Phylogenetic analysis of chinese rhesus macaques ( Macaca mulatta ) based on mitochondrial control region sequences

Bibliographic Data

ID19389604
AuthorsDi Li (0000-0003-3010-7661, Sichuan Agricultural University), Di Yan Li, Huai Liang Xu (Sichuan Agricultural University), David Glenn Smith (0000-0001-7858-3785, Sichuan Agricultural University, corresponding author), An Chun Cheng (Sichuan Agricultural University, corresponding author), Jessica Satkoski Trask (University of California, Davis), Qing Zhu (0000-0002-6146-9190, Sichuan Agricultural University), Yong Fang Yao (Sichuan Agricultural University), Dan Du (0000-0001-9745-8197, Sichuan Agricultural University), Dan Dan Du, Qing Ni (0000-0003-3414-0848, Sichuan Agricultural University), Qing Yong Ni
Year2011
Volume73
Issue9
Pages883-895
Publication date2011-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Primatology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0275-2565 • E-ISSN: 1098-2345
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/ajp.20956
PMID21495050
OpenAlexW1975321731
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited37

Between one and six subspecies of Chinese rhesus macaques ( Macaca mulatta ) have been proposed based on morphological differences and/or their geographic distribution. In this study, a 489 base pair fragment of the mitochondrial control region was amplified from 230 DNA samples collected from rhesus macaques in the Sichuan province in Western China. The fragment was then sequenced and aligned with 208 sequences from wild rhesus macaques, sampled throughout the species' geographic range in China downloaded from GenBank. Phylogenetic analysis of the 182 unique sequences identified among these samples divided Chinese rhesus macaques into two western haplogroups (haplogroups A and B) and three older eastern haplogroups (haplogroups C, D, and E), whose differentiation probably occurred during the penultimate glacial event. During the warming after the penultimate glacial event, haplogroups A, B, and E rapidly expanded and a relatively young subhaplogroup of haplogroup E, E', limited to Southern China but shared with Vietnamese rhesus macaques, was reintroduced from Indochina during the last glacial event. One haplotype most closely related to subhaplogroup E' probably represents the isolation of Hainan Island, to where it is restricted, from the mainland by the formation of the Qiongzhou Strait approximately 8,500 years ago. The distribution of haplogroups both informs the phylogeographic history of dispersal of Chinese rhesus macaques and has implications for their suitability as animal models in biomedical research. Am. J. Primatol. 73:883–895, 2011. © 2011 Wiley‐Liss, Inc

Biology · Evolutionary biology · Genotype · Glacial period · Haplogroup · Haplotype · Phylogenetic tree · Phylogeography · Subspecies · Zoology · Amphibian and Reptile Biology · Animal Behavior and Reproduction · Primate Behavior and Ecology · Genetics · Paleontology

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