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Guevara-Andino JE, Dávalos LM, Zapata F, Endara MJ, Cotoras DD, Chaves J, Claramunt S, López-Delgado J, Mendoza-Henao AM, Salazar-Valenzuela D, Rivas-Torres G, Yeager J. Neotropics as a Cradle for Adaptive Radiations. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2024:a041452. [PMID: 38692837 DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a041452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2024]
Abstract
Neotropical ecosystems are renowned for numerous examples of adaptive radiation in both plants and animals resulting in high levels of biodiversity and endemism. However, we still lack a comprehensive review of the abiotic and biotic factors that contribute to these adaptive radiations. To fill this gap, we delve into the geological history of the region, including the role of tectonic events such as the Andean uplift, the formation of the Isthmus of Panama, and the emergence of the Guiana and Brazilian Shields. We also explore the role of ecological opportunities created by the emergence of new habitats, as well as the role of key innovations, such as novel feeding strategies or reproductive mechanisms. We discuss different examples of adaptive radiation, including classic ones like Darwin's finches and Anolis lizards, and more recent ones like bromeliads and lupines. Finally, we propose new examples of adaptive radiations mediated by ecological interactions in their geological context. By doing so, we provide insights into the complex interplay of factors that contributed to the remarkable diversity of life in the Neotropics and highlight the importance of this region in understanding the origins of biodiversity.
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- Juan E Guevara-Andino
- Grupo de Investigación en Ecología y Evolución en los Trópicos-EETrop, Universidad de las Américas, Quito 170124, Ecuador
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution and Consortium for Inter-Disciplinary Environmental Research, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
- Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
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- Grupo de Investigación en Ecología y Evolución en los Trópicos-EETrop, Universidad de las Américas, Quito 170124, Ecuador
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- Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California 94118, USA
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- Galapagos Science Center, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) and University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516, USA
- Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132, USA
- Laboratorio de Biología Evolutiva, Instituto Biósfera, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Quito 170901, Ecuador
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 1A1, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT Leeds, United Kingdom
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- Colecciones Biológicas, Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Claustro de San Agustín, Villa de Leyva 12-65 Piso 7, Colombia
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- Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y Cambio Climático (BioCamb) e Ingeniería en Biodiversidad y Recursos Genéticos, Facultad de Ciencias del Medio Ambiente, Universidad Indoamérica, Quito 170301, Ecuador
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- Galapagos Science Center, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) and University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516, USA
- Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Quito 170901, Ecuador
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- Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Ambiente y Salud-BIOMAS-Universidad de las Américas, Quito 170124, Ecuador
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Stiller J, Feng S, Chowdhury AA, Rivas-González I, Duchêne DA, Fang Q, Deng Y, Kozlov A, Stamatakis A, Claramunt S, Nguyen JMT, Ho SYW, Faircloth BC, Haag J, Houde P, Cracraft J, Balaban M, Mai U, Chen G, Gao R, Zhou C, Xie Y, Huang Z, Cao Z, Yan Z, Ogilvie HA, Nakhleh L, Lindow B, Morel B, Fjeldså J, Hosner PA, da Fonseca RR, Petersen B, Tobias JA, Székely T, Kennedy JD, Reeve AH, Liker A, Stervander M, Antunes A, Tietze DT, Bertelsen MF, Lei F, Rahbek C, Graves GR, Schierup MH, Warnow T, Braun EL, Gilbert MTP, Jarvis ED, Mirarab S, Zhang G. Complexity of avian evolution revealed by family-level genomes. Nature 2024; 629:851-860. [PMID: 38560995 PMCID: PMC11111414 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07323-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2023] [Accepted: 03/15/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
Abstract
Despite tremendous efforts in the past decades, relationships among main avian lineages remain heavily debated without a clear resolution. Discrepancies have been attributed to diversity of species sampled, phylogenetic method and the choice of genomic regions1-3. Here we address these issues by analysing the genomes of 363 bird species4 (218 taxonomic families, 92% of total). Using intergenic regions and coalescent methods, we present a well-supported tree but also a marked degree of discordance. The tree confirms that Neoaves experienced rapid radiation at or near the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary. Sufficient loci rather than extensive taxon sampling were more effective in resolving difficult nodes. Remaining recalcitrant nodes involve species that are a challenge to model due to either extreme DNA composition, variable substitution rates, incomplete lineage sorting or complex evolutionary events such as ancient hybridization. Assessment of the effects of different genomic partitions showed high heterogeneity across the genome. We discovered sharp increases in effective population size, substitution rates and relative brain size following the Cretaceous-Palaeogene extinction event, supporting the hypothesis that emerging ecological opportunities catalysed the diversification of modern birds. The resulting phylogenetic estimate offers fresh insights into the rapid radiation of modern birds and provides a taxon-rich backbone tree for future comparative studies.
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- Josefin Stiller
- Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Center for Evolutionary & Organismal Biology, Liangzhu Laboratory & Women's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
- Department of General Surgery, Sir Run-Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
- Innovation Center of Yangtze River Delta, Zhejiang University, Jiashan, China
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics, The Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- BGI Research, Shenzhen, China
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- BGI Research, Shenzhen, China
- BGI Research, Wuhan, China
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- Computational Molecular Evolution Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Computational Molecular Evolution Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany
- Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Heraklion, Greece
- Institute for Theoretical Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Australian Museum Research Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- Computational Molecular Evolution Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA
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- Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA
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- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Graduate Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- BGI Research, Wuhan, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- BGI Research, Wuhan, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Center for Evolutionary & Organismal Biology, Liangzhu Laboratory & Women's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Center for Evolutionary & Organismal Biology, Liangzhu Laboratory & Women's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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- Natural History Museum Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Computational Molecular Evolution Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany
- Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Heraklion, Greece
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- Natural History Museum Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Natural History Museum Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Center for Global Mountain Biodiversity, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Global Mountain Biodiversity, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics, The Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Centre of Excellence for Omics-Driven Computational Biodiscovery, Faculty of Applied Sciences, AIMST University, Bedong, Malaysia
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Ascot, UK
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- Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, Bath, UK
- ELKH-DE Reproductive Strategies Research Group, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, The Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Natural History Museum Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- HUN-REN-PE Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary
- Behavioural Ecology Research Group, Center for Natural Sciences, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary
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- CIIMAR/CIMAR, Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Centre for Zoo and Wild Animal Health, Copenhagen Zoo, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Center for Global Mountain Biodiversity, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, The Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Institute of Ecology, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Danish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, The Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics, The Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- University Museum, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
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- Vertebrate Genome Lab, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Durham, NC, USA
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- Center for Evolutionary & Organismal Biology, Liangzhu Laboratory & Women's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
- Innovation Center of Yangtze River Delta, Zhejiang University, Jiashan, China.
- BGI Research, Wuhan, China.
- Villum Center for Biodiversity Genomics, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Sangster G, Harvey MG, Gaudin J, Claramunt S. A new genus for Philydor erythrocercum and P. fuscipenne (Aves: Furnariidae). Zootaxa 2023; 5361:297-300. [PMID: 38220757 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5361.2.11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2023] [Indexed: 01/16/2024]
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- George Sangster
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center; Darwinweg 2; PO Box 9517; 2300 RA Leiden; Netherlands.
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- Department of Biological Sciences; The University of Texas at El Paso; El Paso; TX 79968; USA; Biodiversity Collections; The University of Texas at El Paso; El Paso; TX 79968; USA.
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- 34; avenue Antoine de Saint-Exupry; 17 000 La Rochelle; France.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; University of Toronto; 25 Harbord Street; Room 537; Toronto; ON M5S 3G5; Canada.
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Claramunt S, Haddrath O. No Signs of Adaptations for High Flight Intensity in the Mitochondrial Genome of Birds. Genome Biol Evol 2023; 15:evad173. [PMID: 37758449 PMCID: PMC10563790 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evad173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2023] [Revised: 08/14/2023] [Accepted: 09/20/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023] Open
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Mitochondrial genomes are expected to show adaptations for optimizing aerobic respiration in birds that make intense use of flight. However, there is limited empirical evidence of such a relationship. We here examine correlates of several mitochondrial genome characteristics and flight use across a diverse sample of 597 bird species. We developed an index of flight use intensity that ranged from 0 in flightless species to 9 in migratory hummingbirds and examined its association with nucleobase composition, amino acid class composition, and amino acid site allelic variation using phylogenetic comparative methods. We found no evidence of mitochondrial genome adaptations to flight intensity. Neither nucleotide composition nor amino acid properties showed consistent patterns related to flight use. While specific sites in mitochondrial genes exhibited variation associated with flight intensity, there was limited association between specific amino acid residues and flight intensity levels. Our findings suggest a complex genetic architecture for aerobic performance traits, where multiple genes in both mitochondria and the nucleus may contribute to overall performance. Other factors, such as gene expression regulation and anatomical adaptations, may play a more significant role in influencing flight performance than changes in mitochondrial genes. These findings highlight the need for comprehensive genomic analyses to unravel the intricate relationship between genetic variants and aerobic performance in birds.
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- Santiago Claramunt
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Fu H(Y, Su M, Chu JJ, Margaritescu A, Claramunt S. New methods for estimating the total wing area of birds. Ecol Evol 2023; 13:e10480. [PMID: 37664518 PMCID: PMC10474823 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2023] [Revised: 08/04/2023] [Accepted: 08/10/2023] [Indexed: 09/05/2023] Open
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Dispersal is a fundamental process in evolution and ecology. Due to the predominant role of flight in bird movement, their dispersal capabilities can be estimated from their flight morphology. Most predictors of flight efficiency require an estimate of the total wing area, but the existing methods for estimating wing area are multi-stepped and prone to compounding error. Here, we validated a new method for estimating the total wing area that requires only the measurement of the wingspan plus two measurements from the folded wings of study skin specimens: wing length and wing width. We demonstrate that the new folded-wing method estimates total wing area with high precision across a variety of avian groups and wing shapes. In addition, the new method performs as well as the old method when used to estimate natal dispersal distances of North American birds. The folded-wing method will allow for estimates of the total wing to be readily obtained from thousands of specimens in ornithological collections, thus providing critical information for studies of flight and dispersal in birds.
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- Hellen (Yi) Fu
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
- Department of Natural HistoryRoyal Ontario MuseumTorontoOntarioCanada
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Lowi-Merri TM, Demuth OE, Benito J, Field DJ, Benson RBJ, Claramunt S, Evans DC. Reconstructing locomotor ecology of extinct avialans: a case study of Ichthyornis comparing sternum morphology and skeletal proportions. Proc Biol Sci 2023; 290:20222020. [PMID: 36883281 PMCID: PMC9993061 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2022] [Accepted: 02/08/2023] [Indexed: 03/09/2023] Open
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Avian skeletal morphology is associated with locomotor function, including flight style, swimming and terrestrial locomotion, and permits informed inferences on locomotion in extinct taxa. The fossil taxon Ichthyornis (Avialae: Ornithurae) has long been regarded as highly aerial, with flight similar to terns or gulls (Laridae), and skeletal features resembling foot-propelled diving adaptations. However, rigorous testing of locomotor hypotheses has yet to be performed on Ichthyornis, despite its notable phylogenetic position as one of the most crownward stem birds. We analysed separate datasets of three-dimensional sternal shape (geometric morphometrics) and skeletal proportions (linear measurements across the skeleton), to examine how well these data types predict locomotor traits in Neornithes. We then used this information to infer locomotor capabilities of Ichthyornis. We find strong support for both soaring and foot-propelled swimming capabilities in Ichthyornis. Further, sternal shape and skeletal proportions provide complementary information on avian locomotion: skeletal proportions allow better predictions of the capacity for flight, whereas sternal shape predicts variation in more specific locomotor abilities such as soaring, foot-propelled swimming and escape burst flight. These results have important implications for future studies of extinct avialan ecology and underscore the importance of closely considering sternum morphology in investigations of fossil bird locomotion.
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- Talia M. Lowi-Merri
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3B2
- Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C6
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Structure and Motion Laboratory, Royal Veterinary College, Hatfield, UK
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, Bath, UK
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, 200 Central Park West, New York, NY 12004, USA
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3AN, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3B2
- Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C6
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3B2
- Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C6
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Chu JJ, Claramunt S. Determinants of natal dispersal distances in North American birds. Ecol Evol 2023; 13:e9789. [PMID: 36789345 PMCID: PMC9909001 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2022] [Revised: 12/02/2022] [Accepted: 01/10/2023] [Indexed: 02/11/2023] Open
Abstract
Natal dispersal-the movement from birth site to first breeding site-determines demographic and population genetic dynamics and has important consequences for ecological and evolutionary processes. Recent work suggested that one of the main factors determining natal dispersal distances is the cost of locomotion. We evaluated this hypothesis using band recovery data to estimate natal dispersal distances for 50 North American bird species. We then analyzed the relationships between dispersal distances and a suite of morphological and ecological predictors, including proxies for the cost of locomotion (flight efficiency), using phylogenetic regression models. We found that flight efficiency, population size, and habitat influence natal dispersal distances. We discuss how the effects of population size and habitat can also be related to mobility and locomotion. Our findings are consistent with a predominant effect of adaptations for mobility on dispersal distances.
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- Jonathan J. Chu
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada,Department of Natural HistoryRoyal Ontario MuseumTorontoOntarioCanada
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Paradis E, Claramunt S, Brown J, Schliep K. Confidence intervals in molecular dating by maximum likelihood. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2023; 178:107652. [PMID: 36306994 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2022] [Revised: 10/11/2022] [Accepted: 10/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Molecular dating has been widely used to infer the times of past evolutionary events using molecular sequences. This paper describes three bootstrap methods to infer confidence intervals under a penalized likelihood framework. The basic idea is to use data pseudoreplicates to infer uncertainty in the branch lengths of a phylogeny reconstructed with molecular sequences. The three specific bootstrap methods are nonparametric (direct tree bootstrapping), semiparametric (rate smoothing), and parametric (Poisson simulation). Our extensive simulation study showed that the three methods perform generally well under a simple strict clock model of molecular evolution; however, the results were less positive with data simulated using an uncorrelated or a correlated relaxed clock model. Several factors impacted, possibly in interaction, the performance of the confidence intervals. Increasing the number of calibration points had a positive effect, as well as increasing the sequence length or the number of sequences although both latter effects depended on the model of evolution. A case study is presented with a molecular phylogeny of the Felidae (Mammalia: Carnivora). A comparison was made with a Bayesian analysis: the results were very close in terms of confidence intervals and there was no marked tendency for an approach to produce younger or older bounds compared to the other.
