New record of Microtus mystacinus in eastern Kazakhstan: phylogeographical considerations

Holicová, Tereza; Sedláček, František; Mácová, Anna; Vlček, Jakub; Robovský, Jan

doi:10.3897/zookeys.781.25359

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“…estimated TMRCA of grey and social voles at 0.338 Mya. Approximations based on fossil calibration points, which are problematic in our opinion, yielded more ancient estimates (Tougard et al 2013, Holicová et al 2018.…”

Section: Species Group Arvalis -Grey Volesmentioning

confidence: 84%

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Voles and Lemmings (Arvicolinae) of the Palaearctic Region

Kryštufek

Shenbrot

2022

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As the most species-rich group of Palaearctic rodents, voles and lemmings are frequently used in various research endeavours of fundamental and applied significance. The present work integrates achievements of the genomic era with the traditional taxonomy and provides an authoritative and up-to-date taxonomic guide to the animal group which is of great interest to experts engaged in medical zoology, epidemiology, biostratigraphy, zooarchaeology, evolutionary research, population ecology, animal systematics, biodiversity conservation, museum collection management and many more biological subdisciplines. The text is supplemented by 331 illustrations and over one thousand references. Depicted are morphological details of skull and dentition of each of the 128 species and their distributions are mapped in detail. The book will allow the user to interpret intelligently and cautiously the interrelationships among species of voles and lemmings and to follow the anticipated taxonomic change with a critical eye.

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Section: Species Group Arvalis -Grey Volesmentioning

confidence: 84%

“…It is not clear for all populations whether they are native or imported (cf. Malygin et al 2020 andHolicová et al 2018). Most Siberian localities, however, are along the Trans-Siberian railroad which speaks in favour of humanassissted spreading.…”

Section: Subgroup Mystacinusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Voles and Lemmings (Arvicolinae) of the Palaearctic Region

Kryštufek

Shenbrot

2022

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Social but lonely: Species delimitation of social voles and the evolutionary history of the onlyMicrotusspecies living in Africa

Thanou

Paragamian²,

Lymberakis

2019

J Zool Syst Evol Res

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The social vole of Cyrenaica, Libya, is the only extant representative of the Cricetidae family found in Africa. Its taxonomic status has been under debate, partly due to the problematic systematics of the entire group of social voles and partly due to the lack of morphological and molecular data from Cyrenaican specimens. In this study, we applied ancient DNA protocols to produce three cytochrome b (cytb) sequences of Cyrenaican voles and built a phylogenetic reconstruction (195 sequences in total) incorporating all available cytb sequences of the remaining social voles, other representatives of the genus Microtus and closely related cricetids. We used this phylogeny to test the performance of the model‐based, single‐locus, species delimitation approach implemented in mPTP and delimited nine species of social voles. Among them are the Cyrenaican vole, Microtus mustersi and its sister species M. guentheri, distributed along the Mediterranean coasts of southwestern Asia. Biogeographical reconstruction of ancestral area and molecular clock estimations of the time since the divergence of the two sister lineages suggest that their common ancestor dispersed into Africa through a coastal route and was isolated in Cyrenaica as a result of population fragmentation associated with Middle Pleistocenic pluvial/interpluvial cycles. Geographic isolation triggered the speciation process, but species distribution modeling gave evidence of subsequent niche divergence; M. guentheri has adapted to the xeric conditions of its distributional area, while M. mustersi benefited from the milder Cyrenaican climate. The Cyrenaican vole is a relict species more than 200,000 years old, has a small and isolated distribution and probably merits conservation.

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