Diverging evolutionary trajectories for palm seed sizes in mainland Africa and Madagascar.

IF 3.1 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ECOLOGY
Evolution Pub Date : 2025-01-26 DOI:10.1093/evolut/qpaf010
Karen V Pham, Lee Hsiang Liow, Sarah J Ivory
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Abstract

Seed size is a trait which determines survival rates for individual plants and can vary as a result of numerous trade-offs. In the palm family (Arecaceae) today, there is great variation in seed sizes. Past studies attempting to establish drivers for palm seed evolution have sometimes yielded contradictory findings in part because modern seed size variations are complicated by long-term legacies, including biogeographic differences across lineages. Here, we examined palm seed size evolution in two adjacent regions (mainland Africa and Madagascar) utilizing single- and multi-regime Brownian Motion and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes. We explicitly take into account species' evolutionary histories to investigate whether there may be shared evolutionary pressures over regional scales. We found that regional selection pressures do exist for palm seed lengths, but these pressures are distinct in mainland Africa and Madagascar, despite the two regions' proximity. Our study indicates that evolutionary drivers may differ in these two regions, highlighting the importance of re-considering the widespread assumption to view mainland Africa and Madagascar as a single evolutionary region.

非洲大陆和马达加斯加棕榈种子大小的不同进化轨迹。
种子大小是一种决定单个植物存活率的性状,并且由于许多权衡而变化。在今天的棕榈科(槟榔科)中,种子大小有很大的变化。过去试图建立棕榈种子进化驱动因素的研究有时会产生相互矛盾的结果,部分原因是现代种子大小的变化因长期遗传而变得复杂,包括世系间的生物地理差异。在这里,我们利用单态和多态布朗运动和Ornstein-Uhlenbeck过程研究了两个相邻地区(非洲大陆和马达加斯加)棕榈种子大小的演变。我们明确考虑到物种的进化历史,以调查是否在区域尺度上存在共同的进化压力。我们发现棕榈种子长度的区域选择压力确实存在,但这些压力在非洲大陆和马达加斯加是不同的,尽管这两个地区很接近。我们的研究表明,这两个地区的进化驱动因素可能不同,强调了重新考虑将非洲大陆和马达加斯加视为单一进化区域的普遍假设的重要性。
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Evolution
Evolution 环境科学-进化生物学
CiteScore
5.00
自引率
9.10%
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审稿时长
3-6 weeks
期刊介绍: Evolution, published for the Society for the Study of Evolution, is the premier publication devoted to the study of organic evolution and the integration of the various fields of science concerned with evolution. The journal presents significant and original results that extend our understanding of evolutionary phenomena and processes.
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