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- Castroviejo-Fisher, Santiago,1979-Uppsala universitet,Evolutionsbiologi,Conservation Genetics (author)
Species Limits, and Evolutionary History of Glassfrogs
- BookEnglish2009
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- Uppsala :Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis,2009
- 55 s.
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- LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:uu-100923
- ISBN:9789155475154
- https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-100923URI
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- Language:English
- Summary in:English
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- Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology,1651-6214 ;642
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- Recognizing the mechanisms of speciation and the limits of species is essential to understand the origin of biodiversity and how to conserve it. The general aims of my investigations during my doctoral studies were two-fold: to study evolutionary patterns and processes, and to provide specific and superspecific taxonomic classifications that try to reflect evolutionary history. I have focused my research on anurans in their biodiversity hotspot, the American Tropics. I have used morphological, behavioral (mating calls), and genetic (DNA sequences) characters to study species boundaries between frogs of the genus Pristimantis and the family Centrolenidae (glassfrogs). The results show that the exclusive use of single lines of evidence or the application of arbitrary thresholds impair and bias our ability to recognize new species and limit the possibility to understand evolutionary processes. Only an integrative approach combining every source of evidence provides the necessary feedback to discover all species and test their identity by comparing independent sets of data. This approach further allows identifying those species that probably represent stable comparative units (well supported species hypotheses) and to flag taxa that require further assessment. Phylogenetic reconstructions based on seven nuclear and mitochondrial genes for about 100 species of glassfrogs revealed that previous hypotheses of relationships were mislead by rampant convergent evolution at the phenotypic level. None of the previously suggested classifications fit with the reconstructed evolutionary history. Consequently, we proposed a new classification consistent with this phylogeny. I also studied the tempo and mode of diversification among glassfrogs. Based on sequences from ten genes in 87 species, I estimated species divergence times, age-range correlation between sister species, and reconstructed ancestral areas and dispersal/vicariance events. The results revealed a complex model of diversification where geographical isolation seems to be the dominant scenario for speciation and only clades of altitudinal generalists have been able to spread across the Neotropical rainforests.
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- NATURVETENSKAP Biologi Biologisk systematik hsv//swe
- NATURAL SCIENCES Biological Sciences Biological Systematics hsv//eng
- Amphibia
- Anura
- Biogeography
- Centrolenidae
- Diversification
- Frogs
- Molecular Phylogenetics
- Neotropics
- Pristimantis
- Speciation
- Species
- Systematics
- Taxonomy
- Systematics and phylogenetics
- Systematik och fylogeni
- systematisk zoologi
- Systematic Zoology
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- Vilà, Carles,ProfessorConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Estación Biológica de Doñana (thesis advisor)
- Leonard, Jennifer A.,DoctorUppsala universitet,Evolutionsbiologi (thesis advisor)
- Vences, Miguel,ProfessorTechnical University of Braunschweig, Zoological Institute, Division of Evolutionary Biology (opponent)
- Uppsala universitetEvolutionsbiologi (creator_code:org_t)
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