10.5061/DRYAD.V6WWPZGXD
Britz, Ralf
Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden
Parenti, Lynne
National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution
Rüber, Lukas
0000-0003-0125-008X
Natural History Museum of Bern
Earth and life evolve together- a comment on Yamahira et al.
Dryad
dataset
2021
FOS: Biological sciences
2021-12-23T00:00:00Z
2021-12-23T00:00:00Z
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The provocative study by Yamahira et al. hypothesizes that one species,
Oryzias setnai, endemic to coastal areas of west-flowing streams of the
Western Ghats, is the sister species of all other ricefishes and that it
diverged in the late Mesozoic. They conclude India is the center of origin
of ricefishes, the ancestral lineage of which subsequently diversified and
dispersed to occupy its current broad range throughout Asia and Southeast
Asia. This scenario is presented as the only possible conclusion from the
molecular phylogenetic analysis. We challenge their scenario and
conclusions based on a reanalysis of their data.
Reanalyses of an existing data set with varying parameters. Data set
comprises four phylogenetic tree files with different scaling factors, a
species distribution file and 20 result files from RASP analyses differing
in various parameter settings.