付記する学位プログラム名: 霊長類学・ワイルドライフサイエンス・リーディング大学院 / 京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第24471号 / 理博第4970号 / 新制||理||1709(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科生物科学専攻 / (主査)教授 村山 美穂, 教授 伊谷 原一, 教授 平田 聡 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DGAM

Song production in songbirds is controlled by parts of the brain known as the song control regions (SCRs). During spring, gonads increase in size, males sing to attract mates, and SCRs become larger. This neuroplasticity is controlled by the change in day length and increased plasma testosterone (T) levels. Plasma T can be reduced by stress through the production of corticosterone (CORT), through the production of beta-endorphin, or through direct effects on the testes via the nervous system. We determined the T, estradiol, and CORT hormonal profiles of wild House Finches by capturing and sampling blood from the finches every season for two years. To track SCR neuroplasticity in the wild, we also measured the volume of two specific SCRs, the HVC and RA, every season. We then examined the effects of stress on the finch endocrine system in the wild by performing a 30-minute restraint stress protocol once every season and took blood samples before and after the restraint. To determine whether stress and/or CORT affect neuroplasticity in SCRs, we captured male house finches during winter and brought them into captivity. They were allowed to acclimate to captivity for one month on short days (8L:16D) before we transferred them to long days (16L:8D) and restraint stressed half the birds. We measured their gonads, plasma T and CORT levels, volumes of the HVC and RA, and the number of new neurons in the HVC. HVC volumes were smaller in stressed than non-stressed birds, while RA volumes did not differ. There was no difference in number of new neurons or estimated total number of neurons in the HVC between control and restrained birds. Because the HVC is involved in song production, it is possible that stress negatively impacts singing behavior and reproductive success in House Finches. Future work should address how natural stressors may affect neuroplasticity in birds.

The study of the process of speciation is instrumental to understanding the species diversity observed today. Diverging populations are intriguing, because speciation has not reached an endpoint, yet the process that may eventually lead to distinct species can be studied. Systems that contain many putative species and/or parallel divergences, such as many species flocks and species pairs, are extraordinary examples of divergence and therefore are critical to the understanding of the speciation process. A "miniature" species flock of pupfish (Cyprinodon variegatus) discovered in lakes on San Salvador Island, Bahamas has evolved in less than 6 000 years, and is, therefore, important to the study of the pace of evolutionary processes. The San Salvador Island pupfish flock is composed of a normal form, which resembles coastal C. variegatus, and bulldog and bozo morphs, which diverge ecologically and morphologically from the normal morph. In Chapter 1, I sequenced the mtDNA control region and used haplotype frequency analyses to assess the level of differentiation between sympatric normals and bulldogs sampled from Osprey Lake and Little Lake on San Salvador Island. The bozo morph was too rare to include in the study. I also included samples of normals that occur in lakes without bulldog and bozo morphs to assess any differences between lakes on the island. All haplotype frequency comparisons for sympatric normals and bulldogs were highly significant, which suggests these morphs are distinct populations in sympatry and, therefore, have characteristics of biological species. Further, an estimation of Time for Speciation supports geological data that suggest this fauna is very young (6 000 years). The San Salvador Island pupfish species flock is, therefore, the youngest known species flock and presents an important model system for the study of how morphological and ecological divergence can promote speciation in Cyprinodon. In Chapter 2, I first compared the San Salvador Island pupfishes to other Bahamian C. variegatus populations to assess the level of inter- and intra-island pupfish population differentiation in the Bahamas. The mtDNA control region was sequenced for bulldogs and normals from San Salvador Island and normals sampled from New Providence and Exuma Islands. San Salvador Island bulldogs were found to be distinct from all normal populations sampled, and comparisons of shared haplotypes suggest they originated on San Salvador Island rather than any of the other islands sampled. This was intriguing, because a "bulldog-like" morph has recently been observed in a lake on New Providence Island, which suggests parallel divergences may be occurring throughout the Bahamas. I also sequenced the mtDNA cytochrome b gene to assess the phylogeography of C. variegatus. Populations were sampled from the Bahamas and the east coast of North America, and the results suggest the Bahamas were only recently colonized by the Southern coastal lineage of C. variegatus. A distinct Northern lineage of C. variegatus, which may warrant species designation, was also supported by the cytochrome b data. Overall, the results supported a San Salvador Island origin for the Little Lake and Osprey Lake bulldog morphs, and also suggest the Bahamian C. variegatus populations are very young. / Master of Science

