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Downloaded from Genbank (See Methods for Details), Our 76 Specimen 163 Dataset (71 Eulipotyphlans) Resulted in a Final Alignment of 39,414 Bp bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.14.426706; this version posted January 22, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. Myoglobin primary structure reveals multiple convergent transitions to semi- aquatic life in the world’s smallest mammalian divers Kai He,*,1,2,3 Triston G. Eastman,1 Hannah Czolacz,4 Shuhao Li,1 Akio Shinohara,5 Shin-ichiro Kawada,6 Mark S. Springer,7 Michael Berenbrink,*,†,4 and Kevin L. Campbell*,†,1 1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MN, Canada 2State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China 3School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China 4Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom 5Department of Bio-resources, Division of Biotechnology, Frontier Science Research Center, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan 6Department of Zoology, Division of Vertebrates, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan 7Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA *Corresponding authors: Email: [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] †These authors contributed equally to this work 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.14.426706; this version posted January 22, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 Abstract 2 Identifying the phylogenomic underpinnings of specialized phenotypes that fueled transitions 3 into new adaptive zones is central to evolutionary biology but is often confounded by a 4 fragmentary fossil record, morphological convergence, and unresolved phylogenetic 5 relationships. The speciose mammalian order Eulipotyphla (e.g., moles, shrews, hedgehogs, 6 solenodons) combines an unusual diversity of semi-aquatic, semi-fossorial, and fossorial forms 7 that arose from terrestrial forbearers, yet the ecomorphological pathways leading to these 8 lifestyles have been disputed for a century and more, calling for novel approaches. Here we 9 resolve previously intractable eulipotyphlan intra-family relationships and establish the net 10 surface charge of the oxygen-storing muscle protein myoglobin-readily determined from its 11 primary structure-as a molecular signature to trace ancient lifestyle transitions based on protein 12 sequence alone. Our analyses confidently resolve fossorial habits having evolved twice in talpid 13 moles and reveal five independent origins of a semi-aquatic lifestyle in the order housing the 14 world’s smallest endothermic divers. 15 16 Introduction 17 A fundamental challenge of evolutionary biology is to understand the phylogenomic 18 foundations of biochemical and physiological specializations that have enabled organisms to 19 proliferate into new adaptive zones. While species of most mammalian orders generally occupy a 20 single niche, members of a few mammalian lineages have radiated into a diverse range of 21 environmental habitats. The order Eulipotyphla is one such assemblage, in that terrestrial forms 22 repeatedly evolved into high-altitude, scansorial (climbing), fossorial (subterranean), semi- 23 fossorial, and semi-aquatic niches (Burgin and He 2018; He, et al. 2017). 24 The fourth largest among the 27 mammalian orders after Rodentia, Chiroptera, and 25 Cetartiodactyla, the eulipotyphlan clade consists of 527 recognized species of small 26 insectivorous mammals distributed among four extant families (Burgin, et al. 2018): Erinaceidae 27 (hedgehogs, gymnures, and moonrats), Soricidae (shrews), Talpidae (moles, shrew moles, shrew- 28 like moles, and desmans), and Solenodontidae (solenodons). A fifth family (Nesophontidae, 29 Caribbean ‘island-shrews’) only became extinct in the past 500 years following the arrival of 30 Europeans in the West Indies (MacPhee, et al. 1999). Fossil evidence supports terrestrial habits 31 as ancestral for Eulipotyphla, with shrew-like moles, erinaceids, and the majority of shrews 2 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.14.426706; this version posted January 22, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 32 retaining morphological characteristics (e.g., slender legs and a long, pointed mouse-like snout; 33 fig. 1) effective for hunting and avoiding predation on land (Churchfield 1990; Nowak 1999). 