ORIGINAL ARTICLE
When Thailand was an island – the phylogeny and biogeography of mite harvestmen (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Stylocellidae) in Southeast Asia
Ronald M. Clouse,
Gonzalo Giribet,
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Ronald M. Clouse
Ronald M. Clouse, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, MCZ Laboratories 510, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.E-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorGonzalo Giribet
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, MCZ Laboratories 510, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Search for more papers by this authorRonald M. Clouse,
Gonzalo Giribet,
Corresponding Author
Ronald M. Clouse
Ronald M. Clouse, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, MCZ Laboratories 510, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.E-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorGonzalo Giribet
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, MCZ Laboratories 510, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Search for more papers by this authorAbstract
Aim To develop a comprehensive explanation for the biological diversity of Southeast Asia, especially in the Wallacea and Sundaland regions. This study focuses on a group of arachnids, mite harvestmen, which are thought to be an extremely old group of endemic animals that have been present in the region since most of its land supposedly formed part of the northern rim of the supercontinent Gondwana.
Location Eastern Himalayas, Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Sulawesi, and New Guinea.
Methods Approximately 5.6 kb of sequence data were obtained from 110 South-east Asian Cyphophthalmi specimens. Phylogenetic analyses were conducted under a variety of methods and analytical parameters, and the optimal tree was dated using calibration points derived from fossil data. Event based and paralogy-free subtree biogeographical analyses were conducted.
Results The Southeast Asian family Stylocellidae was recovered as monophyletic, arising on what is now the Thai-Malay Peninsula and diversifying into three main clades. One clade (Meghalaya, here formally placed in Stylocellidae) expanded north as far as the eastern Himalayas, a second clade entered Borneo and later expanded back across the Sundaland Peninsula to Sumatra, and a third clade expanded out of Borneo into the entire lower part of Sundaland. Molecular dating suggested that Stylocellidae separated from other Cyphophthalmi 295 Ma and began diversifying 258 Ma, and the lineage that inhabits mostly Borneo today began diversifying between 175 and 150 Ma.
Main conclusions The topology and molecular dating of our phylogenetic hypothesis suggest that Stylocellidae originated on Gondwana, arrived in Southeast Asia via the Cimmerian palaeocontinent, and subsequently diversified north, then south. Their present distribution in the Indo-Malay Archipelago is explained largely by a diversification over the Sundaland Peninsula before western Sulawesi departed and the peninsula was extensively inundated.
Supporting Information
Appendix S1 Collection locality information for all Cyphophthalmi and outgroup Opiliones analysed in this study.
Appendix S2 GenBank accession numbers for all sequence data analysed.
Appendix S3 Results from the modified incongruence length difference (ILD) test.
Appendix S4 Phylogeny of the expanded terminal set.
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