Parachute geckos free fall into synonymy: Gekko phylogeny, and a new subgeneric classification, inferred from thousands of ultraconserved elements
Parachute geckos free fall into synonymy: Gekko phylogeny, and a new subgeneric classification, inferred from thousands of ultraconserved elements
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降落伞壁虎自由落体为同义词:壁虎系统发育,以及从数千个超保守元素推断出的新亚属分类
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10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106731
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发表时间:
2020
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4.1
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Andersen, Michael J.
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Wood, Perry L.;Guo, Xianguang;Travers, Scott L.;Su, Yong-Chao;Olson, Karen V.;Bauer, Aaron M.;Grismer, L. Lee;Siler, Cameron D.;Moyle, Robert G.;Andersen, Michael J.
Recent phylogenetic studies of gekkonid lizards have revealed unexpected, widespread paraphyly and polyphyly among genera, unclear generic boundaries, and a tendency towards the nesting of taxa exhibiting specialized, apomorphic morphologies within geographically widespread “generalist” clades. This is especially true in Australasia, where monophyly ofGekkoproper has been questioned with respect to phenotypically ornate flap-legged geckos of the genusLuperosaurus, the Philippine false geckos of the genusPseudogekko, and even the elaborately “derived” parachute geckos of the genusPtychozoon. Here we employ sequence capture targeting 5060 ultraconserved elements (UCEs) to infer phylogenomic relationships among 42 representative ingroup gekkonine lizard taxa. We analyze multiple datasets of varying degrees of completeness (10, 50, 75, 95, and 100 percent complete with 4715, 4051, 3376, 2366, and 772 UCEs, respectively) using concatenated maximum likelihood and multispecies coalescent methods. Our sampling scheme addresses four persistent systematic questions in this group: (1) AreLuperosaurusandPtychozoonmonophyletic, and are any of these named species truly nested withinGekko? (2) Are prior phylogenetic estimates of Sulawesi’sL. iskandarias the sister taxon to MelanesianG. vittatussupported by our genome-scale dataset? (3) Is the high-elevationL. gulatof Palawan Island correctly placed withinGekko? (4) And, finally, where do the enigmatic taxaP. rhacophorusandL. brownifall in a higher-level gekkonid phylogeny? We resolve these issues; confirm with strong support some previously inferred findings (placement ofPtychozoontaxa withinGekko;the sister taxon relationship betweenL. iskandariandG. vittatus); resolve the systematic position of unplaced taxa (L. gulat,andL. browni); and transferL. iskandari,L. gulat,L. browni, and all members of the genusPtychozoonto the genusGekko. Our unexpected and novel systematic inference of the placement ofPtychozoon rhacophorussuggests that this species is not grouped withPtychozoonor evenLuperosaurus(as previously expected) but may, in fact, be most closely related to several Indochinese species ofGekko. With our resolved and strongly supported phylogeny, we present a new classification emphasizing the most inclusive, original generic name (Gekko) for these ~60 taxa, arranged into seven subgenera.