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EVOLUTION
卷 75, 期 10, 页码 2460-2479出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/evo.14331
关键词
Adaptation; morphological evolution; predation; signaling; courtship
资金
- UT Austin Section of Integrative Biology
- Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology
- Sigma Xi
- Explorer's Club
- Margaret C. Walker Fund for teaching and research in systematic entomology
- UC Berkeley Department of Integrative Biology
- Institute for Latin American Studies at UT Austin
This study examined convergent evolution in flight-related morphology among eight mimicry complexes of 51 butterfly species from Ecuador. Results showed significant morphological differences between mimicry complexes, divided into three clusters. Flight-related morphology adds complexity to predator-prey signals and limits the evolution of color patterns.
Mullerian mimicry involves a signal mutualism between prey species, shaped by visually hunting predators, and recent work has emphasized the importance of color pattern. Predators respond to more than color pattern, however, and other traits are much less studied. This article examines the hypothesis of convergent evolution in flight-related morphology among eight mimicry complexes composed of 51 butterfly species (Nymphalidae, Danainae, Ithomiini) from a single community in Ecuador. Phylogenetic comparative analyses of 14 variables indicated strong morphological differences between mimicry complexes belonging to three clusters of morphological space (large yellow transparent, tiger, and transparent), not the eight predicted based on color pattern alone. Analyses found convergence within mimicry complexes, convergence between mimicry complexes within morphospace clusters, and divergence between mimicry complexes from different morphospace clusters. These three clusters differed in size, and body and wing shape, predicting that flight biomechanics also converge (i.e., locomotor mimicry). Potential constraints on evolution of morphological mimicry related to predator discrimination, and evolutionary rates, likely e xplain why flight-related morphology differences were limited to three clusters of morphological space. Finally, the added complexity that flight-related morphology brings to signals between predator and prey indicates that evolutionary switches in color pattern are not all equally likely, potentially limiting the evolution of color patterns if they do not match morphology.
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