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DOI | 10.1111/bij.12856 |
Diving in head first: trade-offs between phenotypic traits and sand-diving predator escape strategy in Meroles desert lizards | |
Edwards, Shelley1,2; Herrel, Anthony3,4; Vanhooydonck, Bieke5; Measey, G. John6; Tolley, Krystal A.1,2 | |
通讯作者 | Edwards, Shelley |
来源期刊 | BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
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ISSN | 0024-4066 |
EISSN | 1095-8312 |
出版年 | 2016 |
卷号 | 119期号:4页码:919-931 |
英文摘要 | Survival, in part, depends on an individual’s ability to evade predators. In desert regions some lizard species have evolved head-first sand-diving strategies to escape predators. To facilitate this behaviour, a distinctive head morphology that facilitates sand-diving has evolved. This specialised head morphology may, however, come at a cost to other ecologically relevant functions, particularly bite force. Here, we investigated the relationship between morphology and function in a southern African lacertid lizard genus, Meroles, which consists of eight species that utilise different escape strategies, including sand-diving and running for cover. It was hypothesized that the specialised head morphology of diving species would negatively affect bite force capacity. We found that species from each escape strategy category differed significantly in head shape, but not bite force performance. A phylogenetic tree of the genus was constructed using two mitochondrial and two nuclear genes, and we conducted phylogenetic comparative analyses. One aspect of the head shape differed between the escape strategies once phylogeny was taken into account. We found that bite force may have co-evolved with head morphology, but that there was no trade-off between biting capacity and escape strategy in Meroles. |
英文关键词 | Africa bite force Eremiadini geometric morphometrics phylogeny |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | South Africa ; France ; Belgium |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000388505600012 |
WOS关键词 | AFRICAN LACERTID LIZARDS ; BITE PERFORMANCE ; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION ; DWELLING LIZARDS ; DIET ; CONSEQUENCES ; INCONGRUENCE ; PHYLOGENIES ; DIMORPHISM ; MORPHOLOGY |
WOS类目 | Evolutionary Biology |
WOS研究方向 | Evolutionary Biology |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/191791 |
作者单位 | 1.South African Natl Biodivers Inst, ZA-7735 Cape Town, South Africa; 2.Univ Stellenbosch, Dept Bot & Zool, Private Bag 11, ZA-7602 Matieland, South Africa; 3.UMR 7179 CNRS MNHN, Dept Ecol & Gest Biodiversite, 57 Rue Cuvier,Case Postale 55, F-75231 Paris, France; 4.Univ Ghent, Evolutionary Morphol Vertebrates, KL Ledeganckstr 35, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium; 5.Univ Antwerp, Dept Biol, Univ Pl 1, B-2610 Antwerp, Belgium; 6.Univ Stellenbosch, Ctr Invas Biol, Private Bag 11, ZA-7602 Matieland, South Africa |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Edwards, Shelley,Herrel, Anthony,Vanhooydonck, Bieke,et al. Diving in head first: trade-offs between phenotypic traits and sand-diving predator escape strategy in Meroles desert lizards[J],2016,119(4):919-931. |
APA | Edwards, Shelley,Herrel, Anthony,Vanhooydonck, Bieke,Measey, G. John,&Tolley, Krystal A..(2016).Diving in head first: trade-offs between phenotypic traits and sand-diving predator escape strategy in Meroles desert lizards.BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY,119(4),919-931. |
MLA | Edwards, Shelley,et al."Diving in head first: trade-offs between phenotypic traits and sand-diving predator escape strategy in Meroles desert lizards".BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY 119.4(2016):919-931. |
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