Postglacial recolonization and Holocene diversification of Crocidura suaveolens (Mammalia, Soricidae) on the north-western fringe of the European continent

Rofes, Juan; Cucchi, Thomas; Hanot, Pauline; Herman, Jeremy S.; Stéphan, Pierre; Cersoy, Sophie; Horáček, Ivan; Kerr, Elizabeth; Allberry, Kate; Valenzuela, Sílvia; Zazzo, Antoine; Cornette, Raphäel; Tresset, Anne

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.04.016

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“…14 175–13 129 cal a bp ) for this taxon in western Europe up to now, giving an age well within the Bølling–Allerød warm pulse (c. 14 700 to c. 12 700 a bp ). Notably, it confirms a recently proposed scenario for the postglacial recolonisation of this species from the Iberian Peninsula (Rofes et al , 2018). There is a notorious lack of absolute dates for small mammal taxa to support postglacial recolonisation models inferred by other means (e.g.…”

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Detecting stratigraphical issues using direct radiocarbon dating from small‐mammal remains

Rofes

Cersoy

Zazzo

et al. 2020

J Quaternary Science

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Frequently preserved in archaeological and palaeontological sites, the tiny size of small-mammal remains favours percolations into underlying layers along stratigraphic sequences. This is one of the various postdepositional processes that may affect the integrity of the original deposits and therefore the subsequent scientific interpretations. Recent developments in sample preparation offer the possibility of detecting intrusive episodes through the absolute dating of minute amounts of bone (down to 10 mg), meaning that isolated elements (such as mandibles in this case) are sufficient to obtain reliable radiocarbon dates if collagen is moderately to well preserved. The radiocarbon dates obtained here for small-mammal bones (recovered from pre-Bølling to recent deposits) and their comparison with previous dates obtained from other sources (large-mammal bones, charcoal, botanical samples, etc.), with different protocols and instruments, illustrate the potential of small-mammal dating to reveal (and eventually contribute a solution to) stratigraphical issues in different archaeological contexts.

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“…López‐García et al , 2014; Rofes et al 2014, 2015; Royer, 2016) and biogeographical histories (e.g. Cucchi et al , 2014; Rofes et al , 2018).…”

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Detecting stratigraphical issues using direct radiocarbon dating from small‐mammal remains

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Zazzo

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J Quaternary Science

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“…Natural movements of organisms following the expansions and contractions of glacial ice sheets during the Quaternary climatic oscillations have resulted in the geographic and genetic isolation of species/populations across temperate regions (Hewitt, , ; Schmitt, Rober, & Seitz, ; Schmitt & Seitz, ). For example, in Europe, many studies have shown how the persistence of populations in separate glacial refugia (e.g., the Iberian, Italian, and Balkan peninsulas, the Caucasus region, North Africa, and microrefugia in the Alps) during the Quaternary climatic oscillations promoted genetic diversity in contemporary populations (Andersen, Havill, Caccone, & Elkinton, ; Habel, Lens, Rodder, & Schmitt, ; Huck, Buedel, & Schmitt, ; Niedzialkowska et al, ; von Reumont, Struwe, Schwarzer, & Misof, ; Rofes et al, ; Schmitt, ; Schmitt & Müller, ; Sim, Hall, Jex, Hegel, & Coltman, ; Stolting et al, ; Torroni et al, ). For outbreaking species, reconstructing the biogeographical history of the species can help to determine the factors that might be promoting their outbreak (e.g., Moyal et al, ; Song et al, ; Zhu et al, ).…”

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Identification of winter moth (Operophtera brumata) refugia in North Africa and the Italian Peninsula during the last glacial maximum

