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Citation title: "Morphological innovation, diversification and invasion of a new adaptive zone".

Study name: "Morphological innovation, diversification and invasion of a new adaptive zone".

This study is part of submission 12707 (Status: Published).

Citation

Dumont E.R., Davalos L.M., Goldberg A., Santana S.E., Rex K., & Voigt C.C. 2012. Morphological innovation, diversification and invasion of a new adaptive zone. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279: 1797-1805.

Authors

• Dumont E.R.
• Davalos L.M. (submitter) 6314137417
• Goldberg A.
• Santana S.E.
• Rex K.
• Voigt C.C.

Abstract

How ecological opportunity relates to diversification is a central question in evolutionary biology. However, there are few empirical examples of how ecological opportunity and morphological innovation open new adaptive zones, and promote diversification. We analyze data on diet, skull morphology and bite performance, and relate these traits to diversification rates throughout the evolutionary history of an ecologically diverse family of mammals (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). We found a significant increase in diversification rate driven by increased speciation at the most recent common ancestor of the predominantly frugivorous subfamily Stenodermatinae. The evolution of diet was associated with skull morphology, and morphology was tightly coupled with biting performance, linking phenotype to new niches through performance. Following the increase in speciation rate, the rate of morphological evolution slowed, while the rate of evolution in diet increased. This pattern suggests that morphology stabilized, and niches within the new adaptive zone of frugivory were filled rapidly, after the evolution of a new cranial phenotype that resulted in a certain level of mechanical efficiency. The tree-wide speciation rate increased non linearly with a more frugivorous diet, and was highest at measures of skull morphology associated with morphological extremes, including the most derived Stenodermatines. These results show that a novel stenodermatine skull phenotype played a central role in the evolution of frugivory and increasing speciation within phyllostomids.

Keywords

diversification; morphological innovation; bats; frugivory

External links

• DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2005
• PMID: 22113035
• Other URL: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2011/11/21/rspb.2011.2005.abstract

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• Canonical resource URI: http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/study/TB2:S12707
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  		@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref20699,
  	 author = {Elizabeth R Dumont and Liliana M Davalos and Aaron  Goldberg and Sharlene E. Santana and Katja  Rex and Christian C Voigt},
  	 title = {Morphological innovation, diversification and invasion of a new adaptive zone},
  	 year = {2012},
  	 keywords = {diversification; morphological innovation; bats; frugivory},
  	 doi = {10.1098/rspb.2011.2005},
  	 url = {http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2011/11/21/rspb.2011.2005.abstract},
  	 pmid = {22113035},
  	 journal = {Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences},
  	 volume = {279},
  	 number = {},
  	 pages = {1797--1805},
  	 abstract = {How ecological opportunity relates to diversification is a central question in evolutionary biology. However, there are few empirical examples of how ecological opportunity and morphological innovation open new adaptive zones, and promote diversification. We analyze data on diet, skull morphology and bite performance, and relate these traits to diversification rates throughout the evolutionary history of an ecologically diverse family of mammals (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). We found a significant increase in diversification rate driven by increased speciation at the most recent common ancestor of the predominantly frugivorous subfamily Stenodermatinae. The evolution of diet was associated with skull morphology, and morphology was tightly coupled with biting performance, linking phenotype to new niches through performance. Following the increase in speciation rate, the rate of morphological evolution slowed, while the rate of evolution in diet increased. This pattern suggests that morphology stabilized, and niches within the new adaptive zone of frugivory were filled rapidly, after the evolution of a new cranial phenotype that resulted in a certain level of mechanical efficiency. The tree-wide speciation rate increased non linearly with a more frugivorous diet, and was highest at measures of skull morphology associated with morphological extremes, including the most derived Stenodermatines. These results show that a novel stenodermatine skull phenotype played a central role in the evolution of frugivory and increasing speciation within phyllostomids.}
  }
  		

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