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Sless TJL, Branstetter MG, Mikát M, Odanaka KA, Tobin KB, Rehan SM. Phylogenomics and biogeography of the small carpenter bees (Apidae: Xylocopinae: Ceratina). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2024; 198:108133. [PMID: 38897426 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2024] [Revised: 05/31/2024] [Accepted: 06/15/2024] [Indexed: 06/21/2024]
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Small carpenter bees in the genus Ceratina are behaviourally diverse, species-rich, and cosmopolitan, with over 370 species and a range including all continents except Antarctica. Here, we present the first comprehensive phylogeny of the genus based on ultraconserved element (UCE) phylogenomic data, covering a total of 185 ingroup specimens representing 22 of the 25 current subgenera. Our results support most recognized subgenera as natural groups, but we also highlight several groups in need of taxonomic revision - particularly the nominate subgenus Ceratina sensu stricto - and several clades that likely need to be described as new subgenera. In addition to phylogeny, we explore the evolutionary history of Ceratina through divergence time estimation and biogeographic reconstruction. Our findings suggest that Ceratinini split from its sister tribe Allodapini about 72 million years ago. The common ancestor of Ceratina emerged in the Afrotropical realm approximately 42 million years ago, near the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum. Multiple subsequent dispersal events led to the present cosmopolitan distribution of Ceratina, with the majority of transitions occurring between the Afrotropics, Indomalaya, and the Palearctic. Additional movements also led to the arrival of Ceratina in Madagascar, Australasia, and a single colonization of the Americas. Dispersal events were asymmetrical overall, with temperate regions primarily acting as destinations for migrations from tropical source regions.
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Pollinating Insects Research Unit, Logan, UT, USA
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- Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of General Zoology, Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany; Department of Zoology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Pollinating Insects Research Unit, Logan, UT, USA; Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Pilakouta N, O'Donnell PJ, Crespel A, Levet M, Claireaux M, Humble JL, Kristjánsson BK, Skúlason S, Lindström J, Metcalfe NB, Killen SS, Parsons KJ. A warmer environment can reduce sociability in an ectotherm. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2023; 29:206-214. [PMID: 36259414 PMCID: PMC10092372 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2022] [Revised: 08/15/2022] [Accepted: 09/25/2022] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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The costs and benefits of being social vary with environmental conditions, so individuals must weigh the balance between these trade-offs in response to changes in the environment. Temperature is a salient environmental factor that may play a key role in altering the costs and benefits of sociality through its effects on food availability, predator abundance, and other ecological parameters. In ectotherms, changes in temperature also have direct effects on physiological traits linked to social behaviour, such as metabolic rate and locomotor performance. In light of climate change, it is therefore important to understand the potential effects of temperature on sociality. Here, we took the advantage of a 'natural experiment' of threespine sticklebacks from contrasting thermal environments in Iceland: geothermally warmed water bodies (warm habitats) and adjacent ambient-temperature water bodies (cold habitats) that were either linked (sympatric) or physically distinct (allopatric). We first measured the sociability of wild-caught adult fish from warm and cold habitats after acclimation to a low and a high temperature. At both acclimation temperatures, fish from the allopatric warm habitat were less social than those from the allopatric cold habitat, whereas fish from sympatric warm and cold habitats showed no differences in sociability. To determine whether differences in sociability between thermal habitats in the allopatric population were heritable, we used a common garden breeding design where individuals from the warm and the cold habitat were reared at a low or high temperature for two generations. We found that sociability was indeed heritable but also influenced by rearing temperature, suggesting that thermal conditions during early life can play an important role in influencing social behaviour in adulthood. By providing the first evidence for a causal effect of rearing temperature on social behaviour, our study provides novel insights into how a warming world may influence sociality in animal populations.
