RESEARCH ARTICLE
Same place, different stories: Disparate evolutionary trends of mygalomorph spiders from the Peripampasic orogenic arc
Arnau Calatayud-Mascarell,
Nelson Ferretti,
Alba Enguídanos,
Miquel A. Arnedo,
Arnau Calatayud-Mascarell
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences & Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Nelson Ferretti
Center of Renewable Natural Resources of the Semiarid Area (CERZOS-UNS, CONICET), Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Department of Biology, Biochemistry and Pharmacy, Universidad Nacional del Sur, San Juan, Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Correspondence
Nelson Ferretti, Center of Renewable Natural Resources of the Semiarid Area (CERZOS-UNS, CONICET), Camino la Carrindanga Km.7, Bahía Blanca (8000), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorAlba Enguídanos
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences & Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Search for more papers by this authorMiquel A. Arnedo
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences & Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Search for more papers by this authorArnau Calatayud-Mascarell,
Nelson Ferretti,
Alba Enguídanos,
Miquel A. Arnedo,
Arnau Calatayud-Mascarell
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences & Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Nelson Ferretti
Center of Renewable Natural Resources of the Semiarid Area (CERZOS-UNS, CONICET), Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Department of Biology, Biochemistry and Pharmacy, Universidad Nacional del Sur, San Juan, Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Correspondence
Nelson Ferretti, Center of Renewable Natural Resources of the Semiarid Area (CERZOS-UNS, CONICET), Camino la Carrindanga Km.7, Bahía Blanca (8000), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorAlba Enguídanos
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences & Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Search for more papers by this authorMiquel A. Arnedo
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences & Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Search for more papers by this authorFirst published: 18 May 2022
Arnau Calatayud-Mascarell and Nelson Ferretti should be considered joint first author.
Handling Editor: Paula Arribas
Abstract
Aim
Comparative phylogeography aims to unravel similarities in the population structure and evolutionary processes undergone by co-distributed taxa, under the assumption that they will have experienced the same geoclimatic events. However, small differences in functional traits, particularly those related to dispersal abilities, may translate into incongruent evolutionary histories. Here, we used a sequence target multi-locus approach to infer and compare the phylogeographical patterns of three sympatric mygalomorph spiders in the Argentinean Peripampasic orogenic arc.
Location
The mountainous systems of central and northern Argentina.
Taxon
Acanthogonatus centralis, Grammostola vachoni and Plesiopelma longisternale (Araneae: Mygalomorphae).
Methods
We inferred mitochondrial gene trees (16S + L1 + nad1) and nuclear (ITS2) networks of three species of mygalomorph spiders from 159 individuals using Bayesian and Maximum likelihood approaches, and estimated divergence times in a Bayesian framework. Based on our time-stamped gene trees, we reconstructed ancestral areas using the Bayesian Binary MCMC method.
Results
Deeply divergent and highly geographically structured populations, isolated since the Late Miocene to mid Pliocene, were obtained in the pycnothelid Acanthogonatus centralis. Conversely, the theraphosids Plesiopelma longisternale and Grammostola vachoni showed slightly divergent and poorly geographically structured populations, tracing back to the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene.
Main conclusions
We propose that differences in dispersion rates and time of colonization between the theraphosids and the pycnothelid species led to divergent lineage history despite common environmental conditions. We corroborate the key role played by the Plio-Pleistocene geoclimatic events in shaping the present-day diversity of mygalomorph spiders along the Peripampasic orogenic arc. Additionally, we uncovered potentially overlooked species diversity within G. vachoni.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Authors declare no conflict of interest.
Open Research
DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
The data that support the findings of this study are available on Dryad (doi:10.5061/dryad.h18931znb). Sequence data are openly available at GenBank (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/) and sequences ids are shown in Table S1.1.
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