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1. Early cave art and ancient DNA record the origin of European bison

Author

Frauke Langbein, Joachim Burger, Pere Bover, Vladimir B. Doronichev, Gilles Tosello, Damien A. Fordham, Adam Ben Rohrlach, Jeremy F. Taylor, Kefei Chen, Graham Gower, Ruth Bollongino, Alexander Immel, Federica Fontana, Jared E. Decker, Katerina Douka, Maågorzata Tokarska, David Chivall, Bastien Llamas, Johannes Krause, Michael S. Y. Lee, Thomas Higham, Simon Y. W. Ho, Jan Glimmerveen, Marie-Anne Julien, Colin P. Groves, Antonio Guerreschi, Stephen M. Richards, Robert D. Schnabel, Amelie Scheu, Oleksandra Krotova, Liubov V. Golovanova, Johannes van der Plicht, Gennady F. Baryshnikov, Evelyne Crégut-Bonnoure, Pavel A. Kosintsev, Greger Larson, Rafa Kowalczyk, Ayla L. van Loenen, Ludovic Orlando, Emilia Hofman-Kamińska, Beth Shapiro, Alan Cooper, Julien Soubrier, Kieren J. Mitchell, Carole Fritz, Jean-Denis Vigne, Wolfgang Haak, Oliver Wooley, Isotope Research, Australian Research Council, European Commission, National Science Centre (Poland), Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Danish National Research Foundation, Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), Baylor University-Baylor University, School of Biological Sciences [Sydney], The University of Sydney, Departament de Biodiversati i Conservacio (IMEDEA, CSIC-UIB), Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats, Museum Requien, Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.), University of Oxford [Oxford], Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Università degli Studi di Ferrara (UniFE), Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Department of Archaeogenetics [Jena] (DAG), Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft-Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, University of Southampton, Natl Ukrainian Acad Sci, Inst Archaeol, Dept Stone Age, Kiev, Ukraine, Univ Tubingen, Inst Archaeol Sci Archaeo & Palaeogenet, Tubingen, Germany, Centre for Isotope Research [Groningen] (CIO), University of Groningen [Groningen], Archéozoologie, archéobotanique : sociétés, pratiques et environnements (AASPE), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Section for GeoGenetics, Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), Faculty of Biomedical and Life Sciences, and University of Glasgow

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0301 basic medicine, General Physics and Astronomy, megafauna, Bison priscus, Megafauna, hybridization, Bison bonasus, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Holocene, Phylogeny, Multidisciplinary, geography.geographical_feature_category, Genome, biology, Bison, Fossils, American Bison, fossil record, Mitochondrial, Pleistocene, Europe, Caves, visual_art, Sequence Analysis, [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory, Evolution, Life on Land, Science, Bison, Pleistocene, fossil record, mitochondrial genome, hybridization, Socio-culturale, Zoology, Steppe bison, DNA, Mitochondrial, Article, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Ancient, Evolution, Molecular, 03 medical and health sciences, Paleontology, Cave, Genetics, Pleistocene extinctions, Animals, DNA, Ancient, visual_art.artwork, Cell Nucleus, geography, Human Genome, Molecular, Sequence Analysis, DNA, General Chemistry, DNA, Aurochs, biology.organism_classification, Eurpoean Bison, Bos primigenius, 030104 developmental biology, Ancient DNA, mitochondrial genome, American bison, Genome, Mitochondrial, Commentary, Cattle, Paintings
Abstract

The two living species of bison (European and American) are among the few terrestrial megafauna to have survived the late Pleistocene extinctions. Despite the extensive bovid fossil record in Eurasia, the evolutionary history of the European bison (or wisent, Bison bonasus) before the Holocene (, This research was supported by the Australian Research Council, the European Commission (PIRSES-GA-2009-247652—BIOGEAST), the Polish National Science Centre (N N304 301940 and 2013/11/B/NZ8/00914), the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF94), the Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship (7th European Community Framework Program—MEDITADNA, PIOF-GA-2011-300854, FP7-PEOPLE) and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (N 15-04-03882).

