The peril of dating beetles

Toussaint, Emmanuel F. A.; Seidel, Matthias; Arriaga‐Varela, Emmanuel; Hájek, Jiřı́; Král, David; Sekerka, Lukáš; Short, Andrew Edward Z.; Fikáček, Martín

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“…Phylogenetic relationships among Zopheridae species with divergence times estimated using the Toussaint et al () calibration at the root. Branches are coloured according to geographic area (orange = New Zealand, blue = New Caledonia, red = Australia, black = all other areas).…”

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“…These authors performed a reanalysis of the divergence time dating of McKenna et al (), which included five zopherid taxa; Colydium , Pristoderus , Pycnomerus , Phellopsis and Hyporhagus and obtained an age for the deepest split among these taxa of 178 myr (0.95 posterior intervals: 165–193 myr). Because our taxon sampling included Pristoderus and Pycnomerus , we used the posterior distribution from Toussaint et al () to constrain the age of the root. Here we used a normal prior for the root age with a mean of 178 myr and standard deviation of 8.5 myr.…”

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Multiple lineages of hyper‐diverse Zopheridae beetles survived the New Zealand Oligocene Drowning

Buckley

Lord

Ramón-Laca

et al. 2020

Journal of Biogeography

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Aim During the late Oligocene (23 mya) the New Zealand landmass was reduced to approximately 18% of its current area. It has been hypothesized that this event, known as the Oligocene Drowning, caused population bottlenecking and mass extinction. Using phylogenetic methods, we examine the effect of this and other environmental events on the hyper‐diverse Zopheridae beetles (162 morphospecies), which largely inhabit leaf litter and dead wood. Location New Zealand. Taxon Zopheridae, Coleoptera. Methods Here we use a fossil‐calibrated phylogenetic tree estimated from mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I and nuclear large subunit rRNA genes to identify monophyletic New Zealand zopherid lineages and date the age of these lineages. We used Bayesian diversification models (compound Poisson process on mass extinction times) to test the hypothesis that the New Zealand zopherids underwent a mass extinction in the late Oligocene followed by an increase in speciation rate in the Miocene. We also used these data to estimate the age of these lineages in New Zealand. Results We demonstrate that 15–20 zopherid lineages survived the Oligocene Drowning depending on the calibration scheme. Of these lineages from 3 to 11 have posterior intervals that encompass the rifting of New Zealand from Gondwana in the late Cretaceous, again depending on the calibration scheme. The diversification model shows no evidence of an increase in extinction rate during the Oligocene Drowning or during any other period since the Cretaceous. Furthermore, rather than recovering an increase in speciation rate during the Miocene and Pliocene, due to environmental changes, we instead recovered a large drop in the speciation rate during this time. Main conclusions The New Zealand zopherid fauna is a combination of lineages, some of which may have existed on New Zealand since the rifting from Gondwana and other more recent arrivals. The late Oligocene reduction in land area was insufficient to cause a mass extinction in the Zopheridae. This suggests the amount of emergent land was great enough to support a diverse invertebrate fauna. Our study demonstrates the different biogeographic patterns evident in cryptic, hyper‐diverse, and poorly dispersing invertebrate species relative to more mobile plants and animals.

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Multiple lineages of hyper‐diverse Zopheridae beetles survived the New Zealand Oligocene Drowning

Buckley

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Ramón-Laca

et al. 2020

Journal of Biogeography

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“…While we recovered a As we compiled molecular sequences of previous studies, it was surprinsing to found this discrepant age in our study. Our results, however, are congruent with other studies broaching the divergence time estimates of Coleoptera and insect lineages: Toussaint et al (2016) recovered the origin of Curculionoidea and Curculionidae at 226 and 160 Ma respectively while Misof et al (2014) inferred approximately 180 Ma for the origin of Curculionidae (divergence age of Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins, the single curculionid used in their analysis).…”

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“…Although we used a combined set of sequences of previous studies, we applied a more relaxed age constrain to the maximum boundaries in our analysis, which brought the origin of Curculionoidea to early Triassic. However, considering the uncertainty of the molecular clock, our results were congruent with the ages inferred by Toussaint et al (2016) for Curculionoidea and Curculionidae, which recovered the origin of those groups at 226 and 160 Ma respectively, and the age inferred by Misof et al (2014) for Curculionidae, which estimated the origin of the family as approximately 180 Ma.…”

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Sistemática e biogeografia de besouros curculionídeos (Curculionoidea; Coleoptera) associados a figueiras (<i>Ficus</i>; Moracae)

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RIBEIRÃO PRETO -SP 2017 Autorizo a reprodução e divulgação total ou parcial deste trabalho, por qualquer meio convencional ou eletrônico, para fins de estudo e pesquisa, desde que citada a fonte. Por fim, agradeço à Fabiana Fragoso, minha companheira incansável em todas as aventuras, pela ajuda na revisão do inglês, pela leitura crítica e ajuda na formatação desta tese. Obrigado por sempre estar ao meu lado. Eocene period. We hypothesize that the variation of the sea level and warmer climate in the past had great influence on the evolution of the species. Our results encourage future research on the biology and ecology of these species and will help us to understand the role weevils may have played in the evolution of the fig-fig wasp mutualism. FICHA CATALOGRÁFICA Palmieri

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Coleoptera – Beetles

Liu

Shih

et al. 2019

Rhythms of Insect Evolution

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The peril of dating beetles

Cited by 130 publications

References 69 publications

Multiple lineages of hyper‐diverse Zopheridae beetles survived the New Zealand Oligocene Drowning

Multiple lineages of hyper‐diverse Zopheridae beetles survived the New Zealand Oligocene Drowning

Sistemática e biogeografia de besouros curculionídeos (Curculionoidea; Coleoptera) associados a figueiras (<i>Ficus</i>; Moracae)

Coleoptera – Beetles

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