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Comparative transcriptome profiling across 9 tissues in 2 pika species provides new insights and resources to interpret plateau adaptation 两种鼠兔 9 种组织的转录组比较分析为解读高原适应性提供了新的见解和资源

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Journal of Mammalogy Pub Date : 2024-02-27 DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyae014

Ruobing Zhang, Danping Mu, Xinlai Wu, Anderson Feijó, Zhixin Wen, Jilong Cheng, Lin Xia, Qisen Yang, Wenjuan Shan, Deyan Ge

{"title":"Comparative transcriptome profiling across 9 tissues in 2 pika species provides new insights and resources to interpret plateau adaptation","authors":"Ruobing Zhang, Danping Mu, Xinlai Wu, Anderson Feijó, Zhixin Wen, Jilong Cheng, Lin Xia, Qisen Yang, Wenjuan Shan, Deyan Ge","doi":"10.1093/jmammal/gyae014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyae014","url":null,"abstract":"As an endemic species of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, the Plateau Pika (Ochotona curzoniae) exhibits adaptation to the extremely high-altitude environment and possesses a number of distinct physiological characteristics. In order to explore potential mechanisms underlying the adaptation of plateau pikas, we investigate transcriptomic differences across tissues (heart, liver, spleen, lung, kidney, muscle, cerebellum, left brain, and right brain) of the Plateau Pika, in a comparative framework. We analyze possible mechanisms of adaptive evolution by including a transcriptome analysis across the 9 tissues from 3 male and 4 female O. curzoniae and contrasting results with the 8 male and 4 female Gansu Pika (O. cansus) that inhabits the lower middle altitudes. Differential expression and protein–protein interaction network analyses were used to identify the differentially expressed genes and their primary functions. By analyzing interspecific differences, we identified significant adaptive transcriptional changes in the heart, lung, and spleen of the Plateau Pika. Specifically, upregulated genes in these tissues not only show a substantial association with apoptosis and DNA damage repair, but also demonstrate apparent enrichment in biological pathways related to energy metabolism and immune regulation. The majority of downregulated genes exhibit decreased activity in metabolic pathways particularly in muscle, spleen, kidney, and brain tissues. We further reveal the pivotal gene interaction networks of the 9 tissues. Our study provides valuable insight into adaptive mechanisms underlying evolution of Plateau Pika at extreme altitudes.","PeriodicalId":50157,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mammalogy","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140001952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Home range in genus Capra: from polygons to Brownian bridges of scabietic and healthy Iberian ibexes (Capra pyrenaica) 山羊属的家域：从多边形到疥癣和健康伊比利亚山羊的布朗桥

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Journal of Mammalogy Pub Date : 2024-02-27 DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyae013

Marta Valldeperes, Roberto Pascual-Rico, Paulino Fandos, Ramón C Soriguer Escofet, Jesús M Pérez, Francisco J Cano-Manuel León, Paloma Prieto Yerro, Jorge Ramón López-Olvera, José Enrique Granados

{"title":"Home range in genus Capra: from polygons to Brownian bridges of scabietic and healthy Iberian ibexes (Capra pyrenaica)","authors":"Marta Valldeperes, Roberto Pascual-Rico, Paulino Fandos, Ramón C Soriguer Escofet, Jesús M Pérez, Francisco J Cano-Manuel León, Paloma Prieto Yerro, Jorge Ramón López-Olvera, José Enrique Granados","doi":"10.1093/jmammal/gyae013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyae013","url":null,"abstract":"Home range and home range overlap can be used to describe use of space and movement of wildlife. During the last years, advancements in technology have greatly improved our understanding of animal movement, especially among large herbivores. Wild ungulate abundance and distribution have increased in temperate areas. Moreover, their diseases—including sarcoptic mange in the Iberian Ibex (Capra pyrenaica)—have become a cause of concern for livestock, public health, and wildlife conservation. In this study, we first reviewed existing literature on the home range of species in the genus Capra. We then analyzed data from 52 GPS-GSM-collared Iberian ibexes, of which 33 were healthy and 19 were affected by sarcoptic mange from 3 different populations in the southeastern Iberian Peninsula to analyze: (1) differences in size and characteristics of home ranges obtained by the 3 most commonly used methodologies—minimum convex polygon, kernel density estimation, and Brownian bridges movement models (BBMMs); and (2) the impact of endemic sarcoptic mange on Iberian Ibex home range. The literature review revealed that available information on spatial behavior of Capra spp. was based only on 3 species, including the Iberian Ibex, estimated through a diversity of methods which made it difficult to compare results. We found positive correlations among the different home range estimation methods in the Iberian Ibex, with BBMMs proving to be the most accurate. This study is the first to use BBMMs for estimating home range in this species, and it revealed a marked seasonal behavior in spatial use, although sarcoptic mange smoothed such seasonal pattern. The seasonal overlaps obtained suggest that core areas of the Iberian Ibex change within wider home range areas, which are ecological parameters relevant to identifying key areas for species management and conservation.","PeriodicalId":50157,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mammalogy","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140001815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Genetic structuring of fishers in British Columbia, Canada: implications for population conservation and management 加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省鱼类的遗传结构：对种群保护和管理的影响

