Title: Phylogenetic congruence between Neotropical primates and
plants is driven by frugivory
Lisieux F. Fuzessy1,3*, Fernando A. O.
Silveira2, Laurence Culot1, Pedro
Jordano3,4, Miguel Verdú5
1 Departamento de Biodiversidade, Universidade
Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Instituto de Biociências, Rio Claro, São
Paulo, Brazil,
2 Department of Genetics, Ecology and Evolution,
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais,
Brazil
3 Estación Biológica de Doñana, EBD-CSIC, Sevilla,
Spain
4Dept. Biología Vegetal y Ecología,
Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
5 Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación,
CSIC-UV-GV, Moncada, Valencia, Spai
*Corresponding author:lfuzessy@gmail.com
Running Title: Frugivory drives phylogenetic congruence
Keywords: seed dispersal, congruent evolution, cophylogenetic
signal, macroevolutionary patterns, coevolutionary histor
Type of article: Letter
Abstract word count: 150
Main text word count: 3786
Number of figures: 3
Number of tables: 0
Number of references: 62
Authorship statement: All authors conceived the ideas; LFF and
MV designed the methodology and analyzed the data; LFF and FAOS led data
collection; LFF led the writing of the manuscript. All authors
contributed critically to the drafts and gave final approval for
publication.
Data statement: All published data sources are referenced in
the manuscript (main text and/or supplementary material). At the time of
publication, raw data will be available athttps://github.com/LFuzessy