SHORT COMMUNICATION: A phantom extinction? New insights into extinction dynamics of the Don‐hare Lepus tanaiticus
Abstract The Pleistocene to Holocene transition was accompanied by a worldwide extinction event affecting numerous mammalian species. Several species such as the woolly mammoth and the giant deer survived this extinction wave, only to go extinct a few thousand years later during the Holocene. Anothe...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02062.x 2024-09-09T19:51:12+00:00 SHORT COMMUNICATION: A phantom extinction? New insights into extinction dynamics of the Don‐hare Lepus tanaiticus PROST, S. KNAPP, M. FLEMMIG, J. HUFTHAMMER, A. K. KOSINTSEV, P. STILLER, M. HOFREITER, M. 2010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02062.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1420-9101.2010.02062.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02062.x en eng Oxford University Press (OUP) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Journal of Evolutionary Biology volume 23, issue 9, page 2022-2029 ISSN 1010-061X 1420-9101 journal-article 2010 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02062.x 2024-06-17T04:17:13Z Abstract The Pleistocene to Holocene transition was accompanied by a worldwide extinction event affecting numerous mammalian species. Several species such as the woolly mammoth and the giant deer survived this extinction wave, only to go extinct a few thousand years later during the Holocene. Another example for such a Holocene extinction is the Don‐hare, Lepus tanaiticus , which inhabited the Russian plains during the late glacial. After being slowly replaced by the extant mountain hare ( Lepus timidus ), it eventually went extinct during the middle Holocene. Here, we report the phylogenetic relationship of L. tanaiticus and L. timidus based on a 339‐basepair (bp) fragment of the mitochondrial D‐loop. Phylogenetic tree‐ and network reconstructions do not support L. tanaiticus and L. timidus being different species. Rather, we suggest that the two taxa represent different morphotypes of a single species and the extinction of ‘ L. tanaiticus ’ represents the disappearance of a local morphotype rather than the extinction of a species. Article in Journal/Newspaper Lepus timidus mountain hare Oxford University Press Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23 9 2022 2029 |
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Abstract The Pleistocene to Holocene transition was accompanied by a worldwide extinction event affecting numerous mammalian species. Several species such as the woolly mammoth and the giant deer survived this extinction wave, only to go extinct a few thousand years later during the Holocene. Another example for such a Holocene extinction is the Don‐hare, Lepus tanaiticus , which inhabited the Russian plains during the late glacial. After being slowly replaced by the extant mountain hare ( Lepus timidus ), it eventually went extinct during the middle Holocene. Here, we report the phylogenetic relationship of L. tanaiticus and L. timidus based on a 339‐basepair (bp) fragment of the mitochondrial D‐loop. Phylogenetic tree‐ and network reconstructions do not support L. tanaiticus and L. timidus being different species. Rather, we suggest that the two taxa represent different morphotypes of a single species and the extinction of ‘ L. tanaiticus ’ represents the disappearance of a local morphotype rather than the extinction of a species. |
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PROST, S. KNAPP, M. FLEMMIG, J. HUFTHAMMER, A. K. KOSINTSEV, P. STILLER, M. HOFREITER, M. SHORT COMMUNICATION: A phantom extinction? New insights into extinction dynamics of the Don‐hare Lepus tanaiticus |
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PROST, S. KNAPP, M. FLEMMIG, J. HUFTHAMMER, A. K. KOSINTSEV, P. STILLER, M. HOFREITER, M. |
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SHORT COMMUNICATION: A phantom extinction? New insights into extinction dynamics of the Don‐hare Lepus tanaiticus |
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SHORT COMMUNICATION: A phantom extinction? New insights into extinction dynamics of the Don‐hare Lepus tanaiticus |
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SHORT COMMUNICATION: A phantom extinction? New insights into extinction dynamics of the Don‐hare Lepus tanaiticus |
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SHORT COMMUNICATION: A phantom extinction? New insights into extinction dynamics of the Don‐hare Lepus tanaiticus |
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SHORT COMMUNICATION: A phantom extinction? New insights into extinction dynamics of the Don‐hare Lepus tanaiticus |
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short communication: a phantom extinction? new insights into extinction dynamics of the don‐hare lepus tanaiticus |
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