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Reference genome of the Gophersnake, Pituophis catenifer (Serpentes: Colubridae). 地鼠的参考基因组,垂体蛇(蛇目:地鼠科)。
IF 3 2区 生物学
Journal of Heredity Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esaf024
Jesse L Grismer, Merly Escalona, Courtney Miller, Mohan P A Marimuthu, Oanh Nguyen, Eric Beraut, Sam Sacco, Erin Toffelmier, Robert Cooper, Ian J Wang, Robert N Fisher, H Bradley Shaffer
{"title":"Reference genome of the Gophersnake, Pituophis catenifer (Serpentes: Colubridae).","authors":"Jesse L Grismer, Merly Escalona, Courtney Miller, Mohan P A Marimuthu, Oanh Nguyen, Eric Beraut, Sam Sacco, Erin Toffelmier, Robert Cooper, Ian J Wang, Robert N Fisher, H Bradley Shaffer","doi":"10.1093/jhered/esaf024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esaf024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Gophersnake, Pituophis catenifer, is a habitat generalist that ranges throughout the western half of the United Sates and southward into México. Five of the six subspecies, P. catenifer affinis (Sonoran Gophersnake), P. catenifer annectens (San Diego Gophersnake), P. catenifer catenifer (Pacific Gophersnake), P. catenifer deserticola (Great Basin Gophersanke), and P. catenifer pumilus (Santa Cruz Island Gophersnake), occur in California and span virtually all the state's diverse terrestrial habitats. These subspecies are ecologically and morphologically distinct from one another, although existing genetic data indicate there is genetic admixture across some of their contact zones. Given that these subspecies occur in such different environments they will not all respond to climate change and anthropogenic stressors equally. Here, we report a new, chromosome-level assembly of P. catenifer as part of the California Conservation Genomics Project (CCGP). Consistent with the reference genome strategy of the CCGP, we used Pacific Biosciences HiFi long reads and Hi-C chromatin-proximity sequencing technology to produce a de novo assembled genome. The assembly comprises 426 scaffolds covering 1,804,944,895 bp, has a contig N50 of 37.5 Mb, a scaffold N50 of 161 Mb, and BUSCO completeness score of 95.3%. This genome will be a foundational resource for future studies on the conservation, adaptation, biogeography, and the systematics of P. catenifer.</p>","PeriodicalId":54811,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heredity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143999616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Life history and chromosome organization determine chemoreceptor gene expression in rattlesnakes. 响尾蛇的生活史和染色体组织决定了化学受体基因的表达。
IF 3 2区 生物学
Journal of Heredity Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esae078
Michael P Hogan, Matthew L Holding, Gunnar S Nystrom, Kylie C Lawrence, Emilie M Broussard, Schyler A Ellsworth, Andrew J Mason, Mark J Margres, H Lisle Gibbs, Christopher L Parkinson, Darin R Rokyta
{"title":"Life history and chromosome organization determine chemoreceptor gene expression in rattlesnakes.","authors":"Michael P Hogan, Matthew L Holding, Gunnar S Nystrom, Kylie C Lawrence, Emilie M Broussard, Schyler A Ellsworth, Andrew J Mason, Mark J Margres, H Lisle Gibbs, Christopher L Parkinson, Darin R Rokyta","doi":"10.1093/jhered/esae078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esae078","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Predatory species who hunt for their prey rely on a suite of integrated characters, including sensory traits that are also used for nonpredatory behaviors. Linking the evolution of sensory traits to specific selection pressures therefore requires a deep understanding of the underlying genetics and molecular mechanisms producing these complex phenotypes. However, this relationship remains poorly understood for complex sensory systems that consist of proteins encoded by large gene families. The chemosensory repertoire of rattlesnakes includes hundreds of type-2 vomeronasal receptors and olfactory receptors, representing the two largest gene families found in the genome. To investigate the biological importance of this chemoreceptor diversity, we assessed gene expression in the eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus) and identified sex- and age-biased genes. We found type-2 vomeronasal receptor expression in the vomeronasal epithelium was limited to juvenile snakes, suggesting the sensory programming of this tissue may be correlated with early life development. In the olfactory epithelium, we found subtle expression biases that were more indicative of life history