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DOI	10.1038/s41437-019-0229-8
	The evolutionary history of the Cape hare (Lepus capensis sensu lato): insights for systematics and biogeography
	Lado, Sara 1,2,6; Alves, Paulo C.1,2,3; Islam, M. Zafarul 4,5; Brito, Jose C.1,2; Melo-Ferreira, Jose 1,2
通讯作者	Melo-Ferreira, Jose
来源期刊	HEREDITY
ISSN	0018-067X
EISSN	1365-2540
出版年	2019
卷号	123 期号:5 页码:634-646
英文摘要	Inferring the phylogeography of species with large distributions helps deciphering major diversification patterns that may occur in parallel across taxa. Here, we infer the evolutionary history of the Cape hare, Lepus capensis sensu lato, a species distributed from southern Africa to Asia, by analyzing variation at 18 microsatellites and 9 DNA (1 mitochondrial and 8 nuclear) sequenced loci, from field and museum-collected samples. Using a combination of assignment and coalescent-based methods, we show that the Cape hare is composed of five evolutionary lineages, distributed in distinct biogeographic regions -north-western Africa, eastern Africa, southern Africa, the Near East and the Arabian Peninsula. A deep phylogenetic break possibly dating to the Early Pleistocene was inferred between the African and Asian L. capensis groups, and the latter appear more closely related to other Eurasian hare species than to African Cape hares. The inferred phylogeographic structure is shared by numerous taxa distributed across the studied range, suggesting that environmental changes, such as the progressive aridification of the Saharo-Arabian desert and the fluctuations of savannah habitats in Sub-Saharan Africa, had comparable impacts across species. Fine-scale analyses of the western Sahara-Sahel populations showed rich fragmentation patterns for mitochondrial DNA but not for microsatellites, compatible with the environmental heterogeneity of the region and female philopatry. The complex evolutionary history of L. capensis sensu lato, which possibly includes interspecific gene flow, is not reflected by taxonomy. Integrating evolutionary inference contributes to an improved characterization of biodiversity, which is fundamental to foster the conservation of relevant evolutionary units.
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Portugal ; USA ; Saudi Arabia ; Georgia ; Austria
开放获取类型	Bronze, Green Published, Green Accepted
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000489283800007
WOS关键词	POPULATION-STRUCTURE ; MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA ; COMPARATIVE PHYLOGEOGRAPHY ; GENETIC-STRUCTURE ; DIVERGENCE TIME ; GENUS LEPUS ; L-EUROPAEUS ; INTROGRESSION ; TIMIDUS ; AFRICAN
WOS类目	Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology ; Genetics & Heredity
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology ; Genetics & Heredity
EI主题词	2019-11-01
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/310415
作者单位	1.Univ Porto, CIBIO, Ctr Invest Biodiversidade & Recursos Genet, InBIO Lab Associado, Campus Vairao, P-4485661 Vairao, Portugal; 2.Univ Porto, Dept Biol, Fac Ciencias, Rua Campo Alegre S-N, P-4169007 Porto, Portugal; 3.Univ Montana, Wildlife Biol Program, Missoula, MT 59812 USA; 4.NWRC, Post Box 1086, At Taif, Saudi Arabia; 5.Ilia State Univ, GE-0162 Tbilisi, Georgia; 6.Vetmeduni Vienna, Res Inst Wildlife Ecol, Vienna, Austria
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lado, Sara,Alves, Paulo C.,Islam, M. Zafarul,et al. The evolutionary history of the Cape hare (Lepus capensis sensu lato): insights for systematics and biogeography[J],2019,123(5):634-646.
APA	Lado, Sara,Alves, Paulo C.,Islam, M. Zafarul,Brito, Jose C.,&Melo-Ferreira, Jose.(2019).The evolutionary history of the Cape hare (Lepus capensis sensu lato): insights for systematics and biogeography.HEREDITY,123(5),634-646.
MLA	Lado, Sara,et al."The evolutionary history of the Cape hare (Lepus capensis sensu lato): insights for systematics and biogeography".HEREDITY 123.5(2019):634-646.