MIKULA, Ondřej, Violaine NICOLAS, Radim ŠUMBERA, Adam KONEČNÝ, Christiane DENYS, Erik VERHEYEN, Anna BRYJOVÁ, Alan R. LEMMON, Emily Moriarty LEMMON and Josef BRYJA. Nuclear phylogenomics, but not mitogenomics, resolves the most successful Late Miocene radiation of African mammals (Rodentia: Muridae: Arvicanthini). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Academic Press Inc., 2021, vol. 157, April, p. "107069", 9 pp. ISSN 1055-7903. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107069.
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Original name Nuclear phylogenomics, but not mitogenomics, resolves the most successful Late Miocene radiation of African mammals (Rodentia: Muridae: Arvicanthini)
Authors MIKULA, Ondřej, Violaine NICOLAS, Radim ŠUMBERA, Adam KONEČNÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Christiane DENYS, Erik VERHEYEN, Anna BRYJOVÁ, Alan R. LEMMON, Emily Moriarty LEMMON and Josef BRYJA (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Academic Press Inc. 2021, 1055-7903.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10613 Zoology
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 5.019
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/21:00121517
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107069
UT WoS 000618942200001
Keywords in English Late Miocene; Radiation; Anchored phylogenomics; Rodentia; Tropical Africa; Complete mitochondrial DNA
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Abstract
The tribe Arvicanthini (Muridae: Murinae) is a highly diversified group of rodents (ca. 100 species) and with 18 African genera (plus one Asiatic) represents probably the most successful adaptive radiation of extant mammals in Africa. They colonized a broad spectrum of habitats (from rainforests to semi-deserts) in whole sub-Saharan Africa and their members often belong to most abundant parts of mammal communities. Despite intensive efforts, the phylogenetic relationships among major lineages (i.e. genera) remained obscured, which was likely caused by the intensive radiation of the group, dated to the Late Miocene. Here we used genomic scale data (377 nuclear loci; 581,030 bp) and produced the first fully resolved species tree containing all currently delimited genera of the tribe. Mitogenomes were also extracted, and while the results were largely congruent, there was less resolution at basal nodes of the mitochondrial phylogeny. Results of a fossil-based divergence dating analysis suggest that the African radiation started early after the colonization of Africa by a single arvicanthine ancestor from Asia during the Messinian stage (ca. 7 Ma), and was likely linked with a fragmentation of the pan-African Miocene forest. Some lineages remained in the rain forest, while many others successfully colonized broad spectrum of new open habitats (e.g. savannas, wetlands or montane moorlands) that appeared at the beginning of Pliocene. One lineage even evolved partially arboricolous life style in savanna woodlands, which allowed them to re-colonize equatorial forests. We also discuss delimitation of genera in Arvicanthini and propose corresponding taxonomic changes.
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