TY - JOUR
T1 - Phylogeographic and diversification patterns of the white-nosed coati (Nasua narica)
T2 - Evidence for south-to-north colonization of North America
AU - Nigenda-Morales, Sergio F.
AU - Gompper, Matthew E.
AU - Valenzuela-Galván, David
AU - Lay, Anna R.
AU - Kapheim, Karen M.
AU - Hass, Christine
AU - Booth-Binczik, Susan D.
AU - Binczik, Gerald A.
AU - Hirsch, Ben T.
AU - McColgin, Maureen
AU - Koprowski, John L.
AU - McFadden, Katherine
AU - Wayne, Robert K.
AU - Koepfli, Klaus Peter
N1 - Funding Information:
We are indebted to the following individuals that facilitated tissue loans from their institutions or provided tissues: Robb T. Brumfield and Donna L. Dittman, Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science; Terry L. Yates and Cheryl A. Parmenter, Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico; James L. Patton, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley; James G. Mead, Michael D. Carleton, and Jeremy F. Jacobs, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution; Shyamala Ratnayeke, Department of Biological Sciences, Sunway University; and Roland Kays, Nature Research Center, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, North Carolina State University. This research was supported by funds from the United States National Science Foundation [grant 1457106 ], CONACyT [Doctoral scholarship and project grant J3490-V ], Fundación Ecología de Cuixmala, A.C., CIByC-UAEM, and UCMEXUS-CONACYT , United States-Mexico [Doctoral fellowship 210832 ]. K.-P. K. was supported, in part, by Saint Petersburg State University (Genome Russia grant No. 1.52.1647.2016 ).
PY - 2019/2
Y1 - 2019/2
N2 - White-nosed coatis (Nasua narica) are widely distributed throughout North, Central, and South America, but the patterns of temporal and spatial diversification that have contributed to this distribution are unknown. In addition, the biogeographic history of procyonid species in the Americas remains contentious. Using sequences from three mitochondrial loci (Cytochrome b, NAHD5 and 16S rRNA; 2201 bp) and genotypes from 11 microsatellite loci, we analyzed genetic diversity to determine phylogeographic patterns, genetic structure, divergence times, and gene flow among Nasua narica populations throughout the majority of the species’ range. We also estimated the ancestral geographic range of N. narica and other procyonid species. We found a high degree of genetic structure and divergence among populations that conform to five evolutionarily significant units. The most southerly distributed population (Panama) branched off much earlier (∼3.8 million years ago) than the northern populations (<1.2 million years ago). Estimated gene flow among populations was low and mostly northwards and westwards. The phylogeographic patterns within N. narica are associated with geographic barriers and habitat shifts likely caused by Pliocene-Pleistocene climate oscillations. Significantly, our findings suggest the dispersal of N. narica was south-to-north beginning in the Pliocene, not in the opposite direction during the Pleistocene as suggested by the fossil record, and that the most recent common ancestor for coati species was most likely distributed in South or Central America six million years ago. Our study implies the possibility that the diversification of Nasua species, and other extant procyonid lineages, may have occurred in South America.
AB - White-nosed coatis (Nasua narica) are widely distributed throughout North, Central, and South America, but the patterns of temporal and spatial diversification that have contributed to this distribution are unknown. In addition, the biogeographic history of procyonid species in the Americas remains contentious. Using sequences from three mitochondrial loci (Cytochrome b, NAHD5 and 16S rRNA; 2201 bp) and genotypes from 11 microsatellite loci, we analyzed genetic diversity to determine phylogeographic patterns, genetic structure, divergence times, and gene flow among Nasua narica populations throughout the majority of the species’ range. We also estimated the ancestral geographic range of N. narica and other procyonid species. We found a high degree of genetic structure and divergence among populations that conform to five evolutionarily significant units. The most southerly distributed population (Panama) branched off much earlier (∼3.8 million years ago) than the northern populations (<1.2 million years ago). Estimated gene flow among populations was low and mostly northwards and westwards. The phylogeographic patterns within N. narica are associated with geographic barriers and habitat shifts likely caused by Pliocene-Pleistocene climate oscillations. Significantly, our findings suggest the dispersal of N. narica was south-to-north beginning in the Pliocene, not in the opposite direction during the Pleistocene as suggested by the fossil record, and that the most recent common ancestor for coati species was most likely distributed in South or Central America six million years ago. Our study implies the possibility that the diversification of Nasua species, and other extant procyonid lineages, may have occurred in South America.
KW - Biogeographical models
KW - Evolutionary history
KW - Great American Biotic Interchange
KW - Microsatellites
KW - Mitochondrial haplotypes
KW - Procyonidae
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.11.011
DO - 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.11.011
M3 - Article
C2 - 30468940
AN - SCOPUS:85057226585
VL - 131
SP - 149
EP - 163
JO - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
JF - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
SN - 1055-7903
ER -