Unraveling the macroevolution of horseshoe bats(Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae: Rhinolophus)  

作　　者：Wei-Jian Guo Yi Wu Kai He Yi-Bo Hu Xiao-Yun Wang Wen-Hua Yu 

机构地区：[1]Key Laboratory of Conservation and Application in Biodiversity of South China,School of Life Sciences,Guangzhou University,Guangzhou,Guangdong 510000,China [2]CAS Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology,Institute of Zoology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100101,China

出　　处：《Zoological Research》2023年第1期169-182,共14页动物学研究（英文）

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31970394,32192421,31300314);Special Foundation for National Science and Technology Basic Research Program of China(2021FY100303)。

摘　　要：Unraveling the diversification mechanisms of organisms is a fundamental and important macroevolutionary question regarding the diversity,ecological niche, and morphological divergence of life. However, many studies have only explored diversification mechanisms via isolated factors. Here,based on comparative phylogenetic analysis, we performed a macroevolutionary examination of horseshoe bats(Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae:Rhinolophus), to reveal the inter-relationships among diversification, intrinsic/extrinsic factors, and climatic ecological niche characteristics. Results showed a general slowing trajectory during diversification, with two dispersal events from Asia into Southeast Asia and Africa playing key roles in shaping regional heterogeneous diversity. Morphospace expansions of the investigated traits(e.g., body size,echolocation, and climate niche) revealed a decoupled pattern between diversification trajectory and trait divergence, suggesting that other factors(e.g., biotic interactions) potentially played a key role in recent diversification. Based on ancestral traits and pathway analyses, most Rhinolophus lineages belonging to the same region overlapped with each other geographically and were positively associated with the diversification rate, implying a competitive prelude to speciation. Overall, our study showed that multiple approaches need to be integrated to address diversification history. Rather than a single factor, the joint effects of multiple factors(biogeography, environmental drivers, and competition) are responsible for the current diversity patterns in horseshoe bats, and a corresponding multifaceted strategy is recommended to study these patterns in the future.

关 键 词：Diversification RHINOLOPHUS Historical biogeography Abiotic/Biotic factors Climatic niche characteristics Competition 

分 类 号：Q959[生物学—动物学]