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A new notosuchian crocodyliform from the Early Palaeocene of Patagonia and the survival of a large-bodied terrestrial lineage across the K-Pg mass extinction. 巴塔哥尼亚早古新世发现的一种新的鳄鱼形动物和横跨K-Pg大灭绝的大型陆地谱系的生存。
IF 3.8 1区 生物学
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.1980
Gonzalo Gabriel Bravo, Diego Pol, Juan Martín Leardi, Javier Marcelo Krause, Cecily S C Nicholl, Guillermo Rougier, Philip D Mannion
{"title":"A new notosuchian crocodyliform from the Early Palaeocene of Patagonia and the survival of a large-bodied terrestrial lineage across the K-Pg mass extinction.","authors":"Gonzalo Gabriel Bravo, Diego Pol, Juan Martín Leardi, Javier Marcelo Krause, Cecily S C Nicholl, Guillermo Rougier, Philip D Mannion","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.1980","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.1980","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sebecid notosuchians are the only terrestrial crocodyliforms to survive the Cretaceous-Palaeogene extinction, 66 Ma, which eliminated large-bodied species (above approximately 5 kg) in terrestrial ecosystems. Early sebecid evolution is unclear due to the scarcity of remains from both sides of the boundary. We present the stratigraphically earliest post-extinction notosuchian record, from the lower Palaeocene Salamanca Formation of Patagonia. <i>Tewkensuchus salamanquensis</i> n. gen. n. sp. has unique features, including a skull roof with elevated lateral margins, and an accessory peg and socket articulation between the postorbital and posterior palpebral. Our phylogenetic analysis allies <i>Tewkensuchus</i> with a clade of predatorial crocodyliforms from the Eocene of Europe (and possibly of Africa, as <i>Eremosuchus</i> may also belong to this clade). This clade forms the sister taxon of South American sebecids. We name Sebecoidea for this more inclusive clade of Eurogondwanan notosuchians and suggest that its spatial distribution reflects earlier diversification and dispersal events, which are only partially known. We estimate a body mass of around 300 kg for <i>Tewkensuchus</i>, one of the largest known notosuchians. Phylogenetic optimization of notosuchian body size change reconstructs a Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary-crossing sebecoidean lineage with an estimated mass between 332 and 443 kg. This provides the first support for the survival of a large-bodied terrestrial vertebrate lineage across the K-Pg boundary.</p>","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2043","pages":"20241980"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11936684/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143711056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Do fungi look like macroparasites? Quantifying the patterns and mechanisms of aggregation for host-fungal parasite relationships. 真菌看起来像大型寄生虫吗?量化宿主-真菌寄生虫关系的聚集模式和机制。
IF 3.8 1区 生物学
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.2013
Sarah A R Schrock, Jason C Walsman, Joseph DeMarchi, Emily H LeSage, Michel E B Ohmer, Louise A Rollins-Smith, Cheryl J Briggs, Corinne L Richards-Zawacki, Douglas C Woodhams, Roland A Knapp, Thomas C Smith, Célio F B Haddad, C Guilherme Becker, Pieter T J Johnson, Mark Q Wilber
{"title":"Do fungi look like macroparasites? Quantifying the patterns and mechanisms of aggregation for host-fungal parasite relationships.","authors":"Sarah A R Schrock, Jason C Walsman, Joseph DeMarchi, Emily H LeSage, Michel E B Ohmer, Louise A Rollins-Smith, Cheryl J Briggs, Corinne L Richards-Zawacki, Douglas C Woodhams, Roland A Knapp, Thomas C Smith, Célio F B Haddad, C Guilherme Becker, Pieter T J Johnson, Mark Q Wilber","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2013","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2013","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Most hosts contain few parasites, whereas few hosts contain many. This pattern, known as aggregation, is well-documented in macroparasites where parasite intensity distribution among hosts affects host-parasite dynamics. Infection intensity also drives fungal disease dynamics, but we lack a basic understanding of host-fungal aggregation patterns, how they compare with macroparasites and if they reflect biological processes. To begin addressing these gaps, we characterized aggregation of the fungal pathogen <i>Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis</i> (Bd) in amphibian hosts. Utilizing the slope of Taylor's Power law, we found Bd intensity distributions were more aggregated than many macroparasites, conforming closely to lognormal distributions. We observed that Bd aggregation patterns are strongly correlated with known biological processes operating in amphibian populations, such as epizoological phase (i.e. invasion, post-invasion and enzootic), and intensity-dependent disease mortality. Using intensity-dependent mathematical models, we found evidence of evolution of host resistance based on aggregation shifts in systems persisting with Bd following disease-induced declines. Our results show that Bd aggregation is highly conserved across disparate systems and contains signatures of potential biological processes of amphibian-Bd systems. Our work can inform future modelling approaches and be extended to other fungal pathogens to elucidate host-fungal interactions and unite host-fungal dynamics under a common theoretical framework.</p>","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2043","pages":"20242013"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11922335/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143664347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The effects of cryptic diversity on diversification dynamics analyses in Crocodylia. 隐种多样性对鳄鱼多样化动态分析的影响。
IF 3.8 1区 生物学
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2025.0091
Gustavo Darlim, Sebastian Höhna
