Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Phylogenetic relationships of caucasian shrew Sorex satunini Ogn. (Mammalia) in the superspecies Sorex araneus inferred from the data of karyological analysis and the mtDNA cyt b gene sequencing

  • Animal Genetics
  • Published:
Russian Journal of Genetics Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Using the data of karyological analysis, the phylogenetic relationships of Caucasian shrew Sorex satunini and the cryptic species of superspecies Sorex araneus were examined. In the population of Sorex satunini from the plain of North Ciscaucasia two deeply radiated cytochrome b genes (A and B) were identified. Genetic distance between haplotype A and B groups constituted 0.0675 ± 0.008, which is higher than any distance in superspecies S. araneus. Possible introgression of type B haplotypes from the populations of the evolutionary lineage S. subaraneus-S. araneus in Pleistocene and the time of the appearance of the chromosomal polymorphism of S. araneus is discussed. Our results show that the use of only one mitochondrial marker can lead to false conclusions on taxonomic diversity.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Kozlovskii, A.I., Somatic Chromosomes of Two Shrew Species from the Caucasus, Zool. Zh., 1973, vol. 52, no. 5, pp.571–576.

    Google Scholar 

  2. Olert, J. and Schmid, M., Comparative Analysis of Karyotypes in European Shrew Species: I. The Sibling Species Sorex araneus and S. gemellus: Q-Bands, G-Bands, and Position of NORs, Cytogenet. Cell Genet., 1978, vol. 20, pp.308–322.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Hausser, J., Hutterer, R., and Vogel, P., Sorex araneus Linnaeus, 1758-Waldspitzmaus, Handbuch der Saeugetiere Europas, vol. 3/I: Insektenfresser Herrentiere, Niethammer, J. and Krapp, F., Eds., Wiesbaden: Aula, 1990, pp.237–278.

    Google Scholar 

  4. Wójcik, J.M. and Searle, J.B., The Chromosome Complement of Sorex granaries-the Ancestral Karyotype of the Common Shrew (Sorex araneus)?, Heredity, 1988, vol. 61, pp.225–229.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  5. Brünner, H., Lugon-Moulin, N., Balloux, F., et al., A Taxonomical Reevaluation of the Chromosome Race Valais of the Common Shrew, Sorex araneus (Insectivora: Soricidae), from Multiple, Independent Characters, Acta Theriologica, 2002, vol. 47, pp.245–275.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Mayr, E., Animal Species and Evolution, Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1963.

    Google Scholar 

  7. Rzebik-Kowalska, B., Fossil History of Shrews in Europe, Evolution of Shrews, Wojcik, J.M. and Wolsan, M., Eds., Bialowieza: Mammal Res. Inst, Polish Acad. Sci., 1998, pp.23–92.

    Google Scholar 

  8. Wójcik, J.M., Ratkiewicz, M., and Searle, J.B., Evolution of the Common Shrew, Sorex araneus: Chromosomal and Molecular Aspects, Acta Theriologica, 2002, vol. 47,suppl. 1, pp.139–167.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Orlov, V.N., Bulatova, N.Sh., Kozlovskii, A.I., and Balakirev, A.E., Intraspecies Hierarchy of the Common Shrew, Sorex araneus (Insestivora) Taxa and Taxonomic Structure of Mammal Species, Zool. Zh., 2004, vol. 83, no. 2, pp.199–212.

    Google Scholar 

  10. Shchipanov, N.A., Bulatova, N.Sh., Pavlova, S.V., and Shchipanov, A.N., Common Shrew (Sorex araneus)—the Model Species of Ecological Evolutional Studies, Zool. Zh., 2009, vol. 88, no. 8, pp.975–989.

    Google Scholar 

  11. Orlov, V.N., Balakirev, A.E., and Borisov, Yu.M., A New Subspecies of the Caucasian Shrew Sorex satunini (Mammalia) and Phylogenetic Relationships of the Species Inferred from mtDNA, Povolzhskii Ekol. Zh., 2010, no. 1, pp.111–114.

