Integrative taxonomic revision of the African thicket rats (Murinae: Grammomys): how genomics decreases the number of currently recognized species
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081766%3A_____%2F25%3A00587884" target="_blank" >RIV/68081766:_____/25:00587884 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60076658:12310/25:43909732 RIV/00216224:14310/25:00140895
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae057" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae057</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae057" target="_blank" >10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae057</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Integrative taxonomic revision of the African thicket rats (Murinae: Grammomys): how genomics decreases the number of currently recognized species
Original language description
Thicket rats of the genus Grammomys are partly arboreal rodents distributed across a large part of sub-Saharan Africa. Previous work showed that their highest diversity is in forests and woodlands of Eastern Africa, that the evolutionary history of the genus roughly mirrors the evolution of African forests, and that the currently delimited species (names) do not correspond to major genetic clades. We used thousands of single nucleotide polymorphisms to perform phylogenomic analysis and to delimit genomic pools (i.e. candidate biological species). The resulting molecular operational taxonomic units were then compared with the most comprehensive sets of other available data (mitochondrial DNA variability, ecological requirements, morphology, karyotypes, sequences from the type material, etc.) and used for an integrative solution to the taxonomy of the genus. Our revision delimited seven species, which is less than the 12 recognized in the most recent literature on African rodents. We conclude that the African thicket rats represent a classic example of challenging problems in current integrative taxonomy. It is now relatively easy to obtain genomic data and to delimit candidate species, but it is much more complicated to give them species names using the valid rules of zoological nomenclature.
Czech name
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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
10613 - Zoology
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
ISSN
0024-4082
e-ISSN
1096-3642
Volume of the periodical
203
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
zlae057
UT code for WoS article
001230690000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105000101576