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The evolutionary ecology of the Lygaeidae
The Lygaeidae (sensu lato) are a highly successful family of true bugs found worldwide, yet many aspects of their ecology and evolution remain obscure or unknown. While a few species have attracted considerable attention as model species for the study of insect physiology, it is only relatively rece...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4201440/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25360267 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1093 |
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author | Burdfield-Steel, Emily R Shuker, David M |
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description | The Lygaeidae (sensu lato) are a highly successful family of true bugs found worldwide, yet many aspects of their ecology and evolution remain obscure or unknown. While a few species have attracted considerable attention as model species for the study of insect physiology, it is only relatively recently that biologists have begun to explore aspects of their behavior, life history evolution, and patterns of intra- and interspecific ecological interactions across more species. As a result though, a range of new phenotypes and opportunities for addressing current questions in evolutionary ecology has been uncovered. For example, researchers have revealed hitherto unexpectedly rich patterns of bacterial symbiosis, begun to explore the evolutionary function of the family's complex genitalia, and also found evidence of parthenogenesis. Here we review our current understanding of the biology and ecology of the group as a whole, focusing on several of the best-studied characteristics of the group, including aposematism (i.e., the evolution of warning coloration), chemical communication, sexual selection (especially, postcopulatory sexual selection), sexual conflict, and patterns of host-endosymbiont coevolution. Importantly, many of these aspects of lygaeid biology are likely to interact, offering new avenues for research, for instance into how the evolution of aposematism influences sexual selection. With the growing availability of genomic tools for previously “non-model” organisms, combined with the relative ease of keeping many of the polyphagous species in the laboratory, we argue that these bugs offer many opportunities for behavioral and evolutionary ecologists. |
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spelling | pubmed-42014402014-10-30 The evolutionary ecology of the Lygaeidae Burdfield-Steel, Emily R Shuker, David M Ecol Evol Reviews The Lygaeidae (sensu lato) are a highly successful family of true bugs found worldwide, yet many aspects of their ecology and evolution remain obscure or unknown. While a few species have attracted considerable attention as model species for the study of insect physiology, it is only relatively recently that biologists have begun to explore aspects of their behavior, life history evolution, and patterns of intra- and interspecific ecological interactions across more species. As a result though, a range of new phenotypes and opportunities for addressing current questions in evolutionary ecology has been uncovered. For example, researchers have revealed hitherto unexpectedly rich patterns of bacterial symbiosis, begun to explore the evolutionary function of the family's complex genitalia, and also found evidence of parthenogenesis. Here we review our current understanding of the biology and ecology of the group as a whole, focusing on several of the best-studied characteristics of the group, including aposematism (i.e., the evolution of warning coloration), chemical communication, sexual selection (especially, postcopulatory sexual selection), sexual conflict, and patterns of host-endosymbiont coevolution. Importantly, many of these aspects of lygaeid biology are likely to interact, offering new avenues for research, for instance into how the evolution of aposematism influences sexual selection. With the growing availability of genomic tools for previously “non-model” organisms, combined with the relative ease of keeping many of the polyphagous species in the laboratory, we argue that these bugs offer many opportunities for behavioral and evolutionary ecologists. Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014-06 2014-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4201440/ /pubmed/25360267 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1093 Text en © 2014 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Reviews Burdfield-Steel, Emily R Shuker, David M The evolutionary ecology of the Lygaeidae |
title | The evolutionary ecology of the Lygaeidae |
title_full | The evolutionary ecology of the Lygaeidae |
title_fullStr | The evolutionary ecology of the Lygaeidae |
title_full_unstemmed | The evolutionary ecology of the Lygaeidae |
title_short | The evolutionary ecology of the Lygaeidae |
title_sort | evolutionary ecology of the lygaeidae |
topic | Reviews |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4201440/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25360267 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1093 |
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