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Journal of Mammalogy Pub Date : 2024-02-21 DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyae007

Richard D Weir, Andrew M Rankin, Lacy Robinson, Kristine L Pilgrim, Michael K Schwartz, Michael K Lucid

{"title":"Genetic structuring of fishers in British Columbia, Canada: implications for population conservation and management","authors":"Richard D Weir, Andrew M Rankin, Lacy Robinson, Kristine L Pilgrim, Michael K Schwartz, Michael K Lucid","doi":"10.1093/jmammal/gyae007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyae007","url":null,"abstract":"In the westernmost Canadian province of British Columbia, fishers (Pekania pennanti) occur in low-elevation forested ecosystems in the central and northern portions of the province, with several substantial mountain ranges and rivers bisecting this distribution. The effect of these geographic features on gene flow and population structuring is unknown and may contribute to fishers differentiating into 2 or more populations within the province. To better understand population structuring within the range of fishers in British Columbia, we collected tissue samples from 491 fishers from throughout the province and evaluated variation of neutral genetic markers using a 385-base pair section of the mitochondrial DNA control region and 13 microsatellite loci. Fishers appeared to be genetically structured as hierarchical stepping-stone populations where an upper hierarchical level of genetic partitioning resulted in 2 populations at the provincial scale, with 3 subpopulations occurring in the central interior region. We observed gene flow of 2 to 5 migrants per generation between the 2 upper populations, which was substantially less than the 90 migrants per generation estimated as needed to maintain genetic homogeneity. This resulted in differentiated upper populations (haplotype FST = 0.272, microsatellite FST = 0.049) characterized by relatively low Ne (Columbian population = 252, 95% CI = 185 to 332; Boreal population [British Columbia only] = 136, 95% CI = 92 to 234). The consequence of low gene flow and resultant population structuring is that the Columbian population likely receives relatively little genetic and demographic support from other populations and, combined with precipitous recent declines in its numbers, puts this population at heightened conservation risk. As a result, swift and effective actions are needed to conserve this vulnerable population of fishers.","PeriodicalId":50157,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mammalogy","volume":"163 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139950204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Unraveling the Myotis morass: ultraconserved-element analysis reveals introgression, cryptic diversity, and taxonomic trouble 揭开麝香猫的神秘面纱：超保守元素分析揭示了引种、隐性多样性和分类问题

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Journal of Mammalogy Pub Date : 2024-02-20 DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyad119

Jennifer M Korstian, Richard D Stevens, Thomas E Lee, Robert J Baker, David A Ray

