Biogeography and taxonomy of Apodemus sylvaticus (the woodmouse) in the Tyrrhenian region: enzymatic variations and mitochondrial DNA restriction pattern analysis

Michaux, Johan; Filippucci, Maria Grazia; Libois, Roland; Fons, Roger; Matagne, René-Fernand

doi:10.1038/hdy.1996.40

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“…4) The phylogenetical1y nearest western hap1otype (Bg63) bas been observed in a mou se from central Spain (S9). Its genetic distance from the African Ao54 haplotype reaches 1.44%, a divergence 1evel that is usually observed among animals from the same trapping site (e.g., 1.29% between Aq60 and Ar61 from S7 (Alcoy); other examp1es appear in Michaux et al 1996a). …”

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“…4) shows the outgroups are weIl separated from all the other aniI at a high level of divergence (>7 %) and robustly (boots value = 100%). The other haplotypes are distributed wi the three distinct clusters aIready described for western Eur i.e., western (Spain, France, Balearic Islands), Tyrrheni Balkan (Italy, Corsica, and Sardinia and a Bulgarian haploB e76), and Sicilian groups (Michaux et al 1996a(Michaux et al , 191 998a, 1998b. ln Tunisia, four different haplotypes v found, one of these (Ao54) being the only one presen Morocco.…”

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“…Mitochondrial DNA was isolated and processed with two restriction endonucleases as described in Michaux et al (1996a). AlI distinctive mtDNA restriction fragment patterns were assigned a number when produced by RsaI or an alphabetical code when produced by Haelli.…”

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On the origin and systematics of the northern African wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) populations: a comparative study of mtDNA restriction patterns

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Ramalhinho³

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Can. J. Zool.

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Conflicting hypotheses have been fonnulated regarding the origin of wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) populations in northern Africa. ln this study, the mtDNA restriction patterns of mice (n = 28) collected in Tunisia andMorocco are compared with those of representatives from southern Europe (n = 102). The neighbour-joining tree confinns the existence of the three lineages preyiously found in the Mediterranean area: western, Tyrrhenian-BaIkan, and Sicilian. The western group is isolated from the two others, with bootstrap vaIues of 89 and 95%. Northern African patterns are included in the western group. Their variability is low, the same pattern being shared by five Tunisian and ail Moroccan animais (n = 18), caught either in the north of the country (Cap Spartel) or in the south (Marrakech).This implies that northern African wood mouse populations have a southwestern European origin and that their presence in the region is probably recent, which corresponds to both paIeontological data and the hypothesis of anthropogenic introduction.

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On the origin and systematics of the northern African wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) populations: a comparative study of mtDNA restriction patterns

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“…Unfortunately, similar to morphometrics, cytogenetics were not successful in delimiting species, given the uniformity in karyotypic characteristics of this subgenus. More recently, new molecular methods such as restriction fragment length polymorphism (Chelomina, 1996;Michaux et al, 1996Michaux et al, , 1998aMichaux et al, , 1998b, random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) (Bellinvia et al, 1999), and sequencing of mitochondrial and/or nuclear genes (Chelomina, 1998;Chelomina et al, 1998;Martin et al, 2000;Serizawa et al, 2000) were used with greater success. However, most of these studies included only a limited number of Sylvaemus species and although they gave very interesting results concerning the intraspecific and interspecific phylogenetic relationships within this subgenus, many inconsistencies among the different studies remain.…”

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Phylogeny of the genus Apodemus with a special emphasis on the subgenus Sylvaemus using the nuclear IRBP gene and two mitochondrial markers: cytochrome b and 12S rRNA

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Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

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Phylogenetic relationships among 17 extant species of Murinae, with special reference to the genus Apodemus, were investigated using sequence data from the nuclear protein-coding gene IRBP (15 species) and the two mitochondrial genes cytochrome b and 12S rRNA (17 species). The analysis of the three genes does not resolve the relationships between Mus, Apodemus, and Rattus but separates Micromys from these three genera. The analysis of the two mitochondrial regions supported an association between Apodemus and Tokudaia and indicated that these two genera are more closely related to Mus than to Rattus or Micromys. Within Apodemus, the mitochondrial data sets indicated that 8 of the 9 species analyzed can be sorted into two main groups: an Apodemus group, with A. agrarius, semotus, and peninsulae, and a Sylvaemus group, with uralensis, flavicollis, alpicola, sylvaticus, and hermonensis. The position of Apodemus mystacinus is ambiguous and might be either included in Sylvaemus or considered a distinct subgenus, Karstomys, more closely related to Sylvaemus than to Apodemus. Estimation of the divergence time for these taxa suggests a separation between 7 and 8 My ago for the three groups (mystacinus and the two subgenera Apodemus and Sylvaemus). Within each subgenus, divergence times are between 5.4 and 6 My for Apodemus and between 2.2 and 3.5 My for Sylvaemus and mystacinus. Ó

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“…The wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) was also introduced into the main islands; its geographic origin bas been recently discussed (Michaux et al 1996a(Michaux et al , 1998a(Michaux et al , 1998b. ln North Africa, subfossil findings are not known before 5000-4300 yeaTS ago (2950-2300 B.C.…”

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On the origin and systematics of the northern African wood mouse (<i>Apodemus sylvaticus</i>) populations: a comparative study of mtDNA restriction patterns

Libois¹,

Michaux²,

Ramalhinho³

et al. 2001

Can. J. Zool.

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Biogeography and taxonomy of Apodemus sylvaticus (the woodmouse) in the Tyrrhenian region: enzymatic variations and mitochondrial DNA restriction pattern analysis

Cited by 33 publications

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On the origin and systematics of the northern African wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) populations: a comparative study of mtDNA restriction patterns

On the origin and systematics of the northern African wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) populations: a comparative study of mtDNA restriction patterns

Phylogeny of the genus Apodemus with a special emphasis on the subgenus Sylvaemus using the nuclear IRBP gene and two mitochondrial markers: cytochrome b and 12S rRNA

On the origin and systematics of the northern African wood mouse (<i>Apodemus sylvaticus</i>) populations: a comparative study of mtDNA restriction patterns

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