The East Asian monsoon drove the latitudinal expansion and convergent adaptation of true frogs to overwintering ...
Past and present climates are prominent drivers of phylogeographic diversity and the evolution of ecological traits, especially for species distributed across latitudinal gradients. Subsequent to the ancient Holarctic true frogs (Rana spp.) dispersed out of Asia and into the Nearctic because of geol...
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.17632/hsz94hjb64.3 https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/hsz94hjb64/3 |
| Summary: | Past and present climates are prominent drivers of phylogeographic diversity and the evolution of ecological traits, especially for species distributed across latitudinal gradients. Subsequent to the ancient Holarctic true frogs (Rana spp.) dispersed out of Asia and into the Nearctic because of geological events, we provided evidences that evolution of the modern East Asian monsoon and climate variability since the Neogene period were the factors driving the present diversity of the genus in the Palearctic. Specifically, the resulting latitudinal climate diversity concurrently triggered the evolution of trait related to latitudinal range extent and adaptability of a subarctic Eurasian clade to overwintering. We integrated a meta-analysis and climatic variables in phylogenetic comparative methods, then merged quantitative taxonomy and multilocus phylogeography to: (i) track the evolutionary history of latitudinal ranges in Ranidae widespread across the Holarctic and Indomalayan realms, (ii) resolving the ... |
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