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JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Volume 28, Issue 6, Pages 1270-1277Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12653
Keywords
clinal variation; converse Bergmann cline; geographic variation; sexual dimorphism
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- JSPS KAKENHI [22255004, 22370010, 26257405, 15H00420]
- NSF [DEB 09-55849]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [25257406, 25440217, 15H04420, 13J03600, 14J02983, 26257405, 15H00420, 26840126] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Seven species in three species groups (Decim, Cassini and Decula) of periodical cicadas (Magicicada) occupy a wide latitudinal range in the eastern United States. To clarify how adult body size, a key trait affecting fitness, varies geographically with climate conditions and life cycle, we analysed the relationships of population mean head width to geographic variables (latitude, longitude, altitude), habitat annual mean temperature (AMT), life cycle and species differences. Within species, body size was larger in females than males and decreased with increasing latitude (and decreasing habitat AMT), following the converse Bergmann's rule. For the pair of recently diverged 13- and 17-year species in each group, 13-year cicadas were equal in size or slightly smaller on average than their 17-year counterparts despite their shorter developmental time. This fact suggests that, under the same climatic conditions, 17-year cicadas have lowered growth rates compared to their 13-years counterparts, allowing 13-year cicadas with faster growth rates to achieve body sizes equivalent to those of their 17-year counterparts at the same locations. However, in the Decim group, which includes two 13-year species, the more southerly, anciently diverged 13-year species (Magicicada tredecim) was characterized by a larger body size than the other, more northerly 13- and 17-year species, suggesting that local adaptation in warmer habitats may ultimately lead to evolution of larger body sizes. Our results demonstrate how geographic clines in body size may be maintained in sister species possessing different life cycles.
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