Genomics of end-Pleistocene population replacement in a small mammal

P Kotlík, S Marková, M Konczal… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Current species distributions at high latitudes are the product of expansion from glacial
refugia into previously uninhabitable areas at the end of the last glaciation. The traditional …

Ancient DNA of narrow-headed vole reveal common features of the Late Pleistocene population dynamics in cold-adapted small mammals

M Baca, D Popović… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The narrow-headed vole, collared lemming and common vole were the most abundant small
mammal species across the Eurasian Late Pleistocene steppe-tundra environment …

Post-glacial partitioning of mitochondrial genetic variation in the field vole

JS Herman, JB Searle - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Genetic markers are often used to examine population history. There is considerable debate
about the behaviour of molecular clock rates around the population-species transition …

Pleistocene mitochondrial genomes suggest a single major dispersal of non-Africans and a Late Glacial population turnover in Europe

C Posth, G Renaud, A Mittnik, DG Drucker, H Rougier… - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
How modern humans dispersed into Eurasia and Australasia, including the number of
separate expansions and their timings, is highly debated [1, 2]. Two categories of models …

Lack of phylogeography in European mammals before the last glaciation

M Hofreiter, D Serre, N Rohland… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
In many extant animal and plant species in Europe and North America a correlation exists
between the geographical location of individuals and the genetic relatedness of the …

Holarctic genetic structure and range dynamics in the woolly mammoth

E Palkopoulou, L Dalén, AM Lister… - … of the Royal …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Ancient DNA analyses have provided enhanced resolution of population histories in many
Pleistocene taxa. However, most studies are spatially restricted, making inference of species …

The Celtic fringe of Britain: insights from small mammal phylogeography

JB Searle, P Kotlik, RV Rambau… - … of the Royal …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Recent genetic studies have challenged the traditional view that the ancestors of British
Celtic people spread from central Europe during the Iron Age and have suggested a much …

Mediterranean Europe as an area of endemism for small mammals rather than a source for northwards postglacial colonization

DT Bilton, PM Mirol, S Mascheretti… - … of the Royal …, 1998 - royalsocietypublishing.org
There is a general perception that central and northern Europe were colonized by range
expansion from Mediterranean refugia at the end of the last glaciation. Data from various …

Genetic evidence for post-glacial expansion from a southern refugium in the eastern moa (Emeus crassus)

AJF Verry, KJ Mitchell, NJ Rawlence - Biology Letters, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Cycles of glacial expansion and contraction throughout the Pleistocene drove increases and
decreases, respectively, in the geographical range and population size of many animal …

After the Ice Age: The Impact of Post-Glacial Dispersal on the Phylogeography of a Small Mammal, Muscardinus avellanarius

FJ Combe, JS Ellis, KL Lloyd, B Cain… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
We used genetic tools to assess phylogeographic structure of the common dormouse
(Muscardinus avellenarius) since the end of the last glacial maximum, to identify post-glacial …