Journal
MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION
Volume 66, Issue 1, Pages 341-349Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.10.008
Keywords
Allopatry; Intertidal; Radiation; Subtidal; Speciation; Sympatry
Funding
- Stanford University
- Stanford University VPUE SCORE grant
- Dr. Earl H. Myers and Ethel M. Myers Oceanographic and Marine Biology Trust grant
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With 92 species along the North American Pacific Coast, marine sculpins represent the most species-rich radiation of fishes in this region. I used the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene and the nuclear ribosomal S7 intron for 99 species (76 North American, 19 Asian, and four North Atlantic) to produce the most complete phylogenetic hypothesis yet generated for this assemblage. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses produced highly similar tree topologies. While many previously proposed groupings based on morphology are recovered, the molecular data suggest that a number of genera are para- or polyphyletic. However, this analysis supports the monophyly of one large clade that is found exclusively along the North American Pacific Coast (Chitonotous-Ruscarius-Artedius-Orthonopius-Clinocottus-Leiocottus-Oligocottus). Some sibling species have disjunct ranges, suggesting allopatric speciation. However, many other sibling species have largely overlapping ranges, and repeated habitat shifts appear to have facilitated diversification. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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