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Magalhaes ILF, Martins PH, Faleiro BT, Vidigal THDA, Santos FR, Carvalho LS, Santos AJ. Complete phylogeny of Micrathena spiders suggests multiple dispersal events among Neotropical rainforests, islands and landmasses, and indicates that Andean orogeny promotes speciation. Cladistics 2024. [PMID: 38861251 DOI: 10.1111/cla.12593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2024] [Revised: 04/24/2024] [Accepted: 05/17/2024] [Indexed: 06/12/2024] Open
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The Neotropical region is the most diverse on the planet, largely owing to its mosaic of tropical rainforests. Multiple tectonic and climatic processes have been hypothesized to contribute to generating this diversity, including Andean orogeny, the closure of the Isthmus of Panama, the GAARlandia land bridge and historical connections among currently isolated forests. Micrathena spiders are diverse and widespread in the region, and thus a complete phylogeny of this genus allows the testing of hypotheses at multiple scales. We estimated a complete, dated phylogeny using morphological data for 117 Micrathena species and molecular data of up to five genes for a subset of 79 species. Employing eventc-based approaches and biogeographic stochastic mapping while considering phylogenetic uncertainty, we estimated ancestral distributions, the timing and direction of dispersal events and diversification rates among areas. The phylogeny is generally robust, with uncertainty in the position of some of the species lacking sequences. Micrathena started diversifying around 25 Ma. Andean cloud forests show the highest in-situ speciation, while the Amazon is the major dispersal source for adjacent areas. The Dry Diagonal generated few species and is a sink of diversity. Species exchange between Central and South America involved approximately 23 dispersal events and started ~20 Ma, which is consistent with a Miocene age for the Isthmus of Panama closure. We inferred four dispersal events from Central America to the Antilles in the last 20 Myr, indicating the spiders did not reach the islands through the GAARlandia land bridge. We identified important species exchange routes among the Amazon, Andean cloud forests and Atlantic forests during the Plio-Pleistocene. Sampling all species of the genus was fundamental to the conclusions above, especially in identifying the Andean forests as the area that generated the majority of species. This highlights the importance of complete taxonomic sampling in biogeographic studies.
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- Ivan L F Magalhaes
- Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia", Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, C1405DJR, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos 6627, 31270-901, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos 6627, 31270-901, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos 6627, 31270-901, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Ecologia e Evolução, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos 6627, 31270-901, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Piauí, Campus Amílcar Ferreira Sobral, BR 343, KM 3.5, Bairro Meladão, s/no. CEP 6, 64808-660, Floriano, Piauí, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos 6627, 31270-901, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Almeida-Silva D, Servino LM, Pontes-Nogueira M, Sawaya RJ. Marine introgressions and Andean uplift have driven diversification in neotropical Monkey tree frogs (Anura, Phyllomedusinae). PeerJ 2024; 12:e17232. [PMID: 38646479 PMCID: PMC11027904 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.17232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2023] [Accepted: 03/21/2024] [Indexed: 04/23/2024] Open
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The species richness in the Neotropics has been linked to environmental heterogeneity and a complex geological history. We evaluated which biogeographic processes were associated with the diversification of Monkey tree frogs, an endemic clade from the Neotropics. We tested two competing hypotheses: the diversification of Phyllomedusinae occurred either in a "south-north" or a "north-south" direction in the Neotropics. We also hypothesized that marine introgressions and Andean uplift had a crucial role in promoting their diversification. We used 13 molecular markers in a Bayesian analysis to infer phylogenetic relationships among 57 species of Phyllomedusinae and to estimate their divergence times. We estimated ancestral ranges based on 12 biogeographic units considering the landscape modifications of the Neotropical region. We found that the Phyllomedusinae hypothetical ancestor range was probably widespread throughout South America, from Western Amazon to Southern Atlantic Forest, at 29.5 Mya. The Phyllomedusines' ancestor must have initially diverged through vicariance, generally followed by jump-dispersals and sympatric speciation. Dispersal among areas occurred mostly from Western Amazonia towards Northern Andes and the South American diagonal of dry landscapes, a divergent pattern from both "south-north" and "north-south" diversification hypotheses. Our results revealed a complex diversification process of Monkey tree frogs, occurring simultaneously with the orogeny of Northern Andes and the South American marine introgressions in the last 30 million years.
