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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Fine-scale comparative phylogeography of a sympatric sister species triplet of subterranean diving beetles from a single calcrete aquifer in Western Australia |
Author: | Guzik, M. Cooper, S. Humphreys, W. Austin, A. |
Citation: | Molecular Ecology, 2009; 18(17):3683-3698 |
Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing Ltd |
Issue Date: | 2009 |
ISSN: | 0962-1083 1365-294X |
Statement of Responsibility: | M. T. Guzik, S. J. B. Cooper, W. F. Humphreys and A. D. Austin |
Abstract: | Calcrete aquifers in the arid Yilgarn region of central Western Australia are a biodiversity hotspot for stygofauna. A distinct pattern of interspecific size class variation among subterranean dytiscid beetle species has been observed in 29 of these aquifers where either two or three small, medium and/or large sympatric species are found that are in some cases sister species. We used a 3.5 km2 grid of bores to sample dytiscids on a fine-scale and employed a comparative phylogeographical and population genetic approach to investigate the origins of a sympatric sister species triplet of diving beetles from a single aquifer. Mitochondrial DNA sequence data from the Cytochrome oxidase c subunit I gene revealed that all three species have high levels of haplotype diversity with ancient (∼1 million years ago) intra-specific coalescence of haplotypes, but low levels of nucleotide diversity. Population analyses provide evidence for multiple expansion events within each species. There was spatial heterogeneity in the distribution of genetic variation and abundance both within and among the three taxa. Population analyses revealed significant fine-scale differentiation with isolation by distance for Paroster macrosturtensis and P. mesosturtensis, but not the smallest species P. microsturtensis. Haplotype network analyses provided limited or no evidence for past population fragmentation within the large and small species, but substantial historical divergence was observed in P. mesosturtensis that was not spatially structured. A patchy population structure with contemporaneous and historical isolation by distance in the three species is likely to have been a significant isolating and diversifying force, preventing us from ruling out a potential role for allopatric divergence during speciation of this beetle sister triplet. |
Keywords: | comparative phylogeography dytiscid diving beetles isolating processes Paroster macrosturtensis Paroster mesosturtensis Paroster microsturtensis population genetics speciation stygofauna Western Australia |
Description: | © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04296.x |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP0348753 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2009.04296.x |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest Environment Institute Leaders publications Environment Institute publications Molecular and Biomedical Science publications |
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