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Twomey E, Melo-Sampaio P, Schulte LM, Bossuyt F, Brown JL, Castroviejo-Fisher S. Multiple Routes to Color Convergence in a Radiation of Neotropical Poison Frogs. Syst Biol 2023; 72:1247-1261. [PMID: 37561391 PMCID: PMC10924724 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syad051] [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] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2022] [Revised: 08/03/2023] [Accepted: 08/09/2023] [Indexed: 08/11/2023] Open
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Convergent evolution is defined as the independent evolution of similar phenotypes in different lineages. Its existence underscores the importance of external selection pressures in evolutionary history, revealing how functionally similar adaptations can evolve in response to persistent ecological challenges through a diversity of evolutionary routes. However, many examples of convergence, particularly among closely related species, involve parallel changes in the same genes or developmental pathways, raising the possibility that homology at deeper mechanistic levels is an important facilitator of phenotypic convergence. Using the genus Ranitomeya, a young, color-diverse radiation of Neotropical poison frogs, we set out to 1) provide a phylogenetic framework for this group, 2) leverage this framework to determine if color phenotypes are convergent, and 3) to characterize the underlying coloration mechanisms to test whether color convergence occurred through the same or different physical mechanisms. We generated a phylogeny for Ranitomeya using ultraconserved elements and investigated the physical mechanisms underlying bright coloration, focusing on skin pigments. Using phylogenetic comparative methods, we identified several instances of color convergence, involving several gains and losses of carotenoid and pterin pigments. We also found a compelling example of nonparallel convergence, where, in one lineage, red coloration evolved through the red pterin pigment drosopterin, and in another lineage through red ketocarotenoids. Additionally, in another lineage, "reddish" coloration evolved predominantly through structural color mechanisms. Our study demonstrates that, even within a radiation of closely related species, convergent evolution can occur through both parallel and nonparallel mechanisms, challenging the assumption that similar phenotypes among close relatives evolve through the same mechanisms.
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- Evan Twomey
- Department of Wildlife/Zoo Animal Biology and Systematics, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 13, Frankfurt am Main 60438, Germany
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- Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, R. Gen. Herculano Gomes 41, Rio de Janeiro 20941-360, Brazil
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- Department of Wildlife/Zoo Animal Biology and Systematics, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 13, Frankfurt am Main 60438, Germany
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- Amphibian Evolution Laboratory, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, Brussels 1050, Belgium
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- School of Biological Sciences, Southern Illinois University, 125 Lincoln Dr., Carbondale, IL 62901, USA
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Echevarría LY, De la Riva I, Venegas PJ, Rojas-Runjaic FJM, R Dias I, Castroviejo-Fisher S. Total evidence and sensitivity phylogenetic analyses of egg-brooding frogs (Anura: Hemiphractidae). Cladistics 2021; 37:375-401. [PMID: 34478194 DOI: 10.1111/cla.12447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/10/2020] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
Abstract
We study the phylogenetic relationships of egg-brooding frogs, a group of 118 neotropical species, unique among anurans by having embryos with large bell-shaped gills and females carrying their eggs on the dorsum, exposed or inside a pouch. We assembled a total evidence dataset of published and newly generated data containing 51 phenotypic characters and DNA sequences of 20 loci for 143 hemiphractids and 127 outgroup terminals. We performed six analytical strategies combining different optimality criteria (parsimony and maximum likelihood), alignment methods (tree- and similarity-alignment), and three different indel coding schemes (fifth character state, unknown nucleotide, and presence/absence characters matrix). Furthermore, we analyzed a subset of the total evidence dataset to evaluate the impact of phenotypic characters on hemiphractid phylogenetic relationships. Our main results include: (i) monophyly of Hemiphractidae and its six genera for all our analyses, novel relationships among hemiphractid genera, and non-monophyly of Hemiphractinae according to our preferred phylogenetic hypothesis; (ii) non-monophyly of current supraspecific taxonomies of Gastrotheca, an updated taxonomy is provided; (iii) previous differences among studies were mainly caused by differences in analytical factors, not by differences in character/taxon sampling; (iv) optimality criteria, alignment method, and indel coding caused differences among optimal topologies, in that order of degree; (v) in most cases, parsimony analyses are more sensitive to the addition of phenotypic data than maximum likelihood analyses; (vi) adding phenotypic data resulted in an increase of shared clades for most analyses.
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- Lourdes Y Echevarría
- Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Av. Ipiranga 6681, Porto Alegre, RS, 90619-900, Brazil.,División de Herpetología-Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI), Urb. Huertos de San Antonio, Santa Rita No. 105 Of. 202, Surco, Lima, Perú
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- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC, C/José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, Madrid, 28006, Spain
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- División de Herpetología-Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI), Urb. Huertos de San Antonio, Santa Rita No. 105 Of. 202, Surco, Lima, Perú
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- Graduate Program in Zoology, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Rodovia Jorge Amado, km 16, Ilhéus, Bahia, 45662-900, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Av. Ipiranga 6681, Porto Alegre, RS, 90619-900, Brazil.,Department of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, 10024, USA
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Gagliardi-Urrutia G, Castroviejo-Fisher S, Rojas-Runjaic FJM, Jaramillo AF, Sols S, Simes PI. A new species of nurse-frog (Aromobatidae, Allobates) from the Amazonian forest of Loreto, Peru. Zootaxa 2021; 5026:375-404. [PMID: 34810925 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5026.3.3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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We describe a new species of nurse-frog (Aromobatidae, Allobates) from the Amazonian forest of Loreto, Peru using morphological, acoustic and genetic data. Our phylogenetic analysis placed Allobates sieggreenae sp. nov. as the sister species of A. trilineatus, the most similar-looking species and with which it was previously confused. However, the new species has a brown dorsum, solid dark brown lateral dark stripe not fading towards groin, adult males with few and sparse melanophores over a cream background on chin, chest, and belly, dark transverse bars absent on thighs, and an advertisement call formed by a trill of single notes (in A. trilineatus dorsum dark brown, blackish brown lateral dark stripe, paler from mid-body to groin, adult males with a dark background color on chin, chest, and belly due to a dense layer of melanophores, dark transverse bar present on dorsal surface of thighs, and trills of paired notes). Allobates sieggreenae is known from two localities of Amazonian white-sand forest ecosystems east of the Ucayali River.
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- Giussepe Gagliardi-Urrutia
- Laboratrio de Sistemtica de Vertebrados, Pontifcia Universidade Catlica do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Ipiranga 6681, Prdio 40, sala 110, 90619-900, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Peruvian Center for Biodiversity and Conservation - PCBC. Nanay 373, Iquitos, Peru. Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana, Facultad de Ciencias Biolgicas, Departamento Acadmico de Ecologa y Fauna. Local SL11, Almendras, va Huayruro, Zungarococha, Loreto, Peru. Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonia Peruana, Direccin de Investigacin en Diversidad Biolgica Terrestre Amaznica, Av. Abelardo Quionez km 2.5, San Juan, Loreto, Peru..
