Evidence of a contact zone between two Rhabdomys dilectus (Rodentia : Muridae) mitotypes in Gauteng province, South Africa

dc.contributor.authorLe Grange, Anja
dc.contributor.authorBastos, Armanda D.S.
dc.contributor.authorBrettschneider, Helene
dc.contributor.authorChimimba, Christian Timothy
dc.contributor.emailctchimimba@zoology.up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-10T12:07:46Z
dc.date.issued2015-03
dc.description.abstractRecent studies have described the presence of several mitochondrial lineages within Rhabdomys, which was previously considered to be a monotypic genus. The exact distributional limits of the species and subspecies and their contact zones are unclear. In this study we demonstrate that two monophyletic Rhabdomys dilectus mitochondrial lineages are present at two northern Gauteng province sampling sites in South Africa. Cytochrome b gene sequences, 896 nucleotides in length, generated for 36 Rhabdomys samples identified 10 unique haplotypes corresponding to eight R. dilectus dilectus haplotypes (from 32 individuals) and two R. d. chakae haplotypes (from four individuals). The present study provides the first empirical evidence for a contact zone for two R. dilectus conspecific mitochondrial lineages and contributes to the refinement of Rhabdomys distributional maps in southern Africa.en_ZA
dc.description.embargo2016-03-31
dc.description.librarianhb2015en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipSouth African National Research Foundationen_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tafz20en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationAnja le Grange, Armanda DS Bastos, Helene Brettschneider & Christian T Chimimba (2015) Evidence of a contact zone between two Rhabdomys dilectus (Rodentia:Muridae) mitotypes in Gauteng province, South Africa, African Zoology, 50:1, 63-68 DOI :10.1080/15627020.2015.1021178.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1562-7020 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2224-073X (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1080/15627020.2015.1021178
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/51325
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis and NISC (Pty) Ltd.en_ZA
dc.rights© Zoological Society of Southern Africa. This is an electronic version of an article published in African Zoology, vol. 50, no.1, pp. 63-68, 2015. doi : 10.1080/15627020.2015.1021178. African Zoology is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rasr20.en_ZA
dc.subjectCytochrome ben_ZA
dc.subjectRhabdomys dilectus chakaeen_ZA
dc.subjectRhabdomys dilectus dilectusen_ZA
dc.titleEvidence of a contact zone between two Rhabdomys dilectus (Rodentia : Muridae) mitotypes in Gauteng province, South Africaen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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