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- Diego Almeida-Silva
- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Miguel Lillo, Unidad Ejecutora Lillo, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina
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- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Bocalini F, Bolívar-Leguizamón SD, Silveira LF, Bravo GA. Amazonian colonization from the Atlantic Forest: New perspectives on the connections of South American tropical forests. Mol Ecol 2023; 32:6874-6895. [PMID: 37902123 DOI: 10.1111/mec.17180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2022] [Revised: 10/12/2023] [Accepted: 10/16/2023] [Indexed: 10/31/2023]
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An open and dry vegetation belt separates Amazonia (AM) and the Atlantic Forest (AF). Evidence from palaeoclimatic and phylogenetic studies suggests past connections between these forests during cycles of increased humidity through the formation of forest corridors. The distinctive northern AF avifauna is known to have affinities both with AM and the southern AF. Still, the extent of how these two regions contributed to the assemblage of this avifauna remains poorly understood. Using historical demographic analyses and comparative phylogeography based on sub-genomic genetic sampling, we assessed how past connections between AM and AF led to shared vicariance and colonization events in four avian AF endemic taxa. Our results supported the occurrence of humid forest corridors promoting the contact between AF and AM populations and suggested two vicariant events and two colonization events from AF to AM. Population divergences were mostly non-synchronous and occurred multiple times during the Pleistocene. Historical gene flow was prevalent across study groups, supporting migration flows after the initial separation between AM and AF - a pattern previously unknown in birds between these regions. Idiosyncratic histories and divergent demographic syndromes suggest that organisms' responses to climate-driven habitat shifts broadly depend on their ecological attributes. This study strengthened our knowledge of past connections between AM and AF and provided demographic scenarios amenable for testing in other groups of co-distributed organisms.
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- Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Escola Superior de Agricultura 'Luiz de Queiroz' - ESALQ - Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil
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- Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology & Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Colecciones Ornitológicas, Centro de Colecciones y Gestión de Especies, Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Boyacá, Colombia
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OSORNO-MUÑOZ MARIELA, GUTIÉRREZ-LAMUS DORISL, LYNCH JOHN, KEEFFE RACHEL, CAICEDO-PORTILLA JOSÉRANCÉS, CHAN KINNOK, TONINI JOÃOFR, DE SÁ RAFAELO. Three new species of the Synapturanus rabus complex (Microhylidae: Otophryninae) in Colombia with a review of the genus Synapturanus. Zootaxa 2023; 5258:151-196. [PMID: 37044603 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5258.2.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2023] [Indexed: 03/29/2023]
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The Neotropical microhylid genus Synapturanus was represented by only three species for almost five decades and remains poorly known. Recently two new species were described from the Eastern Guyana Shield, one from Peru, and one from Brazil. We describe three new species related to the S. rabus species complex with known distribution only in western Amazonia, Colombia. The S. rabus complex consists of the smallest species in the genus; one of the new species is slightly larger than S. rabus and we describe its full osteology; the other two new species are smaller than S. rabus. We also described the call and larvae of one of the new species. We provide an updated diagnosis and review the available molecular and phenotypic data for the genus.
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Fouquet A, Réjaud A, Rodrigues MT, Ron SR, Chaparro JC, Osorno M, Werneck FP, Hrbek T, Lima AP, Camacho-Badani T, Jaramillo-Martinez AF, Chave J. Diversification of the Pristimantis conspicillatus group (Anura: Craugastoridae) within distinct neotropical areas throughout the Neogene. SYST BIODIVERS 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2022.2130464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- Antoine Fouquet
- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, Bâtiment 4R1, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse, 31077, France
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, Bâtiment 4R1, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse, 31077, France
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Biociências, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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- Museo de Biodiversidad del Perú, Urbanización Mariscal Gamarra A-61, Zona 2, Cusco, Peru
- Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Paraninfo Universitario (Plaza de Armas s/n), Cusco, Perú
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- Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas SINCHI, Sede enlace. Calle 20 # 5-44, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Avenida André Araújo 2936, Manaus, 69080-971, AM, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, 69080-900, AM, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Avenida André Araújo 2936, Manaus, 69080-971, AM, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Av. Ipiranga 6681, Prédio 40, sala 110, Porto Alegre, 90619-900, RS, Brazil
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, Bâtiment 4R1, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse, 31077, France
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Ortiz DA, Hoskin CJ, Werneck FP, Réjaud A, Manzi S, Ron SR, Fouquet A. Historical biogeography highlights the role of Miocene landscape changes on the diversification of a clade of Amazonian tree frogs. ORG DIVERS EVOL 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s13127-022-00588-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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AbstractThe diversification processes underlying why Amazonia hosts the most species-rich vertebrate fauna on earth remain poorly understood. We studied the spatio-temporal diversification of a tree frog clade distributed throughout Amazonia (Anura: Hylidae: Osteocephalus, Tepuihyla, and Dryaderces) and tested the hypothesis that Miocene mega wetlands located in western and central Amazonia impacted connectivity among major biogeographic areas during extensive periods. We assessed the group’s diversity through DNA-based (16S rRNA) species delimitation to identify Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) from 557 individuals. We then selected one terminal for each OTU (n = 50) and assembled a mitogenomic matrix (~14,100 bp; complete for 17 terminals) to reconstruct a Bayesian, time-calibrated phylogeny encompassing nearly all described species. Ancestral area reconstruction indicates that each genus was restricted to one of the major Amazonian biogeographic areas (western Amazonia, Guiana Shield and Brazilian Shield, respectively) between ~10 and 20 Mya, suggesting that they diverged and diversified in isolation during this period around the Pebas mega wetland. After 10 Mya and the transition to the modern configuration of the Amazon River watershed, most speciation within each genus continued to occur within each area. In Osteocephalus, only three species expanded widely across Amazonia (< 6 Mya), and all were pond-breeders. Species with other breeding modes remained mostly restricted to narrow ranges. The spectacular radiation of Osteocephalus was probably driven by climatic stability, habitat diversity and the acquisition of new reproductive modes along the Andean foothills and western Amazonia. Our findings add evidence to the importance of major hydrological changes during the Miocene on biotic diversification in Amazonia.
