title: Patterns of morphological, biochemical, and molecular evolution in the Oeneis chryxus complex (Lepidoptera: Satyridae): a test of historical biogeographical hypotheses.
abstract: Surveys of allozyme allele frequency and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence variation were employed to test historical biogeographical hypotheses on the origin and unique distribution of the synchronized biennial, high-altitude butterflies of the Oeneis chryxus complex in western North America. Populations of O. c. stanislaus and O. ivallda from the central and northern Sierra Nevada are indistinguishable by use of allozyme allele frequency data, possessed nearly identical mtDNA cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI) haplotypes, and were found to be relatively distantly related to O. c. chryxus from the Snake Range in eastern Nevada. However, individuals of O. ivallda from Piute Pass in the southern Sierra Nevada are more variable, with some individuals sharing mtDNA characteristics with O. c. chryxus. We find little support for the hypothesis proposed by W. Hovanitz in 1940 that O. c. stanislaus invaded the central Sierra Nevada from across the Great Basin and displaced O. ivallda, but cannot reject the hypothesis that ancestral Oeneis dispersed across the Great Basin to California. This result is congruent with hypotheses of dispersal across the Great Basin for the origin of some Sierran alpine organisms.
authors: Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA. ccnice@facstaff.wisc.edu
authors: C C
authors: CC
authors: Nice
authors: A M
authors: AM
authors: Shapiro
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D000818:Animals; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV / Q000235:genetics; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005843:Geography; D006239:Haplotypes; D007915:Lepidoptera / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D008957:Models, Genetic; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009656:North America; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV