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Luna N, Herrera G, Muñoz M, Sánchez-Herrera M, Brown A, Khazan E, Pardo-Diaz C, Ramírez JD, Salazar C. Geography shapes the microbial community in Heliconius butterflies. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2023; 99:7080137. [PMID: 36931898 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiad028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2022] [Revised: 03/13/2023] [Accepted: 03/16/2023] [Indexed: 03/19/2023] Open
Abstract
Heliconius butterflies are an ideal organism for studying ecology, behavior, adaptation, and speciation. These butterflies can be found in various locations and habitats in Central and South America, where they encounter and interact with different sources of pollen, nectar, and host plants. However, there is limited knowledge on how geographic and habitat variations affect the microbiota of these insects, and whether microbial associates play a role in their ability to exploit different habitats. To date, research on the microbial communities associated with Heliconius has mainly focused on host phylogenetic signal in microbiomes or microbiome characterization in specific communities of butterflies. In this study we characterized the microbiomes of several species and populations of Heliconius from distant locations that represent contrasting environments. We found that the microbiota of different Heliconius species is taxonomically similar but vary in abundance. Notably, this variation is associated with a major geographic barrier-the Central Cordillera of Colombia. Additionally, we confirmed that this microbiota is not associated with pollen-feeding. Therefore, it seems likely that geography shapes the abundance of microbiota that the butterfly carries, but not the taxonomic diversity of the microbial community. Based on the current evidence, the bacterial microbiota associated with Heliconius does not appear to play a beneficial role for these butterflies.
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- Nicolás Luna
- Centro de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Biotecnología - UR (CIMBIUR), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Centro de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Biotecnología - UR (CIMBIUR), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Centro de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Biotecnología - UR (CIMBIUR), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA.,School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Centro de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Biotecnología - UR (CIMBIUR), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
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Amaya-Vallejo V, Bota-Sierra C, Novelo-Gutiérrez R, Sánchez-Herrera M. Two new species of Archaeopodagrion (Odonata, Philogeniidae) from the western foothills of the Tropical Andes, with biological observations and distributional records. Zookeys 2021; 1036:21-38. [PMID: 34017212 PMCID: PMC8116320 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1036.64230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2021] [Accepted: 03/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Two new species of the damselfly genus Archaeopodagrion, A. recurvatum sp. nov. and A. mayi sp. nov., are described from the confluence of the Tropical Andes and the Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena biodiversity hotspots. Adults differ from the other known species in the shape of female posterior lobe of pronotum and male structures of cerci and paraprocts; the larva differs from other Archaeopodagrion species in the caudal lamellae structure and in the mandibular formula. The two new species are diagnosed, a morphological key to all known males and females in the genus is provided, and geographical distributions are updated. Finally, observations on habitat preferences for each newly described species are provided.
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- Vanessa Amaya-Vallejo
- Laboratorio de Zoología y Ecología Acuática, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá DC, Colombia Universidad de los Andes Bogotá Colombia.,Grupo de investigación en Genética Evolutiva, Filogeografía y Ecología de Biodiversidad Neotropical, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá DC, Colombia Universidad del Rosario Bogotá Colombia
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- Red de Biodiversidad y Sistemática, Instituto de Ecología AC, Xalapa, Veracruz, México Red de Biodiversidad y Sistemática, Instituto de Ecología AC Xalapa Mexico.,Grupo de Entomología, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia Universidad de Antioquia Medellín Colombia
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- Red de Biodiversidad y Sistemática, Instituto de Ecología AC, Xalapa, Veracruz, México Red de Biodiversidad y Sistemática, Instituto de Ecología AC Xalapa Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Zoología y Ecología Acuática, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá DC, Colombia Universidad de los Andes Bogotá Colombia.,Grupo de investigación en Genética Evolutiva, Filogeografía y Ecología de Biodiversidad Neotropical, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá DC, Colombia Universidad del Rosario Bogotá Colombia
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Sánchez-Herrera M, Beatty CD, Nunes R, Salazar C, Ware JL. An exploration of the complex biogeographical history of the Neotropical banner-wing damselflies (Odonata: Polythoridae). BMC Evol Biol 2020; 20:74. [PMID: 32580705 PMCID: PMC7315476 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-020-01638-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2019] [Accepted: 06/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The New World Tropics has experienced a dynamic landscape across evolutionary history and harbors a high diversity of flora and fauna. While there are some studies addressing diversification in Neotropical vertebrates and plants, there is still a lack of knowledge in arthropods. Here we examine temporal and spatial diversification patterns in the damselfly family Polythoridae, which comprises seven genera with a total of 58 species distributed across much of Central and South America. RESULTS Our time-calibrated phylogeny for 48 species suggests that this family radiated during the late Eocene (~ 33 Ma), diversifying during the Miocene. As with other neotropical groups, the Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA) of most of the Polythoridae genera has a primary origin in the Northern Andes though the MRCA of at least one genus may have appeared in the Amazon Basin. Our molecular clock suggests correlations with some major geographical events, and our biogeographical modeling (with BioGeoBEARS and RASP) found a significant influence of the formation of the Pebas and Acre systems on the early diversification of these damselflies, though evidence for the influence of the rise of the different Andean ranges was mixed. Diversification rates have been uniform in all genera except one-Polythore-where a significant increase in the late Pliocene (~ 3 mya) may have been influenced by recent Andean uplift. CONCLUSION The biogeographical models implemented here suggest that the Pebas and Acre Systems were significant geological events associated with the diversification of this damselfly family; while diversification in the tree shows some correlation with mountain building events, it is possible that other abiotic and biotic changes during our study period have influenced diversification as well. The high diversification rate observed in Polythore could be explained by the late uplift of the Northern Andes. However, it is possible that other intrinsic factors like sexual and natural selection acting on color patterns could be involved in the diversification of this genus.
