Collared lemming; Demographic history; Palaeogenomics; Population structure; DNA, Ancient; Animals; Population Dynamics; Arctic Regions; Ecosystem; Arvicolinae; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Environmental Science (all); General Medicine
Abstract :
[en] [en] BACKGROUND: Ancient DNA studies suggest that Late Pleistocene climatic changes had a significant effect on population dynamics in Arctic species. The Eurasian collared lemming (Dicrostonyx torquatus) is a keystone species in the Arctic ecosystem. Earlier studies have indicated that past climatic fluctuations were important drivers of past population dynamics in this species.
RESULTS: Here, we analysed 59 ancient and 54 modern mitogenomes from across Eurasia, along with one modern nuclear genome. Our results suggest population growth and genetic diversification during the early Late Pleistocene, implying that collared lemmings may have experienced a genetic bottleneck during the warm Eemian interglacial. Furthermore, we find multiple temporally structured mitogenome clades during the Late Pleistocene, consistent with earlier results suggesting a dynamic late glacial population history. Finally, we identify a population in northeastern Siberia that maintained genetic diversity and a constant population size at the end of the Pleistocene, suggesting suitable conditions for collared lemmings in this region during the increasing temperatures associated with the onset of the Holocene.
CONCLUSIONS: This study highlights an influence of past warming, in particular the Eemian interglacial, on the evolutionary history of the collared lemming, along with spatiotemporal population structuring throughout the Late Pleistocene.
Disciplines :
Environmental sciences & ecology
Author, co-author :
Lord, Edana; Centre for Palaeogenetics, Svante Arrhenius Väg 20C, 10691, Stockholm, Sweden. edana.lord@zoologi.su.se ; Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, 10691, Stockholm, Sweden. edana.lord@zoologi.su.se ; Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, 10405, Stockholm, Sweden. edana.lord@zoologi.su.se
Marangoni, Aurelio; Centre for Palaeogenetics, Svante Arrhenius Väg 20C, 10691, Stockholm, Sweden ; Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, 10405, Stockholm, Sweden
Baca, Mateusz; Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, S. Banacha 2C, 02-097, Warsaw, Poland
Popović, Danijela; Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, S. Banacha 2C, 02-097, Warsaw, Poland
Goropashnaya, Anna V; Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, 99775-7000, USA
Stewart, John R; Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB, Dorset, UK
Knul, Monika V; Department of Archaeology, Anthropology and Geography, University of Winchester, Winchester, SO22 4NR, UK
Noiret, Pierre ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences historiques > Archéologie préhistorique
Germonpré, Mietje; OD Earth and History of Life, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, Brussels, Belgium
Jimenez, Elodie-Laure; OD Earth and History of Life, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, Brussels, Belgium ; School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland
Abramson, Natalia I; Department of Molecular Systematics, Zoological Institute RAS, St Petersburg, Russia
Vartanyan, Sergey; Far East Branch, N.A. Shilo North-East Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Institute Russian Academy of Sciences (NEISRI FEB RAS), 685000, Magadan, Russia
Prost, Stefan; Central Research Laboratories, Natural History Museum Vienna, 1010, Vienna, Austria ; Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, 1090, Vienna, Austria ; Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, 1160, Vienna, Austria ; South African National Biodiversity Institute, National Zoological Garden, Pretoria, South Africa
Smirnov, Nickolay G; Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology UB RAS, Russian Academy of Sciences, 202 8 Marta Street, 620144, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Kuzmina, Elena A; Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology UB RAS, Russian Academy of Sciences, 202 8 Marta Street, 620144, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Olsen, Remi-André; Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), Dept of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Fedorov, Vadim B; Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, 99775-7000, USA
Dalén, Love; Centre for Palaeogenetics, Svante Arrhenius Väg 20C, 10691, Stockholm, Sweden. love.dalen@zoologi.su.se ; Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, 10691, Stockholm, Sweden. love.dalen@zoologi.su.se ; Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, 10405, Stockholm, Sweden. love.dalen@zoologi.su.se
Bolin Centre for Climate Research [SE] Polish National Science Centre [PL] NIGMS - National Institute of General Medical Sciences [US-MD] [US-MD] Stockholm University [SE]
Funding text :
Open access funding provided by Stockholm University. Funding was provided by Formas (2018-01640) and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research to LD, and Polish National Science Centre grant no. 2020/38/E/NZ8/00431 to MB. VBF was supported by an Institutional Development Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the NIH (P20GM103395) and Centre of Biomedical Research Excellence (Grant P20GM130443). Funding for sequencing of the nuclear genome was provided by the NIH (P20GM103395). NIA acknowledges funding from the Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (Grant No. 075-15-2021-1069). E-LJ and MG acknowledge support from the Brain.be 2.0 ICHIE project (BELSPO B2/191/P2/ICHIE).We thank Eleftheria Palkopoulou for previous laboratory work that contributed to this study. The authors acknowledge support from the Uppsala Multidisciplinary Centre for Advanced Computational Science for assistance with massively parallel sequencing and access to the UPPMAX computational infrastructure, and resources provided by Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at Uppsala partially funded by the Swedish Research Council through grant agreement no. 2018-05973. We acknowledge Becky Miller, the director of the Trou Al’Wesse excavation, and funding for the project provided annually by the Ministère de la Région wallonne, Service Public de Wallonie. We also acknowledge the AWaP (Agence Wallonne du Patrimoine) as the main funding institution of the work at Trou Al’Wesse.We thank Eleftheria Palkopoulou for previous laboratory work that contributed to this study. The authors acknowledge support from the Uppsala Multidisciplinary Centre for Advanced Computational Science for assistance with massively parallel sequencing and access to the UPPMAX computational infrastructure, and resources provided by Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at Uppsala partially funded by the Swedish Research Council through grant agreement no. 2018-05973. We acknowledge Becky Miller, the director of the Trou Al’Wesse excavation, and funding for the project provided annually by the Ministère de la Région wallonne, Service Public de Wallonie. We also acknowledge the AWaP (Agence Wallonne du Patrimoine) as the main funding institution of the work at Trou Al’Wesse.
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