Phylogenetic Aspects of Nuclear and Mitochondrial Gene-Pool Characteristics of South and North African Cape Hares (Lepus capensis) and European Hares (Lepus europaeus)

Suchentrunk, Franz; Slimen, Hichem Ben; Sert, Hakan

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-72446-9_5

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“…Our examples and published data indicate that mt HV-1 sequences are highly variable in diverse species of the genus Lepus (see also, e.g., [11,20,33,50,57,67,70]). Thus, they have a high potential for testing diverse hypotheses of origin of introduced Lepus species or for tracking translocation histories of hares.…”

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Molecular Approaches Revealing Prehistoric, Historic, or Recent Translocations and Introductions of Hares (Genus Lepus) by Humans

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Although only of medium size, and thus of little nutritional value compared to big game such as mammoths and ungulates, hares (Lepus spp.) probably have always been a food source for humans, as documented in archaeological finds. Nowadays, hares, particularly such species as the brown hare (L. europaeus), are among the most important game species in many European countries. For hunting, perhaps religious reasons, and in connection with certain myths, hares have been and are still being intentionally translocated. Ancient translocations by humans can be inferred from the presence of hares on islands that had no mainland connections, at least during the Pleistocene, the major evolutionary period of the genus Lepus. We review some of the literature on anthropogenic translocations of hares. We focus on three examples [the brown hare (L. europaeus), the Corsican hare (L. corsicanus), and the Sardinian hare (L. capensis)], where some molecular data could be used to trace the translocation routes and possible origins of introduced hare populations. Certain molecular marker systems, such as sequences of the hypervariable part I (HV-1) of the mitochondrial control region, show high variability in hare species and are thus promising for tracing both recent and ancient origins of translocated hares. Some other Human Evolution (2006) 21: 151-165

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Molecular Approaches Revealing Prehistoric, Historic, or Recent Translocations and Introductions of Hares (Genus Lepus) by Humans

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“…A sound phylogenetic analysis of new sequence data implies inclusion of all reliable sequences published so far and available for alignment. This is particularly necessary in the genus Lepus, because there is a fair chance of unexpected phylogenetic sequence relationships (e.g., Alves et al 2003Alves et al , 2006Ben Slimen et al 2007Suchentrunk et al 2008a). Thus, we included all reliable sequences available from GenBank that could be aligned to our sequences with a reasonable number of base pairs (see Ben Slimen et al 2007 for a list of GenBank accession numbers).…”

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Mitochondrial HVI sequence variation in Anatolian hares (Lepus europaeus Pallas, 1778)

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Variability and phylogenetic relationships of sequences of the hypervariable domain I (HVI) of the mitochondrial DNA was studied in 46 brown hares (Lepus europaeus) from Anatolia, to test the hypotheses that (i) hares from several islands off the Anatolian coast and from Cyprus are phylogenetically close to mainland Anatolian hares, (ii) Anatolian hare sequence variability is higher than that of typical European brown hares, and to iii) infer possible Anatolian source populations of hares from some islands in the eastern Mediterranean. Neighbor joining and Maximum Parsimony analyses revealed reciprocal monophyly for sequences from Anatolia, the considered eastern Mediterranean islands off the Anatolian coast, Cyprus, and those sequences published earlier form NE Greece that were supposed to originate from earlier immigration via the late-Pleistocene/early-Holocene land bridge that connected SE Europe and W Anatolia (Kasapidis et al., 2005. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 34, 55-66). A high sequence idiosyncrasy was found among the Anatolian samples. Almost all approaches to compare variability between Anatolian and the downloaded European sequence data indicated higher sequence diversity in Anatolia, in accordance with earlier findings for allozyme loci. Network and principal coordinate analyses of the Anatolian sequences and those from the islands off the Anatolian coast as well as the Anatolian-type NE Greek sequences suggested high mitochondrial gene exchange among local populations in Anatolia with little effect of possible geographic barriers, and did not provide clues for tracing possible origins of island populations.

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“…The large variability of phenotypic characters within taxa and the wide range overlaps of characters among several taxa, which are only due, in some circumstances, to interspecific convergence, discourage the exclusive application of morphological approaches (e.g. Flux and Angermann 1990; Suchentrunk et al. 2008).…”

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“…2008 for phylogeographic aspects) and the relatively young evolutionary history of the genus Lepus (which originated probably in the Late Pliocene) contribute to create low gene pool divergence among species, and suggest complicated scenarios of reticulate evolution (e.g. Suchentrunk et al. 2008).…”

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Differentiation under isolation and genetic structure of Sardinian hares as revealed by craniometric analysis, mitochondrial DNA and microsatellites

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et al. 2012

Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research

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Hares (Lepus capensis Linnaeus 1758) were probably introduced into Sardinia in historical times. Previous studies indicated North Africa as the most likely source area but did not exclude the occurrence of hybridization events with continental brown hares (L. europaeus Pallas 1778) perhaps introduced for hunting purposes. We implemented both morphometric and genetic approaches to verify the genetic isolation of the Sardinian population. Specifically, we conducted a multivariate analysis of craniometric data and analysed 461 bp of the mitochondrial control region and 12 autosomal microsatellites in Sardinian hares, using North African cape hares and European brown hares as reference populations. Sardinian hares displayed a peculiar skull shape. In agreement, both nuclear and mitochondrial markers remarked the distinctiveness of this population. Observed and expected heterozygosity were 0.52 and 0.61, while haplotype and nucleotide diversity were 0.822 and 0.0129. Selfassignment based on Bayesian cluster analysis was high (average membership 0.98), and no evident signs of introgression from continental brown hares were found. Our results support the hypothesis that the Sardinian hares have been introduced from North Africa, remained genetically isolated since the founding event and evolved independently from the source population. This long-lasting isolation and the consequent genetic drift resulted in a differentiation, perhaps accompanied by an adaptation to local environmental conditions.

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Phylogenetic Aspects of Nuclear and Mitochondrial Gene-Pool Characteristics of South and North African Cape Hares (Lepus capensis) and European Hares (Lepus europaeus)

Cited by 10 publications

References 42 publications

Molecular Approaches Revealing Prehistoric, Historic, or Recent Translocations and Introductions of Hares (Genus Lepus) by Humans

Molecular Approaches Revealing Prehistoric, Historic, or Recent Translocations and Introductions of Hares (Genus Lepus) by Humans

Mitochondrial HVI sequence variation in Anatolian hares (Lepus europaeus Pallas, 1778)

Differentiation under isolation and genetic structure of Sardinian hares as revealed by craniometric analysis, mitochondrial DNA and microsatellites

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