Historical biogeography highlights the role of Miocene landscape changes on the diversification of a clade of Amazonian tree frogs
Ortiz, Diego A., Hoskin, Conrad J., Werneck, Fernanda P., Rejaud, Alexandre, Manzi, Sophie, Ron, Santiago R., and Fouquet, Antoine (2023) Historical biogeography highlights the role of Miocene landscape changes on the diversification of a clade of Amazonian tree frogs. Organisms Diversity and Evolution, 23. pp. 395-414.
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Abstract
The diversification processes underlying why Amazonia hosts the most species-rich vertebrate fauna on earth remain poorly understood. We studied the spatio-temporal diversification of a tree frog clade distributed throughout Amazonia (Anura: Hylidae: Osteocephalus, Tepuihyla, and Dryaderces) and tested the hypothesis that Miocene mega wetlands located in western and central Amazonia impacted connectivity among major biogeographic areas during extensive periods. We assessed the group’s diversity through DNA-based (16S rRNA) species delimitation to identify Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) from 557 individuals. We then selected one terminal for each OTU (n = 50) and assembled a mitogenomic matrix (~14,100 bp; complete for 17 terminals) to reconstruct a Bayesian, time-calibrated phylogeny encompassing nearly all described species. Ancestral area reconstruction indicates that each genus was restricted to one of the major Amazonian biogeographic areas (western Amazonia, Guiana Shield and Brazilian Shield, respectively) between ~10 and 20 Mya, suggesting that they diverged and diversified in isolation during this period around the Pebas mega wetland. After 10 Mya and the transition to the modern configuration of the Amazon River watershed, most speciation within each genus continued to occur within each area. In Osteocephalus, only three species expanded widely across Amazonia (< 6 Mya), and all were pond-breeders. Species with other breeding modes remained mostly restricted to narrow ranges. The spectacular radiation of Osteocephalus was probably driven by climatic stability, habitat diversity and the acquisition of new reproductive modes along the Andean foothills and western Amazonia. Our findings add evidence to the importance of major hydrological changes during the Miocene on biotic diversification in Amazonia.
| Item ID: | 76886 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1618-1077 |
| Keywords: | Amazonia, Dryaderces, Hylidae, Neotropics, Osteocephalus, Tepuihyla |
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| Date Deposited: | 30 Nov 2022 07:45 |
| FoR Codes: | 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3109 Zoology > 310914 Vertebrate biology @ 50% 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3103 Ecology > 310308 Terrestrial ecology @ 50% |
| SEO Codes: | 18 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT > 1806 Terrestrial systems and management > 180606 Terrestrial biodiversity @ 50% 28 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 2801 Expanding knowledge > 280102 Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences @ 50% |
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