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Species-specific bioluminescence facilitates speciation in the deep sea
The vast darkness of the deep sea is an environment with few obvious genetic isolating barriers, and little is known regarding the macroevolutionary processes that have shaped present-day biodiversity in this habitat. Bioluminescence, the production and emission of light from a living organism throu...
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2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3996283/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24771948 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-014-2406-x |
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author | Davis, Matthew P. Holcroft, Nancy I. Wiley, Edward O. Sparks, John S. Leo Smith, W. |
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description | The vast darkness of the deep sea is an environment with few obvious genetic isolating barriers, and little is known regarding the macroevolutionary processes that have shaped present-day biodiversity in this habitat. Bioluminescence, the production and emission of light from a living organism through a chemical reaction, is thought to occur in approximately 80 % of the eukaryotic life that inhabits the deep sea (water depth greater than 200 m). In this study, we show, for the first time, that deep-sea fishes that possess species-specific bioluminescent structures (e.g., lanternfishes, dragonfishes) are diversifying into new species at a more rapid rate than deep-sea fishes that utilize bioluminescence in ways that would not promote isolation of populations (e.g., camouflage, predation). This work adds to our understanding of how life thrives and evolution shaped present-day biodiversity in the deep sea, the largest and arguably least explored habitat on earth. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s00227-014-2406-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-39962832014-04-23 Species-specific bioluminescence facilitates speciation in the deep sea Davis, Matthew P. Holcroft, Nancy I. Wiley, Edward O. Sparks, John S. Leo Smith, W. Mar Biol Original Paper The vast darkness of the deep sea is an environment with few obvious genetic isolating barriers, and little is known regarding the macroevolutionary processes that have shaped present-day biodiversity in this habitat. Bioluminescence, the production and emission of light from a living organism through a chemical reaction, is thought to occur in approximately 80 % of the eukaryotic life that inhabits the deep sea (water depth greater than 200 m). In this study, we show, for the first time, that deep-sea fishes that possess species-specific bioluminescent structures (e.g., lanternfishes, dragonfishes) are diversifying into new species at a more rapid rate than deep-sea fishes that utilize bioluminescence in ways that would not promote isolation of populations (e.g., camouflage, predation). This work adds to our understanding of how life thrives and evolution shaped present-day biodiversity in the deep sea, the largest and arguably least explored habitat on earth. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s00227-014-2406-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014-02-21 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC3996283/ /pubmed/24771948 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-014-2406-x Text en © The Author(s) 2014 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Davis, Matthew P. Holcroft, Nancy I. Wiley, Edward O. Sparks, John S. Leo Smith, W. Species-specific bioluminescence facilitates speciation in the deep sea |
title | Species-specific bioluminescence facilitates speciation in the deep sea |
title_full | Species-specific bioluminescence facilitates speciation in the deep sea |
title_fullStr | Species-specific bioluminescence facilitates speciation in the deep sea |
title_full_unstemmed | Species-specific bioluminescence facilitates speciation in the deep sea |
title_short | Species-specific bioluminescence facilitates speciation in the deep sea |
title_sort | species-specific bioluminescence facilitates speciation in the deep sea |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3996283/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24771948 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-014-2406-x |
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