Examining Monophyly in a Large Radiation of Madagascan Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae: Mycalesina) Based on Mitochondrial DNA Data

Torres, Elizabeth; Lees, David C.; Vane‐Wright, R. I.; Kremen, Claire; Leonard, Jennifer A.; Wayne, R. K.

doi:10.1006/mpev.2001.0984

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“…It has also been demonstrated for a group of flying vertebrates, the vanga birds (Yamagishi et al, 2001). In other lineages such as chameleons (Raxworthy et al, 2002;Townsend & Larson, 2002) and mycesaline butterflies (Torres et al, 2001), independent colonisations by various subclades, from Madagascar to Africa or viceversa, seem to have taken place. A common pattern of the Malagasy vertebrate clades is that the species-rich assemblages have their centres of diversity in the rainforests of the east of Madagascar rather than in the dry west.…”

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Origin of Madagascar's extant fauna: A perspective from amphibians, reptiles and other non‐flying vertebrates

Vences¹

2004

Italian Journal of Zoology

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The origins of the highly endemic and partly very diverse fauna and flora of Madagascar were longtime unsolved and are still strongly disputed, although dispersalists are recently prevailing over advocates of Gondwanan vicariance. Madagascar has been separated from other continents and continental fragments since the Mesozoic, and the assumption of vicariance origins requires very old ages of the lineages involved. Herein I review the recent progress of knowledge on the molecular phylogenetic relationships of the amphibians, reptiles, and other non-flying vertebrates of Madagascar. Of 17 Malagasy clades for which relationships seem to be resolved with sufficient and unanimous support, the largest proportion have their sister-group in Africa, and very few show a general area cladogram consistent with the succession of events in the fragmentation of the supercontinent Gondwana. A survey of pairwise sequence divergences between 25 Malagasy lineages and their non-Malagasy relatives in the 16S and 12S rRNA genes resulted in values that in most cases were distinctly below the saturation plateaus of these genes. Multiple calibrations based on 34 largely independent data points indicate that such saturation would be strongly expected in the case of ages corresponding to the geographical isolation of Madagascar in the Jurassic and Cretaceous. A Cenozoic age for most Malagasy lineages is therefore most likely. Analysis of phylogenetic patterns of some taxa provides indications for a scenario in which the ancestors of the Malagasy clades first arrived by transmarine dispersal from Africa at the Malagasy west coast, and in a second step a subset of them underwent species-rich radiations into the rainforests.

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Section: Area Cladogram Agreementmentioning

confidence: 89%

Origin of Madagascar's extant fauna: A perspective from amphibians, reptiles and other non‐flying vertebrates

Vences¹

2004

Italian Journal of Zoology

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“…In contrast, little is known about the evolutionary history of invertebrates in Madagascar. The best studied groups include butterflies (Torres et al, 2001;Zakharov et al, 2004), ants (Fisher, 1997) and small minnow flies (Monaghan et al, 2005), which appear to have colonized Madagascar more than once, though there are no estimates of the time of colonization or radiation. Considering all the Malagasy faunal and floral groups, longdistance dispersal appears to be the most common way of origin (Yoder and Nowak, 2006).…”

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An old adaptive radiation of forest dung beetles in Madagascar

Wirta

Orsini

Hanski

2008

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

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a b s t r a c tAdaptive radiations of mammals have contributed to the exceptionally high levels of biodiversity and endemism in Madagascar. Here we examine the evolutionary history of the endemic dung beetle tribe Helictopleurini (Scarabaeidae) and its relationship to the widely distributed Oniticellini and Onthophagini. Helictopleurini species are dependent on mammals for their resources. We date the single origin of the tribe at 37 to 23 MY ago, indicating overseas colonization of Madagascar. The main radiation occurred concurrently with the main radiations of lemurs. The ancestors of Helictopleurini are inferred to have been coprophagous species inhabiting open habitats. Subsequent evolution has involved a shift into forests, changes in resource use to a more generalized diet, and changes in body size. Four species of the extant 65 species have shifted to use the dung of the recently introduced cattle in open habitats, allowing these species to greatly expand their geographical ranges.

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“…Among the fauna, vertebrates have been the most thoroughly studied Madagascan animals (Raxworthy and Nussbaum 1996, Raxworthy et al 2002, Goodman and Ganzorn 2004). With regard to invertebrates, and insects in particular, the best known groups are butterflies (Torres et al 2001, Zakharov et al 2004), dung beetles (Wirta et al 2008), minnow mayflies (Monaghan et al 2005) and ants (Fisher 1997). …”

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Madagascar Flatidae (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha): state-of-the-art and research challenges

Świerczewski¹,

Stroiński²

2013

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The paper provides a historical review of the research on Flatidae in Madagascar and indicates future prospects. While the first two species of Madagascar Flatidae were described by Guérin-Méneville (1844), it was Signoret (1860) who made the first real attempt to enhance our knowledge of the Hemiptera fauna of Madagascar by describing several additional species. Over the following century and a half, several investigators have turned their attention to this group of insects, with the final number of species recorded for the island reaching 79. Despite this long history of research, it is evident that much still remains to be done. Detailed taxonomic research will allow the natural history of Madagascar and changes in the biological diversity of its endemic ecosystems to be better understood. This paper should be considered as an introduction to a complex study on the systematics and phylogeny of worldwide Flatidae planthoppers.

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Examining Monophyly in a Large Radiation of Madagascan Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae: Mycalesina) Based on Mitochondrial DNA Data

Cited by 30 publications

References 49 publications

Origin of Madagascar's extant fauna: A perspective from amphibians, reptiles and other non‐flying vertebrates

Origin of Madagascar's extant fauna: A perspective from amphibians, reptiles and other non‐flying vertebrates

An old adaptive radiation of forest dung beetles in Madagascar

Madagascar Flatidae (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha): state-of-the-art and research challenges

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