  12. Bannikova, A.A. and Lebedev, V.S., Genetic Heterogenity of the Caucasian Shrew Sorex satununi (Mammalia, Lipotyphla, Soricidae) Inferred from the mtDNA Markers as a Potential Consequence of Ancient Hybridization, Mol. Biol. (Moscow), 2010, vol. 44, no. 4, pp.658–662.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  13. Taberlet, P., Fumagalli, L., and Hausser, J., Chromosomal versus Mitochondrial DNA Evolution: Tracking the Evolutionary History of the Southwestern European Populations of the Sorex araneus Group (Mammalia, Insectivora), Evolution, 1994, vol. 48, pp.623–636.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  14. Yannic, G., Basset, P., and Hausser, J., A New Perspective on the Evolutionary History of Western European Sorex araneus Group Revealed by Paternal and Maternal Molecular Markers, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 2008, vol. 47, pp.237–250.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  15. Borisov, Yu.M., Kozlovskii, A.I., Balakirev, A.E., et al., Contact Zones between Chromosome Races of the Common Shrew Sorex araneus L. (Insectivora, Mammalia) at the Margins of the Veps stage of the Valdai Glaciation, Sibirskii Ekol. Zh., 2008, no. 5, pp.763–771.

  16. Searle, J.B., Fedyk, S., Fredga, K., et al., Nomenclature for the Chromosomes of the Common Shrew (Sorex araneus), Mem. Soc. Vaud. Sci. Nat., 1991, vol. 19, pp.13–22.

    Google Scholar 

  17. Irwin, D., Kocher, T.D., and Wilson, A.C., Evolution of the Cytochrome b Gene of Mammals, J. Mol. Evol., 1991, vol. 32, pp.128–144.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  18. Fumagalli, L., Taberlet, P., Stewart, D.T., et al., Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Sorex Shrews (Soricidae: Insectivora) Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Data, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 1999, vol. 11, pp.222–235.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  19. Volobouev, V.T., Phylogenetic Relationships of the Sorex araneus-arcticus Species Complex (Insectivora, Soricidae) Based on High-Resolution Chromosome Analysis, J. Hered., 1989, vol. 80, pp.284–290.

    Google Scholar 

  20. Zima, J., Is the Trend toward Low 2na Numbers Inescapable for Sorex araneus Populations?, Mem. Soc. Vaud. Sci. Nat., 1991, vol. 19, pp.63–71.

    Google Scholar 

  21. Wójcik, J., Chromosome Races of the Common Shrew Sorex araneus in Poland: A Model of Karyotype Evolution, Acta Theriologica, 1993, vol. 38, pp.315–338.

    Google Scholar 

  22. Polyakov, A.V., Volobouev, V.T., Borodin, P.M., and Searle, J.B., Karyotypic Races of the Common Shrew (Sorex araneus) with Exceptionally Large Ranges: The Novosibirsk and Tomsk Races of Siberia, Hereditas, 1996, vol. 125, pp.109–115.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  23. Orlov, V.N., Kozlovskii, A.I., Balakirev, A.E., and Borisov, Yu.M., Fixation of Metacentric Chromosomes in Eastern Europe Populations of the Common Shrew Sorex araneus L. from Populations of Eastern Europe, Russ. J. Genet., 2008, vol. 44, no. 5, pp.501–512.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  24. Orlov, V.N. and Borisov, Yu.M., Phylogenetic Relationships of Common Shrew (Sorex araneus L., Insestivora) Populations in Belarus According to Karyological Data, Zool. Zh., 2009, vol. 88, no. 12, pp.1–9.

    Google Scholar 

  25. Borisov, Yu.M., Kovaleva, A.A., Springer, A.M., et al., Hybrid Origin of Karyotypic Variation in the Common Shrew, Sorex araneus (Mammalia), from the Dnieper River Basin, Dokl. Akad. Nauk, 2009, vol. 429, no. 4, pp.531–534.

    Google Scholar 

  26. Narain, Y. and Fredga, K., Meiosis and Fertility in Common Shrews, Sorex araneus, from a Chromosomal Hybrid Zone in Central Sweden, Cytogenet. Cell Genet., 1997, vol. 78, pp.253–259.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  27. Narain, Y. and Fredga, K., Spermatogenesis in Common Shrews, Sorex araneus, from a Hybrid Zone with Extensive Robertsonian Polymorphism, Cytogenet. Cell Genet., 1998, vol. 80, pp.154–164.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  28. Banaszek, A., Fedyk, S., Szaaj, K.A., and Chetnicki, W., A Comparison of Spermatogenesis in Homozygotes, Simple Robertsonian Heterozygotes and Complex Heterozygotes of the Common Shrew (Sorex araneus), Heredity, 2000, vol. 84, pp.570–577.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  29. Pavlova, S.V., Bulatova, N.Sh., and Shchipanov, N.A., Cytogenetic Control of a Hybrid Zone between Two Sorex araneus Chromosome Races before Breeding Season, Russ. J. Genet., 2007, vol. 43, no. 12, pp.1357–1363.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  30. Balakirev, A.E., Illarionova, N.A., Potapov, S.G., and Orlov, V.N., DNA Polymorphism within Sorex araneus from European Russia as Inferred from mtDNA Cytochrome b Sequences, Russ. J. Theriol., 2007, vol. 6, no. 1, pp.35–42.

