Explicit tests of palaeodrainage connections of southeastern North America and the historical biogeography of Orangethroat Darters (Percidae:Etheostoma:Ceasia)

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (21) ◽  
pp. 5397-5417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christen M. Bossu ◽  
Jeremy M. Beaulieu ◽  
Patrick A. Ceas ◽  
Thomas J. Near
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Historical Biogeography

Niche evolution and historical biogeography of lady slipper orchids in North America and Eurasia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huanchu Liu ◽  
Hans Jacquemyn ◽  
Wei Chen ◽  
Steven B. Janssens ◽  
Xingyuan He ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Historical Biogeography ◽  
Niche Evolution

scholarly journals Fossil biogeography: a new model to infer dispersal, extinction and sampling from palaeontological data

2016 ◽  
Vol 371 (1691) ◽  
pp. 20150225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Silvestro ◽  
Alexander Zizka ◽  
Christine D. Bacon ◽  
Borja Cascales-Miñana ◽  
Nicolas Salamin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
Phylogenetic Trees ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Historical Biogeography ◽  
Extinction Rates ◽  
Climatic Cooling ◽  
Fossil Data ◽  
Incomplete Sampling ◽  
Des Model

Methods in historical biogeography have revolutionized our ability to infer the evolution of ancestral geographical ranges from phylogenies of extant taxa, the rates of dispersals, and biotic connectivity among areas. However, extant taxa are likely to provide limited and potentially biased information about past biogeographic processes, due to extinction, asymmetrical dispersals and variable connectivity among areas. Fossil data hold considerable information about past distribution of lineages, but suffer from largely incomplete sampling. Here we present a new dispersal–extinction–sampling (DES) model, which estimates biogeographic parameters using fossil occurrences instead of phylogenetic trees. The model estimates dispersal and extinction rates while explicitly accounting for the incompleteness of the fossil record. Rates can vary between areas and through time, thus providing the opportunity to assess complex scenarios of biogeographic evolution. We implement the DES model in a Bayesian framework and demonstrate through simulations that it can accurately infer all the relevant parameters. We demonstrate the use of our model by analysing the Cenozoic fossil record of land plants and inferring dispersal and extinction rates across Eurasia and North America. Our results show that biogeographic range evolution is not a time-homogeneous process, as assumed in most phylogenetic analyses, but varies through time and between areas. In our empirical assessment, this is shown by the striking predominance of plant dispersals from Eurasia into North America during the Eocene climatic cooling, followed by a shift in the opposite direction, and finally, a balance in biotic interchange since the middle Miocene. We conclude by discussing the potential of fossil-based analyses to test biogeographic hypotheses and improve phylogenetic methods in historical biogeography.

scholarly journals Evolution of floral characters and biogeography of Heloniadeae (Melanthiaceae): an example of breeding system shifts with inflorescence change

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chien-Ti Chao ◽  
Chu-Chia Kuo ◽  
Jui-Tse Chang ◽  
Min-Wei Chai ◽  
Pei-Chun Liao
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Breeding System ◽  
Character Evolution ◽  
Historical Biogeography ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Disjunct Distribution ◽  
Floral Character ◽  
Biogeographic History ◽  
Floral Characters

AbstractHeloniadeae (Melanthiaceae) presents an East Asia–North America disjunct distribution. Different molecular and morphological data nevertheless support the tribe as a monophyletic group. However, their phylogenetic relationships and biogeographic history, together with the character evolution, are not clear. Therefore, we constructed a Bayesian phylogenetic tree for Heloniadeae using cpDNA and inferred the historical biogeography and floral character evolution. The results revealed that Heloniadeae was distributed in high-latitudes of East Asia and North America, originating since 22.2 mya. The East Asia clade migrated into southwest China, and subsequently colonized the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, the Ryukyus, and spread northward to Japan and southern Sakhalin. The evolution of the inflorescence and number of flowers were phylogenetically conserved, associated with the historical biogeography of Heloniadeae. The inflorescences transferred from raceme to sub-umbel, and the number of flowers decreased during the dispersal process, which may be accompanied by changes in the breeding system. Besides, the anthesis period was more affected by the habitat environment than phylogenetic constraints. The flowering temperature of was below 20 °C in most species, except H. kawanoi. Such a low temperature might not be conductive to pollinator activities, but it could be compensated by sustaining seed production with long-lasting flowers.

scholarly journals A new Oligocene-Miocene tree from Panama and historical Anacardium migration patterns

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. e0250721
Author(s):  
Oris Rodríguez-Reyes ◽  
Emilio Estrada-Ruiz ◽  
Camila Monje Dussán ◽  
Lilian de Andrade Brito ◽  
Teresa Terrazas
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
Central America ◽  
Historical Biogeography ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Tropical Regions ◽  
Anatomical Characteristics ◽  
Species Migration

Migration of Boreotropical megathermal taxa during the Oligocene and Miocene played a key role in assembling diversity in tropical regions. Despite scattered fossil reports, the cashew genus Anacardium offers an excellent example of such migration. The fossil woods described here come from localities in Veraguas, Panama mapped as Oligocene-Miocene. We studied, described, and identified two well-preserved specimens using wood anatomical characteristics and completed extensive comparisons between fossil and extant material. The studied fossil woods share several diagnostic features with the modern Anacardium genus, including large solitary vessels, large intervessel-pitting, a simple vessel-ray pitting pattern, and mostly 1–3 seriate rays with large rhomboidal solitary crystals. We propose a new fossil species named Anacardium gassonii sp. nov., that adds an essential piece to the understanding of the historical biogeography of the genus. In addition, our findings confirm previous interpretations of this species’ migration from Europe to North America and its crossing through Panama, leading to subsequent diversification in South America. This discovery provides an important link to the historical migration patterns of the genus, supporting the notion of an Eocene migration to the Neotropics via Boreotropical bridges, as well as an Oligocene-Miocene crossing of Central America followed by diversification in South America.

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