{"title":"The effects of cryptic diversity on diversification dynamics analyses in Crocodylia.","authors":"Gustavo Darlim, Sebastian Höhna","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2025.0091","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2025.0091","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Incomplete taxon sampling due to underestimation of present-day biodiversity biases diversification analysis by favouring slowdowns in speciation rates towards the recent time. For instance, in diversification dynamics studies in Crocodylia, long-term low net-diversification rates and slowdowns in speciation rates have been suggested to characterize crocodylian evolution. However, crocodylian cryptic diversity has never been considered. Here, we explore the effects of incorporating cryptic diversity into a diversification dynamics analysis of extant crocodylians. We inferred a time-calibrated cryptic-species-level phylogeny using cytochrome <i>b</i> sequences of 45 lineages compared with the formally recognized 26 crocodylian species. Diversification rate estimates using the cryptic-species-level phylogeny show increasing speciation and net-diversification rates towards the present time, which contrasts with previous findings. Cryptic diversity should be considered in future macroevolutionary analyses; however, the representation of cryptic extinct taxa represents a major challenge. Additionally, further investigation of crocodylian diversification dynamics under different underlying genomic data is encouraged upon advances in population genetics. Our case study adds to the diversification dynamics knowledge of extant taxa and demonstrates that cryptic species and robust taxonomic assessment are essential to study recent biodiversity dynamics with broad implications for evolutionary biology and ecology.</p>","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2043","pages":"20250091"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11919527/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143658383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Individual variation in spatial reference memory influences cache site choice in a wild bird. 空间参考记忆的个体差异影响野鸟贮藏地点的选择。
IF 3.8 1区 生物学
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.3079
Tas I F Vámos, Rachael C Shaw
{"title":"Individual variation in spatial reference memory influences cache site choice in a wild bird.","authors":"Tas I F Vámos, Rachael C Shaw","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.3079","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.3079","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The spatial cognitive abilities of food-storing birds are well documented, but how individual variation in spatial memory influences natural caching behaviour is poorly understood. Here we tested wild toutouwai (<i>Petroica longipes</i>) on two spatial memory tasks and compared their performance with caching decisions. We found that birds with better performance on a spatial reference memory task also travelled further to cache food items. As widely distributed caches are thought to offer protection against cache theft, birds with better reference memories may therefore gain greater benefits from food-storage than birds with poor memories. Females outperformed males in the spatial reference memory task, and performance also declined with age. Birds also displayed marked individual differences in how they interacted with the reference memory task, with some potentially following a heuristic to locate the reward. By contrast, birds showed no evidence that they learned the contingencies of a working memory task. Our results provide empirical evidence that individual variation in spatial memory performance influences the choices that toutouwai make during caching. We recommend that researchers seeking to link cognition and behaviour in the wild take care to select ecologically relevant cognitive tasks that are likely to underpin fitness-linked behaviours targeted by selection.</p>","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2043","pages":"20243079"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11919498/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143658380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Uncovering the genetic basis of competitiveness and the potential for cooperation in plant groups. 揭示植物群体竞争的遗传基础和合作的潜力。
IF 3.8 1区 生物学
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-12 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.1984
Jay M Biernaskie, Gina A Garzón-Martínez, Fiona M K Corke, John H Doonan
{"title":"Uncovering the genetic basis of competitiveness and the potential for cooperation in plant groups.","authors":"Jay M Biernaskie, Gina A Garzón-Martínez, Fiona M K Corke, John H Doonan","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.1984","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.1984","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Crop productivity was transformed by incorporating dwarfing genes that made plants smaller and less competitive (more cooperative). Beyond such major shifts in plant size, however, it is not clear how much variation in competitiveness remains and how to find its genetic basis. We performed plant density experiments, using 484 lines of the <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i> multi-parent advanced generation inter-cross population, to compare methods for mapping the genetic basis of plant competitiveness. We first found that a major dwarfing gene, the <i>erecta</i> allele, caused reduced competitiveness and higher group productivity. Then, measuring competitiveness more generally, we found: (i) extensive variation in generic measures of competitiveness that extended beyond the effects of the <i>erecta</i> allele; (ii) a novel genomic region underlying variation in competitiveness; and (iii) that some measures of competitiveness were more useful than others. Our results show how modern genomic resources, including multi-parent populations, could uncover hidden genes for more cooperative crop plants.</p>","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2042","pages":"20241984"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11896697/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143606071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Violence exposure is associated with preference for masculine faces: evidence from Senegal. 暴力暴露与男性面孔偏好有关:来自塞内加尔的证据。
