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Guillory WX, de Medeiros Magalhães F, Coelho FEA, Bonatelli IAS, Palma-Silva C, Moraes EM, Garda AA, Burbrink FT, Gehara M. Geoclimatic drivers of diversification in the largest arid and semi-arid environment of the Neotropics: Perspectives from phylogeography. Mol Ecol 2024:e17431. [PMID: 38877815 DOI: 10.1111/mec.17431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2024] [Revised: 05/24/2024] [Accepted: 05/30/2024] [Indexed: 06/16/2024]
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The South American Dry Diagonal, also called the Diagonal of Open Formations, is a large region of seasonally dry vegetation extending from northeastern Brazil to northern Argentina, comprising the Caatinga, Cerrado, and Chaco subregions. A growing body of phylogeography literature has determined that a complex history of climatic changes coupled with more ancient geological events has produced a diverse and endemic-rich Dry Diagonal biota. However, the exact drivers are still under investigation, and their relative strengths and effects are controversial. Pleistocene climatic fluctuations structured lineages via vegetation shifts, refugium formation, and corridors between the Amazon and Atlantic forests. In some taxa, older geological events, such as the reconfiguration of the São Francisco River, uplift of the Central Brazilian Plateau, or the Miocene inundation of the Chaco by marine incursions, were more important. Here, we review the Dry Diagonal phylogeography literature, discussing each hypothesized driver of diversification and assessing degree of support. Few studies statistically test these hypotheses, with most support drawn from associating encountered phylogeographic patterns such as population structure with the timing of ancient geoclimatic events. Across statistical studies, most hypotheses are well supported, with the exception of the Pleistocene Arc Hypothesis. However, taxonomic and regional biases persist, such as a proportional overabundance of herpetofauna studies, and the under-representation of Chaco studies. Overall, both Pleistocene climate change and Neogene geological events shaped the evolution of the Dry Diagonal biota, though the precise effects are regionally and taxonomically varied. We encourage further use of model-based analyses to test evolutionary scenarios, as well as interdisciplinary collaborations to progress the field beyond its current focus on the traditional set of geoclimatic hypotheses.
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- Wilson X Guillory
- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University Newark, Newark, New Jersey, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University Newark, Newark, New Jersey, USA
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- Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Ciências Ambientais, Químicas e Farmacêuticas, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Diadema, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Cidade Universitária Zeferino Vaz, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Botânica e Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
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- Department of Herpetology, The American Museum of Natural History, New York City, New York, USA
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University Newark, Newark, New Jersey, USA
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Magalhaes ILF, Martins PH, Faleiro BT, Vidigal THDA, Santos FR, Carvalho LS, Santos AJ. Complete phylogeny of Micrathena spiders suggests multiple dispersal events among Neotropical rainforests, islands and landmasses, and indicates that Andean orogeny promotes speciation. Cladistics 2024. [PMID: 38861251 DOI: 10.1111/cla.12593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2024] [Revised: 04/24/2024] [Accepted: 05/17/2024] [Indexed: 06/12/2024] Open
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The Neotropical region is the most diverse on the planet, largely owing to its mosaic of tropical rainforests. Multiple tectonic and climatic processes have been hypothesized to contribute to generating this diversity, including Andean orogeny, the closure of the Isthmus of Panama, the GAARlandia land bridge and historical connections among currently isolated forests. Micrathena spiders are diverse and widespread in the region, and thus a complete phylogeny of this genus allows the testing of hypotheses at multiple scales. We estimated a complete, dated phylogeny using morphological data for 117 Micrathena species and molecular data of up to five genes for a subset of 79 species. Employing eventc-based approaches and biogeographic stochastic mapping while considering phylogenetic uncertainty, we estimated ancestral distributions, the timing and direction of dispersal events and diversification rates among areas. The phylogeny is generally robust, with uncertainty in the position of some of the species lacking sequences. Micrathena started diversifying around 25 Ma. Andean cloud forests show the highest in-situ speciation, while the Amazon is the major dispersal source for adjacent areas. The Dry Diagonal generated few species and is a sink of diversity. Species exchange between Central and South America involved approximately 23 dispersal events and started ~20 Ma, which is consistent with a Miocene age for the Isthmus of Panama closure. We inferred four dispersal events from Central America to the Antilles in the last 20 Myr, indicating the spiders did not reach the islands through the GAARlandia land bridge. We identified important species exchange routes among the Amazon, Andean cloud forests and Atlantic forests during the Plio-Pleistocene. Sampling all species of the genus was fundamental to the conclusions above, especially in identifying the Andean forests as the area that generated the majority of species. This highlights the importance of complete taxonomic sampling in biogeographic studies.
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- Ivan L F Magalhaes
- Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia", Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, C1405DJR, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos 6627, 31270-901, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos 6627, 31270-901, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos 6627, 31270-901, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Ecologia e Evolução, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos 6627, 31270-901, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Piauí, Campus Amílcar Ferreira Sobral, BR 343, KM 3.5, Bairro Meladão, s/no. CEP 6, 64808-660, Floriano, Piauí, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos 6627, 31270-901, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Vázquez-López M, Ramírez-Barrera SM, Terrones-Ramírez AK, Robles-Bello SM, Nieto-Montes de Oca A, Ruegg K, Hernández-Baños BE. Biogeographic factors contributing to the diversification of Euphoniinae (Aves, Passeriformes, Fringillidae): a phylogenetic and ancestral areas analysis. Zookeys 2024; 1188:169-195. [PMID: 38230381 PMCID: PMC10790576 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1188.107047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2023] [Accepted: 11/06/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2024] Open
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Factors such as the Andean uplift, Isthmus of Panama, and climate changes have influenced bird diversity in the Neotropical region. Studying bird species that are widespread in Neotropical highlands and lowlands can help us understand the impact of these factors on taxa diversification. Our main objectives were to determine the biogeographic factors that contributed to the diversification of Euphoniinae and re-evaluate their phylogenetic relationships. The nextRAD and mitochondrial data were utilized to construct phylogenies. The ancestral distribution range was then estimated using a time-calibrated phylogeny, current species ranges, and neotropical regionalization. The phylogenies revealed two main Euphoniinae clades, Chlorophonia and Euphonia, similar to previous findings. Furthermore, each genus has distinctive subclades corresponding to morphology and geography. The biogeographic results suggest that the Andean uplift and the establishment of the western Amazon drove the vicariance of Chlorophonia and Euphonia during the Miocene. The Chlorophonia lineage originated in the Andes mountains and spread to Central America and the Mesoamerican highlands after the formation of the Isthmus of Panama. Meanwhile, the ancestral area of Euphonia was the Amazonas, from which it spread to trans-Andean areas during the Pliocene and Pleistocene due to the separation of the west lowlands from Amazonas due to the Northern Andean uplift. Chlorophonia and Euphonia species migrated to the Atlantic Forest during the Pleistocene through corridors from the East Andean Humid Forest and Amazonas. These two genera had Caribbean invasions with distinct geographic origins and ages. Finally, we suggested taxonomic changes in the genus Euphonia based on the study's phylogenetic, morphological, and biogeographic findings.
