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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ftsmithonian:oai:repository.si.edu:10088/21409 2023-05-15T18:05:30+02:00 Multiple Geographic Origins of Commensalism and Complex Dispersal History of Black Rats Aplin, Kenneth 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 Conroy, Chris Rowe, Kevin Cooper, Alan 2011 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10088/21409 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026357 unknown PLoS ONE Aplin, Kenneth 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, Conroy, Chris, Rowe, Kevin, and Cooper, Alan. 2011. " Multiple Geographic Origins of Commensalism and Complex Dispersal History of Black Rats ." PLoS ONE . 6 (11):e26357–20. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026357 1932-6203 http://hdl.handle.net/10088/21409 109285 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026357 Journal Article 2011 ftsmithonian https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026357 2020-09-09T18:33:38Z 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. NH-Vertebrate Zoology NMNH Peer-reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Rattus rattus Unknown 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. NH-Vertebrate Zoology NMNH Peer-reviewed |
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Aplin, Kenneth 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 Conroy, Chris Rowe, Kevin Cooper, Alan |
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Aplin, Kenneth 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 Conroy, Chris Rowe, Kevin Cooper, Alan Multiple Geographic Origins of Commensalism and Complex Dispersal History of Black Rats |
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Aplin, Kenneth 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 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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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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