rather than development. We also found transcriptional evidence for dosage compensation of sex-linked genes and trait integration in the expression of transcription factors. We overlay our molecular characterizations in Crotalus adamanteus onto updated olfactory receptor and type-2 vomeronasal receptor phylogenies, providing a genetic road map for future research on these receptors. Finally, we investigated the deeper macroevolutionary context of the most highly expressed type-2 vomeronasal receptor gene spanning the rise of tetrapods and estimated the strength of positive selection for individual amino acid residues in the predicted protein structure. We hypothesize that this gene may have evolved as a conserved signaling subunit to ensure consistent G-protein coupled receptor functionality, potentially relaxing signaling constraints on other type-2 vomeronasal receptor paralogs and promoting ligand binding specificity.</p>","PeriodicalId":54811,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heredity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144057397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Genomic data from the extinct California brown bear suggests a source population for reintroduction to California. 来自已灭绝的加州棕熊的基因组数据表明了一个重新引入加州的来源种群。
IF 3 2区 生物学
Journal of Heredity Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esaf018
T Brock Wooldridge, Ming-Shan Wang, Nedda F Saremi, Joshua D Kapp, Katherine L Moon, Peter D Heintzman, John P Dumbacher, Peter S Alagona, Barney Long, Beth Shapiro
{"title":"Genomic data from the extinct California brown bear suggests a source population for reintroduction to California.","authors":"T Brock Wooldridge, Ming-Shan Wang, Nedda F Saremi, Joshua D Kapp, Katherine L Moon, Peter D Heintzman, John P Dumbacher, Peter S Alagona, Barney Long, Beth Shapiro","doi":"10.1093/jhered/esaf018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esaf018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>California brown bears, also known as California grizzlies or golden bears, are an extinct group that once thrived in North America's western coastal habitats. Despite being common in the region as recently as the early 19th century, intense poisoning, trapping, and hunting led to their extinction by 1924. Today, California is emerging as a candidate for brown bear reintroduction as a component of larger ecosystem restoration efforts. Questions remain, however, about whether living brown bears are suitable proxies for the bears that once inhabited California. While recent work suggests that brown bears from California were similar in size and overall diet to brown bears living today in continental North America, the a) extent to which California bears were genetically differentiated from other populations, and b) what this means for proposed reintroductions, remain outstanding questions. We generated genomes from two of the last living California brown bears and compared them to genomes from living brown bears. Genomic estimates of divergence time combined with radiocarbon dating points towards brown bears arriving recently to California, having diverged within the last 10,000 years from a common ancestor with brown bears found today in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. This timeline, the overall genetic similarity between the California and Yellowstone populations, and the strong pattern of isolation-by-distance we observe all suggest that no closer living relatives are likely to be found. If genetic background is to be a consideration for reintroduction efforts in California, brown bears from Yellowstone might serve as a source population.</p>","PeriodicalId":54811,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heredity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144045298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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 Reference Genome for Boat-tailed Grackles (Quiscalus major). 船尾石斑鱼(Quiscalus major)的参考基因组。
IF 3 2区 生物学
Journal of Heredity Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esaf019
Eamon C Corbett, Andre E Moncrieff, Robb T Brumfield, Brant C Faircloth