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- Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON 5S2C6, Canada
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- Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON 5S2C6, Canada
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- Institute of Computational Biotechnology, Technology University Graz, Austria
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Montoya P, Cadena CD, Claramunt S, Duchêne DA. Environmental niche and flight intensity are associated with molecular evolutionary rates in a large avian radiation. BMC Ecol Evol 2022; 22:95. [PMID: 35918644 PMCID: PMC9347078 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-022-02047-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2022] [Accepted: 07/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Background Metabolic activity and environmental energy are two of the most studied putative drivers of molecular evolutionary rates. Their extensive study, however, has resulted in mixed results and has rarely included the exploration of interactions among various factors impacting molecular evolutionary rates across large clades. Taking the diverse avian family Furnariidae as a case study, we examined the association between several estimates of molecular evolutionary rates with proxies of metabolic demands imposed by flight (wing loading and wing shape) and proxies of environmental energy across the geographic ranges of species (temperature and UV radiation). Results We found weak evidence of a positive effect of environmental and morphological variables on mitochondrial substitution rates. Additionally, we found that temperature and UV radiation interact to explain molecular rates at nucleotide sites affected by selection and population size (non-synonymous substitutions), contrary to the expectation of their impact on sites associated with mutation rates (synonymous substitutions). We also found a negative interaction between wing shape (as described by the hand-wing index) and body mass explaining mitochondrial molecular rates, suggesting molecular signatures of positive selection or reduced population sizes in small-bodied species with greater flight activity. Conclusions Our results suggest that the demands of flight and environmental energy pose multiple evolutionary pressures on the genome either by driving mutation rates or via their association with natural selection or population size. Data from whole genomes and detailed physiology across taxa will bring a more complete picture of the impact of metabolism, population size, and the environment on avian genome evolution. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12862-022-02047-0.
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Claramunt S. CladeDate
: Calibration information generator for divergence time estimation. Methods Ecol Evol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.13977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Santiago Claramunt
- Department of Natural History Royal Ontario Museum Toronto Ontario Canada
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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Naka LN, Costa BMDS, Lima GR, Claramunt S. Riverine Barriers as Obstacles to Dispersal in Amazonian Birds. Front Ecol Evol 2022. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.846975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Amazonian rivers represent known barriers for avian dispersal, reducing gene flow and enhancing differentiation. Despite the importance of rivers in the avian evolutionary process, we have made only minor advances in understanding the limitations imposed by rivers on flying birds. To fill that gap, we conducted dispersal-challenge experiments over water, assessing the flying capabilities of 84 tropical bird species of 22 different avian families. We mist-netted and released 484 birds from a stationary boat on the Rio Branco, northern Amazonia, at increasing distances from the shore, including 249 individuals at 100; 219 at 200; 8 at 300; and 5 at 400 m. A successful trial was represented by a bird reaching the riverbank, whereas a failure would refer to birds not reaching the shore and landing on the water, when they were rescued by our team. Our main goal was to understand if the outcome in the experiments could be predicted by (i) phylogenetic constraints, (ii) morphology (body mass and wing shape), (iii) flight speed, (iv) ecological preferences (stratum, habitat, and river-island specialization), and (v) psychological reluctance to fly. Nearly two thirds of the individuals (332) were successful in reaching the riverbank, whereas 152 failed. We found significant differences among lineages. Whereas seven avian families succeeded in all of the trials, two families (antbirds and wrens) were particularly bad dispersers (<40% success). The hand-wing index (HWI) was the single most powerful predictor of trial success. Flying speed was also a significant predictor of success. Overall, ecological attributes had a low explanatory power. Only forest stratum preference had a significant, although weak, effect on dispersal ability: canopy- and ground-dwellers performed better than understory birds. However, we found no effect of habitat preference or river-island specialization on dispersal ability. Our speed estimates for 64 bird species are among the first produced for the tropics and suggest slower flying speeds than those reported from temperate migratory birds. Although birds showed behavioral differences when presented with the opportunity to fly away from the boat, we found no evidence that their reluctance to fly could predict the outcome in the experiments. This represents the first experimental study evaluating the riverine effect through dispersal ability of Amazonian birds, providing important insights to better understand dispersal limitations provided by riverine barriers.
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- Santiago Claramunt
- Department of Natural History Royal Ontario Museum Toronto Ontario Canada
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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Weeks B, O’Brien B, Chu JJ, Claramunt S, Sheard C, Tobias J. Morphological adaptations linked to flight efficiency and aerial lifestyle determine natal dispersal distance in birds. Funct Ecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.14056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- B.C Weeks
- School for Environment and Sustainability University of Michigan 440 Church St Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA
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- School for Environment and Sustainability University of Michigan 440 Church St Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA
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- Department of Natural History Royal Ontario Museum Toronto ON M5S 2C6 Canada
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Toronto Toronto ON M5S 1A1 Canada
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- Department of Natural History Royal Ontario Museum Toronto ON M5S 2C6 Canada
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Toronto Toronto ON M5S 1A1 Canada
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- School of Earth Sciences University of Bristol BS8 1TQ UK
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- Department of Life Sciences Imperial College London Silwood Park, Buckhurst Road Ascot SL5 7PY UK
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Tobias JA, Sheard C, Pigot AL, Devenish AJM, Yang J, Sayol F, Neate-Clegg MHC, Alioravainen N, Weeks TL, Barber RA, Walkden PA, MacGregor HEA, Jones SEI, Vincent C, Phillips AG, Marples NM, Montaño-Centellas FA, Leandro-Silva V, Claramunt S, Darski B, Freeman BG, Bregman TP, Cooney CR, Hughes EC, Capp EJR, Varley ZK, Friedman NR, Korntheuer H, Corrales-Vargas A, Trisos CH, Weeks BC, Hanz DM, Töpfer T, Bravo GA, Remeš V, Nowak L, Carneiro LS, Moncada R AJ, Matysioková B, Baldassarre DT, Martínez-Salinas A, Wolfe JD, Chapman PM, Daly BG, Sorensen MC, Neu A, Ford MA, Mayhew RJ, Fabio Silveira L, Kelly DJ, Annorbah NND, Pollock HS, Grabowska-Zhang AM, McEntee JP, Carlos T Gonzalez J, Meneses CG, Muñoz MC, Powell LL, Jamie GA, Matthews TJ, Johnson O, Brito GRR, Zyskowski K, Crates R, Harvey MG, Jurado Zevallos M, Hosner PA, Bradfer-Lawrence T, Maley JM, Stiles FG, Lima HS, Provost KL, Chibesa M, Mashao M, Howard JT, Mlamba E, Chua MAH, Li B, Gómez MI, García NC, Päckert M, Fuchs J, Ali JR, Derryberry EP, Carlson ML, Urriza RC, Brzeski KE, Prawiradilaga DM, Rayner MJ, Miller ET, Bowie RCK, Lafontaine RM, Scofield RP, Lou Y, Somarathna L, Lepage D, Illif M, Neuschulz EL, Templin M, Dehling DM, Cooper JC, Pauwels OSG, Analuddin K, Fjeldså J, Seddon N, Sweet PR, DeClerck FAJ, Naka LN, Brawn JD, Aleixo A, Böhning-Gaese K, Rahbek C, Fritz SA, Thomas GH, Schleuning M. AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecol Lett 2022; 25:581-597. [PMID: 35199922 DOI: 10.1111/ele.13898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 69.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2021] [Revised: 04/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/10/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
Abstract
Functional traits offer a rich quantitative framework for developing and testing theories in evolutionary biology, ecology and ecosystem science. However, the potential of functional traits to drive theoretical advances and refine models of global change can only be fully realised when species-level information is complete. Here we present the AVONET dataset containing comprehensive functional trait data for all birds, including six ecological variables, 11 continuous morphological traits, and information on range size and location. Raw morphological measurements are presented from 90,020 individuals of 11,009 extant bird species sampled from 181 countries. These data are also summarised as species averages in three taxonomic formats, allowing integration with a global phylogeny, geographical range maps, IUCN Red List data and the eBird citizen science database. The AVONET dataset provides the most detailed picture of continuous trait variation for any major radiation of organisms, offering a global template for testing hypotheses and exploring the evolutionary origins, structure and functioning of biodiversity.
