KOTLÍK, Petr, Silvia MARKOVÁ, Libor VOJTEK, Antonín STRATIL, Vlastimil ŠLECHTA, Pavel HYRŠL and Jeremy B. SEARLE. Adaptive phylogeography: functional divergence between haemoglobins derived from different glacial refugia in the bank vole. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences. Anglie: Royal Society, 2014, vol. 281, No 1786, p. 1-9. ISSN 0962-8452. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0021.
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Original name Adaptive phylogeography: functional divergence between haemoglobins derived from different glacial refugia in the bank vole
Authors KOTLÍK, Petr (203 Czech Republic, guarantor), Silvia MARKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic), Libor VOJTEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Antonín STRATIL (203 Czech Republic), Vlastimil ŠLECHTA (203 Czech Republic), Pavel HYRŠL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Jeremy B. SEARLE (840 United States of America).
Edition Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, Anglie, Royal Society, 2014, 0962-8452.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 30105 Physiology
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Impact factor Impact factor: 5.051
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/14:00075557
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0021
UT WoS 000336784500010
Keywords in English adaptation; antioxidative capacity; climate change; cysteine; oxidative stress; redox
Tags AKR, rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Ing. Andrea Mikešková, učo 137293. Changed: 20/1/2015 15:33.
Abstract
Over the years, researchers have used presumptively neutral molecular variation to infer the origins of current species’ distributions in northern latitudes (especially Europe). However, several reported examples of genic and chromosomal replacements suggest that end-glacial colonizations of particular northern areas may have involved genetic input from different source populations at different times, coupled with competition and selection. We investigate the functional consequences of differences between two bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) haemoglobins deriving from different glacial refugia, one of which partially replaced the other in Britain during end-glacial climate warming. This allows us to examine their adaptive divergence and hence a possible role of selection in the replacement.We determine the amino acid substitution Ser52Cys in the major expressed b-globin gene as the allelic difference. We use structural modelling to reveal that the protein environment renders the 52Cys thiol a highly reactive functional group and we show its reactivity in vitro. We demonstrate that possessing the reactive thiol in haemoglobin increases the resistance of bank vole erythrocytes to oxidative stress. Our study thus provides striking evidence for physiological differences between products of genic variants that spread at the expense of one another during colonization of an area from different glacial refugia.
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