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MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION
卷 50, 期 3, 页码 633-641出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.12.008
关键词
Cytochrome b gene; Pseudogene; Apodemus; Phylogeography; Phylogeny
资金
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- Belgian FNRS
The phylogeny and phylogeography of the Old World wood mice (subgenus Sylvaemus, genus Apodemus, Muriclae) are well-documented. Nevertheless, the distributions of species, such as A. fulvipectus and A. ponticus remain dubious, as well as their phylogenetic relationships with A. sylvaticus. We analysed samples of Apodemus spp. across Europe using the mitochondrial cytochrome-b gene (cyt-b) and compared the DNA and amino-acid compositions of previously published sequences. The main result stemming from. this study is the presence of a well-differentiated lineage of Sylvaemus including samples of various species (A. sylvaticus, A. fulvipectus, A. ponticus) from distant locations, which were revealed to be nuclear copies of the mitochondrial cyt-b. The presence of this cryptic pseudogene in published sequences is supported by different pathways. This has led to important errors in previous molecular trees and hence to partial misinterpretations in the phylogeny of Apodemus. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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