From Integrative Taxonomy to Species Description: One Step Beyond

Pante, Eric; Schoelinck, Charlotte; Puillandre, Nicolas

doi:10.1093/sysbio/syu083

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“…Controlled crosses are necessary to asses whether these clusters correspond to biological species or interfertile groups with disjunct distribution ranges leading to effective absence of gene flow. Thus, given the high population differentiation and the importance of IBD over several geographic scales in L. brevirostris α, a taxonomic revision of L. brevirostris might consider individuals from each sampled island as a potential new species (Pante et al, 2014(Pante et al, , 2015. The apparent absence of morphological clues, a criterion already known to poorly describe the diversity of Aglaopheniidae ( …”

Section: Implications For Hydrozoan Taxonomy and Marine Conservationmentioning

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One species for one island? Unexpected diversity and weak connectivity in a widely distributed tropical hydrozoan

Postaire¹,

Gélin²,

Bruggemann³

et al. 2017

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Section: Implications For Hydrozoan Taxonomy and Marine Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

One species for one island? Unexpected diversity and weak connectivity in a widely distributed tropical hydrozoan

Postaire¹,

Gélin²,

Bruggemann³

et al. 2017

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“…Consequently, the literature includes a large number of undescribed and un-named cryptic or pseudo-cryptic species for which identification from one study to another is uneasy or impossible (e.g. Pante et al 2015). As recently underlined by Fontaine et al (2012), the time lapse between specimen collection and formal species description is extremely long, averaging 21 years.…”

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Species are hypotheses: avoid connectivity assessments based on pillars of sand

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Connectivity among populations determines the dynamics and evolution of populations, and its assessment is essential in ecology in general and in conservation biology in particular. The robust basis of any ecological study is the accurate delimitation of evolutionary units, such as populations, metapopulations and species. Yet a disconnect still persists between the work of taxonomists describing species as working hypotheses and the use of species delimitation by molecular ecologists interested in describing patterns of gene flow. This problem is particularly acute in the marine environment where the inventory of biodiversity is relatively delayed, while for the past two decades, molecular studies have shown a high prevalence of cryptic species. In this study, we illustrate, based on marine case studies, how the failure to recognize boundaries of evolutionary-relevant unit leads to heavily biased estimates of connectivity. We review the conceptual framework within which species delimitation can be formalized as falsifiable hypotheses and show how connectivity studies can feed integrative taxonomic work and vice versa. Finally, we suggest strategies for spatial, temporal and phylogenetic sampling to reduce the probability of inadequately delimiting evolutionary units when engaging in connectivity studies.

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“…DNA ) x individuals can be partitioned into clusters -potentially species -through a tree-like guidance. The new rationale is simple: to defi ne species, we need fi rst to recognize and delimit different groups of individuals, by contrasting their characters (Goldstein et al 2000 ;Pons et al 2006 ;Vogler and Monaghan 2006 ;O'Meara 2010 ;Pante et al 2015 ; but see DeSalle et al 2005 ). This phylogenetic perspective is still certainly new for many, although it is inexorably implemented in the most recent molecular methods used for biodiversity exploration and characterization, such as molecular species delimitation or metagenomics.…”

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The Future of Phylogenetic Systematics in Conservation Biology: Linking Biodiversity and Society

Pellens

Faith

Grandcolas

2016

Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics

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Phylogenetic diversity has become invaluable for conservation biology in the last decades, refl ecting its link to option values and to evolutionary potential. We argue that its use will continue to grow rapidly in the next decades because of the transformation of systematics with new molecular techniques and especially metagenomics. In a near future, phylogenetic diversity typically will be the very fi rst result at hand, and the great challenge of biodiversity sciences will be to preserve its link with natural history and the remainder of biological knowledge through species vouchers and names. The phylogeny availability and the very wide sampling allowed will facilitate obtaining detailed biodiversity information at local scale and considering the transition across scales -a fundamental need well highlighted in international conservation guidelines, and historically so diffi cult to achieve. All this suggests that phylogenetic diversity might be at the center of more explicit identifi cation of conservation priorities and options. For concluding, we explore an emerging local-to-regional-to-global challenge: the possibility of defi ning "planetary boundaries" for biodiversity on the basis of phylogenetic diversity.

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From Integrative Taxonomy to Species Description: One Step Beyond

Cited by 267 publications

References 59 publications

One species for one island? Unexpected diversity and weak connectivity in a widely distributed tropical hydrozoan

One species for one island? Unexpected diversity and weak connectivity in a widely distributed tropical hydrozoan

Species are hypotheses: avoid connectivity assessments based on pillars of sand

The Future of Phylogenetic Systematics in Conservation Biology: Linking Biodiversity and Society

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