Recent origin and diversification accompanied by repeated host shifts of thallus-mining flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae) on liverworts and hornworts

Kato, Masatane; Yamamori, Luna; Imada, Yume; Sota, Teiji

doi:10.1098/rspb.2022.2347

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“…While the underlying cladogenic mechanism has been debated 70,71 , the interplay between herbivory, plant defense, and reproductive barriers likely facilitate herbivore-mediated plant speciation. While focused on angiosperms, these complex herbivore-mediated diversification patterns have been observed in other groups such as in the bryophytes and their phytophagous Dipteran herbivores 72 . To explore the evolutionary correlation between fern-feeding arthropod herbivores and nectary-bearing ferns, we asked whether these lineages have similar diversification patterns.…”

Section: Cenozoic Diversification Of Nectary-bearing Fernsmentioning

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Convergent evolution of fern nectaries facilitated independent recruitment of ant-bodyguards from flowering plants

Suissa,

Li,

Moreau

2024

Nat Commun

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Plant–herbivore interactions reciprocally influence species’ evolutionary trajectories. These interactions have led to many physical and chemical defenses across the plant kingdom. Some plants have even evolved indirect defense strategies to outsource their protection to ant bodyguards by bribing them with a sugary reward (nectar). Identifying the evolutionary processes underpinning these indirect defenses provide insight into the evolution of plant-animal interactions. Using a cross-kingdom, phylogenetic approach, we examined the convergent evolution of ant-guarding nectaries across ferns and flowering plants. Here, we discover that nectaries originated in ferns and flowering plants concurrently during the Cretaceous, coinciding with the rise of plant associations in ants. While nectaries in flowering plants evolved steadily through time, ferns showed a pronounced lag of nearly 100 My between their origin and subsequent diversification in the Cenozoic. Importantly, we find that as ferns transitioned from the forest floor into the canopy, they secondarily recruited ant bodyguards from existing ant-angiosperm relationships.

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Section: Cenozoic Diversification Of Nectary-bearing Fernsmentioning

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Convergent evolution of fern nectaries facilitated independent recruitment of ant-bodyguards from flowering plants

Suissa,

Li,

Moreau

2024

Nat Commun

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“…Modern mined, nonangiospermous groups are lycophytes (clubmosses), bryophytes (liverworts and hornworts), ferns, such as Dennstaedtiaceae (brackens), Dryopteridaceae (wood ferns), Aspleniaceae (spleenworts), and Polypodiaceae (polypods), and gymnosperms, particularly Pinaceae (pines), Cupressaceae (cypresses), and Zamiaceae (sago palms) (Labandeira et al, 2007b;J. Yang et al, 2021;Chen et al, 2022;Eiseman, 2022;Kato et al, 2023).…”

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Middle Jurassic insect mines on gymnosperms provide missing links to early mining evolution

Xiao,

Labandeira,

et al. 2024

New Phytologist

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Summary We investigated the mining mode of insect feeding, involving larval consumption of a plant's internal tissues, from the Middle Jurassic (165 million years ago) Daohugou locality of Northeastern China. Documentation of mining from the Jurassic Period is virtually unknown, and results from this time interval would address mining evolution during the temporal gap of mine–seed plant diversifications from the previous Late Triassic to the subsequent Early Cretaceous. Plant fossils were examined with standard microscopic procedures for herbivory and used the standard functional feeding group–damage‐type system of categorizing damage. All fossil mines were photographed and databased. We examined 2014 plant specimens, of which 27 occurrences on 14 specimens resulted in eight, new, mine damage types (DTs) present on six genera of bennettitalean, ginkgoalean, and pinalean gymnosperms. Three conclusions emerge from this study. First, these mid‐Mesozoic mines are morphologically conservative and track plant host anatomical structure rather than plant phylogeny. Second, likely insect fabricators of these mines were three basal lineages of polyphagan beetles, four basal lineages of monotrysian moths, and a basal lineage tenthredinoid sawflies. Third, the nutrition hypothesis, indicating that miners had greater access to nutritious, inner tissues of new plant lineages, best explains mine evolution during the mid‐Mesozoic.

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Recent origin and diversification accompanied by repeated host shifts of thallus-mining flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae) on liverworts and hornworts

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Despite the vast diversity of phytophagous insects that feed on vascular plants (tracheophytes), insects that feed on bryophytes remain understudied. Agromyzidae, one of the most species-rich phytophagous clades in Diptera, consists mainly of leaf-mining species that feed on tracheophytes. However, a recent discovery of thallus-mining species on liverworts and hornworts within the Liriomyza group of Phytomyzinae provides an opportunity to study host shifts between tracheophytes and bryophytes. This study aimed to explore the origin and diversification of thallus-miners and estimate the pattern and timing of host shifts. Phylogenetic analysis of Phytomyzinae has revealed that the thallus-mining agromyzids formed a separate clade, which was sister to a fern pinnule-miner. The diversification of bryophyte-associated agromyzids since the Oligocene involved multiple host shifts across various bryophyte taxa. The diversification of the thallus-mining Phytoliriomyza may have occurred at the same time as the leaf-mining agromyzid flies on herbaceous plants, indicating a dynamic history of interactions between bryophytes and herbivores in angiosperms-dominated ecosystems.

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Recent origin and diversification accompanied by repeated host shifts of thallus-mining flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae) on liverworts and hornworts

Cited by 3 publications

References 78 publications

Convergent evolution of fern nectaries facilitated independent recruitment of ant-bodyguards from flowering plants

Convergent evolution of fern nectaries facilitated independent recruitment of ant-bodyguards from flowering plants

Middle Jurassic insect mines on gymnosperms provide missing links to early mining evolution

Recent origin and diversification accompanied by repeated host shifts of thallus-mining flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae) on liverworts and hornworts

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