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Phylogeography of the greater horseshoe bat,Rhinolophus ferrumequinum: contrasting results from mitochondrial and microsatellite data
- Source :
- Molecular Ecology. 18:306-318
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2009.
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Abstract
- Phylogeographical studies are typically based on haplotype data, occasionally on nuclear markers such as microsatellites, but rarely combine both. This is unfortunate because the use of markers with contrasting modes of inheritance and rates of evolution might provide a more accurate and comprehensive understanding of a species' history. Here we present a detailed study of the phylogeography of the greater horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, using 1098 bp of the mitochondrial ND2 gene from 45 localities from across its Palaearctic range to infer population history. In addition, we re-analysed a large microsatellite data set available for this species and compared the results of both markers to infer population relationships and the historical processes influencing them. We show that mtDNA, the most popular marker in phylogeography studies, yielded a misleading result, and would have led us to conclude erroneously that a single expansion had taken place in Europe. Only by combining the mitochondrial and microsatellite data sets are we able to reconstruct the species' history and show two colonization events in Europe, one before the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and one after it. Combining markers also revealed the importance of Asia Minor as an ancient refugium for this species and a source population for the expansion of the greater horseshoe bat into Europe before the LGM.
- Subjects :
- Asia
Demographic history
Range (biology)
Population
Horseshoe bat
DNA, Mitochondrial
Evolution, Molecular
Refugium (population biology)
Chiroptera
Genetics
Animals
education
Phylogeny
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
education.field_of_study
Geography
biology
Ecology
Rhinolophus ferrumequinum
Genetic Variation
Sequence Analysis, DNA
biology.organism_classification
Mitochondria
Europe
Phylogeography
Genes, Mitochondrial
Genetics, Population
Haplotypes
Evolutionary biology
Microsatellite
Microsatellite Repeats
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1365294X and 09621083
- Volume :
- 18
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Molecular Ecology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a16c57bf44bbaab9124ea33087e330f4