium poppy seeds show no sign of domestication in the early periods of the Neolithic, despite the fact that the plant was very probably already cultivated at that time in the western Mediterranean region.
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- Ana Jesus
- Department of Environmental Sciences, Integrative Prehistory and Archeological Science (IPAS), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Département Paléo-Ecosystèmes, Climat, Sociétés (PAST), ISEM, University of Montpellier-CNRS-IRD-EPHE, Montpellier, France
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- Département Paléo-Ecosystèmes, Climat, Sociétés (PAST), ISEM, University of Montpellier-CNRS-IRD-EPHE, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Integrative Prehistory and Archeological Science (IPAS), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Division of Natural Sciences, German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Integrative Prehistory and Archeological Science (IPAS), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Département Paléo-Ecosystèmes, Climat, Sociétés (PAST), ISEM, University of Montpellier-CNRS-IRD-EPHE, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Integrative Prehistory and Archeological Science (IPAS), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Division of Natural Sciences, German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany
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Jeanty A, Bouby L, Bonhomme V, Balfourier F, Debiton C, Dham C, Ivorra S, Ros J, Evin A. Barley systematics and taxonomy foreseen by seed morphometric variation. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0285195. [PMID: 37195931 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0285195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2022] [Accepted: 04/17/2023] [Indexed: 05/19/2023] Open
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Since its Neolithic domestication in the Fertile Crescent, barley has spread to all continents and represents a major cereal in many modern agrarian systems. Current barley diversity includes thousands of varieties divided into four main categories corresponding to 2-row and 6-row subspecies and naked and hulled types, each of them with winter and spring varieties. This diversity is associated to different uses and allow cultivation in diverse environments. We used a large dataset of 58 varieties of French origin, (1) to assess the taxonomic signal in barley grain measurements comparing 2-row and 6-row subspecies, and naked and hulled types; (2) to test the impact of the sowing period and interannual variation on the grains size and shape; (3) to investigate the existence of morphological differences between winter and spring types; and finally (4) to contrast the relationship between the morphometric and genetic proximity. Size and shape of 1980 modern barley caryopses were quantified through elliptic Fourier Transforms and traditional size measurements. Our results indicate that barley grains record morphological diversity of the ear (89.3% classification accuracy between 2-row/6-row subspecies; 85.2% between hulled and naked type), sowing time of the grains (from 65.6% to 73.3% within barley groups), and environmental conditions during its cultivation and varietal diversity. This study opens perspectives for studying archaeological barley seeds and tracing the barley diversity and evolution since the Neolithic.
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- Angèle Jeanty
- ISEM, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- ISEM, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- ISEM, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Athéna, Lacamp, Roquedur, France
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- ISEM, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- ISEM, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- ISEM, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- ISEM, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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Fasse L, Roche N, Flahault C, Garrouste-Orgeas M, Ximenes M, Pages A, Evin A, Dauchy S, Scotte F, Le Provost JB, Blot F, Mateus C. The APSY-SED study: protocol of an observational, longitudinal, mixed methods and multicenter study exploring the psychological adjustment of relatives and healthcare providers of patients with cancer with continuous deep sedation until death. Palliat Care 2022; 21:217. [PMID: 36464684 PMCID: PMC9720978 DOI: 10.1186/s12904-022-01106-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2022] [Accepted: 11/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Since 2016, France is the only country in the World where continuous deep sedation until death (CDSUD) is regulated by law. CDSUD serves as a response to refractory suffering in palliative situations where the patients' death is expected to occur in the following hours or days. Little is known on the psychological adjustment surrounding a CDSUD procedure for healthcare providers (HCPs) and relatives. Our study aims to gather qualitative and quantitative data on the specific processes behind the psychological adjustment of both relatives and HCPs, after the administration of CDSUD for patients with cancer. METHODS The APSY-SED study is a prospective, longitudinal, mixed-methods and multicenter study. Recruitment will involve any French-speaking adult cancer patient for who a CDSUD is discussed, their relatives and HCPs. We plan to include 150 patients, 150 relatives, and 50 HCPs. The evaluation criteria of this research are: 1/ Primary criterion: Psychological adjustment of relatives and HCPs 6 and 13 months after the death of the patient with cancer (psychological adjustment = intensity of anxiety, depression and grief reactions, CDSUD-related distress, job satisfaction, Professional Stress and Professional experience). Secondary criteria: a)occurrence of wish for a CDSUD in patients in palliative phase; b)occurrence of wish for hastened death in patients in palliative phase; c)potential predictors of adjustment assessed after the discussion concerning CDSUD as an option and before the setting of the CDSUD; d) Thematic analysis and narrative account of meaning-making process concerning the grief experience. DISCUSSION The APSY-SED study will be the first to investigate the psychological adjustment of HCPs and relatives in the context of a CDSUD procedure implemented according to French law. Gathering data on the grief process for relatives can help understand bereavement after CDSUD, and participate in the elaboration of specific tailored interventions to support HCPs and relatives. Empirical findings on CDSUD among patients with cancer in France could be compared with existing data in other countries and with results related to other medical fields where CDSUD is also conducted. TRIAL REGISTRATION This protocol received the National Registration Number: ID-RCB2021-A03042-39 on 14/12/2021.
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- L. Fasse
- grid.14925.3b0000 0001 2284 9388DIOPP, Gustave Roussy Hospital, Villejuif, France ,grid.508487.60000 0004 7885 7602Institut de Psychologie Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Processus de Santé, Université Paris Cité, 71 avenue E. Vaillant, F-92100 Boulogne- Billancourt, France
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- grid.14925.3b0000 0001 2284 9388DIOPP, Gustave Roussy Hospital, Villejuif, France
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- grid.14925.3b0000 0001 2284 9388DIOPP, Gustave Roussy Hospital, Villejuif, France ,grid.508487.60000 0004 7885 7602Institut de Psychologie Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Processus de Santé, Université Paris Cité, 71 avenue E. Vaillant, F-92100 Boulogne- Billancourt, France
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- grid.508487.60000 0004 7885 7602IAME, INSERM, Université de Paris, F-75018 Paris, France ,Palliative Care unit, Reuilly Diaconesses Fondation, Rueil Malmaison, France ,Medical unit, French British Hospital, Levallois-Perret, France
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- Maison Médicale Marie Galène, Bordeaux, France
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- grid.14925.3b0000 0001 2284 9388Biostatistical Unit, Gustave Roussy Hospital, Villejuif, France
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- grid.277151.70000 0004 0472 0371Palliative Care unit, CHU, Nantes, France
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- grid.508487.60000 0004 7885 7602DMU Psychiatry and Addictology, AP-HP.Centre, Université de Paris, Paris, France
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- grid.14925.3b0000 0001 2284 9388DIOPP, Gustave Roussy Hospital, Villejuif, France
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- grid.14925.3b0000 0001 2284 9388DIOPP, Gustave Roussy Hospital, Villejuif, France
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- grid.14925.3b0000 0001 2284 9388DIOPP, Gustave Roussy Hospital, Villejuif, France
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- grid.14925.3b0000 0001 2284 9388DIOPP, Gustave Roussy Hospital, Villejuif, France
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Evin A, David L, Souron A, Mennecart B, Orliac M, Lebrun R. Size and shape of the semicircular canal of the inner ear: A new marker of pig domestication? J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol 2022; 338:552-560. [PMID: 35226406 PMCID: PMC9790707 DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.23127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2021] [Revised: 01/24/2022] [Accepted: 02/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Domestication has led to many changes in domestic animal biology, including their anatomy. The shape of the inner ear, part of the mammalian ear, has been found particularly relevant for discriminating domesticated species, their hybrids or differentiating the wild and domestic populations of a single species. Here we assessed the use of the size and shape of the semicircular canals (SCC) of the inner ear as a marker of pig domestication. We studied a total of 63 petrosal bones belonging to wild boar (Sus scrofa, two populations) and domestic pigs (extensively and intensively reared specimens) that were µCT-scanned and from which the size and the shape of the inner ear were quantified through geometric morphometrics, analyzing the 3D coordinates of 6 landmarks and 60 sliding semilandmarks localized on the SCC and the common crus. The domestic pigs have larger SCC than the wild boar from which they also strongly differ in shape (correct cross validation of 95.5%, confidence interval: 92.3%-98.1%). Strong shape differences were detected between the two populations of wild boar, as well as a sexual size dimorphism. All together the results highlight the taxonomic discriminant power of the SCC of the inner ear shape, and its relevance for domestication studies.
