Out of Asia: Mitochondrial DNA Evidence for an Oriental Origin of Tiger Frogs, Genus Hoplobatrachus

Kosuch, Joachim; Vences, Miguel; Dubois, Alain; Ohler, Annemarie; Böhme, Wolfgang

doi:10.1006/mpev.2001.1034

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“…Excluding these two genera and a further clade of African species (see below), the remaining Eurasian and American Ranoidae form a monophyletic clade with some, albeit low, support (<50, 60, and 100). The African species Hoplobatrachus occipitalis and Amnirana lepus are nested within the largely Asian Dicroglossinae and Raninae, supporting the hypothesis of their Asian origin (Kosuch et al, 2001). …”

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“…Species (1) of the dicroglossine genus Hoplobatrachus, (2) of the ranine lineage containing the genera/ subgenera Rana and Amnirana, and (3) the rhacophorid genus Chiromantis have dispersed into Africa from Eurasia (Kosuch et al, 2001;Vences et al, 2003b). Currently, 21 ranid genera are restricted in their distribution to Africa, most of which are limited to sub-Saharan Africa.…”

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A previously unrecognized radiation of ranid frogs in Southern Africa revealed by nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences

Meijden

Vences

Hoegg

et al. 2005

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

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In sub-Saharan Africa, amphibians are represented by a large number of endemic frog genera and species of incompletely clariWed phylogenetic relationships. This applies especially to African frogs of the family Ranidae. We provide a molecular phylogenetic hypothesis for ranids, including 11 of the 12 African endemic genera. Analysis of nuclear (rag-1, rag-2, and rhodopsin genes) and mitochondrial markers (12S and 16S ribosomal RNA genes) provide evidence for an endemic clade of African genera of high morphological and ecological diversity thus far assigned to up to Wve diVerent subfamilies: Afrana, Cacosternum, Natalobatrachus, Pyxicephalus, Strongylopus, and Tomopterna. This clade has its highest species diversity in southern Africa, suggesting a possible biogeographic connection with the Cape Floral Region. Bayesian estimates of divergence times place the initial diversiWcation of the southern African ranid clade at »62-85 million years ago, concurrent with the onset of the radiation of Afrotherian mammals. These and other African ranids (Conraua, Petropedetes, Phrynobatrachus, and Ptychadena) are placed basally within the Ranoidae with respect to the Eurasian groups, which suggests an African origin for this whole epifamily. 

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A previously unrecognized radiation of ranid frogs in Southern Africa revealed by nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences

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Vences

Hoegg

et al. 2005

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

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“…In each of the genera endemic to the subcontinent, remarkably few extant species are described (one in Lankanectes, 10 in Indirana, and 11 in Nyctibatrachus and Micrixalus). Furthermore, the high morphological uniformity among species within each lineage contrasts sharply with the extensive morphological and ecological diversifications characterizing other ranid clades such as the Madagascan frog clade (Bossuyt and Milinkovitch, 2000), Rhacophorinae (Meegaskumbura et al, 2002), and Dicroglossinae (Emerson et al, 2000b;Kosuch et al, 2001). The low diversity in species richness and morphology may indicate that living members of each lineage have diverged long after the origin of the branch itself.…”

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Endemic ranid (Amphibia: Anura) genera in southern mountain ranges of the Indian subcontinent represent ancient frog lineages: evidence from molecular data

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Jiang

Bossuyt

2004

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“…Hammer et al (1998) suggested that two human immigration events, including a range expansion out of Africa and a more recent range expansion back to Africa. Kosuch et al (2001) proposed an Asian origin of the tiger frog, genus Hoplobatrachus, and inferred that their dispersal event into Africa took place in the Miocene, when there was contact between Africa and Asia through the Arabian Peninsula 20-17 million years ago (MYA). Gaubert & Cordeiro-Estrela (2006) proposed that the mammalian subfamily Viverrinae had undergone two independent migrations from Asia to Africa during the Middle Miocene and between the Late Oligocene and Middle Miocene.…”

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Multiple in-to-Africa dispersals of labeonin fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) revealed by molecular phylogenetic analysis

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An out-of-Africa dispersal route has been proposed for many organisms, including modern man. However, counter examples of in-to-Africa dispersal routes are less common. In the present article, the phylogenetic relationships within the Labeoninae, a subfamily of cyprinid fishes distributed in Asia and Africa, were analyzed to investigate the biogeographic processes governing the modern distribution of these Asian and African cyprinids. The mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b gene was used as a molecular marker. The phylogenetic analysis indicated that the subfamily Labeoninae is a monophyletic group, with some Asian labeonins located at the basal position. Two subclades were found that contained both African and Asian species, which highlighted a need for further biogeographic analysis. Based on this analysis, it is proposed that the centre of origin of the Labeoninae was in East Asia. Molecular clock estimation suggests that the Labeoninae arose by the Early Miocene (*23 MYA) during the period of the second Tibetan uplift.Subsequently, two dispersal events of labeonins from Asia into Africa occured in the Early Miocene (* 20 MYA) and Late Miocene (*9 MYA) and serve as examples counter to out-of-Africa dispersal.

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Out of Asia: Mitochondrial DNA Evidence for an Oriental Origin of Tiger Frogs, Genus Hoplobatrachus

Cited by 94 publications

References 36 publications

A previously unrecognized radiation of ranid frogs in Southern Africa revealed by nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences

A previously unrecognized radiation of ranid frogs in Southern Africa revealed by nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences

Endemic ranid (Amphibia: Anura) genera in southern mountain ranges of the Indian subcontinent represent ancient frog lineages: evidence from molecular data

Multiple in-to-Africa dispersals of labeonin fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) revealed by molecular phylogenetic analysis

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