Striped rabbits in Southeast Asia

Surridge, Alison K.; Timmins, Robert J.; Hewitt, Godfrey M.; Bell, Diana

doi:10.1038/23393

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“…Phylogenetic analyses of the rabbit N. timminsi and its only known congener, N. netscheri, which is restricted to the uplands of Sumatra, suggest that the species diverged ca. 8 Mya, when lowered sea levels allowed the Greater Sundas to communicate directly with southern Indochina via emergent landbridges (Surridge et al, 1999). Presumably, the ancestral Nesolagus was distributed over parts of this region during periods of lower sea levels, which allowed it to disperse between Mainland Southeast Asia and the Sundas.…”

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A Biogeographic Synthesis of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Indochina

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2011

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

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A Biogeographic Synthesis of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Indochina

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Hurley

2011

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

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“…(Surridge et al, 1999), were used to determine the phylogenetic position of the Amami rabbit, P. furnessi. The average transversion : transition ratio was 2.16 ± 0.09 SE.…”

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“…Sequences of homologous regions of the 12S rRNA and cyt b genes were obtained from the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank International Nucleotide Sequence Databases (Irwin and Arnason, 1994;Surridge et al, 1999;Murphy et al, 2000;Takaki et al, unpublished):…”

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“…It has been suggested that a rapid radiation occurred in six genera, and that Pronolagus branched off slightly earlier from the main leporid current . The 12S sequences of Nesolagus have been reported by Surridge et al (1999) following their discovery of a new species ( Nesolagus sp.) from Vietnam that is related to the Sumatran rabbit, Nesolagus netscheri .…”

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“…The generic relationships among seven leporid taxa, Brachylagus, Bunolagus, Lepus, Oryctolagus, Pronolagus, Romerolagus , and Sylvilagus , have been investigated using the variation in the mitochondrial 12S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene, which evolves at a relatively slow rate Surridge et al, 1999). It has been suggested that a rapid radiation occurred in six genera, and that Pronolagus branched off slightly earlier from the main leporid current .…”

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Molecular phylogeny of Japanese Leporidae, the Amami rabbit Pentalagus furnessi, the Japanese hare Lepus brachyurus, and the mountain hare Lepus timidus, inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences.

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We determined mitochondrial 12S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and cytochrome b (cyt b ) gene sequences in three leporid species of Japan, the Amami rabbit Pentalagus furnessi from the Ryukyu Islands, the Japanese hare Lepus brachyurus from Honshu, and a Japanese form of the mountain hare Lepus timidus ainu from Hokkaido. We compared the sequences with those of other taxa of leporids available in databases. Phylogenetic trees of the 12S rRNA gene sequences indicated that the lineage of P. furnessi diversified during the generic radiation of the leporids at an ancient time, which was estimated to have been the middle Miocene. Cyt-b gene trees revealed that the lineage of L. brachyurus branched off at an early stage in the speciation of Lepus , probably at the beginning of the Pliocene. The cyt b sequences of L. t. ainu were somewhat distinct from those of continental conspecific populations; this lineage divergence is likely to have occurred during the middle or late Pleistocene. The results show that the three regions of the Japanese archipelago, Ryukyu, Honshu-Shikoku-Kyushu, and Hokkaido, now preserve their own leporid taxa, each with a different extent of genetic endemicity. It is possible that the zoogeographic traits of the Japanese leporids are a consequence of the evolutionary dynamics of leporids in East Asia, in that the radiation centers of leporids are likely to have shifted from tropical, through temperate, to arctic zones.

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Striped rabbits in Southeast Asia

Cited by 54 publications

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A Biogeographic Synthesis of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Indochina

A Biogeographic Synthesis of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Indochina

Molecular phylogeny of Japanese Leporidae, the Amami rabbit Pentalagus furnessi, the Japanese hare Lepus brachyurus, and the mountain hare Lepus timidus, inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences.

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