Cytogenetic study of the parapatric contact zone between two 46-chromosomal forms of the common vole in European Russia

Bulatova, N. Sh.; Golenishchev, Fedor N.; Kovalskaya, Yu. M.; Emelyanova, L. G.; Bystrakova, N; Pavlova, Svetlana V.; Nadzhafova, R. S.; Lavrechenko, Leonid A.

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“…This contrasts with the existence of F 1 and F2 hybrids between arvalis and obscurus produced in captivity (Malygin & Panteleichuk Santos Luis, 1996;Meyer et al, 1996;Meyer, Golenishchev & Bulatova, 1999) or observed in nature (Bulatova et al, 2007(Bulatova et al, , 2010a. This contrasts with the existence of F 1 and F2 hybrids between arvalis and obscurus produced in captivity (Malygin & Panteleichuk Santos Luis, 1996;Meyer et al, 1996;Meyer, Golenishchev & Bulatova, 1999) or observed in nature (Bulatova et al, 2007(Bulatova et al, , 2010a.…”

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“…However, both voles were recently found in sympatry in the Vladimir region, central European Russia (Meyer et al, 1997). In this narrow contact zone, individuals with intermediate karyotypes were discovered: F 1 hybrids (14A) and recombinant backcrosses with arvalis or obscurus (intermediate acrocentric number) (Bulatova et al, 2007(Bulatova et al, , 2010a. This led other studies regarding obscurus as conspecific with M. arvalis (Meyer et al, 1996;Golenishchev, Meyer & Bulatova, 2001;Haynes, Jaarola & Searle, 2003;Jaarola et al, 2004;Lavrenchenko et al, 2009).…”

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“…overlap in genetic distances between and within currently recognized species; Zagorodnyuk, 1991;Jaarola et al, 2004). Recently, new cases of hybridization have been documented in the Microtus arvalis species group characterized by varying levels of karyotypic differences (Meyer et al, 1996(Meyer et al, , 1997Bulatova et al, 2007Bulatova et al, , 2010aBulatova, Potapov & Lavrenchenko, 2010b). Recently, new cases of hybridization have been documented in the Microtus arvalis species group characterized by varying levels of karyotypic differences (Meyer et al, 1996(Meyer et al, , 1997Bulatova et al, 2007Bulatova et al, , 2010aBulatova, Potapov & Lavrenchenko, 2010b).…”

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Exploring phylogeography and species limits in the Altai vole (Rodentia: Cricetidae)

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Natural hybridization between species is not a rare event. In arvicoline rodents, hybridization is known to occur in the wild and/or in captivity. In the Microtus arvalis group, cytogenetic studies revealed that there were two distinct chromosomal forms (2n = 46 but a different fundamental number of autosomes). These forms have been attributed to two cryptic species: the common (arvalis) and Altai (obscurus) voles. Recently, individuals with intermediate karyotypes (F1 and backcrosses) were discovered in central European Russia, and, for this reason, other studies have regarded obscurus and arvalis as conspecific. In the present study, to address the question of the species limits in the Altai vole and to infer its evolutionary history, a phylogeographical analysis combined with multivariate morphometric methods and original chromosome data was performed. Two obscurus lineages were identified: the Sino-Russian and South Caucasian lineages. Both lineages are characterized by low genetic diversity, resulting, in the former, from a past bottleneck event caused by encroaching periglacial areas and, in the latter, from recent rapid population divergence. Introgressive hybridization between the Altai and common voles appears to be the result of a secondary contact following the Last Glacial Maximum in central European Russia. Despite the fact that speciation is an ongoing process in most arvicoline species, the common and Altai voles are genetically divergent, morphologically and karyologically distinct, and exhibit contrasting evolutionary histories. For all these reasons, they should be ranked as species: M. arvalis and M. obscurus.

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Exploring phylogeography and species limits in the Altai vole (Rodentia: Cricetidae)

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“…The common ancestor of M. arvalis and M. rossiaemeridionalis separated from the rest of the grey vole species in the Pleistocene, about 0.5-0.6 million years ago (Mazurok et al 2001). Based on genetic data, M. arvalis is considered to be the youngest species among common voles (Malygin 1983;Mazurok et al 2001) and is still undergoing active evolution, as indicated by considerable intraspecies polymorphism and karyologically distinct forms -arvalis and obscurus -which substitute for each other geographically (Bulatova et al 2010). A geographical pattern of speciation with sympatry arising through post-speciation range changes have been hypothesized for M. arvalis and M. rossiaemeridionalis (Mazurok et al 2001).…”

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Differentiating sibling species in the Quaternary fossil record: a comparison of morphological and molecular methods to identifyMicrotus arvalisandM. rossiaemeridionalis(Arvicolinae, Rodenia)

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Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

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“…For the common vole, two different chromosomal forms have been identified using cytogenetics, arvalis and obscurus. The hybrid zone between them occurs in central European Russia (Meyer et al 1997;Haynes et al 2003;Jaarola et al 2004;Bulatova et al 2010aBulatova et al , b, 2013. For the arvalis form, six main mtDNA lineages have been described in Europe: Western-South, Western-North, Central, Italian, Eastern and Balkan (Haynes et al 2003;Tougard et al 2008;Bužan et al 2010;Martínková et al 2013;Stojak et al 2015).…”

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Contrasting and congruent patterns of genetic structuring in two Microtus vole species using museum specimens

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The common vole (Microtus arvalis) and the field vole (Microtus agrestis) are morphologically similar species but are ecological distinctive and differ in the details of their evolutionary history as revealed by mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). The aim of this study is to describe patterns of genetic variability using microsatellite markers in populations of the common and field vole in Poland using museum specimens, to assess the degree of congruence with mtDNA variation and thereby determine the factors that influence current patterns of gene flow. We genotyped 190 individuals of the common vole at 11 loci and 190 individuals of the field vole at 13 loci. Overall differentiation based on F ST was higher for the common vole than in the field vole. We detected a significant isolation by distance pattern for both species. Bayesian analysis in STRUCTURE identified Eastern and Western geographic groups in Poland based on microsatellites for both species. The location of river barriers is likely to be the main factor in these partitions. The eastern-western subdivision with microsatellites does not coincide with the distribution of mtDNA lineages for either species. Unlike previous studies in the common and field vole elsewhere in Europe, we found no evidence of reproductive isolation between the mtDNA lineages of these species at their contact zones in Poland. This study highlights the different roles of evolutionary history and landscape in shaping contemporary genetic structure in voles in Poland.

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Cytogenetic study of the parapatric contact zone between two 46-chromosomal forms of the common vole in European Russia

Cited by 24 publications

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Exploring phylogeography and species limits in the Altai vole (Rodentia: Cricetidae)

Exploring phylogeography and species limits in the Altai vole (Rodentia: Cricetidae)

Differentiating sibling species in the Quaternary fossil record: a comparison of morphological and molecular methods to identifyMicrotus arvalisandM. rossiaemeridionalis(Arvicolinae, Rodenia)

Contrasting and congruent patterns of genetic structuring in two Microtus vole species using museum specimens

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