Multiple geographic origins of commensalism and complex dispersal history of Black Rats.
The Black Rat (Rattus rattus) spread out of Asia to become one of the world's worst agricultural and urban pests, and a reservoir or vector of numerous zoonotic diseases, including the devastating plague. Despite the global scale and inestimable cost of their impacts on both human livelihoods a...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:f3b61c49a4004115ac84a96a08f9616c 2023-05-15T18:05:30+02:00 Multiple geographic origins of commensalism and complex dispersal history of Black Rats. Ken P Aplin Hitoshi Suzuki Alejandro A Chinen R Terry Chesser José Ten Have Stephen C Donnellan Jeremy Austin Angela Frost Jean Paul Gonzalez Vincent Herbreteau Francois Catzeflis Julien Soubrier Yin-Ping Fang Judith Robins Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith Amanda D S Bastos Ibnu Maryanto Martua H Sinaga Christiane Denys Ronald A Van Den Bussche Chris Conroy Kevin Rowe Alan Cooper 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026357 https://doaj.org/article/f3b61c49a4004115ac84a96a08f9616c EN eng Public Library of Science (PLoS) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22073158/?tool=EBI https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203 1932-6203 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026357 https://doaj.org/article/f3b61c49a4004115ac84a96a08f9616c PLoS ONE, Vol 6, Iss 11, p e26357 (2011) Medicine R Science Q article 2011 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026357 2022-12-31T09:00:01Z The Black Rat (Rattus rattus) spread out of Asia to become one of the world's worst agricultural and urban pests, and a reservoir or vector of numerous zoonotic diseases, including the devastating plague. Despite the global scale and inestimable cost of their impacts on both human livelihoods and natural ecosystems, little is known of the global genetic diversity of Black Rats, the timing and directions of their historical dispersals, and the risks associated with contemporary movements. We surveyed mitochondrial DNA of Black Rats collected across their global range as a first step towards obtaining an historical genetic perspective on this socioeconomically important group of rodents. We found a strong phylogeographic pattern with well-differentiated lineages of Black Rats native to South Asia, the Himalayan region, southern Indochina, and northern Indochina to East Asia, and a diversification that probably commenced in the early Middle Pleistocene. We also identified two other currently recognised species of Rattus as potential derivatives of a paraphyletic R. rattus. Three of the four phylogenetic lineage units within R. rattus show clear genetic signatures of major population expansion in prehistoric times, and the distribution of particular haplogroups mirrors archaeologically and historically documented patterns of human dispersal and trade. Commensalism clearly arose multiple times in R. rattus and in widely separated geographic regions, and this may account for apparent regionalism in their associated pathogens. Our findings represent an important step towards deeper understanding the complex and influential relationship that has developed between Black Rats and humans, and invite a thorough re-examination of host-pathogen associations among Black Rats. Article in Journal/Newspaper Rattus rattus Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles PLoS ONE 6 11 e26357 |
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The Black Rat (Rattus rattus) spread out of Asia to become one of the world's worst agricultural and urban pests, and a reservoir or vector of numerous zoonotic diseases, including the devastating plague. Despite the global scale and inestimable cost of their impacts on both human livelihoods and natural ecosystems, little is known of the global genetic diversity of Black Rats, the timing and directions of their historical dispersals, and the risks associated with contemporary movements. We surveyed mitochondrial DNA of Black Rats collected across their global range as a first step towards obtaining an historical genetic perspective on this socioeconomically important group of rodents. We found a strong phylogeographic pattern with well-differentiated lineages of Black Rats native to South Asia, the Himalayan region, southern Indochina, and northern Indochina to East Asia, and a diversification that probably commenced in the early Middle Pleistocene. We also identified two other currently recognised species of Rattus as potential derivatives of a paraphyletic R. rattus. Three of the four phylogenetic lineage units within R. rattus show clear genetic signatures of major population expansion in prehistoric times, and the distribution of particular haplogroups mirrors archaeologically and historically documented patterns of human dispersal and trade. Commensalism clearly arose multiple times in R. rattus and in widely separated geographic regions, and this may account for apparent regionalism in their associated pathogens. Our findings represent an important step towards deeper understanding the complex and influential relationship that has developed between Black Rats and humans, and invite a thorough re-examination of host-pathogen associations among Black Rats. |
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Ken P Aplin Hitoshi Suzuki Alejandro A Chinen R Terry Chesser José Ten Have Stephen C Donnellan Jeremy Austin Angela Frost Jean Paul Gonzalez Vincent Herbreteau Francois Catzeflis Julien Soubrier Yin-Ping Fang Judith Robins Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith Amanda D S Bastos Ibnu Maryanto Martua H Sinaga Christiane Denys Ronald A Van Den Bussche Chris Conroy Kevin Rowe Alan Cooper |
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Multiple geographic origins of commensalism and complex dispersal history of Black Rats. |
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Multiple geographic origins of commensalism and complex dispersal history of Black Rats. |
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Multiple geographic origins of commensalism and complex dispersal history of Black Rats. |
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Multiple geographic origins of commensalism and complex dispersal history of Black Rats. |
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Multiple geographic origins of commensalism and complex dispersal history of Black Rats. |
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multiple geographic origins of commensalism and complex dispersal history of black rats. |
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