Rapid radiation of ant parasitic butterflies during the Miocene aridification of Africa
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/23:10473848
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.10046" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.10046</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10046" target="_blank" >10.1002/ece3.10046</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Rapid radiation of ant parasitic butterflies during the Miocene aridification of Africa
Original language description
Africa has undergone a progressive aridification during the last 20 My that presumably impacted organisms and fostered the evolution of life history adaptations. We test the hypothesis that shift to living in ant nests and feeding on ant brood by larvae of phyto-predaceous Lepidochrysops butterflies was an adaptive response to the aridification of Africa that facilitated the subsequent radiation of butterflies in this genus. Using anchored hybrid enrichment we constructed a time-calibrated phylogeny for Lepidochrysops and its closest, non-parasitic relatives in the Euchrysops section (Poloyommatini). We estimated ancestral areas across the phylogeny with process-based biogeographical models and diversification rates relying on time-variable and clade-heterogeneous birth-death models. The Euchrysops section originated with the emerging Miombo woodlands about 22 million years ago (Mya) and spread to drier biomes as they became available in the late Miocene. The diversification of the non-parasitic lineages decreased as aridification intensified around 10 Mya, culminating in diversity decline. In contrast, the diversification of the phyto-predaceous Lepidochrysops lineage proceeded rapidly from about 6.5 Mya when this unusual life history likely first evolved. The Miombo woodlands were the cradle for diversification of the Euchrysops section, and our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that aridification during the Miocene selected for a phyto-predaceous life history in species of Lepidochrysops, with ant nests likely providing caterpillars a safe refuge from fire and a source of food when vegetation was scarce.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ecology and Evolution
ISSN
2045-7758
e-ISSN
2045-7758
Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
e10046
UT code for WoS article
000988473400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85160922761