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Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Tim Adriaens, <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7268-4200">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7268-4200</a>. Claims were made on Bionomia, <a href="http://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
Supplementary files for Doré et al., 2025 - Evolutionary history of ponerine ants highlights how the timing of dispersal events shapes modern biodiversity. Nature Communications, 16(1), 8297.
<p><strong>### Research Article ###</strong></p> <p>This repository contains Supplementary files associated with this research paper:</p> <p><strong>Doré et al., 2025 - Evolutionary history of ponerine ants highlights how the timing of dispersal events shapes modern biodiversity. <em><span lang="FR">Nature Communications</span></em><span lang="FR">, <em>16</em>(1), 8297.</span></strong></p> <p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/XXXX">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63709-3</a></p> <p><strong>### Research abstract ###</strong></p> <p> Disentangling the drivers of global biodiversity patterns is a cornerstone of biogeography that remains elusive for many diverse biological groups. Here we present a complete species-level phylogeny of the ant subfamily Ponerinae based on new phylogenomic sequencing and taxonomic grafting. We combine results with a large-scale geographic database to explore the contribution of three main mechanisms in shaping global ponerine biodiversity patterns: time for accumulation, differences in diversification rate, and asymmetric dispersal. We show that extant ponerine ants originated in Gondwana, spread eastward across tropical bioregions, and more recently colonized temperate areas. The relative timing of colonization events was identified as the prominent driver of present-day biodiversity patterns, supporting the time for accumulation hypothesis. Conversely, differences in diversification rates and asymmetrical dispersal histories mitigated the heterogeneity in biodiversity by fueling accumulation of lineages in the least diverse bioregions. These findings suggest that tropical niche conservatism played a major role in shaping the biogeographic and evolutionary history of Ponerinae. Overall, we emphasize the importance of considering the relative timing of past dispersal events and variations in diversification rates over evolutionary time to gain a deeper understanding of Earth’s biodiversity patterns. </p> <p><strong>### Contents ###</strong></p> <p>This repository contains five sub-archives:</p> <p> - <em><strong>01_Supplementary_Data</strong></em>: <strong>Supplementary Data S1-S8</strong> of the article including metadata for voucher specimens, fossil calibrations, grafting information, geolocalized occurrences, biogeographic membership, bioregion adjacency matrices, and <strong>ready-to-use phylogenies</strong>.</p> <p> - <em><strong>02_Supplementary_Movie</strong></em>: <strong>Supplementary Movie 1 - Ponerinae Biogeographic History</strong>: Time-lapsed animation of ponerine ant biogeographic and diversification history.</p> <p> - <em><strong>03_Phylogenetic_inferences</strong></em>: Scripts and files used to carry out <strong>phylogenetic inferences</strong>.</p> <p> - <em><strong>04_Divergence_dating</strong></em>: Scripts and files used to carry out <strong>divergence dating analyses</strong>.</p> <p> - <em><strong>05_Other_analyses</strong></em>: Script and files used to carry out <strong>data curation, tree grafting, and biogeographic and diversification analyses</strong>. This is a release of an associated GitHub repository available at <a href="https://github.com/MaelDore/Ponerinae_Historical_Biogeography">https://github.com/MaelDore/Ponerinae_Historical_Biogeography</a>.<br> <br><strong>### How to cite ###</strong></p> <p>Please cite this research article as:<br> <br>> Doré, M., Borowiec, M.L., Branstetter, M.G., Camacho, G.P., Fisher, B.L., Longino, J.T., Ward, P.S., & Blaimer, B.B., 2025. Evolutionary history of ponerine ants highlights how the timing of dispersal events shapes modern biodiversity. <em>Nature Communications</em>, 16(1), 8297.<span lang="FR"> </span>https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63709-3.</p>
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by James Lendemer, <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1186-0711">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1186-0711</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="https://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Faerthen Felix, <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2922-8637">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2922-8637</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="https://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Zoë Goodwin, <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2926-1645">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2926-1645</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="https://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Samantha Matlick, <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1476-1962">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1476-1962</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="https://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Julie Craves, <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9391-2767">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9391-2767</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="https://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by K. Samanta Orellana, <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4098-5823">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4098-5823</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="https://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Christopher C. Grinter, <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3769-1664">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3769-1664</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="https://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Marco O. O. Pellegrini, <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8783-1362">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8783-1362</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="https://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Dmitry Lyskov, <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0818-1662">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0818-1662</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="https://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Robert L. Minckley, <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1217-7693">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1217-7693</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="https://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Bevan Weir, <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2580-0701">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2580-0701</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="https://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Timothy Andrew Hammer, <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3816-7933">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3816-7933</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="https://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Shelley A. James, <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1105-1850">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1105-1850</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="https://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Nigel Pitman, <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9211-2880">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9211-2880</a>. Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia, <a href="https://bionomia.net">https://bionomia.net</a> using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org">https://gbif.org</a>.