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Novaes-e-Fagundes G, Lyra ML, Loredam VSA, Carvalho TR, Haddad CFB, Rodrigues MT, Baldo D, Barrasso DA, Loebmann D, Ávila RW, Brusquetti F, Prudente ALC, Wheeler WC, Goyannes Dill Orrico V, Peloso P. A tale of two bellies: systematics of the oval frogs (Anura: Microhylidae: Elachistocleis Parker, 1927). Zool J Linn Soc 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Oval frogs (Elachistocleis) have a broad geographic distribution covering nearly all of South America and parts of Central America. They also have a large inter- and intraspecific variation of the few morphological characters commonly used as diagnostic traits among species of the genus. Based on molecular data, we provide the most complete phylogeny of Elachistocleis to date, and explore its genetic diversity using distance-based and tree-based methods for putative species delimitation. Our results show that at least two of the most relevant traditional characters used in the taxonomy of this group (belly pattern and dorsal median white line) carry less phylogenetic information than previously thought. Based on our results, we propose some synonymizations and some candidate new species. This study is a first major step in disentangling the current systematics of Elachistocleis. Yet, a comprehensive review of morphological data is needed before any new species descriptions can be properly made.
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- Gabriel Novaes-e-Fagundes
- Tropical Herpetology Laboratory, PPG Zoologia, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz , Ilhéus, Bahia , Brazil
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- Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP), Universidade Estadual Paulista , Rio Claro, São Paulo , Brazil
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- Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP), Universidade Estadual Paulista , Rio Claro, São Paulo , Brazil
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- Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP), Universidade Estadual Paulista , Rio Claro, São Paulo , Brazil
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- Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP), Universidade Estadual Paulista , Rio Claro, São Paulo , Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo , São Paulo , Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Genética Evolutiva, Instituto de Biología Subtropical `Claudio Juan Bidau’ (CONICET-UNaM), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Químicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Misiones , Posadas, Misiones , Argentina
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- Instituto de Diversidad y Evolución Austral (IDEAus-CONICET) , Puerto Madryn, Chubut , Argentina
- Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia `San Juan Bosco’ , Puerto Madryn, Chubut , Argentina
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- Laboratório de Vertebrados, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande , Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul , Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Núcleo Regional de Ofiologia da UFC, Universidade Federal do Ceará , Fortaleza, Ceará , Brazil
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- Instituto de Investigación Biológica del Paraguay , Del Escudo, Asunción , Paraguay
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi , Belém, Pará , Brazil
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- Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History , New York, NY , USA
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- Tropical Herpetology Laboratory, PPG Zoologia, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz , Ilhéus, Bahia , Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi , Belém, Pará , Brazil
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Jameson TJ, Streicher JW, Manuelli L, Head JJ, Smith EN. Miniaturization in Direct-Developing Frogs from Mexico with the Description of Six New Species. HERPETOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS 2022. [DOI: 10.1655/0733-1347-36.1.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Tom J.M. Jameson
- Department of Zoology and University Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
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- Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center, Department of Biology, The University of Texas at Arlington, 701 S. Nedderman Drive, Arlington, TX 76019, USA
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- Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW7 5BD, UK
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- Department of Zoology and University Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
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- Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center, Department of Biology, The University of Texas at Arlington, 701 S. Nedderman Drive, Arlington, TX 76019, USA
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Pereira EA, Ceron K, Silva HR, Santana DJ. The dispersal between Amazonia and Atlantic Forest during the Early Neogene revealed by the biogeography of the treefrog tribe Sphaenorhynchini (Anura, Hylidae). Ecol Evol 2022; 12:e8754. [PMID: 35386873 PMCID: PMC8975791 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2021] [Revised: 01/18/2022] [Accepted: 03/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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- Elvis Almeida Pereira
- Laboratório de Herpetologia Departamento de Biologia Animal Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Brazil
- Mapinguari ‐ Laboratório de Biogeografia e Sistemática de Anfíbios e Répteis Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul Campo Grande Brazil
- Laboratório de Genética e Biodiversidade Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará Santarém Brazil
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- Mapinguari ‐ Laboratório de Biogeografia e Sistemática de Anfíbios e Répteis Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul Campo Grande Brazil
- Departamento de Biologia Animal Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) São Paulo Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia Departamento de Biologia Animal Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Brazil
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- Mapinguari ‐ Laboratório de Biogeografia e Sistemática de Anfíbios e Répteis Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul Campo Grande Brazil
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Almeida-Gomes M, Gotelli NJ, Rocha CFD, Vieira MV, Prevedello JA. Random placement models explain species richness and dissimilarity of frog assemblages within Atlantic Forest fragments. J Anim Ecol 2022; 91:618-629. [PMID: 35007336 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2021] [Accepted: 12/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Understanding the effects of random versus niche-based processes on biodiversity patterns is a central theme in ecology, and an important tool for predicting effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on biodiversity. We investigated the predictive power of random processes to explain species richness and species dissimilarity of amphibian assemblages in a fragmented tropical landscape of the Atlantic Forest of South America. We analyzed a large database of amphibian abundance and occupancy, sampled in 21 forest fragments ranging in size from 1.9 to 619 ha. We compared observed species richness and species dissimilarity with the outcomes of two null (random placement) models: 1- the traditional Coleman's area-based model and 2- an abundance-based model (based on the number of individuals observed in each fragment). We applied these models for all species combined, and separately for forest-dependent and habitat-generalist species. The abundance-based model fitted the observed species richness data better than the area-based model for all species, forest-dependent species, and generalist species. The area-based and the abundance-based models were also able to significantly explain species dissimilarity for all species and for generalists, but not for forest dependent species. The traditional area-based model assigned too many individuals to large fragments, thus failing to accurately explain species richness within patches across the landscape. Although niche-based processes may be important to structuring the regional pool of species in fragmented landscapes, our results suggest that part of the variation in species richness and species dissimilarity can be successfully explained by random placement models, especially for generalist species. Evaluating which factors cause variation in the number of individuals among patches should be a focus in future studies aiming to understand biodiversity patterns in fragmented landscapes.
