TY  - GEN
A1  - Autenrieth, Marijke
A1  - Ernst, Anja
A1  - Deaville, Rob
A1  - Demaret, Fabien
A1  - Ijsseldijk, Lonneke L.
A1  - Siebert, Ursula
A1  - Tiedemann, Ralph
T1  - Putative origin and maternal relatedness of male sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) recently stranded in the North Sea
T2  - Mammalian biology = Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde
N2  - The globally distributed sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) has a partly matrilineal social structure with predominant male dispersal. At the beginning of 2016, a total of 30 male sperm whales stranded in five different countries bordering the southern North Sea. It has been postulated that these individuals were on a migration route from the north to warmer temperate and tropical waters where females live in social groups. By including samples from four countries (n = 27), this event provided a unique chance to genetically investigate the maternal relatedness and the putative origin of these temporally and spatially co-occuring male sperm whales. To utilize existing genetic resources, we sequenced 422 bp of the mitochondrial control region, a molecular marker for which sperm whale data are readily available from the entire distribution range. Based on four single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within the mitochondrial control region, five matrilines could be distinguished within the stranded specimens, four of which matched published haplotypes previously described in the Atlantic. Among these male sperm whales, multiple matrilineal lineages co-occur. We analyzed the population differentiation and could show that the genetic diversity of these male sperm whales is comparable to the genetic diversity in sperm whales from the entire Atlantic Ocean. We confirm that within this stranding event, males do not comprise maternally related individuals and apparently include assemblages of individuals from different geographic regions. (c) 2017 Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Saugetierkunde. Published by Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
KW  - Mitochondrial DNA
KW  - Maternal relationships
KW  - Population genetics
KW  - Migration
KW  - Marine mammals
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mambio.2017.09.003
SN  - 1616-5047
SN  - 1618-1476
VL  - 88
SP  - 156
EP  - 160
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - München
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Neye, Gundula
A1  - Wallschläger, Hans-Dieter
A1  - Tiedemann, Ralph
T1  - Song dialect boundaries in the Yellowhammer: Do they restrict gene flow?
T2  - Journal of ornithology
Y1  - 2006
SN  - 0021-8375
VL  - 147
IS  - Supplement 1
SP  - 219
EP  - 219
PB  - Blackwell
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Tiedemann, Ralph
A1  - Pfautsch, Simone
T1  - MHC evolution in ducks and allies
T2  - Journal of ornithology
Y1  - 2006
SN  - 0021-8375
VL  - 147
IS  - Supplement 1
SP  - 48
EP  - 48
PB  - Blackwell
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Pokorny, Ina
A1  - Sharma, Reeta
A1  - Goyal, Surendra Prakash
A1  - Mishra, Sudanshu
A1  - Tiedemann, Ralph
T1  - MHC class I and MHC class II DRB gene variability in wild and captive Bengal tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) (vol 10, pg 667, 2010)
T2  - Immunogenetics
Y1  - 2011
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00251-010-0496-2
SN  - 0093-7711
VL  - 63
IS  - 2
SP  - 121
EP  - 121
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Sammler, Svenja
A1  - Ketmaier, Valerio
A1  - Havenstein, Katja
A1  - Tiedemann, Ralph
T1  - Intraspecific rearrangement of duplicated mitochondrial control regions in the luzon tarictic hornbill penelopides manillae (Aves: Bucerotidae)
T2  - Journal of molecular evolution
N2  - Philippine hornbills of the genera Aceros and Penelopides (Bucerotidae) are known to possess a large tandemly duplicated fragment in their mitochondrial genome, whose paralogous parts largely evolve in concert. In the present study, we surveyed the two distinguishable duplicated control regions in several individuals of the Luzon Tarictic Hornbill Penelopides manillae, compare their characteristics within and across individuals, and report on an intraspecific mitochondrial gene rearrangement found in one single specimen, i.e., an interchange between the two control regions. To our knowledge, this is the first observation of two distinct mitochondrial genome rearrangements within a bird species. We briefly discuss a possible evolutionary mechanism responsible for this pattern, and highlight potential implications for the application of control region sequences as a marker in population genetics and phylogeography.
KW  - Bucerotidae
KW  - Concerted evolution
KW  - Control region
KW  - Mitochondrial gene order
KW  - Mitochondrial recombination
KW  - Philippine archipelago
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00239-013-9591-y
SN  - 0022-2844
SN  - 1432-1432
VL  - 77
IS  - 5-6
SP  - 199
EP  - 205
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  -