Zoogeographic Patterns and Tectonic History of Jamaica and the Northern Caribbean

Buskirk, Ruth E.

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“…Unlike the Sesarmidae, which are mostly coastal marine forms, the family Pseudothelphusidae is an old Rodríguez and Williams 1995). The absence of Epilobocera from Jamaica can be explained by the fact that this island was almost completely submerged during part of the Mid Tertiary (see Buskirk 1985). Most rivers and mountain streams of the different Greater Antillean islands are very similar in terms of soils, vegetation, and temperature.…”

Section: Genotypic Diversification Within Three Species Of Freshwatermentioning

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Ongoing Phenotypic and Genotypic Diversification in Adaptively Radiated Freshwater Crabs from Jamaica

Schubart

Weil

Stenderup

et al. 2010

Evolution in Action

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The Caribbean island of Jamaica is home to a lineage of crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) which have colonized the most unusual terrestrial habitats. Today, they can be found nesting in bromeliad leaf axils or empty snail shells, scurrying on the forest floor or among dry rock rubble, climbing on walls of deep cave systems, or digging burrows in the banks of mountain streams. In order to facilitate survival of their offspring in these remarkable and new habitats, complex behavioral adaptations have evolved, including feeding and protecting the offspring, and transport of empty snail shells into the nursery to buffer the pH and provide the necessary calcium carbonate [summarized in Diesel (Proc Roy Soc Lond B 264:1403-1406, 1997, Diesel and Schubart (Evolutionary ecology of social and sexual systems: crustaceans as model organisms. Oxford University Press, New York, pp 365-386, 2007)]. No other American sesarmid crab species shows this degree of terrestriality and elaborate brood care behavior. Instead, the most related species typically are inhabitants of marshes and mangroves and reproduce by releasing their larvae into the ocean, without any additional paternal obligation. Molecular phylogenetic analyses revealed that the Jamaican endemic sesarmids are monophyletic and thus the outcome of a single colonization event, which took place approximately 4.5 million years ago and was followed by a rapid radiation, speciation, and adaptation to ecological niches, which have not been used by crabs in any other parts of the world and required evolution of complex behavioral strategies to render survival in these habitats possible (Schubart et al. Nature 393:363-365, 1998a). This system can be considered a classic example of an adaptive radiation of comparatively young age. It calls for research concerning the mechanisms and the pace of evolution to generate these highly specialized forms. In the present paper, we provide new data on evolutionary processes at the intraspecific level, which may help to understand the potential of diversification in these crabs. Furthermore, published and unpublished data available for these specialized crabs are summarized, giving evidence for the astounding diversity of evolutionary strategies and the dimension of biodiversity beyond the species level.

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Section: Genotypic Diversification Within Three Species Of Freshwatermentioning

confidence: 99%

Ongoing Phenotypic and Genotypic Diversification in Adaptively Radiated Freshwater Crabs from Jamaica

Schubart

Weil

Stenderup

et al. 2010

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“…chrysopelea species pair formed as a result of classic vicariance (Buskirk, 1985). It is more likely that speciation followed oceanic dispersal of butterflies from one island to the other.…”

Section: Biogeographymentioning

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A molecular phylogeny of the neotropical butterfly genus Anartia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

Blum

Bermingham

Dasmahapatra

2003

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

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“…Notably unoccupied are the Bahamas, Jamaica, and St. Croix, and only one species occurs in the Lesser Antilles: Poitea carinalis is endemic to Dominica. The significance here is that these islands cannot harbor Early Tertiary elements because they either are too young (Donnelly 1988;Pindell and Barrett 1990;IturraldeVinent and MacPhee 1999) or were inundated by the sea during the Middle to Late Tertiary (Buskirk 1985;Schubart et al 1998). The occurrence of Pictetia aculeata and Poitea florida on Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands exclusive of St. Croix is a consequence of these islands being directly connected to each other during the Quaternary, when sea levels were lower than at present (St. Croix is uniquely separated from Puerto Rico by a deep sea trough; Heatwole and MacKenzie 1967).…”

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“…While Cuba, Hispaniola, and the Puerto Rican Bank are rich in endemic species and genera of Fabaceae, Jamaica has a pantropical legume flora, and any legume taxon endemic to this island is generally a weak segregate of a fairly widespread species (Adams 1972). Jamaica is considered geologically distinct (Iturralde-Vinent and MacPhee 1999); it was inundated during the middle Tertiary (Buskirk 1985;Schubart et al 1998). After eradication of the Early Tertiary Jamaican flora, this island biota must have been reconstituted.…”

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“…Islands are assigned to this "museum" category if they are continental, have no evidence of post-Eocene submergence (e.g., Jamaica; Buskirk 1985;Schubart et al 1998), and occur at tropical latitudes (between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn). Islands at high latitudes have suffered extinction of Early Tertiary tropical biotas (e.g., Greenland; Boyd 1992) and so, like reemerged continental islands, have had to reconstitute their biotas in more recent times.…”

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Identifying Tertiary Radiations of Fabaceae in the Greater Antilles: Alternatives to Cladistic Vicariance Analysis

Lavin¹,

Wojciechowski

Richman

et al. 2001

International Journal of Plant Sciences

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The fossil record shows that the legume family was abundant and taxonomically diverse in Early Tertiary tropical deciduous forests of North America. Today, woody members of this family are almost nonexistent in temperate deciduous forests. This former North American legume diversity now lies in the Tropics, including the Greater Antilles. To show the Antillean refugia, we detail a phylogenetic and biogeographic analysis of two legume groups, the Ormocarpum and Robinia clades, which have either a Tertiary fossil record in North America or a sister clade with such a fossil record. A combined analysis of molecular and nonmolecular data is used for the cladistic vicariance approaches, while an exhaustively sampled data set of nrDNA ITS/5.8S sequences is used for the molecular biogeographic analysis. Results from component, three-area-statements, and Brooks parsimony analysis are equivocal in suggesting an influence of Tertiary history on the distribution of the woody genera Pictetia (Ormocarpum clade) and Poitea (Robinia clade), two of the most speciose endemic legume radiations in the Greater Antilles. Alternatively, nucleotide diversity, evolutionary rates, and coalescent analyses of molecular phylogenies all suggest a Tertiary diversification of Pictetia and Poitea. The results are corroborated by a regression analysis that implicates both age of island biota and island area in accurately predicting numbers of endemic legume taxa. These findings, combined with the legume fossil record, suggest that both Pictetia and Poitea stem from Tertiary North American boreotropical groups. J. A. Wolfe's hypothesis that the Greater Antilles harbor boreotropical relicts is supported.

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Zoogeographic Patterns and Tectonic History of Jamaica and the Northern Caribbean

Cited by 94 publications

References 61 publications

Ongoing Phenotypic and Genotypic Diversification in Adaptively Radiated Freshwater Crabs from Jamaica

Ongoing Phenotypic and Genotypic Diversification in Adaptively Radiated Freshwater Crabs from Jamaica

A molecular phylogeny of the neotropical butterfly genus Anartia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

Identifying Tertiary Radiations of Fabaceae in the Greater Antilles: Alternatives to Cladistic Vicariance Analysis

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