Journal
EVOLUTION
Volume 76, Issue 9, Pages 2004-2019Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/evo.14546
Keywords
Hybridization; introgression; Neotamias; phylogenomics; speciation; Tamias
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Funding
- National Science Foundation (NSF) EPSCoR [OIA-1736249]
- NSF [DEB-0716200]
- Drollinger-Dial Foundation
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation [GBMF2983]
- Rose Community Foundation
- University of Montana
- M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust
- University of Montana's Griz Shared Computing Cluster (GSCC)
- Nation Science Foundation [CC-2018112, OAC-1925267]
- NIH Shared Instrument Grant [1S10OD010786-01]
- Denver Museum of Nature Science
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Discovery of cryptic species within western chipmunks using genomic data highlights the presence of a new species and two subspecies, with evidence of hybridization with other species.
Discovery of cryptic species is essential to understand the process of speciation and assessing the impacts of anthropogenic stressors. Here, we used genomic data to test for cryptic species diversity within an ecologically well-known radiation of North American rodents, western chipmunks (Tamias). We assembled a de novo reference genome for a single species (Tamias minimus) combined with new and published targeted sequence-capture data for 21,551 autosomal and 493 X-linked loci sampled from 121 individuals spanning 22 species. We identified at least two cryptic lineages corresponding with an isolated subspecies of least chipmunk (T. minimus grisescens) and with a restricted subspecies of the yellow-pine chipmunk (Tamias amoenus cratericus) known only from around the extensive Craters of the Moon lava flow. Additional population-level sequence data revealed that the so-called Crater chipmunk is a distinct species that is abundant throughout the coniferous forests of southern Idaho. This cryptic lineage does not appear to be most closely related to the ecologically and phenotypically similar yellow-pine chipmunk but does show evidence for recurrent hybridization with this and other species.
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