Evolution of Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) Across the Palearctic Mountains: The Biogeographical Links Between the Caucasus and Adjacent Ranges, Central Asia and the Himalayas
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14310/25:00142305
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/zsc.70009" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/zsc.70009</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zsc.70009" target="_blank" >10.1111/zsc.70009</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Evolution of Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) Across the Palearctic Mountains: The Biogeographical Links Between the Caucasus and Adjacent Ranges, Central Asia and the Himalayas
Original language description
The biodiversity of the highest Palearctic mountains is extraordinary, yet its evolution and biogeographic links from a global perspective remain poorly understood. This study focuses on the diversification and biogeography of mayflies (Ephemeroptera) distributed across several prominent mountain ranges, including the Caucasus and adjacent Mediterranean and Irano-Anatolian ranges, the mountains of Central Asia (Tian Shan and Pamir) and the Himalayas. Using molecular phylogenetic tools applied to our model group Epeorus (Caucasiron), we test whether the most species-rich area, the Caucasus, provided lineages for the Central Asian and Himalayan mayfly diversity. The results showed that Caucasian and Asian E. (Caucasiron) taxa are distinct monophyletic clades that diverged from a widely distributed ancestor in the Middle Miocene. Both clades diversified in situ during the Late Miocene and Pliocene orogeny, with no evidence of dispersal between them. The mayflies of the subgenus E. (Caucasiron) likely originated in Asia and dispersed to the Irano-Anatolian region and the Caucasus, where they subsequently diversified. This dispersion likely occurred due to the regression of the Paratethys Sea, and the early formation of mountains with suitable climatic conditions that linked Central Asia with the Caucasus before the Late Miocene/Pliocene period of intensive aridification. Our study emphasises that historical migration, along with the complex orogenic and climatic history, rather than dispersal from the biodiversity centre, plays a pivotal role in the evolution and biogeography of the Caucasian–Himalayan mountain mayflies. Additionally, a new Asian subgenus, Protoiron subgen. n., was established based on molecular phylogeny and morphology.
Czech name
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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
10616 - Entomology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Zoologica Scripta
ISSN
0300-3256
e-ISSN
1463-6409
Volume of the periodical
54
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
870-883
UT code for WoS article
001556419600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105013664099