• DOI:10.1038/ncomms1659
Corpus ID: 4778406

Loss of flight promotes beetle diversification

@article{Ikeda2012LossOF,
  title={Loss of flight promotes beetle diversification},
  author={H. Ikeda and M. Nishikawa and T. Sota},
  journal={Nature Communications},
  year={2012},
  volume={3}
}

H. Ikeda, M. Nishikawa, T. Sota

Published 2012

Biology, Medicine

Nature Communications

The evolution of flight is a key innovation that may enable the extreme diversification of insects. Nonetheless, many species-rich, winged insect groups contain flightless lineages. The loss of flight may promote allopatric differentiation due to limited dispersal power and may result in a high speciation rate in the flightless lineage. Here we show that loss of flight accelerates allopatric speciation using carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae). We demonstrate that flightless species retain… CONTINUE READING

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