Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the Hawaiian craneflies Dicranomyia (Diptera: Limoniidae).
The Hawaiian Diptera offer an opportunity to compare patterns of diversification across large and small endemic radiations with varying species richness and levels of single island endemism. The craneflies (Limoniidae: Dicranomyia) represent a small radiation of 13 described species that have diversified within the Hawaiian Islands. We used Bayesian and maximum likelihood approaches to generate a molecular phylogeny of the Hawaiian Dicranomyia using a combination of nuclear and mitochondrial loci, estimated divergence times and reconstructed ancestral ranges. Divergence time estimation and ancestral range reconstruction suggest that the colonization that led to most of the diversity within the craneflies arrived prior to the formation of Kauai and demonstrates that the two major clades within that radiation contrast sharply in their patterns of diversification.
Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America ; Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America.
Kari Roesch
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Goodman
Patrick
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O'Grady
D000818:Animals; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D004175:Diptera / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D049810:Genetic Speciation; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006254:Hawaii; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D010802:Phylogeny; D058974:Phylogeography; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013997:Time Factors
D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial