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A
Biogeographic View of Apodemus in Asia and Europe
Inferred From Nuclear and Mitochondrial Gene Sequences
A Biogeographic View of
Apodemus in Asia and Europe Inferred From Nuclear and
Mitochondrial Gene Sequences
Hitoshi Suzuki1 ,
Maria Grazia Filippucci2 ,
Galina N. Chelomina3 ,
Jun J. Sato4 ,
Keiko Serizawa1 and
Eviatar Nevo5
(1)
Graduate School of
Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University,
Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
(2)
Department of Biology,
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, 00133 Rome,
Italy
(3)
Institute of Biology and
Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences Far East
Branch, Vladivostok, 690022,
Russia
(4)
Faculty of Life Science and
Technology, Fukuyama University, Higashimura-cho, Aza,
Sanzo, 985, Fukuyama 729-0292,
Japan
(5)
Institute of Evolution,
University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, 31905,
Israel
Received:
14 May 2007 Revised:
12 November 2007 Accepted:
12 November 2007 Published
online: 30 January 2008
Abstract Sequences of
the mitochondrial cyt
b gene and nuclear IRBP,
RAGI ,
I7 , and vWF genes were used to assess the
evolutionary history of major lineages of
Apodemus , in
particular to better understand dispersal between Asia and
Europe. Our data show eight extant lineages of Late Tertiary
origin:
Apodemus agrarius ,
A. semotus ,
A.
peninsulae ,
A. speciosus ,
A. argenteus ,
A. gurkha ,
A. mystacinus , and
A.
sylvaticus . Monophyly of two European lineages (
A.
mystacinus and
A. sylvaticus ) and four Asian
lineages (
A. agrarius ,
A. semotus ,
A.
peninsulae , and
A. speciosus ) was confirmed with
high bootstrap support. Together with literature data, the
available molecular data depict three crucial evolutionary
events: (1) initial wide dispersal and subsequent radiation
around 6 million years ago, (2) region-specific
radiations in Europe and southern China around 2 million
years ago, and (3) westward dispersal of
A. agrarius to
Europe in the Late Quaternary.
Keywords
Apodemus - Biogeography - Late
Tertiary - Molecular phylogeny - Wood mice
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