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- Natalie Pilakouta
- School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary MedicineUniversity of GlasgowGlasgowUK
- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of AberdeenAberdeenUK
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- School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary MedicineUniversity of GlasgowGlasgowUK
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- School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary MedicineUniversity of GlasgowGlasgowUK
- Department of BiologyUniversity of TurkuTurkuFinland
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- School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary MedicineUniversity of GlasgowGlasgowUK
- Department of Biological SciencesUniversity of MontrealMontrealCanada
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- School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary MedicineUniversity of GlasgowGlasgowUK
- Norwegian Institute of Marine ResearchBergenNorway
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- School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary MedicineUniversity of GlasgowGlasgowUK
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- Department of Aquaculture and Fish BiologyHólar UniversitySauðárkrókurIceland
- Icelandic Museum of Natural HistoryReykjavíkIceland
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- School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary MedicineUniversity of GlasgowGlasgowUK
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- School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary MedicineUniversity of GlasgowGlasgowUK
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- School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary MedicineUniversity of GlasgowGlasgowUK
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- School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary MedicineUniversity of GlasgowGlasgowUK
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Baudier KM, Ostwald MM, Haney BR, Calixto JM, Cossio FJ, Fewell JH. Social Factors in Heat Survival: Multiqueen Desert Ant Colonies Have Higher and More Uniform Heat Tolerance. Physiol Biochem Zool 2022; 95:379-389. [PMID: 35914287 DOI: 10.1086/721251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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AbstractInvestigations of thermally adaptive behavioral phenotypes are critical for both understanding climate as a selective force and predicting global species distributions under climate change conditions. Cooperative nest founding is a common strategy in harsh environments for many species and can enhance growth and competitive advantage, but whether this social strategy has direct effects on thermal tolerance was previously unknown. We examined the effects of alternative social strategies on thermal tolerance in a facultatively polygynous (multiqueen) desert ant, Pogonomyrmex californicus, asking whether and how queen number affects worker thermal tolerances. We established and reared lab colonies with one to four queens, then quantified all colony member heat tolerances (maximum critical temperature [CTmax]). Workers from colonies with more queens had higher and less variant CTmax. Our findings resemble weak link patterns, in which colony group thermal performance is improved by reducing frequencies of the most temperature-vulnerable individuals. Using ambient temperatures from our collection site, we show that multiqueen colonies have thermal tolerance distributions that enable increased midday foraging in hot desert environments. Our results suggest advantages to polygyny under climate change scenarios and raise the question of whether improved thermal tolerance is a factor that has enabled the success of polygyne species in other climatically extreme environments.
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Klečka J, Mikát M, Koloušková P, Hadrava J, Straka J. Individual-level specialisation and interspecific resource partitioning in bees revealed by pollen DNA metabarcoding. PeerJ 2022; 10:e13671. [PMID: 35959478 PMCID: PMC9359135 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2021] [Accepted: 06/12/2022] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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It is increasingly recognised that intraspecific variation in traits, such as morphology, behaviour, or diet is both ubiquitous and ecologically important. While many species of predators and herbivores are known to display high levels of between-individual diet variation, there is a lack of studies on pollinators. It is important to fill in this gap because individual-level specialisation of flower-visiting insects is expected to affect their efficiency as pollinators with consequences for plant reproduction. Accordingly, the aim of our study was to quantify the level of individual-level specialisation and foraging preferences, as well as interspecific resource partitioning, in three co-occurring species of bees of the genus Ceratina (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae), C. chalybea, C. nigrolabiata, and C. cucurbitina. We conducted a field experiment where we provided artificial nesting opportunities for the bees and combined a short-term mark-recapture study with the dissection of the bees' nests to obtain repeated samples from individual foraging females and complete pollen provisions from their nests. We used DNA metabarcoding based on the ITS2 locus to identify the composition of the pollen samples. We found that the composition of pollen carried on the bodies of female bees and stored in the brood provisions in their nests significantly differed among the three co-occurring species. At the intraspecific level, individual females consistently differed in their level of specialisation and in the composition of pollen carried on their bodies and stored in their nests. We also demonstrate that higher generalisation at the species level stemmed from larger among-individual variation in diets, as observed in other types of consumers, such as predators. Our study thus reveals how specialisation and foraging preferences of bees change from the scale of individual foraging bouts to complete pollen provisions accumulated in their nests over many days. Such a multi-scale view of foraging behaviour is necessary to improve our understanding of the functioning of plant-flower visitor communities.
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- Jan Klečka
- Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic,Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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Jaumann S, Rehan SM, Schwartz K, Smith AR. Reduced neural investment in post-reproductive females of the bee Ceratina calcarta. Sci Rep 2022; 12:8256. [PMID: 35585164 PMCID: PMC9117229 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-12281-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2022] [Accepted: 04/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Many insects show plasticity in the area of the brain called the mushroom bodies (MB) with foraging and social experience. MBs are paired neuropils associated with learning and memory. MB volume is typically greater in mature foragers relative to young and/or inexperienced individuals. Long-term studies show that extended experience may further increase MB volume, but long-term studies have only been performed on non-reproductive social insect workers. Here we use the subsocial bee Ceratina calcarata to test the effect of extended foraging experience on MB volume among reproductive females. Ceratina calcarata females forage to provision their immature offspring in the spring, and then again to provision their adult daughters in the late summer. We measured the volume of the MB calyces and peduncle, antennal lobes (AL), optic lobes (OL), central complex (CX), and whole brains of three groups of bees: newly emerged females, reproductive females in spring (foundresses), and post-reproductive mothers feeding their adult daughters in late summer. Post-reproductive late summer mothers had smaller MB calyces and ALs than foundresses. Moreover, among late mothers (but not other bees), wing wear, which is a measure of foraging experience, negatively correlated with both MB and OL volume. This is contrary to previously studied non-reproductive social insect workers in which foraging experience correlates postiviely with MB volume, and suggests that post-reproductive bees may reduce neural investment near the end of their lives.