{"title":"Unraveling the Myotis morass: ultraconserved-element analysis reveals introgression, cryptic diversity, and taxonomic trouble","authors":"Jennifer M Korstian, Richard D Stevens, Thomas E Lee, Robert J Baker, David A Ray","doi":"10.1093/jmammal/gyad119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyad119","url":null,"abstract":"Using sequences from 2,615 ultraconserved element (UCE) loci and multiple methodologies we inferred phylogenies for the largest genetic data set of New World bats in the genus Myotis to date. The resulting phylogenetic trees were populated with short branch lengths and widespread conflict, hallmarks consistent with rapid adaptive radiations. The degree of conflict observed in Myotis has likely contributed to difficulties disentangling deeper evolutionary relationships. Unlike earlier phylogenies based on 1 to 2 gene sequences, this UCE data set places M. brandtii outside the New World clades. Introgression testing of a small subset of our samples revealed evidence of historical but not contemporary gene flow, suggesting that hybridization occurs less frequently in the Neotropics than the Nearctic. We identified several instances of cryptic lineages within described species as well as several instances of potential taxonomic oversplitting. Evidence from Central and South American localities suggests that diversity in those regions is not fully characterized. In light of the accumulated evidence of the evolutionary complexity in Myotis and our survey of the taxonomic implications from our phylogenies, it is apparent that the definition of species and regime of species delimitation need to be reevaluated for Myotis. This will require substantial collaboration and sample sharing between geneticists and taxonomists to build a system that is both robust and applicable in a genus as diverse as Myotis.","PeriodicalId":50157,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mammalogy","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139956546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Summer habitat for the female Tricolored Bat (Perimyotis subflavus) in Tennessee, United States 美国田纳西州雌性三色蝠（Perimyotis subflavus）的夏季栖息地

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Journal of Mammalogy Pub Date : 2024-02-20 DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyae002

Ashleigh B Cable, Emma V Willcox

{"title":"Summer habitat for the female Tricolored Bat (Perimyotis subflavus) in Tennessee, United States","authors":"Ashleigh B Cable, Emma V Willcox","doi":"10.1093/jmammal/gyae002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyae002","url":null,"abstract":"The Tricolored Bat is an imperiled species due to white-nose syndrome. There is limited information available on roosting and foraging area use of the species to support planning and management efforts to benefit recovery in the Southeastern United States. Female tricolored bats exit hibernation and allocate energy toward disease recovery, migration, and reproduction. Providing and managing for summer habitat is 1 strategy to promote recovery. We sought to: (1) determine local- and landscape-scale factors that influence female Tricolored Bat roost selection; (2) quantify land cover use in core and overall foraging areas; and (3) define foraging area size and distances traveled by female tricolored bats in Tennessee. Bats in this study roosted in trees of variable sizes, in multiple tree species with large canopy volumes, and almost always roosted in trees with dead leaf foliage suspended in the canopy. Forest plots used by bats had trees averaging 30 cm diameter at breast height, basal areas averaging 27 m2/ha, contained multiple tree species, and comprised around a 50:50 ratio of canopy and subcanopy trees. Bats did not roost in coniferous forest areas and were only located in deciduous and mixed forest areas. Bats foraged near and directly over water, in open areas, and along forest edges. This study increases our knowledge on habitat requirements of the species in a temperate region dominated by unfragmented forests and many large water bodies and serves a baseline for management and efforts to benefit survival, reproduction, and population recovery.","PeriodicalId":50157,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mammalogy","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139950135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Reproductive state alters vocal characteristics of female North American red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) 繁殖状态会改变雌性北美红松鼠（Tamiasciurus hudsonicus）的声音特征

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Journal of Mammalogy Pub Date : 2024-02-17 DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyad128

Alexander J Hare, Andrew G McAdam, Ben Dantzer, Jeffrey E Lane, Stan Boutin, Amy E M Newman

{"title":"Reproductive state alters vocal characteristics of female North American red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus)","authors":"Alexander J Hare, Andrew G McAdam, Ben Dantzer, Jeffrey E Lane, Stan Boutin, Amy E M Newman","doi":"10.1093/jmammal/gyad128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyad128","url":null,"abstract":"Female advertisement of reproductive state and receptivity has the potential to play a large role in the mating systems of many taxa, but investigations of this phenomenon are underrepresented in the literature. North American red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) are highly territorial and engage in scramble competition mating, with males converging from spatially disparate territories to engage in mating chases. Given the narrow estrus window exhibited in this species, the ubiquitous use of vocalizations to advertise territory ownership, and the high synchronicity of males arriving from distant territories, we hypothesized that female vocalizations contain cues relating to their estrous state. To test this hypothesis, we examined the spectral and temporal properties of female territorial rattle vocalizations collected from females of known reproductive condition over 3 years. While we found no distinct changes associated with estrus specifically, we did identify significant changes in the spectral characteristics of rattles relating to both female body mass and reproductive state relative to parturition. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first evidence of changes in vocal characteristics associated with late pregnancy in a nonhuman mammal.","PeriodicalId":50157,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mammalogy","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139903504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Range expansion of a declining forest species, the Western Gray Squirrel (Sciurus griseus), into semiarid woodland 衰退的森林物种西部灰松鼠（Sciurus griseus）向半干旱林地的范围扩张

