@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref19530,
author = {Corrie S. Moreau and Charles David Bell},
title = {Testing the museum versus cradle tropical biological diversity hypothesis: Phylogeny, diversification, and ancestral biogeographic range evolution of the ants},
year = {2013},
keywords = {Biogeography, divergence dating, Formicidae, molecular clock, Neotropics, phylogenetics },
doi = {10.1111/evo.12105},
url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.12105/abstract},
pmid = {},
journal = {Evolution},
volume = {67},
number = {8},
pages = {2240--2257},
abstract = {Ants are one of the most ecologically and numerically dominant group of terrestrial organisms with most species diversity currently found in tropical climates. Several explanations for the disparity of biological diversity in the tropics compared to temperate regions have been proposed including that the tropics may act as a ?museum? where older lineages persist through evolutionary time or as a ?cradle? where new species continue to be generated. We infer the molecular phylogenetic relationships of 295 ant specimens including members of all 21 extant subfamilies to explore the evolutionary diversification and biogeography of the ants. By constraining the topology and age of the root node while using 45 fossils as minimum constraints we converge on an age of 139 ? 158 Mya for the modern ants. Further diversification analyses identified 10 periods with a significant change in the tempo of diversification of the ants, although these shifts did not appear to correspond to ancestral biogeographic range shifts. Likelihood-based historical biogeographic reconstructions suggest that the Neotropics were important in early ant diversification (e.g. Cretaceous). This finding coupled with the extremely high current species diversity suggests that the Neotropics have acted as both a museum and cradle for ant diversity.}
}
Citation for Study 11283
Citation title:
"Testing the museum versus cradle tropical biological diversity hypothesis: Phylogeny, diversification, and ancestral biogeographic range evolution of the ants".
Study name:
"Testing the museum versus cradle tropical biological diversity hypothesis: Phylogeny, diversification, and ancestral biogeographic range evolution of the ants".
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Citation
Moreau C.S., & Bell C. 2013. Testing the museum versus cradle tropical biological diversity hypothesis: Phylogeny, diversification, and ancestral biogeographic range evolution of the ants. Evolution, 67(8): 2240-2257.
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Moreau C.S.
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Bell C.
Abstract
Ants are one of the most ecologically and numerically dominant group of terrestrial organisms with most species diversity currently found in tropical climates. Several explanations for the disparity of biological diversity in the tropics compared to temperate regions have been proposed including that the tropics may act as a ?museum? where older lineages persist through evolutionary time or as a ?cradle? where new species continue to be generated. We infer the molecular phylogenetic relationships of 295 ant specimens including members of all 21 extant subfamilies to explore the evolutionary diversification and biogeography of the ants. By constraining the topology and age of the root node while using 45 fossils as minimum constraints we converge on an age of 139 ? 158 Mya for the modern ants. Further diversification analyses identified 10 periods with a significant change in the tempo of diversification of the ants, although these shifts did not appear to correspond to ancestral biogeographic range shifts. Likelihood-based historical biogeographic reconstructions suggest that the Neotropics were important in early ant diversification (e.g. Cretaceous). This finding coupled with the extremely high current species diversity suggests that the Neotropics have acted as both a museum and cradle for ant diversity.
Keywords
Biogeography, divergence dating, Formicidae, molecular clock, Neotropics, phylogenetics
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@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref19530,
author = {Corrie S. Moreau and Charles David Bell},
title = {Testing the museum versus cradle tropical biological diversity hypothesis: Phylogeny, diversification, and ancestral biogeographic range evolution of the ants},
year = {2013},
keywords = {Biogeography, divergence dating, Formicidae, molecular clock, Neotropics, phylogenetics },
doi = {10.1111/evo.12105},
url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.12105/abstract},
pmid = {},
journal = {Evolution},
volume = {67},
number = {8},
pages = {2240--2257},
abstract = {Ants are one of the most ecologically and numerically dominant group of terrestrial organisms with most species diversity currently found in tropical climates. Several explanations for the disparity of biological diversity in the tropics compared to temperate regions have been proposed including that the tropics may act as a ?museum? where older lineages persist through evolutionary time or as a ?cradle? where new species continue to be generated. We infer the molecular phylogenetic relationships of 295 ant specimens including members of all 21 extant subfamilies to explore the evolutionary diversification and biogeography of the ants. By constraining the topology and age of the root node while using 45 fossils as minimum constraints we converge on an age of 139 ? 158 Mya for the modern ants. Further diversification analyses identified 10 periods with a significant change in the tempo of diversification of the ants, although these shifts did not appear to correspond to ancestral biogeographic range shifts. Likelihood-based historical biogeographic reconstructions suggest that the Neotropics were important in early ant diversification (e.g. Cretaceous). This finding coupled with the extremely high current species diversity suggests that the Neotropics have acted as both a museum and cradle for ant diversity.}
}
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TY - JOUR
ID - 19530
AU - Moreau,Corrie S.
AU - Bell,Charles David
T1 - Testing the museum versus cradle tropical biological diversity hypothesis: Phylogeny, diversification, and ancestral biogeographic range evolution of the ants
PY - 2013
KW - Biogeography
KW - divergence dating
KW - Formicidae
KW - molecular clock
KW - Neotropics
KW - phylogenetics
UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.12105/abstract
N2 - Ants are one of the most ecologically and numerically dominant group of terrestrial organisms with most species diversity currently found in tropical climates. Several explanations for the disparity of biological diversity in the tropics compared to temperate regions have been proposed including that the tropics may act as a ?museum? where older lineages persist through evolutionary time or as a ?cradle? where new species continue to be generated. We infer the molecular phylogenetic relationships of 295 ant specimens including members of all 21 extant subfamilies to explore the evolutionary diversification and biogeography of the ants. By constraining the topology and age of the root node while using 45 fossils as minimum constraints we converge on an age of 139 ? 158 Mya for the modern ants. Further diversification analyses identified 10 periods with a significant change in the tempo of diversification of the ants, although these shifts did not appear to correspond to ancestral biogeographic range shifts. Likelihood-based historical biogeographic reconstructions suggest that the Neotropics were important in early ant diversification (e.g. Cretaceous). This finding coupled with the extremely high current species diversity suggests that the Neotropics have acted as both a museum and cradle for ant diversity.
L3 - 10.1111/evo.12105
JF - Evolution
VL - 67
IS - 8
SP - 2240
EP - 2257
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