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- Melisa Vázquez-López
- Museo de Zoología, Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Museo de Zoología, Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Museo de Zoología, Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Museo de Zoología, Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Museo de Zoología, Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Museo de Zoología, Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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Bocalini F, Bolívar-Leguizamón SD, Silveira LF, Bravo GA. Amazonian colonization from the Atlantic Forest: New perspectives on the connections of South American tropical forests. Mol Ecol 2023; 32:6874-6895. [PMID: 37902123 DOI: 10.1111/mec.17180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2022] [Revised: 10/12/2023] [Accepted: 10/16/2023] [Indexed: 10/31/2023]
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An open and dry vegetation belt separates Amazonia (AM) and the Atlantic Forest (AF). Evidence from palaeoclimatic and phylogenetic studies suggests past connections between these forests during cycles of increased humidity through the formation of forest corridors. The distinctive northern AF avifauna is known to have affinities both with AM and the southern AF. Still, the extent of how these two regions contributed to the assemblage of this avifauna remains poorly understood. Using historical demographic analyses and comparative phylogeography based on sub-genomic genetic sampling, we assessed how past connections between AM and AF led to shared vicariance and colonization events in four avian AF endemic taxa. Our results supported the occurrence of humid forest corridors promoting the contact between AF and AM populations and suggested two vicariant events and two colonization events from AF to AM. Population divergences were mostly non-synchronous and occurred multiple times during the Pleistocene. Historical gene flow was prevalent across study groups, supporting migration flows after the initial separation between AM and AF - a pattern previously unknown in birds between these regions. Idiosyncratic histories and divergent demographic syndromes suggest that organisms' responses to climate-driven habitat shifts broadly depend on their ecological attributes. This study strengthened our knowledge of past connections between AM and AF and provided demographic scenarios amenable for testing in other groups of co-distributed organisms.
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- Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Escola Superior de Agricultura 'Luiz de Queiroz' - ESALQ - Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil
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- Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology & Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Colecciones Ornitológicas, Centro de Colecciones y Gestión de Especies, Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Boyacá, Colombia
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Rivera D, Prates I, Caldwell JP, Rodrigues MT, Fujita MK. Testing assertions of widespread introgressive hybridization in a clade of neotropical toads with low mate selectivity (Rhinella granulosa species group). Heredity (Edinb) 2023; 130:14-21. [PMID: 36333595 DOI: 10.1038/s41437-022-00571-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2021] [Revised: 10/20/2022] [Accepted: 10/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Discordance between different genomic regions, often identified through multilocus sequencing of selected markers, presents particular difficulties in identifying historical processes which drive species diversity and boundaries. Mechanisms causing discordance, such as incomplete lineage sorting or introgression due to interspecific hybridization, are better identified based on population-level genomic datasets. In the toads of the Rhinella granulosa species group, patterns of mito-nuclear discordance and potential hybridization have been reported by several studies. However, these patterns were proposed based on few loci, such that alternative mechanisms behind gene-tree heterogeneity cannot be ruled out. Using genome-wide ddRADseq loci from a subset of species within this clade, we found only partial concordance between currently recognized species-level taxon boundaries and patterns of genetic structure. While most taxa within the R. granulosa group correspond to clades, genetic clustering analyses sometimes grouped distinct taxonomic units into a single cluster. Moreover, levels of admixture between inferred clusters were limited and restricted to a single taxon pair which is best explained by incomplete lineage sorting as opposed to introgressive hybridization, according to D-statistics results. These findings contradict previous assertions of widespread cryptic diversity and gene flow within the R. granulosa clade. Lastly, our analyses suggest that diversification events within the Rhinella granulosa group mostly dated back to the early Pliocene, being generally younger than species divergences in other closely related clades that present high levels of cross-species gene flow. This finding uniquely contradicts common assertions that this young clade of toads exhibits interspecific hybridization.
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- Danielle Rivera
- Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. .,Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Sam Noble Museum and Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA.,Department of Biology and Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
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Marques-Souza S, Pellegrino KCM, Brunes TO, Rojas-Runjaic FJM, Rodrigues MT. A molecular perspective on the systematics and distribution of Loxopholis lizards in South and Central America, with advances on the biogeography of the tribe Ecpleopodini (Gymnophthalmidae: Squamata). SYST BIODIVERS 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2022.2119295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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- Sergio Marques-Souza
- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-900, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Laboratório de Genética Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-900, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Coordenação de Zoologia, Programa de Capacitação Institucional, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG), Belém, Pará, Brazil
- Museo de Historia Natural La Salle, Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Caracas, Distrito Capital, Venezuela
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-900, Brazil
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Cronemberger ÁA, Werneck FP, Ávila-Pires TCS. Phylogeography of a Typical Forest Heliothermic Lizard Reveals the Combined Influence of Rivers and Climate Dynamics on Diversification in Eastern Amazonia. Front Ecol Evol 2022. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.777172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The formation of the Amazon drainage basin has been considered an important driver of speciation of several taxa, promoting vicariant events or reinforcement of barriers that restrict gene flow between opposite river margins. Several recent studies reported a set of miscellaneous events involving climatic fluctuations, geomorphological changes, and dispersal mechanisms as propellers of diversification of Amazonian rainforest taxa. Here, we show the results of dated phylogenetic, biogeographic, and populational analyses to investigate which events could better explain the current distribution of a heliothermic, active foraging lizard in the central and eastern portions of the Amazonian rainforest (besides a disjunct distribution in part of the Atlantic Forest). We sampled Kentropyx calcarata from most of its area of occurrence in Amazonia and used mitochondrial and nuclear markers to evaluate if the genetic structure agrees with evolutionary scenarios previously proposed for Amazonia. We performed phylogenetic and populational analyses to better understand the dynamics of this species in the Amazonia rainforest over time. Phylogenetic inference recovered ten K. calcarata structured lineages in eastern Amazonia, some of them limited by the Amazon River and its southern tributaries (Tapajós, Xingu, and Tocantins), although we detected occasional haplotype sharing across some of the river banks. According to molecular dating, K. calcarata diversified since Miocene–Pliocene, and some of the lineages presented signs of demographic expansion during the Pleistocene, supposedly triggered by climatic dynamics. The putative ancestral lineage of K. calcarata was distributed on the Guiana Shield, later spreading south and southeastward by dispersion. Our results indicate that Amazonian rivers acted as barriers to the dispersal of Kentropyx calcarata, but they were not the sole drivers of diversification.
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Coelho FEA, Camurugi F, Marques R, Magalhães FDM, Werneck FP, Garda AA. Historical connections between Atlantic Forest and Amazonia drove genetic and ecological diversity in Lithobates palmipes (Anura, Ranidae). SYST BIODIVERS 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2022.2046657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Felipe Eduardo Alves Coelho
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Centro de Biociências, Avenida Senador Salgado Filho, S/N, Lagoa Nova, Natal 59078-900, RN, Brazil
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- Departamento de Botânica e Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Centro de Biociências, Avenida Senador Salgado Filho, S/N, Lagoa Nova, Natal 59078-900, RN, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Campus I – Cidade Universitaria, S/N, Cidade Universitária, João Pessoa 58051-900, Paraíba, Brasil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Campus I – Cidade Universitaria, S/N, Cidade Universitária, João Pessoa 58051-900, Paraíba, Brasil
- Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ecology and Evolution, Rutgers University-Newark, 195 University Ave, Newark 07102, New Jersey NJ, USA
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- Programa de Coleções Científicas Biológicas, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Avenida André Araújo 2936, Aleixo, Manaus 69067-375, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Departamento de Botânica e Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Centro de Biociências, Avenida Senador Salgado Filho, S/N, Lagoa Nova, Natal 59078-900, RN, Brazil
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Pereira EA, Ceron K, Silva HR, Santana DJ. The dispersal between Amazonia and Atlantic Forest during the Early Neogene revealed by the biogeography of the treefrog tribe Sphaenorhynchini (Anura, Hylidae). Ecol Evol 2022; 12:e8754. [PMID: 35386873 PMCID: PMC8975791 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2021] [Revised: 01/18/2022] [Accepted: 03/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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- Elvis Almeida Pereira
- Laboratório de Herpetologia Departamento de Biologia Animal Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Brazil
- Mapinguari ‐ Laboratório de Biogeografia e Sistemática de Anfíbios e Répteis Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul Campo Grande Brazil
- Laboratório de Genética e Biodiversidade Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará Santarém Brazil
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- Mapinguari ‐ Laboratório de Biogeografia e Sistemática de Anfíbios e Répteis Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul Campo Grande Brazil
- Departamento de Biologia Animal Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) São Paulo Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia Departamento de Biologia Animal Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Brazil
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- Mapinguari ‐ Laboratório de Biogeografia e Sistemática de Anfíbios e Répteis Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul Campo Grande Brazil
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Prates I, Singhal S, Marchán-Rivadeneira MR, Grundler MR, Moritz C, Donnellan SC, Rabosky DL. Genetic and Ecogeographic Controls on Species Cohesion in Australia’s Most Diverse Lizard Radiation. Am Nat 2022; 199:E57-E75. [DOI: 10.1086/717411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- Ivan Prates
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
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- Department of Biology, California State University–Dominguez Hills, Carson, California 90747
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720; and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Division of Ecology and Evolution and Centre for Biodiversity Analysis, Australian National University, Camberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
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Miyaki CY, Cruz FW, Hickerson M, Michelangeli FA, Pinto-da-Rocha R, Thomas W, Carnaval AC. A multidisciplinary framework for biodiversity prediction in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest hotspot. BIOTA NEOTROPICA 2022. [DOI: 10.1590/1676-0611-bn-2022-1339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Abstract: We briefly describe selected results from our thematic project focused on the biodiversity of the Atlantic Forest (“AF BIOTA”), which was jointly funded by FAPESP’s BIOTA Program, the U.S. National Science Foundation Dimensions of Biodiversity Program, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). As one of the five most important hotspots of biodiversity in the world, the Atlantic Forest (AF) holds less than 16% of its vegetation cover, yet, amongst the hotspots, it still harbors one of the highest numbers of species, including endemics. By gathering specialists across multiple disciplines (biology, geology, engineering), we aimed to understand how this megabiodiversity was built through time, informing biodiversity science and conservation. Among the results, we trained 18 Master’s and 26 Ph.D. students, published more than 400 peer-reviewed papers that improved our knowledge about the forest’s biologic and climatic diversity and dynamics through time, developed new analytical methods, produced outreach videos and articles, and provided data to help define biodiversity conservation policies.