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- Mauricio Almeida-Gomes
- Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Vertebrados, Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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High species turnover shapes anuran community composition in ponds along an urban-rural gradient. Urban Ecosyst 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s11252-021-01174-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Schachat SR, Boyce CK, Payne JL, Lentink D. Lepidoptera demonstrate the relevance of Murray's Law to circulatory systems with tidal flow. BMC Biol 2021; 19:204. [PMID: 34526028 PMCID: PMC8444497 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-021-01130-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2020] [Accepted: 08/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Murray's Law, which describes the branching architecture of bifurcating tubes, predicts the morphology of vessels in many amniotes and plants. Here, we use insects to explore the universality of Murray's Law and to evaluate its predictive power for the wing venation of Lepidoptera, one of the most diverse insect orders. Lepidoptera are particularly relevant to the universality of Murray's Law because their wing veins have tidal, or oscillatory, flow of air and hemolymph. We examined over one thousand wings representing 667 species of Lepidoptera. RESULTS We found that veins with a diameter above approximately 50 microns conform to Murray's Law, with veins below 50 microns in diameter becoming less and less likely to conform to Murray's Law as they narrow. The minute veins that are most likely to deviate from Murray's Law are also the most likely to have atrophied, which prevents efficient fluid transport regardless of branching architecture. However, the veins of many taxa continue to branch distally to the areas where they atrophied, and these too conform to Murray's Law at larger diameters (e.g., Sesiidae). CONCLUSIONS This finding suggests that conformity to Murray's Law in larger taxa may reflect requirements for structural support as much as fluid transport, or may indicate that selective pressures for fluid transport are stronger during the pupal stage-during wing development prior to vein atrophy-than the adult stage. Our results increase the taxonomic scope of Murray's Law and provide greater clarity about the relevance of body size.
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- Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
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- Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
- Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Orrico VGD, Grant T, Faivovich J, Rivera-Correa M, Rada MA, Lyra ML, Cassini CS, Valdujo PH, Schargel WE, Machado DJ, Wheeler WC, Barrio-Amorós C, Loebmann D, Moravec J, Zina J, Solé M, Sturaro MJ, Peloso PLV, Suarez P, Haddad CFB. The phylogeny of Dendropsophini (Anura: Hylidae: Hylinae). Cladistics 2021; 37:73-105. [PMID: 34478175 DOI: 10.1111/cla.12429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The relationships of the hyline tribe Dendropsophini remain poorly studied, with most published analyses dealing with few of the species groups of Dendropsophus. In order to test the monophyly of Dendropsophini, its genera, and the species groups currently recognized in Dendropsophus, we performed a total evidence phylogenetic analysis. The molecular dataset included sequences of three mitochondrial and five nuclear genes from 210 terminals, including 12 outgroup species, the two species of Xenohyla, and 93 of the 108 recognized species of Dendropsophus. The phenomic dataset includes 46 terminals, one per species (34 Dendropsophus, one Xenohyla, and 11 outgroup species). Our results corroborate the monophyly of Dendropsophini and the reciprocal monophyly of Dendropsophus and Xenohyla. Some species groups of Dendropsophus are paraphyletic (the D. microcephalus, D. minimus, and D. parviceps groups, and the D. rubicundulus clade). On the basis of our results, we recognize nine species groups; for three of them (D. leucophyllatus, D. microcephalus, and D. parviceps groups) we recognize some nominal clades to highlight specific morphology or relationships and facilitate species taxonomy. We further discuss the evolution of oviposition site selection, where our results show multiple instances of independent evolution of terrestrial egg clutches during the evolutionary history of Dendropsophus.