{"title":"A Reference Genome for Boat-tailed Grackles (Quiscalus major).","authors":"Eamon C Corbett, Andre E Moncrieff, Robb T Brumfield, Brant C Faircloth","doi":"10.1093/jhered/esaf019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esaf019","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Boat-tailed Grackles (Quiscalus major) are marsh-dwelling blackbirds that are endemic to the eastern United States. Various aspects of their biology have been studied extensively, including their mating system, plumage and molt patterns, diet, and interspecific interactions. Boat-tailed Grackles are also interesting because they exhibit variation in their iris color that is associated with geography. However, resources that enable genomic studies of Boat-tailed Grackles and other related grackle species are few. Here, we combined Pacific Biosciences long-read, HiFi data with short-read Illumina data from a HiC library to produce haplotype-phased, chromosome-scale genome assemblies for Boat-tailed Grackles. The final version of the assembly, bQuiMaj1, includes two, contiguous haplotypes with total lengths of ~1 Gbp, N50s of ~70 Mbp, and L50s of 5-6. BUSCO and merqury analyses suggest both haplotypes are also relatively complete (95-99%) with respect to gene and k-mer content. The resulting assemblies will significantly enhance our understanding of Boat-tailed Grackle biology and physiology, as well as contribute to the growing number of genomes representing species belonging to the taxonomic family Icteridae (the New World blackbirds).</p>","PeriodicalId":54811,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heredity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143991633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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 phased chromosome-level genome of the annelid tubeworm Galeolaria caespitosa. 环节动物管虫Galeolaria caespitosa的染色体水平基因组。
IF 3 2区 生物学
Journal of Heredity Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esaf025
Monique van Dorssen, Emily K Belcher, Cristóbal Gallegos, Kathryn A Hodgins, Keyne Monro
{"title":"A phased chromosome-level genome of the annelid tubeworm Galeolaria caespitosa.","authors":"Monique van Dorssen, Emily K Belcher, Cristóbal Gallegos, Kathryn A Hodgins, Keyne Monro","doi":"10.1093/jhered/esaf025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esaf025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Haplotype-resolved (phased) genome assemblies are emerging as important assets for genomic studies of species with high heterozygosity, but remain lacking for key animal lineages. Here, we use PacBio HiFi and Omni-C technologies to assemble the first phased, annotated, chromosome-level genome for any annelid: the reef-building tubeworm Galeolaria caespitosa (Serpulidae). The assembly is 803.5 Mbp long (scaffold N50 = 76.5 Mbp) for haplotype 1 and 789.3 Mbp long (scaffold N50 = 75.4 Mbp) for haplotype 2, which are arranged into 11 pairs of chromosomes showing no sign of sex chromosomes. This compares with cytological analyses reporting 12-13 pairs in G. caespitosa's closest relatives, including species that are protandrous hermaphrodites. We combined long-read and short-read transcriptome sequencing to annotate both haplotypes, resulting in 30,495 predicted proteins for haplotype 1, 27,423 proteins for haplotype two, and 79.5% of proteins with at least one functional annotation. We also assembled a mitochondrial genome 23 Kbp long, annotating all genes typically found in mitochondrial DNA apart from those coding the 16S ribosomal subunit (rrnL) and the protein atp8 - a short, fast-evolving mitochondrial gene missing in other metazoans. Comparing G. caespitosa's genome to those of three other annelids reveals limited collinearity despite 36.0% of shared orthologous gene clusters (4,238 of 11,763 clusters counted in G. caespitosa), suggesting extensive chromosomal rearrangements among lineages. New high-quality annelid genomes may help resolve the genetic and evolutionary basis of this diversity.</p>","PeriodicalId":54811,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heredity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144058480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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"The genome assembly of the duckweed fern, Azolla caroliniana". “卡罗莱纳杜鹃浮萍蕨类植物的基因组组装”。
IF 3 2区 生物学
Journal of Heredity Pub Date : 2025-04-19 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esaf022
Michael J Song, Yanã C Rizzieri, Fay-Wei Li, Forrest Freund, Merly Escalona, Erin Toffelmier, Courtney Miller, H Bradley Shaffer, Oanh Nguyen, Mohan P A Marimuthu, Noravit Chumchim, Carrie Tribble, Colin W Fairbairn, William Seligmann, Carl J Rothfels
