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Burns MD, Knouft JH, Dillman CB. The role of abiotic and biotic factors in the unequal body shape diversification of a Gondwanan fish radiation (Otophysi: Characiformes). Evolution 2024; 78:253-266. [PMID: 37952199 DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpad203] [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: 05/26/2023] [Revised: 10/25/2023] [Accepted: 11/08/2023] [Indexed: 11/14/2023]
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Understanding why some clades diversify greatly while others do not is a major goal of evolutionary biology. Both abiotic and biotic factors are important in driving unequal morphological diversity across the tree of life. However, few studies have quantified how abiotic habitat and community composition differences influence unequal morphological diversification in spatiotemporally diffuse radiations. We use geometric morphometrics, abiotic habitat data generated by Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analyses, evolutionary simulations, and phylogenetic comparative methods to determine whether random evolution, habitat variation, competition for niches, or a combination of factors influenced the unequal body shape diversity of a Gondwanan freshwater fish radiation. We find that Neotropical characiform lineages, which exhibit substantially more body shape diversity than their African counterparts, occupy significantly more slope and elevation habitats than African lineages. Differences in habitat occupation between the continental radiations occur through a combination of likely competition with cypriniform fishes in Africa restricting access to higher slope and elevation habitats and significantly more low-elevation and slope habitats available in the Neotropics. Our findings suggest that spatiotemporally widespread radiations, like Characiformes, do not diversify across homogenized habitats and biotic assemblages, with differences in community structure and physical habitat playing an important role in driving unequal morphological diversification.
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- Michael D Burns
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, Ithaca, NY, United States
- Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA, United States
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- Department of Biology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, United States
- National Great Rivers Research and Education Center, East Alton, IL, United States
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
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Skipwith PL, Oliver PM. Ecologically diverse island-associated lizard radiation shows idiosyncratic trait diversification shifts and homogenous speciation dynamics. Evolution 2023; 77:138-154. [PMID: 36622227 DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpac002] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2020] [Revised: 09/21/2022] [Accepted: 11/10/2022] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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A key area of interest in evolutionary biology has been understanding the role of ecological opportunity in the formation of adaptive radiations, lineages where speciation and phenotypic diversification are driven by open ecological opportunity. Evolutionary theory posits that adaptive radiations should show initial bursts of ecomorphological diversification and rapid speciation, and that these two processes are correlated. Here, we investigate and contrast these predictions across ecomorphologically diverse continental (Australia) and insular (New Caledonia and New Zealand) radiations of diplodactyloid geckos. We test two key hypotheses: (a) that island colonization and the transition to novel niche-space has resulted in increased rates of speciation and trait diversification and (b) that rates of morphological diversification are correlated across multiple trait axes. Surprisingly, we find that speciation rate is homogenous and morphological diversification rates are idiosyncratic and uncorrelated with speciation rates. Tests of morphological integration suggests that while all traits coevolve, constraint may act differentially on individual axes. This accords with a growing number of studies indicating that ecologically diverse and species-rich radiations can show limited or no evidence of exceptional regime shifts in speciation dynamics or morphological diversification, especially in continental contexts.
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- Phillip L Skipwith
- Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States.,Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
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- Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.,Biodiversity and Geosciences Program, Queensland Museum, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Owens HL, Ribeiro V, Saupe EE, Cobos ME, Hosner PA, Cooper JC, Samy AM, Barve V, Barve N, Muñoz‐R. CJ, Peterson AT. Acknowledging uncertainty in evolutionary reconstructions of ecological niches. Ecol Evol 2020; 10:6967-6977. [PMID: 32760505 PMCID: PMC7391559 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [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: 01/20/2020] [Revised: 04/07/2020] [Accepted: 04/22/2020] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Reconstructing ecological niche evolution can provide insight into the biogeography and diversification of evolving lineages. However, comparative phylogenetic methods may infer the history of ecological niche evolution inaccurately because (a) species' niches are often poorly characterized; and (b) phylogenetic comparative methods rely on niche summary statistics rather than full estimates of species' environmental tolerances. Here, we propose a new framework for coding ecological niches and reconstructing their evolution that explicitly acknowledges and incorporates the uncertainty introduced by incomplete niche characterization. Then, we modify existing ancestral state inference methods to leverage full estimates of environmental tolerances. We provide a worked empirical example of our method, investigating ecological niche evolution in the New World orioles (Aves: Passeriformes: Icterus spp.). Temperature and precipitation tolerances were generally broad and conserved among orioles, with niche reduction and specialization limited to a few terminal branches. Tools for performing these reconstructions are available in a new R package called nichevol.
