Range wide molecular data and niche modeling revealed the Pleistocene history of a global invader (Halyomorpha halys)

Abstract

Invasive species’ Pleistocene history contains much information on its present population structure, dispersability and adaptability. In this study, the Pleistocene history of a global invasive pest (Brown Marmorated Stink Bug BMSB, Halyomorpha halys) was unveiled using the coupled approach of phylogeography and ecological niche modelling. Rangewide molecular data suggests that the Taiwan and other native populations had diverged in mid-Pleistocene. In mainland China, the native BMSB did not experience population contraction and divergence during last glacial, but persisted in interconnected populations. Combined Bayesian Skyline Plot (BSP) and niche modelling revealed a rapid expansion occurred during the transition of Last Inter Glacial (LIG) to Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). High genetic diversity and multi-reticular haplotypes network exist in the original sources populations of BMSB invasion in northern China. They were speculated to be colonized from the central China, with many derived haplotypes evolved to adapt the novel environment. The ENM future prediction suggest that BMSB may expand northward to higher latitudes in the US and Europe, because of its high invasive ability, together with the available suitable climate space there.

Morphological variation, genetic differentiation and phylogeography of the East Asia cicada Hyalessa maculaticollis (Hemiptera: Cicadidae)

“…Mountainous areas also potentially harboured many refugial populations in the ice age, which led to the formation of new lineages/taxa and contributed to a higher genetic diversity (Jiang et al ., ; Ye et al ., ). Previous studies of East Asian insects, including Apocheima cinerarius (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) (Liu et al ., ) and Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) (Zhu et al ., ), have confirmed that Pleistocene climate change had an effect on the distribution and demography these species, which survived in refugia during glacial periods, experienced demographic expansion after the ice age and, eventually, formed their current population structures due to the complex local topography.…”

Impact of the Invasive Brown Marmorated Stink Bug in North America and Europe: History, Biology, Ecology, and Management

“…A large global distribution of BMSB is projected from climate-matching models (161) and/or inference of the species Pleistocene history from molecular data (162). The introduction pathways and propagule size of an invading population may impact species ecology, including its fitness.…”

Identification of winter moth (Operophtera brumata) refugia in North Africa and the Italian Peninsula during the last glacial maximum

“…For example, in Europe, many studies have shown how the persistence of populations in separate glacial refugia (e.g., the Iberian, Italian, and Balkan peninsulas, the Caucasus region, North Africa, and microrefugia in the Alps) during the Quaternary climatic oscillations promoted genetic diversity in contemporary populations (Andersen, Havill, Caccone, & Elkinton, ; Habel, Lens, Rodder, & Schmitt, ; Huck, Buedel, & Schmitt, ; Niedzialkowska et al, ; von Reumont, Struwe, Schwarzer, & Misof, ; Rofes et al, ; Schmitt, ; Schmitt & Müller, ; Sim, Hall, Jex, Hegel, & Coltman, ; Stolting et al, ; Torroni et al, ). For outbreaking species, reconstructing the biogeographical history of the species can help to determine the factors that might be promoting their outbreak (e.g., Moyal et al, ; Song et al, ; Zhu et al, ).…”