Journal
MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION
Volume 36, Issue 2, Pages 391-404Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.02.015
Keywords
Carabid beetles; genitalia; historical biogeography; molecular clock; molecular phylogeny
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The phylogeny of carabid beetles in the genus Pamborus (Coleoptera: Carabidae), which is endemic to Australia, was studied using one nuclear (phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase) and two mitochondrial (16S ribosomal RNA and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 5) gene sequences, with a cladistic analysis of morphological data. Fourteen species that were morphologically distinguishable were used as ingroup taxa, and Maoripanborus fairburni from New Zealand was assigned as the outgroup. Simultaneous analysis of three gene sequences resulted in well-resolved trees that were largely consistent with the cladogram generated from the morphological data. Based on a clock-like tree calibrated to the New Zealand-Australia/Antarctica split 85 million years ago, it was estimated that extant Pamborus differentiated after the Oligocene, primarily since the mid-Miocene with the onset of a more and climate and forest fragmentation in Australia. The ancestral Pamborus may have been small, whereas medium to large Pamborus species with exaggerated male genitalia constitute derived groups and are now dominant. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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