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- Allowen Evin
- ISEM, University of Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRDMontpellierFrance
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- ISEM, University of Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRDMontpellierFrance
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- University of Bordeaux, CNRS, MCC, PACEA, UMR 5199BordeauxFrance
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- ISEM, University of Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRDMontpellierFrance
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- ISEM, University of Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRDMontpellierFrance
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Cucchi T, Domont A, Harbers H, Evin A, Alcàntara Fors R, Saña M, Leduc C, Guidez A, Bridault A, Hongo H, Price M, Peters J, Briois F, Guilaine J, Vigne JD. Author Correction: Bones geometric morphometrics illustrate 10th millennium cal. BP domestication of autochthonous Cypriot wild boar (Sus scrofa circeus nov. ssp). Sci Rep 2021; 11:19243. [PMID: 34552107 PMCID: PMC8458483 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-96921-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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- Thomas Cucchi
- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, AASPE UMR 7209, CNRS/Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
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- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, AASPE UMR 7209, CNRS/Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
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- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, AASPE UMR 7209, CNRS/Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
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- ISEM, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Trajectoires, de la Sédentarisation à l'État, UMR 8215, Maison de l'Archéologie et de l'Ethnologie, 21 Allée de l'Université, 92000, Nanterre, France
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- Archimède, Archéologie et Histoire Ancienne: Méditerranée Europe, UMR 7044, Université de Strasboug, Strasboug, France
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- ArScAn, Equipe Archéologies Environnementales, UMR 7041, CNRS, Maison de l'Archéologie et de l'Ethnologie, 21 Allée de l'Université, 92000, Nanterre, France
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- Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems, School of Advanced Sciences, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Shonan Village, Hayama, Kanagawa, 240‑0193, Japan
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02143, USA
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- ArchaeoBioCenter and Institute of Palaeoanatomy, Domestication Research and the History of Veterinary Medicine, LMU Munich, 80539, Munich, Germany.,SNSB, State Collection of Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy, 80333, Munich, Germany
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- EHESS, UMR 5608, Travaux et Recherches Archéologiques sur les Cultures, les Espaces et les Sociétés (TRACES), Université Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France
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- Collège de France, 11, Place Marcelin‑Berthelot, 75005, Paris, France
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- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, AASPE UMR 7209, CNRS/Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
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Balcarcel AM, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Segura V, Evin A. Singular patterns of skull shape and brain size change in the domestication of South American camelids. J Mammal 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyaa135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Patterns of selection in South American camelids (Lamini) and their unique demographic history establish the llama and alpaca as remarkable cases of domestication among large herd animals. Skull shape is implicated in many changes reported between wild and domestic taxa. We apply 3D geometric morphometric methods to describe skull shape, form, and size, differences among the four species of Lamini. In so doing, we test if domesticated Lamini exhibit changes similar to those in other domesticated groups: not only in the skull, but also in brain and body size. In contrast to other domesticated artiodactyls, very little change has occurred in domestic alpacas and llamas compared to their wild counterparts. Nevertheless, their differences are statistically significant and include a flatter cranium, inclined palate and increased airorhynchy in the domestics. Selection pressures that contrast with those on other herd animals, as well as recent population bottlenecks, likely have influenced the morphological patterns we note in Lamini. High-resolution 3D morphospace allows skull size, shape, and form (shape + size), to discriminate all four species, with form providing the greatest separation. These results help differentiate morphologically the Lamini, which in nature are distinguished mainly by body size, and provide an additional tool to archaeologists for distinction of wild and domestic remains. Most of our shape analyses suggest a marginally closer relationship between the alpaca and vicuña, to the exclusion of the guanaco, supporting the genetic relationships for this group. The expected brain size change between wild and domestic populations is lower than previously thought, with a 15.4% reduction in llama, and 6.8% reduction in alpaca. This is the lowest reduction in brain size thus far reported among domesticated Artiodactyla.
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- A M Balcarcel
- Palaeontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Karl-Schmid-Strasse, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Palaeontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Karl-Schmid-Strasse, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Unidad Ejecutora Lillo, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas–Fundación Miguel Lillo, Miguel Lillo, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), AAH Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Institut des sciences de l’évolution, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier Cedex, France
- Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, Abercromby Square, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Perri AR, Mitchell KJ, Mouton A, Álvarez-Carretero S, Hulme-Beaman A, Haile J, Jamieson A, Meachen J, Lin AT, Schubert BW, Ameen C, Antipina EE, Bover P, Brace S, Carmagnini A, Carøe C, Samaniego Castruita JA, Chatters JC, Dobney K, Dos Reis M, Evin A, Gaubert P, Gopalakrishnan S, Gower G, Heiniger H, Helgen KM, Kapp J, Kosintsev PA, Linderholm A, Ozga AT, Presslee S, Salis AT, Saremi NF, Shew C, Skerry K, Taranenko DE, Thompson M, Sablin MV, Kuzmin YV, Collins MJ, Sinding MHS, Gilbert MTP, Stone AC, Shapiro B, Van Valkenburgh B, Wayne RK, Larson G, Cooper A, Frantz LAF. Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage. Nature 2021; 591:87-91. [PMID: 33442059 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-03082-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2020] [Accepted: 11/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Dire wolves are considered to be one of the most common and widespread large carnivores in Pleistocene America1, yet relatively little is known about their evolution or extinction. Here, to reconstruct the evolutionary history of dire wolves, we sequenced five genomes from sub-fossil remains dating from 13,000 to more than 50,000 years ago. Our results indicate that although they were similar morphologically to the extant grey wolf, dire wolves were a highly divergent lineage that split from living canids around 5.7 million years ago. In contrast to numerous examples of hybridization across Canidae2,3, there is no evidence for gene flow between dire wolves and either North American grey wolves or coyotes. This suggests that dire wolves evolved in isolation from the Pleistocene ancestors of these species. Our results also support an early New World origin of dire wolves, while the ancestors of grey wolves, coyotes and dholes evolved in Eurasia and colonized North America only relatively recently.
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- Angela R Perri
- Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Durham, UK.
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- Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.,School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
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- The Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- The Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Anatomy, Des Moines University, Des Moines, IA, USA
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- The Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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- Center of Excellence in Paleontology & Department of Geosciences, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, USA
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- ARAID Foundation, Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ciencias Ambientales (IUCA) - Aragosaurus Group, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK
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- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.,Department of Archaeology, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.,Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.,Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
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- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution - Montpellier, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, France
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- Laboratoire Evolution & Diversité Biologique, UPS/CNRS/IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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- Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Urals Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia.,Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia
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- The Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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- Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.,School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.,Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
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- Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Idaho Museum of Natural History, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, USA
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- Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia
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- Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia.,Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
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- Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk, Greenland
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- Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,NTNU University Museum, Trondheim, Norway
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- Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.,School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.,Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- The Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. .,Palaeogenomics Group, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
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Abstract
Quantifying phenotypes is a common practice for addressing questions regarding morphological variation. The time dedicated to data acquisition can vary greatly depending on methods and on the required quantity of information. Optimizing digitization effort can be done either by pooling datasets among users, by automatizing data collection, or by reducing the number of measurements. Pooling datasets among users is not without risk since potential errors arising from multiple operators in data acquisition prevent combining morphometric datasets. We present an analytical workflow to estimate within and among operator biases and to assess whether morphometric datasets can be pooled. We show that pooling and sharing data requires careful examination of the errors occurring during data acquisition, that the choice of morphometric approach influences amount of error, and that in some cases pooling data should be avoided. The demonstration is based on a worked example (Sus scrofa teeth) using a combinations of 18 morphometric approaches and datasets for which we identified and quantified several potential sources of errors in the workflow. We show that it is possible to estimate the analytical power of a study using a small subset of data to select the best morphometric protocol and to optimize the number of variables necessary for analysis. In particular, we focus on semi-landmarks, which often produce an inflation of variables in contrast to the number of available observations use in statistical testing. We show how the workflow can be used for optimizing digitization efforts and provide recommendations for best practices in error management.