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- Laboratrio de Sistemtica de Vertebrados, Pontifcia Universidade Catlica do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Ipiranga 6681, Prdio 40, sala 110, 90619-900, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Department of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West 79th St., New York, NY 10024, USA. .
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- Museo de Historia Natural La Salle (MHNLS), Fundacin La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Caracas 1050, Venezuela. .
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- Laboratrio de Sistemtica de Vertebrados, Pontifcia Universidade Catlica do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Ipiranga 6681, Prdio 40, sala 110, 90619-900, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. .
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- Peruvian Center for Biodiversity and Conservation - PCBC. Nanay 373, Iquitos, Peru. .
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Professor Moraes Rego, S/N, Cidade Universitria, 50760-420, Recife, PE, Brazil. .
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Escalona MS, Marca ELA, Castellanos M, Fouquet A, Crawford AJ, Rojas-Runjaic FJM, Giaretta AA, Señaris JC, Castroviejo-Fisher S. Integrative taxonomy reveals a new but common Neotropical treefrog, hidden under the name Boana xerophylla. Zootaxa 2021; 4981:401448. [PMID: 34186712 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.3.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Boana xerophylla is a common treefrog widely distributed in northern Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. A recent study found molecular, acoustic, and morphometric differences between the populations located on opposite sides of the Orinoco River. Here, we carry out an updated molecular phylogenetic analysis, including new samples from all the countries along the distribution area, and analyzed additional call recordings from Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Our phylogenetic inference reveals three geographically restricted lineages: one in the eastern Guiana Shield (corresponding to B. xerophylla sensu stricto), another in the western Guiana Shield, and a third one north of the Orinoco River. Morphological and acoustic data agree with the differentiation between the populations north of the Orinoco River and the eastern Guiana Shield despite the low genetic p-distances observed (16S rRNA: 0.72.2 %). We argue that the populations north of the Orinoco River correspond to a new species, sister of B. xerophylla. We name and describe Boana platanera sp. nov. from the southern versant of the Cordillera de Mérida (08º48'26'' N, 70º30'46'' W, WGS 84; 947 m asl), Venezuela, and refer all the populations north of the Orinoco River currently identified as B. xerophylla to this species. The new species can be readily diagnosed from B. xerophylla (characters of the latter in parentheses) by a pale orange-yellow or light brown dorsal coloration (dark brown to green), palpebral membrane with dark pigments (pigments absent); pericloacal region dark brown (cream), advertisement call with shorter first note length than B. xerophylla. This study represents an empirical example regarding false negatives behind genetic thresholds for species discovery, appraising the use of integrative taxonomic approaches.
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- Mois S Escalona
- Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, 90619-900, Brasil..
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- Laboratorio de Biogeografía, Escuela de Geografía, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Ambientales, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, 5101, Venezuela. Rescue of Endangered Venezuelan Amphibians (REVA) Conservation Center, Mérida, 5101, Venezuela..
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- Rescue of Endangered Venezuelan Amphibians (REVA) Conservation Center, Mérida, 5101, Venezuela..
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB), UMR 5174, Toulouse, France..
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, 111711, Colombia..
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- Museo de Historia Natural La Salle (MHNLS), Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Caracas 1050, Venezuela..
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- Laboratório de Anuros Neotropicais, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, ICEMP, Ciências Biológicas, Ituiutaba, Brasil..
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- Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, 90619-900, Brasil..
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- Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, 90619-900, Brasil..
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Rivera-Correa M, Baldo D, Candioti FV, Orrico VGD, Blackburn DC, Castroviejo-Fisher S, Chan KO, Gambale P, Gower DJ, Quah ESH, Rowley JJL, Twomey E, Vences M. Amphibians in Zootaxa: 20 years documenting the global diversity of frogs, salamanders, and caecilians. Zootaxa 2021; 4979:5769. [PMID: 34187014 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4979.1.9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Zootaxa is a mega-journal that since its inception, 20 years ago, has contributed to the documentation of the planet's biodiversity. Its role concerning terrestrial vertebrates has been crucial especially for amphibians, which are the most threatened class of vertebrates. As current editors of the Amphibia section, we reviewed the state of knowledge of taxonomic publications on amphibians over the last two decades (from 2001 to 2020). Our review reveals that 2,533 frogs, 259 salamanders, and 55 caecilians have been named in these 20 years, mainly in the tropical regions of South America, Asia, and Africa. More than half (57%) of these species descriptions were published in only 10 journals. At least 827 species of the new amphibians (29% of the total) were described in Zootaxa. This mega-journal has served also as a place of publication for monographs and systematic reviews, in addition to short articles documenting the vocalizations of anurans and the morphology of embryos and larvae. Its efficient evaluation process, the freedom of manuscript length, including full-color figures, and free of cost for the authors, has made Zootaxa a favorite for amphibian researchers. In an era of accelerating rates of biodiversity loss, documenting, describing, naming, and proposing evolutionary scenarios for species is, more than ever, an urgent task.
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- Mauricio Rivera-Correa
- Grupo Herpetológico de Antioquia - GHA and Semillero de Investigación en Biodiversidad - BIO, Universidad de Antioquia, Antioquia, Colombia.
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- Laboratorio de Genética Evolutiva, Instituto de Biología Subtropical (CONICET-UNaM), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Químicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Posadas, Misiones, Argentina.
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- Unidad Ejecutora Lillo, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas - Fundación Miguel Lillo, 4000 San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia Tropical, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Rodovia Jorge Amado Km 16 45662-900 Ilhéus, Bahia, Brasil.
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, 1659 Museum Road, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, USA.
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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, 90619-900, Porto Alegre, Brasil.
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- Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore, 2 Conservatory Drive, 117377 Singapore.
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Laboratório de Herpetologia e Comportamento Animal, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Avenida Esperança, s/n Campus Samambaia, 74690-900, Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil.
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- Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK.
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- Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore, 2 Conservatory Drive, 117377 Singapore.
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- Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney, New South Wales, 2010, Australia Centre for Ecosystem Science; School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES), University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia.
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- Faculty of Biological Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue Str. 13, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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- Zoological Institute, Braunschweig University of Technology, Mendelssohnstr. 4, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany.
