Cenozoic biogeography and evolution in direct-developing frogs of Central America (Leptodactylidae: Eleutherodactylus) as inferred from a phylogenetic analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial genes

Crawford, Andrew J.; Smith, Eric N.

doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.03.006

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“…More than a third of the studies show evidence of reverse colonization, revealing continental lineages nested within island clades (shown in bold in Table 1). The clearest examples included birds (bananaquit [30], flycatchers [31], monarch flycatchers [10], parrots [32], Darwin's finches [33], catbirds [34] and orioles [35]), lizards [11,36], frogs [9,37], short-faced bats [38], drosophilid flies [39] and turtles [40]. Only a few of these studies explicitly discussed the phenomenon of reverse colonization [10,11,39].…”

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“…Explicit molecular phylogenies produced from DNA sequence data since the mid-1990s are beginning to reveal geographic relationships most readily interpreted as cases of reverse colonization (e.g. [9][10][11]). In a recent review of hypotheses related to oceanic island biogeography, Heaney [12] emphasized that the increasing appreciation for this phenomenon might signal an emerging paradigm shift for island biogeography.…”

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Are islands the end of the colonization road?

Bellemain¹,

Ricklefs²

2008

Trends in Ecology & Evolution

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Are islands the end of the colonization road?

Bellemain¹,

Ricklefs²

2008

Trends in Ecology & Evolution

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“…At the generic level, the beta anoles, previously referred to as Norops (sensu Guyer & Savage (1986, 1992), are placed within the super-genus Anolis following Poe (2004) and in anticipation of further taxonomic revision. Chaunus and Ollotis are used in place of Bufo (Frost et al 2006a, b), Craugastor is used instead of Eleutherodactylus for Central American species (Crawford & Smith 2005), Dendropsophus, Tlalocohyla, and Trachycephalus replace Hyla (Faivovich et al 2005), Lithobates replaces Rana for Central American species (Frost et al 2006), and Mastigodryas is used in favor of Dryadophis (Dixon & Tipton 2004). At the species level, Lithobates brownorum is used for Honduran populations formerly referred to as Lithobates or Rana berlandieri (Zaldívar-Riverón et al 2004, Frost 2004, McCranie et al 2006, and Atropoides mexicanus replaces A. nummifer (Campbell & Lamar 2004).…”

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Biogeography and conservation of the herpetofauna of the Upland Pine-Oak Forests of Honduras

Wilson

Townsend

2007

Biota Neotrop.

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The upland pine-oak forest herpetofauna constitutes the smallest segment distributed in the major habitat types in Honduras, due to its occurrence at moderate elevations in relatively inhospitable environments, compared to more mesic habitats in the country. This segment, however, is subject to considerable environmental threat as a consequence of annual burning and logging. Of the 356 herpetofaunal species known from Honduras, 105 are known from these habitats. These forests occur throughout much of the mountainous interior of Honduras. They are subject to the Intermediate Dry climate. Four salamanders, 27 anurans, four turtles, 29 lizards, and 41 snakes comprise the herpetofauna. These species are partitioned into restricted, widespread, and peripheral distributional categories. They can be allocated to eleven broad distributional categories, with most belonging to the category containing species whose ranges extend from somewhere in Mexico north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to somewhere in South America. The large majority are terrestrial forest inhabitants, arboreal forest inhabitants, terrestrial pondside species, or terrestrial forest pondside species. Most species are judged common, with the next largest group considered to be of infrequent occurrence, and the smallest group of rare occurrence. Upland pine-oak forest species are distributed among four ecophysiographic areas, with the greatest number of species being found in the Southeastern Uplands. Construction of a CBR diagram illustrates that the herpetofaunas of the Northwestern and Northeastern Uplands, the Northeastern Uplands and Southeastern Uplands, and the Southeastern Uplands and Southwestern Uplands are about equally related to one another. The greatest significance of the upland pine-oak forest herpetofauna lies in the relatively high percentage of members presently possessing stable populations, indicating their apparent greater ability to resist anthropogenic habitat disturbance. Few species currently have populations in decline, but about a third lack sufficient data to characterize their population status, indicating the need for considerable additional fieldwork before their conservation issues can be properly addressed.

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“…There are no appropriate external calibration points/fossils that might be used to calibrate a mutation rate for Australian frogs, therefore to provide approximate dates for expansions in S. flammocaerulea we adopted the mutation rate of 0.957% for every million years, calibrated for the entire ND2 coding region in eleutherodactylid frogs (Crawford 2003). While rates can vary between branches, studies on vastly different groups of amphibians have shown similar rates of divergence to those originally proposed by Macey et al (1998) (Crawford and Smith 2005). However, to incorporate the potential for variation in mutation rate we also calculated divergences using the lower and upper limits of rates reported for anurans in the literature for ND2 (e.g.…”

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Genetic diversity and biogeographic history inform future conservation management strategies for the rare sunset frog (Spicospina flammocaerulea)

Edwards

Roberts

2011

Aust. J. Zool.

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Abstract. Outlining the distribution of genetic variation, patterns of gene flow and clarifying the biogeographic processes underlying population history are critical components of a comprehensive conservation strategy for endangered or vulnerable species. We provide this information for the vulnerable sunset frog (Spicospina flammocaerulea) using a comprehensive genetic dataset (ND2) with samples from 17 of 22 geographic localities where this species has been found. From genetic, biogeographic and coalescent-based analyses, we document the existing genetic variation, likely movement patterns and explore the biogeographic history of S. flammocaerulea. While catchment-based genetic variation is well documented in other high-rainfall taxa in south-western Australia, a much more complex scenario including dispersal across ridge lines between catchments better explains the distribution of genetic variation and observed patterns of gene flow in S. flammocaerulea. The population history of S. flammocaerulea is strongly indicative of recent population contraction and expansion, which may be related to late Pleistocene climate fluctuations. This suggests that this species can adapt or move in response to fluctuating climates provided suitable habitats or expansion areas are available. However, like many other endemic taxa with limited geographic ranges in south-western Australia, the potential to shift distributions is hampered by being land-locked within an agricultural landscape, limiting management options in the face of climate change.

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Cenozoic biogeography and evolution in direct-developing frogs of Central America (Leptodactylidae: Eleutherodactylus) as inferred from a phylogenetic analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial genes

Cited by 108 publications

References 101 publications

Are islands the end of the colonization road?

Are islands the end of the colonization road?

Biogeography and conservation of the herpetofauna of the Upland Pine-Oak Forests of Honduras

Genetic diversity and biogeographic history inform future conservation management strategies for the rare sunset frog (Spicospina flammocaerulea)

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