Historical climate change dynamics facilitated speciation and hybridization between highland and lowland species of Baripus ground beetles from Patagonia
Data files
May 12, 2025 version files 25.76 MB
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100Loci_starbeast3.xml
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appendix.xlsx
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elytra.tps
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ibpp_ingroup-300Loci.phy
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matrix.phy
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network.newick
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pronotum.tps
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README.md
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species.trees
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Abstract
One of the largest beetles of Patagonia, Baripus (Cardiophthalmus), includes 20 currently described species. Its distribution ranges from the tip of Patagonia, on Tierra del Fuego Island, to isolated patches along the Andes and Extrandes mountains in northern Patagonia on the Payunia at >3,000 m elevation. Here, using RADseq data, evidence is found of mixed ancestry in different lineages. Phylogenetic network reconstruction shows two hybridizing edges between lowland and highland species. Using environmental niche modeling, we show changes in geographic distribution of potential niches of species during the last glacial maximum compared to their present distribution. Increasing potential niche overlap among different species pairs possibly explains how lineages came into secondary contact, supporting the hypothesis of hybridization. In addition, morphological evolution is studied using geometric morphometrics on the network and evidence of transgressive evolution has been found involving the pronotum shape, as well as highland/lowland habitat preferences. Finally, based on genomics and morphological data and using an integrative coalescent-based species delimitation approach, the separate evolution of two lineages in the early stages of speciation is found. Taken together, the dynamics of diversification of Baripus beetles in both space and time are discussed.
Description of files:
appendix.xlsx: Excel file containing IDs and sampling locations of individuals included in the study
RADseq sheet:
ID: museum ID
Genus: genus
species: species' specific epithet
latitude: geographic coordinate of the sampling location
longitude: geographic coordinate of the sampling location
Data: data type generated
%_missing_DP5: percentage of missing data after applying minimum coverage filter = 5
Biosample accession: NCBI Biosample accession
Tax ID: NCBI tax ID
BioProject: NCBI BioProject accession
Geometric_morphometric sheet:
Genus: genus
species: species' specific epithet
latitude: geographic coordinate of the sampling location
longitude: geographic coordinate of the sampling location
Data: data type generated
elytra.tps: raw tps file for geometric morphometrics for the elytra shape
pronotum.tps: raw tps file for geometric morphometrics for the pronotum shape
matrix.phy: SNP matrix used for trees and network estimations
network.newick: best network estimated by PhyloNetworks in extended newick format
100Loci_starbeast3.xml: starbeast3 input file
species.trees: species trees sampled from the posterior by starbeast analysis
ibpp_ingroup-300Loci.phy: 300 Loci used for ibpp analysis (ingroup only)
- Olave, Melisa; Griotti, Mariana; Carrara, Roldolfo et al. (2023). Historical Climate Change Dynamics Facilitated Speciation and Hybridization Between Highland and Lowland Species of Baripus Ground Beetles From Patagonia. Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists. https://doi.org/10.18061/bssb.v2i3.9263
