Ancient Mitogenomes Suggest Stable Mitochondrial Clades of the Siberian Roe Deer
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Ancient Mitogenomes Suggest Stable Mitochondrial Clades of the Siberian Roe Deer. / Deng, Miao Xuan; Xiao, Bo; Yuan, Jun-Xia; Hu, Jia-Ming; Kim, Kyung Seok; Westbury, Michael V.; Lai, Xu-Long; Sheng, Gui-Lian.
In: Genes, Vol. 13, No. 1, 114, 2022.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Ancient Mitogenomes Suggest Stable Mitochondrial Clades of the Siberian Roe Deer
AU - Deng, Miao Xuan
AU - Xiao, Bo
AU - Yuan, Jun-Xia
AU - Hu, Jia-Ming
AU - Kim, Kyung Seok
AU - Westbury, Michael V.
AU - Lai, Xu-Long
AU - Sheng, Gui-Lian
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The roe deer (Capreolus spp.) has been present in China since the early Pleistocene. Despite abundant fossils available for detailed morphological analyses, little is known about the phylogenetic relationships of the fossil individuals to contemporary roe deer. We generated near-complete mitochondrial genomes for four roe deer remains from Northeastern China to explore the genetic connection of the ancient roe deer to the extant populations and to investigate the evolutionary history and population dynamics of this species. Phylogenetic analyses indicated the four ancient samples fall into three out of four different haplogroups of the Siberian roe deer. Haplogroup C, distributed throughout Eurasia, have existed in Northeastern China since at least the Late Pleistocene, while haplogroup A and D, found in the east of Lake Baikal, emerged in Northeastern China after the Mid Holocene. The Bayesian estimation suggested that the first split within the Siberian roe deer occurred approximately 0.34 million years ago (Ma). Moreover, Bayesian skyline plot analyses suggested that the Siberian roe deer had a population increase between 325 and 225 thousand years ago (Kya) and suffered a transient decline between 50 and 18 Kya. This study provides novel insights into the evolutionary history and population dynamics of the roe deer.
AB - The roe deer (Capreolus spp.) has been present in China since the early Pleistocene. Despite abundant fossils available for detailed morphological analyses, little is known about the phylogenetic relationships of the fossil individuals to contemporary roe deer. We generated near-complete mitochondrial genomes for four roe deer remains from Northeastern China to explore the genetic connection of the ancient roe deer to the extant populations and to investigate the evolutionary history and population dynamics of this species. Phylogenetic analyses indicated the four ancient samples fall into three out of four different haplogroups of the Siberian roe deer. Haplogroup C, distributed throughout Eurasia, have existed in Northeastern China since at least the Late Pleistocene, while haplogroup A and D, found in the east of Lake Baikal, emerged in Northeastern China after the Mid Holocene. The Bayesian estimation suggested that the first split within the Siberian roe deer occurred approximately 0.34 million years ago (Ma). Moreover, Bayesian skyline plot analyses suggested that the Siberian roe deer had a population increase between 325 and 225 thousand years ago (Kya) and suffered a transient decline between 50 and 18 Kya. This study provides novel insights into the evolutionary history and population dynamics of the roe deer.
KW - Ancient DNA
KW - Evolutionary history
KW - Mitochondrial genome
KW - Population dynamics
KW - Roe deer
U2 - 10.3390/genes13010114
DO - 10.3390/genes13010114
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 35052455
AN - SCOPUS:85123005369
VL - 13
JO - Genes
JF - Genes
SN - 2073-4425
IS - 1
M1 - 114
ER -
ID: 291739494