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Citation title: "Out of the Antilles: fossil phylogenies support reverse colonization of bats to South America".

Study name: "Out of the Antilles: fossil phylogenies support reverse colonization of bats to South America".

This study is part of submission 21967 (Status: Published).

Citation

Tavares V.D., Warsi O., Balseiro F., Mancina C., & Davalos L.M. 2018. Out of the Antilles: fossil phylogenies support reverse colonization of bats to South America. Journal of Biogeography, .

Authors

• Tavares V.D.
• Warsi O.
• Balseiro F.
• Mancina C.
• Davalos L.M. (submitter) 6314137417

Abstract

AIM Previous phylogenies of extant Short-faced bats (Chiroptera: Stenodermatina) supported either two colonization events from the mainland to the Antilles, or reverse colonization, but lacked both fossil data and statistical modelling of biogeography. Recent multi-locus phylogenies of noctilionoid bats and likelihood modelling of ancestral ranges support a continental origin for the clade. We include all known extinct and extant stenodermatina species and apply statistical modelling to test competing biogeographical hypotheses. LOCATION The Neotropics, including the Antilles. METHODS We combined mitochondrial and nuclear sequences with 302 new morphological characters to infer phylogenies. Bayesian tip-dating analyses applied codon models to protein-coding genes, with relaxed molecular clocks fitting a compound Poisson process. The combined maximum clade credibility tree was used in comparisons of alternative biogeographical models. RESULTS The new phylogenies support the fossil Cubanycteris silvai as sister to all extant species of Short-faced bats. Among Artibeus (the sister group to Short-faced bats), the Antillean fossil A. anthonyi has distinctive characters and is nested within the subgenus Artibeus. The common ancestor of all Short-faced bats is inferred to be Antillean, as a mainland origin is unlikely. Founder-event speciation is the most probable process explaining the distribution of these highly divergent fossil lineages. MAIN CONCLUSIONS Dated, character-based phylogenies of fossil species are indispensable for biogeographic inference: without fossils biogeographic analyses find a mainland origin for Short-faced bats. The rate of founder speciation in this clade is twice as high as the estimate from noctilionoids in general, highlighting the role of founder events in the diversification of island taxa. Although rare, reverse colonization contributes key species to continental communities. Short-faced bats, including Cubanycteris, share biomechanical adaptations for a strong bite conferring access to harder figs. We hypothesize these adaptations and characters related to roosting ecology enabled ancestral lineages to successfully establish and diversify on the mainland.

Keywords

Caribbean, Chiroptera, dispersal, Phyllostomidae, Stenodermatina, Stenodermatinae, Stenodermatini, reverse colonization, upstream colonization, West Indies

