Faivovich Julián, Haddad Célio F B, Baêta Délio, Jungfer Karl-Heinz, Álvares Guilherme F R, Brandão Reuber A, Sheil Christopher, Barrientos Lucas S, Barrio-Amorós César L, Cruz Carlos A G, Wheeler Ward C
División Herpetología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales-CONICET, Angel Gallardo 470, C1405DJR, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Departamento de Zoologia, I.B., Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, CEP 13506-900, São Paulo, Brazil; and Herpetology, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.
Departamento de Zoologia, I.B., Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, CEP 13506-900, São Paulo, Brazil.
Cladistics. 2010 Jun;26(3):227-261. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00287.x. Epub 2009 Oct 14.
The leaf or monkey frogs of the hylid subfamily Phyllomedusinae are a unique group of charismatic anurans. We present a molecular phylogenetic analysis that includes 45 of the 60 species of phyllomedusines using up to 12 genes and intervening tRNAs. The aims were to gain a better understanding of the phylogenetic position of Phrynomedusa, test the monophyly and explore the relationships among several putative lineages (Hylomantis, the H. buckleyi Group, Phasmahyla, the four species groups of Phyllomedusa, and the species of Phyllomedusa that remain unassigned to any group), and to examine the implications of our phylogeny for the evolution of several characters in phyllomedusines. The analyses resulted in a well-supported phylogenetic hypothesis that provides a historical framework for a discussion of the evolution of characters associated with reproductive biology, gliding behaviour, the physiology of waterproofing, and bioactive peptides. Implications include an earlier origin for eggless capsules than for leaf-folding behaviour during amplexus, two independent origins of gliding, and an earlier origin of reduction in evaporative water loss than uricotelism, which is a result that originally was predicted on the basis of physiology alone. Furthermore, our results support the prediction that bioactive peptides from different peptide families are to be expected in all species of Phyllomedusinae. Hylomantis (as recently redefined) is shown to be paraphyletic and the synonymy of Agalychnis is revised to remedy this problem by including both Hylomantis and Pachymedusa. © The Willi Hennig Society 2009.
叶泡蛙亚科（Phyllomedusinae）的叶泡蛙或猴蛙是一群独特且具有魅力的无尾目动物。我们进行了一项分子系统发育分析，该分析涵盖了叶泡蛙亚科60个物种中的45个物种，使用了多达12个基因及其中间的转运RNA。目的是更好地了解叶泡蟾属（Phrynomedusa）的系统发育位置，检验单系性，并探索几个假定谱系（雨栖蛙属（Hylomantis）、巴氏雨栖蛙组（H. buckleyi Group）、叶蟾属（Phasmahyla）、叶泡蛙的四个物种组，以及尚未归入任何组的叶泡蛙物种）之间的关系，同时研究我们的系统发育对叶泡蛙亚科几个特征进化的影响。分析得出了一个得到充分支持的系统发育假说，为讨论与生殖生物学、滑翔行为、防水生理学和生物活性肽相关的特征进化提供了一个历史框架。其影响包括无卵胶囊的起源比抱对时的卷叶行为更早，滑翔有两个独立的起源，以及蒸发失水减少的起源比尿酸排泄更早，这一结果最初仅基于生理学预测得出。此外，我们的结果支持这样的预测，即在叶泡蛙亚科的所有物种中都有望发现来自不同肽家族的生物活性肽。雨栖蛙属（如最近重新定义的）被证明是并系的，并且对叶泡树蛙属（Agalychnis）的同义关系进行了修订，通过将雨栖蛙属和厚蹼蟾属（Pachymedusa）都包括进来来解决这个问题。© 威利·亨尼希协会2009年。
