| Title: | Biogeographical history of golden orbweavers : chronology of a global conquest |
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| Authors: | ID Turk, Eva (Author)
ID Čandek, Klemen (Author)
ID Kralj-Fišer, Simona (Author)
ID Kuntner, Matjaž (Author) |
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 URL - Source URL, visit https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13838
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| Language: | English |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: |  NIB - National Institute of Biology
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| Abstract: | Aim
A wholistic biogeographical reconstruction should combine a phylogeny with specifics of organismal biology, plate tectonics and consequent probabilities of historic dispersal events. Here, we demonstrate this approach by reconstructing the geographical origin and sequence of intercontinental colonization of the golden orbweaving spiders, a global clade. We test two alternative hypotheses about their ancestral range. Due to the highest contemporary species diversity in Africa, the ‘Out of Africa’ hypothesis predicts the Afrotropics as their most likely ancestral area. The alternative, ‘Out of West Burma’ hypothesis aims to explain a Burmese amber fossil as stem nephilid. Because the West Burma block probably detached from Australia, then rafted towards Laurasia, either on its own or with India, this hypothesis predicts either Australasia or Indomalaya (or both) as the ancestral area.
Location
Worldwide.
Taxon
Golden orbweaving spiders, family Nephilidae.
Methods
We construct an expanded phylogeny of nephilid spiders and apply RASP (Reconstruct Ancestral State in Phylogenies) to infer their global biogeographical history. We fit the data to six integrated biogeographical models: DEC, DIVALIKE, BAYAREALIKE and their +j variants. We fine-tune the analysis by evaluating varying probabilities of dispersal between geographical areas throughout the clade's evolutionary history. We use the physical distance between the areas as a proxy for dispersal probabilities, thus accounting for plate tectonics.
Results
The best supported model reconstructs both Australasia and Indomalaya as ancestral area. In several parts of the phylogeny, these areas persist for the estimated 130-million-year evolutionary history. However, numerous intercontinental shifts in nephilid biogeographical history are also inferred. Since nephilid origins are clearly Gondwanan, our study supports the interpretations that Burmese amber contains Gondwanan biota.
Main conclusions
These results are consistent with the Out of West Burma hypothesis but reject the Out of Africa hypothesis. That certain clades persist in their ancestral ranges while others may shift continents aligns well with the known nephilid biology. Our methodological approach that assesses organismal specific dispersal probabilities through concrete distances measured though time slices of the Earth's history can be applied to biogeographical reconstruction of any lineage. |
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| Keywords: | spiders, golden orbweavers, Nephilidae, reconstruction of lineage, biogeography |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 01.06.2020 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2020 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 1333-1344 |
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| Numbering: | Vol. 47, iss. 6 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DiRROS-19512  |
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| UDC: | 595.44 |
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| ISSN on article: | 0305-0270 |
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| DOI: | 10.1111/jbi.13838 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 13834243 |
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| Publication date in DiRROS: | 22.07.2024 |
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