iScience (Apr 2024)
Comprehensive phylogeny of Pieridae butterflies reveals strong correlation between diversification and temperature
- Ana Paula S. Carvalho,
- Hannah L. Owens,
- Ryan A. St Laurent,
- Chandra Earl,
- Kelly M. Dexter,
- Rebeccah L. Messcher,
- Keith R. Willmott,
- Kwaku Aduse-Poku,
- Steve C. Collins,
- Nicholas T. Homziak,
- Sugihiko Hoshizaki,
- Yu-Feng Hsu,
- Athulya G. Kizhakke,
- Krushnamegh Kunte,
- Dino J. Martins,
- Nicolás O. Mega,
- Sadaharu Morinaka,
- Djunijanti Peggie,
- Helena P. Romanowski,
- Szabolcs Sáfián,
- Roger Vila,
- Houshuai Wang,
- Michael F. Braby,
- Marianne Espeland,
- Jesse W. Breinholt,
- Naomi E. Pierce,
- Akito Y. Kawahara,
- David J. Lohman
Affiliations
- Ana Paula S. Carvalho
- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL, USA; Corresponding author
- Hannah L. Owens
- Center for Global Mountain Biodiversity, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Ryan A. St Laurent
- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL, USA; Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA
- Chandra Earl
- Department of Natural Sciences, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI, USA
- Kelly M. Dexter
- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Rebeccah L. Messcher
- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Keith R. Willmott
- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Kwaku Aduse-Poku
- Biology Department, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA
- Steve C. Collins
- African Butterfly Research Institute, Karen, Nairobi, Kenya
- Nicholas T. Homziak
- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL, USA; Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Sugihiko Hoshizaki
- Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Yu-Feng Hsu
- Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C
- Athulya G. Kizhakke
- National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, GKVK Campus, Bengaluru, India
- Krushnamegh Kunte
- National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, GKVK Campus, Bengaluru, India
- Dino J. Martins
- Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA; Insect Committee of Nature Kenya, The East Africa Natural History Society, Nairobi, Kenya
- Nicolás O. Mega
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
- Sadaharu Morinaka
- Saitama Study Center, The Open University of Japan, Omiya-ku, Saitama City, Japan
- Djunijanti Peggie
- Museum Zoologi Bogor, Research Center for Biosystematics and Evolution, Research Organization for Life Sciences and Environment, National Research and Innovation Agency, Cibinong, Bogor, Indonesia
- Helena P. Romanowski
- Laboratório de Ecologia de Insetos, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
- Szabolcs Sáfián
- African Butterfly Research Institute, Karen, Nairobi, Kenya; Institute of Silviculture and Forest Protection, University of Sopron, Sopron, Hungary
- Roger Vila
- Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-Univ. Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain
- Houshuai Wang
- Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
- Michael F. Braby
- Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Acton, ACT, Australia; Australian National Insect Collection, National Research Collections Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
- Marianne Espeland
- Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Museum Koenig, Bonn, Germany
- Jesse W. Breinholt
- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL, USA; Intermountain Healthcare, Intermountain Precision Genomics, St. George, UT, USA
- Naomi E. Pierce
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Akito Y. Kawahara
- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL, USA; Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA; Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- David J. Lohman
- Department of Biology, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA; PhD Program in Biology, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA; Entomology Section, National Museum of Natural History, Manila, Philippines
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 27,
no. 4
p. 109336
Abstract
Summary: Temperature is thought to be a key factor influencing global species richness patterns. We investigate the link between temperature and diversification in the butterfly family Pieridae by combining next generation DNA sequences and published molecular data with fine-grained distribution data. We sampled nearly 600 pierid butterfly species to infer the most comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the family and curated a distribution dataset of more than 800,000 occurrences. We found strong evidence that species in environments with more stable daily temperatures or cooler maximum temperatures in the warm seasons have higher speciation rates. Furthermore, speciation and extinction rates decreased in tandem with global temperatures through geological time, resulting in a constant net diversification.
