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Kleindorfer S, Colombelli‐Négrel D, Common LK, O’Connor JA, Peters KJ, Katsis AC, Dudaniec RY, Sulloway FJ, Adreani NM. Functional traits and foraging behaviour: avian vampire fly larvae change the beak and fitness of their Darwin’s finch hosts. Funct Ecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.14061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Sonia Kleindorfer
- College of Science and Engineering Flinders University Adelaide Australia
- Konrad Lorenz Research Center for Behavior and Cognition and Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology University of Vienna Vienna Austria
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- College of Science and Engineering Flinders University Adelaide Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering Flinders University Adelaide Australia
- Evolutionary Genetics Group, Department of Anthropology University of Zurich Zurich Switzerland
- School of Earth and Environment Christchurch New Zealand
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- College of Science and Engineering Flinders University Adelaide Australia
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- Konrad Lorenz Research Center for Behavior and Cognition and Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology University of Vienna Vienna Austria
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Egan JP, Buser TJ, Burns MD, Simons AM, Hundt PJ. Patterns of Body Shape Diversity and Evolution in Intertidal and Subtidal Lineages of Combtooth Blennies (Blenniidae). Integr Org Biol 2021; 3:obab004. [PMID: 33937629 PMCID: PMC8077888 DOI: 10.1093/iob/obab004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
Abstract
Marine intertidal zones can be harsher and more dynamic than bordering subtidal zones, with extreme and temporally variable turbulence, water velocity, salinity, temperature, and dissolved oxygen levels. Contrasting environmental conditions and ecological opportunities in subtidal versus intertidal habitats may generate differing patterns of morphological diversity. In this study we used phylogenetic comparative methods, measurements of body length, and two-dimensional landmarks to characterize body shape and size diversity in combtooth blennies (Ovalentaria: Blenniidae) and test for differences in morphological diversity between intertidal, subtidal, and supralittoral zones. We found that subtidal combtooth blennies have significantly higher body shape disparity and occupy a region of morphospace three times larger than intertidal lineages. The intertidal morphospace was almost entirely contained within the subtidal morphospace, showing that intertidal combtooth blennies did not evolve unique body shapes. We found no significant differences in body size disparity between tidal zones, no correlations between body shape and tidal zone or body size and tidal zone, and no body shape convergence associated with tidal zone. Our findings suggest that a subset of combtooth blenny body shapes are suitable for life in both subtidal and intertidal habitats. Many species in regions of morphospace unique to subtidal combtooth blennies exhibit distinct microhabitat use, which suggests subtidal environments promoted morphological diversification via evolutionary microhabitat transitions. In contrast, limited intertidal body shape diversity may be due to strong selective pressures that constrained body shape evolution and environmental filtering that prevented colonization of intertidal zones by certain subtidal body shapes.
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- Joshua P Egan
- Department of Biological Sciences, Western Michigan University, 2375 West Michigan Ave, Kalamazoo, MI 49006, USA
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, 104 Nash Hall, 2820 SW Campus Way, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
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- Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, 100 Ecology, 1987 Upper Buford Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA.,Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota, 2003 Upper Buford Circle, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
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- Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, 100 Ecology, 1987 Upper Buford Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA.,Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota, 2003 Upper Buford Circle, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
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Camacho C, Sanabria-Fernández A, Baños-Villalba A, Edelaar P. Experimental evidence that matching habitat choice drives local adaptation in a wild population. Proc Biol Sci 2020; 287:20200721. [PMID: 32429813 PMCID: PMC7287376 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.0721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2020] [Accepted: 04/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Matching habitat choice is a unique, flexible form of habitat choice based on self-assessment of local performance. This mechanism is thought to play an important role in adaptation and population persistence in variable environments. Nevertheless, the operation of matching habitat choice in natural populations remains to be unequivocally demonstrated. We investigated the association between body colour and substrate use by ground-perching grasshoppers (Sphingonotus azurescens) in an urban mosaic of dark and pale pavements, and then performed a colour manipulation experiment to test for matching habitat choice based on camouflage through background matching. Naturally, dark and pale grasshoppers occurred mostly on pavements that provided matching backgrounds. Colour-manipulated individuals recapitulated this pattern, such that black-painted and white-painted grasshoppers recaptured after the treatment aggregated together on the dark asphalt and pale pavement, respectively. Our study demonstrates that grasshoppers adjust their movement patterns to choose the substrate that confers an apparent improvement in camouflage given their individual-specific colour. More generally, our study provides unique experimental evidence of matching habitat choice as a driver of phenotype-environment correlations in natural populations and, furthermore, suggests that performance-based habitat choice might act as a mechanism of adaptation to changing environments, including human-modified (urban) landscapes.
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemical Engineering, University Pablo de Olavide, Carretera Utrera km. 1, 41013 Seville, Spain
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Affiliation(s)
- Carlos Camacho
- Dept of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana – CSIC Seville Spain
- Dept of Biology, Centre for Animal Movement Research (CAnMove). Lund Univ. Ecology Building SE‐223 62 Lund Sweden
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- Redpath Museum and Dept of Biology, McGill Univ. Montréal QC Canada
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Lowe WH, Addis BR. Matching habitat choice and plasticity contribute to phenotype–environment covariation in a stream salamander. Ecology 2019; 100:e02661. [DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2018] [Accepted: 01/07/2019] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Winsor H. Lowe
- Division of Biological Sciences University of Montana Missoula Montana 59812 USA
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- Division of Biological Sciences University of Montana Missoula Montana 59812 USA
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