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Affiliation(s)
- Joseph A Tobias
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK.,Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK
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- Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Natural Resources Institute Finland, Natural resources - Migratory fish and regulated rivers, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK.,Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK.,Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK
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- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, UK
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Zoology, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Mayor de San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia.,Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Laboratório de Ecologia e Evolução de Aves, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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- Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Future-Fit Foundation, Spitalfields, London, UK
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- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.,Bird Group, Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Tring, UK
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- Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa, Japan
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- Department of Ecology, Institute of Zoology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Central American Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances (IRET), Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Heredia, Costa Rica
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.,Centre for Statistics in Ecology, the Environment and Conservation, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.,Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA
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- Biogeography and Biodiversity Lab, Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt, , Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Ornithology Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany
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- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Zoology, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.,Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Pará, Brazil
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- CATIE (Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza), Cartago, Turrialba, Costa Rica
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- College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Department of Biological Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- South African Ringing Unit, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK
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- Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo (MZUSP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Zoology, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Biological, Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Environment and Sustainable Development, Somanya, Ghana
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- Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Biology, Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Museum of Natural History, University of the Philippines Los, Baños, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines.,Animal Biology Division, Institute of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Los, Baños, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
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- Museum of Natural History, University of the Philippines Los, Baños, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
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- Programa de Biología, Universidad de la Salle, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Institute of Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.,Biodiversity Initiative, Houghton, Michigan, USA.,CIBIO-InBIO, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, University of Porto, Vairão, Portugal
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.,FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
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- GEES (School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences) and Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.,CE3C (Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group and Universidade, dos Açores), Depto de Ciências Agráriase Engenharia do Ambiente, Angra do Heroísmo, Açores, Portugal
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisina, USA
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- Depto. de Ecologia e Zoologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
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- Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Biodiversity Collections, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Moore Laboratory of Zoology, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
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- Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA.,Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Zoology and Aquatic Sciences, Copperbelt University, Kitwe, Zambia
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisina, USA.,Louisiana State University, Health Sciences Center Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisina, USA
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- Department of Zoology, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.,Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
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- Natural History Research Center, Shanghai Natural History Museum, Shanghai, China
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- Colección Boliviana de Fauna - Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Agua, La Paz, Bolivia
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- División Ornitología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia", CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Senckenberg Natural History Collections, Museum of Zoology, Dresden, Germany
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- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, SU, EPHE, UA, Paris, France
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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- Ornithology Section, Zoology Division, Philippine National Museum, Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines
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- College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
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- Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Research Centre for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Bogor, Indonesia
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- Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand.,School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Operational Directorate Natural Environment, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Brussels, Belgium
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- Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Natural History Section, Department of National Museum, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Recent Vertebrates, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Biotechnology, Halu Oleo University, Kendari, Sulawesi Tenggara, Indonesia
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Nature-based Solutions Initiative, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA
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- Bioversity International, CGIAR, Parc Scientifique Agropolis II, Montpellier, France
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- Laboratório de Ecologia e Evolução de Aves, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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- Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Danish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.,Institute of Ecology, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Institut für Geowissenschaften, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.,Bird Group, Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Tring, UK
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Tobias JA, Sheard C, Pigot AL, Devenish AJM, Yang J, Sayol F, Neate‐Clegg MHC, Alioravainen N, Weeks TL, Barber RA, Walkden PA, MacGregor HEA, Jones SEI, Vincent C, Phillips AG, Marples NM, Montaño‐Centellas FA, Leandro‐Silva V, Claramunt S, Darski B, Freeman BG, Bregman TP, Cooney CR, Hughes EC, Capp EJR, Varley ZK, Friedman NR, Korntheuer H, Corrales‐Vargas A, Trisos CH, Weeks BC, Hanz DM, Töpfer T, Bravo GA, Remeš V, Nowak L, Carneiro LS, Moncada R. AJ, Matysioková B, Baldassarre DT, Martínez‐Salinas A, Wolfe JD, Chapman PM, Daly BG, Sorensen MC, Neu A, Ford MA, Mayhew RJ, Fabio Silveira L, Kelly DJ, Annorbah NND, Pollock HS, Grabowska‐Zhang AM, McEntee JP, Carlos T. Gonzalez J, Meneses CG, Muñoz MC, Powell LL, Jamie GA, Matthews TJ, Johnson O, Brito GRR, Zyskowski K, Crates R, Harvey MG, Jurado Zevallos M, Hosner PA, Bradfer‐Lawrence T, Maley JM, Stiles FG, Lima HS, Provost KL, Chibesa M, Mashao M, Howard JT, Mlamba E, Chua MAH, Li B, Gómez MI, García NC, Päckert M, Fuchs J, Ali JR, Derryberry EP, Carlson ML, Urriza RC, Brzeski KE, Prawiradilaga DM, Rayner MJ, Miller ET, Bowie RCK, Lafontaine R, Scofield RP, Lou Y, Somarathna L, Lepage D, Illif M, Neuschulz EL, Templin M, Dehling DM, Cooper JC, Pauwels OSG, Analuddin K, Fjeldså J, Seddon N, Sweet PR, DeClerck FAJ, Naka LN, Brawn JD, Aleixo A, Böhning‐Gaese K, Rahbek C, Fritz SA, Thomas GH, Schleuning M. Cover Image: Volume 25 Number 3, March 2022. Ecol Lett 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/ele.13795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The factors responsible for variation in dispersal distances across species remain poorly understood. Previous comparative studies found differing results and equivocal support for theoretical predictions. Here I re-examine factors that influence natal dispersal distances in British birds while taking into account the cost of transport as estimated from proxies of long-distance flight efficiency. First, I show that flight efficiency, as estimated by the hand-wing index, the aspect ratio, or the lift-to-drag ratio, is a strong predictor of dispersal distances among resident species. Most migratory species showed a similar pattern, but a group of species with relatively low aerodynamic efficiency showed longer-than-expected dispersal distances, making the overall trend independent of flight efficiency. Ecological, behavioral, and life history factors had a small or nil influence on dispersal distances, with most of their influence likely mediated by adaptations for the use of space reflected in flight efficiency. This suggests that dispersal distances in birds are not determined by adaptive strategies for dispersal per se, but are predominantly influenced by the energetic cost of movement.
