Pre-extinction demographic stability and genomic signatures of adaptation in the woolly rhinoceros
Ancient DNA has significantly improved our understanding of the evolution and population history of extinct megafauna. However, few studies have used complete ancient genomes to examine species responses to climate change prior to extinction. The woolly rhinoceros ( Coelodonta antiquitatis ) was a c...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/20986 2023-05-15T15:11:04+02:00 Pre-extinction demographic stability and genomic signatures of adaptation in the woolly rhinoceros Lord, Edana Dussex, Nicolas Kierczak, Marcin Díez-del-Molino, David Ryder, Oliver A. Stanton, David W. G. Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius Sánchez-Barreiro, Fatima Zhang, Guojie Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S. Lorenzen, Eline D. Willerslev, Eske Protopov, Albert Shidlovskiy, Fedor K. Fedorov, Sergey Bocherens, Hervé Nathan, Senthilvel K.S.S. Goossens, Benoit van der Plicht, Johannes Chan, Yvonne L. Prost, Stefan Potapova, Olga R Kirillova, Irina V. Lister, Adrian M. Heintzman, Peter D. Kapp, Joshua D. Shapiro, Beth Vartanyan, Sergey Götherström, Anders Dalén, Love 2020-08-13 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/20986 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.046 eng eng Elsevier Current Biology Lord, Dussex N, Kierczak M, Díez-del-Molino, Ryder OA, Stanton, Gilbert MTP, Sánchez-Barreiro F, Zhang G, Sinding MS, Lorenzen ED, Willerslev E, Protopov, Shidlovskiy FK, Fedorov S, Bocherens H, Nathan SK, Goossens, van der Plicht J, Chan YL, Prost S, Potapova OR, Kirillova IV, Lister, Heintzman PD, Kapp JD, Shapiro B, Vartanyan, Götherström A, Dalén L. Pre-extinction demographic stability and genomic signatures of adaptation in the woolly rhinoceros. Current Biology. 2020 FRIDAID 1827897 doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.046 0960-9822 1879-0445 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/20986 openAccess Copyright 2020 The Author(s) VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400 VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2020 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.046 2021-06-25T17:57:56Z Ancient DNA has significantly improved our understanding of the evolution and population history of extinct megafauna. However, few studies have used complete ancient genomes to examine species responses to climate change prior to extinction. The woolly rhinoceros ( Coelodonta antiquitatis ) was a cold-adapted megaherbivore widely distributed across northern Eurasia during the Late Pleistocene and became extinct approximately 14 thousand years before present (ka BP). While humans and climate change have been proposed as potential causes of extinction [1, 2, 3], knowledge is limited on how the woolly rhinoceros was impacted by human arrival and climatic fluctuations [2]. Here, we use one complete nuclear genome and 14 mitogenomes to investigate the demographic history of woolly rhinoceros leading up to its extinction. Unlike other northern megafauna, the effective population size of woolly rhinoceros likely increased at 29.7 ka BP and subsequently remained stable until close to the species’ extinction. Analysis of the nuclear genome from a ∼18.5-ka-old specimen did not indicate any increased inbreeding or reduced genetic diversity, suggesting that the population size remained steady for more than 13 ka following the arrival of humans [4]. The population contraction leading to extinction of the woolly rhinoceros may have thus been sudden and mostly driven by rapid warming in the Bølling-Allerød interstadial. Furthermore, we identify woolly rhinoceros-specific adaptations to arctic climate, similar to those of the woolly mammoth. This study highlights how species respond differently to climatic fluctuations and further illustrates the potential of palaeogenomics to study the evolutionary history of extinct species. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Current Biology 30 19 3871 3879.e7 |
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VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400 VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400 Lord, Edana Dussex, Nicolas Kierczak, Marcin Díez-del-Molino, David Ryder, Oliver A. Stanton, David W. G. Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius Sánchez-Barreiro, Fatima Zhang, Guojie Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S. Lorenzen, Eline D. Willerslev, Eske Protopov, Albert Shidlovskiy, Fedor K. Fedorov, Sergey Bocherens, Hervé Nathan, Senthilvel K.S.S. Goossens, Benoit van der Plicht, Johannes Chan, Yvonne L. Prost, Stefan Potapova, Olga R Kirillova, Irina V. Lister, Adrian M. Heintzman, Peter D. Kapp, Joshua D. Shapiro, Beth Vartanyan, Sergey Götherström, Anders Dalén, Love Pre-extinction demographic stability and genomic signatures of adaptation in the woolly rhinoceros |
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Ancient DNA has significantly improved our understanding of the evolution and population history of extinct megafauna. However, few studies have used complete ancient genomes to examine species responses to climate change prior to extinction. The woolly rhinoceros ( Coelodonta antiquitatis ) was a cold-adapted megaherbivore widely distributed across northern Eurasia during the Late Pleistocene and became extinct approximately 14 thousand years before present (ka BP). While humans and climate change have been proposed as potential causes of extinction [1, 2, 3], knowledge is limited on how the woolly rhinoceros was impacted by human arrival and climatic fluctuations [2]. Here, we use one complete nuclear genome and 14 mitogenomes to investigate the demographic history of woolly rhinoceros leading up to its extinction. Unlike other northern megafauna, the effective population size of woolly rhinoceros likely increased at 29.7 ka BP and subsequently remained stable until close to the species’ extinction. Analysis of the nuclear genome from a ∼18.5-ka-old specimen did not indicate any increased inbreeding or reduced genetic diversity, suggesting that the population size remained steady for more than 13 ka following the arrival of humans [4]. The population contraction leading to extinction of the woolly rhinoceros may have thus been sudden and mostly driven by rapid warming in the Bølling-Allerød interstadial. Furthermore, we identify woolly rhinoceros-specific adaptations to arctic climate, similar to those of the woolly mammoth. This study highlights how species respond differently to climatic fluctuations and further illustrates the potential of palaeogenomics to study the evolutionary history of extinct species. |
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Lord, Edana Dussex, Nicolas Kierczak, Marcin Díez-del-Molino, David Ryder, Oliver A. Stanton, David W. G. Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius Sánchez-Barreiro, Fatima Zhang, Guojie Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S. Lorenzen, Eline D. Willerslev, Eske Protopov, Albert Shidlovskiy, Fedor K. Fedorov, Sergey Bocherens, Hervé Nathan, Senthilvel K.S.S. Goossens, Benoit van der Plicht, Johannes Chan, Yvonne L. Prost, Stefan Potapova, Olga R Kirillova, Irina V. Lister, Adrian M. Heintzman, Peter D. Kapp, Joshua D. Shapiro, Beth Vartanyan, Sergey Götherström, Anders Dalén, Love |
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Pre-extinction demographic stability and genomic signatures of adaptation in the woolly rhinoceros |
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Pre-extinction demographic stability and genomic signatures of adaptation in the woolly rhinoceros |
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