The evolutionary and phylogeographic history of woolly mammoths : A comprehensive mitogenomic analysis. / Chang, Dan; Knapp, Michael; Enk, Jacob et al.
In: Scientific Reports, Vol. 7, 44585, 22.03.2017.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The evolutionary and phylogeographic history of woolly mammoths
T2 - A comprehensive mitogenomic analysis
AU - Chang, Dan
AU - Knapp, Michael
AU - Enk, Jacob
AU - Lippold, Sebastian
AU - Kircher, Martin
AU - Lister, Adrian
AU - Macphee, Ross D.E.
AU - Widga, Christopher
AU - Czechowski, Paul
AU - Sommer, Robert
AU - Hodges, Emily
AU - Stümpel, Nikolaus
AU - Barnes, Ian
AU - Dalén, Love
AU - Derevianko, Anatoly
AU - Germonpré, Mietje
AU - Hillebrand-Voiculescu, Alexandra
AU - Constantin, Silviu
AU - Kuznetsova, Tatyana
AU - Mol, Dick
AU - Rathgeber, Thomas
AU - Rosendahl, Wilfried
AU - Tikhonov, Alexey N.
AU - Willerslev, Eske
AU - Hannon, Greg
AU - Lalueza-Fox, Carles
AU - Joger, Ulrich
AU - Poinar, Hendrik
AU - Hofreiter, Michael
AU - Shapiro, Beth
PY - 2017/3/22
Y1 - 2017/3/22
N2 - Near the end of the Pleistocene epoch, populations of the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) were distributed across parts of three continents, from western Europe and northern Asia through Beringia to the Atlantic seaboard of North America. Nonetheless, questions about the connectivity and temporal continuity of mammoth populations and species remain unanswered. We use a combination of targeted enrichment and high-throughput sequencing to assemble and interpret a data set of 143 mammoth mitochondrial genomes, sampled from fossils recovered from across their Holarctic range. Our dataset includes 54 previously unpublished mitochondrial genomes and significantly increases the coverage of the Eurasian range of the species. The resulting global phylogeny confirms that the Late Pleistocene mammoth population comprised three distinct mitochondrial lineages that began to diverge ∼1.0-2.0 million years ago (Ma). We also find that mammoth mitochondrial lineages were strongly geographically partitioned throughout the Pleistocene. In combination, our genetic results and the pattern of morphological variation in time and space suggest that male-mediated gene flow, rather than large-scale dispersals, was important in the Pleistocene evolutionary history of mammoths.
AB - Near the end of the Pleistocene epoch, populations of the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) were distributed across parts of three continents, from western Europe and northern Asia through Beringia to the Atlantic seaboard of North America. Nonetheless, questions about the connectivity and temporal continuity of mammoth populations and species remain unanswered. We use a combination of targeted enrichment and high-throughput sequencing to assemble and interpret a data set of 143 mammoth mitochondrial genomes, sampled from fossils recovered from across their Holarctic range. Our dataset includes 54 previously unpublished mitochondrial genomes and significantly increases the coverage of the Eurasian range of the species. The resulting global phylogeny confirms that the Late Pleistocene mammoth population comprised three distinct mitochondrial lineages that began to diverge ∼1.0-2.0 million years ago (Ma). We also find that mammoth mitochondrial lineages were strongly geographically partitioned throughout the Pleistocene. In combination, our genetic results and the pattern of morphological variation in time and space suggest that male-mediated gene flow, rather than large-scale dispersals, was important in the Pleistocene evolutionary history of mammoths.
KW - Animal Distribution
KW - Animals
KW - Asia
KW - Biological Evolution
KW - DNA, Mitochondrial/genetics
KW - Europe
KW - Extinction, Biological
KW - Female
KW - Fossils
KW - Gene Flow
KW - Genome, Mitochondrial
KW - Male
KW - Mammoths/classification
KW - North America
KW - Phylogeny
KW - Phylogeography
KW - Sequence Analysis, DNA
KW - MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME
KW - STRATEGIES
KW - HYBRID SELECTION
KW - MULTIPLEX AMPLIFICATION
KW - GENOMIC DISSOCIATION
KW - ANCIENT DNA EXTRACTION
KW - MIGRATION PATTERNS
KW - PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS
KW - ALIGNMENT
KW - BIOLOGY
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85015996971&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1038/srep44585
DO - 10.1038/srep44585
M3 - Article
C2 - 28327635
AN - SCOPUS:85015996971
VL - 7
JO - Scientific Reports
JF - Scientific Reports
SN - 2045-2322
M1 - 44585
ER -
ID: 25376704