Molecular Evolution and Adaptive RadiationThomas J. Givnish, Kenneth J. Sytsma Molecular Evolution and Adaptive Radiation surveys recent advances in the study of adaptive radiation by bringing together a set of international experts investigating a wide range of organisms in a variety of geographic settings. Givnish and Sytsma show how family trees derived from molecular characters can be used to analyze the origin and pattern of ecological and morphological diversification within a lineage in a noncircular fashion. They synthesize the recent explosion of research in this area, involving organisms as diverse as epiphytic and terrestrial orchids, water hyacinths, African cichlids, New World monkeys, tropical fruit bats, carnivorous bromeliads, Hawaiian silverswords and fruit flies, North American Daphnia, Caribbean anoles, Canadian sticklebacks, and Australian marsupials. This volume will be of interest to graduate students and professional scientists in ecology, evolutionary biology, systematics, and biogeography. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
HOMOPLASY IN MOLECULAR VS MORPHOLOGICAL DATA THE LIKELIHOOD OF CORRECT PHYLOGENETIC INFERENCE | 55 |
INTEGRATIVE STUDIES | 103 |
THE CHRONICLE OF MARSUPIAL EVOLUTION | 129 |
EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS OF PHENOTYPIC DIVERSITY IN DAPHNIA | 163 |
EVOLUTIONARY TRENDS IN THE ECOLOGY OF NEW WORLD MONKEYS INFERRED FROM A COMBINED PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS ... | 189 |
ADAPTIVE RADIATION IN THE AQUATIC PLANT FAMILY PONTEDERIACEAE INSIGHTS FROM PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS | 225 |
MOLECULAR EVOLUTION AND ADAPTIVE RADIATION IN BROCCHINIA BROMELIACEAE PITCAIRNIOIDEAE ATOP TEPUIS OF THE G... | 259 |
RAPID RADIATION DUE TO A KEY INNOVATION IN COLUMBINES RANUNCULACEAE AQUILEGIA | 391 |
ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF ARGYRANTHEMUM ASTERACEAE ANTHEMIDEAE IN MACARONESIA | 407 |
REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES | 433 |
PHYLOGENETIC PERSPECTIVES ON THE EVOLUTION OF DIOECY ADAPTIVE RADIATION IN THE ENDEMIC HAWAIIAN GENERA SC... | 455 |
ECOLOGICAL AND REPRODUCTIVE SHIFTS IN THE DIVERSIFICATION OF THE ENDEMIC HAWAIIAN DROSOPHILA | 475 |
HISTORY OF ECOLOGICAL SELECTION IN STICKLEBACKS UNITING EXPERIMENTAL AND PHYLOGENETIC APPROACHES | 511 |
PHYLOGENETIC STUDIES OF CONVERGENT ADAPTIVE RADIATIONS IN CARIBBEAN ANOLIS LIZARDS | 535 |
MOLECULAR AND MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION DURING THE POSTPALAEOZOIC DIVERSIFICATION OF ECHINOIDS | 559 |
YOU ARENT ALWAYS WHAT YOU EAT EVOLUTION OF NECTARFEEDING AMONG OLD WORLD FRUITBATS MEGACHIROPTERA PTE... | 313 |
LEAPFROG RADIATION IN FLORAL AND VEGETATIVE TRAITS AMONG TWIG EPIPHYTES IN THE ORCHID SUBTRIBE ONCIDIINAE | 331 |
ADAPTATION CLADOGENESIS AND THE EVOLUTION OF HABITAT ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICAN TIGER BEETLES A PHYLOG... | 353 |
RAPID RADIATIONS | 375 |
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adaptive radiation American ancestor aquatic Argyranthemum Asteraceae Baldwin biogeography Biology bootstrap breeding Brocchinia character-states characters chloroplast chloroplast DNA cichlid fishes cichlids clade cladistic convergence correlated cpDNA Daphnia data sets divergence diversification DNA sequences Donoghue Drosophila Dubautia ecological ecomorph endemic epiphytes evidence evolution evolutionary evolved Figure floral flowers forest Francisco-Ortega gene genera genetic genome genus Givnish Guayana Shield habitat Hawaiian drosophilids hechtioides homoplasy hybridization hypothesis inferred islands key innovation Kinzey Kirsch Lake Malawi leaf Limnetic lineage Maddison marsupials melanacra Meyer micrantha mitochondrial molecular data molecular phylogeny Molecular systematics monkeys monophyletic monophyly morphological morphological data nrDNA number of taxa occur outgroup parsimonious patterns phylogenetic phylogenetic analysis plants Platanthera pollination Pontederiaceae populations rates rbcL reconstruction reducta relationships reproductive restriction-site rRNA Sanderson Schluter selection sequence data shifts silversword alliance sister-group Soltis speciation species studies subsp substrate sympatric Sytsma taxon taxonomic tepuis tion topology traits tree twig epiphytes University Press variation