A multidisciplinary approach reveals cryptic diversity in Western Palearctic Tetramorium ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Schlick-Steiner, Birgit C.; Steiner, Florian M.; Moder, Karl; Seifert, Bernhard; Sanetra, Matthias; Dyreson, Eric; Stauffer, Christian; Christian, Erhard

doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.03.005

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“…At this point of our argument, it is important re-emphasize that data integration overcomes the difficulties imposed by the use of only one source of data (Mengual et al 2006, Schlick-Steiner et al 2006, Roe & Sperling 2007, Milankov et al 2008, Vaglia et al 2008. One of its advantages is that new species descriptions that correspond to better supported hypotheses will facilitate future studies (Fisher & Smith 2008, Mengual & Thompson 2008.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…In a sense, it centers on validating the taxonomic position of taxa (Mengual et al 2006); • Uncovering cryptic species (Schlick-Steiner et al 2006, Roe & Sperling 2007, Milankov et al 2008, Vaglia et al 2008; and • Describing species based on more than one source of data, generally morphology and sequence data (Fisher & Smith 2008, Mengual & Thompson 2008. It is important at this point to highlight the fact that the DNA barcoding community has recognized the importance of integrating data in taxonomy whenever possible.…”

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DNA barcoding and traditional taxonomy unified through Integrative Taxonomy: a view that challenges the debate questioning both methodologies

Pires

Marinoni

2010

Biota Neotrop.

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PIRES, A.C. & MARINONI, L. DNA barcoding and traditional taxonomy unified through Integrative Taxonomy: a view that challenges the debate questioning both methodologies. Biota Neotrop. 10(2): http:// www.biotaneotropica.org.br/v10n2/en/abstract?thematic-review+bn03110022010. Abstract:The taxonomic crisis, emphasized in recent years, is marked by the lack of popularity (lack of interest in taxonomy) and financial incentives to study biodiversity. This situation, coupled with the issues involved with the necessity of knowing many yet undiscovered species, has meant that new technologies, including the use of DNA, have emerged to revitalize taxonomy. Part of the scientific community, however, has rejected the use of these innovative ideas. DNA barcoding has especially been the target of numerous criticisms regarding its application, as opposed to the use of morphology. This paper aims to highlight the inconsistency of the debate involving DNA versus morphology, since there is a proposal for the integration of traditional taxonomy and DNA barcoding -the integrative taxonomy. The positive and negative points of this proposal will be discussed, as well as its validity and application. From it, the importance of morphology is recognized and the revitalization of traditional taxonomy is achieved by the addition of technologies to overcome the taxonomic impediment. Resumo: A crise taxonômica, em destaque nos últimos anos, é marcada pela falta de popularidade (desinteresse pela formação taxonômica) e incentivos financeiros direcionados ao estudo da biodiversidade. Esta situação somada às questões envolvidas com a necessidade de se conhecer as inúmeras espécies ainda desconhecidas tem feito com que novas tecnologias, dentre elas o uso do DNA, tenham surgido como propostas para revitalização da taxonomia. Uma parte da comunidade científica, entretanto, tem rejeitado o uso dessas idéias inovadoras. O DNA barcoding, principalmente, tem sido alvo de inúmeras críticas quanto à sua aplicação em contraposição ao uso da morfologia. O presente artigo visa destacar a inconsistência do debate DNA versus morfologia, pela existência de uma proposta que corresponde à união entre a taxonomia tradicional e o DNA barcoding -a taxonomia integrativa. Os pontos favoráveis e desfavoráveis dessa proposta serão discutidos assim como a sua validade e aplicação. Com ela, a importância da morfologia é reconhecida e ao mesmo tempo tem-se a revitalização da taxonomia tradicional pela aderência das tecnologias incitadas para transposição do impedimento taxonômico. Palavras-chave: biodiversidade, COI, espécie, impedimento taxonômico, morfologia.

