Parent‐offspring and sibling‐sibling interactions in caviomorph rodents

Tang‐Martínez, Zuleyma; Congdon, Elizabeth R.

doi:10.1002/9781118846506.ch11

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“…Considering the evidence provided by molecular data sets used in this study, it is suggested that C. talarum and C. pundti complex could be considered as the same biological species, or lineages going through a recent or incipient differentiation process. To confirm any of these hypotheses, a multidisciplinary approach will be necessary, such as a study of the type material of each species (Stolz et al, 2013;Tammone et al, 2016;Sánchez et al, 2019), deep chromosome studies (Castilho et al, 2012;Kubiak et al, 2020), wider multi-locus/genomic analyses (MacManes et al, 2015;Lopes et al, 2020), environmental and ecological features (Kubiak et al, 2017;Lopes et al, 2020), and mainly exhaustive approaches on phenotypic variation at different levels (Freitas et al, 2012;Gonçalves, 2021), in conjunction with complex and deeper morphometric analyzes that integrate classical and geometric morphometry (Borges et al, 2017;Fornel et al, 2018;Leipnitz et al, 2020).…”

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Redefining the Distributional Boundaries and Phylogenetic Relationships for Ctenomids From Central Argentina

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With about 68 recognized living species, subterranean rodents of the genus Ctenomys are found in a multiplicity of habitats, from the dunes of the Atlantic coast to the Andes Mountains, including environments ranging from humid steppes of Pampas to the dry deserts of Chaco region. However, this genus needs an exhaustive reevaluation of its systematic and phylogenetic relationships regarding the different groups that compose it. This knowledge is essential to propose biodiversity conservation strategies both at species level and at higher hierarchical levels. In order to clarify the taxonomy and the recent evolutionary history from populations of Ctenomys in the Pampas region, Argentina, phylogenetic relationships among them were evaluated using mitochondrial DNA sequences: gene encoding cytochrome b protein (1,140 bp) and the non-coding D-loop region (434 bp). To infer the divergence times inside the Ctenomys clade, a Bayesian calibrate tree using fossil remains data from different families within Caviomorpha was performed at first. Secondly, that calibration data was used as priors in a new Bayesian phylogenetic inference within the genus Ctenomys. This phylogenetic tree emphasized on species currently distributed on the Pampas region, more precisely considering both the talarum and mendocinus groups. Bayesian inferences (BI) were integrated with the results of a Maximum Likelihood approach (ML). Based on these results, the distributional limits of the mendocinus and talarum groups appear to be related to the physiognomy of the Pampas region soils. On the other hand, the validity of C. pundti complex as a differentiated species of C. talarum is debated. According to previous evidence from morphological and chromosomal studies, these results show a very low divergence between those species that originally were classified within the talarum group. Mitochondrial DNA sequences from populations associated with these putative species have not recovered as reciprocal monophyletic groups in the phylogenetic analyses. In conclusion, C. talarum and C. pundti complex might be considered as the same biological species, or lineages going through a recent or incipient differentiation process. The results obtained in this study have important implications for conservation policies and practices, since both species are currently categorized as Vulnerable and Endangered, respectively.

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