Genetic diversity of wild populations of the grey short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae), in Brazilian landscapes

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 251-263

  Caramaschi, Fabiana P ^a,b   Nascimento, Fabrícia F ^b   Cerqueira, Rui ^a   Bonvicino, Cibele R ^b,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cytochrome b; Geographical variation; Open vegetation domains; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CAATINGA; CERRADO; COHORT ANALYSIS; CYTOCHROME; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MARSUPIAL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; WILD POPULATION;

BRAZIL; PANTANAL;

DIDELPHIDAE; DIDELPHIMORPHIA; MONODELPHIS; MONODELPHIS ADUSTA; MONODELPHIS AMERICANA; MONODELPHIS BREVICAUDATA; MONODELPHIS DIMIDIATA; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; MONODELPHIS EMILIAE; MONODELPHIS GLIRINA; MONODELPHIS IHERINGI; MONODELPHIS KUNSI; MONODELPHIS OSGOODI;

EID: 80052816333     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01724.x     Document Type: Article

References (82)

1. Ab'Sáber AN. 1977. Os domínios morfoclimáticos na América do Sul. Primeira aproximação. Geomorfologia 52: 1-21.
2. Ab'Sáber AN. 1988. O Pantanal Mato-Grossense e a teoria dos refúgios. Revista Brasileira de Geografia 50: 9-57.
3. Agrizzi J, Loss AC, Farro AC, Costa LP, Leite YLR. In press Molecular diagnosis of Atlantic Forest opossums (Mammalia, Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae) using mitochondrial DNA sequences. Open Zoology Journal.
4. Aguiar MAM, Baranger M, Baptestini EM, Kaufman L, Bar-Yam Y. 2009. Global patterns of speciation and diversity. Nature 460: 384-387.
5. Anisimova M, Gascuel O. 2006. Approximate likelihood-ratio test for branches: a fast, accurate, and powerful alternative. Systematic Biology 55: 539-552.
6. Bandelt HJ, Forster P, Rohl A. 1999. Median-joining networks for inferring intraspecific phylogenies. Molecular Biology and Evolution 16: 37-48.
7. Bergallo HG, Cerqueira R. 1994. Reproduction and growth of the opossum Monodelphis domestica (Mammalia, Didelphidae) in northeastern Brazil. Journal of Zoology 232: 551-563.
8. Brown BE. 2004. Atlas of new world marsupials. Fieldiana Zoology (New Series) 102: 1-308.
9. Carvalho BA, Oliveira LFB, Langguth AR, Freygang CC, Ferraz RS, Mattevi MS. 2011. Phylogenetic relationships and phylogeographic patterns in Monodelphis (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae). Journal of Mammalogy 92: 121-133.
10. Casado F, Bonvicino CR, Nagle C, Comas B, Manzur TD, Lahoz MM, Seuanez HN. 2010. Mitochondrial divergence between 2 populations of the hooded capuchin, Cebus (Sapajus) cay (Platyrrhini, Primates). Journal of Heredity 101: 261-269.
11. Cassens I, Vicario S, Waddell VG, Balchowsky H, Van Belle D, Ding W, Fan C, Mohan RSL, Simoes-Lopes PC, Bastida R, Meyer A, Stanhope MJ, Milinkovitch MC. 2000. Independent adaptation to riverine habitats allowed survival of ancient cetacean lineages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 97: 11343-11347.
12. Costa LP, Patton JL. 2006. Diversidade e limites geográficos e sistemáticos de marsupiais brasileiros. In: Cáceres NC, Filho ELAM, eds. Os Marsupiais do Brasil. Campo Grande: Editora UFMS, 321-341.
13. Coyne JA, Orr HA. 2004. Speciation. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, Inc.
14. Eisenberg JF, Redford KH. 1999. Mammals of the Neotropics. Chicago, IL: University Chicago Press.
15. Emmons L, Feer F. 1997. Neotropical rainforest mammals. A field guide. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
16. Excoffier L. 2004. Patterns of DNA sequence diversity and genetic structure after a range expansion: lessons from the infinite-island model. Molecular Ecology 13: 853-864.
17. Excoffier L, Lischer HEL. 2010. Arlequin suite ver 3.5: a new series of programs to perform population genetics analyses under Linux and Windows. Molecular Ecology Resources 10: 564-567.
18. Fu YX. 1997. Statistical tests of neutrality of mutations against population growth, hitchhiking and background selection. Genetics 147: 915-925.
