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. 2021 Dec 3;11(24):18181–18195. doi: 10.1002/ece3.8414

Phylogeography of the Japanese greater horseshoe bat Rhinolophus nippon (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in Northeast Asia: New insight into the monophyly of the Japanese populations

Yugo Ikeda 1,✉, Masaharu Motokawa 2
PMCID: PMC8717313  PMID: 35003666

Abstract

The Japanese greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus nippon) is distributed widely in East Asia. Within the species, R. nippon in Northeast Asia is regarded as the lineage that diverged most recently. However, the monophyly of the Japanese populations is unclear due to insufficient data about phylogenetic relationship of the western Japanese populations. To test the monophyly of the Japanese populations of R. nippon, we sampled R. nippon from western Japan and performed a phylogeographic analysis based on mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b and the D‐loop. The Northeast Asian lineage consisted of three main clades in eastern Japan (clade I), western Japan (clade II), and the continent as well as the Kumamoto population in westernmost Japan (clade III). The results of this study do not support the monophyly of the Japanese population. The findings suggest the “reverse colonization” of R. nippon from the Japanese Archipelago to the Eurasian continent, and provide important insight into the role of the island system in creation and supply of diversity to the continent.

Keywords: greater horseshoe bat, island biology, land bridge, phylogeny, reverse colonization

We performed a phylogeographic analysis of the Japanese greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus nippon) in Northeast Asia based on mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b and the D‐loop. The results revealed that the Japanese populations are not monophyletic, and the continental populations are imbedded within the Japanese population. The findings support the "reverse colonization" of R. nippon from the Japanese Archipelago to the Eurasian continent.

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1. INTRODUCTION

The bat order Chiroptera (Mammalia) is the second most speciose order of mammals, consisting of at least 21 families, 230 genera, and 1401 species (Wilson & Mittermeier, 2019). It is distributed worldwide, including on various islands, but not in the polar regions. Evolutionary biological studies of organisms on islands—island biological studies—have focused on birds that evolved dramatically as the result of isolation and adaptive radiation to the island environment as represented by Darwin's finches (Burns et al., 2002; Harvey et al., 2021; Lack, 1945; Lamichhaney et al., 2016; Sato et al., 1999; Weir et al., 2009). Although bats are regular members of island ecosystems and adapted to island environments, they have been rarely focused in island biological research.

The greater horseshoe bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum complex (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae), which occurs throughout the Palearctic region, including many islands, had been considered a single species until recently (Csorba et al., 2003; Huston et al., 2019; Jo et al., 2018; Sano, 2015; Smith, 2008; Yoshiyuki, 1989). Based on molecular studies (Flanders et al., 2009, 2011; Koh et al., 2014; Rossiter et al., 2007), the European greater horseshoe bat R. ferrumequinum (Schreber, 1774) in the western Palearctic and the Japanese greater horseshoe bat R. nippon Temminck, 1835 in the eastern Palearctic became recognized as separate species (Burgin, 2019), which were subsequently diagnosed from each other and redescribed based on skull morphological characters (Ikeda, Jiang, et al., 2020). However, unresolved taxonomic problems remain for R. nippon populations in Northeast Asia, which includes northeastern China (Jilin and Liaoning provinces), the Korean Peninsula, the Japanese Archipelago, and peripheral islands.

The Japanese Archipelago is a biodiversity hotspot with many endemic species of various mammals including bats (Motokawa, 2015). In contrast, the distributions of several species of bats, including R. nippon, extend to the Eurasian continent. Many Japanese terrestrial animals are considered to have origin in the Eurasian continent and to have migrated through the Korean Peninsula (e.g., Tamate, 2015). When discussing the origins of Japanese terrestrial animals, phylogeographic patterns among populations in Japan and Northeast Asia are necessary to be clarified.

Flanders et al. (2011) reported that R. nippon populations in Northeast Asia (from Jilin Province and eastern Japan) diverged deeply from the parapatric populations in East China (Henan Province) and form a monophyletic group based on 1098 bp of the mitochondrial ND2 gene and 13 microsatellite loci. These data suggest that the Northeast Asian lineage diverged 400,000–600,000 years ago. Then, Liu et al. (2016) revealed that the Japanese populations form a monophyletic clade that diverged from the continental populations (from Jilin and Liaoning provinces and South Korea) more recently, based on mtDNA cytochrome b data. These two studies included Japanese samples only from eastern Honshu, and did not examine the western Japanese samples (western Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku islands). Honshu is the largest island in East Asia and several species showed unexpected divergence within the island (Motokawa, 2017). In fact, terrestrial animals in the Japanese Archipelago tend to be diverged two or more lineages in east and west. Therefore, we conducted molecular phylogeographic analyses of Northeast Asian R. nippon, including the western Japanese populations, to verify the monophyly of the Japanese populations.

2. MATERIALS AND METHODS

2.1. Specimens and sampling

Thirty‐two R. nippon specimens and one R. cornutus specimen were collected from seven localities in Japan: Ibaraki, Kyoto, Hyogo, and Yamaguchi on Honshu Island, Kagawa on Shikoku Island, and Fukuoka and Kumamoto on Kyushu Island (Figure 1). All specimens were deposited in the Zoological Collection of Kyoto University (KUZ M17251–KUZ M17283). To verify the consistency with Liu et al. (2016), we targeted the cytochrome b and the D‐loop mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) regions; the latter has a high evolutionary rate and is suitable for intraspecific comparison. Thirty‐five sequences from eastern Japan (cytochrome b alleles by Sakai et al. [2003]), South Korea, and China deposited in GenBank and 20 sequences from Jilin (Ji'an and Liuhe) and Liaoning (Benxi) provinces reported by Liu et al. (2016) were included in the phylogenetic analyses (Table 1, Figure 1). In haplotype and nucleotide diversities and neutrality tests, the sequence data of Sakai et al. (2003) were treated as the actual number of individuals.

FIGURE 1.

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Map of the Northeast Asian Rhinolophus nippon samples examined in this study. Colors of an object represent clades: blue, clade I; green, clade II; red, clade III. Circles represent samples collected in this study; Triangles, diamonds, and stars represent samples reported in Liu et al. (2016), Sakai et al. (2003) and deposited in GenBank, respectively

TABLE 1.

Characteristics of the samples examined in this study

No. ID Accession Haplotype Clade n Country Region Locality Latitude Longitude Altitude Note
cyt b D–loop
1 KUZM17251 LC605914 LC605947 H1‐1 I 1 Japan eastern Japan Kyoto 35.24 135.49 276 –
2 KUZM17252 LC605915 LC605948 H1‐1 I 1 Japan eastern Japan Kyoto 35.24 135.49 276 –
3 KUZM17253 LC605916 LC605949 H1‐1 I 1 Japan eastern Japan Kyoto 35.24 135.49 276 –
4 KUZM17254 LC605917 LC605950 H2‐1 I 1 Japan eastern Japan Kyoto 35.24 135.49 276 –
5 KUZM17255 LC605918 LC605951 H3‐1 III 1 Japan western Japan Kumamoto 32.22 130.82 150 –
6 KUZM17256 LC605919 LC605952 H4‐1 III 1 Japan western Japan Kumamoto 32.22 130.82 150 –
7 KUZM17257 LC605920 LC605953 H4‐1 III 1 Japan western Japan Kumamoto 32.22 130.82 150 –
8 KUZM17258 LC605921 LC605954 H4‐1 III 1 Japan western Japan Kumamoto 32.22 130.82 150 –
9 KUZM17259 LC605922 LC605955 H3‐2 III 1 Japan western Japan Kumamoto 32.41 130.87 289 –
10 KUZM17260 LC605923 LC605956 H3‐3 III 1 Japan western Japan Kumamoto 32.41 130.87 289 –
11 KUZM17261 LC605924 LC605957 H5‐1 II 1 Japan western Japan Fukuoka 33.79 130.94 321 –
12 KUZM17262 LC605925 LC605958 H5‐1 II 1 Japan western Japan Fukuoka 33.79 130.94 321 –
13 KUZM17263 LC605926 LC605959 H6‐1 II 1 Japan western Japan Fukuoka 33.79 130.94 321 –
14 KUZM17264 LC605927 LC605960 H6‐2 II 1 Japan western Japan Fukuoka 33.79 130.94 321 –
15 KUZM17265 LC605928 LC605961 H6‐3 II 1 Japan western Japan Yamaguchi 34.25 131.25 117 –
16 KUZM17266 LC605929 LC605962 H6‐4 II 1 Japan western Japan Yamaguchi 34.25 131.25 117 –
17 KUZM17267 LC605930 LC605963 H6‐3 II 1 Japan western Japan Yamaguchi 34.25 131.25 104 –
18 KUZM17268 LC605931 LC605964 H6‐3 II 1 Japan western Japan Yamaguchi 34.25 131.25 117 –
19 KUZM17269 LC605932 LC605965 H6‐3 II 1 Japan western Japan Yamaguchi 34.25 131.25 117 –
20 KUZM17270 LC605933 LC605966 H1‐2 I 1 Japan eastern Japan Ibaraki 36.42 140.37 90 –
21 KUZM17271 LC605934 LC605967 H1‐3 I 1 Japan eastern Japan Ibaraki 36.19 140.15 113 –
22 KUZM17272 LC605935 LC605968 H7‐1 II 1 Japan western Japan Hyogo 34.25 134.81 193 –
23 KUZM17273 LC605936 LC605969 H8‐1 II 1 Japan western Japan Hyogo 34.25 134.81 193 –
24 KUZM17274 LC605937 LC605970 H7‐1 II 1 Japan western Japan Hyogo 34.25 134.81 193 –
25 KUZM17275 LC605938 LC605971 H7‐1 II 1 Japan western Japan Hyogo 34.25 134.81 193 –
26 KUZM17276 LC605939 LC605972 H9‐1 II 1 Japan western Japan Kagawa 34.16 133.89 211 –
27 KUZM17277 LC605940 LC605973 H10‐1 II 1 Japan western Japan Kagawa 34.16 133.89 211 –
28 KUZM17278 LC605941 LC605974 H11‐1 II 1 Japan western Japan Kagawa 34.16 133.89 211 –
29 KUZM17279 LC605942 LC605975 H1‐4 I 1 Japan eastern Japan Kyoto 35.20 135.65 – –
30 KUZM17280 LC605943 LC605976 H1‐5 I 1 Japan eastern Japan Kyoto 35.20 135.65 – –
31 KUZM17281 LC605944 LC605977 H1‐6 I 1 Japan eastern Japan Kyoto 35.20 135.65 – –
32 KUZM17282 LC605945 LC605978 H1‐1 I 1 Japan eastern Japan Kyoto 35.20 135.65 – –
33 – JA1 JA1 H3‐4 III 1 NE China Jilin Ji'an 41.05 125.83 – Appendix data of Liu et al. (2016)
34 – JA2 JA2 H3‐4 III 1 NE China Jilin Ji'an 41.05 125.83 – Appendix data of Liu et al. (2016)
35 – JA3 JA3 H3‐4 III 1 NE China Jilin Ji'an 41.05 125.83 – Appendix data of Liu et al. (2016)
36 – JA4 JA4 H3‐4 III 1 NE China Jilin Ji'an 41.05 125.83 – Appendix data of Liu et al. (2016)
37 – JA6 JA6 H3‐4 III 1 NE China Jilin Ji'an 41.05 125.83 – Appendix data of Liu et al. (2016)
38 – JA7 JA7 H3‐4 III 1 NE China Jilin Ji'an 41.05 125.83 – Appendix data of Liu et al. (2016)
39 – JA8 JA8 H3‐4 III 1 NE China Jilin Ji'an 41.05 125.83 – Appendix data of Liu et al. (2016)
40 – JA9 JA9 H3‐4 III 1 NE China Jilin Ji'an 41.05 125.83 – Appendix data of Liu et al. (2016)
41 – JA11 JA11 H3‐4 III 1 NE China Jilin Ji'an 41.05 125.83 – Appendix data of Liu et al. (2016)
42 – JA12 JA12 H3‐5 III 1 NE China Jilin Ji'an 41.05 125.83 – Appendix data of Liu et al. (2016)
43 – JA13 JA13 H3‐4 III 1 NE China Jilin Ji'an 41.05 125.83 – Appendix data of Liu et al. (2016)
44 – JA14 JA14 H3‐6 III 1 NE China Jilin Ji'an 41.05 125.83 – Appendix data of Liu et al. (2016)
45 – JA15 JA15 H3‐6 III 1 NE China Jilin Ji'an 41.05 125.83 – Appendix data of Liu et al. (2016)
46 – JA16 JA16 H3‐6 III 1 NE China Jilin Ji'an 41.05 125.83 – Appendix data of Liu et al. (2016)
47 – LH1 LH1 H12‐1 III 1 NE China Jilin Liuhe 42.38 126.00 – Appendix data of Liu et al. (2016)
48 – LH3 LH3 H3‐4 III 1 NE China Jilin Liuhe 42.38 126.00 – Appendix data of Liu et al. (2016)
49 – LH4 LH4 H12‐1 III 1 NE China Jilin Liuhe 42.38 126.00 – Appendix data of Liu et al. (2016)
50 – JN392460 JN392460 H3‐4 III 1 South Korea Korean Peninsula Gangwon – – – complete genome
51 – JX084273 JX084273 H3‐4 III 1 South Korea Jeju Jeju – – – complete genome
52 – NC020326 NC020326 H3‐4 III 1 South Korea Jeju Jeju – – – complete genome
53 – NC016191 NC016191 H3‐4 III 1 South Korea Korean Peninsula Gangwon – – – complete genome
54 – KT779432 KT779432 H3‐5 III 1 NE China Jilin – – – – complete genome
55 – KT783534 KT783534 H36 SW China 1 SW China Yunnan – – – – complete genome
56 – BX11 – H3 III 1 NE China Liaoning Benxi 41.38 124.95 – Appendix data of Liu et al. (2016)
57 – BX12 – H3 III 1 NE China Liaoning Benxi 41.38 124.95 – Appendix data of Liu et al. (2016)
58 – BX13 – H3 III 1 NE China Liaoning Benxi 41.38 124.95 – Appendix data of Liu et al. (2016)
59 – KP063140 – H13 III 1 South Korea Jeju Jeju – – – –
60 – KP063141 – H14 III 1 South Korea Jeju Jeju – – – –
61 – KP063142 – H15 III 1 South Korea Jeju Jeju – – – –
62 – KP063143 – H16 III 1 South Korea Korean Peninsula Jeonbuk – – – –
63 – KP063144 – H17 III 1 South Korea Korean Peninsula Chungbuk – – – –
64 – KP063145 – H18 III 1 South Korea Korean Peninsula Chungbuk – – – –
65 – KP063146 – H3 III 1 South Korea Korean Peninsula Gangwon – – – –
66 – AB085721 – H1 I 33 Japan *1 *1 – – – "Allele A"
67 – AB085722 – H19 I 11 Japan *1 *1 – – – "Allele B"
68 – AB085723 – H6 II 5 Japan *1 *1 – – – "Allele C"
69 – AB085724 – H20 I 4 Japan *1 *1 – – – "Allele D"
70 – AB085725 – H21 I 2 Japan *1 *1 – – – "Allele E"
71 – AB085726 – H22 I 2 Japan *1 *1 – – – "Allele F"
72 – AB085727 – H23 I 1 Japan *1 *1 – – – "Allele G"
73 – AB085728 – H24 I 1 Japan *1 *1 – – – "Allele H"
74 – AB085729 – H25 I 1 Japan *1 *1 – – – "Allele I"
75 – AB085730 – H26 I 1 Japan *1 *1 – – – "Allele J"
76 – AB085731 – H27 I 1 Japan *1 *1 – – – "Allele K"
77 – EF544400 – H28 CE China 1 CE China Henan – – – – –
78 – EF544401 – H29 CE China 1 CE China Henan – – – – –
79 – EF544406 – H30 CE China 1 CE China Henan – – – – –
80 – EF544408 – H31 CE China 1 CE China Henan – – – – –
81 – EF544409 – H32 CE China 1 CE China Henan – – – – –
82 – EF544417 – H33 CE China 1 CE China Henan – – – – –
83 – EU434935 – H3 III 1 NE China Jilin – – – – –
84 – EU434936 – H34 SW China 1 SW China Yunnan – – – – –
85 – DQ297575 – H35 SW China 1 SW China Yunnan – – – – –
86 – DQ351847 – H3 III 1 NE China Jilin – – – – –
87 – DQ351848 – H35 SW China 1 SW China Yunnan – – – – –
88 KUZM17283 LC605946 LC605979 outgroup outgroup 1 Japan eastern Japan Kyoto 35.24 135.49 276 –
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Abbreviations: CE, central eastern; NE, northeastern; SW, southwestern.

*1 was listed in Table 2.

2.2. DNA extraction, polymerase chain reaction, and sequencing

Genomic DNA was extracted from bat liver tissues preserved in 99% ethanol using the DNeasy Blood & Tissue Kit (Qiagen). MtDNA fragments from the cytochrome b and the D‐loop regions were amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using the newly designed primer pairs RhGluL1 (5'‐AAT CAC CGT TGT ATT TCA AC‐3’) and RhThrH1 (5'‐CTT TTC TGG TTT ACA AGA CC‐3’) for cytochrome b, and the universal primer pairs P and E for the D‐loop (Wilkinson & Chapman, 1991). RhGluL1 and RhThrH1 were designed with reference to the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of R. ferrumequinum (KT779432; Xiao et al., 2017). PCR amplifications were performed in a 12.5 µl reaction volume using an Ex Taq Kit (TaKaRa Bio) and a PCR Thermal Cycler Dice Gradient (TaKaRa Bio), with the following program: an initial denaturing step at 94.0℃ for 5 min; 35 cycles of denaturing at 64.0℃ for 30 s, annealing at 54.5℃ for 30 s, and extension at 72.0℃ for 1 min; and a final extension step at 72.0℃ for 7 min. The PCR products were purified using ExoSAP–IT Express PCR Product Cleanup Reagent (Thermo Fisher Scientific K.K.), and the purified products were sequenced by Macrogen Japan Co.

The sequences were edited and trimmed using GAP 4 (Staden et al., 2003), and aligned using ClustalW (Thompson et al., 1994) in MEGA X version 10.1.8 (Kumar et al., 2018). The sequences were then assembled by eye.

2.3. Phylogenetic analysis

A concatenated dataset comprising the cytochrome b and the D‐loop fragments was used to estimate the phylogeography of R. nippon. The D‐loop sequences of individuals with only the cytochrome b sequence (e.g., AB085721–AB085731, Table 1) were treated as missing data. The dataset was partitioned into four parts based on the codon evolutionary rates in cytochrome b and the relatively rapid rate in the D‐loop: the first, second, and third triplet positions of cytochrome b; and the D‐loop. The haplotype diversity (h) and nucleotide diversity (π) of the cytochrome b and the D‐loop were calculated in DnaSP version 6.12.03 (Rozas et al., 2017).

To assess the divergence times of R. nippon in Northeast Asia, a time‐calibrated phylogenetic tree of the cytochrome b and the D‐loop was estimated by Bayesian inference (BI) in BEAST version 2.6.3 (Bouckaert et al., 2019). BI was based on a partitioned substitution model (K80 for the first, HKY+I for the second, TRN for the third triplet positions of cytochrome b, and HKY+G for the D‐loop) selected by the Bayesian information criterion and performed with PartitionFinder version 2.1.1 (Lanfear et al., 2017). BI was run with four Markov Chain Monte Carlo analyses with 100,000,000 iterations and sampling every 50,000 states. Substitution rates of 1.3% per million years for cytochrome b (Liu et al., 2016) and 20% for the D‐loop (Kimprasit et al., 2021; Petit et al., 1999), and a generation time of 2 years (Flanders et al., 2009) were used. As a tree prior, the coalescent constant population and strict molecular clock models, and default settings for all other parameters, were selected. The convergence of the runs and the effective sample size was checked in Tracer version 1.7.1 (Rambaut et al., 2018). A consensus tree and posterior probability (PP) were calculated in TreeAnnotator version 2.6.3 (part of the BEAST package) using the maximum clade credibility tree and median heights. The initial 10% of runs was discarded as burn‐in. R. cornutus (cytochrome b, LC605946; D‐loop, LC605979) was used as the outgroup for the BI analyses. A time‐calibrated phylogenetic tree was visualized in FigTree version 1.4.4 (https://github.com/rambaut/figtree/releases), and individuals were gathered into unique haplotypes.

To seek evidence of population growth based on the cytochrome b sequences, Tajima's D (Tajima, 1989) and Fu's F s (Fu, 1997) were tested with 10,000 coalescent simulations in Arlequin version 3.5.2.2 (Schneider et al., 2000). In addition, a median‐joining method (Bandelt et al., 1999) was implemented in NETWORK version 10.2.0.0 (Fluxus Technology, http://www. fluxus‐engineering.com) to construct the maximum parsimony networks of cytochrome b and the D‐loop, respectively. The Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) and substages in the following text are based on Oba and Irino (2012).

3. RESULTS

3.1. Sequencing and haplotypes

First, 1140 bp of cytochrome b and 465 bp of the D‐loop were sequenced for all 33 R. nippon and one R. cornutus samples. The sequence data were deposited in GenBank (accession nos. LC605914–LC605946 for cytochrome b, LC605947–LC605979 for D‐loop). We incorporated the sequence data from GenBank and a previous study, resulting in the analysis of data from a total of 88 sequences (Table 1). In the analyzed cytochrome b and D‐loop fragments, 146 and 68 polymorphic sites were detected, and 66 and 33 were parsimony informative, respectively. In Northeast Asia, the nucleotide diversity (π) of the total of 74 sequences based on the cytochrome b was 0.00191 (±0.00012), and the diversity of all 27 haplotypes (h) was 0.827 (±0.023). The nucleotide diversity of the total of 55 sequences based on the D‐loop was 0.02036 (±0.00308), and the diversity of all 23 haplotypes was 0.890 (±0.034). We joined cytochrome b haplotype and D‐loop haplotype as shown in “Haplotype” column in Table 1. For example, “H3‐2” denotes cytochrome b haplotype No. 3 and D‐loop haplotype No. 2; “H3” has only cytochrome b haplotype No. 3 (lacked the D‐loop). Twenty‐one haplotypes were identified from 32 individuals of R. nippon newly sequenced in this study. Four haplotypes (H3‐1, H3‐2, H3‐3, and H4‐1) were found in Kumamoto (Kyushu Island): H3 was also found in South Korea and northeastern China (H3, H3‐4, H3‐5, and H3‐6), whereas H4 was unique to Kumamoto. H1 was shared between Kyoto and Ibaraki (H1‐1, H1‐2, H1‐3, H1‐4, J1‐5, and H1‐6), and was consistent with AB085721 (n = 33; H3) widely collected from eastern Japan by Sakai et al. (2003). H6 was shared between Fukuoka and Yamaguchi (H6‐1, H6‐2, H6‐3, and H6‐4), and was consistent with AB085723 (n = 5). AB085723 were collected from Miyazaki, Aichi, and Shizuoka (Table 2, Figure 1). The other haplotypes were regarded unique to Kyoto (H2‐1), Fukuoka (H5‐1), Hyogo (H7‐1 and H8‐1), and Kagawa (H9‐1, H10‐1, and H11‐1), respectively.

TABLE 2.

Detail information of sequences examined by Sakai et al. (2003)

No. Accession Haplotype Region Locality City n
66 AB085721 H1 eastern Japan Miyagi Kashimadai 1
66 AB085721 H1 eastern Japan Miyagi Sendai 4
66 AB085721 H1 eastern Japan Gunma Matsuida 4
66 AB085721 H1 eastern Japan Tokyo Okutama 1
66 AB085721 H1 eastern Japan Tokyo Oshima 2
66 AB085721 H1 eastern Japan Yamanashi Fuhinomiya 2
66 AB085721 H1 eastern Japan Shizuoka Matsuzaki 5
66 AB085721 H1 eastern Japan Shizuoka Shizuoka 2
66 AB085721 H1 eastern Japan Shizuoka Tenryu 1
66 AB085721 H1 eastern Japan Niigata Kashiwazaki 1
66 AB085721 H1 eastern Japan Toyama Toyama 3
66 AB085721 H1 eastern Japan Ishikawa Oguchi 4
66 AB085721 H1 eastern Japan Shiga Taga 1
66 AB085721 H1 eastern Japan Fukui Ohno 1
66 AB085721 H1 western Japan Nagasaki Tsushima 1
67 AB085722 H19 eastern Japan Tokyo Oshima 11
68 AB085723 H6 eastern Japan Shizuoka Tenryu 2
68 AB085723 H6 eastern Japan Aichi Toyohashi 1
68 AB085723 H6 western Japan Miyazaki Miyazaki 2
69 AB085724 H20 eastern Japan Shiga Taga 4
70 AB085725 H21 eastern Japan Miyagi Kashimadai 2
71 AB085726 H22 eastern Japan Shizuoka Tenryu 2
72 AB085727 H23 eastern Japan Toyama Toyama 1
73 AB085728 H24 eastern Japan Aichi Toyohashi 1
74 AB085729 H25 eastern Japan Miyagi Kashimadai 1
75 AB085730 H26 eastern Japan Fukui Ohno 1
76 AB085731 H27 eastern Japan Miyagi Kashimadai 1
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Abbreviations: n, number of individuals.

3.2. Time‐calibrated phylogeny in Northeast Asia, determined using cytochrome b and the D‐loop

Phylogenetic reconstructions of the BI analyses based on 1605 bp of cytochrome b and the D‐loop produced time‐calibrated trees (Figure 2). The monophyly of the Northeast Asian lineage (Figure 2, brown square) was supported by high PP values (1.000). Three clades were supported by high PP values (1.000 for clade I, 0.988 for clades II and III, 0.978 for clade II, 0.961 for clade III). Clade I (Figure 2, blue bar) consisted of individuals from eastern Japan including Kyoto and Ibaraki. Clade II (Figure 2, green bar) consisted of individuals from western Japan including Hyogo, Kagawa, Yamaguchi, and Fukuoka. Clade III (Figure 2, red bar) consisted of individuals from the continent and southern Kyushu including Kumamoto. Two cytochrome b and 14 D‐loop mutational steps were found between clade I and clades II and III (Figure 3, between H1‐5 and H3‐6), and at least one cytochrome b and six D‐loop mutational steps were found between clade II and clade III (Figure 3, between H3‐6 and H6‐4).

FIGURE 2.

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A time‐calibrated phylogenetic tree constructed using Bayesian inference (BI) method based on cytochrome b and the D‐loop. A number along each branch is posterior probability based on BI. Blue horizontal bars on nodes indicate 95% HPD intervals for node heights. Branches with posterior probabilities >0.95 are shown as bold lines. Identified haplotypes are listed in Table 1

FIGURE 3.

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Median‐joining networks based on the mitochondrial cytochrome b (upper left) and the D‐loop (middle). Circle size represents haplotype frequency. Identified haplotypes are listed in Table 1

The time‐calibrated phylogeny indicates that R. nippon in Northeast Asia has experienced at least two divergences after split from Central and East China lineage in 457,700 years ago (320,900–606,400). These divergences are estimated to have occurred during the last two glacial periods [MIS 2.2 (20,000 year ago) and MIS 6.2 (140,000 years ago)] and the interglacial cycles. The divergence between clade I and clades II and III occurred in 142,900 years ago (89,700–200,400 years ago), during the second most recent glaciation in MIS 6.2 and subsequent interglacial periods (MISs 5.2–6.4). The divergence between clade II and clade III occurred in 81,600 years ago (47,300–120,400 years ago), the interglacial period during the last two glacial maxima (MISs 3.0–5.5).

3.3. Haplotype network and demographic analysis in Northeast Asia

The obtained median‐joining networks of the cytochrome b (Figure 3, upper left) and the cytochrome b and the D‐loop (Figure 3) for the samples from Northeast Asia were concordant with the time‐calibrated tree (Figure 2). The cytochrome b and the D‐loop‐based network (Figure 3) had three subnetworks corresponding to clade I (blue), clade II (green), and clade III (red).

The haplotype and nucleotide diversities were used to interpret the population's demographic history (Grant & Bowen, 1998). Haplotype and nucleotide diversities based on the D‐loop were high in every clade (h > 0.5, π > 0.005) because of the high evolutionary rate. By contrast, the haplotype and nucleotide diversities based on cytochrome b differed among clades (Table 3). Northeast Asia lineage, clade I, and clade II showed high haplotype diversity and low nucleotide diversity (h = 0.827, π = 0.00191 for Northeast Asia; h = 0.582, π = 0.00070 for clade I; h = 0.667, π = 0.00117 for clade II), suggesting rapid growth and the accumulation of mutations after a bottleneck (Grant & Bowen, 1998). Clade III had low haplotype and nucleotide diversities (h = 0.474, π = 0.00068), suggesting the recent occurrence of a bottleneck or founder event (Grant & Bowen, 1998). Tajima's D test yielded significant negative values for Northeast Asia, clade I, and clade III (D = −1.69842, p = .017 for Northeast Asia; D = −1.53190, p = .037 for clade I; D = −1.99359, p = .007 for clade III), suggesting population expansion. Tajima's D value of clade II was not significant (D = −1.33113, p = .087). Fu's F s test also yielded significant negative values for all clades (F s = −27.07348, p < .001 for Northeast Asia; F s = −18.91700, p < .001 for clade I; F s = −8.40300, p < .001 for clade II; F s = −17.83900, p < .001 for clade III), suggesting population expansion (Table 3).

TABLE 3.

Genetic diversity and the neutrality tests of Rhinolophus nippon in Northeast Asia based on mitochondrial cytochrome b

Clade n nh π h D p FS p
Northeast Asia 128 27 0.00191 0.827 −1.69842 .017 −27.07348 <.001
Clade I 67 11 0.00070 0.582 −1.53190 .037 −18.91700 <.001
Clade II 21 7 0.00117 0.667 −1.33113 .087 −8.40300 <.001
Clade III 40 9 0.00068 0.474 −1.99359 .007 −17.83900 <.001
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Abbreviations: D, Tajima's D; F s, Fu's F s; h, haplotype diversity; n, number of individuals; nh, number of haplotypes; p, p value; π, nucleotide diversity.

4. DISCUSSION

Our findings support the monophyly of the Northeast Asian lineage of R. nippon, and it is consistent with previous studies. Moreover, our estimated divergence time for this lineage (320,900–606,400 years ago) was stricter than that of Liu et al. (2016; 220,000–870,000 years ago). This estimate indicates that R. nippon in Northeast Asia diverged from other East Asian populations in the middle Pleistocene, termed the Chibanian (Cohen et al., 2020) by the International Union of Geological Sciences. The Chibanian (126,000–770,000 years ago) extended from the last geomagnetic reversal to MIS 5 (Dahl‐Jensen et al., 2013).

The Northeast Asian lineage is the most recently diverged lineage of R. nippon (Flanders et al., 2011; Liu et al., 2016; Rossiter et al., 2007) in the middle Pleistocene (about 430,000 years ago). Rossiter et al. (2007) suggested that the Japanese population experienced genetic isolation and/or founder effects associated with island effects. The results of genetic diversity and the neutrality tests of the Northeast Asian lineage support the occurrence of bottleneck or founder effects associated with the migration of the Northeast Asian ancestors to the Japanese Archipelago, and subsequent population expansion. Within the Northeast Asian lineage, the results of genetic diversity indicates that clade III (the continental and southern Kyushu populations) experienced bottle neck and founder effect more recently than clade I (the eastern Japanese populations) and clade II (the western Japanese populations). The results of neutrality tests indicate all three clades are expanding; however, values of clade II are relatively low. It suggests that the population expansion of clade II is more gentle than other clades. Therefore, in Northeast Asian lineage, it suggests that clade II is the most stable populations, and clade III is the most recently diverged populations.

Flanders et al. (2009) and Liu et al. (2016) suggested that the Japanese populations of R. nippon were monophyletic clades of the Northeast Asian lineage. Our results, however, elucidate the complex paraphyletic relationships of the Japanese populations. In agreement with Flanders et al. (2009) and Liu et al. (2016), the population from eastern Honshu (the westernmost population is Kyoto) supported monophyly, with clade I as a sister clade to the other Northeast Asian samples. Populations in western Honshu, northern Kyushu, and Shikoku (Hyogo, Yamaguchi, Fukuoka, and Kagawa) form clade II, and those in Kumamoto (southern Kyushu), Jeju, the Korean Peninsula, and northeastern China form clade III. These findings suggest that the Japanese populations are not monophyly.

When continental lineages are imbedded within clades restricted to islands or archipelagos, one can infer “reverse colonization” as the most likely scenario (Bellemain & Ricklefs, 2008). We found that continental clade III is imbedded within Japanese Archipelago clades I and II, suggesting reverse colonization from the Japanese Archipelago to the Eurasian continent. Reverse colonization generates biodiversity and promotes the assembly of continental biota (Patiño et al., 2017). In the Japanese Archipelago, the alpine plant Primula cuneifolia recolonized northward to the Kamchatka Peninsula and Alaska after divergence in the less‐glaciated mountains in Japan at the LGM, suggesting that the Japanese Archipelago plays important roles in the diversity and distribution of alpine plants in the northern Pacific region (Ikeda, Yakubov, et al., 2020). Our findings support reverse colonization of bats from the Japanese Archipelago to the continent via the Korean Peninsula (Figure 4). It is certain that the R. nippon bats flew across between the Japanese Archipelago and the continent. After the last emergence of the land bridge between the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese Archipelago in the middle Pleistocene, the level of the Japan Sea in the glacial periods (MISs 2.2 and 6.2) was 90–100 m lower than in the present, and the Korean Strait width was about one‐third of the present 120 km (Oba & Irino, 2012). The sister species R. ferrumequinum can fly up to 30 km between summer roosts and hibernacula (Dietz et al., 2009), and R. nippon in Kyushu recorded the distance 130 km (Sano, 2015). Therefore, R. nippon seems to be able to fly over the narrow, shallow Korean Strait during a glacial period.

FIGURE 4.

