Complete Columbian mammoth mitogenome suggests interbreeding with woolly mammoths
Background Late Pleistocene North America hosted at least two divergent and ecologically distinct species of mammoth: the periglacial woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) and the subglacial Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi). To date, mammoth genetic research has been entirely restricted to woo...
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ftunivkansas:oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/21186 2023-05-15T17:57:52+02:00 Complete Columbian mammoth mitogenome suggests interbreeding with woolly mammoths Enk, Jacob Devault, Alison Debrunye, Regis King, Christine E. Treangen, Todd O'Rourke, Dennis H. Salzberg, Steven L. Fisher, Daniel MacPhee, Ross Poinar, Hendrik 2016-07-27T16:11:07Z http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21186 https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2011-12-5-r51 unknown BioMed Central Enk, J., Devault, A., Debruyne, R., King, C. E., Treangen, T., O'Rourke, D., . & Poinar, H. (2011). Complete Columbian mammoth mitogenome suggests interbreeding with woolly mammoths. Genome biology, 12(5), 1. http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21186 doi:10.1186/gb-2011-12-5-r51 © 2011 Enk et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 openAccess CC-BY Article 2016 ftunivkansas https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2011-12-5-r51 2022-08-26T13:19:37Z Background Late Pleistocene North America hosted at least two divergent and ecologically distinct species of mammoth: the periglacial woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) and the subglacial Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi). To date, mammoth genetic research has been entirely restricted to woolly mammoths, rendering their genetic evolution difficult to contextualize within broader Pleistocene paleoecology and biogeography. Here, we take an interspecific approach to clarifying mammoth phylogeny by targeting Columbian mammoth remains for mitogenomic sequencing. Results We sequenced the first complete mitochondrial genome of a classic Columbian mammoth, as well as the first complete mitochondrial genome of a North American woolly mammoth. Somewhat contrary to conventional paleontological models, which posit that the two species were highly divergent, the M. columbi mitogenome we obtained falls securely within a subclade of endemic North American M. primigenius. Conclusions Though limited, our data suggest that the two species interbred at some point in their evolutionary histories. One potential explanation is that woolly mammoth haplotypes entered Columbian mammoth populations via introgression at subglacial ecotones, a scenario with compelling parallels in extant elephants and consistent with certain regional paleontological observations. This highlights the need for multi-genomic data to sufficiently characterize mammoth evolutionary history. Our results demonstrate that the use of next-generation sequencing technologies holds promise in obtaining such data, even from non-cave, non-permafrost Pleistocene depositional contexts. Article in Journal/Newspaper permafrost The University of Kansas: KU ScholarWorks Genome Biology 12 5 R51 |
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Background Late Pleistocene North America hosted at least two divergent and ecologically distinct species of mammoth: the periglacial woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) and the subglacial Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi). To date, mammoth genetic research has been entirely restricted to woolly mammoths, rendering their genetic evolution difficult to contextualize within broader Pleistocene paleoecology and biogeography. Here, we take an interspecific approach to clarifying mammoth phylogeny by targeting Columbian mammoth remains for mitogenomic sequencing. Results We sequenced the first complete mitochondrial genome of a classic Columbian mammoth, as well as the first complete mitochondrial genome of a North American woolly mammoth. Somewhat contrary to conventional paleontological models, which posit that the two species were highly divergent, the M. columbi mitogenome we obtained falls securely within a subclade of endemic North American M. primigenius. Conclusions Though limited, our data suggest that the two species interbred at some point in their evolutionary histories. One potential explanation is that woolly mammoth haplotypes entered Columbian mammoth populations via introgression at subglacial ecotones, a scenario with compelling parallels in extant elephants and consistent with certain regional paleontological observations. This highlights the need for multi-genomic data to sufficiently characterize mammoth evolutionary history. Our results demonstrate that the use of next-generation sequencing technologies holds promise in obtaining such data, even from non-cave, non-permafrost Pleistocene depositional contexts. |
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Enk, Jacob Devault, Alison Debrunye, Regis King, Christine E. Treangen, Todd O'Rourke, Dennis H. Salzberg, Steven L. Fisher, Daniel MacPhee, Ross Poinar, Hendrik Complete Columbian mammoth mitogenome suggests interbreeding with woolly mammoths |
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Complete Columbian mammoth mitogenome suggests interbreeding with woolly mammoths |
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Complete Columbian mammoth mitogenome suggests interbreeding with woolly mammoths |
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