DNA Barcoding and Demographic History of Peromyscus yucatanicus (Rodentia: Cricetidae) Endemic to the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

León-Tapia, M. Ángel

doi:10.1007/s10914-020-09510-z

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“…Increased environmental suitability was predicted from early to mid‐Holocene, following the gradual establishment of similar‐to‐present environmental conditions (Brenner et al., 2002; Carrillo‐Bastos et al., 2010; Metcalfe et al., 2000). Our results are concordant with phylogeographical studies of local plants (Montalvo‐Fernández et al., 2019) and mammals (León‐Tapia, 2021).…”

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The role of ecological niche conservatism in the evolution of bird distributional patterns in Mesoamerican seasonally dry forests

Chan,

Arroyo‐Cabrales,

Prieto‐Torres

et al. 2024

Journal of Biogeography

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AimDue to its complex biogeographical and ecological history, the seasonally dry forests (SDF) of Mesoamerica are considered a biodiversity hotspot. SDF are currently distributed in relatively large and continuous, but isolated areas, in which there are both high total and endemic species numbers. Among birds, few species are shared across SDF patches; other species are endemic to one of these; and for two species currently endemic to one patch, fossils have been recovered in a different one, suggesting a former widespread distribution in so species, implying that current distributional patterns are probably recent.LocationMesoamerican seasonally dry forests.MethodsWe assessed the role of niche divergence/conservatism in the evolution of bird distributional patterns. Using an ecological niche modelling approach, we estimated palaeodistributions for two species currently endemic to the SDF of Yucatan Peninsula (YP), two to the Mesoamerican Pacific Slope (MPS) with fossil record in the YP and two more showing an allopatric pattern. For comparison, we simulated virtual species (VS) matching each pattern, assuming they represent the expected distribution of species in each SDF patch. To test hypothesis of niche conservatism, we assessed the niche equivalence/similarity between the patches represented by the VS, and in each bird species and its VS distributional counterpart.ResultsOur results showed three patterns: (i) no past geographical connectiveness among suitable areas; (ii) niche conservatism, but not equivalence, despite low niche overlap and geographical distance; and (iii) potential niche divergence.Main ConclusionsFor birds currently endemic to the MPS, our results suggest that the absence from the YP may be attributed to the loss of their environmental niche. Widespread species showed either niche conservatism or divergence. YP endemics showed niche divergence. Our results underline the role of niche divergence/conservatism in the evolution of distributional patterns in Mesoamerican SDF avifauna.

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The role of ecological niche conservatism in the evolution of bird distributional patterns in Mesoamerican seasonally dry forests

Chan,

Arroyo‐Cabrales,

Prieto‐Torres

et al. 2024

Journal of Biogeography

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“…While single‐locus data has its limitations in making inferences about historical demography (Matumba et al, 2020), DNA barcoding, or the use of other single‐locus DNA markers, has provided tremendous insight into identifying evolutionary significant units and providing information on species in further need of exploration (Bousjein et al, 2021; León‐Tapia, 2021; Nneji et al, 2020; Sholihah et al, 2020; Wang et al, 2020). These data are particularly helpful when aiming to explore broad‐scale patterns such as those on a continental scale (Dincă et al, 2021) or across species (Doorenweerd et al, 2020), especially for a large number of taxonomic groups, as demonstrated here.…”

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phylogatR: Phylogeographic data aggregation and repurposing

Pelletier

Parsons

Decker

et al. 2022

Molecular Ecology Resources

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Patterns of genetic diversity within species contain information the history of that species, including how they have responded to historical climate change and how easily the organism is able to disperse across its habitat. More than 40,000 phylogeographic and population genetic investigations have been published to date, each collecting genetic data from hundreds of samples. Despite these millions of data points, meta‐analyses are challenging because the synthesis of results across hundreds of studies, each using different methods and forms of analysis, is a daunting and time‐consuming task. It is more efficient to proceed by repurposing existing data and using automated data analysis. To facilitate data repurposing, we created a database (phylogatR) that aggregates data from different sources and conducts automated multiple sequence alignments and data curation to provide users with nearly ready‐to‐analyse sets of data for thousands of species. Two types of scientific research will be made easier by phylogatR: large meta‐analyses of thousands of species that can address classic questions in evolutionary biology and ecology, and student‐ or citizen‐ science based investigations that will introduce a broad range of people to the analysis of genetic data. phylogatR enhances the value of existing data via the creation of software and web‐based tools that enable these data to be recycled and reanalysed and increase accessibility to big data for research laboratories and classroom instructors with limited computational expertise and resources.

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“…Thus, future research strategies focused on these species should contemplate the possibility that different evolutionary mechanisms are acting with uneven intensities on their populations, requiring the development of methodologies and approaches that cover distinct populations simultaneously and that, in turn, consider the heterogeneity of the landscape in which they exist. A good starting point under this premise could be achieved by using genetic data generated by previous studies but analyzing them with the approaches and methodologies used here, see 80 , 125 , ideally those containing comprehensive and exhaustive genetic samplings 34 , 118 . In this line, the characterization and analysis of the dimensions that constitute the ecological niche can become a mandatory procedure when attempting to study the dynamics of species with significant levels of population differentiation 58 , 126 .…”

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Climate influences the genetic structure and niche differentiation among populations of the olive field mouse Abrothrix olivacea (Cricetidae: Abrotrichini)

Quiroga-Carmona

D’Elı́a

2022

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Even when environmental variation over time and space is commonly considered as an important driver of population divergence, few evaluations of intraspecific genetic variation explicitly assess whether observed structure has been caused by or is correlated with landscape heterogeneity. Several phylogeographic studies have characterized the mitochondrial diversity of Abrothrix olivacea, but none has incorporated landscape genetics analyses and ecological niche modeling, leaving a gap in the understanding of the species evolutionary history. Here, these aspects were addressed based on 186 single nucleotide polymorphisms, extracted from sequences of 801 bp of Cytb gene, gathered from 416 individuals collected at 103 localities in Argentina and Chile. Employing multivariate statistical analyses (gPCA, Mantel and Partial Mantel Tests, Procrustes Analysis, and RDA), associations between genetic differences and geographic and climatic distances were evaluated. Presence data was employed to estimate the potential geographic distribution of this species during historical and contemporary climatic scenarios, and to address differences among the climatic niches of their main mitochondrial lineages. The significant influence of landscape features in structuring mitochondrial variability was evidenced at different spatial scales, as well as the role of past climatic dynamics in driving geographic range shifts, mostly associated to Quaternary glaciations. Overall, these results suggest that throughout geographic range gene flow is unevenly influenced by climatic dissimilarity and the geographic distancing, and that studied lineages do not exhibit distributional signals of climatic niche conservatism. Additionally, genetic differentiation occurred by more complex evolutionary processes than mere disruption of gene flow or drift.

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DNA Barcoding and Demographic History of Peromyscus yucatanicus (Rodentia: Cricetidae) Endemic to the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Cited by 6 publications

References 82 publications

The role of ecological niche conservatism in the evolution of bird distributional patterns in Mesoamerican seasonally dry forests

The role of ecological niche conservatism in the evolution of bird distributional patterns in Mesoamerican seasonally dry forests

phylogatR: Phylogeographic data aggregation and repurposing

Climate influences the genetic structure and niche differentiation among populations of the olive field mouse Abrothrix olivacea (Cricetidae: Abrotrichini)

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