Comprehensive phylogeny of Pieridae butterflies reveals strong correlation between diversification and temperature.
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- Carvalho APS; McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL, USA.; Owens HL; 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.; St Laurent RA; 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.; Earl C; Department of Natural Sciences, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI, USA.; Dexter KM; McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL, USA.; Messcher RL; McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL, USA.; Willmott KR; McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL, USA.; Aduse-Poku K; Biology Department, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA.; Collins SC; African Butterfly Research Institute, Karen, Nairobi, Kenya.; Homziak NT; 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.; Hoshizaki S; Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.; Hsu YF; Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.; Kizhakke AG; National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, GKVK Campus, Bengaluru, India.; Kunte K; National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, GKVK Campus, Bengaluru, India.; Martins DJ; Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.; Insect Committee of Nature Kenya, The East Africa Natural History Society, Nairobi, Kenya.; Mega NO; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.; Morinaka S; Saitama Study Center, The Open University of Japan, Omiya-ku, Saitama City, Japan.; Peggie D; Museum Zoologi Bogor, Research Center for Biosystematics and Evolution, Research Organization for Life Sciences and Environment, National Research and Innovation Agency, Cibinong, Bogor, Indonesia.; Romanowski HP; Laboratório de Ecologia de Insetos, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.; Sáfián S; African Butterfly Research Institute, Karen, Nairobi, Kenya.; Institute of Silviculture and Forest Protection, University of Sopron, Sopron, Hungary.; Vila R; Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-Univ. Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain.; Wang H; Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.; Braby MF; 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.; Espeland M; Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Museum Koenig, Bonn, Germany.; Breinholt JW; McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL, USA.; Intermountain Healthcare, Intermountain Precision Genomics, St. George, UT, USA.; Pierce NE; Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.; Kawahara AY; 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.; Lohman DJ; 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.
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- Publisher: Cell Press Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101724038 Publication Model: eCollection Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2589-0042 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 25890042 NLM ISO Abbreviation: iScience Subsets: PubMed not MEDLINE
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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.
Competing Interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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