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Jaramillo AF, Gagliardi-Urrutia G, Simões PI, Castroviejo-Fisher S. Redescription and phylogenetics of emAllobates/em emtrilineatus/em (Boulenger 1884 "1883") (Anura: Aromobatidae) based on topotypic specimens. Zootaxa 2021; 4951:zootaxa.4951.2.1. [PMID: 33903400 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.2.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 04/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Allobates trilineatus is the second most geographically widespread species in the genus Allobates, its range extending from northern Ecuador to southern Peru along the Andean foothills of Amazonia and to the east, into Acre, Brazil. However, detailed phenotypic and genetic variation from topotypic specimens is lacking, raising doubts about the identification of specimens in the literature. To solve this problem, we collected 16 topotypic specimens-including male and female adults and juveniles-and associated data such as advertisement calls and tissue samples. Based upon this material, we redescribe the phenotypic variation within A. trilineatus and evaluate its phylogenetic position using a fragment of the mitochondrial gene 16S rDNA. Allobates trilineatus is distinguished from its congeners by its small body size (adult snout-to-vent-length = 14.6-16.6 mm), preserved males with dark gray throat, and gray chest and belly, pale dorsolateral stripe straight and conspicuous, and advertisement call formed by the emission of groups of note-pairs with dominant frequency at 5.06-5.81 kHz. Our phylogenetic results indicate that none of the specimens assigned to this species in previous phylogenetic studies cluster within the clade formed by topotypic samples, except for the sample of one tadpole. Furthermore, our comparison of published phenotypic and genetic data assigned to A. trilineatus with our new data led us to conclude that A. trilineatus as previously recognized was actually a complex of cryptic, closely related species. Although with the data at hand we cannot fully resolve the taxonomy of all sampled populations in previous studies, we provide a new definition and delimitation of A. trilineatus sensu stricto, assign other specimens to different evolutionary units corresponding to candidate species, and flag other important taxonomic issues.
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- Andrés F Jaramillo
- Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Av. Ipiranga 6681, Prédio 40, sala 110, 90619-900, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil..
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Pereyra MO, Blotto BL, Baldo D, Chaparro JC, Ron SR, Elias-Costa AJ, Iglesias PP, Venegas PJ, C. Thomé MT, Ospina-Sarria JJ, Maciel NM, Rada M, Kolenc F, Borteiro C, Rivera-Correa M, Rojas-Runjaic FJ, Moravec J, De La Riva I, Wheeler WC, Castroviejo-Fisher S, Grant T, Haddad CF, Faivovich J. Evolution in the Genus Rhinella: A Total Evidence Phylogenetic Analysis of Neotropical True Toads (Anura: Bufonidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2021. [DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.447.1.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Martín O. Pereyra
- Martín O. Pereyra: División Herpetología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”–CONICET, Buenos Aires; and Laboratorio de Genética Evolutiva “Claudio J. Bidau,” Instituto de Biología Subtropical (IBS, CONICET), Universidad Naci
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- Boris L. Blotto: División Herpetología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”–CONICET, Buenos Aires; Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura (CAUN
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- Diego Baldo: Laboratorio de Genética Evolutiva “Claudio J. Bidau,” Instituto de Biología Subtropical (IBS, CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Misiones (UNaM), Posadas, Misiones, Argentina
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- Juan C. Chaparro: Museo de Biodiversidad del Perú, Cusco, Perú; and Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Paraninfo Universitario, Cusco
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- Santiago R. Ron: Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito
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- Agustín J. Elias-Costa: División Herpetología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”–CONICET, Buenos Aires
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- Patricia P. Iglesias: Laboratorio de Genética Evolutiva “Claudio J. Bidau”, Instituto de Biología Subtropical (IBS, CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Misiones (UNaM), Posadas, Misiones, Argentina
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- Pablo J. Venegas: División de Herpetología-Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI), Surco, Lima
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- Maria Tereza C. Thomé: Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP), Rio Claro, São Paulo
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- Jhon Jairo Ospina-Sarria: Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and Calima, Fundación para la Investigación de la Biodiversidad y Conservación en el Trópico, Cali
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- Natan M. Maciel: Laboratório de Herpetologia e Comportamento Animal, Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil
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- Marco Rada: Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo
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- Francisco Kolenc: Sección Herpetología, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Montevideo
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- Claudio Borteiro: Sección Herpetología, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Montevideo
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- Mauricio Rivera-Correa: Grupo Herpetológico de Antioquia, Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín
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- Fernando J.M. Rojas-Runjaic: Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural La Salle (MHNLS), Venezuela; and Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Jiří Moravec: Department of Zoology, National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Ignacio de la Riva: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), Madrid
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- Ward C. Wheeler: Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York
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- Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; and Research Associate, Herpetology, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York
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- Taran Grant: Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo; and Research Associate, Herpetology, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York
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- Célio F.B. Haddad: Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP), Rio Claro, São Paulo
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- Julián Faivovich: División Herpetología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”–CONICET, Buenos Aires; Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires,
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Rojas-Runjaic FJM, Barrio-Amorós CL, Señaris JC, DE LA Riva I, Castroviejo-Fisher S. Discovery of an additional piece of the large gymnophthalmid puzzle: a new genus and species of stream spiny lizard (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae: Cercosaurinae) from the western Guiana Shield in Venezuela. Zootaxa 2021; 4950:zootaxa.4950.2.4. [PMID: 33903439 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4950.2.4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 03/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Gymnophthalmids are a highly diverse group of Neotropical lizards and its species richness is still in process of discovery. The incorporation of molecular evidence and a noticeable increase in taxon and geographic sampling in systematic studies has led to the description of numerous new genera and species of gymnophthalmids (particularly in Cercosaurinae) in recent years. Herein we describe a new genus and species of cercosaurine lizard with crocodile-like morphology, from the Venezuelan Guiana Shield on the basis of molecular phylogenetic and morphological evidence. Kataphraktosaurus gen. nov. can be readily distinguished from all other genera of Cercosaurinae by a unique combination of morphological characters that includes heterogeneous dorsal scalation with enlarged and strongly keeled scales forming two paravertebral rows, ventral and subcaudal scales imbricated and strongly keeled, large and symmetrical cephalic scales, absence of postmental scale, palpebral disc translucent and divided, tail slightly compressed, all digits clawed, and only six femoral pores (three at each hindlimb) inserted in a clump of small scales. This genus is described as monotypic and only contains Kataphraktosaurus ungerhamiltoni sp. nov., which is known from one specimen and diagnosed by the same set of aforementioned characters. The secretive habits of this species and the remoteness of the locality may explain its singleton situation. Following the International Union for Conservation of Nature's criteria, we categorized the new species as Data Deficient.
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- Fernando J M Rojas-Runjaic
- Museo de Historia Natural La Salle, Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Caracas 1050, Distrito Capital, Venezuela.
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Fouquet A, Leblanc K, Framit M, Réjaud A, Rodrigues MT, Castroviejo-Fisher S, Peloso PLV, Prates I, Manzi S, Suescun U, Baroni S, Moraes LJCL, Recoder R, de Souza SM, Dal Vecchio F, Camacho A, Ghellere JM, Rojas-Runjaic FJM, Gagliardi-Urrutia G, de Carvalho VT, Gordo M, Menin M, Kok PJR, Hrbek T, Werneck FP, Crawford AJ, Ron SR, Mueses-Cisneros JJ, Rojas Zamora RR, Pavan D, Ivo Simões P, Ernst R, Fabre AC. Species diversity and biogeography of an ancient frog clade from the Guiana Shield (Anura: Microhylidae: Adelastes, Otophryne, Synapturanus) exhibiting spectacular phenotypic diversification. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The outstanding biodiversity of the Guiana Shield has raised many questions about its origins and evolution. Frogs of the genera Adelastes, Otophryne and Synapturanus form an ancient lineage distributed mostly across this region. These genera display strikingly disparate morphologies and life-history traits. Notably, Synapturanus is conspicuously adapted to fossoriality and is the only genus within this group to have dispersed further into Amazonia. Moreover, morphological differences among Synapturanus species suggest different degrees of fossoriality that might be linked to their biogeographical history. Through integrative analysis of genetic, morphometric and acoustic data, we delimited 25 species in this clade, representing a fourfold increase. We found that the entire clade started to diversify ~55 Mya and Synapturanus ~30 Mya. Members of this genus probably dispersed three times out of the Guiana Shield both before and after the Pebas system, a wetland ecosystem occupying most of Western Amazonia during the Miocene. Using a three-dimensional osteological dataset, we characterized a high morphological disparity across the three genera. Within Synapturanus, we further characterized distinct phenotypes that emerged concomitantly with dispersals during the Miocene and possibly represent adaptations to different habitats, such as soils with different physical properties.
