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EVOLUTION
卷 70, 期 9, 页码 2134-2144出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/evo.13010
关键词
Animal communication; Brachyhypopomus occidentalis; electric organ discharge; genetic drift; signaling/courtship; weakly electric fish
资金
- McGill-Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Neotropical Environment Program
- NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada)
- Smithsonian Institution
Communication signals are highly diverse traits. This diversity is usually assumed to be shaped by selective forces, whereas the null hypothesis of divergence through drift is often not considered. In Panama, the weakly electric fish Brachyhypopomus occidentalis is widely distributed in multiple independent drainage systems, which provide a natural evolutionary laboratory for the study of genetic and signal divergence in separate populations. We quantified geographic variation in the electric signals of 109 fish from five populations, and compared it to the neutral genetic variation estimated from cytochrome oxidase I (COI) sequences of the same individuals, to test whether drift may be driving divergence of their signals. Signal distances were highly correlated with genetic distances, even after controlling for geographic distances, suggesting that drift alone is sufficient to explain geographic variation in electric signals. Significant differences at smaller geographic scales (within drainages) showed, however, that electric signals may evolve at a faster rate than expected under drift, raising the possibility that additional adaptive forces may be contributing to their evolution. Overall, our data point to stochastic forces as main drivers of signal evolution in this species and extend the role of drift in the evolution of communication systems to fish and electrocommunication.
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