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- Santiago Claramunt
- Department of Natural HistoryRoyal Ontario Museum100 Queen’s ParkTorontoOntarioM5S 2C6Canada
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of Toronto25 Willcocks StreetTorontoOntarioM5S 3B2Canada
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BACKGROUND The origin of powered avian flight was a locomotor innovation that expanded the ecological potential of maniraptoran dinosaurs, leading to remarkable variation in modern birds (Neornithes). The avian sternum is the anchor for the major flight muscles and, despite varying widely in morphology, has not been extensively studied from evolutionary or functional perspectives. We quantify sternal variation across a broad phylogenetic scope of birds using 3D geometric morphometrics methods. Using this comprehensive dataset, we apply phylogenetically informed regression approaches to test hypotheses of sternum size allometry and the correlation of sternal shape with both size and locomotory capabilities, including flightlessness and the highly varying flight and swimming styles of Neornithes. RESULTS We find evidence for isometry of sternal size relative to body mass and document significant allometry of sternal shape alongside important correlations with locomotory capability, reflecting the effects of both body shape and musculoskeletal variation. Among these, we show that a large sternum with a deep or cranially projected sternal keel is necessary for powered flight in modern birds, that deeper sternal keels are correlated with slower but stronger flight, robust caudal sternal borders are associated with faster flapping styles, and that narrower sterna are associated with running abilities. Correlations between shape and locomotion are significant but show weak explanatory power, indicating that although sternal shape is broadly associated with locomotory ecology, other unexplored factors are also important. CONCLUSIONS These results display the ecological importance of the avian sternum for flight and locomotion by providing a novel understanding of sternum form and function in Neornithes. Our study lays the groundwork for estimating the locomotory abilities of paravian dinosaurs, the ancestors to Neornithes, by highlighting the importance of this critical element for avian flight, and will be useful for future work on the origin of flight along the dinosaur-bird lineage.
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- Talia M Lowi-Merri
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada.
- Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C6, Canada.
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3AN, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada
- Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C6, Canada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada
- Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C6, Canada
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Feng S, Stiller J, Deng Y, Armstrong J, Fang Q, Reeve AH, Xie D, Chen G, Guo C, Faircloth BC, Petersen B, Wang Z, Zhou Q, Diekhans M, Chen W, Andreu-Sánchez S, Margaryan A, Howard JT, Parent C, Pacheco G, Sinding MHS, Puetz L, Cavill E, Ribeiro ÂM, Eckhart L, Fjeldså J, Hosner PA, Brumfield RT, Christidis L, Bertelsen MF, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Tietze DT, Robertson BC, Song G, Borgia G, Claramunt S, Lovette IJ, Cowen SJ, Njoroge P, Dumbacher JP, Ryder OA, Fuchs J, Bunce M, Burt DW, Cracraft J, Meng G, Hackett SJ, Ryan PG, Jønsson KA, Jamieson IG, da Fonseca RR, Braun EL, Houde P, Mirarab S, Suh A, Hansson B, Ponnikas S, Sigeman H, Stervander M, Frandsen PB, van der Zwan H, van der Sluis R, Visser C, Balakrishnan CN, Clark AG, Fitzpatrick JW, Bowman R, Chen N, Cloutier A, Sackton TB, Edwards SV, Foote DJ, Shakya SB, Sheldon FH, Vignal A, Soares AER, Shapiro B, González-Solís J, Ferrer-Obiol J, Rozas J, Riutort M, Tigano A, Friesen V, Dalén L, Urrutia AO, Székely T, Liu Y, Campana MG, Corvelo A, Fleischer RC, Rutherford KM, Gemmell NJ, Dussex N, Mouritsen H, Thiele N, Delmore K, Liedvogel M, Franke A, Hoeppner MP, Krone O, Fudickar AM, Milá B, Ketterson ED, Fidler AE, Friis G, Parody-Merino ÁM, Battley PF, Cox MP, Lima NCB, Prosdocimi F, Parchman TL, Schlinger BA, Loiselle BA, Blake JG, Lim HC, Day LB, Fuxjager MJ, Baldwin MW, Braun MJ, Wirthlin M, Dikow RB, Ryder TB, Camenisch G, Keller LF, DaCosta JM, Hauber ME, Louder MIM, Witt CC, McGuire JA, Mudge J, Megna LC, Carling MD, Wang B, Taylor SA, Del-Rio G, Aleixo A, Vasconcelos ATR, Mello CV, Weir JT, Haussler D, Li Q, Yang H, Wang J, Lei F, Rahbek C, Gilbert MTP, Graves GR, Jarvis ED, Paten B, Zhang G. Author Correction: Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics. Nature 2021; 592:E24. [PMID: 33833441 PMCID: PMC8081657 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03473-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Shaohong Feng
- China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.,BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
| | - Josefin Stiller
- Villum Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Yuan Deng
- China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,Villum Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Joel Armstrong
- UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
| | - Qi Fang
- China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,Villum Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Andrew Hart Reeve
- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Duo Xie
- China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,BGI Education Center, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
| | - Guangji Chen
- China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,BGI Education Center, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
| | - Chunxue Guo
- China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
| | - Brant C Faircloth
- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.,Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
| | - Bent Petersen
- Centre of Excellence for Omics-Driven Computational Biodiscovery (COMBio), Faculty of Applied Sciences, AIMST University, Kedah, Malaysia.,Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Zongji Wang
- China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,MOE Laboratory of Biosystems Homeostasis and Protection, Life Sciences Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.,Department of Neuroscience and Developmental Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
| | - Qi Zhou
- MOE Laboratory of Biosystems Homeostasis and Protection, Life Sciences Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.,Department of Neuroscience and Developmental Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.,Center for Reproductive Medicine, The 2nd Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
| | - Mark Diekhans
- UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
| | - Wanjun Chen
- China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
| | - Sergio Andreu-Sánchez
- Villum Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Ashot Margaryan
- Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia
| | | | | | - George Pacheco
- Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Mikkel-Holger S Sinding
- Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Lara Puetz
- Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Emily Cavill
- Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Ângela M Ribeiro
- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Leopold Eckhart
- Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
| | - Jon Fjeldså
- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Peter A Hosner
- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Robb T Brumfield
- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.,Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
| | - Les Christidis
- Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
| | - Mads F Bertelsen
- Centre for Zoo and Wild Animal Health, Copenhagen Zoo, Frederiksberg, Denmark
| | - Thomas Sicheritz-Ponten
- Centre of Excellence for Omics-Driven Computational Biodiscovery (COMBio), Faculty of Applied Sciences, AIMST University, Kedah, Malaysia.,Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia
| | - Gerald Borgia
- Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
| | - Santiago Claramunt
- Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Irby J Lovette
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
| | - Saul J Cowen
- Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Attractions, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Peter Njoroge
- Ornithology Section, Zoology Department, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
| | | | - Oliver A Ryder
- San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, Escondido, CA, USA.,Evolution, Behavior, and Ecology, Division of Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Jérôme Fuchs
- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, Paris, France
| | - Michael Bunce
- Trace and Environmental DNA (TrEnD) Laboratory, School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Western Australia, Perth, Australia
| | - David W Burt
- UQ Genomics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| | - Joel Cracraft
- Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA
| | | | - Shannon J Hackett
- Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA
| | - Peter G Ryan
- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - Knud Andreas Jønsson
- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Ian G Jamieson
- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
| | - Rute R da Fonseca
- Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Edward L Braun
- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
| | - Peter Houde
- Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA
| | - Siavash Mirarab
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Alexander Suh
- Department of Ecology and Genetics - Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre (EBC), Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.,Department of Organismal Biology - Systematic Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre (EBC), Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.,School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
| | - Bengt Hansson
- Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
| | - Suvi Ponnikas
- Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
| | - Hanna Sigeman
- Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
| | - Martin Stervander
- Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.,Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
| | - Paul B Frandsen
- Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA.,Data Science Lab, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
| | | | - Rencia van der Sluis
- Focus Area for Human Metabolomics, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
| | - Carina Visser
- Department of Animal Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
| | | | - Andrew G Clark
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
| | | | - Reed Bowman
- Avian Ecology Program, Archbold Biological Station, Venus, FL, USA
| | - Nancy Chen
- Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
| | - Alison Cloutier
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.,Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
| | | | - Scott V Edwards
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.,Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
| | - Dustin J Foote
- Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA.,Sylvan Heights Bird Park, Scotland Neck, NC, USA
| | - Subir B Shakya
- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.,Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
| | - Frederick H Sheldon
- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.,Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
| | - Alain Vignal
- GenPhySE, INRA, INPT, INP-ENVT, Université de Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, France
| | - André E R Soares
- Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Petrópolis, Brazil.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
| | - Beth Shapiro
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
| | - Jacob González-Solís
- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals (BEECA), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Joan Ferrer-Obiol
- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Julio Rozas
- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Marta Riutort
- Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.,Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
| | - Vicki Friesen
- Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
| | - Love Dalén
- Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.,Centre for Palaeogenetics, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Araxi O Urrutia
- Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, Bath, UK.,Instituto de Ecologia, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - Tamás Székely
- Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, Bath, UK
| | - Yang Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
| | - Michael G Campana
- Center for Conservation Genomics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
| | | | - Robert C Fleischer
- Center for Conservation Genomics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
| | - Kim M Rutherford
- Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
| | - Neil J Gemmell
- Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
| | - Nicolas Dussex
- Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.,Centre for Palaeogenetics, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
| | - Henrik Mouritsen
- AG Neurosensory Sciences, Institut für Biologie und Umweltwissenschaften, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
| | - Nadine Thiele
- AG Neurosensory Sciences, Institut für Biologie und Umweltwissenschaften, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
| | - Kira Delmore
- Biology Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.,MPRG Behavioural Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany
| | | | - Andre Franke
- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts- University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
| | - Marc P Hoeppner
- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts- University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
| | - Oliver Krone
- Department of Wildlife Diseases, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany
| | - Adam M Fudickar
- Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
| | - Borja Milá
- National Museum of Natural Sciences, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
| | | | - Andrew Eric Fidler
- Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
| | - Guillermo Friis
- Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University - Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
| | | | - Phil F Battley
- Wildlife and Ecology Group, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
| | - Murray P Cox
- School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
| | - Nicholas Costa Barroso Lima
- Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Petrópolis, Brazil.,Departamento de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular, Centro de Ciências, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
| | - Francisco Prosdocimi
- Laboratório de Genômica e Biodiversidade, Instituto de Bioquímica Médica Leopoldo de Meis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
| | | | - Barney A Schlinger
- Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.,Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama
| | - Bette A Loiselle
- Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.,Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
| | - John G Blake
- Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
| | - Haw Chuan Lim
- Center for Conservation Genomics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.,Department of Biology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
| | - Lainy B Day
- Department of Biology and Neuroscience Minor, University of Mississippi, University, MS, USA
| | - Matthew J Fuxjager
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
| | | | - Michael J Braun
- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.,Behavior, Ecology, Evolution and Systematics Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
| | - Morgan Wirthlin
- Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
| | - Rebecca B Dikow
- Data Science Lab, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
| | - T Brandt Ryder
- Migratory Bird Center, Smithsonian National Zoological Park and Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC, USA
| | - Glauco Camenisch
- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
| | - Lukas F Keller
- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
| | | | - Mark E Hauber
- Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior, School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
| | - Matthew I M Louder
- Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA.,Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior, School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.,International Research Center for Neurointelligence, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - Christopher C Witt
- Museum of Southwestern Biology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
| | - Jimmy A McGuire
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
| | - Joann Mudge
- National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, NM, USA
| | - Libby C Megna
- Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
| | - Matthew D Carling
- Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
| | - Biao Wang
- School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - Scott A Taylor
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
| | - Glaucia Del-Rio
- Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
| | - Alexandre Aleixo
- Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | | | - Claudio V Mello
- Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
| | - Jason T Weir
- Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - David Haussler
- UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
| | - Qiye Li
- China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
| | - Huanming Yang
- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,James D. Watson Institute of Genome Sciences, Hangzhou, China
| | | | - Fumin Lei
- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
| | - Carsten Rahbek
- Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Danish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.,Institute of Ecology, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK
| | - M Thomas P Gilbert
- Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
| | - Gary R Graves
- Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
| | - Erich D Jarvis
- Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.,The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
| | - Benedict Paten
- UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
| | - Guojie Zhang
- China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China. .,State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China. .,Villum Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. .,Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.
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Harvey MG, Bravo GA, Claramunt S, Cuervo AM, Derryberry GE, Battilana J, Seeholzer GF, McKay JS, O'Meara BC, Faircloth BC, Edwards SV, Pérez-Emán J, Moyle RG, Sheldon FH, Aleixo A, Smith BT, Chesser RT, Silveira LF, Cracraft J, Brumfield RT, Derryberry EP. The evolution of a tropical biodiversity hotspot. Science 2021; 370:1343-1348. [PMID: 33303617 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz6970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2019] [Revised: 05/01/2020] [Accepted: 10/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
The tropics are the source of most biodiversity yet inadequate sampling obscures answers to fundamental questions about how this diversity evolves. We leveraged samples assembled over decades of fieldwork to study diversification of the largest tropical bird radiation, the suboscine passerines. Our phylogeny, estimated using data from 2389 genomic regions in 1940 individuals of 1283 species, reveals that peak suboscine species diversity in the Neotropics is not associated with high recent speciation rates but rather with the gradual accumulation of species over time. Paradoxically, the highest speciation rates are in lineages from regions with low species diversity, which are generally cold, dry, unstable environments. Our results reveal a model in which species are forming faster in environmental extremes but have accumulated in moderate environments to form tropical biodiversity hotspots.
