How to cross the desert if you are small and need mountains?
Out-of-Ethiopia dispersal in Afromontane shrews

J 2024

How to cross the desert if you are small and need mountains? Out-of-Ethiopia dispersal in Afromontane shrews

DIANAT, Malahatosadat, Adam KONEČNÝ, Leonid A. LAVRENCHENKO, Julian C. Kerbis PETERHANS, Terrence C. DEMOS et. al.

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Original name

How to cross the desert if you are small and need mountains? Out-of-Ethiopia dispersal in Afromontane shrews

Authors

DIANAT, Malahatosadat (364 Islamic Republic of Iran, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Adam KONEČNÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Leonid A. LAVRENCHENKO, Julian C. Kerbis PETERHANS, Terrence C. DEMOS, Violaine NICOLAS, David ORTIZ MARTÍNEZ (724 Spain, belonging to the institution) and Josef BRYJA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Journal of Biogeography, Hoboken, Wiley, 2024, 0305-0270

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10511 Environmental sciences

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 3.900 in 2022

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14748

UT WoS

001086609300001

Keywords in English

biogeography; Crocidura; distribution; diversity; East Africa; phylogenomics

Abstract

V originále

Aim:The Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot (EABH) offers an ideal location to investigate the evolutionary mechanisms producing a high level of endemic biodiversity. We tested the hypothesis that the cradle of Eastern Afromontane diversity is in the largest sub-region of the EABH montane archipelago, that is the Ethiopian Highlands. Further, we expected that climate oscillations followed by elevational shifts in montane habitats facilitated the dispersal of small mammal populations across unsuitable arid lowlands. Location:Mountains and highlands of East Africa. Taxon:Shrews of the genus Crocidura (Eastern Afromontane phylogenetic clade). Methods:We collected comprehensive genetic data from 511 (mitochondrial gene for cytochrome b) and 147 (double digest Restriction-Associated DNA sequencing) samples of Crocidura shrews across the EABH. We estimated phylogenetic relationships with Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood approaches. Population genetic analyses were performed in STRUCTURE to evaluate the internal structure of species outside Ethiopia. Ancestral area and dispersal routes were analysed by the BioGeoBears package. Results:Six major phylogenomic clades were delimited based on concatenated nuclear loci. The mitochondrial phylogeny roughly matches nuclear phylogenies, but with poorer resolution. Five of the six revealed clades are restricted to the Ethiopian Highlands, which is unambiguously the cradle of the diversity of this group of mammals (also confirmed by the biogeographic analysis). All non-Ethiopian and a single Ethiopian species fall into the sixth clade with poorly resolved internal relationships. Detailed population genetic analysis of SNP data revealed a pronounced structure with multiple gene pools in this clade; however, this structure only partly corresponds with the current taxonomy. Main Conclusions:Eastern Afromontane Crocidura shrews originated in the Ethiopian Highlands. They radiated there, and through a single southward dispersal event across the Turkana depression, they colonised the rest of the EABH in response to diverse geomorphology and climatic changes during the Plio-Pleistocene.

Links

LM2018140, research and development project

Name: e-Infrastruktura CZ (Acronym: e-INFRA CZ)

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR

Citovat

DIANAT, Malahatosadat, Adam KONEČNÝ, Leonid A. LAVRENCHENKO, Julian C. Kerbis PETERHANS, Terrence C. DEMOS, Violaine NICOLAS, David ORTIZ MARTÍNEZ and Josef BRYJA. How to cross the desert if you are small and need mountains? Out-of-Ethiopia dispersal in Afromontane shrews. Journal of Biogeography. Hoboken: Wiley, 2024, vol. 51, No 2, p. 230-245. ISSN 0305-0270. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14748.

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DIANAT, Malahatosadat, Adam KONEČNÝ, Leonid A. LAVRENCHENKO, Julian C. Kerbis PETERHANS, Terrence C. DEMOS, Violaine NICOLAS, David ORTIZ MARTÍNEZ and Josef BRYJA. How to cross the desert if you are small and need mountains? Out-of-Ethiopia dispersal in Afromontane shrews. \textit{Journal of Biogeography}. Hoboken: Wiley, 2024, vol.~51, No~2, p.~230-245. ISSN~0305-0270. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14748.

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