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• Canonical resource URI: http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/study/TB2:S21967
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  		@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref27926,
  	 author = {Valeria da Cunha Tavares and Omar  Warsi and Fernando  Balseiro and Carlos  Mancina and Liliana M Davalos},
  	 title = {Out of the Antilles: fossil phylogenies support reverse colonization of bats to South America},
  	 year = {2018},
  	 keywords = {Caribbean, Chiroptera, dispersal, Phyllostomidae, Stenodermatina, Stenodermatinae, Stenodermatini, reverse colonization, upstream colonization, West Indies},
  	 doi = {},
  	 url = {http://},
  	 pmid = {},
  	 journal = {Journal of Biogeography},
  	 volume = {},
  	 number = {},
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  	 abstract = {AIM
  Previous phylogenies of extant Short-faced bats (Chiroptera: Stenodermatina) supported either two colonization events from the mainland to the Antilles, or reverse colonization, but lacked both fossil data and statistical modelling of biogeography. Recent multi-locus phylogenies of noctilionoid bats and likelihood modelling of ancestral ranges support a continental origin for the clade. We include all known extinct and extant stenodermatina species and apply statistical modelling to test competing biogeographical hypotheses.
  LOCATION
  The Neotropics, including the Antilles.
  METHODS
  We combined mitochondrial and nuclear sequences with 302 new morphological characters to infer phylogenies. Bayesian tip-dating analyses applied codon models to protein-coding genes, with relaxed molecular clocks fitting a compound Poisson process. The combined maximum clade credibility tree was used in comparisons of alternative biogeographical models.
  RESULTS
  The new phylogenies support the fossil Cubanycteris silvai as sister to all extant species of Short-faced bats. Among Artibeus (the sister group to Short-faced bats), the Antillean fossil A. anthonyi has distinctive characters and is nested within the subgenus Artibeus. The common ancestor of all Short-faced bats is inferred to be Antillean, as a mainland origin is unlikely. Founder-event speciation is the most probable process explaining the distribution of these highly divergent fossil lineages. 
  MAIN CONCLUSIONS
  Dated, character-based phylogenies of fossil species are indispensable for biogeographic inference: without fossils biogeographic analyses find a mainland origin for Short-faced bats. The rate of founder speciation in this clade is twice as high as the estimate from noctilionoids in general, highlighting the role of founder events in the diversification of island taxa. Although rare, reverse colonization contributes key species to continental communities. Short-faced bats, including Cubanycteris, share biomechanical adaptations for a strong bite conferring access to harder figs. We hypothesize these adaptations and characters related to roosting ecology enabled ancestral lineages to successfully establish and diversify on the mainland. }
  }
  		

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  		TY  - JOUR
  ID  - 27926
  AU  - Tavares,Valeria da Cunha
  AU  - Warsi,Omar 
  AU  - Balseiro,Fernando 
  AU  - Mancina,Carlos 
  AU  - Davalos,Liliana M
  T1  - Out of the Antilles: fossil phylogenies support reverse colonization of bats to South America
  PY  - 2018
  KW  - Caribbean
  KW  - Chiroptera
  KW  - dispersal
  KW  - Phyllostomidae
  KW  - Stenodermatina
  KW  - Stenodermatinae
  KW  - Stenodermatini
  KW  - reverse colonization
  KW  - upstream colonization
  KW  - West Indies
  UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
  N2  - AIM
  Previous phylogenies of extant Short-faced bats (Chiroptera: Stenodermatina) supported either two colonization events from the mainland to the Antilles, or reverse colonization, but lacked both fossil data and statistical modelling of biogeography. Recent multi-locus phylogenies of noctilionoid bats and likelihood modelling of ancestral ranges support a continental origin for the clade. We include all known extinct and extant stenodermatina species and apply statistical modelling to test competing biogeographical hypotheses.
  LOCATION
  The Neotropics, including the Antilles.
  METHODS
  We combined mitochondrial and nuclear sequences with 302 new morphological characters to infer phylogenies. Bayesian tip-dating analyses applied codon models to protein-coding genes, with relaxed molecular clocks fitting a compound Poisson process. The combined maximum clade credibility tree was used in comparisons of alternative biogeographical models.
  RESULTS
  The new phylogenies support the fossil Cubanycteris silvai as sister to all extant species of Short-faced bats. Among Artibeus (the sister group to Short-faced bats), the Antillean fossil A. anthonyi has distinctive characters and is nested within the subgenus Artibeus. The common ancestor of all Short-faced bats is inferred to be Antillean, as a mainland origin is unlikely. Founder-event speciation is the most probable process explaining the distribution of these highly divergent fossil lineages. 
  MAIN CONCLUSIONS
  Dated, character-based phylogenies of fossil species are indispensable for biogeographic inference: without fossils biogeographic analyses find a mainland origin for Short-faced bats. The rate of founder speciation in this clade is twice as high as the estimate from noctilionoids in general, highlighting the role of founder events in the diversification of island taxa. Although rare, reverse colonization contributes key species to continental communities. Short-faced bats, including Cubanycteris, share biomechanical adaptations for a strong bite conferring access to harder figs. We hypothesize these adaptations and characters related to roosting ecology enabled ancestral lineages to successfully establish and diversify on the mainland. 
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  JF  - Journal of Biogeography
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