Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the paper wasp genus<i>Polistes</i>(Hymenoptera: Vespidae): implications for the overwintering hypothesis of social evolution

Santos, Bernardo F.; Payne, Ansel; Pickett, Kurt M.; Carpenter, James M.

doi:10.1111/cla.12103

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“…This route is supported by findings on an American fossil vespid from the Upper Cretaceous (Brown 1941, Wenzel 1990) as well as component analyses carried out by Carpenter (1993Carpenter ( , 1996, phylogenetic inferences (Carpenter 1991, Wenzel & Carpenter 1994 and supposed divergence times concerning the origins of Polistinae (Ezenwa et al 1998) as defended by Carvalho et al (2015). According to Santos et al (2014), transoceanic dispersal of Polistes from Southeast Asia to South America is also likely, but the authors propose that "further analyses with African species could lead to Africa as the ancestral area for Polistes sensu stricto clade," the sister group of the New World Polistinae.…”

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confidence: 74%

“…The group that apparently tracked the colonization route from eastern South America toward the Amazon, Central America, and North America is represented by a clade in which Polistes simillimus Zikán (eastern Brasil to Argentina) is determined as basal (Table S1). This species is basal in the phylogeny proposed by Santos et al (2014) as well. Also, in this clade, Polistes crinitus (Felton) (three subspecies) belongs to a Caribbean group, whereas Polistes exclamans Vierek (seven subspecies) and Polistes instabilis de Saussure are found from Costa Rica to the USA.…”

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Neotropical Polistinae (Vespidae) and the Progression Rule Principle: the Round-Trip Hypothesis

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The progression rule principle is based on the relation between centers of origin and basal forms, and the prediction that recently colonized areas are where novelties commonly occur. Using this concept as the null hypothesis, the aim of the present study was to test whether intuitive predictions of this model are confirmed in the Neotropical paper wasps, a group fairly studied through phylogenetic frameworks. The analyses consisted of a careful review of the distribution of different wasps of the subfamily Polistinae with available phylogenies and the association of this information with colonization routes. This procedure allowed the determination of a two-step colonization process in the Neotropical region based on the progression rule principle, for which the round-trip hypothesis is proposed. The first route (east to west) is seen in a small group of Polistes. This route is rare but strengthens the arising of paper wasps in the Americas in a Gondwanan scenario. The second route (west to east) is remarkably repeated in several other lineages. Thus, the northwestern Neotropics, mainly Amazon Forest, is proposed as the major center of origins for living Neotropical Polistinae and the round-trip hypothesis may explain both earlier and later colonization routes of the paper wasps analyzed.

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Neotropical Polistinae (Vespidae) and the Progression Rule Principle: the Round-Trip Hypothesis

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“…Reference and metaconsensus trees from PERDA on Polistes EF 1A1 data (Santos et al., ). The reference tree is the strict consensus tree recovered from unmodified matrix.…”

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The impact of poor sampling of polymorphism on cladistic analysis