The population genetic structure of Atlantic yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) has received little attention despite the substantial fishing mortality of juveniles caused by purse seining around fish aggregating devices in the Gulf of Guinea targeting multi-species schools that also include similarly sized skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) and bigeye tuna (T. obesus). We used sequence data from 355 bp of the mitochondrial control region I as well as six microsatellite loci to examine: (1) population structure, and (2) to look for evidence of reproductive variance. We analyzed two samples of adults from the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and one sample of early juveniles (20-50 mm) from the Gulf of Guinea (GOG). We found no evidence of geographic or temporal differentiation among the samples. Accordingly, the null hypothesis of panmixia for yellowfin tuna in the Atlantic Ocean could not be rejected. A sudden expansion analysis based on mtDNA control region I sequence data of yellowfin tuna was highly significant. Time estimates for expansion were between 40,000 and 80,000 years before present. The associated high levels of homoplasy could be masking any existing population structure. Additional sampling from additional locations and across several years will be needed to test the hypothesis of panmixia. We also provide preliminary evidence of the Allendorf-Phelps effect, which may contribute to reproductive variance. This is the first evidence of this effect in any other tuna or pelagic species. Data indicates that early juveniles sharing the same mtDNA control region I haplotype were caught in the same tow and had a significant probability of halfsibship status as calculated from their haplotype and genotype at one microsatellite locus through kinship analysis. Sampling throughout the spawning season and across several years, as well as analysis with additional microsatellite loci that have a more even distribution of alleles, will be needed to more fully identify the sibling status of larvae and early juveniles caught in the same tow as well as the extent of this reproductive variance.

The population genetic structure of Atlantic yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) has received little attention despite the substantial fishing mortality of juveniles caused by purse seining around fish aggregating devices in the Gulf of Guinea targeting multi-species schools that also include similarly sized skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) and bigeye tuna (T. obesus). We used sequence data from 355 bp of the mitochondrial control region I as well as six microsatellite loci to examine: (1) population structure, and (2) to look for evidence of reproductive variance. We analyzed two samples of adults from the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and one sample of early juveniles (20-50 mm) from the Gulf of Guinea (GOG). We found no evidence of geographic or temporal differentiation among the samples. Accordingly, the null hypothesis of panmixia for yellowfin tuna in the Atlantic Ocean could not be rejected. A sudden expansion analysis based on mtDNA control region I sequence data of yellowfin tuna was highly significant. Time estimates for expansion were between 40,000 and 80,000 years before present. The associated high levels of homoplasy could be masking any existing population structure. Additional sampling from additional locations and across several years will be needed to test the hypothesis of panmixia. We also provide preliminary evidence of the Allendorf-Phelps effect, which may contribute to reproductive variance. This is the first evidence of this effect in any other tuna or pelagic species. Data indicates that early juveniles sharing the same mtDNA control region I haplotype were caught in the same tow and had a significant probability of halfsibship status as calculated from their haplotype and genotype at one microsatellite locus through kinship analysis. Sampling throughout the spawning season and across several years, as well as analysis with additional microsatellite loci that have a more even distribution of alleles, will be needed to more fully identify the sibling status of larvae and early juveniles caught in the same tow as well as the extent of this reproductive variance.

This thesis presents the results of a comparison between collision data and simulations based on Monte Carlo methods. The experimental dataset consists of $20.3\,\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt s = 8\tev$ collected during 2012 by the ATLAS experiment located at the Large Hadron Collider. The final state used is $e\mu + \mathrm{jets}$. Four regions are defined, pretag ($\geq0$ jets, $\geq0$ $b$-jets), $\geq1$-tag ($\geq1$ jets, $\geq1$ $b$-jets), $\geq2$-jet ($\geq2$ jets, $\geq0$ $b$-jets), and 2-tag ($\geq2$ jets, 2 $b$-jets). Data and simulations are consistent in all regions considered.