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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, France
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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, France
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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, France
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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, France
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- Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados/Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução da Biodiversidade, Escola de Ciências da Saúde e da Vida, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, R. Augusto Corrêa, 1, Guamá, Belém, Pará, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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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, France
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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, France
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- Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Avenida André Araújo 2936, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados/Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução da Biodiversidade, Escola de Ciências da Saúde e da Vida, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados/Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução da Biodiversidade, Escola de Ciências da Saúde e da Vida, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
- Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural La Salle, Sección de Herpetología, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados/Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução da Biodiversidade, Escola de Ciências da Saúde e da Vida, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
- Peruvian Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (PCB&C), Iquitos, Peru
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Diversidade Biológica e Recursos Naturais, Universidade Regional do Cariri, Rua Cel. Antônio Luiz, 1161, 63.105-000, Crato CE, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, 12/16 Banacha Str., Łódź, Poland
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- Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Avenida André Araújo 2936, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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- Corporación para el Desarrollo Sostenible del Sur de la Amazonia-CORPOAMAZONIA, Mocoa, Putumayo, Colombia
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- Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Ecosfera Consultoria e Pesquisa em Meio Ambiente LTDA. Rodovia BR-259 s/n, Fazenda Bela Vista, Itapina, ES, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Professor Moraes Rego, S/N, Cidade Universitária, 50760-420, Recife, PE, Brazil
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- Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- The Natural History Museum, London, UK
- Palaeontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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de Carvalho TR, Simões PI, Gagliardi-Urrutia G, Rojas-Runjaic FJM, Haddad CFB, Castroviejo-Fisher S. A New Forest-Dwelling Frog Species of the Genus Adenomera (Leptodactylidae) from Northwestern Brazilian Amazonia. COPEIA 2020. [DOI: 10.1643/ch-19-329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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- Thiago R. de Carvalho
- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil; (TRC) ; and (CFBH) haddad1000@gmail
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- Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; (GGU) ; (FJMRR) ; and (SCF) castroviejo.fisher
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- Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; (GGU) ; (FJMRR) ; and (SCF) castroviejo.fisher
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- Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; (GGU) ; (FJMRR) ; and (SCF) castroviejo.fisher
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil; (TRC) ; and (CFBH) haddad1000@gmail
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- Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; (GGU) ; (FJMRR) ; and (SCF) castroviejo.fisher
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Costa-Campos CE, Pinheiro RT, Castroviejo-Fisher S. Amphibia, Anura, Centrolenidae, Cochranella resplendens (Lynch & Duellman, 1973): first record from Brazil and updated map of the geographic distribution. CheckList 2020. [DOI: 10.15560/16.4.847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Specimens of the glassfrog Cochranella resplendens (Lynch & Duellman, 1973) are known from 13 localities from Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Herein, we report the first Brazilian record, which extends the known distribution of the species 2,129 km to the east of the nearest record in Santa Rosa de Sucumbíos Río Rumiyacu, Valle del Guamués, Putumayo, Colombia.
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Twomey E, Johnson JD, Castroviejo-Fisher S, Van Bocxlaer I. A ketocarotenoid-based colour polymorphism in the Sira poison frog Ranitomeya sirensis indicates novel gene interactions underlying aposematic signal variation. Mol Ecol 2020; 29:2004-2015. [PMID: 32402099 DOI: 10.1111/mec.15466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [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: 02/07/2020] [Revised: 04/30/2020] [Accepted: 05/04/2020] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The accumulation of red ketocarotenoids is an important component of coloration in many organisms, but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. In some organisms, ketocarotenoids are sequestered from the diet and can accumulate when enzymes responsible for carotenoid breakdown are disrupted. In other organisms, ketocarotenoids are formed endogenously from dietary precursors via oxidation reactions carried out by carotenoid ketolase enzymes. Here, we study the genetic basis of carotenoid coloration in an amphibian. We demonstrate that a red/yellow polymorphism in the dendrobatid poison frog Ranitomeya sirensis is due to the presence/absence of ketocarotenoids. Using whole-transcriptome sequencing of skins and livers, we found that a transcript encoding a cytochrome P450 enzyme (CYP3A80) is expressed 3.4-fold higher in livers of red frogs versus yellow. As CYP3A enzymes are known carotenoid ketolases in other organisms, our results point to CYP3A80 as a strong candidate for a carotenoid ketolase in amphibians. Furthermore, in red frogs, the transcript encoding the carotenoid cleavage enzyme BCO2 is expressed at a low level or as a splice variant lacking key catalytic amino acids. This suggests that BCO2 function may be disrupted in red frogs, providing a mechanism whereby the accumulation of ketocarotenoids and their dietary precursors may be enhanced.
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- Evan Twomey
- Laboratorio de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.,Amphibian Evolution Laboratory, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Laboratorio de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.,Department of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA
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- Amphibian Evolution Laboratory, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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Jaramillo AF, De La Riva I, Guayasamin JM, Chaparro JC, Gagliardi-Urrutia G, Gutiérrez RC, Brcko I, Vilà C, Castroviejo-Fisher S. Vastly underestimated species richness of Amazonian salamanders (Plethodontidae: Bolitoglossa) and implications about plethodontid diversification. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2020; 149:106841. [PMID: 32305511 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [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: 10/07/2019] [Revised: 04/10/2020] [Accepted: 04/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We present data showing that the number of salamander species in Amazonia is vastly underestimated. We used DNA sequences of up to five genes (3 mitochondrial and 2 nuclear) of 366 specimens, 189 corresponding to 89 non-Amazonian nominal species and 177 Amazonian specimens, including types or topotypes, of eight of the nine recognized species in the region. By including representatives of all known species of Amazonian Bolitoglossa, except for one, and 73% of the currently 132 recognized species of the genus, our dataset represents the broadest sample of Bolitoglossa species, specimens, and geographic localities studied to date. We performed phylogenetic analyses using parsimony with tree-alignment and maximum likelihood (ML) with similarity alignment, with indels as binary characters. Our optimal topologies were used to delimit lineages that we assigned to nominal species and candidate new species following criteria that maximize the consilience of the current species taxonomy, monophyly, gaps in branch lengths, genetic distances, and geographic distribution. We contrasted the results of our species-delimitation protocol with those of Automated Barcode Gap Discovery (ABGD) and multi-rate Poisson Tree Processes (mPTP). Finally, we inferred the historical biogeography of South American salamanders by dating the trees and using dispersal-vicariance analysis (DIVA). Our results revealed a clade including almost all Amazonian salamanders, with a topology incompatible with just the currently recognized nine species. Following our species-delimitation criteria, we identified 44 putative species in Amazonia. Both ABGD and mPTP inferred more species than currently recognized, but their numbers (23-49) and limits vary. Our biogeographic analysis suggested a stepping-stone colonization of the Amazonian lowlands from Central America through the Chocó and the Andes, with several late dispersals from Amazonia back into the Andes. These biogeographic events are temporally concordant with an early land bridge between Central and South America (~10-15 MYA) and major landscape changes in Amazonia during the late Miocene and Pliocene, such as the drainage of the Pebas system, the establishment of the Amazon River, and the major orogeny of the northern Andes.
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- Andrés F Jaramillo
- Pos-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução da Biodiversidade, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil; Laboratorio de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil.
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- Laboratorio de Biología Evolutiva, Instituto BIOSFERA-USFQ, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales COCIBA, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Ecuador; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Biology, USA
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- Museo de Biodiversidad del Perú (MUBI), Peru; Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Peru
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- Pos-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução da Biodiversidade, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil; Laboratorio de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil; Peruvian Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (PCB&C), Peru; Dirección de Investigación en Diversidad Biológica Terrestre Amazónica, Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana (IIAP), Peru
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- Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa (MUSA), Peru
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- Laboratório de Biologia Molecular, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Brazil
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Spain
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- Pos-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução da Biodiversidade, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil; Laboratorio de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil; Department of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History, USA
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Twomey E, Kain M, Claeys M, Summers K, Castroviejo-Fisher S, Van Bocxlaer I. Mechanisms for Color Convergence in a Mimetic Radiation of Poison Frogs. Am Nat 2020; 195:E132-E149. [PMID: 32364784 DOI: 10.1086/708157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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In animals, bright colors often evolve to mimic other species when a resemblance is selectively favored. Understanding the proximate mechanisms underlying such color mimicry can give insights into how mimicry evolves-for example, whether color convergence evolves from a shared set of mechanisms or through the evolution of novel color production mechanisms. We studied color production mechanisms in poison frogs (Dendrobatidae), focusing on the mimicry complex of Ranitomeya imitator. Using reflectance spectrometry, skin pigment analysis, electron microscopy, and color modeling, we found that the bright colors of these frogs, both within and outside the mimicry complex, are largely structural and produced by iridophores but that color production depends crucially on interactions with pigments. Color variation and mimicry are regulated predominantly by iridophore platelet thickness and, to a lesser extent, concentration of the red pteridine pigment drosopterin. Compared with each of the four morphs of model species that it resembles, R. imitator displays greater variation in both structural and pigmentary mechanisms, which may have facilitated phenotypic divergence in this species. Analyses of nonmimetic dendrobatids in other genera demonstrate that these mechanisms are widespread within the family and that poison frogs share a complex physiological "color palette" that can produce diverse and highly reflective colors.
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De Souza CC, Rivera-Correa M, Padial JM, Castroviejo-Fisher S. The advertisement call of the treefrog Nyctimantis rugiceps Boulenger, 1882 (Anura: Hylidae), with notes on its natural history and toxicity. Zootaxa 2018; 4532:441-443. [PMID: 30647359 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4532.3.8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [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: 12/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Nyctimantis rugiceps Boulenger, 1882 (Fig. 1A) is a Neotropical treefrog (Duellman Trueb 1976; Faivovich et al. 2005) known only from disjunct localities in Amazonian Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru (Pérez-Villota et al. 2009). This species has the skin of the skull co-ossified and reproduces-including calling behavior, egg deposition and tadpole development-in water-filled tree or bamboo cavities (Duellman Trueb 1976; Duellman 1978). Given its secretive behavior, this is a poorly known species and, as noted by Duellman (1978: 169), "the major clue to the life history of Nyctimantis is the calling behavior of the males". Unfortunately, the only quantitative description of the advertisement call of N. rugiceps is a brief passage in Duellman (1978) based on four specimens from Santa Cecilia, Ecuador, where important variables are missing (e.g., call duration). More importantly, graphs illustrating the waveform and spectrogram are missing. Considering these limitations and the importance of advertisement calls to the study of anurans (Köhler et al. 2017), we provide a quantitative description using a call recording obtained in Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia.
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- Camila Camargo De Souza
- PUCRS (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul), Av. Ipiranga 6681, 90619-900, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil..
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SimÕes PI, Costa JCL, Rojas-Runjaic FJM, Gagliardi-Urrutia G, Sturaro MJ, Peloso PLV, Castroviejo-Fisher S. A new species of Phyzelaphryne Heyer, 1977 (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae) from the Japurá River basin, with a discussion of the diversity and distribution of the genus. Zootaxa 2018; 4532:203-230. [PMID: 30647363 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4532.2.2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 12/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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We describe and name the second species of Phyzelaphryne (Brachycephaloidea, Eleutherodactylidae), from northwestern Brazilian Amazonia. Phyzelaphryne nimio sp. nov. is distinguished from its only congener, Phyzelaphryne miriamae, by its smaller body size and the anatomy of the carpal and metacarpal regions, with relatively larger (sometimes fused) supernumerary carpal and metacarpal tubercles. Molecular phylogenetic analyses based on fragments of the mitochondrial genes 16S rRNA and COI suggest that the currently known distribution of the species is restricted to its type locality and other areas within Estação Ecológica Juami-Japurá, state of Amazonas, Brazil. Based on molecular, morphological and bioacoustic evidence, we assigned other specimens recently collected in Parque Nacional do Jaú, state of Amazonas, Brazil, to P. miriamae, extending the species' known geographic distribution north of the Amazon River.
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- Pedro Ivo SimÕes
- Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados / Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Escola de Ciências, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Ipiranga 6681, Prédio 40, sala 110, 90619-900, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil..
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Escalona Sulbarán MD, Ivo Simões P, Gonzalez-Voyer A, Castroviejo-Fisher S. Neotropical frogs and mating songs: The evolution of advertisement calls in glassfrogs. J Evol Biol 2018; 32:163-176. [PMID: 30481406 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [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: 09/07/2018] [Revised: 11/19/2018] [Accepted: 11/20/2018] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Anurans emit advertisement calls with the purpose of attracting mates and repelling conspecific competitors. The evolution of call traits is expected to be associated with the evolution of anatomical and behavioural traits due to the physics of call emission and transmission. The evolution of vocalizations might imply trade-offs with other energetically costly behaviours, such as parental care. Here, we investigated the association between body size, calling site, parental care and call properties (call duration, number of notes, peak frequency, frequency bandwidth and call structure) of the advertisement calls of glassfrogs (Centrolenidae)-a family of Neotropical, leaf-dwelling anurans-using phylogenetic comparative methods. We also explored the tempo and mode of evolution of these traits and compared them with those of three morphological traits associated with body size, locomotion and feeding. We generated and compiled acoustic data for 72 glassfrog species (46% of total species richness), including representatives of all genera. We found that almost all acoustic traits have significant, but generally modest, phylogenetic signal. Peak frequency of calls is significantly associated with body size, whereas call structure is significantly associated with calling site and paternal care. Thus, the evolution of body size, calling site and paternal care could constrain call evolution. The estimated disparity of acoustic traits was larger than that of morphological traits and the peak in disparity of acoustic traits generally occurred later in the evolution of glassfrogs, indicating a historically recent outset of the acoustic divergence in this clade.
