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Macroevolution of dimensionless life-history metrics in tetrapods

Life-history traits represent organisms' strategies to navigate the fitness trade-offs between survival and reproduction. Eric Charnov developed three dimensionless metrics to quantify fundamental life-history trade-offs. Lifetime reproductive effort (LRE), relative reproductive lifespan (RRL)...

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Autores principales: Babich Morrow, Cecina, Ernest, S. K. Morgan, Kerkhoff, Andrew J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8079996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33906402
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0200
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description Life-history traits represent organisms' strategies to navigate the fitness trade-offs between survival and reproduction. Eric Charnov developed three dimensionless metrics to quantify fundamental life-history trade-offs. Lifetime reproductive effort (LRE), relative reproductive lifespan (RRL) and relative offspring size (ROS), together with body mass can be used to classify life-history strategies across the four major classes of tetrapods: amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds. First, we investigate how the metrics have evolved in concert with body mass within tetrapod lineages. In most cases, we find evidence for correlated evolution among body mass and the three dimensionless metrics. Second, we compare life-history strategies across the four classes of tetrapods and find that LRE, RRL and ROS delineate a space in which the major tetrapod classes occupy mostly unique subspaces. These distinct combinations of life-history strategies provide us with a framework to understand the impact of major evolutionary transitions in energetics, physiology and ecology.
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spelling pubmed-80799962021-05-17 Macroevolution of dimensionless life-history metrics in tetrapods Babich Morrow, Cecina Ernest, S. K. Morgan Kerkhoff, Andrew J. Proc Biol Sci Evolution Life-history traits represent organisms' strategies to navigate the fitness trade-offs between survival and reproduction. Eric Charnov developed three dimensionless metrics to quantify fundamental life-history trade-offs. Lifetime reproductive effort (LRE), relative reproductive lifespan (RRL) and relative offspring size (ROS), together with body mass can be used to classify life-history strategies across the four major classes of tetrapods: amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds. First, we investigate how the metrics have evolved in concert with body mass within tetrapod lineages. In most cases, we find evidence for correlated evolution among body mass and the three dimensionless metrics. Second, we compare life-history strategies across the four classes of tetrapods and find that LRE, RRL and ROS delineate a space in which the major tetrapod classes occupy mostly unique subspaces. These distinct combinations of life-history strategies provide us with a framework to understand the impact of major evolutionary transitions in energetics, physiology and ecology. The Royal Society 2021-04-28 2021-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8079996/ /pubmed/33906402 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0200 Text en © 2021 The Authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Babich Morrow, Cecina
Ernest, S. K. Morgan
Kerkhoff, Andrew J.
Macroevolution of dimensionless life-history metrics in tetrapods
title Macroevolution of dimensionless life-history metrics in tetrapods
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title_short Macroevolution of dimensionless life-history metrics in tetrapods
title_sort macroevolution of dimensionless life-history metrics in tetrapods
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8079996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33906402
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0200
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