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- Sarah Jaumann
- Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, 800 22nd St. NW, Washington, DC, 20052, USA
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- Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, 800 22nd St. NW, Washington, DC, 20052, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, 800 22nd St. NW, Washington, DC, 20052, USA.
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Dyson CJ, Piscano OL, Durham RM, Thompson VJ, Johnson CH, Goodisman MAD. Temporal Analysis of Effective Population Size and Mating System in a Social Wasp. J Hered 2021; 112:626-634. [PMID: 34558622 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esab057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2021] [Accepted: 09/20/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Highly social species are successful because they cooperate in obligately integrated societies. We examined temporal genetic variation in the eusocial wasp Vespula maculifrons to gain a greater understanding of evolution in highly social taxa. First, we wished to test if effective population sizes of eusocial species were relatively low due to the reproductive division of labor that characterizes eusocial taxa. We thus estimated the effective population size of V. maculifrons by examining temporal changes in population allele frequencies. We sampled the genetic composition of a V. maculifrons population at 3 separate timepoints spanning a 13-year period. We found that effective population size ranged in the hundreds of individuals, which is similar to estimates in other, non-eusocial taxa. Second, we estimated levels of polyandry in V. maculifrons in different years to determine if queen mating system varied over time. We found no significant change in the number or skew of males mated to queens. In addition, mating skew was not significant within V. maculifrons colonies. Therefore, our data suggest that queen mate number may be subject to stabilizing selection in this taxon. Overall, our study provides novel insight into the selective processes operating in eusocial species by analyzing temporal genetic changes within populations.
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- Carl J Dyson
- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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Mikát M, Waldhauserová J, Fraňková T, Čermáková K, Brož V, Zeman Š, Dokulilová M, Straka J. Only mothers feed mature offspring in European Ceratina bees. INSECT SCIENCE 2021; 28:1468-1481. [PMID: 32725763 DOI: 10.1111/1744-7917.12859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2020] [Revised: 06/18/2020] [Accepted: 07/03/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Parental care directed to adult offspring is uncommon in animals. Such parental care has been documented in Xylocopinae bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Moreover, some Ceratina bees (Xylocopinae) are known to feed mature siblings, and feeding of mature siblings is achieved by dwarf eldest daughters when mothers died. These daughters are intentionally malnourished by mothers and usually originate from the first brood cell. Here, we examined the pattern of care provided to young adults in three small European carpenter bees: Ceratina (Ceratina) cucurbitina, C. (Euceratina) chalybea, and C. (E.) nigrolabiata. Observations of nest departures and arrivals were performed to study foraging behavior. We detected intensive foraging behavior of mothers in all three studied species. However, we did not observe regular foraging behavior of daughters in any species. The experimental removal of mothers in C. cucurbitina led to the emigration of young adults and did not initiate foraging activity in daughters. We conclude that the feeding of siblings does not occur in these species unlike in the American species C. calcarata. We detected female-biased sex ratios in the first brood cell in C. cucurbitina and C. chalybea. Female offspring in the first brood cell was smaller than other female offspring only in C. cucurbitina. Our results show that a female-biased sex ratio and the small size of daughters in the first brood cell do not provide sufficient evidence for demonstrating the existence of an altruistic daughter and also that the pattern of maternal investment is not exclusively shaped by social interactions.
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- Michael Mikát
- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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Moss JB, While GM. The thermal environment as a moderator of social evolution. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2021; 96:2890-2910. [PMID: 34309173 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2020] [Revised: 07/09/2021] [Accepted: 07/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Animal sociality plays a crucial organisational role in evolution. As a result, understanding the factors that promote the emergence, maintenance, and diversification of animal societies is of great interest to biologists. Climate is among the foremost ecological factors implicated in evolutionary transitions in social organisation, but we are only beginning to unravel the possible mechanisms and specific climatic variables that underlie these associations. Ambient temperature is a key abiotic factor shaping the spatio-temporal distribution of individuals and has a particularly strong influence on behaviour. Whether such effects play a broader role in social evolution remains to be seen. In this review, we develop a conceptual framework for understanding how thermal effects integrate into pathways that mediate the opportunities, nature, and context of social interactions. We then implement this framework to discuss the capacity for temperature to initiate organisational changes across three broad categories of social evolution: group formation, group maintenance, and group elaboration. For each category, we focus on pivotal traits likely to have underpinned key social transitions and explore the potential for temperature to affect changes in these traits by leveraging empirical examples from the literature on thermal and behavioural ecology. Finally, we discuss research directions that should be prioritised to understand the potentially constructive and/or destructive effects of future warming on the origins, maintenance, and diversification of animal societies.
