TY - JOUR
T1 - Effective population size dynamics of Myotis vivesi during the pleistocene and holocene climatic changes
AU - Mejía, Omar
AU - Herrera M., L. Gerardo
AU - May, Bernie
AU - Medellín, Rodrigo A.
AU - Flores-Martínez, José Juan
PY - 2011/6
Y1 - 2011/6
N2 - Myotis vivesi (Fish-eating Myotis) is an endemic species of the Gulf of California, Mexico. In this study, a 282 bp fragment of the mtDNA control region and six microsatellites loci were used to reconstruct its demographic history using summary and coalescent based statistics. Our results suggest that M. vivesi experienced a demographic population expansion between 230,000 to 50,000 years ago. After this expansion, M. vivesi experienced a slight reduction in the effective population size between 30,000 to 5,000 years ago and a spatial expansion in the last 5,000 years. Population changes observed in M. vivesi could be related to climatic changes that occurred in the Gulf of California in the Pleistocene and Holocene periods.
AB - Myotis vivesi (Fish-eating Myotis) is an endemic species of the Gulf of California, Mexico. In this study, a 282 bp fragment of the mtDNA control region and six microsatellites loci were used to reconstruct its demographic history using summary and coalescent based statistics. Our results suggest that M. vivesi experienced a demographic population expansion between 230,000 to 50,000 years ago. After this expansion, M. vivesi experienced a slight reduction in the effective population size between 30,000 to 5,000 years ago and a spatial expansion in the last 5,000 years. Population changes observed in M. vivesi could be related to climatic changes that occurred in the Gulf of California in the Pleistocene and Holocene periods.
KW - BSP
KW - Gulf of California
KW - Myotis vivesi
KW - mismatch distribution
KW - msvar
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79958858423&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3161/150811011X578606
DO - 10.3161/150811011X578606
M3 - Artículo
SN - 1508-1109
VL - 13
SP - 33
EP - 40
JO - Acta Chiropterologica
JF - Acta Chiropterologica
IS - 1
ER -