Supraspecies relationships in the subfamily Arvicolinae (Rodentia, Cricetidae): An unexpected result of nuclear gene analysis

Abramson, Natalia I.; Lebedev, Vladimir S.; Tesakov, Alexey S.; Банникова, А. А.

doi:10.1134/s0026893309050148

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“…This finding is based on sequences from all three TULV genome segments from a large panel of water vole samples from different geographic regions in Germany and Switzerland. The observed frequent spillover (or host switch) is highly unexpected, as paleozoological and molecular investigations suggest a last common ancestor of Microtus and Arvicola more than three million years ago (Chaline and Graf 1988;Conroy and Cook 1999;Abramson et al 2009;Fink et al 2010). Such transmissions of a hantavirus from the original reservoir host to distantly related species other than humans have been reported only very rarely in Europe, as for example a single house mouse infected by Apodemus flavicollis-associated Dobrava-Belgrade virus (Weidmann et al 2005).…”

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Tula Virus Infections in the Eurasian Water Vole in Central Europe

Schlegel

Kindler

Eßbauer³

et al. 2012

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

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Recent reports of novel hantaviruses in shrews and moles and the detection of rodent-borne hantaviruses in different rodent species raise important questions about their host range and specificity, evolution, and host adaptation. Tula virus (TULV), a European hantavirus, is believed to be slightly or non-pathogenic in humans and was initially detected in the common vole Microtus arvalis, the East European vole M. levis (formerly rossiaemeridionalis), and subsequently in other Microtus species. Here we report the first multiple RT-PCR detection and sequence analyses of TULV in the Eurasian water vole Arvicola amphibius from different regions in Germany and Switzerland. Additional novel TULV S-, M-, and L-segment sequences were obtained from M. arvalis and M. agrestis trapped in Germany at sites close to trapping sites of TULV-RT-PCR-positive water voles. Serological investigations using a recombinant TULV nucleocapsid protein revealed the presence of TULV-reactive antibodies in RT-PCR-positive and a few RT-PCR-negative water voles. Phylogenetic analyses revealed a geographical clustering of the novel S-, M-, and L-segment sequences from A. amphibius with those of M. arvalis- and M. agrestis-derived TULV lineages, and may suggest multiple TULV spillover or a potential host switch to A. amphibius. Future longitudinal studies of sympatric Microtus and Arvicola populations and experimental infection studies have to prove the potential of A. amphibius as an additional TULV reservoir host.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 89%

Tula Virus Infections in the Eurasian Water Vole in Central Europe

Schlegel

Kindler

Eßbauer³

et al. 2012

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

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“…Instead, we used the fossil record to calibrate nodes that are basal to our Microtus phylogeny. Specifically, we constrained the respective nodes and used the minimum age divergence for Arvicola (3.0-3.5 Mya; Abramson, Lebedev, Tesakov, & Bannikova, 2009) and for Myodes (2.5-2.6 Mya; Lebedev, Bannikova, Tesakov, & Abramson, 2007;Abramson et al, 2009), and the Chionomys/ Microtus split (1.2-2.2 Mya) based on the ancestral forms assigned to the species set Allophaiomys found in fossil records within this period (Martin & Tesakov, 1998).…”

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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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“…Arvicolines are abundant in the fossil and archeological records and are also widespread today in different landscapes through Northern Hemisphere (Chaline et al, 1999;Kowalski, 2001;Shenbrot & Krasnov, 2005). Their explosive radiation is thus one of the best-documented mammalian radiations from the fossil (Chaline et al, 1999;Kowalski, 2001) and molecular (Conroy & Cook, 1999;Galewski et al, 2006;Bužan et al, 2008;Robovský, Ričánková & Zrzavý, 2008;Abramson et al, 2009a) perspectives. In particular, voles are considered good models for studying speciation and understanding the impact of Quaternary climatic fluctuations on diversification (Chaline et al, 1999;Jaarola et al, 2004).…”

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Exploring phylogeography and species limits in the Altai vole (Rodentia: Cricetidae)

Tougard

Montuire

Volobouev

et al. 2013

Biol J Linn Soc Lond

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Natural hybridization between species is not a rare event. In arvicoline rodents, hybridization is known to occur in the wild and/or in captivity. In the Microtus arvalis group, cytogenetic studies revealed that there were two distinct chromosomal forms (2n = 46 but a different fundamental number of autosomes). These forms have been attributed to two cryptic species: the common (arvalis) and Altai (obscurus) voles. Recently, individuals with intermediate karyotypes (F1 and backcrosses) were discovered in central European Russia, and, for this reason, other studies have regarded obscurus and arvalis as conspecific. In the present study, to address the question of the species limits in the Altai vole and to infer its evolutionary history, a phylogeographical analysis combined with multivariate morphometric methods and original chromosome data was performed. Two obscurus lineages were identified: the Sino-Russian and South Caucasian lineages. Both lineages are characterized by low genetic diversity, resulting, in the former, from a past bottleneck event caused by encroaching periglacial areas and, in the latter, from recent rapid population divergence. Introgressive hybridization between the Altai and common voles appears to be the result of a secondary contact following the Last Glacial Maximum in central European Russia. Despite the fact that speciation is an ongoing process in most arvicoline species, the common and Altai voles are genetically divergent, morphologically and karyologically distinct, and exhibit contrasting evolutionary histories. For all these reasons, they should be ranked as species: M. arvalis and M. obscurus.

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Supraspecies relationships in the subfamily Arvicolinae (Rodentia, Cricetidae): An unexpected result of nuclear gene analysis

Cited by 65 publications

References 23 publications

Tula Virus Infections in the Eurasian Water Vole in Central Europe

Tula Virus Infections in the Eurasian Water Vole in Central Europe

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

Exploring phylogeography and species limits in the Altai vole (Rodentia: Cricetidae)

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