Subspecies boundaries and recent evolution history of the common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) across China |
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| Institution: | 1. College of Life and Sciences, Yantai Univeristy, Yantai Shandong, China;2. Yantaishan Hospital, Yantai Shandong, China;3. Hainan Key Laboratory for Herpetological Research, Qiongzhou University, Sanya Hainan, China;4. College of Life and Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou Gansu, China;1. Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Environmental Ecology, Mlynská dolina, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia;2. Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Mathematics, Jesenná 5, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia;3. Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics, Mlynská dolina, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia;4. Trnava University, Faculty of Education, Department of Biology, Priemyselná 4, P.O. Box 9, 917 00 Trnava, Slovakia;1. State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academic of Sciences (CAS), Kunming 650204, PR China;2. Chinese Center for Chirality, Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Diagnosis of Ministry of Education, and College of Pharmacy Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, PR China;3. Graduate University of CAS, Beijing 100049, PR China.;1. School of Economic Sciences, Puyallup Research and Extension Center, and the Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems, Washington State University, 2606 W. Pioneer, Puyallup, WA, USA;2. Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center, Washington State University, 1100 N. Western Ave., Wenatchee, WA, USA;3. Department of Horticulture, Mid-Columbia Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Oregon State University, 3005 Experiment Station Drive, Hood River, OR, USA;1. East London Museum, 319 Oxford Street, East London, 5201, South Africa;2. Rhodes University, PO Box 94, Grahamstown, South Africa;3. Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK;4. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium |
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| Abstract: | The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region of two hundreds and thirty-six common pheasants (belonging to fourteen subspecies collected at twenty-eight localities) was used to investigate the subspecies status of Phasianus colchicus. Eighty-nine variable sites defined one hundred and thirty-nine haplotypes. Phylogenetic analysis of haplotypes revealed that P. c. shawii, P. c. mongolicus and P. c. suehschanensis were monophyletic. P. c. shawii and P. c. mongolicus were isolated by the Taklimakan, the Bardain, the Jaran and the Gurbantonggut Deserts where the two subspecies evolved independently. P. c. suehschanensis was isolated by the forest and mountains in the Sichuan Basin where it evolved independently. Further eleven subspecies were identified and split into the western and eastern groups. The divergence occurred in the late Pleistocene when the arid, semi-arid and monsoon regions formed, and it was induced by the isolation from the Qinling and Taihang Mountains. Fst-values decreased from 0.543 (for twenty-eight populations) to 0.541 (for fourteen subspecies). In light of these results, we suggest that the currently recognized subspecies do not reflect the evolutionary history of the common pheasant. |
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| Keywords: | Subspecies boundaries Evolutionary history |
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