Andersen

Havill

Mannai

et al. 2019

Ecology and Evolution

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Numerous studies have shown that the genetic diversity of species inhabiting temperate regions has been shaped by changes in their distributions during the Quaternary climatic oscillations. For some species, the genetic distinctness of isolated populations is maintained during secondary contact, while for others, admixture is frequently observed. For the winter moth (Operophtera brumata), an important defoliator of oak forests across Europe and northern Africa, we previously determined that contemporary populations correspond to genetic diversity obtained during the last glacial maximum (LGM) through the use of refugia in the Iberian and Aegean peninsulas, and to a lesser extent the Caucasus region. Missing from this sampling were populations from the Italian peninsula and from North Africa, both regions known to have played important roles as glacial refugia for other species. Therefore, we genotyped field‐collected winter moth individuals from southern Italy and northwestern Tunisia—the latter a region where severe oak forest defoliation by winter moth has recently been reported—using polymorphic microsatellite. We reconstructed the genetic relationships of these populations in comparison to moths previously sampled from the Iberian and Aegean peninsulas, the Caucasus region, and western Europe using genetic distance, Bayesian clustering, and approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) methods. Our results indicate that both the southern Italian and the Tunisian populations are genetically distinct from other sampled populations, and likely originated in their respective refugium during the LGM after diverging from a population that eventually settled in the Iberian refugium. These suggest that winter moth populations persisted in at least five Mediterranean LGM refugia. Finally, we comment that outbreaks by winter moth in northwestern Tunisia are not the result of a recent introduction of a nonnative species, but rather are most likely due to land use or environmental changes.

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“…On the other hand, shrew communities are also suitable as a rich source for the analysis of biotic responses, including changes in morphometric traits (Reumer, 1984;van Dam, 2004;Furió et al, 2007Furió et al, , 2018Furió and Agustí, 2017). Although shrews have special value, their morphometric study usually reaches either a single-species analysis (Panasenko and Kholin, 2011;Polly, 2005Polly, , 2007Voyta et al, 2013;Cornette et al, 2015a;Rofes et al, 2018) or an analysis of univariate/bivariate statistics (Fadeeva, 2016;Zazhigin and Voyta, 2018;Moya-Costa et al 2023). Currently, there are not many comprehensive studies on the morphometric variety of shrews on a multispecies scale (Butler et al, 1989;Zaitsev, 1998;Dokuchaev et al, 1999Dokuchaev et al, , 2010Zazhigin and Voyta, 2022), especially used powerful geometric morphometric approaches based on two-and three-dimensional data sets (Rychlik et al, 2006;Cornette et al, 2015aCornette et al, , 2015b, various methods of interpretation (e.g., multivariate shape space approach; Polly and Wójcik, 2019) and molecular/ morphological data sets combining , although, other mammalian groups are being developed very actively Viacava et al, 2023;and many others).…”

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Morphospace dynamics and intraspecies variety of Sorex araneus and S. tundrensis according to recent and fossil data

Voyta,

Izvarin,

Shemyakina

et al. 2023

Palaeontol Electron

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Several patterns were revealed in a temporal study on morphological variety of Sorex araneus and S. tundrensis (Soricidae, Mammalia). We examined samples from 18 modern and three fossil Early-Late Holocene Uralian localities. We analyzed shape variation of the first lower molar and hemimandible using two-dimensional geometrical landmarks; size differences were estimated by means of three linear measures. A separate purpose was estimation of the measurement error that arose during the data acquisition. We found that the modern samples of both species share underestimated similarity in both size and shape of morphological structures. Regression analysis revealed different phenotypic traits of the mandibular proportion in the large and small shrews regardless of species attribution. A size decrease of S. araneus and conversely a size increase of S. tundrensis both drive the mandibular shape toward phenotypic convergence. This pattern, however, is violated in the fossil samples, where the largest S. tundrensis from a Late Holocene Sim III locality (South Ural) showed a well-distinguishable mandibular shape located in a separate part of the morphospace. In this work, we found that the m1 shape has only weak resolving power as compared to the mandibular or especially skull shape. Nonetheless, even the moderate resolving power of the mandibular shape allowed us to uncover phenotypic changes during the Holocene that have not been noticed by previous researchers at Uralian late Quaternary localities.

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Postglacial recolonization and Holocene diversification of Crocidura suaveolens (Mammalia, Soricidae) on the north-western fringe of the European continent

Cited by 9 publications

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Detecting stratigraphical issues using direct radiocarbon dating from small‐mammal remains

Detecting stratigraphical issues using direct radiocarbon dating from small‐mammal remains

Identification of winter moth (Operophtera brumata) refugia in North Africa and the Italian Peninsula during the last glacial maximum

Morphospace dynamics and intraspecies variety of Sorex araneus and S. tundrensis according to recent and fossil data

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