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| Title |
Loss of flight promotes beetle diversification
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Nature Communications, January 2012
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| DOI | 10.1038/ncomms1659 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Hiroshi Ikeda, Masaaki Nishikawa, Teiji Sota |
| Abstract |
The evolution of flight is a key innovation that may enable the extreme diversification of insects. Nonetheless, many species-rich, winged insect groups contain flightless lineages. The loss of flight may promote allopatric differentiation due to limited dispersal power and may result in a high speciation rate in the flightless lineage. Here we show that loss of flight accelerates allopatric speciation using carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae). We demonstrate that flightless species retain higher genetic differentiation among populations and comprise a higher number of genetically distinct lineages than flight-capable species, and that the speciation rate with the flightless state is twice that with the flight-capable state. Moreover, a meta-analysis of 51 beetle species from 15 families reveals higher genetic differentiation among populations in flightless compared with flight-capable species. In beetles, which represent almost one-fourth of all described species, repeated evolution of flightlessness may have contributed to their steady diversification since the Mesozoic era. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 10 | 26% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 26 | 68% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 36 | 95% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 3% |
| Scientists | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 7 | 3% |
| United States | 6 | 2% |
| Brazil | 2 | <1% |
| Spain | 2 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Peru | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Greece | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 233 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 52 | 20% |
| Researcher | 47 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 34 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 27 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 18 | 7% |
| Other | 49 | 19% |
| Unknown | 29 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 164 | 64% |
| Environmental Science | 21 | 8% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 19 | 7% |
| Engineering | 6 | 2% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 3 | 1% |
| Other | 8 | 3% |
| Unknown | 35 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 46. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 March 2022.
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