Mesozoic origin and 'out-of-India' radiation of ricefishes (Adrianichthyidae)

The Indian subcontinent has an origin geologically different from Eurasia, but many terrestrial animal and plant species on it have congeneric or sister species in other parts of Asia, especially in the Southeast. This faunal and floral similarity between India and Southeast Asia is explained by eit...

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Published in:Biology letters (2005) 2021-08, Vol.17 (8), p.20210212-20210212
Main Authors: Yamahira, Kazunori, Ansai, Satoshi, Kakioka, Ryo, Yaguchi, Hajime, Kon, Takeshi, Montenegro, Javier, Kobayashi, Hirozumi, Fujimoto, Shingo, Kimura, Ryosuke, Takehana, Yusuke, Setiamarga, Davin H E, Takami, Yasuoki, Tanaka, Rieko, Maeda, Ken, Tran, Hau D, Koizumi, Noriyuki, Morioka, Shinsuke, Bounsong, Vongvichith, Watanabe, Katsutoshi, Musikasinthorn, Prachya, Tun, Sein, Yun, L K C, Masengi, Kawilarang W A, Anoop, V K, Raghavan, Rajeev, Kitano, Jun
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Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Asia, Southeastern
Biodiversity
Evolutionary Biology
India
Oryzias
Phylogeny
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Summary:The Indian subcontinent has an origin geologically different from Eurasia, but many terrestrial animal and plant species on it have congeneric or sister species in other parts of Asia, especially in the Southeast. This faunal and floral similarity between India and Southeast Asia is explained by either of the two biogeographic scenarios, 'into-India' or 'out-of-India'. Phylogenies based on complete mitochondrial genomes and five nuclear genes were undertaken for ricefishes (Adrianichthyidae) to examine which of these two biogeographic scenarios fits better. We found that , the only adrianichthyid distributed in and endemic to the Western Ghats, a mountain range running parallel to the western coast of the Indian subcontinent, is sister to all other adrianichthyids from eastern India and Southeast-East Asia. Divergence time estimates and ancestral area reconstructions reveal that this western Indian species diverged in the late Mesozoic during the northward drift of the Indian subcontinent. These findings indicate that adrianichthyids dispersed eastward 'out-of-India' after the collision of the Indian subcontinent with Eurasia, and subsequently diversified in Southeast-East Asia. A review of geographic distributions of 'out-of-India' taxa reveals that they may have largely fuelled or modified the biodiversity of Eurasia.
ISSN:1744-957X
1744-9561
1744-957X
DOI:10.1098/rsbl.2021.0212