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<emphasis id="C03365394606EEE1F2A84749073DCEED" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Apodemus epimelas</emphasis>
Nehring 1902
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Nehring 1902
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,
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Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr.
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, 1902: 2
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.
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<emphasis id="5534E39DBA9143DF17F83E550BDBBEB0" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1265">Type Locality:</emphasis>
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SE
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, Parnassós, Agoriana.
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.
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<emphasis id="F62690598DCF9B79FAC463B7562AE855" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1265">Distribution:</emphasis>
W and S Balkans in W
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, W
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, S
<collectingCountry id="D3208B5A5207E7D4CEBC340F456A46C6" name="Serbia">Serbia and Montenegro</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="6EE0241BCCAB11E1E24F32FB0D3D4F2C" name="Albania">Albania</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="6836A41B8CBAB979792341D4DA09D615" name="Macedonia">Macedonia</collectingCountry>
, W
<collectingCountry id="08DD122A1BAA580658A8746FD9B188BA" name="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="00147D276EEBFFC380A3EA1AB152EA61" name="Greece">Greece</collectingCountry>
(the European portion of
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<emphasis id="156A0A4D4C0E08F3AF57A4416EB53BF3" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">mystacinus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
mapped by
<bibRefCitation id="023BBC1B6AA204FEB4A6201633EF2452" author="Mitchell-Jones, A. J. &amp; G. Amori &amp; W. Bogdanowicz &amp; B. Krystufek &amp; P. J. H. Reijnders &amp; F. Spitzenberger &amp; M. Stubbe &amp; J. B. M. Thissen &amp; V. Vohralik &amp; J. Zima" refId="ref243793" refString="Mitchell-Jones, A. J., G. Amori, W. Bogdanowicz, B. Krystufek, P. J. H. Reijnders, F. Spitzenberger, M. Stubbe, J. B. M. Thissen, V. Vohralik, and J. Zima. 1999. Atlas of European mammals. Academic Press, London, 496 pp." year="1999">Mitchell-Jones et al. [1999]</bibRefCitation>
; also see
<bibRefCitation id="992EAC181C4115D0652F6080CE700D09" author="Peshev, D." refId="ref281361" refString="Peshev, D. 1996. Review of the status of mammals in Bulgaria. Hystrix, n. s., 8 (1 - 2): 55 - 59." year="1996">Peshev [1996]</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="4EDD81AB6C7029E517752233A1D6E7CE" author="Petrov, B. M." refId="ref283163" refString="Petrov, B. M. 1992. Mammals of Yugoslavia. Insectivores and rodents. Natural History Museum in Belgrade, Supplement 37: 1 - 186." year="1992">Petrov [1992]</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="A9C65B52E503EB624213CB955E7C1A1B" author="Prigioni, C." refId="ref293256" refString="Prigioni, C. 1996. Distribution of mammals in Albania. Hystrix, n. s., 8 (1 - 2): 67 - 73." year="1996">Prigioni [1996]</bibRefCitation>
, and Vohralík [1992], all reported as
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<emphasis id="F29B5F431C8443AE1954E0A99F471908" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">mystacinus</emphasis>
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), and Adriatic islands of Kor ula and Mljet (
<bibRefCitation id="72DD36965FA843433FCE134FE705B0C9" author="Mitchell-Jones, A. J. &amp; G. Amori &amp; W. Bogdanowicz &amp; B. Krystufek &amp; P. J. H. Reijnders &amp; F. Spitzenberger &amp; M. Stubbe &amp; J. B. M. Thissen &amp; V. Vohralik &amp; J. Zima" refId="ref243793" refString="Mitchell-Jones, A. J., G. Amori, W. Bogdanowicz, B. Krystufek, P. J. H. Reijnders, F. Spitzenberger, M. Stubbe, J. B. M. Thissen, V. Vohralik, and J. Zima. 1999. Atlas of European mammals. Academic Press, London, 496 pp." year="1999">Mitchell-Jones et al., 1999</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="5A0E6EBF200FB09A900054843936ABD9" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1265">Discussion:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="824937CE7D5F86DF5BF88A4B7A4CD41F" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Sylvaemus</emphasis>
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group. A close relative of
<taxonomicName id="3264D46A10DB2DB6727D09C68B88A005" authorityName="Danford and Alston" authorityYear="1877" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="mystacinus">
<emphasis id="18BED18F4C19FF1B5ABDF485A0F272DC" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. mystacinus</emphasis>
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, which has been considered the sole member of
<taxonomicName id="B0830366940A7DD4AEC04B5DB414569F" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Karstomys" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="0DA97DCAD6AB7AB836CA2C8102C8B595" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Karstomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, although
<bibRefCitation id="A545043731BA55CEAC139CE2F78631EF" author="Musser, G. G. &amp; E. M. Brothers &amp; M. D. Carleton &amp; R. Hutterer" refId="ref253260" refString="Musser, G. G., E. M. Brothers, M. D. Carleton, and R. Hutterer. 1996. Taxonomy and distributional records of Oriental and European Apodemus, with a review of the Apodemus-Sylvaemus problem. Bonner Zoologische Beitrage, 46 (1 - 4): 143 - 190." year="1996">Musser et al. (1996)</bibRefCitation>
placed it in their
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<emphasis id="69BEAEB7D05C733451A5D40DED158C71" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Sylvaemus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Group, a relationship weakly to strongly corroborated by allozymic studies (
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;
<bibRefCitation id="A9A9B6A0DAD6D8660777B4402B46CE27" author="Mezhzherin, S. V." refId="ref239573" refString="Mezhzherin, S. V. 1997 a. [Revision of mouse genus Apodemus (Rodentia, Muridae) of northern Eurasia.] Vestnik Zoologii, 31 (4): 29 - 41 (in Russian with English summary)." year="1997">
Mezhzherin, 1997
<emphasis id="A69EEFA98FD14BCA581DDC8E34D7C29F" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">a</emphasis>
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) and phylogenetic analyses of nuclear
<collectionCode id="77DA815F9F8956F0007A13A1860A6CD1">IRBP</collectionCode>
and mtDNA cytochrome
<emphasis id="F6A569BA1FD186910673144190E5722C" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">b</emphasis>
and 12S rRNA sequences (
<bibRefCitation id="399B4B4224096B33BBB06BED6E172F48" author="Michaux, J. &amp; P. Chevret &amp; M. - G. Filippucci &amp; M. Macholan" refId="ref240901" refString="Michaux, J., P. Chevret, M. - G. Filippucci, and M. Macholan. 2002 a. Phylogeny of the genus Apodemus with a special emphasis on the subgenus Sylvaemus using the nuclear IRBP gene and two mitochondrial markers: Cytochrome b and 12 S rRNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 23: 123 - 136." year="2002">
Michaux et al., 2002
<emphasis id="F1584F220A5F22999C570AD2161999C5" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">a</emphasis>
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, in press). Described as a species and listed that way by
<bibRefCitation id="53F831C26CDDA65911AD94024FC59A4A" author="Ellerman, J. R." refId="ref92857" refString="Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp." year="1941">Ellerman (1941)</bibRefCitation>
but subsequently treated as a subspecies of
<taxonomicName id="BEA5DABE979B2657570F41D9A5DD4B31" authorityName="Danford and Alston" authorityYear="1877" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Apodemus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="mystacinus">
<emphasis id="0E0C4C66DF088F2A318BF510C26D8A40" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. mystacinus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="E1F65FA98951E0206F4B579ADAD22769" author="Ellerman, J. R. &amp; T. C. S. Morrison-Scott" refId="ref93180" refString="Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp." year="1951">Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="5A0BE966D2CEEF810AAC0056098A6BC6" author="Corbet, G. B." refId="ref67548" refString="Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp." year="1978">
Corbet, 1978
<emphasis id="369819B4EF8A2DAFC009A6CEE25E02FC" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">c</emphasis>
</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="8EB1C8619557231E8D8E3E940525017C" author="Musser, G. G. &amp; M. D. Carleton" refId="ref252333" refString="Musser, G. G., and M. D. Carleton. 1993. Family Muridae. Pp. 501 - 755, in: Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Second ed. (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C., xviii + 1206 pp." year="1993">Musser and Carleton, 1993</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="5A11078FB5FA40C32C4A6E4EFD6D72BA" author="Pavlinov, I. Ya &amp; E. L. Yakhontov &amp; A. K. Agadzhanyan" refId="ref278176" refString="Pavlinov, I. Ya, E. L. Yakhontov, and A. K. Agadzhanyan. 1995 a. [Mammals of Eurasia. I. Rodentia. Taxonomic and geographic guide.] Archives of the Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, 32: 289 pp. (in Russian)." year="1995">
Pavlinov et al., 1995
<emphasis id="641F6A334031510EA4E4D1328212DD78" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">a</emphasis>
</bibRefCitation>
). Based on morphology and biochemical genetic variation data,
<bibRefCitation id="5F1998B07A7654AD201CD370DCC848B8" author="Mezhzherin, S. V." refId="ref239573" refString="Mezhzherin, S. V. 1997 a. [Revision of mouse genus Apodemus (Rodentia, Muridae) of northern Eurasia.] Vestnik Zoologii, 31 (4): 29 - 41 (in Russian with English summary)." year="1997">
Mezhzherin (1997
<emphasis id="A848C21E339506498D5D73030A0419C7" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">a</emphasis>
)
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separated
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<emphasis id="3D772FD30B8DB7C641D6CFC39D2CF69D" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">epimelas</emphasis>
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as a species separate from
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<emphasis id="38D47F53F390E9A0848F518BCD028131" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. mystacinus</emphasis>
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, an action supported by phylogenetic analyses of protein electrophoresis of 28-38 gene loci (
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) and mtDNA cytochrome
<emphasis id="413642BFEAC5E2C246747114BDB7B236" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">b</emphasis>
and 12S rRNA sequences (
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Michaux et al., 2002
<emphasis id="3E48F5DB8E8613C8C85B1E59E38FBE90" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">a</emphasis>
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). That the Balkan
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<emphasis id="4B6A95AF782371E0DB652BAC1835BB9C" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">epimelas</emphasis>
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was a different species than the Anatolian
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<emphasis id="5A3740AB9B09C91E5782EC40E5721824" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">mystacinus</emphasis>
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was indicated in
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, and the basic discriminatory data was provided earlier by Storch (1977; who also wrote the account in
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) who documented the significant differences between the two in occlusal patterns of M1 and M2 (posterior cingulum is free in most
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, but coalesced with cusp t
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); we verified these contrasts in series from
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, and
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in
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. Karyotype of Macedonian sample recorded and compared with published karyotypes from other regions (
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Zima et al., 1997
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, as
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<emphasis id="2E08484A88A1B6DC9AEAF1B5D271F7F8" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">mystacinus</emphasis>
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). Greek samples of
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<emphasis id="5053FDBB667B1A6206815C69E11B8609" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. epimelas</emphasis>
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(recorded as
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<emphasis id="C04E370BAFE44670483F4FDFED9CDC66" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">mystacinus</emphasis>
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),
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<emphasis id="35355BB4C321C00BBC4BC046F3ABA85F" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. sylvaticus</emphasis>
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, and
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<emphasis id="DEFADBD156E63874D12EF940E954416A" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. flavicollis</emphasis>
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contrasted using data from electrophoretic and immunological sources (
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).
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<emphasis id="3841112934C7747A5C46E252BF283103" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">Apodemus epimelas</emphasis>
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may represent a population of
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<emphasis id="E7F4DAC59E1C225830AE3E2482A00027" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. mystacinus</emphasis>
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that dispersed across a Pleistocene Bosporous land bridge (between Balkan Peninsula and Turkish Thrace plus NW Anatolian
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)
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years before present and achieved genetic isolation after post-Pleistocene sea level rise reconnected the Black and Marmara Seas through the Bosporous channel (
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).
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Michaux et al. (2002
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suggested the isolation of Balkan and Near East groups of
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<emphasis id="D778BF1D6451E4E2E8DCBFD103845774" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. mystacinus</emphasis>
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and the subsequent differentiation of
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<emphasis id="0B4340B5E31A3B8E5AE5AD019B6DA23B" italics="true" pageNumber="1265">A. epimelas</emphasis>
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resulted from late Pliocene or early Pleistocene cooling intervals associated with low population densities
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.
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