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PATTERNS OF DIVERSIFICATION IN PHYTOPHAGOUS INSECTS

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Chapter 3 is a phylogenetic study of the genus Phytomyza sensu lato, using over<br />

3,000 nucleotides of DNA sequence data from three genes. Results indicate that the<br />

genus Chromatomyia, considered by some as synonymous with Phytomyza, is in fact<br />

polyphyletic and nested within Phytomyza. Possible parallelism in a biological trait<br />

(internal pupation in leaf tissue) which is one of the defining traits of species in the<br />

former Chromatomyia is discussed. In addition, the internal classification of Phytomyza<br />

is assessed and revised insofar as the data permit.<br />

Divergence times for the Agromyzidae, and also for Phytomyza and related<br />

genera, were estimated using a molecular phylogeny calibrated by three agromyzid<br />

fossils (Chapter 4). Results suggest that the temperate Phytomyza group of genera<br />

originated in the relatively warm Eocene epoch. Ranunculaceae, a primitive plant family,<br />

is inferrred as the ancestral host for a clade including most Phytomyza species, but is<br />

probably secondary to feeding on more derived plant families (“asterid clade”). Ten<br />

clades were identified for comparison of diversification rates between Ranunculaceae-<br />

and asterid-feeding lineages, which showed that asterid-feeding clades exhibit higher<br />

rates of diversification. Phytomyza originated approximately at the early Oligocene<br />

global cooling event, but contrary to expectations, diversification significantly slowed<br />

during the Oligocene cool period, when suitable habitats for Phytomyza were presumably<br />

widespread.

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