期刊
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 289, 期 1976, 页码 -出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0675
关键词
anatomy; digestion; ecomorphology; phylogeny; scaling
资金
- Science National Foundation [CRSII5_189970/1]
- National Research Foundation of South Africa [UID129172]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [CRSII5_189970] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
This study examines the relationship between diet, climate, locomotion, and intestinal anatomy in 390 bird species. The results show that intestinal length is influenced by multiple factors, including diet composition, habitat condition, and flight capability. Additionally, the study finds systematic differences in intestinal anatomy between birds and mammals.
A link between diet and avian intestinal anatomy is generally assumed. We collated the length of intestinal sections and body mass of 390 bird species and tested relationships with diet, climate and locomotion. There was a strong phylogenetic signal in all datasets. The total and small intestine scaled more-than-geometrically (95%CI of the scaling exponent > 0.33). The traditional dietary classification (faunivore, omnivore and herbivore) had no significant effect on total intestine (TI) length. Significant dietary proxies included %folivory, %frugi-nectarivory and categories (frugi-nectarivory, granivory, folivory, omnivory, insectivory and vertivory). Individual intestinal sections were affected by different dietary proxies. The best model indicates that higher consumption of fruit and nectar, drier habitats, and a high degree of flightedness are linked to shorter TI length. Notably, the length of the avian intestine depends on other biological factors as much as on diet. Given the weak dietary signal in our datasets, the diet intestinal length relationships lend themselves to narratives of flexibility (morphology is not destiny) rather than of distinct adaptations that facilitate using one character (intestine length) as proxy for another (diet). Birds have TIs of about 85% that of similar-sized mammals, corroborating systematic differences in intestinal macroanatomy between vertebrate clades.
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