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- Hannah L. Owens
- Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and ClimateGLOBE InstituteUniversity of CopenhagenCopenhagenDenmark
- Florida Museum of Natural HistoryUniversity of FloridaGainesvilleFLUSA
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- Department of Earth SciencesUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and ClimateGLOBE InstituteUniversity of CopenhagenCopenhagenDenmark
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- Committee on Evolutionary BiologyThe University of ChicagoChicagoILUSA
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- Entomology DepartmentFaculty of ScienceAin Shams UniversityCairoEgypt
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- Florida Museum of Natural HistoryUniversity of FloridaGainesvilleFLUSA
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- Florida Museum of Natural HistoryUniversity of FloridaGainesvilleFLUSA
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- Laboratorio de Análisis EspacialesInstituto de BiologíaUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoCiudad de MéxicoMexico
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To expand our capacity to discover venom sequences from the genomes of venomous organisms, we applied targeted sequencing techniques to selectively recover venom gene superfamilies and nontoxin loci from the genomes of 32 cone snail species (family, Conidae), a diverse group of marine gastropods that capture their prey using a cocktail of neurotoxic peptides (conotoxins). We were able to successfully recover conotoxin gene superfamilies across all species with high confidence (> 100× coverage) and used these data to provide new insights into conotoxin evolution. First, we found that conotoxin gene superfamilies are composed of one to six exons and are typically short in length (mean = ∼85 bp). Second, we expanded our understanding of the following genetic features of conotoxin evolution: 1) positive selection, where exons coding the mature toxin region were often three times more divergent than their adjacent noncoding regions, 2) expression regulation, with comparisons to transcriptome data showing that cone snails only express a fraction of the genes available in their genome (24-63%), and 3) extensive gene turnover, where Conidae species varied from 120 to 859 conotoxin gene copies. Finally, using comparative phylogenetic methods, we found that while diet specificity did not predict patterns of conotoxin evolution, dietary breadth was positively correlated with total conotoxin gene diversity. Overall, the targeted sequencing technique demonstrated here has the potential to radically increase the pace at which venom gene families are sequenced and studied, reshaping our ability to understand the impact of genetic changes on ecologically relevant phenotypes and subsequent diversification.
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- Mark A Phuong
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Animal Biomedical and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Udayana University Bali, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
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Manceau M, Lambert A, Morlon H. A Unifying Comparative Phylogenetic Framework Including Traits Coevolving Across Interacting Lineages. Syst Biol 2018; 66:551-568. [PMID: 28003533 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syw115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [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: 05/20/2016] [Accepted: 12/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Models of phenotypic evolution fit to phylogenetic comparative data are widely used to make inferences regarding the tempo and mode of trait evolution. A wide range of models is already available for this type of analysis, and the field is still under active development. One of the most needed development concerns models that better account for the effect of within- and between-clade interspecific interactions on trait evolution, which can result from processes as diverse as competition, predation, parasitism, or mutualism. Here, we begin by developing a very general comparative phylogenetic framework for (multi)-trait evolution that can be applied to both ultrametric and nonultrametric trees. This framework not only encapsulates many previous models of continuous univariate and multivariate phenotypic evolution, but also paves the way for the consideration of a much broader series of models in which lineages coevolve, meaning that trait changes in one lineage are influenced by the value of traits in other, interacting lineages. Next, we provide a standard way for deriving the probabilistic distribution of traits at tip branches under our framework. We show that a multivariate normal distribution remains the expected distribution for a broad class of models accounting for interspecific interactions. Our derivations allow us to fit various models efficiently, and in particular greatly reduce the computation time needed to fit the recently proposed phenotype matching model. Finally, we illustrate the utility of our framework by developing a toy model for mutualistic coevolution. Our framework should foster a new era in the study of coevolution from comparative data.
