Out of Himalaya: the impact of past Asian environmental changes on the evolutionary and biogeographical history of Dipodoidea (Rodentia)

• Published in: Journal of Biogeography
• Main Authors: Pisano, Julie, Condamine, Fabien L., Lebedev, Vladimir, Bannikova, Anna, Quéré, Jean-Pierre, Shenbrot, Gregory I., Pagès, Marie, Michaux, Johan R.
• Other Authors: Université de Liège, Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations (UMR CBGP), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD France-Sud )-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées - Ecole Polytechnique (CMAP), École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), J.P. is financed by an 'aspirant FNRS' scholarship also granted by the FRS-FNRS. M.P. and J.M. are supported by a Belgian research fellowship from the FRS-FNRS (respectively, 'mandat charge de recherches' and 'mandat maitre de recherches'). F.L.C. is grateful for support from the French National Agency for Research (ANR ECO-EVOBIO-CHEX2011 grant awarded to H. Morlon). The research of A.B. and V.L. was partly supported by RFBR no. 14-04-00034a. This research was sponsored by financial grants from the Belgian FNRS., ANR-11-CHEX-0003,ECOEVOBIO,Déterminants écologiques et évolutifs de la biodiversité: associer biogéographie, écologie fonctionnelle, et macroévolution(2011)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2015
• Subjects: Asian deserts; biogeography; Bering land bridge; Dipodidae; dispersal-extinction-cladogenesis; Holarctic; rodent phylogeny; Himalayan uplift; [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]; Bering Land Bridge
• Online Access: https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-02640309; https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12476

International audience Aim: We assessed the influence of past environmental changes, notably the importance of palaeogeographical and climatic drivers, in shaping the distribution patterns of Dipodoidea (Rodentia), the superfamily most closely related to the large species-rich superfamily Muroidea (c. 1300-1500 species). Dipodoids are suitable for testing several biogeographical hypotheses because of their disjunct distribution patterns in the Northern Hemisphere and the numerous species distributed in Asian deserts. Location: Holarctic. Methods: We inferred molecular phylogenetic relationships for Dipodoidea (34 out of 51 species and 15 out of 16 genera) based on five coding genes. A time-calibrated phylogeny was estimated using a Bayesian relaxed molecular clock with four fossil calibrations. A cross-validation procedure was adopted to examine the impact of each fossil on our estimates. The ancestral area of origin and biogeographical scenarios were reconstructed using time-stratified dispersal-extinction-cladogenesis models. Results: Phylogenetic analyses recovered a well-resolved and supported topology. The divergence between Dipodoidea and Muroidea occurred in the late Palaeocene (c. 57.72Ma) and modern Dipodoidea diversified during the middle Eocene (c. 40.62Ma). Similar results were found with each calibration strategy used with the cross-validation procedure. The reconstruction of ancestral areas and biogeographical events indicated that modern Dipodoidea originated in the Himalaya-Tibetan and Central Asian region. Main conclusions: At the time when Dipodoidea diversified (middle Eocene), the Central Asia and Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau region experienced major uplift episodes due to the collision of India with Asia, which also induced diversification events in many other groups. Other important diversification events (e.g. divergence between Zapodidae and Dipodidae in Central Asia) took placed during the Eocene-Oligocene transition when the global temperature decreased significantly and ...