Acacia farnesiana (Fabaceae: Mimosoideae) and Related Species from Mexico, the Southwestern U.S., and the Caribbean

Clarke, H. David; Seigler, David S.; Ebinger, John E.

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“…1), we used two published phylogenies of the Acacieae (Robinson and Harris 2000;Miller and Bayer 2001), and a published phylogeny of the Ingeae (Grimes 1999). Relationships within Acacia subgenus Acacia are based on recent revisions and phenetic assessments of the species groups Ebinger 1988, 1995;Clarke et al 1989Clarke et al , 1990Lee et al 1989;Ebinger et al 2000;Jawad et al 2000). Relationships outside the Acacieae/Ingeae are based on recent molecular phylogenies of the Fabaceae and the relative classification of the Hologalegina to the Amorpheae in Kajita et al (2001), with the relationships between the three subfamilies treated as a polytomy due to a lack of support in resolving these nodes (Doyle 1994(Doyle , 1995Kajita et al 2001).…”

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Ecological and Evolutionary Diversification of the Seed Beetle Genus Stator (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae)

Morse

Farrell

2005

Evolution

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Abstract. Ehrlich and Raven's (1964) hypothesis on coevolution has stimulated numerous phylogenetic studies that focus on the effects of plant defensive chemistry as the main ecological axis of phytophagous insect diversification. However, other ecological features affect host use and diet breadth and they may have very different consequences for insect evolution. In this paper, we present a phylogenetic study based on DNA sequences from mitochondrial and protein-coding genes of species in the seed beetle genus Stator, which collectively show considerable interspecific variation in host affiliation, diet breadth, and the dispersal stage of the seeds that they attack. We used comparative analyses to examine transitions in these three axes of resource use. We argue that these analyses show that diet breadth evolution is dependent upon colonizing novel hosts that are closely or distantly related to the ancestral host, and that oviposition substrate affects the evolution of host-plant affiliation, the evolution of dietary specialization, and the degree to which host plants are shared between species. The results of this study show that diversification is structured by interactions between different selective pressures and along multiple ecological axes.Key words. Coevolution, cytochrome oxidase 1, elongation factor 1-alpha, insect-plant interaction, molecular systematics, specialization. The extraordinary species diversity of phytophagous insects ranks as one of the major features of evolution (Simpson 1953) and there is a growing body of research aimed at describing the patterns of this diversity and explaining the processes that have caused it. Much of the impetus for this field is derived from Ehrlich and Raven's (1964) influential essay on butterfly and plant codiversification, in which they proposed that chemically diverging host-plant species form the main ecological axis along which phytophagous insects diversify. This coevolutionary model is essentially one of adaptive radiation in which a certain insect lineage colonizes a novel resource and then diversifies, both ecologically and evolutionarily, as its daughter lineages specialize onto the codiversifying host plants. Insect diet breadth becomes increasingly restricted as divergence in plant defensive chemistry creates increasing disruptive selection on host use. Ultimately this creates (1) a pattern of correlation, but not necessarily one of cospeciation, between insect and host-plant phylogenies (referred to in this paper as phylogenetic conservatism) accompanied by (2) increasing dietary specialization, the latter resulting in a consistent generalist-to-specialist phylogenetic polarity (phylogenetic trajectory). Because of the influence and explanatory power of this model, most research on the macroevolution of phytophagous insect diversification has focused on testing these specific hypotheses.Consistent empirical evidence for conservatism in host use by insects (e.g., Mitter et al.

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Ecological and Evolutionary Diversification of the Seed Beetle Genus Stator (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae)

Morse

Farrell

2005

Evolution

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“…The supertree was constructed based on previously published phylogenies of Leguminosae and host plant genera: Acacia, Prosopis, Parkinsonia, and Caesalpinia (Miller and Bayer, 2003;Heil et al, 2004;Lavin et al, 2005;Catalano et al, 2008;Bruneau et al, 2008). When host plants were not included in the above analyses, they were placed in a clade that included related species (or species groups in the case of Acacia) as an unresolved polytomy, based on the taxonomic literature of host plants (Seigler and Ebinger, 1995;Lee et al, 1989;Clarke et al, 1989Clarke et al, , 1990Ebinger et al, 2000;Haston et al, 2005;Rico-Arce, 2007). Branch lengths of the supertree were calculated using two alternative methods: Grafen's method and the minimal extension (ME) method using CACTUS 1.13 (Schwilk and Ackerly, 2001), following Morse and Farrell (2005).…”

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Evolution of host utilization patterns in the seed beetle genus Mimosestes Bridwell (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae)

Kato

Bonet

Yoshitake

et al. 2010

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

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“…A new population was discovered on Dismal Key, located within both the Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge and Cape Romano -Ten Thousand Islands Aquatic Preserve, the later which is part of the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve . In South Florida, poponax grows in tropical hardwood hammocks on shell mounds and in disturbed areas (Chokoloskee Island), but elsewhere within its native range it grows in a wide variety of habitats, including thickets, dry disturbed sites, rocky and gravelly soils, open pastures, and successional fields (Correll and Correll 1982, Clarke et al 1989, Ebinger et al 2000. Mortellaro et al (2012) ranked it as occurring more frequently in ruderal areas than natural areas.…”

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“…Wunderlin & Hansen (2011) reported it to flower from spring through summer in Florida. Correll and Correll (1982) reported it to flower mostly from August to January in the Bahamas and it is known to flower throughout the year elsewhere in its range (Clarke et al 1989, Ebinger et al 2000. It is cultivated at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden (see below), but has never been observed to set fruit (M. Collins, pers.…”

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Liverworts (Marchantiophyta) of Mahogany Hammock, Everglades National Park, Florida

Zona

Sadle²

2017

Evansia

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were coauthors both on IRC's book Rare Plants of South Florida (Gann et al. 2002) and Floristic Inventory of South Florida Database Online (Gann et al. 2001(Gann et al. -2014, without which this project would not have been possible.Bruce Hansen at the University of South Florida readily supplied herbarium label data and helped resolve confusing historical and taxonomic problems. Alan Franck, also at USF, and Mark Strong at the Smithsonian Institution, also provided herbarium label data, scans of images and other taxonomic assistance. The FNPS herbarium database online, which is managed by Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden and the National Park Service, was indispensable to the project. Brett Jestrow at Fairchild provided label data and a review of specimens at FTG, and Fairchild interns Kristen Finch and Brittany Harris helped with rare plant ranking using the new NatureServe methodology, literature searches, and other tasks. Special thanks to Anne Frances and Amanda Treher of NatureServe and Amy Jenkins of FNAI for helping to normalize and update global, national and state ranks of rare plants. Jennifer Possley of Fairchild was of particular help working through some of the fern accounts. Celio Moya assisted with obtaining updated rare plant data from Cuba.

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Acacia farnesiana (Fabaceae: Mimosoideae) and Related Species from Mexico, the Southwestern U.S., and the Caribbean

Cited by 24 publications

References 7 publications

Ecological and Evolutionary Diversification of the Seed Beetle Genus Stator (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae)

Ecological and Evolutionary Diversification of the Seed Beetle Genus Stator (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae)

Evolution of host utilization patterns in the seed beetle genus Mimosestes Bridwell (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae)

Liverworts (Marchantiophyta) of Mahogany Hammock, Everglades National Park, Florida

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