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- Allowen Evin
- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution-Montpellier, UMR 5554-ISEM, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, IRD, EPHE, 2 place Eugène Bataillon, CC065, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution-Montpellier, UMR 5554-ISEM, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, IRD, EPHE, 2 place Eugène Bataillon, CC065, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution-Montpellier, UMR 5554-ISEM, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, IRD, EPHE, 2 place Eugène Bataillon, CC065, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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Bonhomme V, Picq S, Ivorra S, Evin A, Pastor T, Bacilieri R, Lacombe T, Figueiral I, Terral JF, Bouby L. Eco-evo-devo implications and archaeobiological perspectives of trait covariance in fruits of wild and domesticated grapevines. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0239863. [PMID: 33156832 PMCID: PMC7647109 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2020] [Accepted: 09/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
The phenotypic changes that occurred during the domestication and diversification of grapevine are well known, particularly changes in seed morphology, but the functional causes and consequences behind these variations are poorly understood. Wild and domesticate grapes differ, among others, in the form of their pips: wild grapes produce roundish pips with short stalks and cultivated varieties have more elongated pips with longer stalks. Such variations of form are of first importance for archaeobotany since the pip form is, most often, the only remaining information in archaeological settings. This study aims to enlighten archaeobotanical record and grapevine pip development by better understanding how size and shape (co)variates between pip and berry in both wild and domesticated Vitis vinifera. The covariation of berry size, number of seeds per berry (“piposity”), pip size and pip shape were explored on 49 grapevine accessions sampled among Euro-Mediterranean traditional cultivars and wild grapevines. We show that for wild grapevine, the higher the piposity, the bigger the berry and the more elongated the pip. For both wild and domesticated grapevine, the longer is the pip, the more it has a “domesticated” shape. Consequences for archaeobotanical studies are tested and discussed, and these covariations allowed the inference of berry dimensions from archaeological pips from a Southern France Roman site. This systematic exploration sheds light on new aspects of pip-berry relationship, in both size and shape, on grapevine eco-evo-devo changes during domestication, and invites to explore further the functional ecology of grapevine pip and berry and notably the impact of cultivation practices and human selection on grapevine morphology.
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- Vincent Bonhomme
- ISEM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
- Équipe « Dynamique de la biodiversité, anthropo-écologie », CC065 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
- * E-mail:
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- ISEM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
- Équipe « Dynamique de la biodiversité, anthropo-écologie », CC065 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
- Laurentian Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada, Québec, Canada
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- ISEM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
- Équipe « Dynamique de la biodiversité, anthropo-écologie », CC065 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- ISEM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
- Équipe « Dynamique de la biodiversité, anthropo-écologie », CC065 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- ISEM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
- Équipe « Dynamique de la biodiversité, anthropo-écologie », CC065 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- UMR AGAP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier SupAgro, Equipe « Diversité, Adaptation et Amélioration de la Vigne », Montpellier, France
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- UMR AGAP, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier SupAgro, Equipe « Diversité, Adaptation et Amélioration de la Vigne », Montpellier, France
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- ISEM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
- Équipe « Dynamique de la biodiversité, anthropo-écologie », CC065 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- ISEM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
- Équipe « Dynamique de la biodiversité, anthropo-écologie », CC065 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- ISEM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
- Équipe « Dynamique de la biodiversité, anthropo-écologie », CC065 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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Berio F, Evin A, Goudemand N, Debiais‐Thibaud M. The intraspecific diversity of tooth morphology in the large-spotted catshark Scyliorhinus stellaris: insights into the ontogenetic cues driving sexual dimorphism. J Anat 2020; 237:960-978. [PMID: 32667054 PMCID: PMC7542197 DOI: 10.1111/joa.13257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2020] [Revised: 05/02/2020] [Accepted: 05/26/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Teeth in sharks are shed and replaced throughout their lifetime. Morphological dental changes through ontogeny have been identified in several species and have been correlated with shifts in diet and the acquisition of sexual maturity. However, these changes were rarely quantified in detail along multiple ontogenetic stages, which makes it difficult to infer the developmental processes responsible for the observed plasticity. In this work, we use micro-computed tomography and 3D geometric morphometrics to describe and analyze the tooth size and shape diversity across three ontogenetic stages (hatchling, juvenile, and sexually mature) in the large-spotted catshark Scyliorhinus stellaris (Linnaeus, 1758). We first describe the intra-individual variation of tooth form for each sex at each ontogenetic stage. We provide a tooth morphospace for palatoquadrate and Meckelian teeth and identify dental features, such as relative size and number of cusps, involved in the range of variation of the observed morphologies. We then use these shape data to draw developmental trajectories between ontogenetic stages and for each tooth position within the jaw to characterize ontogenetic patterns of sexual dimorphism. We highlight the emergence of gynandric heterodonty between the juvenile and mature ontogenetic stages, with mature females having tooth morphologies more similar to juveniles' than mature males that display regression in the number of accessory cusps. From these data, we speculate on the developmental processes that could account for such developmental plasticity in S. stellaris.
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- Fidji Berio
- CNRS, IRD, EPHEUMR5554Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution de Montpellier, ISEMUniversité de MontpellierMontpellierFrance
- Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueÉcole Normale Supérieure de LyonInstitut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de LyonUMR 5242Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1Univ. LyonLyonFrance
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- CNRS, IRD, EPHEUMR5554Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution de Montpellier, ISEMUniversité de MontpellierMontpellierFrance
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- Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueÉcole Normale Supérieure de LyonInstitut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de LyonUMR 5242Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1Univ. LyonLyonFrance
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- CNRS, IRD, EPHEUMR5554Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution de Montpellier, ISEMUniversité de MontpellierMontpellierFrance
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Černá Bolfíková B, Evin A, Rozkošná Knitlová M, Loudová M, Sztencel-Jabłonka A, Bogdanowicz W, Hulva P. 3D Geometric Morphometrics Reveals Convergent Character Displacement in the Central European Contact Zone between Two Species of Hedgehogs (Genus Erinaceus). Animals (Basel) 2020; 10:ani10101803. [PMID: 33020407 PMCID: PMC7650550 DOI: 10.3390/ani10101803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2020] [Revised: 09/27/2020] [Accepted: 09/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Simple Summary Hedgehogs, being insectivores with slow metabolisms, are quite sensitive to temperature and food availability. As a consequence, their ranges have oscillated in relation to past climate changes. Species that have evolved in different regions, but their ranges have shifted and overlapped subsequently, often represent intense competitors as a result of ecological similarities. The present study focuses on this phenomenon in the contact zone in central Europe and adjacent regions, using genetic determination of species and description of size and shape of skull, the morphological structure mirroring many selection pressures related to ecology. While animals living outside of the contact zone show marked differences between the two species, individuals within the contact zone are more alike with a smaller skull size and a convergent jawbone shape. Changes in skull size can be related to inter-species competition and also facilitated by selection pressure, mediated by overpopulated medium-sized predators such as foxes or badgers. Since the function of the lower jaw is mainly connected to feeding, we hypothesize that this pattern is due to the selection to size and shape related to competition for food resources. The present study helps to describe general patterns related to species formation, as well as species responses to anthropogenic environmental changes. Abstract Hedgehogs, as medium-sized plantigrade insectivores with low basal metabolic rates and related defensive anti-predator strategies, are quite sensitive to temperature and ecosystem productivity. Their ranges therefore changed dramatically due to Pleistocene climate oscillations, resulting in allopatric speciation and the subsequent formation of secondary contact zones. Such interactions between closely related species are known to generate strong evolutionary forces responsible for niche differentiation. In this connection, here, we detail the results of research on the phenotypic evolution in the two species of hedgehog present in central Europe, as based on genetics and geometric morphometrics in samples along a longitudinal transect that includes the contact zone between the species. While in allopatry, Erinaceus europaeus is found to have a larger skull than E. roumanicus and distinct cranial and mandibular shapes; the members of the two species in sympatry are smaller and more similar to each other, with a convergent shape of the mandible. The relevant data fail to reveal any major role for either hybridisation or clinal variation. We, therefore, hypothesise that competitive pressure exerted on the studied species does not generate divergent selection sufficient for divergent character displacement to evolve, instead giving rise to convergent selection in the face of resource limitation in the direction of smaller skull size. Considering the multi-factorial constraints present in the relevant adaptive landscape, reduction in size could also be facilitated by predator pressure in ecosystems characterised by mesopredator release and other anthropogenic factors. As the function of the animals’ lower jaw is mainly connected with feeding (in contrast to the cranium whose functions are obviously more complex), we interpret the similarity in shape as reflecting local adaptations to overlapping dietary resources in the two species and hence as convergent character displacement.