19. Furley PA. 1999. The nature and diversity of neotropical savanna vegetation with particular reference to the Brazilian cerrados. Global Ecology and Biogeography 8: 223-241.
20. Gardner AL. 2005. Order Didelphimorphia. In: Wilson DE, Reeder DM, eds. Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference, 3rd edn. Washington, DC: Johns Hopkins University Press.
21. Gouin N, Westenberger SJ, Mahaney SM, Samollow PB. 2005. Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite markers in the gray, short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica). Molecular Ecology Notes 5: 87-89.
22. Guillot G, Estoup A, Mortier F, Cosson JF. 2005. A spatial statistical model for landscape genetics. Genetics 170: 1261-1280.
23. Guillot G, Mortier F, Estoup A. 2005. GENELAND: a computer package for landscape genetics. Molecular Ecology Notes 5: 712-715.
24. Guindon S, Dufayard JF, Lefort V, Anisimova M, Hordijk W, Gascuel O. 2010. New algorithms and methods to estimate maximum-likelihood phylogenies: assessing the performance of PhyML 3.0. Systematic Biology 59: 307-321.
25. Guindon S, Gascuel O. 2003. A simple, fast, and accurate algorithm to estimate large phylogenies by maximum likelihood. Systematic Biology 52: 696-704.
26. Gutierrez EE, Jansa SA, Voss RS. 2010. Molecular systematics of mouse opossums (Didelphidae: Marmosa): Assessing species limits using mitochondrial DNA sequences, with comments on phylogenetic relationships and biogeography. American Museum Novitates 3692: 1-22.
27. Hasegawa M, Kishino H, Yano TA. 1985. Dating of the human ape splitting by a molecular clock of mitochondrial-DNA. Journal of Molecular Evolution 22: 160-174.
28. Hoorn C, Wesselingh FP, ter Steege H, Bermudez MA, Mora A, Sevink J, Sanmartín I, Sanchez-Meseguer A, Anderson CL, Figueiredo JP, Jaramillo C, Riff D, Negri FR, Hooghiemstra H, Lundberg J, Stadler T, Särkinen T, Antonelli A. 2010. Evolution, and biodiversity Amazonia through time: Andean uplift, climate change, landscape evolution, and biodiversity. Science 330: 927-931.
29. Huelsenbeck JP, Ronquist F. 2001. MRBAYES: Bayesian inference of phylogenetic trees. Bioinformatics 17: 754-755.
30. Irwin DM, Kocher TD, Wilson AC. 1991. Evolution of the cytochrome-b gene of mammals. Journal of Molecular Evolution 32: 128-144.
31. Janke A, Feldmaier-Fuchs G, Thomas WK, von-Haeseler G, Paabo S. 1994. The marsupial mitochondrial genome and the evolution of placental mammals. Genetics 137: 243-256.
32. Keane TM, Creevey CJ, Pentony MM, Naughton TJ, McInerney JO. 2006. Assessment of methods for amino acid matrix selection and their use on empirical data shows that ad hoc assumptions for choice of matrix are not justified. BMC Evolutionary Biology 6: 29.
33. Lemos B, Weksler M, Bonvicino CR. 2000. The taxonomic status of Monodelphis umbristriata (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae). Mammalia 64: 329-337.
34. Librado P, Rozas J. 2009. DnaSP v5: a software for comprehensive analysis of DNA polymorphism data. Bioinformatics 25: 1451-1452.
35. Lim BK, Engstrom MD, Patton JC, Bickham JW. 2010. Molecular phylogenetics of Reig's short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis reigi) and its distributional range extension into Guyana. Mammalian Biology 75: 287-293.
36. MacCarthy C. 1998. Chromas, Version 1.45 (32-bit). Southport, Queensland: School of Health Science, Griffith University.
37. Manni F, Guérard E. 2004. Barrier version 2.2 user's manual. Paris: Population Genetics Team, Musée de l'Homme.
38. Manni F, Guerard E, Heyer E. 2004. Geographic patterns of (genetic, morphologic, linguistic) variation: how barriers can be detected by using Monmonier's algorithm. Human Biology 76: 173-190.
39. Mikkelsen TS, Wakefield MJ, Aken B, Amemiya CT, Chang JL, Duke S, Garber M, Gentles AJ, Goodstadt L, Heger A, Jurka J, Kamal M, Mauceli E, Searle SMJ, Sharpe T, Baker ML, Batzer MA, Benos PV, Belov K, Clamp M, Cook A, Cuff J, Das R, Davidow L, Deakin JE, Fazzari MJ, Glass JL, Grabherr M, Greally JM, Gu WJ, Hore TA, Huttley GA, Kleber M, Jirtle RL, Koina E, Lee JT, Mahony S, Marra MA, Miller RD, Nicholls RD, Oda M, Papenfuss AT, Parra ZE, Pollock DD, Ray DA, Schein JE, Speed TP, Thompson K, VandeBerg JL, Wade CM, Walker JA, Waters PD, Webber C, Weidman JR, Xie XH, Zody MC, Graves JAM, Ponting CP, Breen M, Samollow PB, Lander ES, Lindblad-Toh K, Broad Inst Genome Sequencing P, Broad Inst Whole Genome A. 2007. Genome of the marsupial Monodelphis domestica reveals innovation in non-coding sequences. Nature 447: 167-U161.
