Title
Speciation with introgression: Phylogeography and systematics of the Ameerega petersi group (Dendrobatidae)
Date Issued
01 September 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Academic Press Inc.
Abstract
The Tropical Andes contains exceptionally high diversity, much of it arising within the Quaternary period. The complex geology of the Andes and paleoclimate fluctuations within the Quaternary suggest complex speciation scenarios. This, in turn, has contributed to idiosyncratic speciation modes among shallowly diverged Amazonian taxa. Many relationships among these taxa remain poorly resolved. Here we use a sequence capture approach, ultraconserved elements (UCEs), to address the phylogenetic relationships among three recently diverged Peruvian Ameerega poison frog species (A. cainarachi, A. petersi, and A. smaragdina; family Dendrobatidae)and explore a possible mode of speciation in this group. We assess concordance among concatenated phylogenetic tree inference, gene-tree based species tree inference, SNP-based species tree inference, and Bayes factor lineage delimitation to resolve species boundaries. We complement these analyses with assessments of call divergence to address the presence of a prezygotic reproductive barrier. Additionally, we further explore the phylogeographic history of these species of Ameerega with demographic inference, considering evidence for admixture and population expansions. Our results support the synonymy of A. smaragdina as a junior synonym of A. petersi and we find that speciation in this group is characterized by admixture and signatures of a population bottleneck followed by expansion. We invoke the disturbance-vicariance hypothesis to explain the observed patterns and call for more, detailed investigations of in-situ speciation in the Tropical Andes.
Start page
31
End page
42
Volume
138
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Crías y mascotas
Ciencia veterinaria
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85067957744
PubMed ID
Source
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
ISSN of the container
10557903
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