34 Semi-aquatic moles and shrews possess a stream-lined body and limb adaptations for underwater 35 locomotion (Nowak 1999; Burgin and He 2018), with desmans having an outward appearance 36 more similar to that of semi-aquatic rodents (e.g., muskrat) than to that of any other 37 eulipotyphlan mammal (fig. 1). By contrast, fossorial moles have evolved powerful forelimbs 38 that are held out to the sides of their tube-shaped bodies and have large, spade-like hands facing 39 posteriorly and oriented vertically allowing them to be effective burrowers (Gorman and Stone 40 1990). Finally, semi-fossorial shrews, solenodons, and shrew moles exhibit specializations in- 41 between that of terrestrial and fossorial lineages, often retaining pointed mouse-like snouts yet 42 possessing forelimbs that are oriented downwards and backwards to facilitate digging (Gorman 43 and Stone 1990; Nowak 1999). 44 45 46 Fig. 1. Museum specimen photos illustrating the four major ecomorphotypes within the order 47 Eulipotyphla. Representative terrestrial (shrew-like mole, Uropsilus soricipes; bottom right), semi-aquatic 48 (Russian desman, Desmana moschata; right centre), strictly fossorial (Eastern mole, Scalopus aquaticus; 49 left), and semi-fossorial (Chinese long-tailed mole, Scaptonyx fusicaudus; top centre) talpid mole species 50 are given. Photo by Kai He. 51 3 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.14.426706; this version posted January 22, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 52 While the lifestyle of extant eulipotyphlan mammals is easily predicted based on external 53 morphological features alone (e.g., Woodman and Gaffney 2014; Sansalone, et al. 2016; 54 Sansalone, et al. 2019), definitive assignments of transitional evolutionary stages have remained 55 elusive due to an incomplete, fragmentary fossil record (Hickman 1984; Sánchez-Villagra, et al. 56 2006; Piras, et al. 2012; Hooker 2016). Additionally, because morphological specializations 57 coincide with lifestyle across the different clades of eulipotyphlan mammals, it has been difficult 58 to discern whether fossorial and semi-aquatic specializations found in Eurasian and North 59 American moles arose in a common ancestor or are due to convergent evolution (Schwermann 60 and Thompson 2015; He, et al. 2017). As a result, long-standing questions persist regarding the 61 evolutionary pathways leading to the diverse ecomorphological variation seen in eulipotyphlan 62 mammals. 63 For example, examinations of shoulder anatomy (Campbell 1939) and skeletal musculature 64 (Whidden 1999) indicated that the shoulder and humeroclavicular joint morphology of fossorial 65 talpid species aligned more closely with semi-aquatic locomotion, suggesting that the ancestor of 66 Talpinae moles was semi-aquatic, which we here term the ‘aquatic mole’ hypothesis. 67 Conversely, Reed (1951) analyzed anatomical features from four talpid genera and proposed that 68 semi-fossorial and fossorial forms evolved from a terrestrial ancestor and that the semi-aquatic 69 lifestyle of desmans was secondary to a semi-fossorial phase, a view also shared by Grand et al. 70 (1998). Skeletal and fossil evidence also suggested that a period of strictly fossorial life preceded 71 the invasion of semi-aquatic habits by the ancestors of star-nosed moles (Condylura cristata) 72 (Hickman 1984; Grand, et al. 1998; Sanchez-Villagra, et al. 2006; Piras, et al. 2012; Hooker 73 2016), though Sansalone et al. (2016) proposed that the semi-aquatic lifestyle of this genus 74 instead represents an autapomorphy from a semi-fossorial (shrew mole-like) ancestor. 75 Adaptive morphology and behavioural/physiological specializations for diving have also 76 been well documented for members of the family Soricidae (Hutterer 1985; Catania, et al. 2008; 77 Burgin and He 2018), though uncertainties regarding the evolution of semi-aquatic habits in this 78 clade are also pervasive. For example, semi-aquatic members of four genera, Sorex (North 79 American water shrews), Neomys (European water shrews), Chimarrogale (Asian water shrews), 80 and Nectogale (Elegant water shrews) show a graded series of progressively greater 81 morphological adaptations for underwater foraging (Hutterer 1985), yet phylogenetic analyses 82 strongly refute a common ancestry of aquatic exploitation
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