Orientador: Sérgio Furtado dos Reis / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Biologia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T03:14:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tonhatti_CarlosHenrique_M.pdf: 9319197 bytes, checksum: e71bff81e702fce4746841965b3022a1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Os poecilídeos são um excelente sistema modelo para estudos de evolução de história de vida seleção natural e sexual, evolução e coevolução experimental e evolução fenotípica em gradientes ecológicos. Os poecilídeos são também excelentes modelos para o estudo de processos ecológicos e evolutivos associados como a invasão e colonização de novos ambientes. As populações de Poecilia vivípara que ocorrem no sistema lagunar de Campos de Goytacazes no norte do estado do Rio de Janeiro são um exemplo notável de invasão e colonização de novos ambientes. Nesse sistema, a origem das lagoas deve-se a processos geomorfológicos associados com a formação do delta do rio Paraíba do Sul durante o Holoceno. Para este sistema formulamos a hipótese que a história geológica da região influenciou a variação genética atual em Poecilia vivípara. Deste modo, uma população de uma outra bacia hidrográfica seria diferente das populações da bacia do rio Paraíba do Sul. Uma população do rio Paraíba do Sul de uma região com formação mais antiga seria diferente das populações de regiões com história mais recente. Dentre as mais recentes as que vivem na área de influência marinha seriam diferentes das que vivem na área fluvial. A hipótese foi testada usando sequências da região de controle da replicação mitocondrial de 8 populações com 30 indivíduos cada. Os resultados mostraram uma grande diversidade genética dentro e entre as populações, estruturação genética entre as populações antigas recentes do rio Paraíba do Sul e que não houve mudanças no tamanho efetivo das populações recentemente. A partir dos resultados a hipótese formulada não foi refutada. Assim, existe relação entre a história geológica da região e a variação genética atual do P. vivípara. Há evidências que o regime de inundação característico da região também age sobre a variação genética destas populações aumentando o fluxo genético entre as mesmas / Abstract: The fishes of Poeciliidae family are an excellent model system for studies of life history evolution of natural and sexual selection, experimental evolution and coevolution in phenotypic evolution and ecological gradients. These are also excellent models for the study of ecological and evolutionary processes associated as the invasion and colonization of new environments. Populations of Poecilia vivipara occurring in the lagoon system of Goytacazes fields in northern Rio de Janeiro state are a notable example of invasion and colonization of new environments. In this system, the origin of the lakes due to geomorphological processes associated with the formation of the delta of the River Paraíba do Sul during the Holocene. For this system we hypothesized that the geological history of the region influenced the genetic variation present in Poecilia vivipara. Thus, a population of another watershed would be different populations of river basin Paraíba do Sul A population of Paraíba do Sul River in a region with older formation would be different regions with populations of more recent history. Among the most recent ones that live in the area of marine influence would be different from those who live in the river. The hypothesis was tested using sequences of the control region of mitochondrial replication of 8 populations with 30 individuals each. The results showed a high genetic diversity within and among populations, genetic structure among populations older times recent Paraíba do Sul river and that there were no changes in effective population size recently. From the results the hypothesis was not refuted. Thus, there is a relationship between the geological history of the region and genetic variation of the current P. vivipara. There is evidence that the flooding regime characteristic of the region also acts on the genetic variation of these populations increasing gene flow between them / Mestrado / Genetica Animal e Evolução / Mestre em Genética e Biologia Molecular

The genus Rousettus has distributional pattern unique among fruitbats comprising both Asia and Africa and reaching northern distributional limits of the family in Persia, Arabia and Mediterranean basin. This could be ascribed to the ability of echolocation, consequent cave dwelling, and presumably other site-specific adaptations, which enabled dispersal independent of forest block and surviving in Mediterranean type of climate. Using fastly evolving mitochondrial marker, we aimed to assess genetic variability, its geographic distribution and demography of northern populations of the Egyptian fruitbat (Rousettus aegyptiacus). Mitochondrial network indicates deep genetic divergence between disjunct Mediterranean and eastern African parts of the range. Basal position of Sinaic and Jordanian haplotypes within northern clade indicate important role of these regions in colonization of eastern Mediterranean. Generally, the northern haplogroup is moderately diversified with partial geographic localization of particular haplotypes. Significant isolation by distance pattern suggests relatively pronounced site fidelity of particular colonies, at least in terms of maternal gene flow. Landscape genetics analyses indicate discontinuities in distribution of mitochondrial genetic variability, in some cases correlating with...

