The Tien Shan vole (Microtus ilaeus, Rodentia: Cricetidae) as a new species in the Late Pleistocene of Europe
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.8289" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.8289</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8289" target="_blank" >10.1002/ece3.8289</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Tien Shan vole (Microtus ilaeus, Rodentia: Cricetidae) as a new species in the Late Pleistocene of Europe
Original language description
Grey voles (subgenus Microtus) represent a complex of at least seven closely related and partly cryptic species. The range of these species extends from the Atlantic to the Altai Mountains, but most of them occur east of the Black Sea. Using ancient DNA analyses of the Late Pleistocene specimens, we identified a new mtDNA lineage of grey voles in Europe. Phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b sequences from 23 voles from three caves, namely, Emine-Bair-Khosar (Crimea, Ukraine), Cave 16 (Bulgaria), and Bacho Kiro (Bulgaria), showed that 14 specimens form a previously unrecognized lineage, sister to the Tien Shan vole. The average sequence divergence of this lineage and the extant Tien Shan vole was 4.8%, which is similar to the divergence of grey vole forms, which are considered distinct species or being on the verge of speciation, M. arvalis and M. obscurus or M. mystacinus and M. rossiaemeridionalis. We estimated the time to the most recent common ancestor of the grey voles to be 0.66 Ma, which is over twice the recent estimates, while the divergence of the extant Tien Shan vole and the new lineage to be 0.29 Ma. Our discovery suggests that grey voles may have been more diversified in the past and that their ranges may have differed substantially from current ones. It also underlines the utility of ancient DNA to decipher the evolutionary history of voles.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ecology and Evolution
ISSN
2045-7758
e-ISSN
2045-7758
Volume of the periodical
11
Issue of the periodical within the volume
22
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
16113-16125
UT code for WoS article
000714470100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85118491719