Area-Cladograms of Circum-Mediterranean Taxa in Relation to Mediterranean Palaeogeography

Oosterbroek, Pjotr; Arntzen, J. W.

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“…Thompson (1999) point out the importance of Late Miocene tectonic movements in explaining Mediterranean plant disjunctions. Oosterbroek and Arntzen (1992) suggest a similar connection pattern to explain the East-West Mediterranean disjunctions of several animal groups. In our analysis, repeated expansions to the East Mediterranean Basin and Central Europe in the Oligocene-Miocene were inferred for subtribes Carduinae (nodes 8-10, Fig.…”

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Reconstructing the evolution and biogeographic history of tribe Cardueae (Compositae)

Barres

Sanmartín

Anderson

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American J of Botany

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• Premise of the study: Tribe Cardueae (thistles) forms one of the largest tribes in the family Compositae (2400 species), with representatives in almost every continent. The greatest species richness of Cardueae occurs in the Mediterranean region where it forms an important element of its flora. New fossil evidence and a nearly resolved phylogeny of Cardueae are used here to reconstruct the spatiotemporal evolution of this group.• Methods: We performed maximum parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetic inference based on nuclear ribosomal DNA and chloroplast DNA markers. Divergence times and ancestral area reconstructions for main lineages were estimated using penalized likelihood and dispersal–vicariance analyses, respectively, and integrated over the posterior distribution of the phylogeny from the Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis to accommodate uncertainty in phylogenetic relationships.• Key results: The phylogeny shows that subtribe Cardopatiinae is sister to the remaining subtribes, and subtribes Carlininae and Echinopsinae appear as consecutive sister‐clades to the Carduinae/Centaureinae. Tribe Cardueae is inferred to have originated around the Mid Eocene in West Asia, which is also the ancestral area of most subtribes within Cardueae. Diversification within each subtribe began during the Oligocene‐Miocene period.• Conclusions: Most diversification events within Cardueae are related to the continuous cycles of area connection and division between the Anatolian microplate and the western Mediterranean Basin during the Oligocene‐Miocene and with the uplift of the Himalayan range from the Miocene onward. From these two regions, thistles dispersed and colonized the rest of the continents (e.g., the New World, Africa, and Australia), most likely during the colder Pliocene‐Pleistocene period.

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Reconstructing the evolution and biogeographic history of tribe Cardueae (Compositae)

Barres

Sanmartín

Anderson

et al. 2013

American J of Botany

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148

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“…8 ca. 10 Final structuring of the Neo-Pyrenees (Oosterbroek and Arntzen, 1992). 9 10-7 Secondary contact between the Betic region and the continent occurred due to crustal shortening in the prebetic zone (eastern part of the Betic sea strait) (Lonergan and White, 1997;Weijermars, 1988).…”

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Testing alternative vicariance scenarios in Western Mediterranean discoglossid frogs

Fromhage

Vences

Veith

2004

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

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Dated molecular phylogenies are often used to interpret evolutionary history with respect to paleogeographic events. Where more than one interpretation is possible, it is desirable but difficult to assess the alternatives in an objective manner. The present work demonstrates a formalized method for testing molecular clock calibrations and biogeographic scenarios based on them. We assessed the plausibility of several previously published biogeographic hypotheses, using the frog genera Alytes, Discoglossus, and Bombina as model groups. Our data set comprised ca. 900 bp of partial mitochondrial 16S and 12S rRNA gene sequences (both genes evolved in a clock-like manner across genera) from nearly all the species and subspecies in the three genera. We tested several calibrations of a molecular clock, which resulted in competing temporal settings for the evolution of taxa. Although only one scenario was in complete accordance with paleogeographic data, statistical testing did not reject the alternatives. Limitations encountered with the present approach may be overcome by more comprehensive analyses in future.

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“…Seberg, 1988;Noonan, 1988;Oosterbroek & Arntzen, 1992), it has turned out to be something of a general rule that dendrograms for the same set of areas derived from different groups are mostly not congruent. This has led to the creation of such concepts as 'composite areas' (Platnick & Nelson, 1984) or 'hybrid areas'.…”

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An ontological dilemma: epistemology and methodology of historical biogeography

Andersson

1996

Journal of Biogeography

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The task of historical biogeography is to reveal and explain the history of biotas and their historical connections. Historical «relationship» between biotas is defined as the sharing of descendants of the same ancestor. Several generalized patterns of relationship, rather than a single universal one, should be expected for any set of biotas or areas. Such generalized patterns must be sought by comparison of individual patterns, based on individual monophyletic groups. Generalized patterns of biota relationships are formally statements about numerical universals, while a pattern derived from an individual group is a statement about a particular. Such statements are not subject to testing in the Popperian sense; they may be falsified as well as verified. As in other historical sciences, explanation in historical biogeography is genetic in form and probabilistic in nature. An explanation is falsified when an explanatory premise is, and corroborated when an explanatory premise is verified. Two major methodologies exist to derive «area cladograms» from substituted (taxon) cladograms, Component Analysis and Parsimony Analysis. It is argued that Parsimony Analysis is the theoretically more satisfactory of these because it treats all sources of «error» in the same way, making no process‐related assumptions about the sources of conflicts. The rooting of area dendrograms is problematic. The rooting by an «allzero» outarea is theoretically unsound and the dendrogram should be rooted a posteriori adjacent to the ancestral area(s), or not at all.

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Area-Cladograms of Circum-Mediterranean Taxa in Relation to Mediterranean Palaeogeography

Cited by 143 publications

References 33 publications

Reconstructing the evolution and biogeographic history of tribe Cardueae (Compositae)

Reconstructing the evolution and biogeographic history of tribe Cardueae (Compositae)

Testing alternative vicariance scenarios in Western Mediterranean discoglossid frogs

An ontological dilemma: epistemology and methodology of historical biogeography

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