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- Moisés D Escalona Sulbarán
- Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ecología, Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México
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- Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.,Department of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, New York
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Sánchez-Vialas A, Calvo-Revuelta M, Castroviejo-Fisher S, De la Riva I. The taxonomic status of Petropedetes newtonii (Amphibia, Anura, Petropedetidae). Zookeys 2018:59-78. [PMID: 29904270 PMCID: PMC5999683 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.765.24764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2018] [Accepted: 04/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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The taxon Petropedetesnewtonii was described in 1895 by Bocage, from Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea). This taxon, whose holotype is lost, has been misidentified since Boulenger’s revision of the genus in 1900 and its relationships with other taxa (P.vulpiae and P.johnstoni) is confusing. Currently, P.newtonii is considered a synonym of P.johnstoni. In this work, by revising morphological characters of non-webbed Petropedetes of Bioko, we demonstrate the morphological singularity of these specimens with respect to P.johnstoni and P.vulpiae and their association with the name Petropedetesnewtonii. Consequently, we provide the subsequent designation of a neotype of P.newtonii and revalidate this species from its synonym with P.johnstoni.
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SimÕes PI, Gagliardi-Urrutia G, Rojas-Runjaic FJM, Castroviejo-Fisher S. A new species of nurse-frog (Aromobatidae, Allobates) from the Juami River basin, northwestern Brazilian Amazonia. Zootaxa 2018; 4387:109-133. [PMID: 29690488 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4387.1.5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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: 02/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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We describe a new species of nurse-frog (Aromobatidae, Allobates) from northwestern Brazilian Amazon. Allobates juami sp. nov. is distinguished from similar congeneric species by the combination of the following characters: body-size range (snout-to-vent length 17.5-18.5 mm), lack of dark pigments on ventral surfaces of male specimens, dorsal color pattern (predominantly solid dark brown, but conspicuously light brown over snout and urostyle regions), presence of conspicuous pale dorsolateral and ventrolateral stripes, and presence of a diffuse pale paracloacal mark. The advertisement call of the new species lasts 2.5-5.1 s, contains 60-73 short notes (trills), and is emitted at an average rate of 13 notes per second within trills. Duration of silent intervals between notes ranges between 0.020-0.050 s, and the peak frequency of notes ranges from 4.59 to 5.47 kHz. The new species is currently known only from the type locality at Estação Ecológica Juami-Japurá (1.96455° S, 67.93579° W; ~ 87 m a.s.l.).
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- Pedro Ivo SimÕes
- Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Faculdade de Biociências, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Ipiranga 6681, Prédio 40, sala 110, 90619-900, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil..
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De la Riva I, Chaparro JC, Castroviejo-Fisher S, Padial JM. Underestimated anuran radiations in the high Andes: five new species and a new genus of Holoadeninae, and their phylogenetic relationships (Anura: Craugastoridae). Zool J Linn Soc 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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AbstractDespite recent efforts to accelerate exploration and species description, the diversity of high Andean frogs remains highly underestimated. We report high levels of species diversity in direct-developing frogs or terraranas inhabiting the wet puna and adjacent cloud forests of the Amazonian versant of the Andes in Bolivia and Peru. Descriptive evidence of external morphology, distribution patterns and molecular phylogenetic analyses support the existence of nine unnamed species in two clades, which represents a 30% increase in species diversity for those clades. The relationships of these species and their relatives in Holoadeninae are tested using nuclear and mitochondrial genes for 159 terminals representing the 11 genera in this subfamily and 25 species of previously unknown relationships. Our results corroborate species monophyly in all but three cases and support the monophyly of all Holoadeninae genera, albeit the position of some differs between analyses. We propose a new genus (Microkayla gen. nov.) for the clade containing all Bolivian species formerly in Psychrophrynella plus five species from southern Peru. The new genus is monophyletic and supported by anatomical synapomorphies. Psychrophrynella is re-diagnosed and redefined to include three species from the Andes of southern Peru. We discuss the taxonomic instability associated with Noblella and Psychrophrynella due to the fact that the type species of both genera share a number of traits that support a close relationship. We also name and describe three new species of Bryophryne and two of Microkayla from Peru, provide baseline data for the future description of four Bolivian species of Microkayla, and describe the unknown mating calls of two species. Our results support that the grasslands of the Amazonian versant of the Andes harbour a large diversity of species with small altitudinal and horizontal distributions that replace each other along a latitudinal axis. These species belong to different lineages whose closest relatives are forest species, often from distant parts of the continent. These patterns suggest that high Andean environments were colonized several times independently by species with forest ancestors and which radiated into a multitude of species with remarkably similar ecomorphologies. The extent of these radiations remains obscured by a still rudimentary knowledge of species diversity due to insufficient fieldwork and taxonomic research.
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- Ignacio De la Riva
- Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC; C/José Gutiérrez Abascal, Madrid, Spain
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- Museo de Biodiversidad del Perú, Cusco, Peru
- Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru
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- Lab. de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brasil
- Department of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History, USA
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- Department of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History, USA
- Section of Amphibians and Reptiles, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, USA
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Rossi Lafferriere NA, Antelo R, Alda F, Mårtensson D, Hailer F, Castroviejo-Fisher S, Ayarzagüena J, Ginsberg JR, Castroviejo J, Doadrio I, Vilá C, Amato G. Multiple Paternity in a Reintroduced Population of the Orinoco Crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius) at the El Frío Biological Station, Venezuela. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0150245. [PMID: 26982578 PMCID: PMC4794145 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [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: 09/27/2015] [Accepted: 02/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The success of a reintroduction program is determined by the ability of individuals to reproduce and thrive. Hence, an understanding of the mating system and breeding strategies of reintroduced species can be critical to the success, evaluation and effective management of reintroduction programs. As one of the most threatened crocodile species in the world, the Orinoco crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius) has been reduced to only a few wild populations in the Llanos of Venezuela and Colombia. One of these populations was founded by reintroduction at Caño Macanillal and La Ramera lagoon within the El Frío Biological Station, Venezuela. Twenty egg clutches of C. intermedius were collected at the El Frío Biological Station for incubation in the lab and release of juveniles after one year. Analyzing 17 polymorphic microsatellite loci from 335 hatchlings we found multiple paternity in C. intermedius, with half of the 20 clutches fathered by two or three males. Sixteen mothers and 14 fathers were inferred by reconstruction of multilocus parental genotypes. Our findings showed skewed paternal contributions to multiple-sired clutches in four of the clutches (40%), leading to an overall unequal contribution of offspring among fathers with six of the 14 inferred males fathering 90% of the total offspring, and three of those six males fathering more than 70% of the total offspring. Our results provide the first evidence of multiple paternity occurring in the Orinoco crocodile and confirm the success of reintroduction efforts of this critically endangered species in the El Frío Biological Station, Venezuela.
