A macroevolutionary common-garden experiment reveals differentially evolvable bone organization levels in slow arboreal mammals DOI Creative Commons
Fabio Alfieri, Léo Botton‐Divet, Jan Wölfer

et al.

Communications Biology, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 6(1)

Published: Sept. 28, 2023

Abstract 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 differential evolvability that, among individual anatomical parts, causes mosaic evolution. Reconstructing the morphology of humerus and femur slow arboreal mammals, we addressed mosaicism at different bone spatial scales. We compared convergence strength, using as indicator evolvability, between external shape inner structure, with former expected be less evolvable involved evolution, due constraints. identify several structural traits, while only loosely follows this trend, find confirmation for our assumption measures magnitude. suggest that future macroevolutionary reconstructions based on should include traits better detect effects vertebrate diversification.

Language: Английский

A macroevolutionary common-garden experiment reveals differentially evolvable bone organization levels in slow arboreal mammals DOI Creative Commons
Fabio Alfieri, Léo Botton‐Divet, Jan Wölfer

et al.

Communications Biology, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 6(1)

Published: Sept. 28, 2023

Abstract 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 differential evolvability that, among individual anatomical parts, causes mosaic evolution. Reconstructing the morphology of humerus and femur slow arboreal mammals, we addressed mosaicism at different bone spatial scales. We compared convergence strength, using as indicator evolvability, between external shape inner structure, with former expected be less evolvable involved evolution, due constraints. identify several structural traits, while only loosely follows this trend, find confirmation for our assumption measures magnitude. suggest that future macroevolutionary reconstructions based on should include traits better detect effects vertebrate diversification.

Language: Английский

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