The evolutionary history of the ancient weevil family Belidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) reveals the marks of Gondwana breakup and major floristic turnovers, including the rise of angiosperms

被引：1

作者：

Li, Xuankun ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Marvaldi, Adriana E. ^{[4
,5
]}

Oberprieler, Rolf G. ^{[6
]}

Clarke, Dave ^{[2
,3
]}

Farrell, Brian D. ^{[7
]}

Sequeira, Andrea ^{[8
]}

Ferrer, M. Silvia ^{[5
]}

O'Brien, Charles ^{[9
]}

Salzman, Shayla ^{[10
]}

Shin, Seunggwan ^{[11
]}

Tang, William ^{[12
]}

McKenna, Duane D. ^{[2
,3
]}

机构：

[1] China Agr Univ, Dept Entomol, Coll Plant Protect, Beijing, Peoples R China

[2] Univ Memphis, Dept Biol Sci, Memphis, TN 38152 USA

[3] Univ Memphis, Ctr Biodivers Res, Memphis, TN USA

[4] Univ Nacl La Plata, CONICET, Fac Ciencias Natur Museo, Div Entomol, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina

[5] Inst Argentino Invest Zonas aridas, CONICET, Entomol, Mendoza, Argentina

[6] CSIRO, Australian Natl Insect Collect, Canberra, ACT, Australia

[7] Harvard Univ, Dept Organism & Evolutionary Biol, Cambridge, MA USA

[8] Wellesley Coll, Dept Biol Sci, Wellesley, MA USA

[9] West Calle Balaustre, Green Valley, AZ USA

[10] Univ Georgia, Dept Entomol, Athens, GA USA

[11] Seoul Natl Univ, Sch Biol Sci, Seoul, South Korea

[12] Florida State Collect Arthropods, Florida Dept Agr DPI, Gainesville, FL USA

来源：

ELIFE | 2024年 / 13卷

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

angiosperms; beetles; biogeography; gymnosperms; host shifts; phytophagy; MODEL SELECTION; ADAPTIVE RADIATION; TEMPORAL LAGS; SINGLE-COPY; PHYLOGENY; LIKELIHOOD; DIVERSIFICATION; BIOGEOGRAPHY; OXYCORYNINAE; ALIGNMENT;

D O I：

10.7554/eLife.97552

中图分类号：

Q [生物科学];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

The rise of angiosperms to ecological dominance and the breakup of Gondwana during the Mesozoic marked major transitions in the evolutionary history of insect-plant interactions. To elucidate how contemporary trophic interactions were influenced by host plant shifts and palaeogeographical events, we integrated molecular data with information from the fossil record to construct a time tree for ancient phytophagous weevils of the beetle family Belidae. Our analyses indicate that crown-group Belidae originated approximately 138 Ma ago in Gondwana, associated with Pinopsida (conifer) host plants, with larvae likely developing in dead/decaying branches. Belids tracked their host plants as major plate movements occurred during Gondwana's breakup, surviving on distant, disjunct landmasses. Some belids shifted to Angiospermae and Cycadopsida when and where conifers declined, evolving new trophic interactions, including brood-pollination mutualisms with cycads and associations with achlorophyllous parasitic angiosperms. Extant radiations of belids in the genera Rhinotia (Australian region) and Proterhinus (Hawaiian Islands) have relatively recent origins.conifer hosts on the newly formed land masses. However, when conifers became less common, some of the beetles switched to feeding and developing larvae on flowering plants instead, diversifying again.Understanding how changes in the availability of plants and the Earth's geography have affected insects in the past can help scientists understand evolutionary history as well as current ecosystem stability and biodiversity. With further research, this may help scientists to devise strategies to better manage and preserve ecosystems.

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