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      Late Pleistocene-Holocene paleobiogeography of the genus Apodemus in Central Europe

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          Wood mice of the genus Apodemus are an essential component of small mammal communities throughout Europe. Molecular data suggest the postglacial colonization of current ranges from south European glacial refugia, different in particular species. Yet, details on the course of colonization and Holocene history of particular species are not available, partly because of a lack of reliable criteria for species identification in the fossil record. Using a sample of extant species, we analyzed variation patterns and between-species overlaps for a large set of metric and non-metric dental variables and established the criteria enabling the reliable species identification of fragmentary fossil material. The corresponding biometrical analyses were undertaken with fossil material of the genus (2528 items, 747 MNI) from 22 continuous sedimentary series in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, from LGM to Recent. In Central Europe, the genus is invariantly absent in LGM assemblages but regularly appears during the Late Vistulian. All the earliest records belong to A. flavicollis, the species clearly predominating in the fossil record until the Late Holocene. A. uralensis accompanied it in all regions until the late Boreal when disappeared from the fossil record (except for Pannonia). A few items identified as A. sylvaticus had already appeared in the early Holocene assemblages, first in the western part of the region, yet the regular appearance of the species is mostly in the post-Neolithic age. A. agrarius appeared sparsely from the Boreal with a maximum frequency during the post-Neolithic period. The results conform well to the picture suggested by molecular phylogeography but demonstrate considerable differences among particular species in dynamic of the range colonization. Further details concerning Holocene paleobiogeography of individual species in the medium latitude Europe are discussed.

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                PLoS One
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                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                10 March 2017
                2017
                : 12
                : 3
                : e0173668
                Affiliations
                [001]Department of Zoology, Charles University, Viničná 7, Praha 2, Czech Republic
                National Cheng Kung University, TAIWAN
                Author notes

                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

                • Conceptualization: IH MK.

                • Data curation: MK IH.

                • Formal analysis: IH MK.

                • Funding acquisition: MK IH.

                • Investigation: MK.

                • Methodology: MK IH.

                • Project administration: IH MK.

                • Resources: IH.

                • Software: IH MK.

                • Supervision: IH.

                • Validation: MK IH.

                • Visualization: MK IH.

                • Writing – original draft: MK IH.

                • Writing – review & editing: MK IH.

                Article
                PONE-D-16-41322
                10.1371/journal.pone.0173668
                5345881
                28282422
                11a39a2c-ec9b-434a-b74e-e8e6f6951eeb
                © 2017 Knitlová, Horáček

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 17 October 2016
                : 25 February 2017
                Page count
                Figures: 8, Tables: 3, Pages: 23
                Funding
                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100007543, Grantová Agentura, Univerzita Karlova;
                Award ID: 355511
                Award Recipient :
                Funded by: SVV Programme, Charles University
                Award ID: 260313/2016
                Award Recipient :
                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001824, Grantová Agentura České Republiky;
                Award ID: 13-08169S
                Award Recipient :
                Support was provided by Grantová Agentura, Univerzita Karlova, 355511 to MSc Markéta Knitlová; SVV Programme, Charles University, 260313/2016 to MSc Markéta Knitlová; Grantová Agentura České Republiky, 13-08169S to Dr. Ivan Horáček.
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