Nature Communications (Jan 2025)
Speciation and historical invasions of the Asian black-spined toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus)
- Christophe Dufresnes,
- Daniel Jablonski,
- Johanna Ambu,
- Vishal Kumar Prasad,
- Kumudani Bala Gautam,
- Rachunliu G. Kamei,
- Stephen Mahony,
- Sylvia Hofmann,
- Rafaqat Masroor,
- Bérénice Alard,
- Angelica Crottini,
- Devin Edmonds,
- Annemarie Ohler,
- Jianping Jiang,
- Janak R. Khatiwada,
- Sandeep Kumar Gupta,
- Amaël Borzée,
- Leo J. Borkin,
- Dmitriy V. Skorinov,
- Daniel A. Melnikov,
- Konstantin D. Milto,
- Evgeny L. Konstantinov,
- Sven Künzel,
- Tomasz Suchan,
- Dmitriy V. Arkhipov,
- Alexei V. Trofimets,
- Tan Van Nguyen,
- Chatmongkon Suwannapoom,
- Spartak N. Litvinchuk,
- Nikolay A. Poyarkov
Affiliations
- Christophe Dufresnes
- Laboratory for Amphibian Systematics and Evolutionary Research, College of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing Forestry University
- Daniel Jablonski
- Department of Zoology, Comenius University in Bratislava
- Johanna Ambu
- Laboratory for Amphibian Systematics and Evolutionary Research, College of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing Forestry University
- Vishal Kumar Prasad
- Laboratory of Animal Behaviour and Conservation, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Forestry University
- Kumudani Bala Gautam
- Wildlife Institute of India
- Rachunliu G. Kamei
- Amphibians and Reptiles Collections, Gantz Family Collections Center, The Field Museum of Natural History
- Stephen Mahony
- Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum
- Sylvia Hofmann
- Leibniz Institute of the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Museum Koenig
- Rafaqat Masroor
- Zoological Sciences Division, Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Garden Avenue, Shakarparian
- Bérénice Alard
- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto
- Angelica Crottini
- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto
- Devin Edmonds
- Association Mitsinjo
- Annemarie Ohler
- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE-PSL, Université des Antilles, 55 rue Buffon, CP 51
- Jianping Jiang
- Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Janak R. Khatiwada
- Department of Biology, Lakehead University
- Sandeep Kumar Gupta
- Wildlife Institute of India
- Amaël Borzée
- Laboratory of Animal Behaviour and Conservation, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Forestry University
- Leo J. Borkin
- Laboratory of Herpetology, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1
- Dmitriy V. Skorinov
- Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tikhoretsky prosp. 4
- Daniel A. Melnikov
- Laboratory of Herpetology, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1
- Konstantin D. Milto
- Laboratory of Herpetology, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1
- Evgeny L. Konstantinov
- Kaluga State University named after K.E. Tsiolkovski
- Sven Künzel
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
- Tomasz Suchan
- W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lubicz, 46
- Dmitriy V. Arkhipov
- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskiye Gory, 10 GSP–1
- Alexei V. Trofimets
- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskiye Gory, 10 GSP–1
- Tan Van Nguyen
- Institute for Research and Training in Medicine, Biology and Pharmacy, Duy Tan University
- Chatmongkon Suwannapoom
- Division of Fishery, School of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Phayao
- Spartak N. Litvinchuk
- Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tikhoretsky prosp. 4
- Nikolay A. Poyarkov
- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskiye Gory, 10 GSP–1
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54933-4
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 16,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 14
Abstract
Abstract Animal translocations provide striking examples of the human footprint on biodiversity. Combining continental-wide genomic and DNA-barcoding analyses, we reconstructed the historical biogeography of the Asian black-spined toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus), a toxic commensal amphibian that currently threatens two biodiversity hotspots through biological invasions (Wallacea and Madagascar). The results emphasize a complex diversification shaped by speciation and mitochondrial introgression that comprises two distinct species. One species (true D. melanostictus) is distributed in the Indian subcontinent and is invasive in Wallacea. The other species, whose nomenclature remains unsettled, diverged from D. melanostictus in the Miocene era (~7 Mya) and diversified across Southeast Asia, from where it was introduced to Madagascar. Remarkably, the Indonesian population of D. melanostictus was recently established from India, which suggests historical, possibly human-assisted dispersal across the Bay of Bengal, reflecting the centuries-old connection between these regions.
