[TABD] Cambio climatico global es bueno para las mariposas

[Carlos Pena]

Hola a todos,


Solo para decirles que nuestro ultimo articulo acaba de salir publicado hace unas horas en Biology 
Letters:

Peña, C., & N. Wahlberg. 2008. Prehistorical climate change increased diversification of a group
of butterflies. Biology Letters.

DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0062
URL: http://journals.royalsociety.org/content/80852202q0048180/
URL pirata: http://nymphalidae.utu.fi/PenaWahlberg2008.pdf


Este es el "abstract"

Satyrinae butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) and grasses (Poaceae) are very diverse and
distributed worldwide. Most Satyrinae use grasses as host plants, but the temporal scale of
this tight association is not known. Here, we present a phylogenetic study of Satyrinae
butterflies and related groups, based on 5.1 kilobases from six gene regions and 238 morphological
characters for all major lineages in the ‘satyrine clade’. Estimates of divergence times calibrated
using a fossil from the Late Oligocene indicate that the species-rich tribe Satyrini diversified to
its current 2200 species simultaneously with the expansion and radiation of grasses during the
dramatic cooling and drying up of the Earth in the Oligocene. We suggest that the adaptive
radiation of grass feeders in Satyrini has been facilitated by the ubiquitousness of grasses since
25 Myr ago, which was triggered by a change in global climate.



ps. perdón por envio doble o "spamming" ;-)


carlos



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Carlos Peña
Department of Zoology
Stockholm University
S-106 91 Stockholm
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