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Record W4416443299 · doi:10.5376/be.2025.15.0018

Origins and Global Dissemination of Siluriformes A Phylogenetic Perspective on Historical Trajectories

2025· article· W4416443299 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueBiological Evidence · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicFish biology, ecology, and behavior
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBiological dispersalPhylogenetic treeLineage (genetic)BiodiversityBiogeographyEcological nichePhylogeographyNiche

Abstract

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Catfishes (order Siluriformes ), arguably the most diverse and widely ranging freshwater fishes with a diversity of ecological niches on all but one continent, Antarctica. Their evolutionary origin and global dispersal are of particular importance for reconstructing freshwater biogeographic history and delineating lineage diversification patterns in aquatic habitats. Here, we build the phylogenetic framework of Siluriformes  from mitochondrial and nuclear molecular information, date the divergence, and describe prevailing lineages with distinctive geographical signatures. By integrating fossil records, paleogeographic reconstructions, and modern biogeographic modeling approaches (such as DEC and BioGeoBEARS), this study proposes that South America may have been the evolutionary cradle of catfishes. It suggests that catfishes could have achieved transcontinental dispersal through ancient river connections, continental drift, and climatic fluctuations. In addition, the study explores regional adaptation and niche differentiation across various ecosystems, as well as the close interplay between local evolutionary responses and global expansion. This research provides a comprehensive perspective on the evolutionary history of catfishes and offers practical insights for freshwater biodiversity conservation and future biogeographic predictions.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.088
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.319
Teacher spread0.286 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it