Document of bibliographic reference 345467

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Bibliographic resource

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Journal article

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Title

The evolution of marine dwelling in Diptera

Abstract

Marine dwelling in Diptera has been relatively unexplored and the frequency of transitions to the marine environment and the evolutionary history remain poorly understood. By reviewing records from the World Register of Marine Species and using ancestral state reconstruction methods, we build on the fly tree of life phylogeny and ecological descriptions of marine life history. Our ancestral state reconstruction analyses suggest marine dwelling is lacking as an ancestral trait for the most recent common ancestor to Diptera. While many transitions in Empidoidea, Sciomyzoidea, Tipulomorpha, and Culicomorpha seem to have been gradual, other transitions in Tephritoidea and Tabanomorpha were found likely to have been stochastic occurrences. From the collection of 532 marine species, we reveal several independent transitions to the marine environment throughout the fly tree of life. Considering the results from our analysis, we outline potential adaptations for marine flies and discuss the barriers of colonizing the marine environment and the implications to the mechanisms for salt tolerance.

WebOfScience code

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000677221400001

Bibliographic citation

Pak, N.; Wu, S.; Gibson, J.F. (2021). The evolution of marine dwelling in Diptera. Ecol. Evol. 11(16): 11440-11448. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7935

Topic

Marine

Is peer reviewed

true

Access rights

open access

Is accessible for free

true