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- Barbora Černá Bolfíková
- Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 21 Prague, Czech Republic
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +420-22438-2497
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- Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution—Montpellier (ISEM), Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, 2 place Eugène Bataillon, CC065, CEDEX 5, 34095 Montpellier, France;
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 7, 128 00 Prague, Czech Republic; (M.R.K.); (M.L.); (P.H.)
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 7, 128 00 Prague, Czech Republic; (M.R.K.); (M.L.); (P.H.)
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- Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, 00-679 Warszawa, Poland; (A.S.-J.); (W.B.)
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- Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, 00-679 Warszawa, Poland; (A.S.-J.); (W.B.)
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 7, 128 00 Prague, Czech Republic; (M.R.K.); (M.L.); (P.H.)
- Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Chittussiho 10, 710 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic
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Evin A, Lebrun R, Durocher M, Ameen C, Larson G, Sykes N. Building three-dimensional models before destructive sampling of bioarchaeological remains: a comment to Pálsdóttir et al. (2019). R Soc Open Sci 2020; 7:192034. [PMID: 32269810 PMCID: PMC7137960 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.192034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2019] [Accepted: 02/24/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Allowen Evin
- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution-Montpellier, UMR 5554-ISEM, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, IRD, EPHE, 2 place Eugène Bataillon, CC065, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution-Montpellier, UMR 5554-ISEM, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, IRD, EPHE, 2 place Eugène Bataillon, CC065, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution-Montpellier, UMR 5554-ISEM, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, IRD, EPHE, 2 place Eugène Bataillon, CC065, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
- Laboratoire Archéozoologie et Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, (AASPE), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Alliance, Sorbonne Université, 55 rue Buffon CP 56, 75005 Paris, France
- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, CP51, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
- Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- The Palaeogenomics and BioArchaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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Ameen C, Feuerborn TR, Brown SK, Linderholm A, Hulme-Beaman A, Lebrasseur O, Sinding MHS, Lounsberry ZT, Lin AT, Appelt M, Bachmann L, Betts M, Britton K, Darwent J, Dietz R, Fredholm M, Gopalakrishnan S, Goriunova OI, Grønnow B, Haile J, Hallsson JH, Harrison R, Heide-Jørgensen MP, Knecht R, Losey RJ, Masson-MacLean E, McGovern TH, McManus-Fry E, Meldgaard M, Midtdal Å, Moss ML, Nikitin IG, Nomokonova T, Pálsdóttir AH, Perri A, Popov AN, Rankin L, Reuther JD, Sablin M, Schmidt AL, Shirar S, Smiarowski K, Sonne C, Stiner MC, Vasyukov M, West CF, Ween GB, Wennerberg SE, Wiig Ø, Woollett J, Dalén L, Hansen AJ, P Gilbert MT, Sacks BN, Frantz L, Larson G, Dobney K, Darwent CM, Evin A. Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic. Proc Biol Sci 2019; 286:20191929. [PMID: 31771471 PMCID: PMC6939252 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
Domestic dogs have been central to life in the North American Arctic for millennia. The ancestors of the Inuit were the first to introduce the widespread usage of dog sledge transportation technology to the Americas, but whether the Inuit adopted local Palaeo-Inuit dogs or introduced a new dog population to the region remains unknown. To test these hypotheses, we generated mitochondrial DNA and geometric morphometric data of skull and dental elements from a total of 922 North American Arctic dogs and wolves spanning over 4500 years. Our analyses revealed that dogs from Inuit sites dating from 2000 BP possess morphological and genetic signatures that distinguish them from earlier Palaeo-Inuit dogs, and identified a novel mitochondrial clade in eastern Siberia and Alaska. The genetic legacy of these Inuit dogs survives today in modern Arctic sledge dogs despite phenotypic differences between archaeological and modern Arctic dogs. Together, our data reveal that Inuit dogs derive from a secondary pre-contact migration of dogs distinct from Palaeo-Inuit dogs, and probably aided the Inuit expansion across the North American Arctic beginning around 1000 BP.
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- Carly Ameen
- Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, UK.,Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
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- Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.,Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,The Qimmeq Project, University of Greenland, Nuussuaq, Greenland.,Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.,Centre for Palaeogenetics, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Anthropology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA.,Mammalian Ecology and Conservation Unit of the Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA.,Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Olympia, WA, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.,The Palaeogenomics and Bio-archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK.,The Palaeogenomics and Bio-archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK.,The Palaeogenomics and Bio-archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,GCRF One Health Regional Network for the Horn of Africa (HORN) Project, Institute of Infection and Global Health, Liverpool, UK
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- Section for Evolutionary Genomics, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,The Qimmeq Project, University of Greenland, Nuussuaq, Greenland.,Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk, Greenland
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- Mammalian Ecology and Conservation Unit of the Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- The Palaeogenomics and Bio-archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.,Department of Anthropology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.,Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany
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- Department of Anthropology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus, Denmark.,Department of Bioscience Roskilde, Aarhus Universitet, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Section for Evolutionary Genomics, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Laboratory of Archaeology and Paleoecology of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography (Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science), Irkutsk, Russian Federation
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- The Palaeogenomics and Bio-archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, The Agricultural University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies, and Religion, University of Bergen, Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Anthropology, Hunter College CUNY, New York, NY, USA.,The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,The Qimmeq Project, University of Greenland, Nuussuaq, Greenland
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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- Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography at the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East (Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Science), Vladivostok, Russian Federation
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- Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, The Agricultural University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Durham, UK
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- Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography at the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East (Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Science), Vladivostok, Russian Federation
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- Department of Archaeology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Canada
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AK, USA
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- Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AK, USA
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- The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.,Section for Cultural Heritage Management, Department of Cultural History, University Museum of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus, Denmark.,Department of Bioscience, Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus, Denmark.,School of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China
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- School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Biological Diversity and Sustainable Use of Biological Resources, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moskow, Russian Federation
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- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology Program, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Département des Sciences Historiques, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.,Centre for Palaeogenetics, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,The Qimmeq Project, University of Greenland, Nuussuaq, Greenland
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- Section for Evolutionary Genomics, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University Museum, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Population Health and Reproduction, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA.,Mammalian Ecology and Conservation Unit of the Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- The Palaeogenomics and Bio-archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK.,Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.,Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution-Montpellier, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, Occitanie, France
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Hulme-Beaman A, Cucchi T, Evin A, Searle JB, Dobney K. Exploring Rattus praetor (Rodentia, Muridae) as a possible species complex using geometric morphometrics on dental morphology. Mamm Biol 2018; 92:62-67. [PMID: 30177868 PMCID: PMC6067089 DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2018.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Taxonomic uncertainties in the Rattus genus persist due to among-species morphological conservatism coupled with within-species environmental variation in morphology. As a result, this genus contains a number of possible cryptic species. One important example can be found in R. praetor, where morphological studies indicate it is a possible species complex. Genetic studies of R. praetor (limited to analysis of mitochondrial DNA) have been inconclusive, but do indicate such subdivision. Here we use geometric morphometrics to explore this possible species complex by analysing the dental traits of 48 specimens from New Guinea and neighbouring regions. We find separate molar morphologies for Bougainsville Island, central New Guinea and west New Guinea which cannot be easily explained by different environmental factors (climate, precipitation and altitude), strongly suggesting the existence of a number of evolutionarily distinct taxa within what is currently called R. praetor thus supporting previous suggestions that R. praetor is a species complex. Our findings demonstrate the potential of advanced morphological analyses in identifying separate species, contrary to the claims of morphological conservatism. Future analyses should combine geometric morphometrics with genetic analyses over the species range and include sub-fossil specimens from the Bismarck archipelago and Solomon Islands to resolve the evolutionary history of R. praetor.
