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Asynchronous evolution of interdependent nest characters across the avian phylogeny
Nest building is a widespread behavior among birds that reflects their adaptation to the environment and evolutionary history. However, it remains unclear how nests evolve and how their evolution relates to the bird phylogeny. Here, by examining the evolution of three nest characters—structure, site...
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author | Fang, Yi-Ting Tuanmu, Mao-Ning Hung, Chih-Ming |
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description | Nest building is a widespread behavior among birds that reflects their adaptation to the environment and evolutionary history. However, it remains unclear how nests evolve and how their evolution relates to the bird phylogeny. Here, by examining the evolution of three nest characters—structure, site, and attachment—across all bird families, we reveal that nest characters did not change synchronically across the avian phylogeny but had disparate evolutionary trajectories. Nest structure shows stronger phylogenetic signal than nest site, while nest attachment has little variation. Nevertheless, the three characters evolved interdependently. For example, the ability of birds to explore new nest sites might depend on the emergence of novel nest structure and/or attachment. Our results also reveal labile nest characters in passerines compared with other birds. This study provides important insights into avian nest evolution and suggests potential associations between nest diversification and the adaptive radiations that generated modern bird lineages. |
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spelling | pubmed-59518452018-05-16 Asynchronous evolution of interdependent nest characters across the avian phylogeny Fang, Yi-Ting Tuanmu, Mao-Ning Hung, Chih-Ming Nat Commun Article Nest building is a widespread behavior among birds that reflects their adaptation to the environment and evolutionary history. However, it remains unclear how nests evolve and how their evolution relates to the bird phylogeny. Here, by examining the evolution of three nest characters—structure, site, and attachment—across all bird families, we reveal that nest characters did not change synchronically across the avian phylogeny but had disparate evolutionary trajectories. Nest structure shows stronger phylogenetic signal than nest site, while nest attachment has little variation. Nevertheless, the three characters evolved interdependently. For example, the ability of birds to explore new nest sites might depend on the emergence of novel nest structure and/or attachment. Our results also reveal labile nest characters in passerines compared with other birds. This study provides important insights into avian nest evolution and suggests potential associations between nest diversification and the adaptive radiations that generated modern bird lineages. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5951845/ /pubmed/29760391 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04265-x Text en © The Author(s) 2018 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/. |
spellingShingle | Article Fang, Yi-Ting Tuanmu, Mao-Ning Hung, Chih-Ming Asynchronous evolution of interdependent nest characters across the avian phylogeny |
title | Asynchronous evolution of interdependent nest characters across the avian phylogeny |
title_full | Asynchronous evolution of interdependent nest characters across the avian phylogeny |
title_fullStr | Asynchronous evolution of interdependent nest characters across the avian phylogeny |
title_full_unstemmed | Asynchronous evolution of interdependent nest characters across the avian phylogeny |
title_short | Asynchronous evolution of interdependent nest characters across the avian phylogeny |
title_sort | asynchronous evolution of interdependent nest characters across the avian phylogeny |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5951845/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29760391 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04265-x |
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