Published
2016

2. Maioricalacerta rafelinensis, gen. et sp. nov. (Squamata, Lacertidae), from the early Pliocene of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean Sea)

Author

Salvador Bailon, Joseph Antoni Alcover, Pere Bover, Renaud Boistel, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España), Mécanismes adaptatifs : des organismes aux communautés, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut International de Paléoprimatologie, Paléontologie Humaine : Evolution et Paléoenvironnement (IPHEP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Poitiers, Departament de Biodiversati i Conservacio (IMEDEA, CSIC-UIB), Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats, Research Associate, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, and American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)

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Balearic islands, Squamata, biology, Dentition, Ecology, Lizard, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, Paleontology, government.political_district, biology.organism_classification, Mediterranean sea, Genus, biology.animal, government, Lacertidae, 14. Life underwater, Lateral wall, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract

Here we describe a new genus and species of Lacertidae, Maioricalacerta rafelinensis, gen. et sp. nov, a large-sized lizard with amblyodont teeth from the early Pliocene (Zanclean) of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean Sea). The presence of amblyodont teeth separates Maioricalacerta from recent species of Lacertidae. Maioricalacerta differs from the amblyodont lacertids of the European Tertiary (Quercycerta, Escampcerta, Mediolacerta, Pseudeumeces, Dracaenosaurus, Amblyolacerta, and Ligerosaurus) in the anteroposterior and mediolateral widening of the teeth and in the wide lateral wall of the dentary, which is massive, relatively short, and robust. Dracaenosaurus displays a similar morphology of the dentary, but the number of teeth is lower and they are more amblyodont than in Maioricalacerta. The dentition observed in Maioricalacerta suggests that the diet of the species was related to a consumption of hard prey, perhaps molluscs. The length reduction of the dentary constitutes an evolutionary biomechanical advantage to consume this kind of prey as it improves jaw-closing force. However, its movement is likely to have been slower but potentially more accurate. The robustness of the dental structures in Maioricalacerta also contributes to enhance the resistance of the bone against the increased static pressure to which it is subjected during jaw closure. Maioricalacerta is the most Recent amblyodont lacertid known and the only one described from the Pliocene of Europe. © 2014 Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC., This paper is included in the Project CGL2012-38087 of the Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica (Ministerio de Economía y Competividad, Spain). One of the authors (P.B.) received support from a JAE-DOC (CSIC) contract (Junta para la Ampliación de Estudios)

Published
2014

3. The case of an insular molarless black rat: Effects on lifestyle and mandible morphology

Author

Jacques Michaux, Pere Bover, Josep Antoni Alcover, Sabrina Renaud, Departament de Biodiversati i Conservacio (IMEDEA, CSIC-UIB), Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR ISEM), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ecologie et évolution des populations, Département écologie évolutive [LBBE], Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive - UMR 5558 (LBBE), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive - UMR 5558 (LBBE), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Molar, Elliptic fourier analysis, Morphology (linguistics), Animal food, Cephalometry, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Mandible, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Adult age, Bone and Bones, 03 medical and health sciences, Dental Arch, stomatognathic system, Animals, General Dentistry, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 030304 developmental biology, Anodontia, 0303 health sciences, Carbon Isotopes, biology, Ecology, Fourier Analysis, Nitrogen Isotopes, [SDV.BID.EVO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE], Cell Biology, General Medicine, Anatomy, biology.organism_classification, Diet, Rats, Incisor, Radiography, stomatognathic diseases, Phenotype, Otorhinolaryngology, Black rat, Spain, Mastication, Omnivore, Bone Remodeling, Murinae
Abstract

We report a specimen of an insular black rat (Rattus rattus) from Illa den Colom (Menorca, Western Mediterranean) displaying a singular dental characteristic. It has no molar teeth but displays regular incisors. Its mere occurrence as a regular adult rat is puzzling and we attempted to evaluate what diet and morphological changes in jaw shape were promoted by the total lack of molars, and allowed the successful survival of this specimen. Two approaches were performed: first, bone tissue was analysed to obtain δ15N and δ13C values in order to estimate dietary preferences of the rat. Second, the shape of the jaw was analysed through elliptic Fourier analysis, using outlines as markers of diet. The values for C and N fractionation (-19.89‰ and 10.06‰, respectively) suggest that the molarless rat included animal food in the diet and not exclusively plant material as observed in other mainland rat populations. The morphometric analysis in which the shape of the molarless mandible falls into the range of omnivorous groups leads to a similar conclusion. The adult age of the specimen suggests that it fed efficiently enough with its incisors to allow a normal growth. Although displaying a lack of molar teeth, no deep changes in remodelling jaw morphology can be observed and its shape falls into the variation of regular murines. The molarless rat exemplifies that special ecological features on small islands allow the survival of aberrant morphotypes. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd., This work is included in the project CGL2007-62047/BTE of the Dirección General de Investigación, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Dr. J.A. Alcover). One of the authors (PB) has a contract JAE-DOC (CSIC) of the program “Junta para la Ampliación de Estudios”.

Published
2009

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