{"title":"\"The genome assembly of the duckweed fern, Azolla caroliniana\".","authors":"Michael J Song, Yanã C Rizzieri, Fay-Wei Li, Forrest Freund, Merly Escalona, Erin Toffelmier, Courtney Miller, H Bradley Shaffer, Oanh Nguyen, Mohan P A Marimuthu, Noravit Chumchim, Carrie Tribble, Colin W Fairbairn, William Seligmann, Carl J Rothfels","doi":"10.1093/jhered/esaf022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esaf022","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Azolla is a genus of freshwater ferns that is economically important as a nitrogen-fixing biofertilizer, biofuel, bioremediator, and for potential carbon sequestration, but also contains weedy invasive species. In California, only two species are currently recognized but the actual diversity may include up to six species, with the discrepancy being due to the difficulty in identifying taxa, hybridization, and the introduction of non-native species. Here, we report a new haplotype-resolved, chromosome-level assembly and annotation of Azolla caroliniana as part of the California Conservation Genomics Project (CCGP), using a combination of PacBio HiFi and Omni-C sequencing technologies. The assembly is 521 Mb in length, with a contig N50 of 1.6 Mb, and is scaffolded into 22 pseudo-chromosomes. A total of 21,848 protein-coding genes was predicted with a BUSCO completeness score of 89.88%. In combination with the previously published A. filiculoides genome, this A. caroliniana genome will be a powerful tool for understanding the population genetics and taxonomy of one of the most cryptic, economically important, and poorly circumscribed fern taxa, and for facilitating land plant genomics more broadly.</p>","PeriodicalId":54811,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heredity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144033003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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 high-quality genome assembly for a desert-adapted rodent, Merriam's kangaroo rat (Dipodomys merriami). 一个高质量的基因组组装的沙漠适应啮齿动物,梅里亚姆袋鼠鼠(Dipodomys梅里亚米)。
IF 3 2区 生物学
Journal of Heredity Pub Date : 2025-04-17 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esaf023
Erin R Voss, Merly Escalona, Oanh Nguyen, Mohan P A Marimuthu, Noravit Chumchim, Colin W Fairbairn, William Seligmann, Eric Beraut, Christopher J Conroy, James L Patton, Rauri C K Bowie, Michael W Nachman
{"title":"A high-quality genome assembly for a desert-adapted rodent, Merriam's kangaroo rat (Dipodomys merriami).","authors":"Erin R Voss, Merly Escalona, Oanh Nguyen, Mohan P A Marimuthu, Noravit Chumchim, Colin W Fairbairn, William Seligmann, Eric Beraut, Christopher J Conroy, James L Patton, Rauri C K Bowie, Michael W Nachman","doi":"10.1093/jhered/esaf023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esaf023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Merriam's kangaroo rat (Dipodomys merriami) is a member of a unique family of primarily desert-adapted North American rodents (Heteromyidae). Of the 20 species in the genus, D. merriami is one of the most wide-ranging and ecologically flexible, inhabiting desert scrub, grassland, sagebrush steppe, and juniper-piñon woodland in the southwestern deserts of the United States and Mexico. We present a de novo reference genome for D. merriami generated from PacBio HiFi long-read and Omni-C chromatin proximity sequencing as a part of the California Conservation Genomics Project. The primary pseudo-haplotype assembly comprises 3,110 scaffolds, with a contig N50 of 8.6 Mb, scaffold N50 of 49.1 Mb, and a total length of 3.57 Gb. Further, a BUSCO completeness score of 97.8% suggests that the assembly is highly complete. This reference genome will serve as a resource for future studies of Dipodomys conservation genomics, desert adaptation, and phylogeography.</p>","PeriodicalId":54811,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heredity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144052392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Heritability and genomic basis of age-at-maturity in Chinook Salmon. 奇努克鲑鱼成熟期遗传力及基因组基础。
IF 3 2区 生物学
Journal of Heredity Pub Date : 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esaf021
Stuart C Willis, Rebekah L Horn, Jon E Hess, Jeffrey K Fryer, John M Whiteaker, Shawn R Narum
