range expansion drives dispersal evolution in an equatorial three-species symbiosis范围扩张驱动散布在赤道三种共生进化.pdfVIP

Range Expansion Drives Dispersal Evolution In An Equatorial Three-Species Symbiosis ´ 1. 2. 3. 1 4 Guillaume Leotard , Gabriel Debout , Ambroise Dalecky *, Sylvain Guillot , Laurence Gaume , Doyle McKey1, Finn Kjellberg1 ´ 1 Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (UMR 5175), Montpellier, France, 2 Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecology, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, ´ 3 Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD), UMR Centre de Biologie et de Gestion des Populations, Campus International de Baillarguet, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France, 4 Botanique et bioinformatique de l’architecture des plantes (UMR 5120), Montpellier, France Abstract Background: Recurrent climatic oscillations have produced dramatic changes in species distributions. This process has been proposed to be a major evolutionary force, shaping many life history traits of species, and to govern global patterns of biodiversity at different scales. During range expansions selection may favor the evolution of higher dispersal, and symbiotic interactions may be affected. It has been argued that a weakness of climate fluctuation-driven range dynamics at equatorial latitudes has facilitated the persistence there of more specialized species and interactions. However, how much the biology and ecology of species is changed by range dynamics has seldom been investigated, particularly in equatorial regions. Methodology/Principal Findings: We studied a three-species symbiosis endemic to coastal equatorial rainfo