Historical patterns of niche dynamics in Neotropical species of the <Emphasis Type="Italic">Drosophila</Emphasis> subgenus (Drosophilidae,Diptera) |
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Authors: | Stela Machado Marco Silva Gottschalk Lizandra Jaqueline Robe |
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Institution: | 1.Programa de Pós Gradua??o em Biodiversidade Animal,Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM),Santa Maria,Brazil;2.Departamento de Ecologia, Zoologia e Genética, Instituto de Biologia,Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel),Cap?o do Le?o,Brazil;3.Programa de Pós Gradua??o em Biologia de Ambientes Aquáticos Continentais,Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG),Rio Grande,Brazil |
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Abstract: | Niche conservatism (NC) presence is a controversial question in evolutionary ecology. In Drosophila, little is known about which is the preponderant evolutionary pattern, since the adaptive radiation hypothesis first proposed by Throckmorton assumed niche divergence (ND) according to a niche occupancy scenario. Nevertheless, this hypothesis has not yet been straightforwardly tested. Our aim here was to test the role of NC patterns across evolution of American drosophilids belonging to the tripunctata and virilis-repleta lineages of the Drosophila subgenus, through measures of geographical, abiotic and biotic niche overlap and evaluations regarding the presence of phylogenetic signal or niche identity. We recovered phylogenetic signal attributable to phylogenetic niche conservatism when all species were analyzed together, but not in more restricted groups. Identity tests showed that niche equivalency was seldom rejected for the tripunctata lineage species. So, in general, neither the results for the Drosophila subgenus nor those for the tripunctata lineage support the hypothesis of an adaptive radiation. Notwithstanding, there were also several isolated cases supporting a scenario of ND, and ecological speciation was evident in some of the evaluated sister species pairs. |
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