Claim · model-written summary
Colonization of Macaronesia seems to have occurred twice, by two independent lineages.
- Taxon
- Exormotheca pustulosa
Exormotheca pustulosat0 - Outcome
- Colonization of Macaronesiae7
- Value
- twicee7
- Qualifier
- by two independent lineagese7
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“liverwortExormotheca pustulosa(Marchantiophyta)”
e7“Colonization of Macaronesia seems to have occurred twice by two independent lineages”
Title
Ana Sofia Bartolomeu Rodrigues; Anabela Martins; César Augusto Garcia; et al. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 2020. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blaa071
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Exormotheca possibly originated in Eastern Africa during the Late Oligocene/Early Miocene.
- Observation Exormotheca pustulosa diversified during the Late Miocene.
- Observation Three main E. pustulosa groups were found: the northern Macaronesia/Western Mediterranean, the South Africa/Saint Helena and the Cape Verde groups.
- Observation The major splits among the groups occurred during the Late Miocene/Pliocene.
- Observation Diversification of E. pustulosa was recent, dating back to the Pleistocene.
- Mechanism Climate-driven vicariance and subsequent long-distance dispersal events may have shaped the current disjunct distribution of E. pustulosa.