40. Molnar P, Cane MA. 2002. El Niño's tropical climate and teleconnections as a blueprint for pre-Ice Age climates. Paleoceanography 17: 1021-1034.
41. Monmonier MS. 1973. Maximum-difference barriers: an alternative numerical regionalization method. Geographical Analysis 3: 245-261.
42. Nei M. 1987. Molecular evolutionary genetics. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
43. Nilsson MA, Gullberg A, Spotorno AE, Arnason U, Janke A. 2003. Radiation of extant Marsupials after the K/T Boundary: evidence from complete mitochondrial genomes. Journal of Molecular Evolution 57: S3-S12.
44. Novaes RML, Lemos Filho JP, Ribeiro RA, Lovato MB. 2010. Phylogeography of Plathymenia reticulata (Leguminosae) reveals patterns of recent range expansion towards northeastern Brazil and southern cerrados in Eastern Tropical South America. Molecular Ecology 19: 985-998.
45. Oliveira EV, Goin FJ. 2006. Marsupiais do início do Terciário do Brasil: origem, irradiação e história biogeográfica. In: Cáceres NC, Monteiro Filho ELA, eds. Os Marsupiais do Brasil. Campo Grande: Editora UFMS, 299-320.
46. Oliveira-Filho AT, Ratter JA. 2002. Vegetation physiognomies and woody flora of the Cerrado biome. In: Oliveira PS, Marquis RJ, eds. The cerrados of Brazil, 1st edn. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 91-120.
47. van Oorschot RAH, Williams-Blangero S, VandeBerg JL. 1992. Genetic diversity of laboratory gray short-tailed opossums (Monodelphis domestica) - effect of newly introduced wild-caught animals. Laboratory Animal Science 42: 255-260.
48. Patten MA, Smith-Patten BD. 2008. Biogeographical boundaries and Monmonier's algorithm: a case study in the northern Neotropics. Journal of Biogeography 35: 407-416.
49. Patton JL, Costa LP. 2003. Molecular phylogeography and species limits in rainforest didelphid marsupials of South America. In: Jones ME, Dickman CR, Archer M, eds. Predators with pouches: the biology of carnivorous marsupials. Melbourne: CSIRO Press, 63-81.
50. Patton JL, Reis SF, Silva MNF. 1996. Relationships among didelphid marsupials based on sequence variation in the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 3: 3-29.
51. Pine RH. 1975. A new species of Monodelphis (Mammalia: Marsupialia: Didelphidae) from Bolivia. Mammalia 39: 320-322.
52. Pine RH. 1976. Monodelphis umbristriata (Miranda-Ribeiro, A.D.) is a distinct species of opossum. Journal of Mammalogy 57: 785-787.
53. Pine RH. 1977. Monodelphis iheringi (Thomas) is a recognizable species of Brazilian opossum (Mammalia Marsupialia Didelphidae). Mammalia 41: 235-237.
54. Pine RH. 1979. Taxonomic notes on Monodelphis dimidiata itatiayae (Miranda-Ribeiro), Monodelphis domestica (Wagner) and Monodelphis maraxina Thomas (Mammalia, Marsupialia, Didelphidae). Mammalia 43: 495-499.
55. Pine RH, Abravaya JP. 1978. Notes on the Brazilian opossum Monodelphis scalops (Thomas) (Mammalia Marsupialia Didelphidae). Mammalia 42: 379-382.
56. Pine RH, Dalby PL, Matson JO. 1985. Ecology, postnatal development, morphometrics, and taxonomic status of the short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis dimidiata, an apparently semelparous annual marsupial. Annals of Carnegie Museum 54: 195-231.
57. Pine RH, Handley CO. 1984. A review of the Amazonian short-tailed opossum Monodelphis emiliae (Thomas). Mammalia 48: 239-245.
58. Pine RH, Handley CO. 2008. Genus Monodelphis Burnett, 1830. In: Gardner AL, ed. Mammals of South America. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
59. Rambaut A, Drummond AJ. 2007. Tracer, Version 1.4. Available at.
60. Ramirez-Soriano A, Ramos-Onsins SE, Rozas J, Calafell F, Navarro A. 2008. Statistical power analysis of neutrality tests under demographic expansions, contractions and bottlenecks with recombination. Genetics 179: 555-567.
