Different waves of postglacial recolonisation and genomic structure of bank vole populations in NE Poland.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies indicated that in some species phylogeographic patterns obtained in the analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) markers can be different. Such mitonuclear discordance can have important evolutionary and ecological consequences. In the present study, we aimed to check whether there was any discordance between mtDNA and nuclear DNA in the bank vole population in the contact zone of its two mtDNA lineages. We analysed the population genetic structure of bank voles using genome-wide genetic data (SNPs) and diversity of sequenced heart transcriptomes obtained from selected individuals from three populations inhabiting areas outside the contact zone. The SNP genetic structure of the populations confirmed the presence of at least two genetic clusters, and such division

SUBMITTER: Niedzialkowska M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10163242 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature