Abstract
Mitochondrial genetic variation was examined in long-eared hedgehogs, Hemiechinus auritus, from the Anatolian Peninsula, the adjacent island of Cyprus and from Azerbaijan. These data were compared with those available from other parts of the species’ range in North Africa and Asia. Two distinct cytochrome-b lineages are present in Anatolia, one of them previously unknown. The lineage found in south-eastern Anatolia has previously been identified in Egypt and is likely present around the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. The close relationship between haplotypes from Cyprus and those from Egypt suggests that the island was colonised from North Africa, or perhaps the Middle East, rather than Anatolia. The new lineage, which can be referred to the subspecies H. a. calligoni, was only found in the extreme eastern part of Anatolia and may have been isolated from neighbouring lineages to the south-west and to the east by the Taurus and Caucasus mountain ranges, respectively.
Funding source: Scientific Research Coordination Unit of Ondokuz Mayıs University
Award Identifier / Grant number: PYO.FEN.1904.19.013
Acknowledgments
We thank the anonymous reviewers for their comments on the draft of this manuscript.
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Research ethics: Permission for specimen collection was kindly granted by the General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks, Republic of Turkey Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (Project No. OMU, PYO.FEN.1904.19.013).
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Author contributions: Conceptualization, methodology, validation, formal analysis, investigation, data curation, İ.G, S.D, M.Ö, and J.S.H; writing—original draft preparation, writing—review and editing, İ.G, S.D, and J.S.H; project administration, İ.G and M.Ö. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
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Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest in relation to this work.
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Research funding: The study was supported by the Scientific Research Coordination Unit of Ondokuz Mayıs University (No. PYO.FEN.1904.19.013).
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Data availability: Sequences here generated are available in the NCBI, GenBank data base. Sequence accession numbers (OR757245-OR757258) are included in the manuscript.
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