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- Ardern Hulme-Beaman
- Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, 12-14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WZ, UK.,Research Centre in Evolutionary Anthropology and Palaeoecology, School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK
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- CNRS-Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnement, 55 Rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université de Montpellier, UMR CNRS, UM, EPHE, IRD 2 Place Eugène Bataillon, CC065, 34095 Montpellier, Cedex 5, France
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Corson Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-2701, USA
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- Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, 12-14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WZ, UK.,Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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Heck L, Wilson LAB, Evin A, Stange M, Sánchez-Villagra MR. Shape variation and modularity of skull and teeth in domesticated horses and wild equids. Front Zool 2018; 15:14. [PMID: 29713365 PMCID: PMC5907714 DOI: 10.1186/s12983-018-0258-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2017] [Accepted: 03/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND In horses, the morphological changes induced by the process of domestication are reportedly less pronounced than in other species, such as dogs or pigs - although the horses' disparity has rarely been empirically tested. We investigated shape differences and modularity of domesticated horses, Przewalski's horses, donkeys and zebras. Mandibular and tooth shape have been shown to be valuable features for differentiating wild and domesticated forms in some mammals. RESULTS Both mandible and teeth, show a pattern of shape space occupation analogous to that of the cranium, with domesticated horses occupying a similar extension in shape space to that of wild equids. Only cranial shape data exhibit a tendency to separate domesticated horses and Przewalski's horses from donkeys and zebras. Maximum likelihood model-based tests confirm the horse cranium is composed of six developmental modules, as reported for placental mammals in general. The magnitude of integration in domesticated horse skull was lower than in wild equids across all six cranial modules, and lower values of integration were associated with higher disparity values across all modules. CONCLUSION This is the first study that combines different skeletal features for the description and comparison of shape changes in all living equid groups using geometric morphometrics. We support Darwin's hypothesis that the shape variation in the skull of domesticated horses is similar to the shape variation of all wild equid species existing today. Lower magnitudes of module integration are recovered in domesticated horses compared to their wild relatives.
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- Laura Heck
- Palaeontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Palaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia
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- Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution – Montpellier, CNRS UMR 5554, Université de Montpellier, IRD, EPHE, 2 place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France
- Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Palaeontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland
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Frantz LAF, Rudzinski A, Nugraha AMS, Evin A, Burton J, Hulme-Beaman A, Linderholm A, Barnett R, Vega R, Irving-Pease EK, Haile J, Allen R, Leus K, Shephard J, Hillyer M, Gillemot S, van den Hurk J, Ogle S, Atofanei C, Thomas MG, Johansson F, Mustari AH, Williams J, Mohamad K, Damayanti CS, Wiryadi ID, Obbles D, Mona S, Day H, Yasin M, Meker S, McGuire JA, Evans BJ, von Rintelen T, Ho SYW, Searle JB, Kitchener AC, Macdonald AA, Shaw DJ, Hall R, Galbusera P, Larson G. Synchronous diversification of Sulawesi's iconic artiodactyls driven by recent geological events. Proc Biol Sci 2018; 285:rspb.2017.2566. [PMID: 29643207 PMCID: PMC5904307 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2017] [Accepted: 03/16/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
The high degree of endemism on Sulawesi has previously been suggested to have vicariant origins, dating back to 40 Ma. Recent studies, however, suggest that much of Sulawesi's fauna assembled over the last 15 Myr. Here, we test the hypothesis that more recent uplift of previously submerged portions of land on Sulawesi promoted diversification and that much of its faunal assemblage is much younger than the island itself. To do so, we combined palaeogeographical reconstructions with genetic and morphometric datasets derived from Sulawesi's three largest mammals: the babirusa, anoa and Sulawesi warty pig. Our results indicate that although these species most likely colonized the area that is now Sulawesi at different times (14 Ma to 2–3 Ma), they experienced an almost synchronous expansion from the central part of the island. Geological reconstructions indicate that this area was above sea level for most of the last 4 Myr, unlike most parts of the island. We conclude that emergence of land on Sulawesi (approx. 1–2 Myr) may have allowed species to expand synchronously. Altogether, our results indicate that the establishment of the highly endemic faunal assemblage on Sulawesi was driven by geological events over the last few million years.
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- Laurent A F Frantz
- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK .,The Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
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- Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, Cedex 05, France.,Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, 12-14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WZ, UK
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- Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies & The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Roslin, Edinburgh EH25 9RG, UK.,IUCN SSC Asian Wild Cattle Specialist Group and Chester Zoo, Cedar House, Caughall Road, Upton by Chester, Chester CH2 1LH, UK
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- The Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK.,Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, 12-14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WZ, UK
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- The Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK.,Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4352, USA
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- The Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK.,Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark
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- Ecology Research Group, Section of Life Sciences, School of Human and Life Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University, North Holmes Road, Canterbury CT1 1QU, Kent, UK
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- The Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
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- The Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK.,Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark
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- The Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
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- Copenhagen Zoo, IUCN SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group-Europe, Roskildevej 38, Postboks 7, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark.,European Association of Zoos and Aquaria, PO Box 20164, 1000 HD Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Research and Conservation (CRC), Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, Koningin Astridplein 20-26, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium.,Environment and Conservation Sciences, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia 6150, Australia
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- Centre for Research and Conservation (CRC), Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, Koningin Astridplein 20-26, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium.,Molecular Systematics Unit/Terrestrial Zoology, Western Australian Museum, Welshpool, Western Australia, Australia
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- Centre for Research and Conservation (CRC), Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, Koningin Astridplein 20-26, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium
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- Centre for Research and Conservation (CRC), Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, Koningin Astridplein 20-26, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium
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- Edinburgh Medical School: BMTO, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- Ecology Research Group, Section of Life Sciences, School of Human and Life Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University, North Holmes Road, Canterbury CT1 1QU, Kent, UK
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- Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Forest Resources Conservation and Ecotourism, Faculty of Forestry, Bogor Agricultural University, PO Box 168, Bogor 16001, Indonesia
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- Davies Research Centre, School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of Adelaide, Roseworthy, Southern Australia 5371, Australia
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- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Bogor Agricultural University, Jalan Agatis, IPB Campus, Darmaga, Bogor 16680, Indonesia
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- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Bogor Agricultural University, Jalan Agatis, IPB Campus, Darmaga, Bogor 16680, Indonesia
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- Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, KU Leuven, Ch. Deberiotstraat 32, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 - CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 16 rue Buffon, CP39, 75005 Paris, France.,EPHE, PSL Research University, Paris, France
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- Department of Zoology, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Corson Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Natural Sciences, Chambers Street, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh EH1 1JF, UK.,Institute of Geography, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, UK
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- Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies & The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Roslin, Edinburgh EH25 9RG, UK
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- Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies & The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Roslin, Edinburgh EH25 9RG, UK
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- SE Asia Research Group, Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK
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- Centre for Research and Conservation (CRC), Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, Koningin Astridplein 20-26, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium
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- The Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
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Evin A, Owen J, Larson G, Debiais-Thibaud M, Cucchi T, Vidarsdottir US, Dobney K. A test for paedomorphism in domestic pig cranial morphology. Biol Lett 2017; 13:rsbl.2017.0321. [PMID: 28794276 PMCID: PMC5582111 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2017] [Accepted: 07/13/2017] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Domestic animals are often described as paedomorphic, meaning that they retain juvenile characteristics into adulthood. Through a three-dimensional landmark-based geometric morphometric analysis of cranial morphology at three growth stages, we demonstrate that wild boar (n = 138) and domestic pigs (n = 106) (Sus scrofa) follow distinct ontogenetic trajectories. With the exception of the size ratio between facial and neurocranial regions, paedomorphism does not appear to be the primary pattern describing the observed differences between wild and domestic pig cranial morphologies. The cranial phenotype of domestic pigs instead involves developmental innovation during domestication. This result questions the long-standing assumption that domestic animal phenotypes are paedomorphic forms of their wild counterparts.
