Molecules, morphology and fossils: a comprehensive approach to odonate phylogeny and the evolution of the odonate wing

Bybee, Seth; Ogden, Thomas H.; Branham, Marc; Whiting, Michael F.

doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00191.x

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“…Anisoptera are unequivocally monophyletic (e.g., Rehn 2004; Carle et al, 2008;Bybee et al, 2008). Frustratingly, interfamilal relationships among taxa have remained in conflict due to disagreements in recent phylogenetic hypotheses.…”

Section: Anisoptera Phylogenymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Further complicating matters is the fact that there are relatively few studies that have incorporated fossil and extant taxa in such analyses (with exceptions, see Bybee et al, 2008). With as geographically vast and geologically ancient a group as dragonflies, biogeographical analyses failing to incorporate fossils may not reveal much of their true history and the potential past impacts of ancient vicariant events.…”

Section: Anisoptera Phylogenymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Frustratingly, interfamilal relationships among taxa have remained in conflict due to disagreements in recent phylogenetic hypotheses. In particular disagreement, yet of great interest, is the placement of Gomphidae, which has been recovered as sister to the Libelluloidea (e.g., Bybee et al, 2008, one analysis) and as sister to the Petaluroidea (e.g., Letsch, 2007). Gomphidae and Libelluloidea share exophytic oviposition behavior (i.e., eggs laid outside of plant tissue) and both have reduced or vestigal ovipositors, their egg laying aparati.…”

Section: Anisoptera Phylogenymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recent phylogenetic studies have reconstructed this suborder within the Anisoptera, and thus (Anisoptera + Anisozygoptera) have been called Epiprocta (e.g. Bechly, 1996, Lohmann, 1996Bybee et al, 2008). Currently taxonomy suggests that there are eleven families in Anisoptera: Aeshnidae, Austropetaliidae, Gomphidae, Petaluridae, Cordulegastridae, Neopetaliidae, Chlorogomphidae, GSI (sensu Ware et al, 2007), Corduliidae, Macromiidae and Libellulidae, with Epiophlebiidae from Anisozygoptera considered by some to be an twelfth family of dragonflies.…”

Section: Species Diversity and Biogeographymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recently, Bybee and colleagues (2008) used both molecular and morphological data and supported the monophyletic status of this taxon, suggesting that molecular data alone fails to recover a monophyletic Zygoptera due in part to limited taxon sampling. Nevertheless, internal familial relationships within the suborder remaining tangled, with families such as Megapodagrionidae, Perilestidae, Amphypteridae, Coenagrionidae, and Protoneuridae examples of putatively paraphyletic groups that will likely need to be reclassified (Bybee et al 2008).…”

Section: Biogeography Of Zygopteramentioning

confidence: 99%

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Phenotypic divergence of Glossina morsitans (Diptera: Glossinidae) populations in Zambia: Application of landmark‐based wing geometric morphometrics to discriminate population‐level variation

Muyobela,

Pirk,

Yusuf

et al. 2024

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An important consequence of the discontinuous distribution of insect populations within their geographic range is phenotypic divergence. Detection of this divergence can be challenging when it occurs through subtle shifts in morphological traits with complex geometries, such as insect wing venation. Here, we used landmark‐based wing geometric morphometrics to investigate the population‐level phenotypic variation of the two subspecies of Glossina morsitans, G. m. centralis Machado and G. m. morsitans Westwood that occur in Zambia. Twelve homologous landmarks digitised on the right wings of 720 specimens collected from four and five sites (80 per site with 1:1 sex ratio) within the G. m. centralis and G. m. morsitans range respectively, were subjected to generalised Procrustes analysis to obtain wing centroid size (CS) and wing shape variables. Linear permutation models and redundancy analysis were then used to compare CS and wing shape between male and female G. morsitans, the two subspecies G. m. centralis and G. m. morsitans, the sexes of each subspecies and between sample locations within each subspecies range, respectively. Significant differences in CS and wing shape were observed between G. morsitans sexes, subspecies and sample locations within each subspecies range. A neighbour‐joining cladogram derived from the analysis of Procrustes distances showed that tsetse within each subspecies range were highly divergent. We conclude that G. morsitans populations in Zambia exhibit significant population‐level variation in fly size and wing shape which suggests high levels of population structuring. The main drivers of this structuring could be random genetic drift in G. m. centralis demes and local adaptation to environmental conditions in G. m. morsitans populations. We therefore recommend molecular studies to estimate the levels of gene flow between these populations and identify possible barriers to genetic flow.

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Environmental filtering along a broad‐scale acidity gradient shapes the structure of odonate communities

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Historical, evolutionary, and ecological processes jointly shape the structure of communities, and the relative influence of such process may vary from one region to another. Nevertheless, much of community ecology focuses on one or several communities in a given region. To assess the relative importance and the context‐dependency of processes shaping communities, studies in community ecology must be conducted across regions and along broad‐scale environmental gradients. Regionally, historical colonization and extinction events, as well as diversification, can influence community structure by shaping the pool of potential community members (i.e., the regional species pool). Locally, a suite of deterministic and stochastic processes can influence community structure. We constructed a large time‐calibrated phylogenetic tree for North American odonates and used analyses of phylogenetic community structure with explicit species pool definitions to assess the predominant processes structuring assemblages along a north–south environmental gradient spanning two biomes and 8° of latitude in eastern Canada. Phylogenetic analyses of 39 lentic (i.e., lake) odonate communities revealed that co‐occurring species were on average more closely related than expected by chance, but only in the temperate biome. In addition, site‐to‐site variation in phylogenetic structure across the temperate and boreal biomes was most strongly related to variation in water pH. The most alkaline lakes were in the temperate biome and were also the most phylogenetically clustered, suggesting that water pH acts as a main environmental filter of odonate communities. An alternative explanation was that the recent radiation of damselflies increased the diversity of this group relative to that of dragonflies in the temperate species pool, thereby leaving a signature of clustering in that biome. However, our comparative null model analyses with explicit species pool definitions at least partially ruled out this explanation. Somewhat contrary to previous hypotheses regarding the assembly of odonate communities, our results suggest that stochastic processes alone cannot account for community structure in odonates and that deterministic, niche‐based processes have a strong influence.

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Molecules, morphology and fossils: a comprehensive approach to odonate phylogeny and the evolution of the odonate wing

Cited by 131 publications

References 65 publications

Biogeography of Dragonflies and Damselflies: Highly Mobile Predators

Biogeography of Dragonflies and Damselflies: Highly Mobile Predators

Phenotypic divergence of Glossina morsitans (Diptera: Glossinidae) populations in Zambia: Application of landmark‐based wing geometric morphometrics to discriminate population‐level variation

Environmental filtering along a broad‐scale acidity gradient shapes the structure of odonate communities

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