Many sharks have life history characteristics (e.g., slow growth, late age at maturity, low fecundity, and long gestation periods) that make their populations vulnerable to collapse due to overfishing. The porbeagle (Lamna nasus), bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas), great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran), and smooth hammerhead (S. zygaena), are all commercially exploited. The population genetic structure of these species was assessed based on globally distributed sample sets using mitochondrial control region (mtCR) sequences and/or nuclear markers. Complex patterns of evolutionary and demographic history were inferred using coalescent and statistical moment-based methods. All four species showed statistically significant genetic partitioning on large scales, i.e., between hemispheres (L. nasus mtCR φST = 0.8273) or oceanic basins (C. leucas nuclear FST = 0.1564; S. mokarran mtCR φST = 0.8745, nuclear FST = 0.1113; S. zygaena mtCR φST = 0.8159, nuclear FST = 0.0495). Furthermore, S. zygaena mtCR sequences indicated statistically significant matrilineal genetic structuring within oceanic basins, but no intrabasin structure was detected with nuclear microsatellites. S. mokarran showed statistically significant genetic structure between oceanic basins with both nuclear and mitochondrial data, albeit with some differences between the two marker types in fine scale patterns involving northern Indian Ocean samples. A microsatellite assessment of C. leucas demonstrated no population structuring within the Atlantic or Indo-Pacific, with the exception that samples from Fiji were differentiated from the remaining Indo- Pacific Ocean locations. In contrast, the L. nasus mitochondrial and nuclear ITS2 sequences revealed strong northern vs. southern hemispheric population differentiation, but no differentiation within these hemispheres. These geographic patterns of genetic structure were used to determine the source of fins obtained from the international fin trade and to develop forensic tools for conservation.

Orientador: Rogério Caetano da Costa / Resumo: O camarão-rosa Farfantepenaeus paulensis é um dos mais importantes recursos pesqueiros da costa sul-sudeste do Brasil. Os fundos de pesca da espécie incluem dois estoques reprodutivos principais, localizados nas costas dos estados de Santa Catarina e São Paulo. A espécie apresenta ciclo de vida do tipo II, com uma fase reprodutiva no ambiente marinho e recrutamento juvenil em áreas estuarinas e baías. O conhecimento sobre o fluxo gênico entre estoques é a base de todo o ordenamento pesqueiro, uma vez que unidades genéticas podem apresentar características particulares e, normalmente, necessitam de estratégias específicas de manejo. Porém, há poucas informações que podem servir de subsídio para verificar se os diferentes estoques pesqueiros de F. paulensis também representam estoques genéticos distintos. O crescimento desordenado da frota industrial, o incremento da pesca artesanal nas áreas de criadouro, somado à pequena eficácia da legislação pesqueira, associados à ineficiência da fiscalização, levaram a um cenário de colapso da pescaria do camarão rosa no fim dos anos 90. Um melhor entendimento da estruturação genética das populações de F. paulensis é necessário, não somente pelo seu alto valor comercial e ecológico, mas também para permitir a implementação de medidas de manejo mais efetivas. Assim, o presente trabalho buscou avaliar a estruturação genética das populações do camarão rosa F. paulensis ao longo de sua distribuição no Atlântico Sul Ocidental, utilizando como ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The pink shrimp Farfantepenaeus paulensis is one of the most important fishing resources on the south-southeast coast of Brazil. The fishing zone of the species includes two main reproductive stocks, located on the coasts of Santa Catarina and São Paulo states. The species exhibits the type II life cycle, with an offshore reproductive stage and a juvenile recruitment in bays and estuarine areas. Knowledge on the amount of gene flow between stocks is the basis of all fisheries management, since genetic units may have particular characteristics and usually require specific management strategies. However, there is little information to verify whether F. paulensis's different fish stocks also represent different genetic stocks. The unrestricted growth of the industrial fleet, the increase in artisanal fishing in breeding areas, coupled with the low effectiveness of fisheries legislation and the inefficiency of inspection, led to a collapse of the pink shrimp fishery in the late 1990s. A better understanding of the genetic structuring of the populations of F. paulensis is necessary, not only for its high commercial and ecological value, but also to allow the implementation of more effective management measures. Thus, the present work aimed to assess the genetic structuring of the populations of the pink shrimp F. paulensis throughout its distribution in the Western South Atlantic, using as molecular marker the Control Region (D-loop) of the mitochondrial DNA (Chapter 1). In additi... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor