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The appearance of bison in North America is both ecologically and paleontologically significant. We analyzed mitochondrial DNA from the oldest known North American bison fossils to reveal that bison were present in northern North America by 195–135 thousand y ago, having entered from Asia via the Bering Land Bridge. After their arrival, bison quickly colonized much of the rest of the continent, where they rapidly diversified phenotypically, producing, for example, the giant long-horned morphotype Bison latifrons during the last interglaciation.

Abstract

The arrival of bison in North America marks one of the most successful large-mammal dispersals from Asia within the last million years, yet the timing and nature of this event remain poorly determined. Here, we used a combined paleontological and paleogenomic approach to provide a robust timeline for the entry and subsequent evolution of bison within North America. We characterized two fossil-rich localities in Canada’s Yukon and identified the oldest well-constrained bison fossil in North America, a 130,000-y-old steppe bison, Bison cf. priscus. We extracted and sequenced mitochondrial genomes from both this bison and from the remains of a recently discovered, ∼120,000-y-old giant long-horned bison, Bison latifrons, from Snowmass, Colorado. We analyzed these and 44 other bison mitogenomes with ages that span the Late Pleistocene, and identified two waves of bison dispersal into North America from Asia, the earliest of which occurred ∼195–135 thousand y ago and preceded the morphological diversification of North American bison, and the second of which occurred during the Late Pleistocene, ∼45–21 thousand y ago. This chronological arc establishes that bison first entered North America during the sea level lowstand accompanying marine isotope stage 6, rejecting earlier records of bison in North America. After their invasion, bison rapidly colonized North America during the last interglaciation, spreading from Alaska through continental North America; they have been continuously resident since then.

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Data deposition: The sequences reported in this paper have been deposited in the GenBank database (accession nos. KX269109, and KX269112–KX269145).

Acknowledgments

We thank Andrew Fields, Brandon Letts, Dan Chang, Joshua Kapp, and Amanda Hart for technical assistance; Ben J. Novak for the bison skull paintings in Fig. 2; Ian Miller, Joe Sertich, and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science for access to the Snowmass sample; and Harold Frost, Jr. and the late Stephen Charlie for assistance in the field. Access and support to work at the Old Crow sites was facilitated by the Heritage Department of the Vuntut Gwitchin Government. This work used the Vincent J. Coates Genomics Sequencing Laboratory at University of California, Berkeley, supported by NIH S10 Instrumentation Grants S10RR029668 and S10RR027303. Support was provided from Yukon Heritage Branch; Natural Resources Canada Polar Continental Shelf Program (D.F.), Canada Research Chairs program, and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (D.F.); National Science Foundation ARC-09090456 and ARC-1417046, and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation GBMF3804 (to B.S.); and Australian Research Council DP0878604 and FT130100195 (to L.J.A.).

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Data deposition: The sequences reported in this paper have been deposited in the GenBank database (accession nos. KX269109, and KX269112–KX269145).

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Published online: March 13, 2017
Published in issue: March 28, 2017

Keywords

  1. Beringia
  2. Bison latifrons
  3. Bison priscus
  4. paleogenomics
  5. Rancholabrean
  6. steppe bison

Acknowledgments

We thank Andrew Fields, Brandon Letts, Dan Chang, Joshua Kapp, and Amanda Hart for technical assistance; Ben J. Novak for the bison skull paintings in Fig. 2; Ian Miller, Joe Sertich, and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science for access to the Snowmass sample; and Harold Frost, Jr. and the late Stephen Charlie for assistance in the field. Access and support to work at the Old Crow sites was facilitated by the Heritage Department of the Vuntut Gwitchin Government. This work used the Vincent J. Coates Genomics Sequencing Laboratory at University of California, Berkeley, supported by NIH S10 Instrumentation Grants S10RR029668 and S10RR027303. Support was provided from Yukon Heritage Branch; Natural Resources Canada Polar Continental Shelf Program (D.F.), Canada Research Chairs program, and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (D.F.); National Science Foundation ARC-09090456 and ARC-1417046, and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation GBMF3804 (to B.S.); and Australian Research Council DP0878604 and FT130100195 (to L.J.A.).

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Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E3;
Mathias Stiller
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064;
German Cancer Consortium, German Cancer Research Center, Institute for Translational Skin Cancer Research, D-45141 Essen, Germany;
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064;
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E3;
Grant D. Zazula
Yukon Palaeontology Program, Department of Tourism & Culture, Government of Yukon, Whitehorse, YT, Canada Y1A 2C6;
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064;
Matthias Meyer
Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany;
Elizabeth Hall
Yukon Palaeontology Program, Department of Tourism & Culture, Government of Yukon, Whitehorse, YT, Canada Y1A 2C6;
Britta J. L. Jensen
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E3;
Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, AB, Canada T5N 0M6;
Lee J. Arnold
School of Physical Sciences, Environment Institute, and Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia;
Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024;
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064;
University of California, Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064

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To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: [email protected] or [email protected].
Author contributions: D.F. and B.S. designed research; D.F., M.S., P.D.H., A.V.R., G.D.Z., A.E.R.S., M.M., E.H., B.J.L.J., L.J.A., R.D.E.M., and B.S. performed research; G.D.Z. and L.J.A. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; P.D.H., A.V.R., A.E.R.S., and L.J.A. analyzed data; and D.F., P.D.H., A.V.R., G.D.Z., M.M., L.J.A., R.D.E.M., and B.S. wrote the paper.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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