{"title":"Meta-analysis of Behavioural Research in Lizards Reveals that Viviparity Contributes Better to Animal Personality than Secretory Glands","authors":"M. R. Ruiz-Monachesi, J. J. Martínez","doi":"10.1007/s11692-023-09618-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-023-09618-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Animal personality refers to consistent individual differences across contexts, ecological situations, and/or time. To understand the evolution of animal personality, it is crucial that macroevolutionary patterns be integrated with intraspecific promoters of individual behavioural consistency. In this study, we conducted a meta-analysis to assess the association between animal personality and different indicators of sociability (a personality evolution driver) in a phylogenetic context. In lizards, higher sociability levels have been associated with the presence of secretory glands and viviparity. We analysed behavioural repeatability data from 62 studies, comprising 486 effect sizes, across 37 species, encompassing five categories (activity, aggressiveness, boldness, exploration, sociability), while accounting for phylogenetic constraints. For each species, we gathered data on the number of secretory glands and the reproductive mode (oviparous or viviparous). Results showed similar values of repeatability for species with and without glands and an absence of correlation between the number of glands and repeatability data. However, viviparous species exhibited higher repeatability compared to oviparous species. When conducting separate analyses for each behavioural type, we observed for boldness that species with glands presented higher repeatability in boldness behaviour. Notably, phylogeny played a variable role in shaping repeatability patterns; specifically, only activity and aggressiveness, and to some extent boldness, were influenced by evolutionary history across species. This study underscores the diverse animal personality patterns existing within a broader comparative macroevolutionary framework. It takes into account life history and morphological traits in Squamate lizards, offering valuable insights into these distinctive dynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":50471,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138507335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
María Alejandra Petino Zappala, Julian Mensch, Valeria Carreira, Ignacio Soto, Juan José Fanara
{"title":"Genome Wide Association Studies of Early Fitness Traits in Drosophila melanogaster Unveil Plasticity and Decoupling of Different Aspects of Phenotype","authors":"María Alejandra Petino Zappala, Julian Mensch, Valeria Carreira, Ignacio Soto, Juan José Fanara","doi":"10.1007/s11692-023-09619-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-023-09619-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50471,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135042019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Holomorphology, Space, and Time to Shed Light on the Evolution and Distributional Pattern of the Endemic Flowering Plants of Brazil","authors":"Janaína Gomes-da-Silva, Rafaela Campostrini Forzza","doi":"10.1007/s11692-023-09620-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-023-09620-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50471,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135635036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alessandro Palci, Michael S. Y. Lee, Jenna M. Crowe-Riddell, Emma Sherratt
{"title":"Shape and Size Variation in Elapid Snake Fangs and the Effects of Phylogeny and Diet","authors":"Alessandro Palci, Michael S. Y. Lee, Jenna M. Crowe-Riddell, Emma Sherratt","doi":"10.1007/s11692-023-09617-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-023-09617-0","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Recent studies have found correlations between the shape of snake teeth/fangs and diet. These studies were done at a very broad phylogenetic scale, making it desirable to test if correlations are still detectable at a narrower evolutionary scale, specifically within the family Elapidae. To this end, we studied fang shape in a dense selection of elapids representing most genera worldwide (74%). We used three-dimensional geometric morphometrics to analyse fang diversity and evaluate possible correlations between fang shape, fang size, and diet. We detected weak phylogenetic signal for both shape and absolute fang size, and found that evolutionary allometry contributes a small proportion of the among-species variation. The distribution of elapid fangs in morphospace was found to be surprisingly conservative, with only a few outliers. The only three dietary categories that were found to have a significant effect on fang shape are mammals, lizards, and reptile eggs, with mammals having a significant effect also on absolute but not relative fang size. Our results show that there are disparate patterns in fang-diet relationships at different evolutionary scales. Across all venomous snakes, previous work found that fangs are strongly influenced by diet, but within elapids our study shows these same associations are weaker and often non-significant. This could result from limitations in these types of studies, or could reflect the fact that elapids are a relatively young clade, where recent extensive divergences in diet have yet to be mirrored in fang shape, suggesting a lag between changes in ecology and dental morphology.","PeriodicalId":50471,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135095448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Climate Change Predictive of Body Size and Proportionality in Humans","authors":"Jeffrey M. Stibel","doi":"10.1007/s11692-023-09616-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-023-09616-1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The