Susan M Tsang1,2,3,4, Sigit Wiantoro5, Maria Josefa Veluz4, Norimasa Sugita6,7, Y-Lan Nguyen1,8, Nancy B Simmons3, David J Lohman1,2,9. 1. Biology Department, City College, City University of New York, NY 10031, USA. 2. Biology Ph.D. Program, Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY 10034, USA. 3. Department of Mammalogy, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, NY 10024, USA. 4. Mammalogy Section, National Museum of Natural History, Manila 1000, Philippines. 5. Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Research Centre for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences-LIPI, Bogor 16911, Indonesia. 6. Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0005, Japan. 7. National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tokyo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan. 8. Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York, NY 10021, USA. 9. Entomology Section, National Museum of Natural History, Manila 1000, Philippines.
Abstract
AIM: Islands provide opportunities for isolation and speciation. Many landmasses in the Indo-Australian Archipelago (IAA) are oceanic islands, and founder-event speciation is expected to be the predominant form of speciation of volant taxa on these islands. We studied the biogeographic history of flying foxes, a group with many endemic species and a predilection for islands, to test this hypothesis and infer the biogeographic origin of the group. LOCATION: Australasia, Indo-Australian Archipelago, Madagascar, Pacific Islands. TAXON: Pteropus (Pteropodidae). METHODS: To infer the biogeographic history of Pteropus, we sequenced up to 6169 bp of genetic data from 10 markers and reconstructed a multilocus species tree of 34 currently recognized Pteropus species and subspecies with 3 Acerodon outgroups using BEAST and subsequently estimated ancestral areas using models implemented in BioGeoBEARS. RESULTS: Species-level resolution was occasionally low because of slow rates of molecular evolution and/or recent divergences. Older divergences, however, were more strongly supported and allow the evolutionary history of the group to be inferred. The genus diverged in Wallacea from its common ancestor with Acerodon; founder-event speciation out of Wallacea was a common inference. Pteropus species in Micronesia and the western Indian Ocean were also inferred to result from founder-event speciation. MAIN CONCLUSIONS: Dispersal between regions of the IAA and the islands found therein fostered diversification of Pteropus throughout the IAA and beyond. Dispersal in Pteropus is far higher than in most other volant taxa studied to date, highlighting the importance of inter-island movement in the biogeographic history of this large clade of large bats.
AIM: Islands provide opportunities for isolation and speciation. Many landmasses in the Indo-Australian Archipelago (IAA) are oceanic islands, and founder-event speciation is expected to be the predominant form of speciation of volant taxa on these islands. We studied the biogeographic history of flying foxes, a group with many endemic species and a predilection for islands, to test this hypothesis and infer the biogeographic origin of the group. LOCATION: Australasia, Indo-Australian Archipelago, Madagascar, Pacific Islands. TAXON: Pteropus (Pteropodidae). METHODS: To infer the biogeographic history of Pteropus, we sequenced up to 6169 bp of genetic data from 10 markers and reconstructed a multilocus species tree of 34 currently recognized Pteropus species and subspecies with 3 Acerodon outgroups using BEAST and subsequently estimated ancestral areas using models implemented in BioGeoBEARS. RESULTS: Species-level resolution was occasionally low because of slow rates of molecular evolution and/or recent divergences. Older divergences, however, were more strongly supported and allow the evolutionary history of the group to be inferred. The genus diverged in Wallacea from its common ancestor with Acerodon; founder-event speciation out of Wallacea was a common inference. Pteropus species in Micronesia and the western Indian Ocean were also inferred to result from founder-event speciation. MAIN CONCLUSIONS: Dispersal between regions of the IAA and the islands found therein fostered diversification of Pteropus throughout the IAA and beyond. Dispersal in Pteropus is far higher than in most other volant taxa studied to date, highlighting the importance of inter-island movement in the biogeographic history of this large clade of large bats.
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