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House mouse colonization patterns on the sub-Antarctic Kerguelen Archipelago suggest singular primary invasions and resilience against re-invasion

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, October 2010
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Title
House mouse colonization patterns on the sub-Antarctic Kerguelen Archipelago suggest singular primary invasions and resilience against re-invasion
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BMC Ecology and Evolution, October 2010
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-10-325
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Authors

Emilie A Hardouin, Jean-Louis Chapuis, Mark I Stevens, Jansen Bettine van Vuuren, Petra Quillfeldt, Rick J Scavetta, Meike Teschke, Diethard Tautz

Abstract

Starting from Western Europe, the house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) has spread across the globe in historic times. However, most oceanic islands were colonized by mice only within the past 300 years. This makes them an excellent model for studying the evolutionary processes during early stages of new colonization. We have focused here on the Kerguelen Archipelago, located within the sub-Antarctic area and compare the patterns with samples from other Southern Ocean islands. We have typed 18 autosomal and six Y-chromosomal microsatellite loci and obtained mitochondrial D-loop sequences for a total of 534 samples, mainly from the Kerguelen Archipelago, but also from the Falkland Islands, Marion Island, Amsterdam Island, Antipodes Island, Macquarie Island, Auckland Islands and one sample from South Georgia. We find that most of the mice on the Kerguelen Archipelago have the same mitochondrial haplotype and all share the same major Y-chromosomal haplotype. Two small islands (Cochons Island and Cimetière Island) within the archipelago show a different mitochondrial haplotype, are genetically distinct for autosomal loci, but share the major Y-chromosomal haplotype. In the mitochondrial D-loop sequences, we find several single step mutational derivatives of one of the major mitochondrial haplotypes, suggesting an unusually high mutation rate, or the occurrence of selective sweeps in mitochondria. Although there was heavy ship traffic for over a hundred years to the Kerguelen Archipelago, it appears that the mice that have arrived first have colonized the main island (Grande Terre) and most of the associated small islands. The second invasion that we see in our data has occurred on islands that are detached from Grande Terre and were likely to have had no resident mice prior to their arrival. The genetic data suggest that the mice of both primary invasions originated from related source populations. Our data suggest that an area colonized by mice is refractory to further introgression, possibly due to fast adaptations of the resident mice to local conditions.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 4%
Switzerland 1 1%
Portugal 1 1%
New Zealand 1 1%
South Africa 1 1%
Unknown 68 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 19 25%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 21%
Student > Master 9 12%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 7%
Other 5 7%
Other 13 17%
Unknown 8 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 53 71%
Environmental Science 7 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Arts and Humanities 1 1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 10 13%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 July 2022.
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