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Phylogeny of Weinmannia (Cunoniaceae) reveals the contribution of the southern extratropics to tropical Andean biodiversity

Journal
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
ISSN
1055-7903
Date Issued
2025
Author(s)
Ricardo A. Segovia
Eduardo Aguirre-Mazzi
Christine E. Edwards
Alexander G. Linan
Alfredo Fuentes
Andrea Chaspuengal
Kyle G. Dexter
Francisco Fajardo-GutiƩrrez
William Farfan-Rios
Oleas Gallo, Nora Helena
Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y Cambio ClimÔtico
Juan C. Penagos Zuluaga
J. SebastiƔn Tello
Type
journal-article
DOI
10.1016/j.ympev.2025.108399
URL
https://cris.indoamerica.edu.ec/handle/123456789/9257
Abstract
The Andes are a relatively young mountain range with impressive biodiversity, but the biogeographic processes underlying its hyperdiversity are still being unraveled. Novel mid- to high-elevation climates may have served as a biological corridor for the immigration of temperate-adapted lineages to more equatorial latitudes, contributing unknown levels of diversity to this region. We tested the hypothesis that Weinmannia is a lineage of extratropical origin that recently reached and then diversified extensively in the tropical Andes. Using a 2bRAD seq approach to generate a time-calibrated phylogeny for the genus, we found that extratropical species were placed as sister to the rest of Weinmannia and that younger clades were distributed towards more equatorial latitudes. Although Weinmannia exhibited low niche conservatism in elevation and latitude, trait reconstructions of climatic variables showed that the common ancestor of Weinmannia occupied cool climates, with high conservatism of thermal and water availability niche across the phylogeny. Thus, Andean uplift likely created habitats with suitable environmental conditions, providing a dispersal route for extant Weinmannia to colonize the tropical Andes from the southern extratropics. These southern lineages likely converged with those originating in other tropical and extratropical centers of diversification, providing multiple origins for the hyperdiversity in the modern montane forests of the tropical Andes.
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