[en] The narrow-headed vole, collared lemming and common vole were the most abundant small mammal species across the Eurasian Late Pleistocene steppe-tundra environment. Previous ancient DNA studies of the collared lemming and common vole have revealed dynamic population histories shaped by climatic fluctuations. To investigate the extent to which species with similar adaptations share common evolutionary histories, we generated a dataset comprised the mitochondrial genomes of 139 ancient and 6 modern narrow-headed voles from several sites across Europe and northwestern Asia covering approximately the last 100 thousand years (kyr). We inferred Bayesian time-aware phylogenies using 11 radiocarbon-dated samples to calibrate the molecular clock. Divergence of the main mtDNA lineages across the three species occurred during marine isotope stages (MIS) 7 and MIS 5, suggesting a common response of species adapted to open habitat during interglacials. We identified several time-structured mtDNA lineages in European narrow-headed vole, suggesting lineage turnover. The timing of some of these turnovers was synchronous across the three species, allowing us to identify the main drivers of the Late Pleistocene dynamics of steppe- and cold-adapted species.
Disciplines :
Environmental sciences & ecology History
Author, co-author :
Baca, Mateusz ; Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Popović, Danijela ; Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Agadzhanyan, Alexander K; Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Baca, Katarzyna; Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Conard, Nicholas J ; Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology and ; Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Fewlass, Helen ; Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Filek, Thomas ; Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Golubiński, Michał ; Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Horáček, Ivan ; Department of Zoology, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
Knul, Monika V ; Department of Archaeology, Anthropology and Geography, University of Winchester, Winchester, UK
Krajcarz, Magdalena ; Institute of Archaeology, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Toruń, Poland
Krokhaleva, Maria ; Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Lebreton, Loïc ; Department of Human and Environment, (HNHP) UMR 7194MNHN-CNRS-UPVD, National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France ; Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES-CERCA), Tarragona, Spain ; Department of History and Art History, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain
Lemanik, Anna ; Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
Maul, Lutz C ; Senckenberg Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology, Weimar, Germany
Nagel, Doris; Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Noiret, Pierre ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences historiques > Archéologie préhistorique
Primault, Jérome; DRAC/SRA Poitou-Charentes, Ministry of Culture and Communications, Poitiers, France
Rekovets, Leonid ; Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wrocław, Poland
Rhodes, Sara E ; Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behavior, University of Algavre, Faro, Portugal
Royer, Aurélien ; Biogéosciences, UMR 6282 CNRS, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France
Serdyuk, Natalia V ; Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Soressi, Marie ; Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Stewart, John R ; Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK
Strukova, Tatiana; Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Talamo, Sahra ; Department of Chemistry G. Ciamician, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Wilczyński, Jarosław ; Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
Nadachowski, Adam ; Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
Ancient DNA of narrow-headed vole reveal common features of the Late Pleistocene population dynamics in cold-adapted small mammals.
Publication date :
2023
Journal title :
Proceedings of the Royal Society. Biological Sciences
ISSN :
0962-8452
eISSN :
1471-2954
Publisher :
Royal Society Publishing, England
Volume :
290
Issue :
1993
Pages :
20222238
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
NWO - Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek NCN - Polish National Science Centre AWaP - Agence Wallonne du Patrimoine RSF - Russian Science Foundation France. Ministry of Culture
Funding text :
This research was supported by the Polish National Science Centre grants nos: 2017/25/B/NZ8/02005 to A.N. and 2020/39/B/NZ8/02853 to M.B. Fieldwork at Roc-en-Pail (France) was granted by the French Ministry of Culture (MCC) through the Pays-de-la-Loire Regional Archaeology Service (DRAC/SRA) and in 2016 by the M\u00E9c\u00E8ne & Loire Foundation ( http://www.mecene-et-loire.fr/ ). Fieldwork at Teufelslucken (Austria) was granted by the Geological Survey of Lower Austria (grant no. BD1-G-5306/001-2019). Marie Soressi was supported by the NWO VICI award (VI.C.191.O70). Mar.K. was supported by Russian Science Foundation grant 22-14-00332. Lo\u00EFc Lebreton has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie grant agreement No 101034349 and the State Research Agency of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the Program Maria de Maeztu Unit of Excellence (grant no. CEX2019-000945-M). Acknowledgements
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