Molecular phylogeny of New World Myotis (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA genes

Stadelmann, Benoît; Lin, Liang‐Kong; Kunz, Thomas; Rüedi, Manuel

doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.06.019

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“…Similar patterns of temporal divergence have been independently suggested from molecular data for a growing number of congeneric species, including curassows and piping-guans (Grau et al, 2005;Pereira and Baker, 2004), parrots (Ribas et al, 2007), trogons (Moyle, 2005), monkeys (Collins and Dubach, 2001;Cortes-Ortiz et al, 2003), vesper mice and spiny rats (Galewski et al, 2005;Salazar-Bravo et al, 2001), bats (Lim, 2007;Stadelmann et al, 2007), catfishes (MontoyaBurgos, 2003), and geckos (Gamble et al, 2008). Instead of applying the "standard" molecular clock, the present study and those cited above independently relied on fossil, geological or a reasonable molecular time constraints to estimate the age of diversification within those groups of vertebrates.…”

Section: A Biogeographic Hypothesis For the Evolution Of Pteroglossussupporting

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The historical biogeography of Pteroglossus aracaris (Aves, Piciformes, Ramphastidae) based on Bayesian analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences

Pereira

Wajntal

2008

Genet. Mol. Biol.

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Most Neotropical birds, including Pteroglossus aracaris, do not have an adequate fossil record to be used as time constraints in molecular dating. Hence, the evolutionary timeframe of the avian biota can only be inferred using alternative time constraints. We applied a Bayesian relaxed clock approach to propose an alternative interpretation for the historical biogeography of Pteroglossus based on mitochondrial DNA sequences, using different combinations of outgroups and time constraints obtained from outgroup fossils, vicariant barriers and molecular time estimates. The results indicated that outgroup choice has little effect on the Bayesian posterior distribution of divergence times within Pteroglossus, that geological and molecular time constraints seem equally suitable to estimate the Bayesian posterior distribution of divergence times for Pteroglossus, and that the fossil record alone overestimates divergence times within the fossil-lacking ingroup. The Bayesian estimates of divergence times suggest that the radiation of Pteroglossus occurred from the Late Miocene to the Pliocene (three times older than estimated by the "standard" mitochondrial rate of 2% sequence divergence per million years), likely triggered by Andean uplift, multiple episodes of marine transgressions in South America, and formation of present-day river basins. The time estimates are in agreement with other Neotropical taxa with similar geographic distributions.

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Section: A Biogeographic Hypothesis For the Evolution Of Pteroglossussupporting

confidence: 72%

The historical biogeography of Pteroglossus aracaris (Aves, Piciformes, Ramphastidae) based on Bayesian analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences

Pereira

Wajntal

2008

Genet. Mol. Biol.

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“…2). Thus, we can confidently state that this particular subfamily was mobilized within the last ∼8-12 Myr (Stadelmann et al 2007). …”

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Multiple waves of recent DNA transposon activity in the bat, Myotis lucifugus

Ray¹,

Feschotte²,

Pagán³

et al. 2008

Genome Res.

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DNA transposons, or class 2 transposable elements, have successfully propagated in a wide variety of genomes. However, it is widely believed that DNA transposon activity has ceased in mammalian genomes for at least the last 40 million years. We recently reported evidence for the relatively recent activity of hAT and Helitron elements, two distinct groups of DNA transposons, in the lineage of the vespertilionid bat Myotis lucifugus. Here, we describe seven additional families that have also been recently active in the bat lineage. Early vespertilionid genome evolution was dominated by the activity of Helitrons, mariner-like and Tc2-like elements. This was followed by the colonization of Tc1-like elements, and by a more recent explosion of hAT-like elements. Finally, and most recently, piggyBac-like elements have amplified within the Myotis genome and our results indicate that one of these families is probably still expanding in natural populations. Together, these data suggest that there has been tremendous recent activity of various DNA transposons in the bat lineage that far exceeds those previously reported for any mammalian lineage. The diverse and recent populations of DNA transposons in genus Myotis will provide an unprecedented opportunity to study the impact of this class of elements on mammalian genome evolution and to better understand what makes some species more susceptible to invasion by genomic parasites than others.

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“…As a result, when species from such clades experience the same selective conditions, they may adapt in genetically and developmentally similar ways (Haldane 1932;Gould 2002;Hoekstra 2006). Recent studies have provided many examples in which parallel phenotypic change in closely related species (or populations of the same species) is caused by similar genetic changes in a wide range of organisms and traits (e.g., Sucena et al 2003;Colosimo et al 2005;Hoekstra et al 2006;Protas et al 2006;Shapiro et al 2006;Whittall et al 2006;Baxter et al 2008;Gross et al 2009;Chan et al 2010; of course, this is not always the case: sometimes convergent phenotypic evolution is accomplished by different genetic changes, even in closely related species [e.g., Hoekstra and Nachman 2003;Wittkopp et al 2003;Hoekstra et al 2006;Kingsley et al 2009] Bossuyt and Milinkovitch 2000;Ruedi and Mayer 2001;Stadelmann et al 2007), and the examples that have been suggested require further examination to assess the extent of species-forspecies matching (Losos 2009). Radiations occurring on different continents usually will be accomplished by distantly related clades that are, for reasons just discussed, likely to diversify in different ways (Pianka 1986;Cadle and Greene 1993;Losos 1994).…”

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Adaptive Radiation, Ecological Opportunity, and Evolutionary Determinism

Losos

2010

The American Naturalist

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Adaptive radiation refers to diversification from an ancestral species that produces descendants adapted to use a great variety of distinct ecological niches. In this review, I examine two aspects of adaptive radiation: first, that it results from ecological opportunity and, second, that it is deterministic in terms of its outcome and evolutionary trajectory. Ecological opportunity is usually a prerequisite for adaptive radiation, although in some cases, radiation can occur in the absence of preexisting opportunity. Nonetheless, many clades fail to radiate although seemingly in the presence of ecological opportunity; until methods are developed to identify and quantify ecological opportunity, the concept will have little predictive utility in understanding a priori when a clade might be expected to radiate. Although predicted by theory, replicated adaptive radiations occur only rarely, usually in closely related and poorly dispersing taxa found in the same region on islands or in lakes. Contingencies of a variety of types may usually preclude close similarity in the outcome of evolutionary diversification in other situations. Whether radiations usually unfold in the same general sequence is unclear because of the unreliability of methods requiring phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral events. The synthesis of ecological, phylogenetic, experimental, and genomic advances promises to make the coming years a golden age for the study of adaptive radiation; natural history data, however, will always be crucial to understanding the forces shaping adaptation and evolutionary diversification.

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Molecular phylogeny of New World Myotis (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA genes

Cited by 195 publications

References 70 publications

The historical biogeography of Pteroglossus aracaris (Aves, Piciformes, Ramphastidae) based on Bayesian analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences

The historical biogeography of Pteroglossus aracaris (Aves, Piciformes, Ramphastidae) based on Bayesian analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences

Multiple waves of recent DNA transposon activity in the bat, Myotis lucifugus

Adaptive Radiation, Ecological Opportunity, and Evolutionary Determinism

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