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High diversity of lineages was discovered, with three revived species and three novel lineages of undescribed species in Europe. Evidence for extensive mito‐nuclear discordance and ongoing and past inter‐ and intrageneric introgressive hybridization was found in many lineages. A Caucasian relic lineage and the endangered narrow endemic species ‘\n                      <jats:italic>Rutilus</jats:italic>\n                      ’\n                      <jats:italic>atropatenus</jats:italic>\n                      were found to represent an independent lineage (\n                      <jats:italic>Orthroleucos</jats:italic>\n                      ) with a high level of past introgression with\n                      <jats:italic>Rutilus</jats:italic>\n                      .\n                    </jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Main Conclusions</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The genetic structure of\n                      <jats:italic>Rutilus</jats:italic>\n                      revealed by nuclear SNPs contrasts markedly with that supported by mtDNA. Numerous mito‐nuclear discordances are evidence of the past secondary contacts and highlight the weakness of taxonomy based on mtDNA alone. A super‐lineage of mtDNA covering the range of many European, Siberian, Caucasian, and Central Asian\n                      <jats:italic>Rutilus</jats:italic>\n                      species (5000 km long) is a result of introgression of mtDNA from a widespread Ponto‐Caspian lineage whose distribution likely pulsed with Pleistocene glaciation cycles. Anadromous life histories may have evolved in parallel in different clades and been facilitated by hybridization. The high plasticity, adaptiveness and species diversity of the genus\n                      <jats:italic>Rutilus</jats:italic>\n                      may be underlined by their heterogeneous genomes resulting from extensive interspecific hybridization. However, narrow‐range endemic species may be threatened by introgressive hybridization.\n                    </jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>","journal":"Diversity and Distributions","year":2025,"id":651259,"datarank":0.20794415416798362,"base_score":1.3862943611198906,"endowment":1.3862943611198906,"self_citation_contribution":0.20794415416798362,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.20794415416798362,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":3,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1698382,"name":"Evgeniy Simonov","orcid":"0000-0003-0194-4487","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1698383,"name":"Radek Šanda","orcid":"0000-0001-8514-3948","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1698384,"name":"Jasna Vukić","orcid":"0000-0003-2243-0303","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1698385,"name":"Stamatis Zogaris","orcid":"0000-0002-8951-5646","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1698386,"name":"Aleksey Bolotovskiy","orcid":"0000-0003-2262-6808","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1698387,"name":"Marina Levina","orcid":"0000-0003-4786-8184","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1698388,"name":"Nikolai Mugue","orcid":"0000-0001-8957-1931","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1698389,"name":"Namiq Mustafayev","orcid":"0000-0003-4384-5620","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":127990,"name":"Juha Merilä","orcid":"0000-0001-9614-0072","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1698381,"name":"Boris Levin","orcid":"0000-0002-4044-2036","position":0,"is_corresponding":false}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":{"has_enrichment":true,"resolved":true,"title":"Genomic Insights Into Diversity, Phylogeny, Hybridization and Evolutionary History of Palearctic Fish Genus\n                    <i>Rutilus</i>\n                    (Leuciscidae)","abstract":"<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Aim</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Using a widely distributed and frequently hybridising fish (genus\n                      <jats:italic>Rutilus</jats:italic>\n                      ) in the Palearctic as a model system, we re‐evaluated a series of hypotheses on phylogeny, taxonomy, phylogeography and the role of hybridization in evolutionary history based on the first large‐scale analyses of nuclear SNPs together with mtDNA data obtained from all\n                      <jats:italic>Rutilus</jats:italic>\n                      species.\n                    </jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Location</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Water systems in Northern Eurasia.</jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Based on nuclear (ddRADseq) data, we applied phylogenomic, population genomic and introgression analyses to assess the diversity of lineages, their distribution and hybridization in the context of the hypotheses tested.</jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      We identified 22 lineages in three major clades—\n                      <jats:italic>Rutilus</jats:italic>\n                      s. str.,\n                      <jats:italic>Leucos</jats:italic>\n                      and\n                      <jats:italic>Pararutilus</jats:italic>\n                      . High diversity of lineages was discovered, with three revived species and three novel lineages of undescribed species in Europe. Evidence for extensive mito‐nuclear discordance and ongoing and past inter‐ and intrageneric introgressive hybridization was found in many lineages. A Caucasian relic lineage and the endangered narrow endemic species ‘\n                      <jats:italic>Rutilus</jats:italic>\n                      ’\n                      <jats:italic>atropatenus</jats:italic>\n                      were found to represent an independent lineage (\n                      <jats:italic>Orthroleucos</jats:italic>\n                      ) with a high level of past introgression with\n                      <jats:italic>Rutilus</jats:italic>\n                      .\n                    </jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Main Conclusions</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The genetic structure of\n                      <jats:italic>Rutilus</jats:italic>\n                      revealed by nuclear SNPs contrasts markedly with that supported by mtDNA. Numerous mito‐nuclear discordances are evidence of the past secondary contacts and highlight the weakness of taxonomy based on mtDNA alone. A super‐lineage of mtDNA covering the range of many European, Siberian, Caucasian, and Central Asian\n                      <jats:italic>Rutilus</jats:italic>\n                      species (5000 km long) is a result of introgression of mtDNA from a widespread Ponto‐Caspian lineage whose distribution likely pulsed with Pleistocene glaciation cycles. Anadromous life histories may have evolved in parallel in different clades and been facilitated by hybridization. The high plasticity, adaptiveness and species diversity of the genus\n                      <jats:italic>Rutilus</jats:italic>\n                      may be underlined by their heterogeneous genomes resulting from extensive interspecific hybridization. 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