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- Marc Manceau
- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 75005 Paris, France
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, Collège de France, CNRS UMR 7241, 75005 Paris, France
- Institut de Biologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS UMR 8197, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires, UPMC-University of Paris 06, 75005 Paris France
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, Collège de France, CNRS UMR 7241, 75005 Paris, France
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- Institut de Biologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS UMR 8197, 75005 Paris, France
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Muñoz MM, Anderson PSL, Patek SN. Mechanical sensitivity and the dynamics of evolutionary rate shifts in biomechanical systems. Proc Biol Sci 2018; 284:rspb.2016.2325. [PMID: 28100817 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [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: 10/24/2016] [Accepted: 12/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The influence of biophysical relationships on rates of morphological evolution is a cornerstone of evolutionary theory. Mechanical sensitivity-the correlation strength between mechanical output and the system's underlying morphological components-is thought to impact the evolutionary dynamics of form-function relationships, yet has rarely been examined. Here, we compare the evolutionary rates of the mechanical components of the four-bar linkage system in the raptorial appendage of mantis shrimp (Order Stomatopoda). This system's mechanical output (kinematic transmission (KT)) is highly sensitive to variation in its output link, and less sensitive to its input and coupler links. We found that differential mechanical sensitivity is associated with variation in evolutionary rate: KT and the output link exhibit faster rates of evolution than the input and coupler links to which KT is less sensitive. Furthermore, for KT and, to a lesser extent, the output link, rates of evolution were faster in 'spearing' stomatopods than 'smashers', indicating that mechanical sensitivity may influence trait-dependent diversification. Our results suggest that mechanical sensitivity can impact morphological evolution and guide the process of phenotypic diversification. The connection between mechanical sensitivity and evolutionary rates provides a window into the interaction between physical rules and the evolutionary dynamics of morphological diversification.
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- Martha M Muñoz
- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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In this Special feature, we assemble studies that illustrate phylogenetic approaches to studying salient questions regarding the effect of specialization on lineage diversification. The studies use an array of techniques involving a wide-ranging collection of biological systems (plants, butterflies, fish and amphibians are all represented). Their results reveal that macroevolutionary examination of specialization provides insight into the patterns of trade-offs in specialized systems; in particular, the genetic mechanisms of trade-offs appear to extend to very different aspects of life history in different groups. In turn, because a species may be a specialist from one perspective and a generalist in others, these trade-offs influence whether we perceive specialization to have effects on the evolutionary success of a lineage when we examine specialization only along a single axis. Finally, how geographical range influences speciation and extinction of specialist lineages remains a question offering much potential for further insight.
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- Jana C Vamosi
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2L 0Z3
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 2DY, UK Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99709, USA Department of Biology, NTNU, Trondheim 7491, Norway
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- Systematic Botany and Mycology, Department of Biology, University of Munich (LMU), Munich 80638, Germany
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Carroll A, Specht CD. Understanding Plant Cellulose Synthases through a Comprehensive Investigation of the Cellulose Synthase Family Sequences. Front Plant Sci 2011; 2:5. [PMID: 22629257 PMCID: PMC3355508 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2011.00005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2011] [Accepted: 03/17/2011] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The development of cellulose as an organizing structure in the plant cell wall was a key event in both the initial colonization and the subsequent domination of the terrestrial ecosystem by vascular plants. A wealth of experimental data has demonstrated the complicated genetic interactions required to form the large synthetic complex that synthesizes cellulose. However, these results are lacking an extensive analysis of the evolution, specialization, and regulation of the proteins that compose this complex. Here we perform an in-depth analysis of the sequences in the cellulose synthase (CesA) family. We investigate the phylogeny of the CesA family, with emphasis on evolutionary specialization. We define specialized clades and identify the class-specific regions within the CesA sequence that may explain this specialization. We investigate changes in regulation of CesAs by looking at the conservation of proposed phosphorylation sites. We investigate the conservation of sites where mutations have been documented that impair CesA function, and compare these sites to those observed in the closest cellulose synthase-like (Csl) families to better understand what regions may separate the CesAs from other Csls. Finally we identify two positions with strong conservation of the aromatic trait, but lacking conservation of amino acid identity, which may represent residues important for positioning the sugar substrate for catalysis. These analyses provide useful tools for understanding characterized mutations and post-translational modifications, and for informing further experiments to probe CesA assembly, regulation, and function through site-directed mutagenesis or domain swapping experiments.
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- Andrew Carroll
- Department of Biology, Stanford UniversityStanford, CA, USA
- Energy Biosciences Institute, University of CaliforniaBerkeley, CA, USA
- *Correspondence: Andrew Carroll, Energy Biosciences Institute, University of California Berkeley, Calvin Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. e-mail:
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of CaliforniaBerkeley, CA, USA
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