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- Victor G D Orrico
- Tropical Herpetology Laboratory, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Rodovia Jorge Amado, km 16, Ilhéus, CEP 45662-900, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Anfíbios, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, CEP 05508-090, Brazil
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- División Herpetología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia"-CONICET, Angel Gallardo 470, Buenos Aires, C1405DJR, Argentina.,Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Grupo Herpetológico de Antioquia, Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
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- Laboratório de Anfíbios, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, CEP 05508-090, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biodiversidade and Centro de Aquicultura, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Av. 24A 1515, Rio Claro, CEP 13506-900, Brazil
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- Tropical Herpetology Laboratory, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Rodovia Jorge Amado, km 16, Ilhéus, CEP 45662-900, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Paisagem - Superintendência de Conservação, WWF-Brasil, Entre Quadra SHIS EQL 6/8 Conjunto E, Setor de Habitações Individuais Sul, Brasília, CEP 71620-430, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, 76019, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC, 28223, USA
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- Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West, New York, NY, 10024, USA
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- Laboratório de Vertebrados, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Av. Itália, km 8, Rio Grande, CEP 96.203-900, Brazil
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- Department of Zoology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, 193 00 Prague 9, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, Av. José Moreira Sobrinho, Jequié, CEP 45205-490, Brazil
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- Tropical Herpetology Laboratory, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Rodovia Jorge Amado, km 16, Ilhéus, CEP 45662-900, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Av. Professor Artur Riedel, 275, Jardim Eldorado, Diadema, CEP 09972-270, Brazil.,Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Avenida Perimetral 1901, Terra Firme, Belém, CEP 66017-970, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, R. Augusto Corrêa, 1, Guamá, Belém, 66075-110, Brazil
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- Instituto de Biología Subtropical (IBS), CONICET-UNaM, Bertoni 85, Puerto Iguazú, (3370), Argentina
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- Departamento de Biodiversidade and Centro de Aquicultura, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Av. 24A 1515, Rio Claro, CEP 13506-900, Brazil
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Machado AF, Ritter CD, Miranda CL, Bredin YK, Ramos Pereira MJ, Duarte L. Potential mammalian species for investigating the past connections between Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0250016. [PMID: 33836018 PMCID: PMC8034742 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2020] [Accepted: 03/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Much evidence suggests that Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest were connected through at least three dispersion routes in the past: the Eastern route, the central route, and the Western route. However, few studies have assessed the use of these routes based on multiple species. Here we present a compilation of mammal species that potentially have dispersed between the two forest regions and which may serve to investigate these connections. We evaluate the present-day geographic distributions of mammals occurring in both Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest and the likely connective routes between these forests. We classified the species per habitat occupancy (strict forest specialists, species that prefer forest habitat, or generalists) and compiled the genetic data available for each species. We found 127 mammalian species presently occurring in both Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest for which, substantial genetic data was available. Hence, highlighting their potential for phylogeographic studies investigating the past connections between the two forests. Differently from what was previously proposed, the present-day geographic distribution of mammal species found in both Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest points to more species in the eastern portion of the dry diagonal (and adjoining forested habitats). The Central route was associated with the second most species. Although it remains to be seen how this present-day geography reflects the paleo dispersal routes, our results show the potential of using mammal species to investigate and bring new insights about the past connections between Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest.
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- Arielli Fabrício Machado
- Phylogenetic and Functional Ecology Lab (LEFF), Post-Graduation Programme in Ecology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Laboratório de Evolução e Genética Animal (LEGAL), Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Eukaryotic Microbiology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
- Grupo Integrado de Aquicultura e Estudos Ambientais, Departamento de Zootecnia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
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- Post-Graduation Program in Zoology, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém, Pará, Brazil
- Laboratório de Evolução e Genética Animal (LEGAL), Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Bird and Mammal Evolution, Systematics and Ecology Lab (BiMa-Lab), Post-Graduation Programme in Animal Biology and Post-Graduation Programme in Ecology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Phylogenetic and Functional Ecology Lab (LEFF), Post-Graduation Programme in Ecology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Fouquet A, Marinho P, Réjaud A, Carvalho TR, Caminer MA, Jansen M, Rainha RN, Rodrigues MT, Werneck FP, Lima AP, Hrbek T, Giaretta AA, Venegas PJ, Chávez G, Ron S. Systematics and biogeography of the Boana albopunctata species group (Anura, Hylidae), with the description of two new species from Amazonia. SYST BIODIVERS 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2021.1873869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- Antoine Fouquet
- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, Bâtiment 4R1 31062 cedex 9, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse, 31077, France
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- Laboratório de Anuros Neotropicais, Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Naturais do Pontal, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Ituiutaba, MG, Brazil
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, Bâtiment 4R1 31062 cedex 9, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse, 31077, France
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura, I.B., Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
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- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
- Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Research Institute and Nature Museum Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Anuros Neotropicais, Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Naturais do Pontal, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Ituiutaba, MG, Brazil
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- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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Gorin VA, Scherz MD, Korost DV, Poyarkov NA. Consequences of parallel miniaturisation in Microhylinae (Anura, Microhylidae), with the description of a new genus of diminutive South East Asian frogs. ZOOSYST EVOL 2021. [DOI: 10.3897/zse.97.57968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The genus Microhyla Tschudi, 1838 includes 52 species and is one of the most diverse genera of the family Microhylidae, being the most species-rich taxon of the Asian subfamily Microhylinae. The recent, rapid description of numerous new species of Microhyla with complex phylogenetic relationships has made the taxonomy of the group especially challenging. Several recent phylogenetic studies suggested paraphyly of Microhyla with respect to Glyphoglossus Günther, 1869, and revealed three major phylogenetic lineages of mid-Eocene origin within this assemblage. However, comprehensive works assessing morphological variation among and within these lineages are absent. In the present study we investigate the generic taxonomy of Microhyla–Glyphoglossus assemblage based on a new phylogeny including 57 species, comparative morphological analysis of skeletons from cleared-and-stained specimens for 23 species, and detailed descriptions of generalized osteology based on volume-rendered micro-CT scans for five species–altogether representing all major lineages within the group. The results confirm three highly divergent and well-supported clades that correspond with external and osteological morphological characteristics, as well as respective geographic distribution. Accordingly, acknowledging ancient divergence between these lineages and their significant morphological differentiation, we propose to consider these three lineages as distinct genera: Microhylasensu stricto, Glyphoglossus, and a newly described genus, Nanohylagen. nov.
