Data from: Paleoclimatic evolution as the main driver of current genomic diversity in the widespread and polymorphic Neotropical songbird Arremon taciturnus

Buainain, Nelson, National Institute of Amazonian Research

Canton, Roberta, Louisiana State University

Zuquim, Gabriela, University of Turku

Tuomisto, Hanna, University of Turku

Hrbek, Tomas, Federal University of Amazonas

Sato, Hiromitsu, University of Toronto

Ribas, Camila, National Institute of Amazonian Research

nnbuainain@gmail.com

Published Jun 29, 2020 on Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.280gb5mnd

Cite this dataset

Buainain, Nelson et al. (2020). Data from: Paleoclimatic evolution as the main driver of current genomic diversity in the widespread and polymorphic Neotropical songbird Arremon taciturnus [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.280gb5mnd

Abstract

Several factors have been proposed as drivers of species diversification in the Neotropics, including environmental heterogeneity, the development of drainage systems and historical changes in forest distribution due to climatic oscillations. Here, we investigate which drivers contributed to the evolutionary history and current patterns of diversity of a polymorphic songbird (Arremon taciturnus) that is widely distributed in Amazonian and Atlantic forests as well as in Cerrado gallery and seasonally-dry forests. We use genomic, phenotypic and habitat heterogeneity data coupled with climatic niche modeling. Results suggest the evolutionary history of the species is mainly related to paleoclimatic changes, although changes in the strength of the Amazon river as a barrier to dispersal, current habitat heterogeneity and geographic distance were also relevant. We propose an ancestral distribution in the Guyana Shield, and recent colonization of areas south of the Amazon river at ~380–166 kya, expansion of distribution to southern Amazonia, Cerrado and the Atlantic Forest. Since then, populations south of the Amazon River have been subjected to cycles of isolation and possibly secondary contact due to climatic changes that affected habitat heterogeneity and population connectivity. Most Amazonian rivers are not associated to long lasting isolation of populations, but some might act as secondary barriers, susceptible to crossing under specific climatic conditions. Morphological variation, while stable in some parts of the distribution, is not a reliable indicator of genetic structure or phylogenetic relationships.

Usage notes

files descriptions:

*UCE.zip - raw data and cleanreads for the UCE dataset

*ddRAD.zip - raw and demultiplexed data for the ddRAD dataset

input.zip - input files (alignments and SNP matrices) for STRUCTURE, G-PHOCS, IQ-TREE, SVDQuartets and ARLEQUIN

env.zip - raw environmental variables used to generate environmental distances, and isolation by resistance matrix generated by circuitscape used as climatic distance matrix.

*barcodes information necessary to demultiplex files can be found inside each dataset type (UCE/ddRAD) folder.