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Title: | The evolutionary history of Lygodactylus lizards in the South American open diagonal |
Authors: | Lanna, Flávia Mól Werneck, F. P. Gehara, Marcelo C.M. Fonseca, Emanuel M. Colli, Guarino R. Sites, Jack Walter Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut Garda, Adrian Antonio |
Keywords: | Animals Bayes Theorem Classification Evolution Genetic Variation Genetics Geography Lizard Phylogeny South America Species Difference Statistical Model Time Factor Animal Bayes Theorem Biological Evolution Genetic Variation Geography Likelihood Functions Lizards Phylogeny South America Species Specificity Time Factors |
Issue Date: | 2018 |
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Volume 127, Pags. 638-645 |
Abstract: | The Pleistocenic Arc Hypothesis (PAH) posits that South American Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests (SDTF) were interconnected during Pleistocene glacial periods, enabling the expansion of species ranges that were subsequently fragmented in interglacial periods, promoting speciation. The lizard genus Lygodactylus occurs in Africa, Madagascar, and South America. Compared to the high diversity of African Lygodactylus, only two species are known to occur in South America, L. klugei and L. wetzeli, distributed in SDTFs and the Chaco, respectively. We use a phylogenetic approach based on mitochondrial (ND2) and nuclear (RAG-1) markers covering the known range of South American Lygodactylus to investigate (i) if they are monophyletic relative to their African congeners, (ii) if their divergence is congruent with the fragmentation of the PAH, and (iii) if cryptic diversity exists within currently recognized species. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses recovered a well-supported monophyletic South American Lygodactylus, presumably resulting from a single trans-Atlantic dispersal event 29 Mya. Species delimitation analyses supported the existence of five putative species, three of them undescribed. Divergence times among L. klugei and the three putative undescribed species, all endemic to the SDTFs, are not congruent with the fragmentation of the PAH. However, fragmentation of the once broader and continuous SDTFs likely influenced the divergence of L. wetzeli in the Chaco and Lygodactylus sp. 3 (in a SDTF enclave in the Cerrado). © 2018 Elsevier Inc. |
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.010 |
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