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Nascimento FACD, Vilela B, Matias Dubeux MJ, Galdino JYA, de Araújo-Neto JV, Leal F, de Sá R. Reproductive biology and sexual dimorphism of the poorly known frog Chiasmocleis alagoana (Microhylidae, Gastrophryninae), with an updated diagnosis for the species. STUDIES ON NEOTROPICAL FAUNA AND ENVIRONMENT 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/01650521.2020.1815942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- Filipe Augusto Cavalcanti do Nascimento
- Setor de Herpetologia, Museu de História Natural, Universidade Federal De Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil
- Laboratório de Biologia Integrativa, Setor de Biodiversidade, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil
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- Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Biologia Integrativa, Setor de Biodiversidade, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação Em Biologia Animal, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA
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The advertisement and release call of the Bahia forest frog Macrogenioglottus alipioi (Anura: Odontophrynidae) with comments on its morphometry, from southern Bahia, northeastern Brazil. Biologia (Bratisl) 2020. [DOI: 10.2478/s11756-020-00488-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Carvalho TRD, Moraes LJCL, Lima AP, Fouquet A, Peloso PLV, Pavan D, Drummond LO, Rodrigues MT, Giaretta AA, Gordo M, Neckel-Oliveira S, Haddad CFB. Systematics and historical biogeography of Neotropical foam-nesting frogs of the Adenomera heyeri clade (Leptodactylidae), with the description of six new Amazonian species. Zool J Linn Soc 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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A large proportion of the biodiversity of Amazonia, one of the most diverse rainforest areas in the world, is yet to be formally described. One such case is the Neotropical frog genus Adenomera. We here evaluate the species richness and historical biogeography of the Adenomera heyeri clade by integrating molecular phylogenetic and species delimitation analyses with morphological and acoustic data. Our results uncovered ten new candidate species with interfluve-associated distributions across Amazonia. In this study, six of these are formally named and described. The new species partly correspond to previously identified candidate lineages ‘sp. F’ and ‘sp. G’ and also to previously unreported lineages. Because of their rarity and unequal sampling effort of the A. heyeri clade across Amazonia, conservation assessments for the six newly described species are still premature. Regarding the biogeography of the A. heyeri clade, our data support a northern Amazonian origin with two independent dispersals into the South American Dry Diagonal. Although riverine barriers have a relevant role as environmental filters by isolating lineages in interfluves, dispersal rather than vicariance must have played a central role in the diversification of this frog clade.
