Unraveling Deep Branches of the Sigmodontinae Tree (Rodentia: Cricetidae) in Eastern South America

Autor(es)

Goncalves, Pablo R. ^[1] ; Christoff, Alexandre U. ^{[2, 3]} ; Machado, Leonardo F. ^{[2, 4]} ; Bonvicino, Cibele R. ^[5] ; Peters, Felipe B. ^[2] ; Percequillo, Alexandre R. ^{[6, 7]}

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Fed Rio de Janeiro, Nucleo Ecol & Desenvolvimento Socioambiental Maca, Av Sao Jose do Barreto, BR-27965045 Macae, RJ - Brazil

^[2] Univ Luterana Brasil, Dept Biol, Museu Ciencias Nat, Canoas - Brazil

^[3] Univ Vale Rio dos Sinos, Lab Biol Mol, Sao Leopoldo, RS - Brazil

^[4] Univ Brasilia, Inst Ciencias Biol, Dept Zool, Lab Mamiferos, Brasilia, DF - Brazil

^[5] Inst Nacl Canc, Rio De Janeiro - Brazil

^[6] Univ Sao Paulo, Escola Super Agr Luiz de Queiroz, Dept Ciencias Biol, Sao Paulo - Brazil

^[7] Nat Hist Museum, Life Sci, London - England

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION; v. 27, n. 1, p. 139-160, MAR 2020.
• Citações Web of Science: 1

Resumo

Neotropical cricetid rodents of the subfamily Sigmodontinae constitute an incredibly diverse and ubiquitous clade of mammals in South America. In spite of recent advances in sigmodontine systematics, a variable collection of genera from eastern South America with no clear tribal affiliations and well-differentiated morphologies has been pervasive in most classification attempts, being generally listed as Sigmodontinae incertae sedis. Here, we assess the phylogenetic relationships of these incertae sedis genera based on supermatrix and multispecies coalescent analyses of a multilocus molecular dataset (one mitochondrial and five nuclear loci) for 76 genera, calibrated with ten fossil-based node dates. Both analytical approaches provided concordant and unprecedented resolution of suprageneric clades within the large Oryzomyalia clade (constituted by most sigmodontine genera), recovering a natural group constituted by the genera Wiedomys, Wilfredomys, and the Atlantic Forest endemics Juliomys and Phaenomys - here redefined as the Wiedomyini tribe - and a sister-relationship between this group and the tribe Abrotrichini. The enigmatic spiny rodent genus Abrawayaomys was recovered as sister to Akodontini in three of four analyses, but pending higher support. Morphological comparisons performed among the four wiedomyine genera highlighted a number of shared external, cranial, and dental similarities useful to emend the tribe diagnosis, such as the presence of chromo-genetic fields associated with the muzzle, pinnae, and rump, the long and narrow rostrum flanked by shallow and narrow zygomatic notches, and the asymmetrically divided procingulum of M1, among other characters. Molecular dating coupled with fossil evidence suggests Wiedomyini as one of the oldest sigmodontine tribes with a late Miocene autochthonous origin in eastern South America, highlighting the relevance of this region as an ancient cradle of sigmodontine lineages. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 16/20055-2 - Sistemática e biogeografia da Tribo Oryzomyini (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) na América do Sul
• Beneficiário: Alexandre Reis Percequillo
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Exterior - Pesquisa
• Processo FAPESP: 09/16009-1 - Sistemática, evolução e diversificação da subfamília Sigmodontinae na América do Sul: a tribo Oryzomyini
• Beneficiário: Alexandre Reis Percequillo
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Jovens Pesquisadores