FIGURE 4

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The migration history of Rhinolophus nippon in Northeast Asia proposed in this study. Elevation was mapped in grayscale

We estimated that clade I in eastern Honshu and clade II in western Honshu bordered in Kinki District (Figure 1). Such a phylogeographic pattern of divergence between eastern and western Honshu is also seen in some Japanese middle and large mammals, such as the sika deer Cervus nippon (Ba et al., 2015; Nagata et al., 1999; Yamada et al., 2007), the Asian black bear Ursus thibetanus (Ohnishi et al., 2009), and the Japanese macaque Macaca fuscata (Kawamoto et al., 2007). Two hypotheses have been proposed to explain the distribution boundary for Japanese middle and large mammals in Kinki district: the multiple‐colonization hypothesis and the refugia hypotheses (Tamate, 2015). Rhinolophus Nippon is not distributed along the coast of Far East Russia, the multiple‐colonization hypothesis assuming multiple migrations into the Japanese Archipelago via Korean Peninsula and Sakhalin Island is not applicable. In the refugia hypothesis, organisms evacuated to relatively warm refugia in glacial periods (Bennett & Provan, 2008; Haffer, 1969). In Japan, the southern coasts of Honshu and Shikoku, southern Kyushu, and the southern peripheral islands are considered to have been refugia for plants and animals (Iwasaki et al., 2012; Tamate, 2015; Yamada et al., 2021; Figure 4). We propose that the common ancestor of the Northeast Asian R. nippon was separated into two or more refugia located in the Japanese Archipelago (Figure 4), suggesting that the refugia hypothesis is applicable to R. nippon. Moreover, flight dispersal is a crucial difference between bats and other mammals. This difference might enable the reverse colonization from the Japanese Archipelago to the continent. Many terrestrial animals colonized Japan across the land bridge during the glacial periods MIS 16 and 12 (Aimi, 2002; Ba et al., 2015; Dobson & Kawamura, 1998; Millien‐Parra & Jaeger, 1999), and became endemic species. After that, the land bridge had not reappeared, and the Korean Strait prevents the swimming dispersal of terrestrial animals. In contrary, we suggest that bats were able to fly over the strait.

In this study, we targeted the mtDNA cytochrome b and D‐loop and revealed that the Japanese populations are paraphyletic and split into three clades. To understand such complicated evolutionary history with revealing demographic and historical background of R. nippon in Northeast Asia, phylogenetic and population genetic analyses based on other mtDNA and nuclear markers are needed. Additional samples from Tsushima Island are also expected, as Tsushima is located between the Japanese Archipelago and the Korean Peninsula, and close to the Korean Strait. As well Sakai et al. (2003) analyzed mtDNA cytochrome b of one individual from Tsushima, which shared a haplotype with the eastern Japan population (AB085721, H1). In Northeast Asia, many phylogeographic studies have been conducted for terrestrial animals, but never for bats which have the unique flight dispersal ability (Sato, 2017). Most organisms migrated in the Japanese Archipelago were adapted to the unique island environment, and became the endemic species. On the other hand, our results indicated that the Japanese populations of R. nippon would have reverse‐colonized to the continent. There are several other bat species having a distribution area in Northeast Asia similar to R. nippon. Future studies for demographic and historical background of these bats might bring us the answer why various species can inhabit in Northeast Asia, and propose a new concept that a portion of the biodiversity of Northeast Asian animals was created in the Japanese Archipelago and subsequently returned back to the continent as “reverse colonization.”

5. CONCLUSIONS

Northeast Asian lineage of R. nippon has experienced two divergences at least after the middle Pleistocene. The Japanese populations consist with three main clades and not monophyletic; the continental populations are embedded into one of the clades. Our result suggests that the most likely scenario for Northeast Asian R. nippon involves reverse colonization from the Japanese Archipelago to the continent. The population transition of R. nippon within the Japanese Archipelago is consistent with patterns observed for middle and large terrestrial mammals.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

AUTHOR CONTRIBUTION

Yugo Ikeda: Conceptualization (equal); Data curation (equal); Formal analysis (equal); Investigation (equal); Methodology (equal); Project administration (equal); Resources (equal); Validation (equal); Visualization (lead); Writing – original draft (equal); Writing – review & editing (equal). Masaharu Motokawa: Conceptualization (equal); Funding acquisition (equal); Project administration (equal); Visualization (supporting); Writing – review & editing (equal).

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to T. Okamoto and T. Nakano for their support on the research. They thank U. Matsushita, D. Fukui, M. Ishida, S. Yachimori, S. Yasui, T. Kamijo, T. Maki, G. Kokubugata, S. Kawada, and T. Teshiba for their kind help in collecting samples. They also thank T. Satoh, G. Kinoshita, T. Makino, and S. Okabe for their technical advice. This study was partly granted by JSPS Kakenhi grant JP18H03602.

Ikeda, Y. , & Motokawa, M. (2021). Phylogeography of the Japanese greater horseshoe bat Rhinolophus nippon (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in Northeast Asia: New insight into the monophyly of the Japanese populations. Ecology and Evolution, 11, 18181–18195. 10.1002/ece3.8414

DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

All sequences newly added on this study are usable in GenBank under accession numbers LC605914–LC605979.

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Data Availability Statement

All sequences newly added on this study are usable in GenBank under accession numbers LC605914–LC605979.

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