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- Allowen Evin
- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, 2 Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier cedex 05, France .,Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen AB24 3UF, UK.,Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, 12-14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WZ, UK
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen AB24 3UF, UK .,Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Education Building 9635, 8888 University Dr Burnaby, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
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- Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, 2 Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier cedex 05, France
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen AB24 3UF, UK.,UMR 7209, CNRS-Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: sociétés, pratiques et environnements, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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- Biomedical Center, University of Iceland, Læknagarði, Vatnsmýrarvegi 16, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen AB24 3UF, UK.,Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, 12-14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WZ, UK.,Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Education Building 9635, 8888 University Dr Burnaby, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
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Centeno-Cuadros A, Hulva P, Romportl D, Santoro S, Stříbná T, Shohami D, Evin A, Tsoar A, Benda P, Horáček I, Nathan R. Habitat use, but not gene flow, is influenced by human activities in two ecotypes of Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus). Mol Ecol 2017; 26:6224-6237. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.14365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2016] [Accepted: 09/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- A. Centeno-Cuadros
- Movement Ecology Laboratory; Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior; Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Jerusalem Israel
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemical Engineering; University Pablo de Olavide; Sevilla Spain
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- Department of Zoology; Charles University; Prague Czech Republic
- Department of Biology and Ecology; University of Ostrava; Ostrava Czech Republic
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- Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology; Charles University in Prague; Prague Czech Republic
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemical Engineering; University Pablo de Olavide; Sevilla Spain
- Department of Ethology and Biodiversity Conservation; Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC); Seville Spain
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- Department of Zoology; Charles University; Prague Czech Republic
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- Movement Ecology Laboratory; Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior; Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Jerusalem Israel
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution; Université de Montpellier; Montpellier France
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- Movement Ecology Laboratory; Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior; Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Jerusalem Israel
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- Department of Zoology; Charles University; Prague Czech Republic
- Department of Zoology; National Museum (Natural History); Prague Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology; Charles University; Prague Czech Republic
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- Movement Ecology Laboratory; Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior; Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Jerusalem Israel
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Geiger M, Evin A, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Gascho D, Mainini C, Zollikofer CPE. Neomorphosis and heterochrony of skull shape in dog domestication. Sci Rep 2017; 7:13443. [PMID: 29044203 PMCID: PMC5647425 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-12582-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2017] [Accepted: 09/08/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
Abstract
The overall similarity of the skull shape of some dog breeds with that of juvenile wolves begs the question if and how ontogenetic changes such as paedomorphosis (evolutionary juvenilisation) played a role in domestication. Here we test for changes in patterns of development and growth during dog domestication. We present the first geometric morphometric study using ontogenetic series of dog and wolf crania, and samples of dogs with relatively ancestral morphology and from different time periods. We show that patterns of juvenile-to-adult morphological change are largely similar in wolves and domestic dogs, but differ in two ways. First, dog skulls show unique (neomorphic) features already shortly after birth, and these features persist throughout postnatal ontogeny. Second, at any given age, juvenile dogs exhibit skull shapes that resemble those of consistently younger wolves, even in dog breeds that do not exhibit a 'juvenilized' morphology as adults. These patterns exemplify the complex nature of evolutionary changes during dog domestication: the cranial morphology of adult dogs cannot simply be explained as either neomorphic or paedomorphic. The key to our understanding of dog domestication may lie in a closer comparative examination of developmental phases.
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- Madeleine Geiger
- Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Zürich, Karl-Schmid-Strasse 4, 8006, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom.
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution - Montpellier, UMR 5554 CNRS, Université de Montpellier, EPHE, IRD 226, Cirad 2, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095, Montpellier, cedex 05, France.
- Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, 12-14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool, L69 7WZ, United Kingdom.
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- Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Zürich, Karl-Schmid-Strasse 4, 8006, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190/52, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Tierpark Bern, Dählhölzli & Bärenpark, Tierparkweg 1, 3005, Bern, Switzerland
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- Anthropologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland
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Vigne JD, Evin A, Cucchi T, Dai L, Yu C, Hu S, Soulages N, Wang W, Sun Z, Gao J, Dobney K, Yuan J. Earliest "Domestic" Cats in China Identified as Leopard Cat (Prionailurus bengalensis). PLoS One 2016; 11:e0147295. [PMID: 26799955 PMCID: PMC4723238 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2015] [Accepted: 01/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
The ancestor of all modern domestic cats is the wildcat, Felis silvestris lybica, with archaeological evidence indicating it was domesticated as early as 10,000 years ago in South-West Asia. A recent study, however, claims that cat domestication also occurred in China some 5,000 years ago and involved the same wildcat ancestor (F. silvestris). The application of geometric morphometric analyses to ancient small felid bones from China dating between 5,500 to 4,900 BP, instead reveal these and other remains to be that of the leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis). These data clearly indicate that the origins of a human-cat 'domestic' relationship in Neolithic China began independently from South-West Asia and involved a different wild felid species altogether. The leopard cat's 'domestic' status, however, appears to have been short-lived--its apparent subsequent replacement shown by the fact that today all domestic cats in China are genetically related to F. silvestris.
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- Jean-Denis Vigne
- Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, CP 56, Paris, France
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- Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, CP 56, Paris, France
- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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- Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, CP 56, Paris, France
- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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- Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, CP 56, Paris, France
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, CP 56, Paris, France
- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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- Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, Xi’an, China
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- Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, CP 56, Paris, France
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- Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, Xi’an, China
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- Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, Xi’an, China
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- Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Beijing, China
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Beijing, China
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Evin A, Flink LG, Bălăşescu A, Popovici D, Andreescu R, Bailey D, Mirea P, Lazăr C, Boroneanţ A, Bonsall C, Vidarsdottir US, Brehard S, Tresset A, Cucchi T, Larson G, Dobney K. Unravelling the complexity of domestication: a case study using morphometrics and ancient DNA analyses of archaeological pigs from Romania. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2015; 370:20130616. [PMID: 25487340 PMCID: PMC4275896 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Current evidence suggests that pigs were first domesticated in Eastern Anatolia during the ninth millennium cal BC before dispersing into Europe with Early Neolithic farmers from the beginning of the seventh millennium. Recent ancient DNA (aDNA) research also indicates the incorporation of European wild boar into domestic stock during the Neolithization process. In order to establish the timing of the arrival of domestic pigs into Europe, and to test hypotheses regarding the role European wild boar played in the domestication process, we combined a geometric morphometric analysis (allowing us to combine tooth size and shape) of 449 Romanian ancient teeth with aDNA analysis. Our results firstly substantiate claims that the first domestic pigs in Romania possessed the same mtDNA signatures found in Neolithic pigs in west and central Anatolia. Second, we identified a significant proportion of individuals with large molars whose tooth shape matched that of archaeological (likely) domestic pigs. These large ‘domestic shape’ specimens were present from the outset of the Romanian Neolithic (6100–5500 cal BC) through to later prehistory, suggesting a long history of admixture between introduced domestic pigs and local wild boar. Finally, we confirmed a turnover in mitochondrial lineages found in domestic pigs, possibly coincident with human migration into Anatolia and the Levant that occurred in later prehistory.