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Rivera D, Prates I, Firneno TJ, Rodrigues MT, Caldwell JP, Fujita MK. Phylogenomics, introgression, and demographic history of South American true toads (Rhinella). Mol Ecol 2021; 31:978-992. [PMID: 34784086 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2021] [Revised: 10/24/2021] [Accepted: 11/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The effects of genetic introgression on species boundaries and how they affect species' integrity and persistence over evolutionary time have received increased attention. The increasing availability of genomic data has revealed contrasting patterns of gene flow across genomic regions, which impose challenges to inferences of evolutionary relationships and of patterns of genetic admixture across lineages. By characterizing patterns of variation across thousands of genomic loci in a widespread complex of true toads (Rhinella), we assess the true extent of genetic introgression across species thought to hybridize to extreme degrees based on natural history observations and multi-locus analyses. Comprehensive geographic sampling of five large-ranged Neotropical taxa revealed multiple distinct evolutionary lineages that span large geographic areas and, at times, distinct biomes. The inferred major clades and genetic clusters largely correspond to currently recognized taxa; however, we also found evidence of cryptic diversity within taxa. While previous phylogenetic studies revealed extensive mito-nuclear discordance, our genetic clustering analyses uncovered several admixed individuals within major genetic groups. Accordingly, historical demographic analyses supported that the evolutionary history of these toads involved cross-taxon gene flow both at ancient and recent times. Lastly, ABBA-BABA tests revealed widespread allele sharing across species boundaries, a pattern that can be confidently attributed to genetic introgression as opposed to incomplete lineage sorting. These results confirm previous assertions that the evolutionary history of Rhinella was characterized by various levels of hybridization even across environmentally heterogeneous regions, posing exciting questions about what factors prevent complete fusion of diverging yet highly interdependent evolutionary lineages.
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- Danielle Rivera
- Department of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA.,Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center, University of Texas at Arlington, TX, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA.,Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center, University of Texas at Arlington, TX, USA
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Sam Noble Museum & Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 73072-7029, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA.,Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center, University of Texas at Arlington, TX, USA
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Myers EA, Mulcahy DG, Falk B, Johnson K, Carbi M, de Queiroz K. Interspecific Gene Flow and Mitochondrial Genome Capture During the Radiation of Jamaican Anolis Lizards (Squamata; Iguanidae). Syst Biol 2021; 71:501-511. [PMID: 34735007 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syab089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2020] [Revised: 10/25/2021] [Accepted: 10/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Gene flow and reticulation are increasingly recognized as important processes in the diversification of many taxonomic groups. With the increasing ease of collecting genomic data and the development of multispecies coalescent network approaches, such reticulations can be accounted for when inferring phylogeny and diversification. Caribbean Anolis lizards are a classic example of an adaptive radiation in which species have independently radiated on the islands of the Greater Antilles into the same ecomorph classes. Within the Jamaican radiation at least one species, A. opalinus, has been documented to be polyphyletic in its mitochondrial DNA, which could be the result of an ancient reticulation event or incomplete lineage sorting. Here we generate mtDNA and genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) data and implement gene-tree, species-tree, and multispecies coalescent network methods to infer the diversification of this group. Our mtDNA gene-tree recovers the same relationships previously inferred for this group, which is strikingly different from the species-tree inferred from our GBS data. Posterior predictive simulations suggest that our genomic data violate commonly adopted assumptions of the multispecies coalescent model, so we use network approaches to infer phylogenetic relationships. The inferred network topology contains a reticulation event but does not explain the mtDNA polyphyly observed in this group, however coalescent simulations suggest that the observed mtDNA topology is likely the result of past introgression. How common a signature of gene flow and reticulation is across the radiation of Anolis is unknown; however, the reticulation events that we demonstrate here may have allowed for adaptive evolution, as has been suggested in other, more recent adaptive radiations.
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- Edward A Myers
- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.,Department of Herpetology, The American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA
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- Global Genome Initiative, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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- Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA
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- Science Research Mentoring Program, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West and 79th St., NY, NY 10024, USA
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- Science Research Mentoring Program, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West and 79th St., NY, NY 10024, USA
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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Bonatelli IAS, Gehara M, Carstens BC, Colli GR, Moraes EM. Comparative and predictive phylogeography in the South American diagonal of open formations: Unravelling the biological and environmental influences on multitaxon demography. Mol Ecol 2021; 31:331-342. [PMID: 34614269 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2020] [Revised: 09/29/2021] [Accepted: 09/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Phylogeography investigates historical drivers of the geographical distribution of intraspecific lineages. Particular attention has been given to ecological, climatic and geological processes in the diversification of the Neotropical biota. Several species sampled across the South American diagonal of open formations (DOF), comprising the Caatinga, Cerrado and Chaco biomes, experienced range shifts coincident with Quaternary climatic changes. However, comparative studies across different spatial, temporal and biological scales on DOF species are still meagre. Here, we combine phylogeographical model selection and machine learning predictive frameworks to investigate the influence of Pleistocene climatic changes on several plant and animal species from the DOF. We assembled mitochondrial/chloroplastic DNA sequences in public repositories and inferred the demographic responses of 44 species, comprising 70 intraspecific lineages of plants, lizards, frogs, spiders and insects. We then built a random forest model using biotic and abiotic information to identify the best predictors of demographic responses in the Pleistocene. Finally, we assessed the temporal synchrony of species demographic responses with hierarchical approximate Bayesian computation. Biotic variables related to population connectivity, gene flow and habitat preferences largely predicted how species responded to Pleistocene climatic changes, and demographic changes were synchronous primarily during the Middle Pleistocene. Although 22 (~31%) lineages underwent demographic expansion, presumably associated with the spread of aridity during the glacial Pleistocene periods, our findings suggest that nine lineages (~13%) exhibited the opposite response due to taxon-specific attributes.
