How glaciation impacted evolutionary history and contemporary genetic diversity of flora and fauna in the British Isles

S Fenton, KR Elmer, CW Bean… - Scottish Geographical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Ice coverage not only affects the climate and landscape of geographical regions but has
impacted species composition, the fragmentation and isolation of populations, and the …

Genetic analysis of European red foxes reveals multiple distinct peripheral populations and central continental admixture

MJ Statham, CJ Edwards, K Norén… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Temperate terrestrial species in Europe were hypothesized to have been restricted to
southern peninsular refugia (Iberia, Italy, Balkans) during the height of the last glacial period …

Mitogenomic phylogenetics of the bank vole Clethrionomys glareolus, a model system for studying end-glacial colonization of Europe

K Filipi, S Marková, JB Searle, P Kotlík - Molecular phylogenetics and …, 2015 - Elsevier
We have revisited the mtDNA phylogeny of the bank vole Clethrionomys glareolus based on
Sanger and next-generation Illumina sequencing of 32 complete mitochondrial genomes …

[HTML][HTML] Highly divergent lineage of narrow-headed vole from the Late Pleistocene Europe

M Baca, D Popović, A Lemanik, K Baca, I Horáček… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract During the Late Pleistocene, narrow-headed voles (Lasiopodomys gregalis)
inhabited Eurasia's vast territories, frequently becoming the dominant small mammal …

High genomic diversity in the bank vole at the northern apex of a range expansion: The role of multiple colonizations and end‐glacial refugia

S Marková, M Horníková, HC Lanier… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The history of repeated northern glacial cycling and southern climatic stability has long
dominated explanations for how genetic diversity is distributed within temperate species in …

[HTML][HTML] Climatic influences on the genetic structure and distribution of the common vole and field vole in Europe

J Stojak, T Borowik, M Górny, AD McDevitt, JM Wójcik - Mammal Research, 2019 - Springer
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of climate on the distribution and
present-day genetic structure of the common vole (Microtus arvalis) and the field vole …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of drift and selection on latitudinal genetic variation in Scandinavian common toads (Bufo bufo) following postglacial recolonisation

F Thörn, P Rödin-Mörch, M Cortazar-Chinarro… - Heredity, 2021 - nature.com
Clinal variation is paramount for understanding the factors shaping genetic diversity in
space and time. During the last glacial maximum, northern Europe was covered by glacial …

Post-glacial colonization of eastern Europe from the Carpathian refugium: evidence from mitochondrial DNA of the common vole Microtus arvalis

J Stojak, AD McDevitt, JS Herman… - Biological Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
There is now considerable evidence for the survival of temperate species within glacial
refugia that were situated at relatively high latitudes, notably the Carpathian Basin and …

Post-glacial colonization of Europe by the wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus: evidence of a northern refugium and dispersal with humans

JS Herman, F Jóhannesdóttir, EP Jones… - Biological Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The wood mouse Apodemus sylvaticus is an opportunistic rodent that is found throughout
most of the European mainland. It is present on many islands around the margins of the …

Next‐generation phylogeography resolves post‐glacial colonization patterns in a widespread carnivore, the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), in Europe

AD McDevitt, I Coscia, SS Browett… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Carnivores tend to exhibit a lack of (or less pronounced) genetic structure at continental
scales in both a geographic and temporal sense and this can confound the identification of …