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Section: Recent Contributions Employing Integrative Taxonomymentioning

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DNA barcoding and traditional taxonomy unified through Integrative Taxonomy: a view that challenges the debate questioning both methodologies

Pires

Marinoni

2010

Biota Neotrop.

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“…S5) (52). The patterns of association revealed by EPCA can be attributed to the action of natural selection rather than solely to evolutionary history (52)(53)(54). EPCA scores of bird-, mixed-, and bat-dispersed species were compared using a Jonckheere-Tepstra test of ordered hypotheses (55,56).…”

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Dispersers shape fruit diversity in Ficus (Moraceae)

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Levey

Kimball

et al. 2010

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Seed dispersal by vertebrates is one of the most common and important plant-animal mutualisms, involving an enormous diversity of fruiting plants and frugivorous animals. Even though plant reproduction depends largely on seed dispersal, evolutionary ecologists have been unable to link co-occurring traits in fruits with differences in behavior, physiology, and morphology of fruit-eating vertebrates. Hence, the origin and maintenance of fruit diversity remains largely unexplained. Using a multivariate phylogenetic comparative test with unbiased estimates of odor and color in figs, we demonstrate that fruit traits evolve in concert and as predicted by differences in the behavior, physiology (perceptive ability) and morphology of their frugivorous seed dispersers. The correlated evolution of traits results in the convergence of general appearance of fruits in species that share disperser types. Observations at fruiting trees independently confirmed that differences in fig traits predict differences in dispersers. Taken together, these results demonstrate that differences among frugivores have shaped the evolution of fruit traits. More broadly, our results underscore the importance of mutualisms in both generating and maintaining biodiversity.dispersal syndromes | fruit evolution | phylogenetic comparative analysis | plant-animal interactions | seed dispersal

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“…Uncorrected p-distances of the CO I gene ranged from 0.1 to 14.6 % (±0.03 SD), with an average of 11 %. In a study of the cryptic diversity of Tetramorium ants in the western Palearctic, Schlick-Steiner et al (2006) found interspecific divergences for the CO I gene ranging from 4.0 to 10.6 %. Liu et al (2003) investigated cryptic species diversity within the western American springsnail Pyrgulopsis micrococcus and found uncorrected p-distances of the CO I gene among lineages from 3.69 to 10.6 %.…”

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Genetic diversity in the Alpine flatworm <i>Crenobia alpina</i>

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Abstract. The freshwater flatworm Crenobia alpina (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Planariidae) lives almost exclusively in cold springs and crenal streams and possesses only limited dispersal ability. In this study fragments of the COI and 18S rRNA genes were used to estimate genetic divergences among 37 C. alpina populations from the European Alps. Phylogenetic analyses revealed five geographically and genetically distinct groups and at least 10 distinct lineages of C. alpina across the European Alps. Our study suggests that C. alpina represents a complex of numerous cryptic species. Speciation (allopatric and/or sympatric) may have been facilitated by the orogenetic activity of the Alps and the high habitat specificity.

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A multidisciplinary approach reveals cryptic diversity in Western Palearctic Tetramorium ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

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DNA barcoding and traditional taxonomy unified through Integrative Taxonomy: a view that challenges the debate questioning both methodologies

DNA barcoding and traditional taxonomy unified through Integrative Taxonomy: a view that challenges the debate questioning both methodologies

Dispersers shape fruit diversity in Ficus (Moraceae)

Genetic diversity in the Alpine flatworm <i>Crenobia alpina</i>

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A multidisciplinary approach reveals cryptic diversity in Western Palearctic Tetramorium ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

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DNA barcoding and traditional taxonomy unified through Integrative Taxonomy: a view that challenges the debate questioning both methodologies

DNA barcoding and traditional taxonomy unified through Integrative Taxonomy: a view that challenges the debate questioning both methodologies

Dispersers shape fruit diversity in Ficus (Moraceae)

Genetic diversity in the Alpine flatworm &lt;i&gt;Crenobia alpina&lt;/i&gt;

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