61. Ramos-Onsins SE, Rozas J. 2002. Statistical properties of new neutrality tests against population growth. Molecular Biology and Evolution 19: 2092-2100.
62. Rogers AR, Harpending H. 1992. Population-growth makes waves in the distribution of pairwise genetic-differences. Molecular Biology and Evolution 9: 552-569.
63. Ronquist F, Huelsenbeck JP. 2003. MrBayes 3: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models. Bioinformatics 19: 1572-1574.
64. Sambrook J, Fritsch EF, Maniatis T. 1989. Molecular cloning: a laboratory course manual. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
65. Schneider S, Excoffier L. 1999. Estimation of past demographic parameters from the distribution of pairwise differences when the mutation rates vary among sites: application to human mitochondrial DNA. Genetics 152: 1079-1089.
66. Slatkin M, Hudson RR. 1991. Pairwise comparisons of mitochondrial-DNA sequences in stable and exponentially growing populations. Genetics 129: 555-562.
67. Smith MF, Patton JL. 1993. The diversification of South American murid rodents: evidence from mitocondrial DNA sequence data for the akodontine tribe. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 50: 149-177.
68. Solari S. 2004. A new species of Monodelphis (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) from southeastern Peru. Mammalian Biology 69: 145-152.
69. Solari S. 2007. New species of Monodelphis (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) from Peru, with notes on M. adusta (Thomas, 1897). Journal of Mammalogy 88: 319-329.
70. Solari S. 2010. A molecular perspective on the diversification of short-tailed opossums (Monodelphis: Didelphidae). Mastozoologia Neotropical 17: 317-333.
71. Steiner C, Catzeflis FM. 2004. Genetic variation and geographical structure of five mouse-sized opossums (Marsupialia, Didelphidae) throughout the Guiana Region. Journal of Biogeography 31: 959-973.
72. Steiner C, Tilak M, Douzery EJP, Catzeflis FM. 2005. New DNA data from a transthyretin nuclear intron suggest an Oligocene to Miocene diversification of living South America opossums (Marsupialia: Didelphidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 35: 363-379.
73. Tamura K, Dudley J, Nei M, Kumar S. 2007. MEGA4: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis (MEGA) software version 4.0. Molecular Biology and Evolution 24: 1596-1599.
74. VandeBerg JL, Robinson ES. 1997. The laboratory opossum (Monodelphis domestica) in laboratory research. ILAR Journal 38: 4-12.
75. Vilela JF, Russo CAM, Oliveira JA. 2010. An assessment of morphometric and molecular variation in Monodelphis dimidiata (Wagner, 1847) (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae). Zootaxa 2646: 26-42.
76. Voss RS, Jansa SA. 2009. Phylogenetic relationships and classification of didelphid marsupials, an extant radiation of New World metatherian mammals. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 322: 1-177.
77. Voss RS, Lunde DP, Simmons NB. 2001. The mammals of Paracou, French Guiana: a Neotropical lowland rainforest fauna - part 2. Nonvolant species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 263: 3-236.
78. Wagner A. 1842. Diagnosenneuer Arten Brasilischer Säugthiere. Archiv für Naturgeschite 8: 356-362.
79. Xia X, Lemey P. 2009. Assessing substitution saturation with DAMBE. In: Salemi M, Vandamme A-M, Lemey P, eds. The phylogenetic handbook: a practical approach to phylogenetic analysis and hypothesis testing, 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 615-630.
80. Xia X, Xie Z. 2001. DAMBE: software package for data analysis in molecular biology and evolution. Journal of Heredity 92: 371-373.
81. Xia XH, Xie Z, Salemi M, Chen L, Wang Y. 2003. An index of substitution saturation and its application. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 26: 1-7.
82. Zeilhofer P, Schessl M. 2000. Relationship between vegetation and environmental conditions in the northern Pantanal of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Journal of Biogeography 27: 159-168.