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- Melissa Sánchez-Herrera
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, DC, Colombia. .,Federated Department of Biological Sciences. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA.
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Federated Department of Biological Sciences. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA.,Departament of Biology, The City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, DC, Colombia
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- Federated Department of Biological Sciences. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA.,American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA
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Caicedo-Garzón V, Salgado-Roa FC, Sánchez-Herrera M, Hernández C, Arias-Giraldo LM, García L, Vallejo G, Cantillo O, Tovar C, Aristeu da Rosa J, Carrasco HJ, Segovia M, Salazar C, Ramírez JD. Genetic diversification of Panstrongylus geniculatus (Reduviidae: Triatominae) in northern South America. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0223963. [PMID: 31622439 PMCID: PMC6797096 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2019] [Accepted: 09/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Triatomines are the vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas disease. Although Triatoma and Rhodnius are the most-studied vector genera, other triatomines, such as Panstrongylus, also transmit T. cruzi, creating new epidemiological scenarios. Panstrongylus has at least 13 reported species but there is limited information about its intraspecific genetic variation and patterns of diversification. Here, we begin to fill this gap by studying populations of P. geniculatus from Colombia and Venezuela and including other epidemiologically important species from the region. We examined the pattern of diversification of P. geniculatus in Colombia using mitochondrial and nuclear ribosomal data. Genetic diversity and differentiation were calculated within and among populations of P. geniculatus. Moreover, we constructed maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference phylogenies and haplotype networks using P. geniculatus and other species from the genus (P. megistus, P. lignarius, P. lutzi, P. tupynambai, P. chinai, P. rufotuberculatus and P. howardi). Using a coalescence framework, we also dated the P. geniculatus lineages. The total evidence tree showed that P. geniculatus is a monophyletic species, with four clades that are concordant with its geographic distribution and are partly explained by the Andes orogeny. However, other factors, including anthropogenic and eco-epidemiological effects must be investigated to explain the existence of recent geographic P. geniculatus lineages. The epidemiological dynamics in structured vector populations, such as those found here, warrant further investigation. Extending our knowledge of P. geniculatus is necessary for the accurate development of effective strategies for the control of Chagas disease vectors.
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- Valentina Caicedo-Garzón
- Grupo de Investigaciones Microbiológicas-UR (GIMUR), Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas, Universidad del Rosario, Cra. Bogotá D.C., Colombia.,Grupo de Genética Evolutiva, Filogeografía y Ecología de la Biodiversidad Neotropical (GEUR), Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
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- Grupo de Genética Evolutiva, Filogeografía y Ecología de la Biodiversidad Neotropical (GEUR), Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
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- Grupo de Genética Evolutiva, Filogeografía y Ecología de la Biodiversidad Neotropical (GEUR), Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
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- Grupo de Investigaciones Microbiológicas-UR (GIMUR), Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas, Universidad del Rosario, Cra. Bogotá D.C., Colombia
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- Grupo de Investigaciones Microbiológicas-UR (GIMUR), Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas, Universidad del Rosario, Cra. Bogotá D.C., Colombia
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- Universidad Nacional de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia
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- Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Parasitología Tropical (LIPT), Universidad del Tolima, Ibagué, Colombia
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- Laboratorio de Referencia e Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales, Dirección de Sanidad Ejército, Ejército Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Grupo de investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales y Resistencia Bacteriana, Programa de Medicina, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad del Sinú, Montería, Colombia
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- Laboratório de Parasitologia, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (UNESP), Araraquara, SP, Brasil
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- Laboratorio de Biología Molecular de Protozoarios, Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Laboratorio de Biología Molecular de Protozoarios, Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Grupo de Genética Evolutiva, Filogeografía y Ecología de la Biodiversidad Neotropical (GEUR), Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
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- Grupo de Investigaciones Microbiológicas-UR (GIMUR), Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas, Universidad del Rosario, Cra. Bogotá D.C., Colombia
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