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New data on the evolutionary history of the European bison (Bison bonasus) based on subfossil remains from Southeastern Europe
The origin and evolutionary history of the European bison Bison bonasus (wisent) have become clearer after several morphological, genomic, and paleogenomic studies in the last few years, but these paleogenomic studies have raised new questions about the evolution of the species. Here, we present add...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7981210/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33767840 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7241 |
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author | Neov, Boyko Spassov, Nikolai Hristova, Latinka Hristov, Peter Radoslavov, Georgi |
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description | The origin and evolutionary history of the European bison Bison bonasus (wisent) have become clearer after several morphological, genomic, and paleogenomic studies in the last few years, but these paleogenomic studies have raised new questions about the evolution of the species. Here, we present additional information about the population diversity of the species based on the analysis of new subfossil Holocene remains from the Balkan Peninsula. Seven ancient samples excavated from caves in Western Stara Planina in Bulgaria were investigated by mitochondrial D‐loop (HVR1) sequence analysis. The samples were dated to 3,800 years BP by radiocarbon analysis. Additionally, a phylogenetic analysis was performed to investigate the genetic relationship among the investigated samples and all mitochondrial DNA sequences from the genus Bison available in GenBank. The results clustered with the sequences from the extinct Holocene South‐Eastern (Balkan) wisent to the fossil Alpine population from France, Austria, and Switzerland, but not with those from the recent Central European (North Sea) one and the now extinct Caucasian population. In conclusion, these data indicate that the Balkan wisent that existed in historical time represented a relict and probably an isolated population of the Late Pleistocene‐Holocene South‐Western mountainous population of the wisent. |
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spelling | pubmed-79812102021-03-24 New data on the evolutionary history of the European bison (Bison bonasus) based on subfossil remains from Southeastern Europe Neov, Boyko Spassov, Nikolai Hristova, Latinka Hristov, Peter Radoslavov, Georgi Ecol Evol Original Research The origin and evolutionary history of the European bison Bison bonasus (wisent) have become clearer after several morphological, genomic, and paleogenomic studies in the last few years, but these paleogenomic studies have raised new questions about the evolution of the species. Here, we present additional information about the population diversity of the species based on the analysis of new subfossil Holocene remains from the Balkan Peninsula. Seven ancient samples excavated from caves in Western Stara Planina in Bulgaria were investigated by mitochondrial D‐loop (HVR1) sequence analysis. The samples were dated to 3,800 years BP by radiocarbon analysis. Additionally, a phylogenetic analysis was performed to investigate the genetic relationship among the investigated samples and all mitochondrial DNA sequences from the genus Bison available in GenBank. The results clustered with the sequences from the extinct Holocene South‐Eastern (Balkan) wisent to the fossil Alpine population from France, Austria, and Switzerland, but not with those from the recent Central European (North Sea) one and the now extinct Caucasian population. In conclusion, these data indicate that the Balkan wisent that existed in historical time represented a relict and probably an isolated population of the Late Pleistocene‐Holocene South‐Western mountainous population of the wisent. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7981210/ /pubmed/33767840 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7241 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Neov, Boyko Spassov, Nikolai Hristova, Latinka Hristov, Peter Radoslavov, Georgi New data on the evolutionary history of the European bison (Bison bonasus) based on subfossil remains from Southeastern Europe |
title | New data on the evolutionary history of the European bison (Bison bonasus) based on subfossil remains from Southeastern Europe |
title_full | New data on the evolutionary history of the European bison (Bison bonasus) based on subfossil remains from Southeastern Europe |
title_fullStr | New data on the evolutionary history of the European bison (Bison bonasus) based on subfossil remains from Southeastern Europe |
title_full_unstemmed | New data on the evolutionary history of the European bison (Bison bonasus) based on subfossil remains from Southeastern Europe |
title_short | New data on the evolutionary history of the European bison (Bison bonasus) based on subfossil remains from Southeastern Europe |
title_sort | new data on the evolutionary history of the european bison (bison bonasus) based on subfossil remains from southeastern europe |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7981210/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33767840 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7241 |
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