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- Title
ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF GALÁPAGOS LAVA LIZARDS (TROPIDURIDAE: MICROLOPHUS): SPECIES DIVERSITY AND COLONIZATION OF THE ARCHIPELAGO.
- Authors
Benavides, Edgar; Baum, Rebecca; Snell, Heidi M.; Snell, Howard L.; Sites Jr., Jack W.
- Abstract
The “lava lizards” ( Microlophus) are distributed throughout the Galápagos Archipelago, and consist of radiations derived from two independent colonizations. The “Eastern Radiation” includes M. bivittatus and M. habeli endemic to San Cristobal and Marchena Islands. The “Western Radiation” includes five to seven historically recognized species distributed across almost the entire Archipelago. We combine dense geographic sampling and multilocus sequence data to estimate a phylogenetic hypothesis for the Western Radiation, to delimit species boundaries in this radiation, and to estimate a time frame for colonization events. Our phylogenetic hypothesis rejects two earlier topologies for the Western Radiation and paraphyly of M. albemarlensis, while providing strong support for single colonizations on each island. The colonization history implied by our phylogeny is consistent with general expectations of an east-to-west route predicted by the putative age of island groups, and prevailing ocean currents in the Archipelago. Additionally, combined evidence suggests that M. indefatigabilis from Santa Fe should be recognized as a full species. Finally, molecular divergence estimates suggest that the two colonization events likely occurred on the oldest existing islands, and the Western Radiation represents a recent radiation that, in most cases, has produced species that are considerably younger than the islands they inhabit.
- Subjects
LIZARDS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENY; BIOLOGICAL evolution; BIOLOGICAL divergence; OCEAN currents
- Publication
Evolution, 2009, Vol 63, Issue 6, p1606
- ISSN
0014-3820
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00617.x