Watanabe

2015

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Despite its ubiquity in the natural world, polymorphism is commonly disregarded or poorly sampled in phylogenetic analyses due to deliberate sampling strategy, inadequate sampling effort and limited specimen availability. Poor sampling of intraspecific variation engenders differential sampling of morphs within polymorphic species, which could generate conflicting tree topologies by altering the character-based affinity among taxa. To assess the potential magnitude of this impact, Polymorphic Entry Replacement Data Analysis (PERDA) was developed as a new script for the TNT phylogenetic program. This script simulates poor sampling of polymorphic taxa on a matrix of discrete characters by iteratively replacing each polymorphic state (e.g. [01]) with a randomly selected single state included in the original polymorphic coding (e.g. 0 or 1). The trees recovered from these subsampled data sets provide a distribution of tree distances, which indicates the level of incongruent trees resulting from different combinations of single states. Performing PERDA on empirical data sets shows alarming frequencies and magnitudes of conflicting tree topologies, demonstrating that poor sampling within polymorphic taxa could yield highly incompatible trees in many data sets. This troubling outcome undermines phylogenetic inferences based on data with poor intraspecific sampling, which is typical for palaeontological studies. With trees obtained from subsampled data sets, PERDA also generates a metaconsensus tree revealing interspecific relationships that become ambiguous due to documented levels of intraspecific variation. These collapsed clades point to taxa for which evidence should be sought to justify their taxonomic classification. Polymorphism generally denotes the stable existence of two or more distinct, heritable forms within populations of a species, exclusive of intraspecific variation due to sexual dimorphism, ontogeny, geographical location and plasticity (Ford, 1945;Wiens, 1999). In cladistics, the treatment of polymorphism remains a contentious issue without resolution (e.g. Archie et al., 1989;Nixon and Davis, 1991;Campbell and Frost, 1993;Wiens, 1995Wiens, , 1998Wiens, , 2000Nixon, 1996;Kornet and Turner, 1999;Simmons and Geisler, 2002). Previous studies (Kornet and Turner, 1999;Wiens, 1999) summarized several different approaches including one that replaces every polymorphic state with "?" (missing coding) and frequency coding, in which character states are defined by the relative abundance of morphs in each species (e.g. state "a" if the relative abundance of a morph is 0-10%, state "b" if it is 11-20%). Despite higher degrees of homoplasy compared to fixed characters, both empirical and simulation studies show that the inclusion of polymorphic characters recovers greater proportions of established and true clades than removing them entirely from cladistic analyses Servedio, 1997, 1998;Wiens, 1998). These same studies also found that frequency coding generally performs better than other approaches. Neverth...

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“…Taken together, our study posits that indirect fitness is important for helpers in this tropical wasp from the outset of nest foundation. The tropical ecology of P. canadensis is likely to represent that in which group living first evolved in this lineage (Carpenter, ; Santos et al, ). We encourage similar analyses on other tropical Polistes (especially those in the “Old World” tropics) to determine whether this is a general trait of tropical Polistes .…”

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High indirect fitness benefits for helpers across the nesting cycle in the tropical paper waspPolistes canadensis

Southon¹,

Bell²,

Graystock³

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Molecular Ecology

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Explaining the evolution of helping behaviour in the eusocial insects where nonreproductive (“worker”) individuals help raise the offspring of other individuals (“queens”) remains one of the most perplexing phenomena in the natural world. Polistes paper wasps are popular study models, as workers retain the ability to reproduce: such totipotency is likely representative of the early stages of social evolution. Polistes is thought to have originated in the tropics, where seasonal constraints on reproductive options are weak and social groups are effectively perennial. Yet, most Polistes research has focused on nontropical species, where seasonality causes family groups to disperse; cofoundresses forming new nests the following spring are often unrelated, leading to the suggestion that direct fitness through nest inheritance is key in the evolution of helping behaviour. Here, we present the first comprehensive genetic study of social structure across the perennial nesting cycle of a tropical Polistes—Polistes canadensis. Using both microsatellites and newly developed single nucleotide polymorphism markers, we show that adult cofoundresses are highly related and that brood production is monopolized by a single female across the nesting cycle. Nonreproductive cofoundresses in tropical Polistes therefore have the potential to gain high indirect fitness benefits as helpers from the outset of group formation, and these benefits persist through the nesting cycle. Direct fitness may have been less important in the origin of Polistes sociality than previously suggested. These findings stress the importance of studying a range of species with diverse life history and ecologies when considering the evolution of reproductive strategies.

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Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the paper wasp genusPolistes(Hymenoptera: Vespidae): implications for the overwintering hypothesis of social evolution

Cited by 54 publications

References 36 publications

Neotropical Polistinae (Vespidae) and the Progression Rule Principle: the Round-Trip Hypothesis

Neotropical Polistinae (Vespidae) and the Progression Rule Principle: the Round-Trip Hypothesis

The impact of poor sampling of polymorphism on cladistic analysis

High indirect fitness benefits for helpers across the nesting cycle in the tropical paper waspPolistes canadensis

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