Is Evolution of Blind Mole Rats Determined by Climate Oscillations?

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dc.contributor.authorHadid, Yarin
dc.contributor.authorNemeth, Attila
dc.contributor.authorSnir, Sagi
dc.contributor.authorPavlicek, Tomas
dc.contributor.authorCsorba, Gabor
dc.contributor.authorKazmer, Miklos
dc.contributor.authorMajor, Agnes
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-24T17:15:22Z
dc.date.available2024-04-24T17:15:22Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.departmentDicle Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThe concept of climate variability facilitating adaptive radiation supported by the Court Jester'' hypothesis is disputed by the Red Queen'' one, but the prevalence of one or the other might be scale-dependent. We report on a detailed, comprehensive phylo-geographic study on the similar to 4 kb mtDNA sequence in underground blind mole rats of the family Spalacidae (or subfamily Spalacinae) from the East Mediterranean steppes. Our study aimed at testing the presence of periodicities in branching patterns on a constructed phylogenetic tree and at searching for congruence between branching events, tectonic history and paleoclimates. In contrast to the strong support for the majority of the branching events on the tree, the absence of support in a few instances indicates that network-like evolution could exist in spalacids. In our tree, robust support was given, in concordance with paleontological data, for the separation of spalacids from muroid rodents during the first half of the Miocene when open, grass-dominated habitats were established. Marine barriers formed between Anatolia and the Balkans could have facilitated the separation of the lineage Spalax'' from the lineage Nannospalax'' and of the clade leucodon'' from the clade xanthodon''. The separation of the clade ehrenbergi'' occurred during the late stages of the tectonically induced uplift of the Anatolian high plateaus and mountains, whereas the separation of the clade vasvarii took place when the rapidly uplifting Taurus mountain range prevented the Mediterranean rainfalls from reaching the Central Anatolian Plateau. The separation of Spalax antiquus and S. graecus occurred when the southeastern Carpathians were uplifted. Despite the role played by tectonic events, branching events that show periodicity corresponding to 400-kyr and 100-kyr eccentricity bands illuminate the important role of orbital fluctuations on adaptive radiation in spalacids. At the given scale, our results supports the Court Jester'' hypothesis over the Red Queen'' one.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipMinistry of Science and Technology (Israel); Council for Higher Education (Israel); European Union; European Social Fund; Hungarian National Science Fund (OTKA) [K67583]; Ancell-Teicher Research Foundation of Genetics and Molecular Evolution; [TAMOP 4.2.1./B-09/1/KMR-2010-0003]en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipWe thank the Ministry of Science and Technology and Council for Higher Education (both Israel) for providing scholarships to YH. The European Union and the European Social Fund have provided financial support to AN and MK during the project under the grant agreement no. TAMOP 4.2.1./B-09/1/KMR-2010-0003. MK acknowledges the Hungarian National Science Fund (OTKA) grant K67583. We thank the Ancell-Teicher Research Foundation of Genetics and Molecular Evolution for its continuous support to EN. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0030043
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.pmid22253871
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84855485291
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0030043
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11468/18428
dc.identifier.volume7en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000301352400011
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMed
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPublic Library Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofPlos One
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
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dc.titleIs Evolution of Blind Mole Rats Determined by Climate Oscillations?en_US
dc.titleIs Evolution of Blind Mole Rats Determined by Climate Oscillations?
dc.typeArticleen_US

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