Integrative taxonomic revision of the African thicket rats (Murinae: Grammomys): how genomics decreases the number of currently recognized species

Kód výsledku v 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>

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RIV/60076658:12310/25:43909732 RIV/00216224:14310/25:00140895

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Integrative taxonomic revision of the African thicket rats (Murinae: Grammomys): how genomics decreases the number of currently recognized species

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Integrative taxonomic revision of the African thicket rats (Murinae: Grammomys): how genomics decreases the number of currently recognized species

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10613 - Zoology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

ISSN

0024-4082

e-ISSN

1096-3642

Svazek periodika

203

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

zlae057

Kód UT WoS článku

001230690000001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105000101576