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- Allowen Evin
- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's Building, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK CNRS-Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, archéobotanique, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's Building, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK Durham Evolution and Ancient DNA, Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
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- National History Museum of Romania, Calea Victoriei no. 12, District 3, 030026 Bucharest, Romania
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- National History Museum of Romania, Calea Victoriei no. 12, District 3, 030026 Bucharest, Romania
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- National History Museum of Romania, Calea Victoriei no. 12, District 3, 030026 Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal and Creative Arts, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, Science 377, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA
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- Teleorman County Museum, str. 1848, no. 1, 140033 Alexandria, Romania
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- National History Museum of Romania, Calea Victoriei no. 12, District 3, 030026 Bucharest, Romania
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- Institute of Archaeology 'Vasile Pârvan' of the Romanian Academy, 11 Henri Coandă St., Bucharest, Romania
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- School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- CNRS-Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, archéobotanique, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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- CNRS-Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, archéobotanique, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's Building, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK CNRS-Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, archéobotanique, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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- Durham Evolution and Ancient DNA, Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's Building, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK
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Evin A, Flink LG, Bălăşescu A, Popovici D, Andreescu R, Bailey D, Mirea P, Lazăr C, Boroneanţ A, Bonsall C, Strand Vidarsdottir U, Brehard S, Tresset A, Cucchi T, Larson G, Dobney K. Correction to 'Unravelling the complexity of domestication: a case study using morphometrics and ancient DNA analyses of archaeological pigs from Romania'. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2015; 370:20150018. [PMID: 25646523 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Evin A, Dobney K, Schafberg R, Owen J, Vidarsdottir US, Larson G, Cucchi T. Phenotype and animal domestication: A study of dental variation between domestic, wild, captive, hybrid and insular Sus scrofa. BMC Evol Biol 2015; 15:6. [PMID: 25648385 PMCID: PMC4328033 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-014-0269-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2014] [Accepted: 12/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Background Identifying the phenotypic responses to domestication remains a long-standing and important question for researchers studying its early history. The great diversity in domestic animals and plants that exists today bears testament to the profound changes that domestication has induced in their ancestral wild forms over the last millennia. Domestication is a complex evolutionary process in which wild organisms are moved to new anthropogenic environments. Although modern genetics are significantly improving our understanding of domestication and breed formation, little is still known about the associated morphological changes linked to the process itself. In order to explore phenotypic variation induced by different levels of human control, we analysed the diversity of dental size, shape and allometry in modern free-living and captive wild, wild x domestic hybrid, domestic and insular Sus scrofa populations. Results We show that domestication has created completely new dental phenotypes not found in wild boar (although the amount of variation amongst domestic pigs does not exceed that found in the wild). Wild boar tooth shape also appears to be biogeographically structured, likely the result of post-glacial recolonisation history. Furthermore, distinct dental phenotypes were also observed among domestic breeds, probably the result of differing types and intensity of past and present husbandry practices. Captivity also appears to impact tooth shape. Wild x domestic hybrids possess second molars that are strictly intermediate in shape between wild boar and domestic pigs (third molars, however, showing greater shape similarity with wild boar) while their size is more similar to domestic pigs. The dental phenotypes of insular Sus scrofa populations found on Corsica and Sardinia today (originally introduced by Neolithic settlers to the islands) can be explained either by feralization of the original introduced domestic swine or that the founding population maintained a wild boar phenotype through time. Conclusions Domestication has driven significant phenotypic diversification in Sus scrofa. Captivity (environmental control), hybridization (genome admixture), and introduction to islands all correspond to differing levels of human control and may be considered different stages of the domestication process. The relatively well-known genetic evolutionary history of pigs shows a similar complexity at the phenotypic level. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12862-014-0269-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Allowen Evin
- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St. Mary's Building, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen, UK. .,CNRS-Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique : Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnement, 55 rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France.
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St. Mary's Building, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen, UK.
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- Group Animal Breeding, Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences (IANS), Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Theodor-Lieser-Str, 11 D-06120, Halle/Saale, Germany.
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St. Mary's Building, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen, UK. .,Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Education Bulding 9635, 8888 University Dr, Burnaby, BC, V5A, Canada. .,Department of Anthropology, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK.
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- Durham Evolution and Ancient DNA, Department of Archaeology, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK.
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St. Mary's Building, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen, UK. .,CNRS-Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique : Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnement, 55 rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France.
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Cucchi T, Barnett R, Martínková N, Renaud S, Renvoisé E, Evin A, Sheridan A, Mainland I, Wickham-Jones C, Tougard C, Quéré JP, Pascal M, Pascal M, Heckel G, O'Higgins P, Searle JB, Dobney KM. The changing pace of insular life: 5000 years of microevolution in the Orkney vole (Microtus arvalis orcadensis). Evolution 2014; 68:2804-20. [PMID: 24957579 PMCID: PMC5366975 DOI: 10.1111/evo.12476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2012] [Accepted: 06/09/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Island evolution may be expected to involve fast initial morphological divergence followed by stasis. We tested this model using the dental phenotype of modern and ancient common voles (Microtus arvalis), introduced onto the Orkney archipelago (Scotland) from continental Europe some 5000 years ago. First, we investigated phenotypic divergence of Orkney and continental European populations and assessed climatic influences. Second, phenotypic differentiation among Orkney populations was tested against geography, time, and neutral genetic patterns. Finally, we examined evolutionary change along a time series for the Orkney Mainland. Molar gigantism and anterior-lobe hypertrophy evolved rapidly in Orkney voles following introduction, without any transitional forms detected. Founder events and adaptation appear to explain this initial rapid evolution. Idiosyncrasy in dental features among different island populations of Orkney voles is also likely the result of local founder events following Neolithic translocation around the archipelago. However, against our initial expectations, a second marked phenotypic shift occurred between the 4th and 12th centuries AD, associated with increased pastoral farming and introduction of competitors (mice and rats) and terrestrial predators (foxes and cats). These results indicate that human agency can generate a more complex pattern of morphological evolution than might be expected in island rodents.
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- Thomas Cucchi
- CNRS-Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7209, Archéoozoologie, histoire des sociétés humaines et de peuplements animaux, 55 rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France; Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St. Mary's, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
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Krause-Kyora B, Makarewicz C, Evin A, Flink LG, Dobney K, Larson G, Hartz S, Schreiber S, von Carnap-Bornheim C, von Wurmb-Schwark N, Nebel A. Use of domesticated pigs by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in northwestern Europe. Nat Commun 2014; 4:2348. [PMID: 23982268 PMCID: PMC3903269 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2012] [Accepted: 07/24/2013] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Mesolithic populations throughout Europe used diverse resource exploitation strategies that focused heavily on collecting and hunting wild prey. Between 5500 and 4200 cal BC, agriculturalists migrated into northwestern Europe bringing a suite of Neolithic technologies including domesticated animals. Here we investigate to what extent Mesolithic Ertebølle communities in northern Germany had access to domestic pigs, possibly through contact with neighbouring Neolithic agricultural groups. We employ a multidisciplinary approach, applying sequencing of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA (coat colour-coding gene MC1R) as well as traditional and geometric morphometric (molar size and shape) analyses in Sus specimens from 17 Neolithic and Ertebølle sites. Our data from 63 ancient pig specimens show that Ertebølle hunter-gatherers acquired domestic pigs of varying size and coat colour that had both Near Eastern and European mitochondrial DNA ancestry. Our results also reveal that domestic pigs were present in the region ~500 years earlier than previously demonstrated.
