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Title:Biogeography of the Caribbean Cyrtognatha spiders
Authors:ID Čandek, Klemen (Author)
ID Agnarsson, Ingi (Author)
ID Binford, Greta (Author)
ID Kuntner, Matjaž (Author)
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Language:English
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
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Abstract:Island systems provide excellent arenas to test evolutionary hypotheses pertaining to gene flow and diversification of dispersal-limited organisms. Here we focus on an orbweaver spider genus Cyrtognatha (Tetragnathidae) from the Caribbean, with the aims to reconstruct its evolutionary history, examine its biogeographic history in the archipelago, and to estimate the timing and route of Caribbean colonization. Specifically, we test if Cyrtognatha biogeographic history is consistent with an ancient vicariant scenario (the GAARlandia landbridge hypothesis) or overwater dispersal. We reconstructed a species level phylogeny based on one mitochondrial (COI) and one nuclear (28S) marker. We then used this topology to constrain a time-calibrated mtDNA phylogeny, for subsequent biogeographical analyses in BioGeoBEARS of over 100 originally sampled Cyrtognatha individuals, using models with and without a founder event parameter. Our results suggest a radiation of Caribbean Cyrtognatha, containing 11 to 14 species that are exclusively single island endemics. Although biogeographic reconstructions cannot refute a vicariant origin of the Caribbean clade, possibly an artifact of sparse outgroup availability, they indicate timing of colonization that is much too recent for GAARlandia to have played a role. Instead, an overwater colonization to the Caribbean in mid-Miocene better explains the data. From Hispaniola, Cyrtognatha subsequently dispersed to, and diversified on, the other islands of the Greater, and Lesser Antilles. Within the constraints of our island system and data, a model that omits the founder event parameter from biogeographic analysis is less suitable than the equivalent model with a founder event.
Keywords:biogeography, spiders
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Publication date:23.01.2019
Year of publishing:2019
Number of pages:str. 1-14
Numbering:Vol. 9
PID:20.500.12556/DiRROS-19577 New window
UDC:574
ISSN on article:2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-36590-y New window
COBISS.SI-ID:4987471 New window
Note:Nasl. z nasl. zaslona; Opis vira z dne 11. 2. 2019;
Publication date in DiRROS:23.07.2024
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Title:Scientific reports
Shortened title:Sci. rep.
Publisher:Nature Publishing Group
ISSN:2045-2322
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Document is financed by a project

Funder:NSF - National Science Foundation
Project number:1314749
Name:Collaborative Research: The generation of a biodiversity hotspot: paleobiogeography of the Caribbean inferred from multiple arachnid lineages with differing dispersal abilities

Funder:NSF - National Science Foundation
Project number:1050253
Name:Collaborative Research: The generation of a biodiversity hotspot: paleobiogeography of the Caribbean inferred from multiple arachnid lineages with differing dispersal abilities

Funder:ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
Project number:J1-6729-2014
Name:Integrativne raziskave evolucije spolnega dimorfizma

Funder:ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
Project number:P1-0236-2018
Name:Biodiverziteta: vzorci, procesi, predikcije in ohranjanje

Funder:ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
Project number:BI-US/17-18-011

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