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- Thiago R D Carvalho
- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Biodiversidade, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of the Pacific (UOP), Stockton, CA, USA
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB), CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém, PA, Brazil
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- Ecosfera Consultoria e Pesquisa em Meio Ambiente, Ltda., São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ciências Ambientais, Centro de Biociências e Biotecnologia, Universidade Estadual Norte Fluminense (UENF), Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Taxonomia e Sistemática de Anuros Neotropicais, Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Naturais do Pontal, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU), Ituiutaba, MG, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Biologia da Conservação and Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Biodiversidade, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
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Pirani RM, Peloso PLV, Prado JR, Polo ÉM, Knowles LL, Ron SR, Rodrigues MT, Sturaro MJ, Werneck FP. Diversification history of clown tree frogs in Neotropical rainforests (Anura, Hylidae, Dendropsophus leucophyllatus group). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2020; 150:106877. [PMID: 32512194 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2019] [Revised: 05/29/2020] [Accepted: 06/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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General consensus emphasizes that no single biological process can explain the patterns of species' distributions and diversification in the Neotropics. Instead, the interplay of several processes across space and time must be taken into account. Here we investigated the phylogenetic relationships and biogeographic history of tree frogs in the Dendropsophus leucophyllatus species group (Amphibia: Hylidae), which is distributed across Amazonia and the Atlantic rainforests. Using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and double digest restriction-site associated DNA (ddRADseq), we inferred phylogenetic relationships, species limits, and temporal and geographic patterns of diversification relative to the history of these biomes. Our results indicate that the D. leucophyllatus species group includes at least 14 independent lineages, which are currently arranged into ten described species. Therefore, a significant portion of species in the group are still unnamed. Different processes were associated to the group diversification history. For instance, the Andes uplift likely caused allopatric speciation for Cis-Andean species, whereas it may also be responsible for changes in the Amazonian landscape triggering parapatric speciation by local adaptation to ecological factors. Meanwhile, Atlantic Forest ancestors unable to cross the dry diagonal biomes after rainforest's retraction, evolved in isolation into different species. Diversification in the group began in the early Miocene, when connections between Atlantic Forest and the Andes (Pacific Dominion) by way of a south corridor were possible. The historical scenario in Amazonia, characterized by several speciation events and habitat heterogeneity, helped promoting diversification, resulting in the highest species diversity for the group. This marked species diversification did not happen in Atlantic Forest, where speciation is very recent (late Pliocene and Pleistocene), despite its remarkable climatic heterogeneity.
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- Renata M Pirani
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética, Conservação e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. Ephigênio Sales 2239, 69060-000, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Rua Augusto Corrêa, 01, Guamá, 66075-110, Belém, Pará, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. General Rodrigo Octávio, 6200, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 41809-1079, USA
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- Museo de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, CEP 05508-090 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Av. Professor Artur Riedel, 275, Jardim Eldorado, Diadema, CEP 09972-270 São Paulo, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética, Conservação e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. Ephigênio Sales 2239, 69060-000, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil; Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Programa de Coleções Científicas Biológicas, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo 2936, CEP 69067-375 Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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Ledo RMD, Domingos FMCB, Giugliano LG, Sites JW, Werneck FP, Colli GR. Pleistocene expansion and connectivity of mesic forests inside the South American Dry Diagonal supported by the phylogeography of a small lizard*. Evolution 2020; 74:1988-2004. [DOI: 10.1111/evo.13978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2019] [Revised: 04/05/2020] [Accepted: 04/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Roger Maia D. Ledo
- Área de Meio Ambiente Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Brasília Campus Samambaia Samambaia DF 70860 Brazil
- Departamento de Zoologia Universidade de Brasília Brasília DF 70910 Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética e Morfologia Universidade de Brasília Brasília DF 70910‐900 Brazil
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- Department of Biology and Bean Life Sciences Museum Brigham Young University Provo Utah 84602 USA
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- Programa de Coleções Científicas Biológicas, Coordenação de Biodiversidade Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Manaus AM 69060 Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia Universidade de Brasília Brasília DF 70910 Brazil
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Streicher JW, Loader SP, Varela-Jaramillo A, Montoya P, de Sá RO. Analysis of ultraconserved elements supports African origins of narrow-mouthed frogs. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2020; 146:106771. [PMID: 32087330 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2019] [Revised: 01/31/2020] [Accepted: 02/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Narrow-mouthed frogs (Anura: Microhylidae) are globally distributed and molecular data suggest the rapid evolution of multiple subfamilies shortly after their origin. Despite recent progress, several subfamilial relationships remain unexplored using phylogenomic data. We analysed 1,796 nuclear ultraconserved elements, a total matrix of 400,664 nucleotides, from representatives of most microhylid subfamilies. Summary method species-tree and maximum likelihood analyses unambiguously supported Hoplophryninae as the earliest diverging microhylid and confirm Chaperininae as a junior synonym of Microhylinae. Given the emerging consensus that subfamilies from mainland Africa diverged early, microhylids have likely occupied the continent for more than 66 million years.
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- Jeffrey W Streicher
- Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
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- Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Life Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom; Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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- Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Bogotá, Colombia
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Silva LAD, Carvalho PS, Pereira EA, Fadel RM, Dantas SP, Brandão RA, Santana DJ. Richness, diversity patterns, and taxonomic notes of amphibians from the Tocantins state. BIOTA NEOTROPICA 2020. [DOI: 10.1590/1676-0611-bn-2019-0838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Abstract: Herein, we provide the first comprehensive amphibian checklist for the State of Tocantins, North of Brazil, based on field sampling, literature data, and specimens deposited in zoological collections. We performed field surveys from 2012 to 2019 in 12 Tocantins municipalities, totaling 376 days of sampling effort. We analyzed 25 papers from the literature and examined 1311 specimens from collections and collected 750 during field surveys. We recorded 90 amphibian species distributed in 12 anurans and two caecilians families. At least seven undescribed species along the state were recorded. We also present new records for 20 species for the state, nine of them corresponding to Amazonian species, four Cerrado endemic, one Caatinga species, and the widely distributed treefrog Boana crepitans; the others five new records comprise undescribed species. Our data also suggest that the Tocantins amphibian composition is not geographically structured in relation to the biomes, since Amazonian, Caatinga, and Cerrado amphibian lineages have their distribution nearly completely overlapped in the state. We propose that this absence of spatial structuration may be a result of two factors (synergetic or not). First, the events of expansion and retraction of the biomes caused by the Quaternary climatic cycles, which may have mixed the populations of species from different biomes causing the notable pattern of overlapped distribution observed here. Second, the forest environments (e.g. gallery and riparian forests) associated to the Araguaia-Tocantins River basins may have acted as historical dispersal corridors for the Amazonian amphibian lineages into the Cerrado of the Tocantins. Despite the sampling effort of the present study, we stress that gaps of information still remain and further field sampling efforts should be performed along the state. Lastly, taxonomic appraisals involving the species with problematic taxonomic status recorded here should be based on multiples lines of evidences (acoustic, molecular, and morphological data), which will render a more accurate view on the Tocantins amphibian diversity. Such data are extremely necessary under the current high rate of habitat loss across the state, since they can be used to guide public policies of conservation.