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- Ben Krause-Kyora
- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University, 24105 Kiel, Germany
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Mérot C, Mavárez J, Evin A, Dasmahapatra KK, Mallet J, Lamas G, Joron M. Genetic differentiation without mimicry shift in a pair of hybridizingHeliconiusspecies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Claire Mérot
- UMR CNRS 7205; Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle; 45 rue Buffon; 75005; Paris; France
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- Museo de Historia Natural; Universidad Nacional Mayor San Marcos; Av. Arenales, 1256; Apartado 14-0434; Lima; 14; Peru
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- UMR CNRS 7205; Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle; 45 rue Buffon; 75005; Paris; France
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Cucchi T, Kovács ZE, Berthon R, Orth A, Bonhomme F, Evin A, Siahsarvie R, Darvish J, Bakhshaliyev V, Marro C. On the trail of Neolithic mice and men towards Transcaucasia: zooarchaeological clues from Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan). Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Hungarian National Museum; National Heritage Protection Centre; Budapest; Hungary
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- CNRS UMR5554; Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution; Université Montpellier 2; Montpellier; France
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- CNRS UMR5554; Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution; Université Montpellier 2; Montpellier; France
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- Archaeology Department; University of Aberdeen; Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen, AB24 3UF; Scotland; UK
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- Department of Archaeology; National Academy of Science of Azerbaijan; Nakhchivan; Azerbaijan
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- UMR 5133, Archéorient, Environnements et Sociétés de l'Orient Ancien; Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée; CNRS, Université Lyon 2; Lyon; France
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Ottoni C, Flink LG, Evin A, Geörg C, De Cupere B, Van Neer W, Bartosiewicz L, Linderholm A, Barnett R, Peters J, Decorte R, Waelkens M, Vanderheyden N, Ricaut FX, Cakirlar C, Cevik O, Hoelzel AR, Mashkour M, Karimlu AFM, Seno SS, Daujat J, Brock F, Pinhasi R, Hongo H, Perez-Enciso M, Rasmussen M, Frantz L, Megens HJ, Crooijmans R, Groenen M, Arbuckle B, Benecke N, Vidarsdottir US, Burger J, Cucchi T, Dobney K, Larson G. Pig domestication and human-mediated dispersal in western Eurasia revealed through ancient DNA and geometric morphometrics. Mol Biol Evol 2012. [PMID: 23180578 PMCID: PMC3603306 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Zooarcheological evidence suggests that pigs were domesticated in Southwest Asia ∼8,500 BC. They then spread across the Middle and Near East and westward into Europe alongside early agriculturalists. European pigs were either domesticated independently or more likely appeared so as a result of admixture between introduced pigs and European wild boar. As a result, European wild boar mtDNA lineages replaced Near Eastern/Anatolian mtDNA signatures in Europe and subsequently replaced indigenous domestic pig lineages in Anatolia. The specific details of these processes, however, remain unknown. To address questions related to early pig domestication, dispersal, and turnover in the Near East, we analyzed ancient mitochondrial DNA and dental geometric morphometric variation in 393 ancient pig specimens representing 48 archeological sites (from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic to the Medieval period) from Armenia, Cyprus, Georgia, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. Our results reveal the first genetic signatures of early domestic pigs in the Near Eastern Neolithic core zone. We also demonstrate that these early pigs differed genetically from those in western Anatolia that were introduced to Europe during the Neolithic expansion. In addition, we present a significantly more refined chronology for the introduction of European domestic pigs into Asia Minor that took place during the Bronze Age, at least 900 years earlier than previously detected. By the 5th century AD, European signatures completely replaced the endemic lineages possibly coinciding with the widespread demographic and societal changes that occurred during the Anatolian Bronze and Iron Ages.
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- Claudio Ottoni
- Center for Archaeological Sciences, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Puechmaille SJ, Allegrini B, Boston ES, Dubourg-Savage MJ, Evin A, Knochel A, Le Bris Y, Lecoq V, Lemaire M, Rist D, Teeling EC. Genetic analyses reveal further cryptic lineages within the Myotis nattereri species complex. Mamm Biol 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2011.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Evin A, Nicolas V, Beuneux G, Toffoli R, Cruaud C, Couloux A, Pons J. Geographical origin and endemism of Corsican Kuhl's pipistrelles assessed from mitochondrial DNA. J Zool (1987) 2010. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2010.00778.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- A. Evin
- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Département Systématique et Evolution, Origine Structure et Evolution de la Biodiversité, UMR 7205, Paris, France
- Service de Systématique moléculaire, UMS 2700 CNRS, Paris, France
- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland
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- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Département Systématique et Evolution, Origine Structure et Evolution de la Biodiversité, UMR 7205, Paris, France
- Service de Systématique moléculaire, UMS 2700 CNRS, Paris, France
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- Via Tetto Mantello, Borgo San Dalmazzo CN, Italy
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- Génoscope, Centre National de Sequençage, Evry Cedex, France
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- Génoscope, Centre National de Sequençage, Evry Cedex, France
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- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Département Systématique et Evolution, Origine Structure et Evolution de la Biodiversité, UMR 7205, Paris, France
- Service de Systématique moléculaire, UMS 2700 CNRS, Paris, France
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Hulva P, Fornůsková A, Chudárková A, Evin A, Allegrini B, Benda P, Bryja J. Mechanisms of radiation in a bat group from the genus Pipistrellus inferred by phylogeography, demography and population genetics. Mol Ecol 2010; 19:5417-31. [PMID: 21054608 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2010.04899.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Here, we present a study of the Pipistrellus pipistrellus species complex, a highly diversified bat group with a radiation centre in the Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot. The study sample comprised 583 animals from 118 localities representatively covering the bats' range in the western Palearctic. We used fast-evolving markers (the mitochondrial D-loop sequence and 11 nuclear microsatellites) to describe the phylogeography, demography and population structure of this model taxon and address details of its diversification. The overall pattern within this group includes a mosaic of phylogenetically basal, often morphologically distant, relatively small and mostly allopatric demes in the Mediterranean Basin, as well as two sympatric sibling species in the large continental part of the range. The southern populations exhibit constant size, whereas northern populations show a demographic trend of growth associated with range expansion during the Pleistocene climate oscillations. There is evidence of isolation by distance and female philopatry in P. pipistrellus sensu stricto. Although the northern populations are reproductively isolated, we detected introgression events among several Mediterranean lineages. This pattern implies incomplete establishment of reproductive isolating mechanisms in these populations as well as the existence of a past reinforcement stage in the continental siblings. The occurrence of reticulations in the radiation centre among morphologically and ecologically derived relict demes suggests that adaptive unequal gene exchange within hybridizing populations could play a role in speciation and adaptive radiation within this group.
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- P Hulva
- Department of Zoology, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
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Lalis A, Evin A, Denys C. Morphological identification of sibling species: the case of West African Mastomys (Rodentia: Muridae) in sympatry. C R Biol 2009; 332:480-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2008.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2008] [Revised: 08/22/2008] [Accepted: 11/20/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Evin A, Lecoq V, Durand MO, Tillon L, Pons JM. A new species for the French bat list: Myotis escalerai (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). MAMMALIA 2009. [DOI: 10.1515/mamm.2009.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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