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- Isabel A S Bonatelli
- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Sorocaba, Brazil.,Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Diadema, Brazil
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University-Newark, Newark, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Sorocaba, Brazil
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Pontes-Nogueira M, Martins M, Alencar LRV, Sawaya RJ. The role of vicariance and dispersal on the temporal range dynamics of forest vipers in the Neotropical region. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0257519. [PMID: 34534245 PMCID: PMC8448354 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0257519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2021] [Accepted: 09/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The emergence of the diagonal of open/dry vegetations, including Chaco, Cerrado and Caatinga, is suggested to have acted as a dispersal barrier for terrestrial organisms by fragmenting a single large forest that existed in South America into the present Atlantic and Amazon forests. Here we tested the hypothesis that the expansion of the South American diagonal of open/dry landscapes acted as a vicariant process for forest lanceheads of the genus Bothrops, by analyzing the temporal range dynamics of those snakes. We estimated ancestral geographic ranges of the focal lancehead clade and its sister clade using a Bayesian dated phylogeny and the BioGeoBEARS package. We compared nine Maximum Likelihood models to infer ancestral range probabilities and their related biogeographic processes. The best fitting models (DECTS and DIVALIKETS) recovered the ancestor of our focal clade in the Amazon biogeographic region of northwestern South America. Vicariant processes in two different subclades resulted in disjunct geographic distributions in the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest. Dispersal processes must have occurred mostly within the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest and not between them. Our results suggest the fragmentation of a single ancient large forest into the Atlantic and Amazon forests acting as a driver of vicariant processes for the snake lineage studied, highlighting the importance of the diagonal of open/dry landscapes in shaping distribution patterns of terrestrial biota in South America.
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America
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- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
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Attiná N, Núñez Bustos EO, Lijtmaer DA, Hebert PDN, Tubaro PL, Lavinia PD. Genetic variation in neotropical butterflies is associated with sampling scale, species distributions, and historical forest dynamics. Mol Ecol Resour 2021; 21:2333-2349. [PMID: 34097821 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2021] [Revised: 05/27/2021] [Accepted: 06/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Previous studies of butterfly diversification in the Neotropics have focused on Amazonia and the tropical Andes, while southern regions of the continent have received little attention. To address the gap in knowledge about the Lepidoptera of temperate South America, we analysed over 3000 specimens representing nearly 500 species from Argentina for a segment of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene. Representing 42% of the country's butterfly fauna, collections targeted species from the Atlantic and Andean forests, and biodiversity hotspots that were previously connected but are now isolated. We assessed COI effectiveness for species discrimination and identification and how its performance was affected by geographic distances and taxon coverage. COI data also allowed to study patterns of genetic variation across Argentina, particularly between populations in the Atlantic and Andean forests. Our results show that COI discriminates species well, but that identification success is reduced on average by ~20% as spatial and taxonomic coverage rises. We also found that levels of genetic variation are associated with species' spatial distribution type, a pattern which might reflect differences in their dispersal and colonization abilities. In particular, intraspecific distance between populations in the Atlantic and Andean forests was significantly higher in species with disjunct distributions than in those with a continuous range. All splits between lineages in these forests dated to the Pleistocene, but divergence dates varied considerably, suggesting that historical connections between the Atlantic and Andean forests have differentially affected their shared butterfly fauna. Our study supports the fact that large-scale assessments of mitochondrial DNA variation are a powerful tool for evolutionary studies.
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- Natalí Attiná
- Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" (MACN-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" (MACN-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" (MACN-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
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- Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" (MACN-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" (MACN-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. CIT Río Negro (UNRN-CONICET). Sede Atlántica, Viedma, Río Negro, Viedma, Argentina
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Matos-Maraví P, Wahlberg N, Freitas AVL, Devries P, Antonelli A, Penz CM. Mesoamerica is a cradle and the Atlantic Forest is a museum of Neotropical butterfly diversity: insights from the evolution and biogeography of Brassolini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blab034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Regional species diversity is explained ultimately by speciation, extinction and dispersal. Here, we estimate dispersal and speciation rates of Neotropical butterflies to propose an explanation for the distribution and diversity of extant species. We focused on the tribe Brassolini (owl butterflies and allies), a Neotropical group that comprises 17 genera and 108 species, most of them endemic to rainforest biomes. We inferred a robust species tree using the multispecies coalescent framework and a dataset including molecular and morphological characters. This formed the basis for three changes in Brassolini classification: (1) Naropina syn. nov. is subsumed within Brassolina; (2) Aponarope syn. nov. is subsumed within Narope; and (3) Selenophanes orgetorix comb. nov. is reassigned from Catoblepia to Selenophanes. By applying biogeographical stochastic mapping, we found contrasting species diversification and dispersal dynamics across rainforest biomes, which might be explained, in part, by the geological and environmental history of each bioregion. Our results revealed a mosaic of biome-specific evolutionary histories within the Neotropics, where butterfly species have diversified rapidly (cradles: Mesoamerica), have accumulated gradually (museums: Atlantic Forest) or have diversified and accumulated alternately (Amazonia). Our study contributes evidence from a major butterfly lineage that the Neotropics are a museum and a cradle of species diversity.
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- Pável Matos-Maraví
- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Carl Skottsbergs gata 22B, 41319 Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Carl Skottsbergs gata 22B, 41319 Gothenburg, Sweden
- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, Branišovská 1160/31, 37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 37, 22362 Lund, Sweden
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- Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Rua Monteiro Lobato 255, CEP 13.083-862 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Orleans, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, New Orleans, LA 70148, USA
- Courtesy Curators of Lepidoptera, Florida Museum of Natural History, 1659 Museum Road, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Carl Skottsbergs gata 22B, 41319 Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Carl Skottsbergs gata 22B, 41319 Gothenburg, Sweden
- Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, Richmond TW9 3AE, UK
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Orleans, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, New Orleans, LA 70148, USA
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Machado AF, Ritter CD, Miranda CL, Bredin YK, Ramos Pereira MJ, Duarte L. Potential mammalian species for investigating the past connections between Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0250016. [PMID: 33836018 PMCID: PMC8034742 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2020] [Accepted: 03/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Much evidence suggests that Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest were connected through at least three dispersion routes in the past: the Eastern route, the central route, and the Western route. However, few studies have assessed the use of these routes based on multiple species. Here we present a compilation of mammal species that potentially have dispersed between the two forest regions and which may serve to investigate these connections. We evaluate the present-day geographic distributions of mammals occurring in both Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest and the likely connective routes between these forests. We classified the species per habitat occupancy (strict forest specialists, species that prefer forest habitat, or generalists) and compiled the genetic data available for each species. We found 127 mammalian species presently occurring in both Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest for which, substantial genetic data was available. Hence, highlighting their potential for phylogeographic studies investigating the past connections between the two forests. Differently from what was previously proposed, the present-day geographic distribution of mammal species found in both Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest points to more species in the eastern portion of the dry diagonal (and adjoining forested habitats). The Central route was associated with the second most species. Although it remains to be seen how this present-day geography reflects the paleo dispersal routes, our results show the potential of using mammal species to investigate and bring new insights about the past connections between Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest.
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- Arielli Fabrício Machado
- Phylogenetic and Functional Ecology Lab (LEFF), Post-Graduation Programme in Ecology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Laboratório de Evolução e Genética Animal (LEGAL), Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Eukaryotic Microbiology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
- Grupo Integrado de Aquicultura e Estudos Ambientais, Departamento de Zootecnia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
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- Post-Graduation Program in Zoology, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém, Pará, Brazil
- Laboratório de Evolução e Genética Animal (LEGAL), Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Bird and Mammal Evolution, Systematics and Ecology Lab (BiMa-Lab), Post-Graduation Programme in Animal Biology and Post-Graduation Programme in Ecology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Phylogenetic and Functional Ecology Lab (LEFF), Post-Graduation Programme in Ecology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Melo-Sampaio PR, Passos P, Martins AR, Jennings WB, Moura-Leite JC, Morato SA, Venegas PJ, Chávez G, Venâncio NM, Souza MB. A phantom on the trees: Integrative taxonomy supports a reappraisal of rear-fanged snakes classification (Dipsadidae: Philodryadini). ZOOL ANZ 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2020.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Bocalini F, Bolívar-Leguizamón SD, Silveira LF, Bravo GA. Comparative phylogeographic and demographic analyses reveal a congruent pattern of sister relationships between bird populations of the northern and south-central Atlantic Forest. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2020; 154:106973. [PMID: 33059067 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2019] [Revised: 09/08/2020] [Accepted: 09/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The Pernambuco Center of Endemism (PCE) is the northernmost strip of the Atlantic Forest (AF). Biogeographic affinities among avifaunas in the PCE, the southern-central Atlantic Forest (SCAF), and Amazonia (AM) have not been studied comprehensively, and current patterns of genetic diversity in the PCE remain unclear. The interplay between species' ecological attributes and historical processes, such as Pleistocene climate fluctuations or the appearance of rivers, may have affected population genetic structures in the PCE. Moreover, the role of past connections between the PCE and AM and the elevational distribution of species in assembling the PCE avifauna remain untested. Here, we investigated the biogeographic history of seven taxa endemic to the PCE within a comparative phylogeographic framework based on a mean of 3,618 independent single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) extracted from flanking regions of ultraconserved elements (UCEs) and one mitochondrial gene. We found that PCE populations were more closely related to SCAF populations than they were to those in AM, regardless of their elevational range, with divergence times placed during the Mid-Pleistocene. These splits were consistent with a pattern of allopatric divergence with gene flow until the upper Pleistocene and no signal of rapid changes in population sizes. Our results support the existence of a Pleistocene refugium driving current genetic diversity in the PCE, thereby rejecting the role of the São Francisco River as a primary barrier for population divergence. Additionally, we found that connections with Amazonia also played a significant role in assembling the PCE avifauna through subsequent migration events.
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- Fernanda Bocalini
- Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, 04263-000 Ipiranga, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; Departamento de Zoologia do Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, 05508-090 São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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- Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, 04263-000 Ipiranga, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, 04263-000 Ipiranga, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Doyle ED, Prates I, Sampaio I, Koiffmann C, Silva WA, Carnaval AC, Harris EE. Molecular phylogenetic inference of the howler monkey radiation (Primates: Alouatta). Primates 2020; 62:177-188. [PMID: 32876810 DOI: 10.1007/s10329-020-00854-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2020] [Accepted: 08/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Howler monkeys (Alouatta), comprising between nine and 14 species and ranging from southern Mexico to northern Argentina, are the most widely distributed platyrrhines. Previous phylogenetic studies of howlers have used chromosomal and morphological characters and a limited number of molecular markers; however, branching patterns conflict between studies or remain unresolved. We performed a new phylogenetic analysis of Alouatta using both concatenated and coalescent-based species tree approaches based on 14 unlinked non-coding intergenic nuclear regions. Our taxon sampling included five of the seven South American species (Alouatta caraya, Alouatta belzebul, Alouatta guariba, Alouatta seniculus, Alouatta sara) and the two recognized species from Mesoamerica (Alouatta pigra, Alouatta palliata). Similarly to previous studies, our phylogenies supported a Mesoamerican clade and a South American clade. For the South American howlers, both methods recovered the Atlantic Forest endemic A. guariba as sister to all remaining South American species, albeit with moderate support. Moreover, we found no support for the previously proposed sister relationship between A. guariba and A. belzebul. For the first time, a clade composed of A. sara and A. caraya was identified. The relationships among the other South American howlers, however, were not fully supported. Our estimates for divergence times within Alouatta are generally older compared to estimates in earlier studies. However, they conform to recent studies proposing a Miocene age for the Isthmus of Panama and for the uplift of the northern Andes. Our results also point to an early genetic isolation of A. guariba in the Atlantic Forest, in agreement with the hypothesis of biotic exchange across South American rain forests in the Miocene. Collectively, these findings contribute to a better understanding of the diversification processes among howler monkey species; however, they also suggest that further comprehension of the evolutionary history of the Alouatta radiation will rely on broadened taxonomic, geographic, and genomic sampling.
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- Department of Biology, City College of New York, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Instituto de Estudos Costeiros, Universidade Federal Do Pará, Campus de Bragança, Belém, PA, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, City College of New York, New York, NY, USA
- The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Geology, Queensborough Community College, The City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
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Trujillo-Arias N, Rodríguez-Cajarville MJ, Sari E, Miyaki CY, Santos FR, Witt CC, Barreira AS, Gómez I, Naoki K, Tubaro PL, Cabanne GS. Evolution between forest macrorefugia is linked to discordance between genetic and morphological variation in Neotropical passerines. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2020; 149:106849. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2019] [Revised: 04/15/2020] [Accepted: 04/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Pirani RM, Peloso PLV, Prado JR, Polo ÉM, Knowles LL, Ron SR, Rodrigues MT, Sturaro MJ, Werneck FP. Diversification history of clown tree frogs in Neotropical rainforests (Anura, Hylidae, Dendropsophus leucophyllatus group). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2020; 150:106877. [PMID: 32512194 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2019] [Revised: 05/29/2020] [Accepted: 06/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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General consensus emphasizes that no single biological process can explain the patterns of species' distributions and diversification in the Neotropics. Instead, the interplay of several processes across space and time must be taken into account. Here we investigated the phylogenetic relationships and biogeographic history of tree frogs in the Dendropsophus leucophyllatus species group (Amphibia: Hylidae), which is distributed across Amazonia and the Atlantic rainforests. Using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and double digest restriction-site associated DNA (ddRADseq), we inferred phylogenetic relationships, species limits, and temporal and geographic patterns of diversification relative to the history of these biomes. Our results indicate that the D. leucophyllatus species group includes at least 14 independent lineages, which are currently arranged into ten described species. Therefore, a significant portion of species in the group are still unnamed. Different processes were associated to the group diversification history. For instance, the Andes uplift likely caused allopatric speciation for Cis-Andean species, whereas it may also be responsible for changes in the Amazonian landscape triggering parapatric speciation by local adaptation to ecological factors. Meanwhile, Atlantic Forest ancestors unable to cross the dry diagonal biomes after rainforest's retraction, evolved in isolation into different species. Diversification in the group began in the early Miocene, when connections between Atlantic Forest and the Andes (Pacific Dominion) by way of a south corridor were possible. The historical scenario in Amazonia, characterized by several speciation events and habitat heterogeneity, helped promoting diversification, resulting in the highest species diversity for the group. This marked species diversification did not happen in Atlantic Forest, where speciation is very recent (late Pliocene and Pleistocene), despite its remarkable climatic heterogeneity.
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- Renata M Pirani
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética, Conservação e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. Ephigênio Sales 2239, 69060-000, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Rua Augusto Corrêa, 01, Guamá, 66075-110, Belém, Pará, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. General Rodrigo Octávio, 6200, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 41809-1079, USA
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- Museo de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, CEP 05508-090 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Av. Professor Artur Riedel, 275, Jardim Eldorado, Diadema, CEP 09972-270 São Paulo, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética, Conservação e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. Ephigênio Sales 2239, 69060-000, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil; Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Programa de Coleções Científicas Biológicas, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo 2936, CEP 69067-375 Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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Musher LJ, Ferreira M, Auerbach AL, McKay J, Cracraft J. Why is Amazonia a 'source' of biodiversity? Climate-mediated dispersal and synchronous speciation across the Andes in an avian group (Tityrinae). Proc Biol Sci 2020; 286:20182343. [PMID: 30940057 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.2343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Amazonia is a 'source' of biodiversity for other Neotropical ecosystems, but which conditions trigger in situ speciation and emigration is contentious. Three hypotheses for how communities have assembled include (1) a stochastic model wherein chance dispersal events lead to gradual emigration and species accumulation, (2) diversity-dependence wherein successful dispersal events decline through time due to ecological limits, and (3) barrier displacement wherein environmental change facilitates dispersal to other biomes via transient habitat corridors. We sequenced thousands of molecular markers for the Neotropical Tityrinae (Aves) and applied a novel filtering protocol to identify loci with high utility for dated phylogenomics. We used these loci to estimate divergence times and model Tityrinae's evolutionary history. We detected a prominent role for speciation driven by barriers including synchronous speciation across the Andes and found that dispersal increased toward the present. Because diversification was continuous but dispersal was non-random over time, we show that barrier displacement better explains Tityrinae's history than stochasticity or diversity-dependence. We propose that Amazonia is a source of biodiversity because (1) it is a relic of a biome that was once more extensive, (2) environmentally mediated corridors facilitated emigration and (3) constant diversification is attributed to a spatially heterogeneous landscape that is perpetually dynamic through time.
