A range-wide synthesis and timeline for phylogeographic events in the red fox (Vulpes vulpes)
Background: Many boreo-temperate mammals have a Pleistocene fossil record throughout Eurasia and North America, but only few have a contemporary distribution that spans this large area. Examples of Holarctic-distributed carnivores are the brown bear, grey wolf, and red fox, all three ecological gene...
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ftunivfrankfurt:oai:publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de:31475 2023-11-12T04:28:13+01:00 A range-wide synthesis and timeline for phylogeographic events in the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) Kutschera, Verena Esther Lecomte, Nicolas Janke, Axel Selva, Nuria Sokolov, Alexander A. Haun, Timm Steyer, Katharina Gloria Nowak, Carsten Hailer, Frank 2013-06-05 application/pdf http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/31475 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-314759 https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-114 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/31475/1471-2148-13-114.pdf eng eng http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/31475 urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-314759 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-314759 https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-114 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/31475/1471-2148-13-114.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/de/deed.de info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ddc:590 article doc-type:article 2013 ftunivfrankfurt https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-114 2023-10-15T22:41:19Z Background: Many boreo-temperate mammals have a Pleistocene fossil record throughout Eurasia and North America, but only few have a contemporary distribution that spans this large area. Examples of Holarctic-distributed carnivores are the brown bear, grey wolf, and red fox, all three ecological generalists with large dispersal capacity and a high adaptive flexibility. While the two former have been examined extensively across their ranges, no phylogeographic study of the red fox has been conducted across its entire Holarctic range. Moreover, no study included samples from central Asia, leaving a large sampling gap in the middle of the Eurasian landmass. Results: Here we provide the first mitochondrial DNA sequence data of red foxes from central Asia (Siberia), and new sequences from several European populations. In a range-wide synthesis of 729 red fox mitochondrial control region sequences, including 677 previously published and 52 newly obtained sequences, this manuscript describes the pattern and timing of major phylogeographic events in red foxes, using a Bayesian coalescence approach with multiple fossil tip and root calibration points. In a 335 bp alignment we found in total 175 unique haplotypes. All newly sequenced individuals belonged to the previously described Holarctic lineage. Our analyses confirmed the presence of three Nearctic- and two Japan-restricted lineages that were formed since the Mid/Late Pleistocene. Conclusions: The phylogeographic history of red foxes is highly similar to that previously described for grey wolves and brown bears, indicating that climatic fluctuations and habitat changes since the Pleistocene had similar effects on these highly mobile generalist species. All three species originally diversified in Eurasia and later colonized North America and Japan. North American lineages persisted through the last glacial maximum south of the ice sheets, meeting more recent colonizers from Beringia during postglacial expansion into the northern Nearctic. Both brown bears and red foxes ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Beringia Siberia Publication Server of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main BMC Evolutionary Biology 13 1 114 |
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Background: Many boreo-temperate mammals have a Pleistocene fossil record throughout Eurasia and North America, but only few have a contemporary distribution that spans this large area. Examples of Holarctic-distributed carnivores are the brown bear, grey wolf, and red fox, all three ecological generalists with large dispersal capacity and a high adaptive flexibility. While the two former have been examined extensively across their ranges, no phylogeographic study of the red fox has been conducted across its entire Holarctic range. Moreover, no study included samples from central Asia, leaving a large sampling gap in the middle of the Eurasian landmass. Results: Here we provide the first mitochondrial DNA sequence data of red foxes from central Asia (Siberia), and new sequences from several European populations. In a range-wide synthesis of 729 red fox mitochondrial control region sequences, including 677 previously published and 52 newly obtained sequences, this manuscript describes the pattern and timing of major phylogeographic events in red foxes, using a Bayesian coalescence approach with multiple fossil tip and root calibration points. In a 335 bp alignment we found in total 175 unique haplotypes. All newly sequenced individuals belonged to the previously described Holarctic lineage. Our analyses confirmed the presence of three Nearctic- and two Japan-restricted lineages that were formed since the Mid/Late Pleistocene. Conclusions: The phylogeographic history of red foxes is highly similar to that previously described for grey wolves and brown bears, indicating that climatic fluctuations and habitat changes since the Pleistocene had similar effects on these highly mobile generalist species. All three species originally diversified in Eurasia and later colonized North America and Japan. North American lineages persisted through the last glacial maximum south of the ice sheets, meeting more recent colonizers from Beringia during postglacial expansion into the northern Nearctic. Both brown bears and red foxes ... |
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A range-wide synthesis and timeline for phylogeographic events in the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) |
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A range-wide synthesis and timeline for phylogeographic events in the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) |
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A range-wide synthesis and timeline for phylogeographic events in the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) |
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A range-wide synthesis and timeline for phylogeographic events in the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) |
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A range-wide synthesis and timeline for phylogeographic events in the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) |
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range-wide synthesis and timeline for phylogeographic events in the red fox (vulpes vulpes) |
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