The biogeographic history of eelpouts and related fishes: linking phylogeny, environmental change, and patterns of dispersal in a globally distributed fish group

AbstractModern genetic data sets present unprecedented opportunities to understand the evolutionary origins of taxonomic groups comprising hundreds to thousands of species. When the timing of key events are known, it is also possible to investigate biogeographic history in the context of major phenomena (e.g., continental drift). In this study, we investigated the biogeographic history of the suborder Zoarcoidei, a globally distributed fish group that includes species inhabiting both poles and multiple taxa that produce antifreeze proteins to survive chronic subfreezing temperatures. We first generated a multi-locus, time-calibrated phylogeny for the group. We then used biogeographic modeling to reconstruct ancestral ranges across the tree and quantify the type and frequency of biogeographic events (e.g., founder, dispersal). With these results, we considered how the cooling of the Southern and Arctic Oceans, which reached their present-day subfreezing temperatures 10-15 million years ago (Mya) and 2-3 Mya, respectively, may have shaped the evolutionary history of Zoarcoidei, with an emphasis on the most speciose and widely distributed family, eelpouts (family Zoarcidae). Our phylogenetic results clarified standing issues in the Zoarcoidei taxonomy and showed that the group began to diversify in the Oligocene ∼31-32 Mya, with the center of origin for all families in north temperate waters. Within-area speciation was the most common biogeographic event in the group’s history (80% of all events) followed by dispersal (20%). Finally, we found mixed evidence for polar ocean cooling underpinning Zoarcoidei diversification, with support limited to eelpout speciation in the Southern Ocean over the last 10 million years.

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Amazonia as the Origin and Diversification Area of Didelphidae (Mammalia: Metatheria), and a Review of the Fossil Record of the Clade

Journal of Mammalian Evolution ◽

10.1007/s10914-021-09548-7 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Mariela C. Castro ◽

Murilo J. Dahur ◽

Gabriel S. Ferreira

Keyword(s):

South America ◽

Amazon Basin ◽

Parametric Models ◽

Isthmus Of Panama ◽

Biogeographic History ◽

Early Diversification ◽

Northern Portion ◽

History Of ◽

Environmental Events ◽

Fossil Records

AbstractDidelphidae is the largest New World radiation of marsupials, and is mostly represented by arboreal, small- to medium-sized taxa that inhabit tropical and/or subtropical forests. The group originated and remained isolated in South America for millions of years, until the formation of the Isthmus of Panama. In this study, we present the first reconstruction of the biogeographic history of Didelphidae including all major clades, based on parametric models and stratified analyses over time. We also compiled all the pre-Quaternary fossil records of the group, and contrasted these data to our biogeographic inferences, as well as to major environmental events that occurred in the South American Cenozoic. Our results indicate the relevance of Amazonia in the early diversification of Didelphidae, including the divergence of the major clades traditionally ranked as subfamilies and tribes. Cladogeneses in other areas started in the late Miocene, an interval of intense shifts, especially in the northern portion of Andes and Amazon Basin. Occupation of other areas continued through the Pliocene, but few were only colonized in Quaternary times. The comparison between the biogeographic inference and the fossil records highlights some further steps towards better understanding the spatiotemporal evolution of the clade. Finally, our results stress that the early history of didelphids is obscured by the lack of Paleogene fossils, which are still to be unearthed from low-latitude deposits of South America.

