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618 PART 5 / Macroevolution<br />

Figure 22.3<br />

Phylogenies of North American<br />

Tetraopes (beetles) and their<br />

food plants, milkweeds<br />

(Asclepias). The phylogenies<br />

are mainly mirror images, or<br />

cophylogenies. The two or three<br />

exceptions may be due to errors<br />

in phylogenetic inference or<br />

to host shifts (as discussed in<br />

Section 22.3.3). These beetles<br />

exploit their food plants both<br />

as larvae (which bore into the<br />

roots) and as adults (which<br />

eat the flowers and leaves).<br />

Redrawn, by permission of the<br />

publisher, from Farrell & Mitter<br />

(1994).<br />

Cophylogenies can arise because<br />

of...<br />

. . . coevolution ...<br />

Tetropes<br />

(beetles)<br />

Phaea grp 1<br />

Phaea grp 2<br />

T. comes<br />

T. ineditus<br />

T. elegans<br />

T. discoideus (MX)<br />

T. discoideus (US)<br />

T. umbonatus<br />

T. melanurus<br />

T. S-maculatus<br />

T. annulatus<br />

T. pilosus<br />

T. mandibularis<br />

T. tetropthalmus<br />

T. varicornis<br />

T. femoratus<br />

T. sublaevis<br />

T. basalis<br />

Convolvulaceae<br />

Apocynaceae<br />

Matelea<br />

Marsdenia<br />

A. subulata<br />

A. curassavica<br />

A. subverticillata<br />

A. glaucescens<br />

A. tuberosa<br />

A. amplexicaulis<br />

A. sullivanti<br />

A. arenaria<br />

A. latifolia<br />

A. syriaca<br />

A. notha<br />

A. speciosa<br />

A. erosa<br />

A. eriocarpa<br />

Asclepias<br />

(milkweeds)<br />

Simple<br />

cardenolides<br />

More complex,<br />

toxic cardenolides<br />

Most toxic cardenolides<br />

concentrated in latex<br />

22.3.2 Two taxa may show mirror-image phylogenies, but coevolution<br />

is only one of several explanations for this pattern<br />

Figure 22.3 shows on the left the phylogeny of 15 out of the 25 beetles in the genus<br />

Tetraopes that live in North America, together with two relatives. On the right is the<br />

phylogeny of their food plants, the milkweeds (Asclepias). Milkweeds contain poisons<br />

(cardenolides), but Tetraopes are not harmed by them. The beetles store the toxins in<br />

their own bodies, making them unattractive to birds and mammals. Tetraopes are<br />

brightly colored in orange and black. The striking feature of the two phylogenies in<br />

Figure 22.3 is that they are near mirror images. With two or three exceptions, the<br />

phylogeny of the beetles matches the phylogeny of the plants they eat. In technical<br />

language, the phylogenies of the two taxa are cophylogenies. The phylogenies of two taxa<br />

are cophylogenies if they have the same (or much the same) branching pattern.<br />

Statistical tests exist to determine whether two phylogenies are more similar than<br />

would be expected by chance.<br />

Cophylogenies can arise for at least three reasons. One is coevolution in the full sense<br />

of the word. The two taxa have exerted evolutionary influences on each other, and<br />

evolution leading to speciation in one taxa tends to cause speciation in the other taxon<br />

too. For instance, two subpopulations of one ancestral milkweed species might have<br />

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