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Journal of Mammalogy Pub Date : 2024-02-12 DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyae011

Sean M Sultaire, Robert A Montgomery, Patrick J Jackson, Joshua J Millspaugh

{"title":"Range expansion of a declining forest species, the Western Gray Squirrel (Sciurus griseus), into semiarid woodland","authors":"Sean M Sultaire, Robert A Montgomery, Patrick J Jackson, Joshua J Millspaugh","doi":"10.1093/jmammal/gyae011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyae011","url":null,"abstract":"Globally, animals that are range-restricted are frequently becoming species of conservation concern, in part due to competitive exclusion by phylogenetically and ecologically similar species that are more tolerant of human disturbance. However, climate and land use changes to natural landscapes can create pockets of refugia for range-restricted species. Western gray squirrels (Sciurus griseus) are native to the west coast of North America, principally California and western Oregon. Over the past several decades, Western Gray Squirrel populations have declined in human-dominated areas, with increased competition from introduced congeneric species native to eastern North America cited as a primary driver. Despite declines in their established range west of the Pacific Crest in western North America, western gray squirrels are extending their range into the Great Basin, where they were not historically found. Using a network of remote camera traps deployed across the Sierra Nevada–Great Basin ecotone in northwestern Nevada, we detected western gray squirrels across 16 of 100 camera-trapping sites. The majority of detections were located in piñon–juniper woodland, a land cover type not previously occupied by this species. Occupancy modeling revealed that western gray squirrels were equally likely to occur in piñon–juniper woodland compared to mature pine forest that they occupy elsewhere in their range. A species distribution model parameterized with historical gray squirrel observations (pre-1950), indicated increased climatic suitability for the species on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada in recent decades, which may have facilitated this range expansion. Our findings reveal the potential for species declining in their historical range to colonize novel habitats that become increasingly suitable as a result of human-driven changes to ecosystems.","PeriodicalId":50157,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mammalogy","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139773169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A drying climate and habitat availability drive extirpations of a southward advancing ground squirrel 干燥的气候和栖息地的可用性导致一种向南迁徙的地松鼠灭绝

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Journal of Mammalogy Pub Date : 2024-02-12 DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyae004

Austin L Nash, Christy M McCain

{"title":"A drying climate and habitat availability drive extirpations of a southward advancing ground squirrel","authors":"Austin L Nash, Christy M McCain","doi":"10.1093/jmammal/gyae004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyae004","url":null,"abstract":"Ground squirrels act as important members of grassland ecosystems by serving as both ecosystem engineers and as a prey base for carnivores. There is mounting evidence that climate change is driving ground squirrel population declines. We resurveyed 54 historical localities throughout the Wyoming Basin and western Colorado where Wyoming Ground Squirrel (Urocitellus elegans) specimens were collected to investigate if climate change was driving extirpations at these historically occupied sites. We detected extirpations at 12 sites and used binomial generalized linear models in an information-theoretic framework to investigate if climate change was associated with these extirpations. Additionally, we investigated if land cover change was associated with persistence and if land cover ameliorated or exacerbated the effects of climate change. We found that changes in climate, especially increasingly dry summer air and increasing mean summer temperatures, were associated with a reduced probability that U. elegans persisted at a historically occupied site. In addition, we found that current forest cover at a site and increasing rangeland cover at the regional level were associated with reduced probability that U. elegans persisted, although these associations were weaker than the climate associations. The effects of climate change and land cover change did not interact. Our findings build on mounting evidence that montane-associated ground squirrels throughout the Western United States are negatively impacted by climate change. The reduction in ground squirrel abundance or their extirpation due to climate change could lead to changes in ecosystem structure or reductions in trophic complexity.","PeriodicalId":50157,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mammalogy","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139764186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Diversity of MHC class II DRB alleles in the Northern chamois genus Rupicapra 北麂属 MHC II 类 DRB 等位基因的多样性