IF 3.8 1区 生物学
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-12 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.3105
Petr Tureček, Viktor Černý, Mame Yoro Diallo, Ngoné Cissé, Šimon Pokorný, Karel Kleisner
{"title":"Violence exposure is associated with preference for masculine faces: evidence from Senegal.","authors":"Petr Tureček, Viktor Černý, Mame Yoro Diallo, Ngoné Cissé, Šimon Pokorný, Karel Kleisner","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.3105","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.3105","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It has been suggested that in threatening environments, both women and men should prefer more masculine men as romantic and coalition partners, respectively. Empirical evidence for this hypothesis has been weak or inconsistent, primarily because most experimental research has focused on elevating the perceived danger from other men through virtual threats. This study investigates whether personal experience with violence predicts the preference for masculine features in 326 Senegalese participants presented with pairs of manipulated facial photographs of West African men (one more feminine, one more masculine) and asked to indicate which face is more attractive (to women) or more trustworthy (to men). The findings reveal a strong association between violence exposure and facial feature preferences. Those who experienced (particularly physical) violence showed a higher preference for masculinized faces (up to 95% in women, 82% in men) compared to the baseline (57% in women, 63% in men). This difference is proposed to reflect an adaptive strategy of prioritizing physical protection in settings with a higher incidence of violent confrontations. Much of the variance can be found between groups. The direct effect of experienced violence diminishes over time, which suggests a dynamic interplay between innate predispositions and environmental influences on aesthetic preferences.</p>","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2042","pages":"20243105"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11896705/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143606074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Contrasting effects of climate warming on hosts and parasitoids: insights from Rocky Mountain aspen leaf miners and their parasitoids. 气候变暖对寄主和寄生蜂的影响对比:来自落基山白杨采叶者及其寄生蜂的见解。
IF 3.8 1区 生物学
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.2679
Alisha A Shah, Emily Hamant, Juan G Rubalcaba, Beau Larkin, Andrew A Forbes, H Arthur Woods
{"title":"Contrasting effects of climate warming on hosts and parasitoids: insights from Rocky Mountain aspen leaf miners and their parasitoids.","authors":"Alisha A Shah, Emily Hamant, Juan G Rubalcaba, Beau Larkin, Andrew A Forbes, H Arthur Woods","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2679","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2679","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Because temperature has pervasive effects on biological rates, climate warming may alter the outcomes of interactions between insect hosts and their parasitoids, which, for many host species, constitute the single largest source of mortality. Despite growing interest in parasitoid-host responses to climate change, there are few empirical tests of thermal tolerance differences between non-model lepidopteran hosts and their parasitoids and almost none from mountain ecosystems where warming is occurring more rapidly. We examined the thermal ecology of a host-parasitoid interaction in the Rocky Mountains using wild populations of the aspen leaf miner (<i>Phyllocnistis populiella</i>) and a set of previously unknown eulophid parasitoids that attack them. Host and parasitoid development rates were differentially sensitive to temperature. In addition, upper thermal limits of adult parasitoids were lower than those of host caterpillars, and in choice experiments, parasitoids reared at different temperatures showed no plasticity in preferred temperatures. However, when coupled to simulations of leaf microclimates in aspen canopies, these observations suggest, contrary to expectations, that climate warming may potentially benefit parasitoids.</p>","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2043","pages":"20242679"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11936676/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143711059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Co-exposure to a honeybee pathogen and an insecticide: synergistic effects in a new solitary bee host but not in Apis mellifera. 共同暴露于一种蜜蜂病原体和一种杀虫剂:对一个新的独居蜜蜂寄主的协同效应,但在蜜蜂中没有。
IF 3.8 1区 生物学
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.2809
Rafaela Tadei, Giovanni Cilia, Elaine Cristina Mathias da Silva, Gonzalo Sancho Blanco, Sergio Albacete, Celeste Azpiazu, Anna Granato, Francesca Bortolin, Antonio Martini, Jordi Bosch, Osmar Malaspina, Fabio Sgolastra
{"title":"Co-exposure to a honeybee pathogen and an insecticide: synergistic effects in a new solitary bee host but not in <i>Apis mellifera</i>.","authors":"Rafaela Tadei, Giovanni Cilia, Elaine Cristina Mathias da Silva, Gonzalo Sancho Blanco, Sergio Albacete, Celeste Azpiazu, Anna Granato, Francesca Bortolin, Antonio Martini, Jordi Bosch, Osmar Malaspina, Fabio Sgolastra","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2809","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2809","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pesticides and pathogens are major drivers of bee declines. However, their potential interactions are poorly understood, especially for non-<i>Apis</i> bees. This study assessed the combined effects of infestation by the honeybee pathogen <i>Vairimorpha ceranae</i> and chronic exposure to the insecticide flupyradifurone on <i>Osmia bicornis</i> and <i>Apis mellifera</i>. We investigated whether <i>V. ceranae</i> could reproduce in a new solitary