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- Lukas J Musher
- 1 Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History , Central Park West @ 79th Street, New York, NY 10024 , USA.,2 The Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History , Central Park West @ 79th Street, New York, NY 10024 , USA
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- 3 Programa Pós-Graduação em Genética, Conservação e Biologia Evolutiva, INPA , Manaus, AM , Brazil
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- 4 Department of Biological Sciences Collegiate Division, University of Chicago , 1101 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 , USA
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- 1 Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History , Central Park West @ 79th Street, New York, NY 10024 , USA
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- 1 Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History , Central Park West @ 79th Street, New York, NY 10024 , USA
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Sheu Y, Zurano JP, Ribeiro‐Junior MA, Ávila‐Pires TC, Rodrigues MT, Colli GR, Werneck FP. The combined role of dispersal and niche evolution in the diversification of Neotropical lizards. Ecol Evol 2020; 10:2608-2625. [PMID: 32185006 PMCID: PMC7069304 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2019] [Revised: 01/20/2020] [Accepted: 01/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Ecological requirements and environmental conditions can influence diversification across temporal and spatial scales. Understanding the role of ecological niche evolution under phylogenetic contexts provides insights on speciation mechanisms and possible responses to future climatic change. Large-scale phyloclimatic studies on the megadiverse Neotropics, where biomes with contrasting vegetation types occur in narrow contact, are rare. We integrate ecological and biogeographic data with phylogenetic comparative methods, to investigate the relative roles of biogeographic events and niche divergence and conservatism on the diversification of the lizard genus Kentropyx Spix, 1825 (Squamata: Teiidae), distributed in South American rainforests and savannas. Using five molecular markers, we estimated a dated species tree, which recovered three clades coincident with previously proposed species groups diverging during the mid-Miocene. Biogeography reconstruction indicates a role of successive dispersal events from an ancestral range in the Brazilian Shield and western Amazonia. Ancestral reconstruction of climatic tolerances and niche overlap metrics indicates a trend of conservatism during the diversification of groups from the Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield, and a strong signal of niche divergence in the Brazilian Shield savannas. Our results suggest that climatic-driven divergence at dynamic forest-savanna borders might have resulted in adaptation to new environmental niches, promoting habitat shifts and shaping speciation patterns of Neotropical lizards. Dispersal and ecological divergence could have a more important role in Neotropical diversification than previously thought.
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- Yumi Sheu
- Programa de Pós‐Graduação em GenéticaConservação e Biologia EvolutivaInstituto Nacional de Pesquisas do AmazôniaManausBrasil
- Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Genética e MelhoramentoUniversidade Federal do Espírito SantoEspírito SantoBrasil
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- Departamento de Sistemática e EcologiaUniversidade Federal da ParaíbaJoão PessoaBrasil
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- Departamento de ZoologiaInstituto de BiociênciasUniversidade de São PauloSão PauloBrasil
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- Departamento de ZoologiaInstituto de Ciências BiológicasUniversidade de BrasíliaBrasíliaBrasil
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- Programa de Coleções Científicas BiológicasCoordenação de BiodiversidadeInstituto Nacional de Pesquisas da AmazôniaManausBrasil
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary BiologyMuseum of Comparative BiologyHarvard UniversityCambridgeMAUSA
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Silva LM, Batalha-Filho H, Japyassú HF, El-Hani CN. Population history of a social spider reveals connection between South American tropical forests. ZOOL ANZ 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2020.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Rivera D, Prates I, Rodrigues MT, Carnaval AC. Effects of climate and geography on spatial patterns of genetic structure in tropical skinks. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2020; 143:106661. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2019] [Accepted: 10/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Beyond Refugia: New Insights on Quaternary Climate Variation and the Evolution of Biotic Diversity in Tropical South America. NEOTROPICAL DIVERSIFICATION: PATTERNS AND PROCESSES 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-31167-4_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Nogueira A, Bragagnolo C, DaSilva M, Martins T, Lorenzo E, Perbiche-Neves G, Pinto-da-Rocha R. Historical signatures in the alpha and beta diversity patterns of Atlantic Forest harvestman communities (Arachnida: Opiliones). CAN J ZOOL 2019. [DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2018-0032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The integration of ecology and historical biogeography is fostering the investigation of diversity patterns. We studied alpha and beta diversity patterns of Brazilian Atlantic Forest harvestman (Arachnida: Opiliones) communities and related them to environmental and historical factors. Our data bank contains 508 species from 63 sites, encompassing almost the entire latitudinal range of Atlantic Forest. Alpha diversity was higher in coastal sites in the south and southeast regions and decreased in sites inland, as well as in sites in the coastal northeast region, especially in northern Bahia state. Alpha diversity was positively influenced by precipitation and altitudinal range, but the low number of species in northeastern coastal sites seems to be more related to the historical distribution of Neotropical harvestman lineages than to recent environmental factors. Geographic distance was the most influential factor for beta diversity. Compositional changes were also remarkably congruent with areas of endemism delimited for Atlantic Forest harvestmen. The percentage of protected areas for each area of endemism was very unbalanced, and Espírito Santo and Pernambuco states were the least protected areas. The turnover process observed in the compositional changes indicates that conservation strategies should include as many reserves as possible because every community presents a unique set of species.