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Affiliation(s)
- Michael G Harvey
- Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA. .,Biodiversity Collections, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
| | - Gustavo A Bravo
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. .,Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.,Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, 04263-000 Ipiranga, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
| | - Santiago Claramunt
- Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario M5S2C6, Canada.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S3B2, Canada.,Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA
| | - Andrés M Cuervo
- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá 111321, Colombia.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, LA 70118, USA
| | - Graham E Derryberry
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.,Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
| | - Jaqueline Battilana
- Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, 04263-000 Ipiranga, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
| | - Glenn F Seeholzer
- Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA.,Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
| | - Jessica Shearer McKay
- Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA
| | - Brian C O'Meara
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
| | - Brant C Faircloth
- Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA.,Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
| | - Scott V Edwards
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.,Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
| | - Jorge Pérez-Emán
- Instituto de Zoología y Ecología Tropical, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.,Colección Ornitológica Phelps, Caracas, Venezuela
| | - Robert G Moyle
- Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
| | - Frederick H Sheldon
- Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA.,Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
| | - Alexandre Aleixo
- Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, 00014, Helsinki, Finland.,Department of Zoology, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, CP 399, 66040-170 Belém, PA, Brazil
| | - Brian Tilston Smith
- Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA
| | - R Terry Chesser
- US Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD 20708, USA.,National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA
| | - Luís Fábio Silveira
- Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, 04263-000 Ipiranga, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
| | - Joel Cracraft
- Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA
| | - Robb T Brumfield
- Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA.,Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
| | - Elizabeth P Derryberry
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, LA 70118, USA
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Cabanne GS, Campagna L, Trujillo-Arias N, Naoki K, Gómez I, Miyaki CY, Santos FR, Dantas GP, Aleixo A, Claramunt S, Rocha A, Caparroz R, Lovette IJ, Tubaro PL. Phylogeographic variation within the Buff-browed Foliage-gleaner (Aves: Furnariidae: Syndactyla rufosuperciliata) supports an Andean-Atlantic forests connection via the Cerrado. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2019; 133:198-213. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2018] [Revised: 12/21/2018] [Accepted: 01/10/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Derryberry EP, Seddon N, Derryberry GE, Claramunt S, Seeholzer GF, Brumfield RT, Tobias JA. Ecological drivers of song evolution in birds: Disentangling the effects of habitat and morphology. Ecol Evol 2018; 8:1890-1905. [PMID: 29435262 PMCID: PMC5792612 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2017] [Revised: 11/30/2017] [Accepted: 12/01/2017] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Environmental differences influence the evolutionary divergence of mating signals through selection acting either directly on signal transmission ("sensory drive") or because morphological adaptation to different foraging niches causes divergence in "magic traits" associated with signal production, thus indirectly driving signal evolution. Sensory drive and magic traits both contribute to variation in signal structure, yet we have limited understanding of the relative role of these direct and indirect processes during signal evolution. Using phylogenetic analyses across 276 species of ovenbirds (Aves: Furnariidae), we compared the extent to which song evolution was related to the direct influence of habitat characteristics and the indirect effect of body size and beak size, two potential magic traits in birds. We find that indirect ecological selection, via diversification in putative magic traits, explains variation in temporal, spectral, and performance features of song. Body size influences song frequency, whereas beak size limits temporal and performance components of song. In comparison, direct ecological selection has weaker and more limited effects on song structure. Our results illustrate the importance of considering multiple deterministic processes in the evolution of mating signals.
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- Elizabeth Perrault Derryberry
- Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological SciencesLouisiana State UniversityBaton RougeLAUSA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyTulane UniversityNew OrleansLAUSA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of TennesseeKnoxvilleTNUSA
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- Department of ZoologyEdward Grey InstituteUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
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- Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological SciencesLouisiana State UniversityBaton RougeLAUSA
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- Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological SciencesLouisiana State UniversityBaton RougeLAUSA
- Department of Natural HistoryRoyal Ontario MuseumTorontoONCanada
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- Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological SciencesLouisiana State UniversityBaton RougeLAUSA
- Department of OrnithologyAmerican Museum of Natural HistoryNew YorkNYUSA
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- Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological SciencesLouisiana State UniversityBaton RougeLAUSA
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- Department of ZoologyEdward Grey InstituteUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonLondonUK
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Seeholzer GF, Claramunt S, Brumfield RT. Niche evolution and diversification in a Neotropical radiation of birds (Aves: Furnariidae). Evolution 2017; 71:702-715. [DOI: 10.1111/evo.13177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2015] [Accepted: 01/04/2017] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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- Glenn F. Seeholzer
- Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Sciences Louisiana State University Baton Rouge Louisiana 70803
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- Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Sciences Louisiana State University Baton Rouge Louisiana 70803
- Department of Natural History Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queen's Park, Toronto Ontario M5S2C6 Canada
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- Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Sciences Louisiana State University Baton Rouge Louisiana 70803
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Mason NA, Burns KJ, Tobias JA, Claramunt S, Seddon N, Derryberry EP. Song evolution, speciation, and vocal learning in passerine birds. Evolution 2017; 71:786-796. [DOI: 10.1111/evo.13159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2015] [Accepted: 12/17/2016] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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- Nicholas A. Mason
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Cornell University Ithaca New York 14853
- Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology Ithaca New York 14850
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- Department of Biology San Diego State University San Diego California 92182
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- Department of Life Sciences Imperial College London Silwood Park Ascot SL5 7PY United Kingdom
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- Department of Ornithology American Museum of Natural History New York New York 10024
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- Edward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology University of Oxford Oxford OX1 3PS United Kingdom
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Tulane University New Orleans Louisiana 70118
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Claramunt S, Cracraft J. A new time tree reveals Earth history's imprint on the evolution of modern birds. Sci Adv 2015; 1:e1501005. [PMID: 26824065 PMCID: PMC4730849 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 191] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2015] [Accepted: 11/02/2015] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Determining the timing of diversification of modern birds has been difficult. We combined DNA sequences of clock-like genes for most avian families with 130 fossil birds to generate a new time tree for Neornithes and investigated their biogeographic and diversification dynamics. We found that the most recent common ancestor of modern birds inhabited South America around 95 million years ago, but it was not until the Cretaceous-Paleogene transition (66 million years ago) that Neornithes began to diversify rapidly around the world. Birds used two main dispersion routes: reaching the Old World through North America, and reaching Australia and Zealandia through Antarctica. Net diversification rates increased during periods of global cooling, suggesting that fragmentation of tropical biomes stimulated speciation. Thus, we found pervasive evidence that avian evolution has been influenced by plate tectonics and environmental change, two basic features of Earth's dynamics.