bee host (<i>O. bicornis</i>) and assessed sublethal and lethal effects of the pathogen and the pesticide, alone and in combination. We also analysed the interactive effects of the combined exposure on <i>V. ceranae</i> proliferation and bee survival in the two bee species. Newly emerged bees were orally infected with 100 000 spores of <i>V. ceranae</i> and then exposed ad libitum to flupyradifurone at field-realistic concentrations. We showed, for the first time to our knowledge, that <i>V. ceranae</i> can replicate in the midgut of <i>O. bicornis</i>, causing histological damage, impaired phototactic response, reduced food consumption and decreased longevity. The pathogen-pesticide combination caused a synergistic effect in <i>O. bicornis,</i> leading to an abrupt survival decline. In <i>A. mellifera</i>, <i>V. ceranae</i> and flupyradifurone showed antagonistic survival effects, but the pesticide promoted pathogen proliferation. Our results warn against the potential effects of pathogen spillover and multiple stressor exposure on non-<i>Apis</i> bees.</p>","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2042","pages":"20242809"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11881019/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143557809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Multilevel selection on individual and group social behaviour in the wild. 野外个体和群体社会行为的多层次选择。
IF 3.8 1区 生物学
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.3061
Conner S Philson, Julien G A Martin, Daniel T Blumstein
{"title":"Multilevel selection on individual and group social behaviour in the wild.","authors":"Conner S Philson, Julien G A Martin, Daniel T Blumstein","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.3061","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.3061","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How phenotypes are shaped by multilevel selection-the theoretical framework proposing natural selection occurs at more than one level of biological organization-is a classic debate in biology. Though social behaviours are a common theoretical example for multilevel selection, it is unknown if and how multilevel selection acts on sociality in the wild. We studied the relative strength of multilevel selection on both individual behaviour and group social structure, quantified with social networks and 19 years of data from a wild, free-living mammal, the yellow-bellied marmot (<i>Marmota flaviventer</i>). Contextual analysis (exploring the impact of individual and group social phenotypes on individual fitness, relative to each other) revealed multilevel selection gradients in specific fitness and life history contexts, with selection for group social structure being just as strong, if not stronger, than individual social behaviour. We also found antagonistic multilevel selection gradients within and between levels, potentially explaining why increased sociality is not as beneficial or heritable in this system compared with other social taxa. Thus, the evolutionary dynamics of hierarchical or nested biological traits should be assessed at multiple levels simultaneously to tell a more accurate and comprehensive story. Overall, we provide empirical evidence suggesting that multilevel selection acts on social relationships and structures in the wild and provide direct evidence for a classic, unanswered question in biology.</p>","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2043","pages":"20243061"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11919500/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143658381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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An abundant mutualist can protect corals from multiple stressors. 丰富的共生生物可以保护珊瑚免受多种压力。
IF 3.8 1区 生物学
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-12 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.2936
Julianna J Renzi, Joseph P Morton, Jessica L Bergman, Devin Rowell, Edwin S Iversen, Leo C Gaskins, Juliana Hoehne-Diana, Brian R Silliman
{"title":"An abundant mutualist can protect corals from multiple stressors.","authors":"Julianna J Renzi, Joseph P Morton, Jessica L Bergman, Devin Rowell, Edwin S Iversen, Leo C Gaskins, Juliana Hoehne-Diana, Brian R Silliman","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2936","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2936","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mutualisms can increase the ability of foundation species to resist individual stressors, but it remains unclear whether mutualisms can also ameliorate co-occurring stressors for habitat-forming species. To examine whether a suspected mutualist could improve foundation species' resistance to multiple stressors, we tested how a common coral-dwelling crab affected corals exposed to macroalgal contact and physical wounding during a widespread heat stress event using flow-through tanks supplied with seawater from a nearby reef flat. High temperatures on the reef flat, which raised the temperature in our tanks, appeared to trigger rapid tissue loss in experimental corals, but the amount of tissue lost by corals was strongly determined by treatment. Macroalgal contact increased, while the presence of a crab decreased, the amount of tissue lost. Although the effect of wounding was not strong in isolation, when wounding occurred in the presence of a crab, coral tissue loss unexpectedly decreased below that of all other treatments. We propose that wounding increased coral resistance to stress by attracting crabs-a result that appeared supported in a field experiment. These results highlight that mutualisms can interact with stressors in unexpected ways, buffering the effects of both local and global stressors on foundation species.</p>","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2040","pages":"20242936"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11813579/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143399801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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