The importance of integrating morphological and molecular evidence into phylogenetic analyses of the frog Family Craugastoridae (Anura: Brachycephaloidea)

• Grant number: 16/25070-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): March 01, 2017
• Effective date (End): January 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Morphology of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Taran Grant
• Grantee: Jhon Jairo Ospina Sarria
• Supervisor: Rafe Brown
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Research place: University of Kansas, United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 14/03585-2 - Phylogenetic analysis of direct-developing frogs (Anura, Terrarana, Craugastoridae), BP.DR

Abstract

A major recent trend in systematics is the re-integration of morphological data into total evidence analysis. Phenomic data (e.g., data from morphology, behavior, ontogeny, etc.) provide a richly independent source of phylogenetic evidence and important framework to "testing" molecular hypotheses, allowing all evidence to interact simultaneously to identify the hypothesis that bestexplains all the evidence. The total evidence analysis is becoming increasingly popular, whichhas opened new frontiers in evolutionary biology. Few studies have explored the effect ofincorporating phenotypic and larger DNA sequence datasets into total evidence analyses.However, those that have done so have found that even a comparatively small phenomic datasetcan have disproportionately large impacts on the results. For example, preliminary analyses ofdata acquired during my doctoral research on the superfamily Brachycephaloidea revealed astrong impact on the results, with all three currently accepted families, which were erected solely on the basis of molecular data, being monophyletic in the molecular-only analysis, but only one of them being monophyletic when morphology was also included. Given the demonstrated importance of morphological characters in testing the phylogenetic relationships of this group, I propose to visit the herpetological collection at the Natural History Museum of The University of Kansas (KU), the largest collection of Brachycephaloidea in the world, to score morphological characters Brachycephaloidea with emphasis on Craugastoridae. The resulting data will beincluded in my dissertation in a new total evidence analysis under the parsimony and maximumlikelihood optimality criteria, which will provide insights into the relative importance ofphenomic data in model-based and non-model-based approaches. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

OSPINA-SARRIA, JHON JAIRO; DUELLMAN, WILLIAM E.. Two New Species of Pristimantis (Amphibia: Anura: Strabomantidae) from Southwestern Colombia. Herpetologica, v. 75, n. 1, p. 85-95, MAR 2019. (12/10000-5, 14/03585-2, 16/25070-0)

JAIRO OSPINA-SARRIA, JHON; CABRA-GARCIA, JIMMY. Parsimony analysis of unaligned sequence data: some clarifications. CLADISTICS, v. 34, n. 5, p. 574-577, OCT 2018. (13/20262-0, 12/10000-5, 14/03585-2, 16/04437-2, 16/25070-0)

JAIRO OSPINA-SARRIA, JHON; ANGARITA-SIERRA, TEDDY. A New Species of Pristimantis (Anura: Strabomantidae) from the Eastern Slope of the Cordillera Oriental, Arauca, Colombia. Herpetologica, v. 76, n. 1, p. 83-92, MAR 2020. (16/25070-0, 14/03585-2)

RADA, MARCO; OSPINA-SARRIA, JHON JAIRO; GUAYASAMIN, JUAN M.. A Taxonomic Review of Tan-Brown Glassfrogs (Anura: Centrolenidae), with the Description of a New Species from Southwestern Colombia. South American Journal of Herpetology, v. 12, n. 2, p. 136-156, AUG 2017. (16/25070-0, 12/10000-5, 08/50928-1)

PEREYRA, MARTIN O.; BLOTTO, BORIS L.; BALDO, DIEGO; CHAPARRO, JUAN C.; RON, SANTIAGO R.; ELIAS-COSTA, AGUSTIN J.; IGLESIAS, PATRICIA P.; VENEGAS, PABLO J.; THOME, MARIA TEREZA C.; OSPINA-SARRIA, JHON JAIRO; et al. VOLUTION IN THE GENUS RHINELLA: A TOTAL EVIDENCE PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF NEOTROPICAL TRUE TOADS (ANURA: BUFONIDAE. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, n. 447, p. 1-155, MAR 31 2021. (12/10000-5, 14/03585-2, 15/11237-7, 13/20423-3, 16/25070-0, 13/50741-7, 18/15425-0)

OSPINA-SARRIA, JHON JAIRO; GRANT, TARAN. New phenotypic synapomorphies delimit three molecular-based clades of New World direct-developing frogs (Amphibia: Anura: Brachycephaloidea). ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, v. 195, n. 3, p. 19-pg., 2021-09-29. (18/15425-0, 14/03585-2, 16/25070-0, 12/10000-5)

GARCIA-GOMEZ, ISABELLA; PEREYRA, MARTIN O.; CABRA-GARCIA, JIMMY; JAIRO OSPINA-SARRIA, JHON. Evolutionary history of secondary sexual characters in the most species-rich genus of anurans, the direct-developing frogs of the genus Pristimantis (Anura: Strabomantidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 136, n. 2, p. 18-pg., 2022-05-09. (14/03585-2, 16/25070-0)