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Evolution and biogeographic history of the Saguinus mystax group (Primates, Callithrichidae)

American Journal of Primatology ◽

10.1002/ajp.23226 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 83 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Daysa Athaydes ◽

Cayo A. R. Dias ◽

Renato Gregorin ◽

Fernando A. Perini

Keyword(s):

Saguinus Mystax ◽

Biogeographic History ◽

History Of

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Mitochondrial introgression and complex biogeographic history of the genus Picea

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ◽

10.1016/j.ympev.2015.07.020 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 93 ◽

pp. 63-76 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Jin-Hua Ran ◽

Ting-Ting Shen ◽

Wen-Juan Liu ◽

Pei-Pei Wang ◽

Xiao-Quan Wang

Keyword(s):

Biogeographic History ◽

Mitochondrial Introgression ◽

History Of

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Forest Landscape Restoration under Global Environmental Change: Challenges and a Future Roadmap

Forests ◽

10.3390/f12030276 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 276

Author(s):

Florent Noulèkoun ◽

Sylvanus Mensah ◽

Emiru Birhane ◽

Yowhan Son ◽

Asia Khamzina

Keyword(s):

Environmental Change ◽

Global Environmental Change ◽

Ecological Knowledge ◽

Forest Landscape ◽

Landscape Restoration ◽

Adverse Impacts ◽

Forest Landscape Restoration ◽

Global Environmental ◽

Governance Challenges ◽

Globally Distributed

The adverse impacts of ecosystem degradation have raised the need for forest landscape restoration (FLR) to be included in international sustainability agendas. However, the path towards successful FLR implementation faces numerous biophysical, socioeconomic and governance challenges because FLR operates within complex socioecological systems. In the present study, we review and discuss FLR challenges in the context of global environmental change. We propose a roadmap consisting of five interlinked steps to overcome these challenges: (1) advancing ecological knowledge supporting FLR, (2) adapting FLR management to environmental change through strengthening globally distributed experimental networks, (3) implementing modelling approaches, (4) improving socioeconomic and governance dimensions, and (5) developing evidence-based knowledge platforms. The roadmap offers an iterative and adaptive framework for the continuous evaluation and improvement of FLR strategies and outcomes.

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Systematic placement of an enigmatic Southeast Asian taxon Eupetes macrocerus and implications for the biogeography of a main songbird radiation, the Passerida

Biology Letters ◽

10.1098/rsbl.2007.0054 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 323-326 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Knud A Jønsson ◽

Jon Fjeldså ◽

Per G.P Ericson ◽

Martin Irestedt

Keyword(s):

South African ◽

Plate Tectonics ◽

Molecular Data ◽

Sister Taxon ◽

Long Distance ◽

Biogeographic History ◽

Basal Group ◽

History Of ◽

Biogeographic Regions ◽

Wallace’S Line

Biogeographic connections between Australia and other continents are still poorly understood although the plate tectonics of the Indo-Pacific region is now well described. Eupetes macrocerus is an enigmatic taxon distributed in a small area on the Malay Peninsula and on Sumatra and Borneo. It has generally been associated with Ptilorrhoa in New Guinea on the other side of Wallace's Line, but a relationship with the West African Picathartes has also been suggested. Using three nuclear markers, we demonstrate that Eupetes is the sister taxon of the South African genus Chaetops , and their sister taxon in turn being Picathartes , with a divergence in the Eocene. Thus, this clade is distributed in remote corners of Africa and Asia, which makes the biogeographic history of these birds very intriguing. The most parsimonious explanation would be that they represent a relictual basal group in the Passerida clade established after a long-distance dispersal from the Australo-Papuan region to Africa. Many earlier taxonomic arrangements may have been based on assumptions about relationships with similar-looking forms in the same, or adjacent, biogeographic regions, and revisions with molecular data may uncover such cases of neglect of ancient relictual patterns reflecting past connections between the continents.

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Chromosomal Evolution in Psittaciformes. Revisited

International Journal of Biology ◽

10.5539/ijb.v8n4p34 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 34

Author(s):

