Pleistocene sea-level changes have long been used to explain the evolution of insular Sundaland biodiversity. In this article, Dr. Arni Sholihah and colleagues re-examined the relative impacts of #sundaland geology and of #pleistoceneeustatic fluctuations on the mitochondrial lineage #diversification of the widely distributed freshwater fishes from Sub-Famili #Rasborinae. The geographical patterns of divergence suggest that limited dispersal and #insitudiversification were predominant during Rasborinae’s diversity build-up, providing contrasted lines of evidence about dispersal of Sundaland #freshwater organisms compared to the initial, and highly influential, hypotheses.

Article Citation:
Sholihah, A., Delrieu-Trottin, E., Sukmono, T., Dahruddin, H., Pouzadoux, J., Tilak, M.-K., Fitriana, Y., Agnèse, J.-F., Condamine, F.L., Wowor, D., Rüber, L. and Hubert, N. 2021. Limited dispersal and in situ diversification drive the evolutionary history of Rasborinae fishes in Sundaland. J Biogeogr. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14141.

Full paper is published in Journal of Biogeography: https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14141

Image (first page):
Mitogenomic backbone phylogeny of Rasborinae (Sholihah et al. 2021)

Profile of Dr. Arni Sholihah:
https://sith.itb.ac.id/en/arni-sholihah/