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- A.A. Nogueira
- Instituto de Biociências – Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Zoologia, Rua do Matão, travessa 14, 321, 005508-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Rua São Nicolau, 210, 09913-030, Diadema, SP, Brazil
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- Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza – UFPB, Cidade Universitária, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil
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- Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza – UFPB, Cidade Universitária, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil
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- Centro de Conservação e Manejo de Fauna da Caatinga, Campus Ciências Agrárias – UNIVASF, Projeto de Irrigação Nilo Coelho, Petrolina, PE, Brazil
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- Centro de Ciências da Natureza, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Rodovia Lauri Simões de Barros, km 12, SP-189, Aracaçú, Buri, SP, Brazil
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- Instituto de Biociências – Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Zoologia, Rua do Matão, travessa 14, 321, 005508-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Brunes TO, da Silva AJ, Marques-Souza S, Rodrigues MT, Pellegrino KC. Not always young: The first vertebrate ancient origin of true parthenogenesis found in an Amazon leaf litter lizard with evidence of mitochondrial haplotypes surfing on the wave of a range expansion. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2019; 135:105-122. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.01.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2018] [Revised: 01/23/2019] [Accepted: 01/26/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Lavinia PD, Barreira AS, Campagna L, Tubaro PL, Lijtmaer DA. Contrasting evolutionary histories in Neotropical birds: Divergence across an environmental barrier in South America. Mol Ecol 2019; 28:1730-1747. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.15018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2018] [Revised: 12/22/2018] [Accepted: 01/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Pablo D. Lavinia
- División Ornitología Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales ‘Bernardino Rivadavia’ (MACN–CONICET) Buenos Aires Argentina
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- División Ornitología Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales ‘Bernardino Rivadavia’ (MACN–CONICET) Buenos Aires Argentina
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- Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology Ithaca New York
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Cornell University Ithaca New York
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- División Ornitología Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales ‘Bernardino Rivadavia’ (MACN–CONICET) Buenos Aires Argentina
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- División Ornitología Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales ‘Bernardino Rivadavia’ (MACN–CONICET) Buenos Aires Argentina
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Population genetic structure and species delimitation of a widespread, Neotropical dwarf gecko. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2019; 133:54-66. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.12.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2018] [Revised: 12/19/2018] [Accepted: 12/21/2018] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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de Sá RO, Tonini JFR, van Huss H, Long A, Cuddy T, Forlani MC, Peloso PL, Zaher H, Haddad CF. Multiple connections between Amazonia and Atlantic Forest shaped the phylogenetic and morphological diversity of Chiasmocleis Mehely, 1904 (Anura: Microhylidae: Gastrophryninae). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2019; 130:198-210. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2018] [Revised: 10/06/2018] [Accepted: 10/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Prates I, Penna A, Rodrigues MT, Carnaval AC. Local adaptation in mainland anole lizards: Integrating population history and genome-environment associations. Ecol Evol 2018; 8:11932-11944. [PMID: 30598788 PMCID: PMC6303772 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2018] [Revised: 09/22/2018] [Accepted: 09/24/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Environmental gradients constrain physiological performance and thus species' ranges, suggesting that species occurrence in diverse environments may be associated with local adaptation. Genome-environment association analyses (GEAA) have become central for studies of local adaptation, yet they are sensitive to the spatial orientation of historical range expansions relative to landscape gradients. To test whether potentially adaptive genotypes occur in varied climates in wide-ranged species, we implemented GEAA on the basis of genomewide data from the anole lizards Anolis ortonii and Anolis punctatus, which expanded from Amazonia, presently dominated by warm and wet settings, into the cooler and less rainy Atlantic Forest. To examine whether local adaptation has been constrained by population structure and history, we estimated effective population sizes, divergence times, and gene flow under a coalescent framework. In both species, divergence between Amazonian and Atlantic Forest populations dates back to the mid-Pleistocene, with subsequent gene flow. We recovered eleven candidate genes involved with metabolism, immunity, development, and cell signaling in A. punctatus and found no loci whose frequency is associated with environmental gradients in A. ortonii. Distinct signatures of adaptation between these species are not associated with historical constraints or distinct climatic space occupancies. Similar patterns of spatial structure between selected and neutral SNPs along the climatic gradient, as supported by patterns of genetic clustering in A. punctatus, may have led to conservative GEAA performance. This study illustrates how tests of local adaptation can benefit from knowledge about species histories to support hypothesis formulation, sampling design, and landscape gradient characterization.
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- Ivan Prates
- Department of Vertebrate ZoologyNational Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian InstitutionWashingtonDistrict of Columbia
- Department of Biology, City College of New York and Graduate CenterCity University of New YorkNew YorkNew York
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- Department of AnthropologyUniversity of Texas at San AntonioSan AntonioTexas
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- Department of Biology, City College of New York and Graduate CenterCity University of New YorkNew YorkNew York
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Trujillo-Arias N, Calderón L, Santos FR, Miyaki CY, Aleixo A, Witt CC, Tubaro PL, Cabanne GS. Forest corridors between the central Andes and the southern Atlantic Forest enabled dispersal and peripatric diversification without niche divergence in a passerine. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2018; 128:221-232. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2018] [Revised: 06/08/2018] [Accepted: 08/04/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Antonelli A, Ariza M, Albert J, Andermann T, Azevedo J, Bacon C, Faurby S, Guedes T, Hoorn C, Lohmann LG, Matos-Maraví P, Ritter CD, Sanmartín I, Silvestro D, Tejedor M, ter Steege H, Tuomisto H, Werneck FP, Zizka A, Edwards SV. Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research. PeerJ 2018; 6:e5644. [PMID: 30310740 PMCID: PMC6174874 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2017] [Accepted: 08/27/2018] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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The unparalleled biodiversity found in the American tropics (the Neotropics) has attracted the attention of naturalists for centuries. Despite major advances in recent years in our understanding of the origin and diversification of many Neotropical taxa and biotic regions, many questions remain to be answered. Additional biological and geological data are still needed, as well as methodological advances that are capable of bridging these research fields. In this review, aimed primarily at advanced students and early-career scientists, we introduce the concept of "trans-disciplinary biogeography," which refers to the integration of data from multiple areas of research in biology (e.g., community ecology, phylogeography, systematics, historical biogeography) and Earth and the physical sciences (e.g., geology, climatology, palaeontology), as a means to reconstruct the giant puzzle of Neotropical biodiversity and evolution in space and time. We caution against extrapolating results derived from the study of one or a few taxa to convey general scenarios of Neotropical evolution and landscape formation. We urge more coordination and integration of data and ideas among disciplines, transcending their traditional boundaries, as a basis for advancing tomorrow's ground-breaking research. Our review highlights the great opportunities for studying the Neotropical biota to understand the evolution of life.
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- Alexandre Antonelli
- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Botanical Garden, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Organismic Biology and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Laboratory Ecologie et Biologie des Interactions, Team “Ecologie, Evolution, Symbiose”, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France
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- Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USA
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Federal University of São Paulo, Diadema, Brazil
- Museum of Zoology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Universidad Regional Amazonica IKIAM, Napo, Ecuador
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- Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Instituto Patagónico de Geología y Paleontología, Puerto Madryn, Guatemala
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands
- Systems Ecology, Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Organismic Biology and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Gothenburg Centre for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Capurucho JMG, Ashley MV, Ribas CC, Bates JM. Connecting Amazonian, Cerrado, and Atlantic forest histories: Paraphyly, old divergences, and modern population dynamics in tyrant-manakins (Neopelma/Tyranneutes, Aves: Pipridae). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2018; 127:696-705. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2017] [Revised: 04/27/2018] [Accepted: 06/06/2018] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Ramírez-Barrera SM, Hernández-Baños BE, Jaramillo-Correa JP, Klicka J. Deep divergence of Red-crowned Ant Tanager ( Habia rubica: Cardinalidae), a multilocus phylogenetic analysis with emphasis in Mesoamerica. PeerJ 2018; 6:e5496. [PMID: 30225165 PMCID: PMC6139011 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2018] [Accepted: 07/31/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Many neotropical species have a complex history of diversification as a result of the influence of geographical, ecological, climatic, and geological factors that determine the distribution of populations within a lineage. Phylogeography identifies such populations, determines their geographic distributions, and quantifies the degree of genetic divergence. In this work we explored the genetic structure of Habia rubica populations, a polytypic taxon with 17 subspecies described, in order to obtain hypotheses about their evolutionary history and processes of diversification. We undertook multilocus analyses using sequences of five molecular markers (ND2, ACOI-I9, MUSK, FGB-I5 and ODC), and sampling from across the species’ distribution range, an area encompassing from Central Mexico throughout much of South America. With these data, we obtained a robust phylogenetic hypothesis, a species delimitation analysis, and estimates of divergence times for these lineages. The phylogenetic hypothesis of concatenated molecular markers shows that H. rubica can be divided in three main clades: the first includes Mexican Pacific coast populations, the second is formed by population from east of Mexico to Panama and the third comprises the South American populations. Within these clades we recognize seven principal phylogroups whose limits have a clear correspondence with important geographical discontinuities including the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico, the Talamanca Cordillera, and the Isthmus of Panama in North America. In South America, we observed a marked separation of two phylogroups that include the populations that inhabit mesic forests in western and central South America (Amazon Forest) and those inhabiting the seasonal forest from the eastern and northern regions of the South America (Atlantic Forest). These areas are separated by an intervening dry vegetation “diagonal” (Chaco, Cerrado and Caatinga). The geographic and genetic structure of these phylogroups describes a history of diversification more active and complex in the northern distribution of this species, producing at least seven well-supported lineages that could be considered species.
