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Title: | Seasonal flooding regime and ecological traits influence genetic structure of two small rodents |
Author: | Rocha, Rita Gomes Ferreira, Eduardo Fonseca, Carlos Justino, Juliana Leite, Yuri Luiz Reis Costa, Leonora Pires |
Keywords: | Amazonia-Cerrado ecotone Araguaia river Cricetidae Mitochondrial DNA Rodentia |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons |
Abstract: | Although codistributed species are affected by the same abiotic factors, such as rivers and seasonal flooding regimes, ecological traits, such as locomotion hab- its and habitat preferences, may also influence differences in levels of genetic diversity and differentiation. We examined population genetic structure and diversity of Hylaeamys megacephalus and Oecomys aff. roberti, two cricetid rodent species from the mid-Araguaia River in central Brazil, using mitochon- drial DNA sequence data. Specifically, we aim to test whether the Araguaia River acts as a barrier to the gene flow of these two species and to assess how ecological traits, such as locomotion habits and habitat preferences, may influ- ence differences in levels of genetic diversity and differentiation. As both species occur in flooded forests, neither showed genetic differences related to river banks. Oecomys aff. roberti showed stronger population structure that appears to be associated with isolation by distance. This arboreal species maintained sta- ble populations in the Araguaia River, while the terrestrial H. megacephalus was more affected by seasonal floods, resulting in a genetic signature of population expansion. Our initial predictions were largely supported by our results given that locomotion habits and habitat preferences of each species appears to have played a role on the genetic structure of these two sympatric rodent species. |
Peer review: | yes |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10773/23104 |
DOI: | 10.1002/ece3.1336 |
ISSN: | 2045-7758 |
Appears in Collections: | CESAM - Artigos DBio - Artigos |
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