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Different models of speciation predict contrasting patterns in the relationship between the dispersal ability of lineages and their diversification rates. This relationship is expected to be negative in isolation-limited models and positive in founder-event models. In addition, the combination of negative and positive effects of dispersal on speciation can result in higher diversification rates at intermediate levels of dispersal ability. Using molecular phylogenies to estimate diversification rates, and wing morphology to estimate dispersal ability, we analysed the influence of dispersal on diversification in the avifauna of Australasian archipelagoes. Contrary to expectations given the fragmented nature of island systems, the relationship between dispersal ability and diversification rate was monotonically negative. While multiple mechanisms could generate this pattern, they all share a phase of range expansion that is decoupled from speciation.
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- Brian C Weeks
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, 79th Street at Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, USA
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- Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, 79th Street at Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, USA
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Claramunt S. Phylogenetic relationships among Synallaxini spinetails (Aves: Furnariidae) reveal a new biogeographic pattern across the Amazon and Paraná river basins. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2014; 78:223-31. [PMID: 24867462 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2014] [Revised: 05/05/2014] [Accepted: 05/06/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Relationships among genera in the tribe Synallaxini have proved difficult to resolve. In this study, I investigate relationships among Synallaxis, Certhiaxis and Schoeniophylax using DNA sequences from the mitochondrion and three nuclear regions. I implemented novel primers and protocols for amplifying and sequencing autosomal and sex-linked introns in Furnariidae that resolved basal relationships in the Synallaxini with strong support. Synallaxis propinqua is sister to Schoeniophylax phryganophilus, and together they form a clade with Certhiaxis. The results are robust to analytical approaches when all genomic regions are analyzed jointly (parsimony, maximum likelihood, and species-tree analysis) and the same basal relationships are recovered by most genomic regions when analyzed separately. A sister relationship between S. propinqua, an Amazonian river island specialist, and S. phryganophilus, from the Paraná River basin region, reveals a new biogeographic pattern shared by at least other four pairs of taxa with similar distributions and ecologies. Estimates of divergence times for these five pairs span from the late Miocene to the Pleistocene. Identification of the historical events that produced this pattern is difficult and further advances will require additional studies of the taxa involved and a better understanding of the recent environmental history of South America. A new classification is proposed for the Synallaxini, including the description of a new genus for S. propinqua.
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- Santiago Claramunt
- Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, USA.
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Tobias JA, Cornwallis CK, Derryberry EP, Claramunt S, Brumfield RT, Seddon N. Species coexistence and the dynamics of phenotypic evolution in adaptive radiation. Nature 2013; 506:359-63. [PMID: 24362572 DOI: 10.1038/nature12874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2013] [Accepted: 11/08/2013] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Interactions between species can promote evolutionary divergence of ecological traits and social signals, a process widely assumed to generate species differences in adaptive radiation. However, an alternative view is that lineages typically interact when relatively old, by which time selection for divergence is weak and potentially exceeded by convergent selection acting on traits mediating interspecific competition. Few studies have tested these contrasting predictions across large radiations, or by controlling for evolutionary time. Thus the role of species interactions in driving broad-scale patterns of trait divergence is unclear. Here we use phylogenetic estimates of divergence times to show that increased trait differences among coexisting lineages of ovenbirds (Furnariidae) are explained by their greater evolutionary age in relation to non-interacting lineages, and that--when these temporal biases are accounted for--the only significant effect of coexistence is convergence in a social signal (song). Our results conflict with the conventional view that coexistence promotes trait divergence among co-occurring organisms at macroevolutionary scales, and instead provide evidence that species interactions can drive phenotypic convergence across entire radiations, a pattern generally concealed by biases in age.
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- Joseph A Tobias
- 1] Edward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK [2]
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- 1] Edward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK [2] Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, SE-223 62, Sweden [3]
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- 1] Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA [2] Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA
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- 1] Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA [2] Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA [3] Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York 10024, USA
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- 1] Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA [2] Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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- Edward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
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Monereo O, Claramunt S, Marigorta MMD, Boix M, Leghrib R, Prades J, Cornet A, Merino P, Merino C, Cirera A. Flexible sensor based on carbon nanofibers with multifunctional sensing features. Talanta 2013; 107:239-47. [DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2013.01.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2012] [Revised: 01/04/2013] [Accepted: 01/11/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Derryberry EP, Seddon N, Claramunt S, Tobias JA, Baker A, Aleixo A, Brumfield RT. CORRELATED EVOLUTION OF BEAK MORPHOLOGY AND SONG IN THE NEOTROPICAL WOODCREEPER RADIATION. Evolution 2012; 66:2784-97. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01642.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Claramunt S, Derryberry EP, Brumfield RT, Remsen JV. Ecological Opportunity and Diversification in a Continental Radiation of Birds: Climbing Adaptations and Cladogenesis in the Furnariidae. Am Nat 2012; 179:649-66. [DOI: 10.1086/664998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Claramunt S, Derryberry EP, Remsen JV, Brumfield RT. High dispersal ability inhibits speciation in a continental radiation of passerine birds. Proc Biol Sci 2011; 279:1567-74. [PMID: 22090382 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 175] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Dispersal can stimulate speciation by facilitating geographical expansion across barriers or inhibit speciation by maintaining gene flow among populations. Therefore, the relationship between dispersal ability and speciation rates can be positive or negative. Furthermore, an 'intermediate dispersal' model that combines positive and negative effects predicts a unimodal relationship between dispersal and diversification. Because both dispersal ability and speciation rates are difficult to quantify, empirical evidence for the relationship between dispersal and diversification remains scarce. Using a surrogate for flight performance and a species-level DNA-based phylogeny of a large South American bird radiation (the Furnariidae), we found that lineages with higher dispersal ability experienced lower speciation rates. We propose that the degree of fragmentation or permeability of the geographical setting together with the intermediate dispersal model are crucial in reconciling previous, often contradictory findings regarding the relationship between dispersal and diversification.
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- Santiago Claramunt
- Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA.
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Derryberry EP, Claramunt S, Derryberry G, Chesser RT, Cracraft J, Aleixo A, Pérez-Emán J, Remsen Jr. JV, Brumfield RT. LINEAGE DIVERSIFICATION AND MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN A LARGE-SCALE CONTINENTAL RADIATION: THE NEOTROPICAL OVENBIRDS AND WOODCREEPERS (AVES: FURNARIIDAE). Evolution 2011; 65:2973-86. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01374.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 236] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Monereo O, Boix M, Claramunt S, Prades J, Cornet A, Cirera A, Merino P, Merino C. Advanced Performances In Gas Sensors: Stretchable, Flexible, Wireless, Wearable. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.12.352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Claramunt S. DISCOVERING EXCEPTIONAL DIVERSIFICATIONS AT CONTINENTAL SCALES: THE CASE OF THE ENDEMIC FAMILIES OF NEOTROPICAL SUBOSCINE PASSERINES. Evolution 2010; 64:2004-19. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.00971.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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