期刊
EVOLUTION
卷 65, 期 7, 页码 1841-1850出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01265.x
关键词
Colless' imbalance; diversity; fission; migration; point mutation; speciation
资金
- National Science Foundation [EF-0553768, DEB 0346488]
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- State of California
- Microsoft Research Ltd., Cambridge, United Kingdom
Numerous evolutionary studies have sought to explain the distribution of diversity across the limbs of the tree of life. At the same time, ecological studies have sought to explain differences in diversity and relative abundance within and among ecological communities. Traditionally, these patterns have been considered separately, but models that consider processes operating at the level of individuals, such as neutral biodiversity theory (NBT), can provide a link between them. Here, we compare evolutionary dynamics across a suite of NBT models. We show that NBT can yield phylogenetic tree topologies with imbalance closely resembling empirical observations. In general, metacommunities that exhibit greater disparity in abundance are characterized by more imbalanced phylogenetic trees. However, NBT fails to capture the tempo of diversification as represented by the distribution of branching events through time. We suggest that population-level processes might therefore help explain the asymmetry of phylogenetic trees, but that tree shape might mislead estimates of evolutionary rates unless the diversification process is modeled explicitly.
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