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