マダガスカの肉食動物は,アフリカの祖先から単一の起源を持つ
Anne D Yoder1, Melissa M Burns, Sarah Zehr
1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06551, USA. yoder@yale.edu
Nature
|March 1, 2003
まとめ
マダガスカの肉食動物は,アフリカの一つの祖先から生まれ,複数の侵略に関する以前の理論に異議を唱えた. 彼らのマダガスカルへの到着は,レムリ型動物と数百万年隔てられており,別々の植民地化イベントを示しています.
科学分野:
- 進化生物学の進化生物学について
- アイランド・バイオジオグラフィー
- 哺乳類の系統遺伝学について
背景:
- マダガスカルは,海洋的な孤立にもかかわらず,4つの胎盤哺乳類のオーダーをホストしています.
- マダガスカル哺乳類の起源は,化石の記録が限られているため,ほとんど解明されていません.
- 以前の仮説では,マダガスカル食肉動物が複数の植民をしてきたことが示唆されていた.
研究 の 目的:
- マダガスカスの肉食動物の系統起源を決定する.
- マダガスカルにおける哺乳類集団の植民地化のタイミングを推定する.
- マダガスカル動物の単一対複数の植民地化仮説をテストする.
主な方法:
- マダガスカスの肉食動物の多遺伝子系統分析.
- 肉食動物とレムリフォームの相違年代測定に関するベイジアン分析.
主要な成果:
- マダガスカの肉食動物は単一フィレティック群を形成し,単一の祖先の植民地化イベントを示しています.
- マダガスカルの肉食動物とレムリフォームの植民地は,何百万年分かれていた.
- 系統遺伝学的データは,両哺乳類群の存在に対する単一の出来事の説明を否定する.
結論:
- マダガスカの肉食動物の存在は,アフリカの祖先からの単一の植民地化に起因する.
- 肉食動物とレムリフォームの独特の植民地化時代は,両者にとって単一の代理人または分散の出来事を排除します.
- マダガスカルの哺乳類の生物地理を理解するには,一時的に分離した複数の植民地化イベントを考慮する必要があります.
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