Hierarchical genetic structure in fragmented populations of the Little Pocket Mouse (Perognathus longimembris) in Southern California |
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| Authors: | Andrea Swei Philip V Brylski Wayne D Spencer Shana C Dodd James L Patton |
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| Institution: | (1) Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA;;(2) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA;(3) World Bank, ECSSD, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA;(4) Conservation Biology Institute, 815 Madison Avenue, San Diego, CA 92116, USA;(5) Dodd Biological Consulting, 3786 Dana Place, San Diego, CA 92103, USA;(6) Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA |
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| Abstract: | The geographic genetic structure, based onsequence variation of an 810 base pair fragmentof the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene,is described for populations of five subspeciesof the Little Pocket Mouse, Perognathuslongimembris, from Southern California. Oneof these, P. l. pacificus (Pacific PocketMouse), is listed as Endangered by the U.S.Federal Government. Sixty-two uniquehaplotypes were recovered from 99 individualssampled. Phylogenetic analyses of thesevariants do not identify regionallyreciprocally monophyletic lineages concordantwith the current subspecies designations, butmost haplotypes group by subspecies in networksgenerated by either statistical parsimony ormolecular variance parsimony. Moreover, asubstantial proportion of the total pool ofhaplotype variation is attributed to thesesubspecies, or to local populations withingeographic segments of each, indicating theirrelative evolutionary independence. The pooledextant populations of the endangered PacificPocket Mouse exhibit the same levels ofnucleotide and haplotype diversity as other,presumptively less-impacted populations ofadjacent subspecies, although the sample fromDana Point, Orange County, has markedly lowhaplotype diversity in comparison to allothers. These populations also show a geneticsignature of population expansion rather thanone of decline. Both pieces of evidence are atodds with current empirical populationestimates, which reinforces the fact thatpresent-day patterns of genetic diversity arethe product of coalescent history and will notnecessarily reflect recent anthropogenic, orother, perturbations. Comparison of haplotypevariation within and among extant populationsof the Pacific Pocket Mouse with those obtainedfrom museum samples collected more than 70years ago suggests that the pattern ofpopulation differentiation and diversity was inplace before the post-World War II exponentialurbanization of Southern California. |
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| Keywords: | cytochrome b haplotype diversity Little Pocket Mouse mtDNA sequences Pacific Pocket Mouse Perognathus longimembris phylogeography Southern California |
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