{"title":"Heritability and genomic basis of age-at-maturity in Chinook Salmon.","authors":"Stuart C Willis, Rebekah L Horn, Jon E Hess, Jeffrey K Fryer, John M Whiteaker, Shawn R Narum","doi":"10.1093/jhered/esaf021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esaf021","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intra-population variation in the age at return and reproduction of Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), or age-at-maturity, acts as a buffer against stochastic environmental variation. We investigated the genetic component of this trait by estimating heritability of age-at-maturity and the genomic basis of both sex and age-at-maturity in stocks representing the three major lineages of the Columbia River Basin. We found that heritability of age-at-maturity was generally stronger for fathers with male offspring (mean h2 = 0.37, SD = 0.164) than mothers with female offspring (mean h2 = 0.29, SD = 0.077), fathers with female offspring (mean h2 = 0.29, SD = 0.155), or mothers with male offspring (mean h2 = 0.25, SD = 0.100). We identified several regions of the genome that were consistently associated with sex across all three lineages that included expected sex-chromosomes (Chr17, 18), but also putative copies of sex-linked regions in several autosomal chromosomes. Further, large regions of the same two chromosomes (17 and 18) were associated with age-at-maturity in a lineage-specific manner. Patterns of genotype by phenotype with multi-marker haplotypes confirmed the association of SNPs on chromosome 17 with both size (fork length) in natural-origin males from the two interior lineages, and age-at-maturity (ocean-age) in interior ocean-type males, but not in females. Further studies will be necessary to verify other candidate regions and polygenic effects on size and age-at-maturity in this species. While rearing environment and growth play a major role in age-at-maturity, these results provided evidence for genetic heritability and candidate genes associated with this trait that will assist in monitoring genetic variation to maintain life history variation in Chinook Salmon.</p>","PeriodicalId":54811,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heredity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144045303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Phylogenetic relationships and species delimitation of bunchgrass lizards of the genus Sceloporus from Mexico with the description of a new species. 墨西哥束草蜥蜴的系统发育关系及种界划分及一新种描述。
IF 3 2区 生物学
Journal of Heredity Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esaf020
Tristan Charran, Jesús A Loc-Barragan, Rafael Alejandro Calzada-Arciniega, Liz A Alfaro-Juantorena, Raúl Cueva Del Castillo, Christopher Blair, Víctor H Jiménez-Arcos
{"title":"Phylogenetic relationships and species delimitation of bunchgrass lizards of the genus Sceloporus from Mexico with the description of a new species.","authors":"Tristan Charran, Jesús A Loc-Barragan, Rafael Alejandro Calzada-Arciniega, Liz A Alfaro-Juantorena, Raúl Cueva Del Castillo, Christopher Blair, Víctor H Jiménez-Arcos","doi":"10.1093/jhered/esaf020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esaf020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Molecular data continue to serve as an invaluable tool to assess species limits and patterns of cryptic diversity, particularly in areas harboring high levels of biodiversity. The Sceloporus scalaris group, known as bunchgrass lizards, contains 13 described and one undescribed species distributed throughout high elevation biotas of Mexico. However, recent studies suggest that diversity in the group may be substantially underestimated. We collect new sequence data from four independent loci to determine the evolutionary distinctiveness and phylogenetic relationships of an isolated population of bunchgrass lizard in the Sierra San Juan (SSJ) in the Mexican state of Nayarit. Concatenation and coalescent-based phylogenetic and species delimitation analyses suggest that this population represents a distinct evolutionary lineage allied to the S. scalaris group. We describe the new SSJ population as a new species to better account for its morphological and evolutionary distinctiveness. Divergence within the species occurred during the Neogene and Quaternary, most likely due to range shifts associated with mountain uplift and glacial-interglacial cycles. Our results provide additional evidence that supports the importance of the Mexican highlands as a biodiversity hotspot which maintains cryptic lineages awaiting discovery.</p>","PeriodicalId":54811,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heredity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Carotenoids, instead of pteridines, determine color of xanthophores and erythrophores in tilapia. 类胡萝卜素代替蝶啶决定罗非鱼黄细胞和红细胞的颜色。
IF 3 2区 生物学
Journal of Heredity Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esaf017
Guangyuan Liang, Jiawen Yao, Jingzhi Wu, Xiayue Liu, Zilong Wen, Hao Liu, Baoyue Lu, Chenxu Wang, Xingyong Liu, Deshou Wang
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