From 'third pole' to north pole: a Himalayan origin for the arctic fox

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	From 'third pole' to north pole: a Himalayan origin for the arctic fox
	Wang, Xiaoming 1,2,3,4,5; Tseng, Zhijie Jack 1,4,5; Li, Qiang 1,2; Takeuchi, Gary T.6; Xie, Guangpu 7; Wang, XM (reprint author), Nat Hist Museum Los Angeles Cty, Dept Vertebrate Paleontol, 900 Exposit Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA.
刊名	PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
	2014-07-22
卷号	281 期号:1787 页码:281
关键词	Himalaya Tibet Arctic Fox Canidae Pliocene Zoogeography
ISSN号	0962-8452
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	The 'third pole' of the world is a fitting metaphor for the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau, in allusion to its vast frozen terrain, rivalling the Arctic and Antarctic, at high altitude but lowlatitude. Living Tibetan and arctic mammals share adaptations to freezing temperatures such as long and thick winter fur in arctic muskox and Tibetan yak, and for carnivorans, a more predatory niche. Here, we report, to our knowledge, the first evolutionary link between an Early Pliocene (3.60-5.08 Myr ago) fox, Vulpes qiuzhudingi new species, from the Himalaya (Zanda Basin) and Kunlun Mountain (Kunlun Pass Basin) and the modern arctic fox Vulpes lagopus in the polar region. A highly hypercarnivorous dentition of the new fox bears a striking resemblance to that of V. lagopus and substantially predates the previous oldest records of the arctic fox by 3-4 Myr. The low latitude, high-altitude Tibetan Plateau is separated from the nearest modern arctic fox geographical range by at least 2000 km. The apparent connection between an ancestral high-elevation species and its modern polar descendant is consistent with our 'Out-of-Tibet' hypothesis postulating that high-altitude Tibet was a training ground for cold-environment adaptations well before the start of the Ice Age.
WOS关键词	PHYLOGENETIC SYSTEMATICS ; ALOPEX-LAGOPUS ; VULPES-VULPES ; RED FOX ; CARNIVORA ; CANIDAE ; MAMMALIA ; TIBET ; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY ; SEQUENCE
WOS研究方向	Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000338335800030
资助机构	Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Science [XDB03020104]; Major Basic Research Projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (973 Program) [2012CB21904]; CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams; Chinese National Natural Science Foundation [40702004, 40730210]; Chinese Academy of Science Outstanding Overseas Scholar Fund [KL205208]; National Science Foundation [EAR-0446699, 0444073, 0958704, 1227212]; National Geographic Society [W22-08]; Frick Postdoctoral Fellowship
公开日期	2014-12-12
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/5145]
专题	古脊椎动物与古人类研究所_古哺乳动物研究室
通讯作者	Wang, XM (reprint author), Nat Hist Museum Los Angeles Cty, Dept Vertebrate Paleontol, 900 Exposit Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA.
作者单位	1.Nat Hist Museum Los Angeles Cty, Dept Vertebrate Paleontol, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 3.Nanjing Univ, Sch Earth Sci & Engn, Nanjing 210046, Jiangsu, Peoples R China 4.Univ So Calif, Dept Biol Sci, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA 5.Amer Museum Nat Hist, Div Paleontol, New York, NY 10024 USA 6.George C Page Museum, Los Angeles, CA 90036 USA 7.Gansu Prov Museum, Lanzhou 730050, Gansu, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Xiaoming,Tseng, Zhijie Jack,Li, Qiang,et al. From 'third pole' to north pole: a Himalayan origin for the arctic fox[J]. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,2014,281(1787):281.
APA	Wang, Xiaoming,Tseng, Zhijie Jack,Li, Qiang,Takeuchi, Gary T.,Xie, Guangpu,&Wang, XM .(2014).From 'third pole' to north pole: a Himalayan origin for the arctic fox.PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,281(1787),281.
MLA	Wang, Xiaoming,et al."From 'third pole' to north pole: a Himalayan origin for the arctic fox".PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 281.1787(2014):281.