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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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3206810 2023-05-15T18:05:30+02:00 Multiple Geographic Origins of Commensalism and Complex Dispersal History of Black Rats Aplin, Ken P. Suzuki, Hitoshi Chinen, Alejandro A. Chesser, R. Terry ten Have, José Donnellan, Stephen C. Austin, Jeremy Frost, Angela Gonzalez, Jean Paul Herbreteau, Vincent Catzeflis, Francois Soubrier, Julien Fang, Yin-Ping Robins, Judith Matisoo-Smith, Elizabeth Bastos, Amanda D. S. Maryanto, Ibnu Sinaga, Martua H. Denys, Christiane Van Den Bussche, Ronald A. Conroy, Chris Rowe, Kevin Cooper, Alan 2011-11-02 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3206810 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22073158 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026357 en eng Public Library of Science http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3206810 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22073158 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026357 Aplin et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. CC-BY Research Article Text 2011 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026357 2013-09-03T22:00:10Z 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. Text Rattus rattus PubMed Central (PMC) 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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Aplin, Ken P. Suzuki, Hitoshi Chinen, Alejandro A. Chesser, R. Terry ten Have, José Donnellan, Stephen C. Austin, Jeremy Frost, Angela Gonzalez, Jean Paul Herbreteau, Vincent Catzeflis, Francois Soubrier, Julien Fang, Yin-Ping Robins, Judith Matisoo-Smith, Elizabeth Bastos, Amanda D. S. Maryanto, Ibnu Sinaga, Martua H. Denys, Christiane Van Den Bussche, Ronald A. Conroy, Chris Rowe, Kevin Cooper, Alan |
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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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