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- Natalia A Rossi Lafferriere
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America.,Sackler Institute of Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Fundación Palmarito Casanare, Bogotá, Colombia.,Dpto. Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.,Estación Biológica El Frío, Apure, Venezuela
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- Dpto. Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.,LSU Museum of Natural Science, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3AX, Wales, United Kingdom.,Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Lab. de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brasil
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America.,Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York, United States of America
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- Estación Biológica El Frío, Apure, Venezuela.,Asociación Amigos de Doñana, Seville, Spain
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- Dpto. Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain
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- Sackler Institute of Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America
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Twomey E, Delia J, Castroviejo-Fisher S. A review of Northern Peruvian glassfrogs (Centrolenidae), with the description of four new remarkable species. Zootaxa 2014; 3851:1-87. [PMID: 25112428 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3851.1.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Peru is well known for amphibian diversity and endemism, yet there have been relatively few field studies of glassfrog (Centrolenidae) diversity in this country. Research in Colombia and Ecuador indicates that centrolenid diversity is higher in the northern Andes. However, part of this trend appears to be due to sampling effort. We conducted fieldwork throughout northern Peru, and based on phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequences, combined with bioacoustic and morphological analyses of new and available material we now recognize 33 species from the country (versus 30 species prior to this work). Field surveys led to the discovery of four remarkable species: Centrolene charapita new species is a large, ornamented glassfrog that appears to be sister to Ce. geckoideum; Chimerella corleone new species represents the second-known member of the genus Chimerella; Cochranella guayasamini new species is the second-known member of the genus with humeral spines; and Hyalinobatrachium anachoretus new species occurs in the cloud forest of the east-Andean versant in Peru. In addition to the new species described here, we provide new country records, new localities including range extensions of up to 875 km, information on diagnostic characters and phylogenetic relationships, call and larval descriptions, and observations on natural history for several Peruvian centrolenids. Our results also revealed several taxonomic problems concerning species of the genus Rulyrana, and we conclude that R. croceopodes and R. tangarana are junior synonyms of R. saxiscandens. By implication of our phylogenetic analyses, we recognize the following new combinations: Espadarana audax new combination, Espadarana durrelorum new combination, and Espadarana fernandoi new combination.
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- Evan Twomey
- Department of Biology, East Carolina University, 1001 E. 5th St., Greenville, NC 27858, USA.;
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- Department of Biology, Boston University, 5 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215, USA.;
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- Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Ipiranga, 6681, Caixa Postal 1429, 90619-900 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.;
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Goicoechea N, Padial JM, Chaparro JC, Castroviejo-Fisher S, Riva IDL. A Taxonomic Revision ofProctoporus BolivianusWerner (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) With the Description of Three New Species and Resurrection ofProctoporus lacertusStejneger. American Museum Novitates 2013. [DOI: 10.1206/3786.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Rojas-Runjaic FJM, Castroviejo-Fisher S, Barrio-Amorós CL. First record of the Amazonian tiny tree toad Amazophrynella minuta (Melin, 1941) (Anura: Bufonidae), for Venezuela. cl 2013. [DOI: 10.15560/9.5.1122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Amazophrynella minuta is a small toad widely distributed in the lowlands and midlands of the Amazon and Guiana regions. Herein we report the first record of this species from Venezuela based on a single specimen from Raudal de Danto, Río Cuao, northwestern Amazonas state. This record extends the distribution of the species more than 500 km from the closest known localities in Colombia and Brazil
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Jungfer KH, Faivovich J, Padial JM, Castroviejo-Fisher S, Lyra MM, V. M. Berneck B, Iglesias PP, Kok PJR, MacCulloch RD, Rodrigues MT, Verdade VK, Torres Gastello CP, Chaparro JC, Valdujo PH, Reichle S, Moravec J, Gvoždík V, Gagliardi-Urrutia G, Ernst R, De la Riva I, Means DB, Lima AP, Señaris JC, Wheeler WC, F. B. Haddad C. Systematics of spiny-backed treefrogs (Hylidae:Osteocephalus): an Amazonian puzzle. ZOOL SCR 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Karl-Heinz Jungfer
- División Herpetología; Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales ‘Bernardino Rivadavia’-CONICET; Angel Gallardo 470; C1405DJR; Buenos Aires; Argentina
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- Section of Amphibians and Reptiles; Carnegie Museum of Natural History; 4400 Forbes Avenue; Pittsburgh; PA; 15213-4080; USA
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- Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade Estadual Paulista; Av. 24A 1515; CEP 13506-900; Rio Claro; São Paulo; Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade Estadual Paulista; Av. 24A 1515; CEP 13506-900; Rio Claro; São Paulo; Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución; Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires; IEGEBA-CONICET; Universidad de Buenos Aires; Ciudad Universitaria Pab. II; C1428EHA; Buenos Aires; Argentina
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- Department of Natural History; Royal Ontario Museum; 100 Queens Park; Toronto; ON; M5S 2C6; Canada
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- Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; Caixa Postal 11461; CEP 05508-090; São Paulo; Brazil
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- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas; Universidade Federal do ABC; Av. dos Estados; 5001; CEP 09210-971; Santo André; São Paulo; Brazil
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- Departamento de Herpetología; Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Av. Arenales 1256; Apto. 14-0434; Lima 14; Peru
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- Museo de Historia Natural; Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco; Cusco; Peru
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- Departamento de Ecologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; Rua do Matão, travessa 14; 05508-900; São Paulo; SP; Brazil
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- Fundación para la Conservación del Bosque Chiquitano; Av. Ejército Nacional No 160; Santa Cruz de la Sierra; Bolivia
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- Department of Zoology; National Museum; Prague 9; Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology; National Museum; Prague 9; Czech Republic
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- Programa de Investigación en Biodiversidad Amazónica del Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonia Peruana; Av. Quiñonez Km 2.5; Iquitos; Perú
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- Museum für Tierkunde; Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden; Königsbrücker Landstr. 159; D-01109; Dresden; Germany
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- Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology; Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC; C/José Gutiérrez Abascal 2; 28006; Madrid; Spain
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- Coastal Plains Institute and Land Conservancy; 1313 Milton Street; Tallahassee; FL; 32303; USA
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia; Caixa Postal 478; CEP 69011-970; Manaus; Amazonas; Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Ecología y Genética de Poblaciones; Centro de Ecología; Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas; Apartado 21827; Caracas; 1020-A; Venezuela
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- Division of Invertebrate Zoology; American Museum of Natural History; Central Park West at 79th Street; New York; NY; 10024-5192; USA
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- Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade Estadual Paulista; Av. 24A 1515; CEP 13506-900; Rio Claro; São Paulo; Brazil
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Goicoechea N, Padial JM, Chaparro JC, Castroviejo-Fisher S, De la Riva I. Molecular phylogenetics, species diversity, and biogeography of the Andean lizards of the genus Proctoporus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2012; 65:953-64. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.08.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2012] [Revised: 08/20/2012] [Accepted: 08/21/2012] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Fouquet A, Loebmann D, Castroviejo-Fisher S, Padial JM, Orrico VG, Lyra ML, Roberto IJ, Kok PJ, Haddad CF, Rodrigues MT. From Amazonia to the Atlantic forest: Molecular phylogeny of Phyzelaphryninae frogs reveals unexpected diversity and a striking biogeographic pattern emphasizing conservation challenges. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2012; 65:547-61. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2012] [Revised: 07/13/2012] [Accepted: 07/14/2012] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Padial JM, Chaparro JC, Castroviejo-Fisher S, Guayasamin JM, Lehr E, Delgado AJ, Vaira M, Teixeira M, Aguayo R, Riva IDL. A Revision of Species Diversity in the Neotropical GenusOreobates(Anura: Strabomantidae), with the Description of Three New Species from the Amazonian Slopes of the Andes. American Museum Novitates 2012. [DOI: 10.1206/3752.2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Castroviejo-Fisher S, Pérez-Peña PE, Padial JM, Guayasamin JM. A Second Species of the Family Allophrynidae (Amphibia: Anura). American Museum Novitates 2012. [DOI: 10.1206/3739.2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Padial JM, Castroviejo-Fisher S, Merchan M, Cabot J, Castroviejo J. The herpetological collection from Bolivia in the “Estación Biológica de Doñana” (Spain). GRAELLSIA 2011. [DOI: 10.3989/graellsia.2003.v59.i1.219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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BACKGROUND Dogs were an important element in many native American cultures at the time Europeans arrived. Although previous ancient DNA studies revealed the existence of unique native American mitochondrial sequences, these have not been found in modern dogs, mainly purebred, studied so far. RESULTS We identified many previously undescribed mitochondrial control region sequences in 400 dogs from rural and isolated areas as well as street dogs from across the Americas. However, sequences of native American origin proved to be exceedingly rare, and we estimate that the native population contributed only a minor fraction of the gene pool that constitutes the modern population. CONCLUSIONS The high number of previously unidentified haplotypes in our sample suggests that a lot of unsampled genetic variation exists in non-breed dogs. Our results also suggest that the arrival of European colonists to the Americas may have led to an extensive replacement of the native American dog population by the dogs of the invaders.
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- Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden
- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
- Department of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024-5192, USA
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Laboratorio de Paleozoología, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Circuito Exterior, Ciudad Universitaria, C.P. 04510, Distrito Federal, México
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- Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Avd. Américo Vespucio s/n, 41092 Seville, Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden
- Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Avd. Américo Vespucio s/n, 41092 Seville, Spain
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Although tropical environments are often considered biodiversity hotspots, it is precisely in such environments where least is known about the factors that drive species richness. Here, we use phylogenetic comparative analyses to study correlates of species richness for the largest Neotropical amphibian radiation: New World direct-developing frogs. Clade-age and species richness were nonsignificantly, negatively correlated, suggesting that clade age alone does not explain among-clade variation in species richness. A combination of ecological and morphological traits explained 65% of the variance in species richness. A more vascularized ventral skin, the ability to colonize high-altitude ranges, encompassing a large variety of vegetation types, correlated significantly with species richness, whereas larger body size was marginally correlated with species richness. Hence, whereas high-altitude ranges play a role in shaping clade diversity in the Neotropics, intrinsic factors, such as skin structures and possibly body size, might ultimately determine which clades are more speciose than others.
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- A Gonzalez-Voyer
- Department of Integrative Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC, Av. Américo Vespucio s/n, Seville, Spain.
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Padial JM, Castroviejo-Fisher S, Köhler J, Vilà C, Chaparro JC, De la Riva I. Deciphering the products of evolution at the species level: the need for an integrative taxonomy. ZOOL SCR 2009. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00381.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Padial JM, Castroviejo-Fisher S, De la Riva I. The phylogenetic relationships of Yunganastes revisited (Anura: Terrarana). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2009; 52:911-5. [PMID: 19435605 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2008] [Revised: 04/16/2009] [Accepted: 05/04/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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- José Manuel Padial
- Department of Evolution Genomics and Systematics, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden.
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Castroviejo-Fisher S, Señaris JC, Ayarzagüena J, Vilà C. Resurrection of Hyalinobatrachium orocostale and Notes on the Hyalinobatrachium orientale Species Complex (Anura: Centrolenidae). HERPETOLOGICA 2008. [DOI: 10.1655/07-049r2.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Guayasamin JM, Castroviejo-Fisher S, Ayarzagüena J, Trueb L, Vilà C. Phylogenetic relationships of glassfrogs (Centrolenidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2008; 48:574-95. [PMID: 18515151 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.04.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2007] [Revised: 03/26/2008] [Accepted: 04/06/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
Abstract
Glassfrogs (family Centrolenidae) represent an exceptionally diverse group among Neotropical anurans, but their evolutionary relationships never have been assessed from a molecular perspective. Mitochondrial and nuclear markers were used to develop a novel hypothesis of centrolenid phylogeny. Ingroup sampling included 100 terminals, with 78 (53%) of the named species in the family, representing most of the phenotypic diversity described for the group. Thirty-five species representing taxa traditionally associated with glassfrogs were used as outgroups. Gene sampling consisted of complete or partial sequences of three mitochondrial (12S, 16S, ND1) and three nuclear markers (c-myc exon 2, RAG1, POMC) for a total of approximately 4362bp. Phylogenies were estimated using maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian analyses for individual genes and combined datasets. The separate analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear datasets allowed us to clarify the relationships within glassfrogs; also, we corroborate the sister-group relationship between Allophryne ruthveni and glassfrogs. The new phylogeny differs significantly from all previous morphology-based hypotheses of relationships, and shows that hypotheses based on few traits are likely to misrepresent evolutionary history. Traits previously hypothesized as unambiguous synapomorphies are shown to be homoplastic, and all genera in the current taxonomy (Centrolene, Cochranella, Hyalinobatrachium, Nymphargus) are found to be poly- or paraphyletic. The new topology implies a South American origin of glassfrogs and reveals allopatric speciation as the most important speciation mechanism. The phylogeny profoundly affects the traditional interpretations of glassfrog taxonomy, character evolution, and biogeography-topics that now require more extensive evaluation in future studies.
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Affiliation(s)
- Juan M Guayasamin
- Natural History Museum & Biodiversity Research Center, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Kansas, Dyche Hall, 1345 Jayhawk Boulevard, Lawrence, KS 66045-7561, USA.
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Padial JM, Castroviejo-Fisher S, Köhler J, Domic E, De la Riva I. SYSTEMATICS OF THE ELEUTHERODACTYLUS FRAUDATOR SPECIES GROUP (ANURA: BRACHYCEPHALIDAE). Herpetological Monographs 2007. [DOI: 10.1655/06-007.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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