The Great American Schism: Divergence of Marine Organisms After the Rise of the Central American Isthmus

By H. Lessios. 2008

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After continents divide: comparative phylogeography of reef fishes from the Red Sea and Indian Ocean (2013, methodology): “We used a conservative estimate of 1.3 9 10 8 mutations per site per year for both markers (see Lessios, 2008) under a HKY model and a 0.25 inheritance scalar appropriate for mtDNA.”
Eurythoe complanata (Polychaeta: Amphinomidae), the ‘cosmopolitan’ fireworm, consists of at least three cryptic species (2010, background): “Such deep divergence may indicate that the species compared are not geminate pairs, and that the divergence between those species occurred well before the closure of the isthmus (see e.g. Marko 2002; Lessios 2008 for a discussion).”
Formation of the Isthmus of Panama (2016, background): “…older splits, which may have occurred either because of gradual isthmus uplift or resulted from extinction in one ocean of one daughter species of a common ancestor originally spread in both oceans, creating the false impression that the extant remnants were actually sister species ( 3 , 75 ).”
The historical biogeography of coral reef fishes: global patterns of origination and dispersal (2013, background): “…the Indo-Pacific from the East Pacific; (2) the Terminal Tethian event (TTE), which largely cuts off dispersal between the Indo-Pacific and the Atlantic (but see Bowen et al., 2006); and (3) the Isthmus of Panama (IOP), which separates the Atlantic from the East Pacific (reviewed by Lessios, 2008).”
Genetic evaluation of marine biogeographical barriers: perspectives from two widespread Indo‐Pacific snappers (Lutjanus kasmira and Lutjanus fulvus) (2009, background): “Lessios (2008) summarized data for 16 pairs of sister taxa distributed across the Isthmus and found sequence divergences of 1.7–21.6%.”
Origins of species richness in the Indo‐Malay‐Philippine biodiversity hotspot: evidence for the centre of overlap hypothesis (2013, methodology): “Divergence times in bold were calculated from mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences downloaded from GenBank, assuming a molecular clock of 2% per million years between lineages (Bowen et al., 2001; Lessios, 2008; Reece et al., 2010).”
Hard and soft allopatry: physically and ecologically mediated modes of geographic speciation (2010, background): “…may be contemporaneous and/or recent if the geographic barrier represents a relatively young vicariant event, such as the separation of marine taxa as a result of the uplift of the Isthmus of Panama 3 Ma (see Lessios, 2008), although subsequent divergences would not be expected to be clustered.”
The emerging field of geogenomics: Constraining geological problems with genetic data (2014, background): “In a comprehensive review, Lessios (2008) reported on 34 trans-isthmian sister clades of fish, crustaceans, and mollusks with molecular divergence dated to the late Pliocene (5.3–2.6 Ma).”
Molecular phylogeny of Central and South American slider turtles: implications for biogeography and systematics (Testudines: Emydidae: Trachemys) (2012, background): “Since the land connection of the two Americas did not form before the Pliocene (approximately 3 million years ago; Marshall 1979, 1985, 1988; Lessios 2008; Molnar 2008; Woodburne 2010), Trachemys has been postulated to be a recent invader of Central and South America (Savage 1966; Pritchard and…”