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hiptail lizard lineage delimitation and population expansion as windows into the history of Amazonian open ecosystem

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Martins, Lidia F. [1] ; Choueri, Erik L. [2] ; Oliveira, Alan F. S. [1] ; Domingos, Fabricius M. C. B. [3] ; Caetano, Gabriel H. O. [4] ; Cavalcante, Vitor H. G. L. [5] ; Leite, Rafael N. [1, 2] ; Fouquet, Antoine [6] ; Rodrigues, Miguel T. [7] ; Carnaval, Ana C. [8, 9] ; Colli, Guarino R. [10] ; Werneck, Fernanda P. [1, 11]
Total Authors: 12
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[1] Inst Nacl de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Programa Posgrad Ecol, Manaus, AM - Brazil
[2] Inst Nacl de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Programa Posgrad Genet Conservacao & Biol Evolut, Manaus, AM - Brazil
[3] Univ Fed Parana, Dept Zool, BR-81531980 Curitiba, PR - Brazil
[4] Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Jacob Blaustein Inst Desert Res, Mitrani Dept Desert Ecol, IL-849900 Midreshet Ben Gurion - Israel
[5] Inst Fed Piaui, Teresina, PI - Brazil
[6] Lab Evolut & Diversite Biol EDB, UMR5174, Batiment 4R1, 118 Route Narbonne, F-31077 Toulouse - France
[7] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Biociencias, Dept Zool, Sao Paulo, SP - Brazil
[8] CUNY, New York, NY 10021 - USA
[9] CUNY, Grad Ctr, Biol PhD Program, New York, NY 10031 - USA
[10] Univ Brasilia, Inst Ciencias Biol, Dept Zool, Brasilia, DF - Brazil
[11] Inst Nacl de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Coordenacao Biodiversidade, Programa Colecoes Cient Biol, Manaus, Amazonas - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 11
Document type: Journal article
Source: SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY; v. 19, n. 8 JUL 2021.
Web of Science Citations: 0
Abstract

Historical variations in climate and landscape configuration are the main aspects known to generate and maintain diversity. Taxa associated with open habitats within broader forest contexts are often overlooked in studies of Neotropical biogeography. We investigated the evolutionary and demographic history of lizards in the Cnemidophorus lemniscatus species group, which encompasses three described species - one unisexual and two bisexuals - restricted to open environments in Amazonia. We also explored the geographic ecology of the group using critical ecophysiological traits as proxies for sensitivity or resilience to environmental change. To that end, we delimited the main lineages within the group, estimated their divergence times, and asked if these lineages have experienced changes in effective population size. We recovered six lineages, three of which correspond to C. cryptus, C. lemniscatus, and C. gramivagus, and three yet unnamed species. We recovered divergence events during the Late Miocene and signs of recent population expansion for at least one of the species (the parthenogenetic C. cryptus). This pattern corroborates the ancient emergence of the Amazonian open areas, followed by a high and recent dynamism during the Pleistocene. Conserved traits related to high thermal tolerance and broad thermal tolerance ranges likely facilitated niche tracking and establishment in open ecosystems during Pleistocene climatic fluctuations. Our results bring insights regarding how these species might be influenced, and even favoured, by human-induced environmental changes in the contemporary timescale. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 11/50146-6 - Comparative phylogeography, phylogeny, paleoclimate modeling, and taxonomy of neotropical reptiles and amphibians
Grantee:Miguel Trefaut Urbano Rodrigues
Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Thematic Grants