effects of climate change on plants and animals have been examined across numerous species, yet little evidence has been produced to demonstrate an influence on human evolution. Here the impact of climate change on human body size and scaling is examined over a period of 700,000 years using five independent paleoclimate records. Across 247 Homo specimens, body mass averaged significantly smaller during periods of climatic warming as compared to cooler cycles. Body proportions also changed significantly, appearing more ectomorphic during warmer periods and more endomorphic during periods of cooling across a sample of 87 specimens. The results indicate a relationship between climate change and body size and shape in humans that is driven by natural selection in response to thermoregulatory demands. The findings suggest that body size adaptations in response to climate change occurred early and potentially implicated cultural adaptations in later periods, muting the morphological response to extreme climates. Because morphological variation has been used as a factor for classification within the genus Homo , taxonomic and phylogenic decisions may need to be reconsidered in the context of temporal climate differences.","PeriodicalId":50471,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135739243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Model-Based Analyses Suggest Pleistocene Refugia over Ancient Divergence as Main Diversification Driver for a Neotropical Open-Habitat Treefrog","authors":"F. Brusquetti, N. Pupin, C. Haddad","doi":"10.1007/s11692-023-09614-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-023-09614-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50471,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43300119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Athene Giesen, W. Blanckenhorn, M. Schäfer, K. Shimizu, Rie Shimizu‐Inatsugi, B. Misof, L. Podsiadlowski, O. Niehuis, H. Lischer, S. Aeschbacher, M. Kapun
{"title":"Geographic Variation in Genomic Signals of Admixture Between Two Closely Related European Sepsid Fly Species","authors":"Athene Giesen, W. Blanckenhorn, M. Schäfer, K. Shimizu, Rie Shimizu‐Inatsugi, B. Misof, L. Podsiadlowski, O. Niehuis, H. Lischer, S. Aeschbacher, M. Kapun","doi":"10.1007/s11692-023-09612-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-023-09612-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50471,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46206869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Paulo, F. H. Teófilo, Carolina Bertuol, É. Polo, A. Moncrieff, L. N. Bandeira, C. Nuñez-Penichet, I. Y. Fernandes, M. Bosholn, A. F. Machado, L. W. Luna, W. T. Peçanha, A. P. Rampini, Shizuka Hashimoto, Cleyssian Dias, J. Araripe, Alexandre Aleixo, Péricles Sena do Rêgo, T. Hrbek, I. Farias, A. Townsend Peterson, I. L. Kaefer, M. Anciães
{"title":"Geographic Drivers of Genetic and Plumage Color Diversity in the Blue-Crowned Manakin","authors":"P. Paulo, F. H. Teófilo, Carolina Bertuol, É. Polo, A. Moncrieff, L. N. Bandeira, C. Nuñez-Penichet, I. Y. Fernandes, M. Bosholn, A. F. Machado, L. W. Luna, W. T. Peçanha, A. P. Rampini, Shizuka Hashimoto, Cleyssian Dias, J. Araripe, Alexandre Aleixo, Péricles Sena do Rêgo, T. Hrbek, I. Farias, A. Townsend Peterson, I. L. Kaefer, M. Anciães","doi":"10.1007/s11692-023-09613-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-023-09613-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50471,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44155280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reworking Geometric Morphometrics into a Methodology of Transformation Grids","authors":"Fred L. Bookstein","doi":"10.1007/s11692-023-09607-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-023-09607-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Today’s typical application of geometric morphometrics to a quantitative comparison of organismal anatomies begins by standardizing samples of homologously labelled point configurations for location, orientation, and scale, and then renders the ensuing comparisons graphically by thin-plate spline as applied to group averages, principal components, regression predictions, or canonical variates. The scale-standardization step has recently come under criticism as unnecessary and indeed inappropriate, at least for growth studies. This essay argues for a similar rethinking of the centering and rotation, and then the replacement of the thin-plate spline interpolant of the resulting configurations by a different strategy that leaves unexplained residuals at every landmark individually in order to simplify the interpretation of the displayed grid as a whole, the “transformation grid” that has been highlighted as the true underlying topic ever since D’Arcy Thompson’s celebrated exposition of 1917. For analyses of comparisons involving gradients at large geometric scale, this paper argues for replacement of all three of the Procrustes conventions by a version of my two-point registration of 1986 [originally Galton’s of 1907 (Nature 76:617–618, 1907)]. The choice of the two points interacts with another non-Procrustes concern, interpretability of the grid lines of a coordinate system deformed according to a fitted polynomial trend rather than an interpolating thin-plate spline. The paper works two examples using previously published midsagittal cranial data; there result new findings pertinent to the interpretation of both of these classic data sets. A concluding discussion suggests that the current toolkit of geometric morphometrics, centered on Procrustes shape coordinates and thin-plate splines, is too restricted to suit many of the interpretive purposes of evolutionary and developmental biology.</p>","PeriodicalId":50471,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138507338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}