Strikingly variable divergence times inferred across an Amazonian butterfly 'suture zone'

Alaine Whinnett, Marie Zimmermann, Keith R. Willmott, Nimiadina Herrera, Ricardo Mallarino, Fraser Simpson, Mathieu Joron, Gerardo Lamas, James Mallet

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'Suture zones' are areas where hybrid and contact zones of multiple taxa are clustered. Such zones have been regarded as strong evidence for allopatric divergence by proponents of the Pleistocene forest refugia theory, a vicariance hypothesis frequently used to explain diversification in the Amazon basin. A central prediction of the refugia and other vicariance theories is that the taxa should have a common history so that divergence times should be coincident among taxa. A suture zone for Ithomiinae butterflies near Tarapoto, NE Peru, was therefore studied to examine divergence times of taxa in contact across the zone. We sequenced 1619 bp of the mitochondrial COI/COII region in 172 individuals of 31 species from across the suture zone. Inferred divergence times differed remarkably, with divergence between some pairs of widespread species (each of which may have two or more subspecies interacting in the zone, as in the genus Melinaea) being considerably less than that between hybridizing subspecies in other genera (for instance in Oleria). Our data therefore strongly refute a simple hypothesis of simultaneous vicariance and suggest that ongoing parapatric or other modes of differentiation in continuous forest may be important in driving diversification in Amazonia.
Idioma originalInglés estadounidense
Páginas (desde-hasta)2525-2533
Número de páginas9
PublicaciónProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Volumen272
N.º1580
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 7 dic. 2005

Palabras clave

  • DNA barcodes
  • Lepidoptera
  • Mitochondrial DNA
  • Phylogeography
  • Pleistocene refuge hypothesis
  • Speciation

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