Articolo in rivista, 2023, ENG, 10.1111/cla.12561

The Chalcidoidea bush of life - Evolutionary history of a massive radiation of minute wasps

Cruaud A., Rasplus J.-Y., Zhang J., Burks R., Delvare G., Fusu L., Gumovsky A., Huber J.T., Jan?ta P., Mitroiu M.D., Noyes J.S., Van Noort S., Baker A., Böhmová J., Baur H., Blaimer B.B., Brady S.G., Bubeníková K., Chartois R.S., Copeland M., Dale-Skey Papilloud N., Dal Molin A., Dominguez C., Gebiola M., Guerrieri E., Kresslein R.l., Krogmann L., Moriarty Lemmon E., Murray E.A., Nidelet S., Nieves-Aldrey J.L., Perry R.K., Peters R.S., Polaszek A., Sauné L., Torréns J., Triapitsyn S., Tselikh E.V., Yoder M., Lemmon A.R., Woolley J.B., Heraty J.M.

CBGP, INRAE, CIRAD, IRD, Montpellier SupAgro, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application of Hebei Province, Institute of Life Science and Green Development, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei, China. Department of Entomology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA Faculty of Biology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine Natural Resources Canada, c/o Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa, Canada Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Insects Division, Natural History Museum, London, UK Research and Exhibitions Department, South African Museum, Iziko Museums of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, 7701 , South Africa Department of Invertebrates, Natural History Museum Bern, Bern, Switzerland Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery, Berlin, Germany National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Nairobi, Kenya Departamento de Microbiologia e Parasitologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Natal, RN, Brazil CNR-Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (CNR-IPSP), National Research Council of Italy, Portici, Italy Department of Entomology, State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, Germany Institute of Zoology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC). José Gutiérrez Abascal , Madrid, Spain Department of Plant Sciences, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Bonn, Germany Centro Regional de Investigaciones Científicas y Transferencia Tecnológica de La Rioja (CRILAR-CONICET), Anillaco, Argentina Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, USA Department of Scientific Computing, Florida State University, Dirac Science Library, Tallahassee, Florida, USA Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, U.S.A.

Capturing phylogenetic signal from a massive radiation can be daunting. The superfamily Chalcidoidea is an excellent example of a hyperdiverse group that has remained recalcitrant to phylogenetic resolution. Chalcidoidea are mostly parasitoid wasps that until now included 27 families, 87 subfamilies and as many as 500,000 estimated species. We combined 1007 exons obtained with Anchored Hybrid Enrichment with 1048 Ultra-Conserved Elements (UCEs) for 433 taxa including all extant families, over 95% of all subfamilies and 356 genera chosen to represent the vast diversity of the superfamily. Going back and forth between molecular results and our collective morphological and biological knowledge, we detected insidious bias driven by the saturation of nucleotide data and highlighted morphological convergences. Our final results are based on a concatenated analysis of the least saturated exons and UCE data sets (2054 loci, 284,106 sites). Our analyses support a sister relationship with Mymarommatoidea. Seven of the previously recognized families were not monophyletic, so foundations for a new classification are discussed. Biology appears potentially more informative than morphology, as illustrated by the elucidation of a clade of plant gall associates and a clade of taxa with planidial first-instar larvae. The phylogeny suggests a shift from smaller soft-bodied wasps to larger and more heavily sclerotized wasps. Deep divergences in Chalcidoidea coincide with an increase in insect families in the fossil record, and an early shift to phytophagy corresponds with the beginning of the "Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution". Our dating analyses suggest a Middle Jurassic origin of 174 Ma (167.3-180.5 Ma) and a crown age of 162.2 Ma (153.9-169.8 Ma) for Chalcidoidea. During the Cretaceous, Chalcidoidea underwent a rapid radiation in southern Gondwana with subsequent dispersals to the Northern Hemisphere. This scenario is discussed with regard to knowledge about host taxa of chalcid wasps, their fossil record, and Earth's paleogeographic history.

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Keywords

hybrid enrichment, parasitoid, molecular, Gondwana, phylogeny, biogeography, dating.

CNR authors

Guerrieri Emilio

CNR institutes

IPSP – Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante

ID: 488132

Year: 2023

Type: Articolo in rivista

Creation: 2023-11-03 11:02:29.000

Last update: 2023-11-27 11:08:33.000

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DOI: 10.1111/cla.12561

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DOI: 10.1111/cla.12561