Natural history and ecological effects on the establishment and fate of Florida carpenter ant cadavers infected by the parasitic-manipulator Ophiocordyceps camponoti-floridani
<p class="MsoNormal">1. <em>Ophiocordyceps</em> fungi manipulate the behavior of their ant hosts to produce a summit disease phenotype, thereby establishing infected ant cadavers onto vegetation at elevated positions suitable for fungal growth and transmission. Multiple environmental and ecological factors have been proposed to shape the timing, positioning, and outcome of these manipulations.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">2. We conducted a long-term field study of <em>Ophiocordyceps</em> <em>camponoti-floridani</em> infections of <em>Camponotus floridanus</em> ants – the Florida zombie ants. We propose and refine hypotheses on the factors that shape infection outcomes by tracking the occurrence of fungal growth from hundreds of ant cadavers. We modeled and report these data in relation to weather, light, vegetation, and attack by mycoparasites.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">3. We investigated environmental factors that could affect the occurrence and location of newly manipulated ant cadavers. New cadavers were positively correlated with epiphytic <em>Tillandsia </em>bromeliads, canopy openness, and weather conditions (an interactive effect of temperature, humidity, and precipitation) with an increased occurrence during the sub-tropical summer. We further suggest that incident light at the individual cadaver level may reflect microhabitat choice by manipulated ants or selective pressure on cadaver maintenance for conditions improving fungal survival.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">4. We also sought to connect fungal fitness to environmental conditions. Continued fungal development of reproductive structures and putative transmission increased with moist weather conditions (interaction of humidity and precipitation) and canopy openness, while being reduced by attack by mycoparasites. Moreover, under the most open canopy conditions, we found an atypical <em>Ophiocordyceps</em> growth morphology that could represent a plastic response to conditions influenced by high light levels.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">5. Taken together, we explore general trends and the effects of various ecological conditions on host and parasite disease outcomes in the Florida zombie ant system. These insights from the field can be used to inform experimental laboratory setups that directly test the effects of biotic and abiotic factors on fungus-ant interactions or aim to uncover underlying molecular mechanisms.</p>
Cross-cultural music corpus: The Natural History of Song Discography (randomized 14s excerpts)
<p>This repository contains 14-second excerpts of the <em>Natural History of Song</em> Discography. The audio corpus was originally published in Mehr et al. (2019, Science) and the full audio files are available via DUA on the Harvard Dataverse (<a href="https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SESAO1">https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SESAO1</a>). This repository makes available the excerpts of each track, under Fair Use, given their brief length (14 seconds each). These were also used in other papers (e.g., Mehr & Singh et al., 2018, Current Biology; Bainbridge & Bertolo et al., 2021, Nature Human Behaviour; Hilton & Crowley-de Thierry et al., 2022, JEP:General; Yurdum et al., 2023, PNAS) and are concurrently posted on the Open Science Framework (<a href="https://osf.io/vcybz/">https://osf.io/vcybz/</a>). They are permanently archived here for easier accessibility.</p> <p>Other Natural History of Song data, including staff-notation transcriptions of all the songs, are available at <a href="https://osf.io/jmv3q/">https://osf.io/jmv3q/</a>. There is also an expanded version of the corpus, with 1007 songs (including all 118 of the original NHS songs, available on Zenodo at <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8237500">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8237500</a>.</p> <p>The audio excerpts are provided in MP3 format for use in perception experiments. There are 118 excerpts. Each row of <strong>NHSDiscography-metadata.csv </strong>corresponds to one song, and provides general information about each song, including original sources. <strong>NHSDiscography-codebook.pdf</strong> summarizes the types of metadata available. Both these documents were originally published in Mehr et al. (2019, Science), along with the original corpus, and quite a bit of other information concerning how the corpus was built (<a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax0868">https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax0868</a>). </p> <p>Please contact Samuel Mehr (<a href="mailto:sam@yale.edu">sam@yale.edu</a>) if you have questions concerning the use of these audio files.</p>
Figure 13 in Natural history of the agave jumping spider, Paraphidippus basalis (Araneae: Salticidae: Dendryphantina)
Figure 13. Eggs of Paraphidippus basalis. a, Partially-cut silk layer revealing the egg mass. b, Close-up of the eggs.
Figure 8 in Natural history of the agave jumping spider, Paraphidippus basalis (Araneae: Salticidae: Dendryphantina)
Figure 8 (continued from previous page). Interactions between an adult female and an adult male on 28-19 September 2019. g-k, Photographs taken between approximately 19:00 and 20:40 documenting copulation within the female's shelter. l, Male mounted on the female the following morning within the same shelter.
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