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    Coalescent-delimitation framework and ecogeographic patterns disentangle the species boundaries within the Neotropical mouse-opossums subgenus Marmosops
    (Universidad EAFIT, 2022) Carillo Restrepo, Jhan Carlos; Díaz Nieto, Juan Fernando
    The Neotropics encompasses a wide range of biomes and habitat types that place it as one of the most important Earth's regions for understanding the prevalence of cryptic and unknown diversity. However, it has been shown that this region is one of the least represented in genetic data in the tree of life. Therefore, advancing intra and interspecific genetic revisions in this region represents a major scientific priority to reduce our ignorance of the planet's biodiversity. American marsupials of Marmosops subgenus are distributed in a wide variety of Neotropical habitats, so it is an attractive group to undertake studies on Neotropical diversification processes, but such research is hindered by the fact that we do not yet fully understand the species limits of some groups within the subgenus. Herein, we evaluate the evolutionary independence of 13 morphologically-cryptic mtDNA haplogroups within Marmosops that were identified by our previous single-locus species delimitation analyses. For this purpose, we analyzed a multi-locus dataset (12 unlinked nuclear loci and one mtDNA locus) in a Bayesian Multi-Species Coalescent framework implemented in BPP, combined with heuristic criterion (gdi) that incorporated the speciation-continuum process into species delimitation analyses, to further understand the genetic boundaries within this Neotropical mouse opossum’s clade. Our BPP analyses recovered each of the 13 haplogroups as independent evolutionary lineages. However, heuristic gdi showed that the tested lineages are across the entire spectrum of the speciation continuum, and that only seven lineages recognized by BPP correspond to “true” species. Three of these seven lineages are currently recognized as valid species, demonstrating the effectiveness of our study; while ecogeographic patterns information revealed that the remaining four lineages have promising information to be recognized as possible new species for science.