A. Villa Rus ◽

J. C. Cigudosa ◽

J. L. Carrasco Juan ◽

A. Otero Gomez ◽

T. Acosta Almeida ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Chromosome Rearrangement ◽

Vocal Learning ◽

Chromosomal Evolution ◽

Learning Abilities ◽

Biogeographic History ◽

Human Attention ◽

Evolutionary Radiation ◽

History Of ◽

Parrot Species ◽

Evolutionary Comparisons

With colourful plumage, charismatic character and vocal learning abilities, parrots are one of the most striking and recognizable bird groups. Their attractiveness has drawn human attention for centuries, and members of the Psittaciformes order were, also, among the first avian species to be subject to cytogenetic studies which have contributed to understand their taxonomic and evolutionary relationships.We present here the karyological results collected by the study of thirteen parrot species new to karyology. These results are additionally supported by G banded preparations obtained in five species.The order Psittaciformes is an interesting example of a, typically, non migratory avian lineage with Gondwanaland origin, whose evolutionary radiation has been shaped by the Cenozoic geographic and climatic events that affected the land masses derived from the Gondwanaland continental split.We discuss the results of our studies, in conjunction with the previously compiled Psittaciformes cytogenetic data to delineate a picture of the chromosomal evolution of the order, concurrently with the biogeographic history of the lands in the southern Hemisphere.Considering the available data on parrot cytogenetics, a "standard parrot karyotype pattern" is proposed for evolutionary comparisons.Several biogeographic, and phylogenetically related "karyogram patterns" are also identified, and mechanisms of chromosome rearrangement that associate this patterns among them, and with the standard parrot karyotype pattern are proposed. These schemes on parrot chromosomal variation are discussed in relation to the general avian chromosome evolutionary theses proposed by cytogenetic and molecular genomic researchers.

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Allopatric diversification and evolutionary melting pot in a North African Palearctic relict: The biogeographic history of Salamandra algira

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ◽

10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.018 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 130 ◽

pp. 81-91 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Marco Dinis ◽

Khaled Merabet ◽

Fernando Martínez-Freiría ◽

Sebastian Steinfartz ◽

Miguel Vences ◽

...

Keyword(s):

North African ◽

Melting Pot ◽

Biogeographic History ◽

History Of

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Peer Review #1 of "Piecing together the biogeographic history of Chenopodium vulvaria L. using botanical literature and collections (v0.1)"

10.7287/peerj.723v0.1/reviews/1 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

M Buys

Keyword(s):

Peer Review ◽

Biogeographic History ◽

History Of

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An overview of the mammals of the Gila region, New Mexico

Therya ◽

10.12933/therya-21-1123 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 213-236

Author(s):

Amanda K. Jones ◽

Schuyler W. Liphardt ◽

Jonathan L. Dunnum

Keyword(s):

New Mexico ◽

Great Basin ◽

The United States ◽

Camera Traps ◽

Sky Islands ◽

Mammal Species ◽

Landscape Complexity ◽

Biogeographic History ◽

Mitochondrial Cytochrome B ◽

History Of

A study of the mammals of the Gila region of New Mexico was conducted from 2012 through 2020, with 2,919 voucher specimens collected through fieldwork and collaborations with commercial trappers, in addition to data from camera traps, review of major holdings at 46 museums (n = 12,505 georeferenced specimens), and literature review. Specimens cover a 170-year span, dating back to 1850 and were unevenly distributed spatially and temporally across the Gila region. Most areas were very poorly represented and when summed across all mammal species, ranged from 0.02 to 3.7 specimens per km2. The survey documented 108 species (104 now extant) for the region. High species richness, greater than that reported for 38 states in the United States, is likely due to the juxtaposition of multiple biomes in the Gila, including the Sonoran, Chihuahuan, and Great Basin deserts, the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Madre Occidental, and nearby “sky islands’’ of the Southwest. Two species, Leptonycteris yerbabuenae and Zapus luteus, are documented for the first time from the study area. Expansions of the known range of these species, and Sciurus arizonensis are described from specimen and camera data. Preliminary phylogeographic studies of four species (Notiosorex crawfordi, Neotoma albigula, Perognathus flavus, and Thomomys bottae) using the mitochondrial cytochrome-b gene reveal the dynamic biogeographic history of the region and reinforce how landscape complexity and climate change have jointly contributed to diversification and thus high mammalian diversity in the region.

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