Genomic data from extinct north American camelops revise camel evolutionary history
© 2015 The Author. Recent advances in paleogenomic technologies have enabled an increasingly detailed understanding of the evolutionary relationships of now-extinct mammalian taxa. However, a number of enigmatic Quaternary species have never been characterized with molecular data, often because avai...
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ftcdlib:qt4zm8b6kj 2023-05-15T15:07:25+02:00 Genomic data from extinct north American camelops revise camel evolutionary history Heintzman, PD Zazula, GD Cahill, JA Reyes, AV MacPhee, RDE Shapiro, B 2433 - 2440 2015-01-01 application/pdf http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4zm8b6kj english eng eScholarship, University of California qt4zm8b6kj http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4zm8b6kj public Heintzman, PD; Zazula, GD; Cahill, JA; Reyes, AV; MacPhee, RDE; & Shapiro, B. (2015). Genomic data from extinct north American camelops revise camel evolutionary history. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32(9), 2433 - 2440. doi:10.1093/molbev/msv128. UC Santa Cruz: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4zm8b6kj paleogenomics Camelops Pleistocene arctic phylogeny morphology camel evolution article 2015 ftcdlib https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msv128 2018-07-13T22:55:05Z © 2015 The Author. Recent advances in paleogenomic technologies have enabled an increasingly detailed understanding of the evolutionary relationships of now-extinct mammalian taxa. However, a number of enigmatic Quaternary species have never been characterized with molecular data, often because available fossils are rare or are found in environments that are not optimal for DNA preservation. Here, we analyze paleogenomic data extracted from bones attributed to the late Pleistocene western camel, Camelops cf. hesternus, a species that was distributed across central and western North America until its extinction approximately 13,000 years ago. Despite a modal sequence length of only around 35 base pairs, we reconstructed high-coverage complete mitochondrial genomes and low-coverage partial nuclear genomes for each specimen. We find that Camelops is sister to African and Asian bactrian and dromedary camels, to the exclusion of South American camelids (llamas, guanacos, alpacas, and vicu~nas). These results contradict previous morphologybased phylogenetic models for Camelops, which suggest instead a closer relationship between Camelops and the South American camelids. The molecular data imply a Late Miocene divergence of the Camelops clade from lineages that separately gave rise to the extant camels of Eurasia. Our results demonstrate the increasing capacity of modern paleogenomic methods to resolve evolutionary relationships among distantly related lineages. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic University of California: eScholarship Arctic Dromedary ENVELOPE(163.033,163.033,-78.317,-78.317) Molecular Biology and Evolution 32 9 2433 2440 |
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© 2015 The Author. Recent advances in paleogenomic technologies have enabled an increasingly detailed understanding of the evolutionary relationships of now-extinct mammalian taxa. However, a number of enigmatic Quaternary species have never been characterized with molecular data, often because available fossils are rare or are found in environments that are not optimal for DNA preservation. Here, we analyze paleogenomic data extracted from bones attributed to the late Pleistocene western camel, Camelops cf. hesternus, a species that was distributed across central and western North America until its extinction approximately 13,000 years ago. Despite a modal sequence length of only around 35 base pairs, we reconstructed high-coverage complete mitochondrial genomes and low-coverage partial nuclear genomes for each specimen. We find that Camelops is sister to African and Asian bactrian and dromedary camels, to the exclusion of South American camelids (llamas, guanacos, alpacas, and vicu~nas). These results contradict previous morphologybased phylogenetic models for Camelops, which suggest instead a closer relationship between Camelops and the South American camelids. The molecular data imply a Late Miocene divergence of the Camelops clade from lineages that separately gave rise to the extant camels of Eurasia. Our results demonstrate the increasing capacity of modern paleogenomic methods to resolve evolutionary relationships among distantly related lineages. |
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Genomic data from extinct north American camelops revise camel evolutionary history |
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Genomic data from extinct north American camelops revise camel evolutionary history |
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Genomic data from extinct north American camelops revise camel evolutionary history |
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Genomic data from extinct north American camelops revise camel evolutionary history |
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Genomic data from extinct north American camelops revise camel evolutionary history |
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Heintzman, PD; Zazula, GD; Cahill, JA; Reyes, AV; MacPhee, RDE; & Shapiro, B. (2015). Genomic data from extinct north American camelops revise camel evolutionary history. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32(9), 2433 - 2440. doi:10.1093/molbev/msv128. UC Santa Cruz: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4zm8b6kj |
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