Mitochondrial DNA variation in the western house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) close to its site of origin: studies in Turkey

Gündüz, İslam; Rambau, Ramugondo V.; Tez, Coşkun; Searle, Jeremy B.

doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00448.x

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“…The remaining sequences corresponded to new haplotypes, distributed among clade D ( N = 9; AUSTRALIA.08–10), restricted to a small area in Australia's east coast, clade B ( N = 1; AUSTRALIA.13) and eight sequences basal within the tree (AUSTRALIA.11–12), largely from Kangaroo Island and Tasmania (Figure 2). In addition to AUSTRALIA.01 and 05, only two other Australian haplotypes have previously been described elsewhere: AUSTRALIA.02 ( N = 4; mainland Australia) previously recorded as U47432 in Scotland [8], Germany [8], France [7], [14], the Netherlands (this study, NETHERLANDS.03, N = 2) and New Zealand [4], and AUSTRALIA.11 ( N = 6; Kangaroo Island and adjacent coast) previously recorded as Turkey.7 in Istanbul [15].…”

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Of Mice and ‘Convicts’: Origin of the Australian House Mouse, Mus musculus

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The house mouse, Mus musculus, is one of the most ubiquitous invasive species worldwide and in Australia is particularly common and widespread, but where it originally came from is still unknown. Here we investigated this origin through a phylogeographic analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences (D-loop) comparing mouse populations from Australia with those from the likely regional source area in Western Europe. Our results agree with human historical associations, showing a strong link between Australia and the British Isles. This outcome is of intrinsic and applied interest and helps to validate the colonization history of mice as a proxy for human settlement history.

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Of Mice and ‘Convicts’: Origin of the Australian House Mouse, Mus musculus

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“…This is already almost twice as much as the 10 per cent classically reported in the literature [17,27]. The second is that, if nonlinearity for recent evolution also applies to the Cyt b third position, then the expansion time is likely to be shorter and the intraspecific substitution rates for both molecules are likely to be about twice the value indicated above if the 12 000 years old expansion proposed by RajabiMaham et al [8] holds.…”

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Genetic differentiation of the house mouse around the Mediterranean basin: matrilineal footprints of early and late colonization

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The molecular signatures of the recent expansion of the western house mouse, Mus musculus domesticus, around the Mediterranean basin are investigated through the study of mitochondrial D-loop polymorphism on a 1313 individual dataset. When reducing the complexity of the matrilineal network to a series of haplogroups (HGs), our main results indicate that: (i) several HGs are recognized which seem to have almost simultaneously diverged from each other, confirming a recent expansion for the whole subspecies; (ii) some HGs are geographically delimited while others are widespread, indicative of multiple introductions or secondary exchanges; (iii) mice from the western and the eastern coasts of Africa harbour largely different sets of HGs; and (iv) HGs from the two shores of the Mediterranean are more similar in the west than in the east. This pattern is in keeping with the two-step westward expansion proposed by zooarchaeological data, an early one coincident with the Neolithic progression and limited to the eastern Mediterranean and a later one, particularly evident in the western Mediterranean, related to the generalization of maritime trade during the first millennium BC and onwards. The dispersal of mice along with humans, which continues until today, has for instance left complex footprints on the long ago colonized Cyprus or more simple ones on the much more recently populated Canary Islands.

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“…1-10 is well supported (posterior probability 0.96) and the other (which includes BritIsl.16-36) is poorly supported (posterior probability 0.65), which is typical of other lineages that have been identified in M. m. domesticus phylogenetic trees (Prager et al 1993(Prager et al , 1996(Prager et al , 1998 The lineage consisting of haplotypes BritIsl.16-36 has occurred as a separate lineage in all previous phylogenetic analyses that have included the relevant haplotypes (Prager et al 1993(Prager et al , 1996(Prager et al , 1998Nachman et al 1994;Gü ndü z et al 2001Gü ndü z et al , 2005. The lineage has a striking distribution in the British Isles relative to other M. m. domesticus haplotypes (appendix 2 in the electronic supplementary material).…”

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“…in tracing the postglacial colonization history of European fauna and flora (Hewitt 2000). Mitochondrial (mt) DNA has been the best-studied genomic region in the phylogeographic studies of mammals, and in the house mouse there have already been extensive studies, particularly by Prager and colleagues on complete D-loop sequences (Prager et al 1993(Prager et al , 1996(Prager et al , 1998; see also Gü ndü z et al 2005;Ihle et al 2006;Rajabi-Maham et al 2008). As regards M. m. domesticus, there is substantial D-loop variation and little geographical structure throughout much of the Mediterranean and the nearby areas of western Europe.…”

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Of mice and (Viking?) men: phylogeography of British and Irish house mice

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The west European subspecies of house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) has gained much of its current widespread distribution through commensalism with humans. This means that the phylogeography of M. m. domesticus should reflect patterns of human movements. We studied restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and DNA sequence variations in mouse mitochondrial (mt) DNA throughout the British Isles (328 mice from 105 localities, including previously published data). There is a major mtDNA lineage revealed by both RFLP and sequence analyses, which is restricted to the northern and western peripheries of the British Isles, and also occurs in Norway. This distribution of the 'Orkney' lineage fits well with the sphere of influence of the Norwegian Vikings and was probably generated through inadvertent transport by them. To form viable populations, house mice would have required large human settlements such as the Norwegian Vikings founded. The other parts of the British Isles (essentially most of mainland Britain) are characterized by house mice with different mtDNA sequences, some of which are also found in Germany, and which probably reflect both Iron Age movements of people and mice and earlier development of large human settlements. MtDNA studies on house mice have the potential to reveal novel aspects of human history.

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Mitochondrial DNA variation in the western house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) close to its site of origin: studies in Turkey

Cited by 52 publications

References 36 publications

Of Mice and ‘Convicts’: Origin of the Australian House Mouse, Mus musculus

Of Mice and ‘Convicts’: Origin of the Australian House Mouse, Mus musculus

Genetic differentiation of the house mouse around the Mediterranean basin: matrilineal footprints of early and late colonization

Of mice and (Viking?) men: phylogeography of British and Irish house mice

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