    Google Scholar 

  31. Ratkiewicz, M., Fedyk, S.W., Banaszek, A., et al., The Evolutionary History of the Two Karyotypic Groups of the Common Shrew, Sorex araneus, in Poland, Heredity, 2002, vol. 88, pp.235–242.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  32. Andersson, A-C., Alstrom-Rapoport, C., and Fredga, K., Lack Mitochondrial DNA Divergence between Chromosome Races of the Common Shrew, Sorex araneus, in Sweden: Implication for Interpreting Chromosomal Evolution and Colonization History, Mol. Ecol., 2005, vol. 14, pp.2703–2716.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  33. Osipova, V.A., The History of the Caucasus Shrew (Family Soricidae) Fauna Formation, Extended Abstract of Cand. Sci. (Biol.) Dissertation, 2006, St-Petersburg: Zool. Inst. Ross. Akad. Nauk, p. 22.

    Google Scholar 

  34. Brünner, H., Lugon-Moulin, N., and Hausser, J., Alps, Genes, and Chromosomes: Their Role in the Formation of Species in the Sorex araneus Group (Mammalia, Insectivora), as Inferred from Two Hybrid Zones, Cytogenet. Genome Res., 2002, vol. 96, pp.85–96.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  35. Lopez-Fuster, M.J., Ventura, J., Garcia-Perea, R., and Gisbert, J., The Sorex araneus Group in the Northern Iberian System (Spain): A Contact Zone between S. coronatus and S. granaries? Acta Theriologica, 1999, vol. 44, pp.113–122.

    Google Scholar 

  36. Lugon-Moulin, N. and Hausser, J., Phylogeographical Structure, Postglacial Recolonisation and Barriers to Gene Flow in the Distinctive Valais Chromosome Race of the Common Shrew (Sorex araneus), Mol. Ecol., 2002, vol. 11, pp.785–794.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  37. Biltueva, L.S., Perelman, P.L., Polyakov, A.V., et al., Comparative Chromosome Analysis in Three Sorex Species: S. raddei, S. minutus and S. caecutiens, Acta Theriologica, 2000, vol. 46,suppl. 1, pp.119–130.

    Google Scholar 

  38. Zima, J., Slivkov, L., Andreas, M., et al., Karyotypic Status of Shrews (Sorex) from Thrace, European Turkey, Zeitschrift Saeugetierkunde, 1997, vol. 62, pp.315–317.

    Google Scholar 

  39. Zaitsev, M.V. and Osipova, V.A., Insectivorous Mammals (Insectivora) of the Late Pleistocene in the Northern Caucasus, Zool. Zh., 2004, vol. 83, no. 7, pp.851–868.

    Google Scholar 

  40. Agadzhanyan, A.K., Stages in the Pleistocene Evolution of Small Mammals in Central Regions of the Russian Plain, vol. 289 of Trudy Paleontologicheskogo instituta rossiskoy akademii nauk (Proceedings of the Paleontological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences), 2009.

  41. Orlov, V.N., Chromosome Markers of Metapopulation Structure of Common Shrew, Sorex araneus L. (Mammalia), in Teoriya arealov: vidy, soobshchestva, ekosistemy (The Theory of Distribution Area: Species, Communities, Ecosystems), The 5th Lyubishchev Readings, Tolyatti: Kassandra, 2010, pp.131–136.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119071, Russia

    V. N. Orlov, A. E. Balakirev & Yu. M. Borisov

Authors
  1. V. N. Orlov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. A. E. Balakirev
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Yu. M. Borisov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to V. N. Orlov.

Additional information

Original Russian Text © V.N. Orlov, A.E. Balakirev, Yu.M. Borisov, 2011, published in Genetika, 2011, Vol. 47, No. 6, pp.805–813.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Orlov, V.N., Balakirev, A.E. & Borisov, Y.M. Phylogenetic relationships of caucasian shrew Sorex satunini Ogn. (Mammalia) in the superspecies Sorex araneus inferred from the data of karyological analysis and the mtDNA cyt b gene sequencing. Russ J Genet 47, 711–719 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1022795411060159

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1022795411060159

Keywords

Search

Navigation