Phylogenetic comparative methods and the geography of speciation

Losos, Jonathan B.; Glor, Richard E.

doi:10.1016/s0169-5347(03)00037-5

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“…It is known that species of beetles in central and northern Europe experienced dramatic distributional shifts during the Pleistocene (see Elias, 1994 for a review), and that in many cases the present range of the species is only a random o quasirandom subset of what could have been its historical range, thus erasing any possibility of inferring its geographical origin or mode of speciation (Roy et al 1996;Losos & Glor 2003). However, under this scenario the expected distribution of sister species would also be random, i.e.…”

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Are Iberian endemics Iberian? A case-study using water beetles of family Dytiscidae (Coleoptera)

Ribera¹

2003

GRAELLSIA

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The phylogenetic relationships and the geographical origin of 27 of the 34 species and of 3 of the 9 subspecies of Iberian endemic Dytiscidae are studied, based on species level phylogenies constructed with two mitochondrial gene fragments (16S rRNA and Cytochrome Oxidase I). All Iberian endemic species for which more than one specimen was included were monophyletic with the exception of the complex Deronectes aubei sanfilippoi Fery & Brancucci, 1997-D. delarouzei (Jac. Du Val, 1857 (Sharp, 1872) and Hydroporus normandi normandi Régimbart, 1903 do not form well characterised lineages, as measured with the mitochondrial markers used in this study.The Iberian endemic species of Dytiscidae are divided in three groups according to the type of vicariant origin: 1) within-Iberian species, when the sister species (or clade) of the Iberian endemic is also and Iberian endemic; 2) Iberian/European, when the sister occurs in Europe north of the Pyrenees; and 3) Iberian/North African, when the sister occurs in North Africa. Within-Iberian endemics are found to be on average older than Iberian/European and Iberian/North African species, they have more restricted distributions within the Iberian peninsula (they occur typically in only one of the main biogeographical regions), and tend to occur exclusively in running waters. The withinIberian species are best represented by the "Iberian" clade of the genus Deronectes, formed by six endemic species plus two species with wider distributions. Most species in this group originated in rapid succession in the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene boundary by repeated vicariant events in the three main mountain massifs in the Iberian peninsula: the Pyrenees, the Baetic ranges, and the Sistema Central plus mountain massifs of the NW. On the contrary, most of the Iberian/European species seem to be the recent (Pleistocene) vicariants of a species with a widespread distribution encompassing the Iberian peninsula, at present restricted to south and west of the Ebro valley. The results of these analyses suggest that the Iberian peninsula was an isolated refuge during the Quaternary glaciations, in where allopatric speciation was frequent among some lineages of Dytiscidae diving beetles.

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Section: Geographical Origin Of the Iberian Endemicsmentioning

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Are Iberian endemics Iberian? A case-study using water beetles of family Dytiscidae (Coleoptera)

Ribera¹

2003

GRAELLSIA

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“…Although highly controversial (e.g. Losos & Glor, 2003), this method nonetheless sparked a series of forward steps in objective study of modes of speciation (Fitzpatrick et al, 2009;Kozak et al, 2009). We see a mature version of biodiversity informatics as presenting many opportunities for a much richer and more integrative view of both biotic interactions and biological diversification together, again broadening the mission of systematics considerably (Cracraft, 2002).…”

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“…Geographic distributions and niche estimates for species represent additional key elements, showing the relationships of those same taxa in geographic space (across diverse spatial scales) and in environmental dimensions. Finally, new approaches for estimating past distributional patterns (see above) can be marshalled to alleviate problems with labile distributions and the confusion that they insert regarding spatial relations between taxa (Losos & Glor, 2003). The result would be a view of phylogeny and distribution that incorporates information offered by ecological dimensions (Peterson et al, 1999) and likely shifts in distributions over recent planetary history (Wells, 1983).…”

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The big questions for biodiversity informatics

Peterson

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Guralnick

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Systematics and Biodiversity

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“…Their evidence to support this comes from an 'Age-Range Correlation' plot, or plot of the degree of range overlap against time since divergence. The interpretation of such plots is controversial, and in particular is confounded by range movement after speciation (Losos and Glor, 2003). Another problem is that the definition of species in allopatry is necessarily subjective under the Biological Species Concept.…”

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Speciation: Reinforced butterfly speciation

Jiggins

2005

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Phylogenetic comparative methods and the geography of speciation

Cited by 382 publications

References 65 publications

Are Iberian endemics Iberian? A case-study using water beetles of family Dytiscidae (Coleoptera)

Are Iberian endemics Iberian? A case-study using water beetles of family Dytiscidae (Coleoptera)

The big questions for biodiversity informatics

Speciation: Reinforced butterfly speciation

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