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Journal of Mammalogy Pub Date : 2024-02-12 DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyae008

Sunčica Stipoljev, Elena Buzan, Laura Iacolina, Toni Safner, Andrea Rezić, Ana Galov, Krešimir Križanović, Hüseyin Ambarlı, MariaCruz Arnal, Elmar Babaev, Ferdinand Bego, Attila Farkas, Dragan Gačić, Peter Lazar, Vladimir Maletić, Georgi Markov, Dragana Milošević, Haritakis Papaioannou, Massimo Scandura, Nikica Šprem

{"title":"Diversity of MHC class II DRB alleles in the Northern chamois genus Rupicapra","authors":"Sunčica Stipoljev, Elena Buzan, Laura Iacolina, Toni Safner, Andrea Rezić, Ana Galov, Krešimir Križanović, Hüseyin Ambarlı, MariaCruz Arnal, Elmar Babaev, Ferdinand Bego, Attila Farkas, Dragan Gačić, Peter Lazar, Vladimir Maletić, Georgi Markov, Dragana Milošević, Haritakis Papaioannou, Massimo Scandura, Nikica Šprem","doi":"10.1093/jmammal/gyae008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyae008","url":null,"abstract":"Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes are commonly used markers for monitoring adaptive genetic and evolutionary potential of species. In this study, we investigated genetic variation of the MHC class II DRB locus in the chamois genus Rupicapra by using next-generation sequencing. Sequencing of 102 samples led to the identification of 25 alleles, 11 of which are novel. The high ratio of the relative rates of nonsynonymous to synonymous mutations (dN/dS) suggests a signal of positive selection on this locus. We analyzed patterns of genetic variation within and among 2 subspecies of Northern Chamois and compared them to previously published studies using neutral markers to provide a basis for assessing the effects of demographic processes. Our analyses have shown that alleles are likely to be maintained by balancing selection in different populations with similar frequencies and that this mechanism also works in small, isolated populations that are strongly affected by genetic drift.","PeriodicalId":50157,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mammalogy","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139764256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Using PIT tags to infer bat reproductive status and parturition date: busy nights during lactation 利用 PIT 标签推断蝙蝠的繁殖状况和产仔日期：哺乳期的繁忙夜晚

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Journal of Mammalogy Pub Date : 2024-02-07 DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyad134

Amélie Fontaine, Anouk Simard, Valérie Simard, Hugh G Broders, Kyle H Elliott

{"title":"Using PIT tags to infer bat reproductive status and parturition date: busy nights during lactation","authors":"Amélie Fontaine, Anouk Simard, Valérie Simard, Hugh G Broders, Kyle H Elliott","doi":"10.1093/jmammal/gyad134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyad134","url":null,"abstract":"Passive integrated transponders (PIT tags) can aid in the collection of important demographic data for species for which other methods, such as GPS technology, are not suitable. PIT tags can be particularly suitable to monitor small and cryptic species like bats and permit inference on their behavioral ecology. Literature for several species of bats states that females change their nightly activity patterns—going out and in of the roost only once per night during gestation compared to several times during lactation. Hence, we tested whether PIT tag detection patterns could be used to infer reproductive status and parturition date of female bats. From 2017 to 2021, we recorded detections of PIT-tagged little brown (Myotis lucifugus) and northern long-eared bats (M. septentrionalis) at the entrance of 2 maternity roosts in Québec and Newfoundland, Canada. We also used the maternity roost in Québec as a case study to further evaluate the potential of this method to link behavior and demography and investigated factors affecting parturition date. We were able to infer reproductive status for 63% to 97% of tagged individuals detected during both the gestation and the lactation periods, and parturition date for 61% to 95% of reproductive individuals, depending on the year and roost. Early spring arrival at the roost and warm spring mean temperature at night were associated with earlier parturition dates. Herein, we highlight that PIT tag systems may be useful to detect changes in activity patterns of female bats and infer individual reproductive parameters, which is on the long-term less stressful for bats and easier for researchers. We demonstrate that this approach is useful to investigate intrinsic and extrinsic factors of reproductive parameters, improving our understanding of bat population dynamics resulting in more informed population management decisions.","PeriodicalId":50157,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mammalogy","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139764101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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