期刊
BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
卷 131, 期 4, 页码 936-951出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa134
关键词
body size; Carabidae; Carabus; macrocephalism; Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process; resource competition; stenocephalism; sympatry
资金
- Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (Korea-Japan Basic Scientific Promotion Program) [11, F01-2001-000-20014-0]
- Japan-Korea Basic Science Cooperation Program
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JP14560114, JP17405007, JP23405009, JP17H04603]
Ecological character displacement predicts that interspecific resource competition results in greater trait divergence between species in sympatry than in allopatry. However, other processes, such as ecological sorting, result in the same pattern of trait variation. In this study, we characterize character displacement in eight species of snail-feeding Acoptolabrus ground beetles in the Far East. Acoptolabrus exhibit divergent feeding phenotypes, including species with a slender forebody that is able to intrude into large shells and species with stout heads and mandibles for crushing small shells. The pattern of character displacement in feeding phenotypes was confirmed by multivariate analysis of body dimensions. Molecular phylogenetic analysis, divergence time estimation and biogeographical analysis revealed that sympatry and phenotypic divergence occurred repeatedly during the Pleistocene and almost simultaneously within each geographical area. Comparative analysis revealed that the evolution of feeding phenotypes best fitted a selective model with three adaptive optima, corresponding to the three cases of sympatry with a congener. Repeated coincidences of sympatry and adaptive differentiation in feeding phenotypes suggested causal relationships, although the precise order of events was difficult to discriminate. This study provides insight into the spatiotemporal dynamics of interspecific interactions and adaptive phenotypic diversification.
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