Dynamic interplay between niche variation and flight adaptability drove a hundred million years' dispersion in iconic lacewings

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Ou, Haohong; Yang, Jingtao; Wang, Honglong; Kang, Nuoyao; Li, Shumin; Chen, Yuting; Peng, Zihao; Xiang, Xianzhe; Engel, Michael S.; Winterton, Shaun L.; Ren, Dong; Yang, Qiang; Shi, Chaofan
• 署名单位: Sun Yat Sen University; Guangzhou University; American Museum of Natural History (AMNH); California Department of Food & Agriculture; Capital Normal University
• 刊物名称: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0027-9653
• DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2414549122
• 发表日期: 2025-05-02
• 关键词: insecta neuroptera; beaded lacewings; phylogenetic signal; plate-tectonics; r package; berothidae; EVOLUTION; biogeography; collision; INDIA

摘要

The form and change of animal biogeography reflects the long-term interplay between organisms and their environment, involving physiological limitation, dispersal capability, and adaptive evolution versus plate tectonics, global climatic shifts, and changing landscapes. This is especially manifest for lineages with extended geological histories, which, therefore, evokes questions as to the associated processes producing such patterns. Insects, as the earliest flying animals, have exceptional abilities for expanding their range and habitats and to avoid detrimental conditions. They are ideal for exploring historical biogeography augmented via adaptation. Here, we employ beaded lacewings as a model to explore such patterns and likely processes, particularly given that they differ notably from the commonly observed pattern of a latitudinal diversity gradient. Furthermore, owing to their good fossil record it can be observed that their distributions varied remarkably through time. Ecological niche modeling and evaluation demonstrate their niche variation and niche breadth expansion intermittently accompanying global climate change. However, different niche relevant variables changed under patterns of either phylogenetic conservatism or evolutionary lability. By assessing wing morphological disparity and modeling flight aerodynamics, we uncovered a continuous improvement of flight efficiency through beaded-lacewing history as well as a Paleogene divergence in strategy, which reveals a long-term associated path with the niche variation. Our results unveil the adaptive evolution and dispersal history of beaded lacewings through 170 My, achieved by dynamic strategies in niche shift and flight adaptation as responses to a changing planet.