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Citation title: "Mitochondrial genomes reveal the pattern and timing of marten (Martes), wolverine (Gulo), and fisher (Pekania) diversification".

Study name: "Mitochondrial genomes reveal the pattern and timing of marten (Martes), wolverine (Gulo), and fisher (Pekania) diversification".

This study is part of submission 14535 (Status: Published).

Citation

Li B., Wolsan M., Wu D., Zhang W., Xu Y., & Zeng Z. 2014. Mitochondrial genomes reveal the pattern and timing of marten (Martes), wolverine (Gulo), and fisher (Pekania) diversification. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 80: 156-164.

Authors

• Li B.
• Wolsan M.
• Wu D.
• Zhang W.
• Xu Y.
• Zeng Z.

Abstract

Despite recent advances in understanding the pattern and timescale of evolutionary diversification in the marten, wolverine, fisher, and tayra subfamily Guloninae (Mustelidae, Carnivora), several important issues still remain contentious. Among these are the phylogenetic position of Gulo relative to the subgenera of Martes (Martes and Charronia), the phylogenetic relationships within the subgenus Martes, and the timing of gulonine divergences. To elucidate these issues we explored nucleotide variation in 11 whole mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) from eight gulonine species and two outgroup meline species. Parsimony, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses yielded fully resolved and identical patterns of relationships with high support for all divergences. The generic status of Pekania (P. pennanti), the monophyly of the genus Martes containing M. flavigula (subgenus Charronia) to the exclusion of the genus Gulo (G. gulo), and the M. foina (M. americana (M. melampus (M. zibellina, M. martes))) phylogeny of the subgenus Martes were strongly supported. Dating analyses (BEAST) using a set of five newly applied fossil calibrations provided divergence times considerably younger than previous multigene mitochondrial estimates, but similar to multigene nuclear and nuclear? mitochondrial estimates. The 95% confidence (highest posterior density) intervals of our divergence times fell within those inferred from nuclear and nuclear?mitochondrial sequence data, and were markedly narrower than in earlier studies (whether nuclear, mitochondrial, or combined). Notably, and contrary to long-held beliefs, our findings indicate that fossils older than the Tortonian?Messinian transition (late Late Miocene) do not represent Martes, excluding from this genus its putative members from the Early, Middle, and early Late Miocene. This study demonstrates the high informativeness of the mitogenome for phylogenetic inference and divergence time estimation within Guloninae, and suggests that mitogenomes can be highly informative also for other clades at similar levels of evolutionary divergence.

Keywords

Divergence time; Evolution; Guloninae; Mitogenomics; Mustelidae; Phylogeny

External links

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.08.002
• PMID: 4986

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  		@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref22954,
  	 author = {Bo  Li and Mieczyslaw  Wolsan and Dan  Wu and Wei  Zhang and Yanchun  Xu and Zhaohui  Zeng},
  	 title = {Mitochondrial genomes reveal the pattern and timing of marten (Martes), wolverine (Gulo), and fisher (Pekania) diversification},
  	 year = {2014},
  	 keywords = {Divergence time; Evolution; Guloninae; Mitogenomics; Mustelidae; Phylogeny},
  	 doi = {10.1016/j.ympev.2014.08.002},
  	 url = {http://},
  	 pmid = { 4986},
  	 journal = {Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution},
  	 volume = {80},
  	 number = {},
  	 pages = {156--164},
  	 abstract = {Despite recent advances in understanding the pattern and timescale of evolutionary
  diversification in the marten, wolverine, fisher, and tayra subfamily Guloninae (Mustelidae,
  Carnivora), several important issues still remain contentious. Among these are the phylogenetic
  position of Gulo relative to the subgenera of Martes (Martes and Charronia), the phylogenetic
  relationships within the subgenus Martes, and the timing of gulonine divergences. To elucidate
  these issues we explored nucleotide variation in 11 whole mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes)
  from eight gulonine species and two outgroup meline species. Parsimony, maximum likelihood,
  and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses yielded fully resolved and identical patterns of relationships
  with high support for all divergences. The generic status of Pekania (P. pennanti), the monophyly
  of the genus Martes containing M. flavigula (subgenus Charronia) to the exclusion of the genus
  Gulo (G. gulo), and the M. foina (M. americana (M. melampus (M. zibellina, M. martes)))
  phylogeny of the subgenus Martes were strongly supported. Dating analyses (BEAST) using a set
  of five newly applied fossil calibrations provided divergence times considerably younger than
  previous multigene mitochondrial estimates, but similar to multigene nuclear and nuclear?
  mitochondrial estimates. The 95% confidence (highest posterior density) intervals of our
  divergence times fell within those inferred from nuclear and nuclear?mitochondrial sequence
  data, and were markedly narrower than in earlier studies (whether nuclear, mitochondrial, or
  combined). Notably, and contrary to long-held beliefs, our findings indicate that fossils older than
  the Tortonian?Messinian transition (late Late Miocene) do not represent Martes, excluding from
  this genus its putative members from the Early, Middle, and early Late Miocene. This study
  demonstrates the high informativeness of the mitogenome for phylogenetic inference and
  divergence time estimation within Guloninae, and suggests that mitogenomes can be highly
  informative also for other clades at similar levels of evolutionary divergence.}
  }
  		

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  AU  - Li,Bo 
  AU  - Wolsan,Mieczyslaw 
  AU  - Wu,Dan 
  AU  - Zhang,Wei 
  AU  - Xu,Yanchun 
  AU  - Zeng,Zhaohui 
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  diversification in the marten, wolverine, fisher, and tayra subfamily Guloninae (Mustelidae,
  Carnivora), several important issues still remain contentious. Among these are the phylogenetic
  position of Gulo relative to the subgenera of Martes (Martes and Charronia), the phylogenetic
  relationships within the subgenus Martes, and the timing of gulonine divergences. To elucidate
  these issues we explored nucleotide variation in 11 whole mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes)
  from eight gulonine species and two outgroup meline species. Parsimony, maximum likelihood,
  and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses yielded fully resolved and identical patterns of relationships
  with high support for all divergences. The generic status of Pekania (P. pennanti), the monophyly
  of the genus Martes containing M. flavigula (subgenus Charronia) to the exclusion of the genus
  Gulo (G. gulo), and the M. foina (M. americana (M. melampus (M. zibellina, M. martes)))
  phylogeny of the subgenus Martes were strongly supported. Dating analyses (BEAST) using a set
  of five newly applied fossil calibrations provided divergence times considerably younger than
  previous multigene mitochondrial estimates, but similar to multigene nuclear and nuclear?
  mitochondrial estimates. The 95% confidence (highest posterior density) intervals of our
  divergence times fell within those inferred from nuclear and nuclear?mitochondrial sequence
  data, and were markedly narrower than in earlier studies (whether nuclear, mitochondrial, or
  combined). Notably, and contrary to long-held beliefs, our findings indicate that fossils older than
  the Tortonian?Messinian transition (late Late Miocene) do not represent Martes, excluding from
  this genus its putative members from the Early, Middle, and early Late Miocene. This study
  demonstrates the high informativeness of the mitogenome for phylogenetic inference and
  divergence time estimation within Guloninae, and suggests that mitogenomes can be highly
  informative also for other clades at similar levels of evolutionary divergence.
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