Phylogenetics of Australian Acacia thrips: the evolution of behaviour and ecology

Morris, David C.; Schwarz, Michael P.; Cooper, Steven J.; Mound, Laurence A.

doi:10.1016/s1055-7903(02)00258-0

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“…Related galling insect species usually induce morphologically similar galls on phylogenetically related host plants . Phylogenetic evidence also suggests that gall morphology of aphids (Stern 1995;Inbar et al 2004), thrips (Crespi & Worobey 1998;Morris et al 2002;McLeish et al 2006), sawflies and gall wasps (Stone & Cook 1998;Stone et al 2002;Cook et al 2002) is controlled by the gall inducing organism.…”

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Are gall midge species (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) host-plant specialists?

Carneiro

Branco

Braga

et al. 2009

Rev. Bras. entomol.

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Are gall midge species (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) host-plant specialists?

Carneiro

Branco

Braga

et al. 2009

Rev. Bras. entomol.

150

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“…Australian species of the plant genus Acacia support a single lineage of phlaeothripine thrips that comprises at least 250 species (Morris et al 2002a). This suggests the remarkable evolutionary scenario that Acacia in Australia has been invaded and adopted as a host-plant by thrips on a single occasion.…”

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“…On A. catenulata, two species have been observed to create a domicile by weaving onto the surface of a phyllode a membrane that forms a tent within which the brood is then reared . The structural and behavioural diversity of these domicile-creating thrips is great, but molecular evidence suggests that they may constitute a single lineage (Morris et al 2002a). This evidence also indicates that members of two genera within the lineage have lost the ability to build their own domiciles.…”

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Australian Thysanoptera – biological diversity and a diversity of studies

Mound

2004

Australian Journal of Entomology

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Studies in Australia on thrips have had extensive impacts worldwide. In behaviour, the latest definition of eusociality is derived from work on the radiation of thrips on Acacia species in central Australia, and these Acacia thrips also having been used to develop the concept of 'model clades' for analysing the evolution of behavioural and ecological diversity. In ecology, the concept of the lack of density dependent factors in population dynamics was elaborated through studies on the plague thrips of southern Australia. In virology, thrips were first shown in Australia to be the vectors of tospoviruses, although these viruses, their vectors and the plants attacked are all non-native to this continent. Work in Australia has included the development of electronic methods of illustration, identification and information transfer about thrips, including the use of molecular methods for pest species recognition, and considerable advances have been made in Australia in our knowledge of the relationships between thrips and plants, from polyphagy to pollination.

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“…Both the phylogenetic inferences indicate gall structure is highly conserved amongst all newly sampled populations. It is commonly accepted that gall morphology is largely under the control of the insect genome and represents an extended phenotype (Stern, 1995;Morris et al, 2002;Stone and Schö nrogge, 2003). Fidelity of gall structure over different host species is consistent with gall phenotype being largely determined by the thrips genotype and therefore a potentially useful diagnostic character in species identification.…”

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“…The outgroup, Rhopalothripoides (Bagnall) and Dactylothrips (Bagnall), are the most closely related sister-genera to Kladothrips Froggatt (Morris et al, 2002). The K. rugosus and Kladothrips waterhousei species complexes were chosen as ingroup taxa as these groups are expected to have diversified recently and in parallel on the same set of host Acacia species.…”

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Parallel diversification of Australian gall-thrips on Acacia

McLeish

Crespi

Chapman

et al. 2007

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

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The diversification of gall-inducing Australian Kladothrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) on Acacia has produced a pair of sister-clades, each of which includes a suite of lineages that utilize virtually the same set of 15 closely related host plant species. This pattern of parallel insect-host plant radiation may be driven by cospeciation, host-shifting to the same set of host plants, or some combination of these processes. We used molecular-phylogenetic data on the two gall-thrips clades to analyze the degree of concordance between their phylogenies, which is indicative of parallel divergence. Analyses of phylogenetic concordance indicate statistically-significant similarity between the two clades. Their topologies also fit with a hypothesis of some degree of host-plant tracking. Based on phylogenetic and taxonomic information regarding the phylogeny of the Acacia host plants in each clade, one or more species has apparently shifted to more-divergent Acacia host-plant species, and in each case these shifts have resulted in notable divergence in aspects of the phenotype including morphology, life history and behaviour. Our analyses indicate that gall-thrips on Australian Acacia have undergone parallel diversification as a result of some combination of cospeciation, highly restricted host-plant shifting, or both processes, but that the evolution of novel phenotypic diversity in this group is a function of relatively few shifts to divergent host plants. This combination of ecologically restricted and divergent radiation may represent a microcosm for the macroevolution of host plant relationships and phenotypic diversity among other phytophagous insects.

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Phylogenetics of Australian Acacia thrips: the evolution of behaviour and ecology

Cited by 37 publications

References 50 publications

Are gall midge species (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) host-plant specialists?

Are gall midge species (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) host-plant specialists?

Australian Thysanoptera – biological diversity and a diversity of studies

Parallel diversification of Australian gall-thrips on Acacia

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