Ancient DNA of the Don-Hares Assumes the Existence of Two Distinct Mitochondrial Clades in Northeast Asia
Paleoclimatic changes during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition is suggested as a main factor that led to species extinction, including the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) and the Don-hare (Lepus tanaiticus). These species inhabited the territory of Eu...
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ftmdpi:oai:mdpi.com:/2073-4425/14/3/700/ 2023-08-20T04:07:06+02:00 Ancient DNA of the Don-Hares Assumes the Existence of Two Distinct Mitochondrial Clades in Northeast Asia Fedor Sharko Natalia Slobodova Eugenia Boulygina Maksim Cheprasov Maria Gladysheva-Azgari Svetlana Tsygankova Sergey Rastorguev Gavril Novgorodov Gennady Boeskorov Lena Grigorieva Woo Suk Hwang Alexei Tikhonov Artem Nedoluzhko agris 2023-03-12 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.3390/genes14030700 EN eng Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Population and Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes14030700 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Genes; Volume 14; Issue 3; Pages: 700 Don-hare L. tanaiticus mountain hare L. timidus Holocene ancient DNA mitogenome sequencing extinction Pleistocene-Holocene transition Text 2023 ftmdpi https://doi.org/10.3390/genes14030700 2023-08-01T09:13:46Z Paleoclimatic changes during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition is suggested as a main factor that led to species extinction, including the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) and the Don-hare (Lepus tanaiticus). These species inhabited the territory of Eurasia during the Holocene, but eventually went extinct. The Don-hare is an extinct species of the genus Lepus (Leporidae, Lagomorpha), which lived in the Late Pleistocene–Early Holocene in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. For a long time, the Don-hare was considered a separate species, but at the same time, its species status was disputed, taking into account both morphological data and mitochondrial DNA. In this study, mitochondrial genomes of five Don-hares, whose remains were found on the territory of Northeastern Eurasia were reconstructed. Firstly, we confirm the phylogenetic proximity of the “young” specimens of Don-hare and mountain or white hare, and secondly, that samples older than 39 Kya form a completely distinct mitochondrial clade. Text Hydrodamalis gigas mountain hare MDPI Open Access Publishing Kya ENVELOPE(8.308,8.308,63.772,63.772) Genes 14 3 700 |
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Paleoclimatic changes during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition is suggested as a main factor that led to species extinction, including the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) and the Don-hare (Lepus tanaiticus). These species inhabited the territory of Eurasia during the Holocene, but eventually went extinct. The Don-hare is an extinct species of the genus Lepus (Leporidae, Lagomorpha), which lived in the Late Pleistocene–Early Holocene in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. For a long time, the Don-hare was considered a separate species, but at the same time, its species status was disputed, taking into account both morphological data and mitochondrial DNA. In this study, mitochondrial genomes of five Don-hares, whose remains were found on the territory of Northeastern Eurasia were reconstructed. Firstly, we confirm the phylogenetic proximity of the “young” specimens of Don-hare and mountain or white hare, and secondly, that samples older than 39 Kya form a completely distinct mitochondrial clade. |
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Fedor Sharko Natalia Slobodova Eugenia Boulygina Maksim Cheprasov Maria Gladysheva-Azgari Svetlana Tsygankova Sergey Rastorguev Gavril Novgorodov Gennady Boeskorov Lena Grigorieva Woo Suk Hwang Alexei Tikhonov Artem Nedoluzhko |
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Fedor Sharko Natalia Slobodova Eugenia Boulygina Maksim Cheprasov Maria Gladysheva-Azgari Svetlana Tsygankova Sergey Rastorguev Gavril Novgorodov Gennady Boeskorov Lena Grigorieva Woo Suk Hwang Alexei Tikhonov Artem Nedoluzhko |
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Ancient DNA of the Don-Hares Assumes the Existence of Two Distinct Mitochondrial Clades in Northeast Asia |
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Ancient DNA of the Don-Hares Assumes the Existence of Two Distinct Mitochondrial Clades in Northeast Asia |
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Ancient DNA of the Don-Hares Assumes the Existence of Two Distinct Mitochondrial Clades in Northeast Asia |
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Ancient DNA of the Don-Hares Assumes the Existence of Two Distinct Mitochondrial Clades in Northeast Asia |
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Ancient DNA of the Don-Hares Assumes the Existence of Two Distinct Mitochondrial Clades in Northeast Asia |
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ancient dna of the don-hares assumes the existence of two distinct mitochondrial clades in northeast asia |
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