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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Phylogenetic convergence and multiple shell shape optima for gliding scallops (Bivalvia: Pectinidae) |
Author: | Serb, J. Sherratt, E. Alejandrino, A. Adams, D. |
Citation: | Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2017; 30(9):1736-1747 |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
ISSN: | 1010-061X 1420-9101 |
Statement of Responsibility: | J. M. Serb, E. Sherratt, A. Alejandrino & D. C. Adams |
Abstract: | An important question in evolutionary biology is how often, and to what extent, do similar ecologies elicit distantly related taxa to evolve towards the same phenotype? In some scenarios, the repeated evolution of particular phenotypes may be expected, for instance when species are exposed to common selective forces that result from strong functional demands. In bivalved scallops (Pectinidae), some species exhibit a distinct swimming behaviour (gliding), which requires specific biomechanical attributes to generate lift and reduce drag during locomotive events. Further, a phylogenetic analysis revealed that gliding behaviour has independently evolved at least four times, which raises the question as to whether these independent lineages have also converged on a similar phenotype. Here, we test the hypothesis that gliding scallops display shell shape convergence using a combination of geometric morphometrics and phylogenetic comparative methods that evaluate patterns of multivariate trait evolution. Our findings reveal that the gliding species display less morphological disparity and significant evolutionary convergence in morphospace, relative to expectations under a neutral model of Brownian motion for evolutionary phenotypic change. Intriguingly, the phylomorphospace patterns indicate that gliding lineages follow similar evolutionary trajectories to not one, but two regions of morphological space, and subsequent analyses identified significant differences in their biomechanical parameters, suggesting that these two groups of scallops accomplish gliding in different ways. Thus, whereas there is a clear gliding morphotype that has evolved convergently across the phylogeny, functionally distinct morphological subforms are apparent, suggesting that there may be two optima for the gliding phenotype in the Pectinidae. |
Keywords: | Macroevolution mollusca morphology morphometrics phylogenetics |
Rights: | © 2017 European Society for Evolutionary Biology |
DOI: | 10.1111/jeb.13137 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13137 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 8 Zoology publications |
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