Diverse responses of common vole (Microtus arvalis) populations to Late Glacial and Early Holocene climate changes - Evidence from ancient DNA

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Baca, Mateusz¹  Popovic, Danijela^1,2  Baca, Katarzyna¹  Lemanik, Anna³  Doan, Karolina⁴  Horacek, Ivan⁵  Manuel Lopez-Garcia, Juan⁶  Banuls-Cardona, Sandra⁶  Pazonyi, Piroska⁷  Desclaux, Emmanuel⁸  Cregut-Bonnoure, Evelyne⁹  Berto, Claudio¹⁰  Lenardic, Jadranka Mauch¹¹  Miekina, Barbara³  Murelaga, Xabier^12,13  Cuenca-Bescos, Gloria¹⁴  Krajcarz, Magdalena¹⁵  Markovic, Zoran¹⁶  Petculescu, Alexandru¹⁷  Wilczynskic, Jaroslaw³  Knul, Monika Vlasta¹⁸  Stewartr, John R.¹⁹  Nadachowskic, Adam³ 

[1] Univ Warsaw, Ctr New Technol, S Banacha 2c, PL-02097 Warsaw, Poland

[2] Polish Acad Sci, Inst Biochem & Biophys, Slawkowska 17, PL-02106 Warsaw, Poland

[3] Polish Acad Sci, Inst Systemat & Evolut Anim, Slawkowska 17, PL-31016 Krakow, Poland

[4] Polish Acad Sci, Museum & Inst Zool, Wilcza 64, PL-00679 Warsaw, Poland

[5] Charles Univ Prague, Dept Zool, Vinicna 7, CR-12844 Prague, Czech Republic

[6] Inst Catala Paleoecol Humana & Evolucio Social, IPHES, 4 Campus Sescelades URV,Edifici W3, Tarragona 43007, Spain

[7] MTA MTM ELTE Res Grp Palaeontol, Ludovika Ter 2, H-1083 Budapest, Hungary

[8] CNRS, Lab Dept Prehist Lazaret, CEPAM, UMR 7264, 24 Ave Diables Bleus, F-06357 Nice 4, France

[9] Univ Toulouse Le Mirail, TRACES, UMR 5608, CNRS, 5 Allees Antonio Machado, F-31058 Toulouse 9, France

[10] Univ Warsaw, Inst Archaeol, Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26 28, PL-00927 Warsaw, Poland

[11] Croatian Acad Sci & Arts, Inst Quaternary Palaeontol & Geol, Ante Kovacica 5, Zagreb 10000, Croatia

[12] Univ Basque Country, Dept Estratig & Paleontol, Fac Ciencias, Barrio Sarriena S-N, Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain

[13] Apdo 644, Bilbao 48080, Spain

[14] Univ Zaragoza, Aragosaurus IUCA Earth Sci Dept, C Pedro Cerbuna 12, E-50009 Zaragoza, Spain

[15] Nicolaus Copernicus Univ, Fac Hist, Inst Archaeol, Szosa Bydgoska 44-48, PL-87100 Torun, Poland

[16] Nat Hist Museum, Njegoseva 51, Belgrade 11000, Serbia

[17] Inst Speleol E Racovitza, 13 Septembrie 13,Sect 5, Bucharest 050711, Romania

[18] Univ Winchester, Dept Archaeol Anthropol & Geog, Winchester SO22 4NR, Hants, England

[19] Bournemouth Univ, Fac Sci & Technol, Poole BH12 5BB, Dorset, England

关键词: Common vole;    mtDNA;    Post-glacial recolonization;    Ancient DNA;    Younger Dryas;    Holocene;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106239

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

The harsh climatic conditions during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) period have been considered the cause of local extinctions and major faunal reorganizations that took place at the end of the Pleistocene. Recent studies have shown, however, that in addition many of these ecological events were associated with abrupt climate changes during the so-called Late Glacial and the Pleistocene/Holocene transition. Here we used ancient DNA to investigate the impact of those changes on European populations of temperate vole species (Microtus arvalis). The genetic diversity of modern populations and the fossil record suggests that the species may have survived cold episodes, like LGM, not only in the traditional Mediterranean glacial refugia but also at higher latitudes in cryptic northern refugia located in Central France, the northern Alps as well as the Carpathians. However, the details of the post-glacial recolonization and the impact of the Late Glacial and Early Holocene climate changes on the evolutionary history of the common vole remains unclear. To address this issue, we analysed mtDNA cytochrome b sequences from more than one hundred common vole specimens from 36 paleontological and archaeological sites scattered across Europe. Our data suggest that populations from the European mid- and high latitudes suffered a local population extinction and contraction as a result of Late Glacial and Early Holocene climate and environmental changes. The recolonization of earlier abandoned areas took place in the Midto Late Holocene. In contrast, at low latitudes, in Northern Spain there was a continuity of common vole populations. This indicates different responses of common vole populations to climate and environmental changes across Europe and corroborates the hypothesis that abrupt changes, like those associated with Younger Dryas and the Pleistocene/Holocene transition, had a significant impact on populations at the mid- and high latitudes of Europe. (C) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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