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- Sandra M Ramírez-Barrera
- Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Museo de Zoología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Museo de Zoología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Department of Biology and Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Seatle, WA, United States of America
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Rangel TF, Edwards NR, Holden PB, Diniz-Filho JAF, Gosling WD, Coelho MTP, Cassemiro FAS, Rahbek C, Colwell RK. Modeling the ecology and evolution of biodiversity: Biogeographical cradles, museums, and graves. Science 2018; 361:361/6399/eaar5452. [DOI: 10.1126/science.aar5452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 185] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2017] [Accepted: 06/05/2018] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Individual processes shaping geographical patterns of biodiversity are increasingly understood, but their complex interactions on broad spatial and temporal scales remain beyond the reach of analytical models and traditional experiments. To meet this challenge, we built a spatially explicit, mechanistic simulation model implementing adaptation, range shifts, fragmentation, speciation, dispersal, competition, and extinction, driven by modeled climates of the past 800,000 years in South America. Experimental topographic smoothing confirmed the impact of climate heterogeneity on diversification. The simulations identified regions and episodes of speciation (cradles), persistence (museums), and extinction (graves). Although the simulations had no target pattern and were not parameterized with empirical data, emerging richness maps closely resembled contemporary maps for major taxa, confirming powerful roles for evolution and diversification driven by topography and climate.
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- Thiago F. Rangel
- Departmento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, CP 131, 74.001-970 Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
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- School of Environment, Earth, and Ecosystems, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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- School of Environment, Earth, and Ecosystems, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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- School of Environment, Earth, and Ecosystems, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
- Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Departmento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, CP 131, 74.001-970 Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
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- Departmento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, CP 131, 74.001-970 Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
- Núcleo de Pesquisa em Ictiologia, Limnologia e Aquicultura. Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK
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- Departmento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, CP 131, 74.001-970 Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
- University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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Potter S, Xue AT, Bragg JG, Rosauer DF, Roycroft EJ, Moritz C. Pleistocene climatic changes drive diversification across a tropical savanna. Mol Ecol 2017; 27:520-532. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.14441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2017] [Revised: 10/20/2017] [Accepted: 10/31/2017] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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- Sally Potter
- Research School of Biology The Australian National University Acton ACT Australia
- Centre for Biodiversity Analysis Acton ACT Australia
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- Department of Biology City University of New York New York NY USA
- Department of Genetics Rutgers University Piscataway NJ USA
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- Research School of Biology The Australian National University Acton ACT Australia
- Centre for Biodiversity Analysis Acton ACT Australia
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- Research School of Biology The Australian National University Acton ACT Australia
- Centre for Biodiversity Analysis Acton ACT Australia
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- School of Biosciences The University of Melbourne Parkville Vic. Australia
- Sciences Department Museums Victoria Melbourne Vic. Australia
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- Research School of Biology The Australian National University Acton ACT Australia
- Centre for Biodiversity Analysis Acton ACT Australia
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Hofmann EP, Townsend JH. Origins and biogeography of the Anolis crassulus subgroup (Squamata: Dactyloidae) in the highlands of Nuclear Central America. BMC Evol Biol 2017; 17:267. [PMID: 29268694 PMCID: PMC5740896 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-017-1115-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2017] [Accepted: 12/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Recent studies have begun to reveal the complex evolutionary and biogeographic histories of mainland anoles in Central America, but the origins and relationships of many taxa remain poorly understood. One such group is the Anolis (Norops) crassulus species subgroup, which contains ten morphologically similar highland taxa, the majority of which have restricted distributions. The nominal taxon A. crassulus has a disjunct distribution from Chiapas, Mexico, through Guatemala, in the highlands of El Salvador, and in the Chortís Highlands of Honduras. We test the relationships of these species using multiple mitochondrial and nuclear loci in concatenated and multispecies coalescent frameworks, in an effort to both resolve long-standing taxonomic confusion and present new insights into the evolution and biogeography of these taxa. RESULTS Sequences of multiple mitochondrial and nuclear loci were generated for eight of the ten species of the Anolis crassulus species subgroup. We analyzed phylogenetic relationships and estimated divergence times and ancestral ranges of the subgroup, recovering a monophyletic subgroup within Anolis. Within the nominal taxon Anolis crassulus, we recovered multiple genetically distinct lineages corresponding to allopatric populations, and show that the Chortís Highland lineage split from the others over 13 MYA. Additionally, distinct mitochondrial lineages are present within the taxa A. heteropholidotus and A. morazani, and importantly, samples of A. crassulus and A. sminthus previously used in major anole phylogenetic analyses are not recovered as conspecific with those taxa. We infer a Chortís Highland origin for the ancestor of this subgroup, and estimate cladogenesis of this subgroup began approximately 22 MYA. CONCLUSIONS Our results provide new insights into the evolution, biogeography, and timing of diversification of the Anolis crassulus species subgroup. The disjunctly distributed Anolis crassulus sensu lato represents several morphologically conserved, molecularly distinct anoles, and several other species in the subgroup contain multiple isolated lineages.
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- Erich P. Hofmann
- Department of Biology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15705-1081 USA
- Present Address: Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634 USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15705-1081 USA
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Biogeographic links between southern Atlantic Forest and western South America: Rediscovery, re-description, and phylogenetic relationships of two rare montane anole lizards from Brazil. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2017; 113:49-58. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2017] [Revised: 05/01/2017] [Accepted: 05/09/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Smith ML, Ruffley M, Espíndola A, Tank DC, Sullivan J, Carstens BC. Demographic model selection using random forests and the site frequency spectrum. Mol Ecol 2017; 26:4562-4573. [PMID: 28665011 DOI: 10.1111/mec.14223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2017] [Revised: 05/16/2017] [Accepted: 05/22/2017] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Phylogeographic data sets have grown from tens to thousands of loci in recent years, but extant statistical methods do not take full advantage of these large data sets. For example, approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) is a commonly used method for the explicit comparison of alternate demographic histories, but it is limited by the "curse of dimensionality" and issues related to the simulation and summarization of data when applied to next-generation sequencing (NGS) data sets. We implement here several improvements to overcome these difficulties. We use a Random Forest (RF) classifier for model selection to circumvent the curse of dimensionality and apply a binned representation of the multidimensional site frequency spectrum (mSFS) to address issues related to the simulation and summarization of large SNP data sets. We evaluate the performance of these improvements using simulation and find low overall error rates (~7%). We then apply the approach to data from Haplotrema vancouverense, a land snail endemic to the Pacific Northwest of North America. Fifteen demographic models were compared, and our results support a model of recent dispersal from coastal to inland rainforests. Our results demonstrate that binning is an effective strategy for the construction of a mSFS and imply that the statistical power of RF when applied to demographic model selection is at least comparable to traditional ABC algorithms. Importantly, by combining these strategies, large sets of models with differing numbers of populations can be evaluated.
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- Megan L Smith
- Department of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA.,Biological Sciences, Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies (IBEST), University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA.,Biological Sciences, Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies (IBEST), University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA.,Biological Sciences, Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies (IBEST), University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA.,Biological Sciences, Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies (IBEST), University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Peres EA, Silva MJ, Solferini VN. Phylogeography of the spider Araneus venatrix (Araneidae) suggests past connections between Amazon and Atlantic rainforests. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blx036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Elen A. Peres
- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Bioagents, Institute of Biology, Rua Bertrand Russel s/n, University of Campinas, Campinas, 13083-970 São Paulo, Brazil
- Department of Zoology, Institute of Biosciences, Rua do Matão 101, travessa 14, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-090 São Paulo, Brazil
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- Centre for Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, Avenida Cândido Rondon 400, University of Campinas, Campinas, 13083-875 São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Bioagents, Institute of Biology, Rua Bertrand Russel s/n, University of Campinas, Campinas, 13083-970 São Paulo, Brazil
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