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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021

Differences in Quaternary co-divergence reveals community-wide diversification in the mountains of southwest China varied among species.

Tao Wan, Jamie R Oaks, Xue-Long Jiang, Huateng Huang, L Lacey Knowles

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Tao WanCollege of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710119, People's Republic of China.
Jamie R OaksDepartment of Biological Sciences and Museum of Natural History, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA.
Xue-Long JiangMammal Ecology and Evolution, State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650223, People's Republic of China.
Huateng HuangCollege of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710119, People's Republic of China.
L Lacey KnowlesDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Kunming Institute of Zoology · CNAuburn University · USShaanxi Normal University · CNUniversity of Michigan · US

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Abstract

The mountains of southwest China (MSWC) is a biodiversity hotspot with highly complex and unusual terrain. However, with the majority of studies focusing on the biogeographic consequences of massive mountain building, the Quaternary legacy of biodiversity for the MSWC has long been overlooked. Here, we took a statistical comparative phylogeography approach to examine factors that shaped community-wide diversification. With data from 30 vertebrate species, the results reveal spatially concordant genetic structure, and temporally clustered co-divergence events associated with river barriers during severe glacial cycles. This indicates the importance of riverine barriers in the phylogeographic history of the MSWC vertebrate community. We conclude that the repeated glacial cycles are associated with co-divergences that are themselves structured by the heterogeneity of the montane landscape of the MSWC. This orderly process of diversification has profound implications for conservation by highlighting the relative independence of different geographical areas in which some, but not all species in communities have responded similarly to climate change and calls for further comparative phylogeographic investigations to reveal the connection between biological traits and divergence pulses in this biodiversity hotspot.

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BiodiversityClimate ChangeChinaGenetic VariationPhylogenyPhylogeographycomparative phylogeographydiversificationfull-likelihood Bayesian computationmountains of southwest Chinariverine barrierspecies pump

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