The Australian reptiles: origins, biogeography, distribution patterns and island evolution

Cogger, Harold G.; Heatwole, Harold

doi:10.1007/978-94-009-8629-9_49

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“…Thus, some of the terminal splits among elapids had already occurred by the Miocene. Considering that the split between hydrophiines and elapines represents the basal split within elapids, not a terminal split, then clearly the division between elapines and hydrophiines predates the Miocene and probably considerably so, an idea that has been suggested by other authors (e.g., Cogger and Heatwole, 1981;Cogger, 1984). We ascribe Schwaner et al's results to a rate slow-down in the evolution of elapid plasma transferrins.…”

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Inferring Species Trees from Gene Trees: A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Elapidae (Serpentes) Based on the Amino Acid Sequences of Venom Proteins

Slowinski

Knight

Rooney

1997

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

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Toward the goal of recovering the phylogenetic relationships among elapid snakes, we separately found the shortest trees from the amino acid sequences for the venom proteins phospholipase A 2 and the short neurotoxin, collectively representing 32 species in 16 genera. We then applied a method we term gene tree parsimony for inferring species trees from gene trees that works by finding the species tree which minimizes the number of deep coalescences or gene duplications plus unsampled sequences necessary to fit each gene tree to the species tree. This procedure, which is both logical and generally applicable, avoids many of the problems of previous approaches for inferring species trees from gene trees. The results support a division of the elapids examined into sister groups of the Australian and marine (laticaudines and hydrophiines) species, and the African and Asian species. Within the former clade, the sea snakes are shown to be diphyletic, with the laticaudines and hydrophiines having separate origins. This finding is corroborated by previous studies, which provide support for the usefulness of gene tree parsimony.

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Inferring Species Trees from Gene Trees: A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Elapidae (Serpentes) Based on the Amino Acid Sequences of Venom Proteins

Slowinski

Knight

Rooney

1997

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

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“…The D. tincta group as a whole has a 'Torresian' distribution (sensu Cogger and Heatwole 1981). This appears to be unique within the genus Delma, since other species groups recognized on morphological (Kluge 1974;Shea 1991) or molecular criteria _ (Jennings et al 2003) …”

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Two new species of the Delma tincta group (Squamata: Pygopodidae) from northwestern Australia

Maryant¹,

Aplin²,

Adams³

2007

Rec West Aust Mus

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“…The first hypothesis claims that climatic changes and the close proximity of the Australia-New Guinea plate to Laurasia during the Miocene would have allowed Laurasian groups to disperse to Australia or New Guinea and to occupy open niches not available in South East Asia (Cogger & Heatwole 1981). Alternatively, a Middle to Late Mesozoic (75-160 Myr ago) separation of these faunas by the breakup of Gondwanaland indicates that the primary diversification of major groups occurred among continental fragments moving in isolation across the Tethys Sea.…”

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Molecular phylogenetic evidence for ancient divergence of lizard taxa on either side of Wallace's Line

Schulte

Melville

Larson

2003

Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B

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Wallace's Line, separating the terrestrial faunas of South East Asia from the Australia-New Guinea region, is the most prominent and well-studied biogeographical division in the world. Phylogenetically distinct subgroups of major animal and plant groups have been documented on either side of Wallace's Line since it was first proposed in 1859. Despite its importance, the temporal history of fragmentation across this line is virtually unknown and the geological foundation has rarely been discussed. Using molecular phylogenetics and dating techniques, we show that the split between taxa in the South East Asian and the Australian-New Guinean geological regions occurred during the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous in two independent lizard clades. This estimate is compatible with the hypothesis of rifting Gondwanan continental fragments during the Mesozoic and strongly rejects the hypothetical origin of various members of the Australian-New Guinean herpetofauna as relatively recent invasions from South East Asia. Our finding suggests an ancient fragmentation of lizard taxa on either side of Wallace's Line and provides further evidence that the composition of modern global communities has been significantly affected by rifting and accretion of Gondwanan continental plates during the Middle to Late Mesozoic.

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The Australian reptiles: origins, biogeography, distribution patterns and island evolution

Cited by 69 publications

References 24 publications

Inferring Species Trees from Gene Trees: A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Elapidae (Serpentes) Based on the Amino Acid Sequences of Venom Proteins

Inferring Species Trees from Gene Trees: A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Elapidae (Serpentes) Based on the Amino Acid Sequences of Venom Proteins

Two new species of the Delma tincta group (Squamata: Pygopodidae) from northwestern Australia

Molecular phylogenetic evidence for ancient divergence of lizard taxa on either side of Wallace's Line

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