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A macroevolutionary common-garden experiment reveals differentially evolvable bone organization levels in slow arboreal mammals
Eco-morphological convergence, i.e., similar phenotypes evolved in ecologically convergent taxa, naturally reproduces a common-garden experiment since it allows researchers to keep ecological factors constant, studying intrinsic evolutionary drivers. The latter may result in differential evolvabilit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10539518/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37770611 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05371-3 |
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author | Alfieri, Fabio Botton-Divet, Léo Wölfer, Jan Nyakatura, John A. Amson, Eli |
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description | Eco-morphological convergence, i.e., similar phenotypes evolved in ecologically convergent taxa, naturally reproduces a common-garden experiment since it allows researchers to keep ecological factors constant, studying intrinsic evolutionary drivers. The latter may result in differential evolvability that, among individual anatomical parts, causes mosaic evolution. Reconstructing the evolutionary morphology of the humerus and femur of slow arboreal mammals, we addressed mosaicism at different bone anatomical spatial scales. We compared convergence strength, using it as indicator of evolvability, between bone external shape and inner structure, with the former expected to be less evolvable and less involved in convergent evolution, due to anatomical constraints. We identify several convergent inner structural traits, while external shape only loosely follows this trend, and we find confirmation for our assumption in measures of convergence magnitude. We suggest that future macroevolutionary reconstructions based on bone morphology should include structural traits to better detect ecological effects on vertebrate diversification. |
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spelling | pubmed-105395182023-09-30 A macroevolutionary common-garden experiment reveals differentially evolvable bone organization levels in slow arboreal mammals Alfieri, Fabio Botton-Divet, Léo Wölfer, Jan Nyakatura, John A. Amson, Eli Commun Biol Article Eco-morphological convergence, i.e., similar phenotypes evolved in ecologically convergent taxa, naturally reproduces a common-garden experiment since it allows researchers to keep ecological factors constant, studying intrinsic evolutionary drivers. The latter may result in differential evolvability that, among individual anatomical parts, causes mosaic evolution. Reconstructing the evolutionary morphology of the humerus and femur of slow arboreal mammals, we addressed mosaicism at different bone anatomical spatial scales. We compared convergence strength, using it as indicator of evolvability, between bone external shape and inner structure, with the former expected to be less evolvable and less involved in convergent evolution, due to anatomical constraints. We identify several convergent inner structural traits, while external shape only loosely follows this trend, and we find confirmation for our assumption in measures of convergence magnitude. We suggest that future macroevolutionary reconstructions based on bone morphology should include structural traits to better detect ecological effects on vertebrate diversification. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10539518/ /pubmed/37770611 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05371-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Alfieri, Fabio Botton-Divet, Léo Wölfer, Jan Nyakatura, John A. Amson, Eli A macroevolutionary common-garden experiment reveals differentially evolvable bone organization levels in slow arboreal mammals |
title | A macroevolutionary common-garden experiment reveals differentially evolvable bone organization levels in slow arboreal mammals |
title_full | A macroevolutionary common-garden experiment reveals differentially evolvable bone organization levels in slow arboreal mammals |
title_fullStr | A macroevolutionary common-garden experiment reveals differentially evolvable bone organization levels in slow arboreal mammals |
title_full_unstemmed | A macroevolutionary common-garden experiment reveals differentially evolvable bone organization levels in slow arboreal mammals |
title_short | A macroevolutionary common-garden experiment reveals differentially evolvable bone organization levels in slow arboreal mammals |
title_sort | macroevolutionary common-garden experiment reveals differentially evolvable bone organization levels in slow arboreal mammals |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10539518/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37770611 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05371-3 |
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