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Scherz MD, Hutter CR, Rakotoarison A, Riemann JC, Rödel MO, Ndriantsoa SH, Glos J, Hyde Roberts S, Crottini A, Vences M, Glaw F. Morphological and ecological convergence at the lower size limit for vertebrates highlighted by five new miniaturised microhylid frog species from three different Madagascan genera. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0213314. [PMID: 30917162 PMCID: PMC6436692 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2018] [Accepted: 02/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Miniaturised frogs form a fascinating but poorly understood amphibian ecomorph and have been exceptionally prone to taxonomic underestimation. The subfamily Cophylinae (family Microhylidae), endemic to Madagascar, has a particularly large diversity of miniaturised species which have historically been attributed to the single genus Stumpffia largely based on their small size. Recent phylogenetic work has revealed that several independent lineages of cophyline microhylids evolved towards highly miniaturised body sizes, achieving adult snout-vent lengths under 16 mm. Here, we describe five new species belonging to three clades that independently miniaturised and that are all genetically highly divergent from their relatives: (i) a new genus (Mini gen. nov.) with three new species from southern Madagascar, (ii) one species of Rhombophryne, and (iii) one species of Anodonthyla. Mini mum sp. nov. from Manombo in eastern Madagascar is one of the smallest frogs in the world, reaching an adult body size of 9.7 mm in males and 11.3 mm in females. Mini scule sp. nov. from Sainte Luce in southeastern Madagascar is slightly larger and has maxillary teeth. Mini ature sp. nov. from Andohahela in southeast Madagascar is larger than its congeners but is similar in build. Rhombophryne proportionalis sp. nov. from Tsaratanana in northern Madagascar is unique among Madagascar's miniaturised frogs in being a proportional dwarf, exhibiting far less advanced signs of paedomorphism than other species of similar size. Anodonthyla eximia sp. nov. from Ranomafana in eastern Madagascar is distinctly smaller than any of its congeners and is secondarily terrestrial, providing evidence that miniaturisation and terrestriality may be evolutionarily linked. The evolution of body size in Madagascar's microhylids has been more dynamic than previously understood, and future studies will hopefully shed light on the interplay between ecology and evolution of these remarkably diverse frogs.
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- Mark D. Scherz
- Sektion Herpetologie, Zoologische Staatssammlung München (ZSM-SNSB), München, Germany
- Division of Evolutionary Biology, Zoologisches Institut, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
- Systematische Zoologie, Department Biologie II, Biozentrum, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Biodiversity Institute and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States of America
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- Division of Evolutionary Biology, Zoologisches Institut, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
- Mention Zoologie et Biodiversité Animale, Université d’Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar
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- Museum für Naturkunde–Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany
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- Mention Zoologie et Biodiversité Animale, Université d’Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar
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- Institute of Zoology, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- SEED Madagascar, London, United Kingdom
- Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- CIBIO, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, InBIO, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal
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- Division of Evolutionary Biology, Zoologisches Institut, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Sektion Herpetologie, Zoologische Staatssammlung München (ZSM-SNSB), München, Germany
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de Sá RO, Tonini JFR, Huss H, Long A, Cuddy T, Forlani MC, Peloso PLV, Zaher H, Haddad CFB. Corrigendum to: "Multiple connections between Amazonia and Atlantic Forest shaped the phylogenetic and morphological diversity of Chiasmocleis Mehely, 1904 (Anura: Microhylidae: Gastrophryninae)" [Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 130, January 2019, Pages 198-210]. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2019; 132:321. [PMID: 30686403 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.01.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- Rafael O de Sá
- Department of Biology, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, USA.
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- Department of Biology, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, USA; Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, 2029 G St NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA; Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology & Museum of Comparative Zoology, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, USA; Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Avenida Nazaré 481, 04263-000 Ipiranga, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Coordenação de Zoologia, Avenida Perimetral, 1901, Terra Firme, CEP 66077-530 Belém, Pará, Brazil
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- Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Avenida Nazaré 481, 04263-000 Ipiranga, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia e Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP), Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Caixa Postal 199, 13506-900 Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil
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