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- Jeanette B Moss
- School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, TAS, 7005, Australia
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- School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, TAS, 7005, Australia
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Luo Y, Goh SP, Li D, Gonzaga MO, Santos AJ, Tanikawa A, Yoshida H, Haddad CR, May-Collado LJ, Gregorič M, Turk E, Kuntner M, Agnarsson I. Global Diversification of Anelosimus Spiders Driven by Long-Distance Overwater Dispersal and Neogene Climate Oscillations. Syst Biol 2021; 69:1122-1136. [PMID: 32170955 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syaa017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2019] [Revised: 02/05/2020] [Accepted: 02/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Vicariance and dispersal events, combined with intricate global climatic history, have left an imprint on the spatiotemporal distribution and diversity of many organisms. Anelosimus cobweb spiders (Theridiidae), are organisms ranging in behavior from solitary to highly social, with a cosmopolitan distribution in temperate to tropical areas. Their evolutionary history and the discontinuous distribution of species richness suggest that 1) long-distance overwater dispersal and 2) climate change during the Neogene (23-2.6 Ma), may be major factors in explaining their distribution and diversification. Here, we test these hypotheses, and explicitly test if global Miocene/Pliocene climatic cooling in the last 8 Ma affected Anelosimus radiation in parallel in South America and Madagascar. To do so, we investigate the phylogeny and spatiotemporal biogeography of Anelosimus through a culmination of a 20-year comprehensive global sampling at the species level (69 species, including 84% of the known 75 species worldwide, represented by 268 individuals) using nucleotide data from seven loci (5.5 kb). Our results strongly support the monophyly of Anelosimus with an Oligocene ($\sim $30 Ma) South American origin. Major clades on other continents originate via multiple, long-distance dispersal events, of solitary or subsocial-but not social-lineages, from the Americas. These intercontinental dispersals were to Africa, Madagascar (twice), and SE Asia/Australasia. The early diversification of Anelosimus spiders coincides with a sudden thermal increase in the late Oligocene ($\sim $27-25 Ma), though no causal connection can be made. Our results, however, strongly support the hypothesis that global Neogene climatic cooling in the last 8 Ma drove Anelosimus radiation in parallel in South America and Madagascar, offering a rare empirical evidence for diversification of a socially diverse group driven by an interplay between long-distance dispersal and global Neogene climatic changes. [Cobweb spiders; diversification; global biogeography; long-distance dispersal; molecular phylogenetics; neogene climate changes; sociality; vicariance.].
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- Yufa Luo
- Department of Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405-0086, USA.,School of Life Sciences, Shangrao Normal University, Shangrao 334001, China.,School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou 341000, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore
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- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore
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- Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais 38400-902, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais 31270-901, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Biodiversity Science, School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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- Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, Republic of South Africa
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- Department of Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405-0086, USA
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- Evolutionary Zoology Laboratory, Jovan Hadži Institute of Biology ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia
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- Evolutionary Zoology Laboratory, Jovan Hadži Institute of Biology ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia
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- Evolutionary Zoology Laboratory, Jovan Hadži Institute of Biology ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia.,Department of Organisms and Ecosystems Research, National Institute of Biology, Večna pot 111, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia.,Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA.,School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405-0086, USA.,Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA.,School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Santos PKF, Arias MC, Kapheim KM. Loss of developmental diapause as prerequisite for social evolution in bees. Biol Lett 2019; 15:20190398. [PMID: 31409242 PMCID: PMC6731480 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2019.0398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Diapause is a physiological arrest of development ahead of adverse environmental conditions and is a critical phase of the life cycle of many insects. In bees, diapause has been reported in species from all seven taxonomic families. However, they exhibit a variety of diapause strategies. These different strategies are of particular interest since shifts in the phase of the insect life cycle in which diapause occurs have been hypothesized to promote the evolution of sociality. Here we provide a comprehensive evaluation of this hypothesis with phylogenetic analysis and ancestral state reconstruction (ASR) of the ecological and evolutionary factors associated with diapause phase. We find that social lifestyle, latitude and voltinism are significant predictors of the life stage in which diapause occurs. ASR revealed that the most recent common ancestor of all bees likely exhibited developmental diapause and shifts to adult, reproductive, or no diapause have occurred in the ancestors of lineages in which social behaviour has evolved. These results provide fresh insight regarding the role of diapause as a prerequisite for the evolution of sociality in bees.
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- Priscila Karla Ferreira Santos
- Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Biociências - Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 277, CEP 05508-090 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Biociências - Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 277, CEP 05508-090 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA
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