J 2022

Diversification in Caucasian Epeorus (Caucasiron) mayflies (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae) follows topographic deformation along the Greater Caucasus range

HRIVNIAK, Ľuboš, Pavel SROKA, Roman J, GODUNKO, Peter MANKO, Jindřiška BOJKOVÁ et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Diversification in Caucasian Epeorus (Caucasiron) mayflies (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae) follows topographic deformation along the Greater Caucasus range

Authors

HRIVNIAK, Ľuboš (703 Slovakia), Pavel SROKA, Roman J, GODUNKO, Peter MANKO and Jindřiška BOJKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Systematic Entomology, Wiley, 2022, 0307-6970

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10602 Biology , Evolutionary biology

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 4.800

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/22:00126706

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

UT WoS

000852651900006

Keywords in English

aquatic insects; barcoding; Caucasus; orogeny; phylogeny; speciation

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 22/3/2023 09:42, Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS.

Abstract

V originále

The evolution and distribution of mountain biota are closely linked with mountain formation and topographic complexity. Here we explore the diversification of cold-tolerant mayflies of the subgenus Epeorus (Caucasiron) in the south-eastern Greater Caucasus, an area of dynamic changes in topography since the Miocene, driven by the convergence of the Greater and Lesser Caucasus. We hypothesized that orogenic processes promoted the diversification of E. (Caucasiron) and that the resultant diversification pattern followed the timing and progress of mountain formation along the range. A new evolutionary lineage of E. (Caucasiron) distributed in the central-eastern Greater Caucasus was found and described as Epeorus (Caucasiron) tripertitus sp.n. It consists of three clades clearly differentiated based on mitochondrial sequence data, but indistinguishable by morphological traits. Based on a time-calibrated phylogeny using mitochondrial (COI, 16S) and nuclear (EF, wg, 28S) markers, we found that a gradual allopatric diversification of the ancestral population of E. (C.) tripertitus sp.n. dated to a period lasting from the late Miocene to the Pleistocene spread eastward along the range. This pattern corresponded with the process of topographic deformation which started in the central part of the range in the Miocene and progressed to the east during the Pliocene/Pleistocene. The results implied the dominant role of mountain building on the biotic diversification of this region and continuing recent speciation in the south-eastern part of the mountains.