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Emberts Z, St Mary CM, Howard CC, Forthman M, Bateman PW, Somjee U, Hwang WS, Li D, Kimball RT, Miller CW. The evolution of autotomy in leaf-footed bugs. Evolution 2020; 74:897-910. [PMID: 32267543 PMCID: PMC7317576 DOI: 10.1111/evo.13948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2019] [Accepted: 02/24/2020] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Sacrificing body parts is one of many behaviors that animals use to escape predation. This trait, termed autotomy, is classically associated with lizards. However, several other taxa also autotomize, and this trait has independently evolved multiple times throughout Animalia. Despite having multiple origins and being an iconic antipredatory trait, much remains unknown about the evolution of autotomy. Here, we combine morphological, behavioral, and genomic data to investigate the evolution of autotomy within leaf-footed bugs and allies (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coreidae + Alydidae). We found that the ancestor of leaf-footed bugs autotomized and did so slowly; rapid autotomy (<2 min) then arose multiple times. The ancestor likely used slow autotomy to reduce the cost of injury or to escape nonpredatory entrapment but could not use autotomy to escape predation. This result suggests that autotomy to escape predation is a co-opted benefit (i.e., exaptation), revealing one way that sacrificing a limb to escape predation may arise. In addition to identifying the origins of rapid autotomy, we also show that across species variation in the rates of autotomy can be explained by body size, distance from the equator, and enlargement of the autotomizable appendage.
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- Zachary Emberts
- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611
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- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611
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- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611.,Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611
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- Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611
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- Behavioural Ecology Lab, School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama
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- Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117377, Singapore
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- Department of Biological Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117543, Singapore
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- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611
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- Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611
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Gomendio M, García-González F, Reguera P, Rivero A. Male egg carrying in Phyllomorpha laciniata is favoured by natural not sexual selection. Anim Behav 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.12.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Munguía-Steyer R, Macías-Ordóñez R. Is it risky to be a father? Survival assessment depending on sex and parental status in the water bug Abedus breviceps using multistate modelling. CAN J ZOOL 2007. [DOI: 10.1139/z06-196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We carried out a capture–recapture multistate modelling approach to estimate survival and recapture probabilities and transition rates between parental and nonparental status in an adult wild population of the water bug Abedus breviceps Stål, 1862 (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae). The global model included the following parameters: sex, male parental status (brooding or not), and transience (individual’s permanent movement from the site after first capture). Models were selected by means of the information-theory paradigm. The best supported model shows no difference in survival between males and females regardless of male parental status. Thus, the frequently assumed cost of parental care in terms of survival is not supported by our data. Furthermore, during the study, male expected adult life span in the wild was lower than the time needed to brood a batch of eggs from oviposition to hatching. We discuss potential consequences of such a short male expected adult life span in terms of parental behaviour decision rules related to fitness maximization.
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- R. Munguía-Steyer
- Instituto de Ecología, A.C. Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Apartado Postal 63, Xalapa, Veracruz 91000, Mexico
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- Instituto de Ecología, A.C. Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Apartado Postal 63, Xalapa, Veracruz 91000, Mexico
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García-González F, Núñez Y, Ponz F, Roldán ERS, Gomendio M. Sperm competition mechanisms, confidence of paternity, and the evolution of paternal care in the golden egg bug (Phyllomorpha laciniata). Evolution 2003; 57:1078-88. [PMID: 12836824 DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00317.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Theoretical models predict how paternal effort should vary depending on confidence of paternity and on the trade-offs between present and future reproduction. In this study we examine patterns of sperm precedence in Phyllomorpha laciniata and how confidence of paternity influences the willingness of males to carry eggs. Female golden egg bugs show a flexible pattern of oviposition behavior, which results in some eggs being carried by adults (mainly males) and some being laid on plants, where mortality rates are very high. Adults are more vulnerable to predators when carrying eggs; thus, it has been suggested that males should only accept eggs if there are chances that at least some of the eggs will be their true genetic offspring. We determined the confidence of paternity for naturally occurring individuals and its variation with the time. Paternity of eggs fertilized by the last males to mate with females previously mated in the field has been determined using amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs). The exclusion probability was 98%, showing that AFLP markers are suitable for paternity assignment. Sperm mixing seems the most likely mechanism of sperm competition, because the last male to copulate with field females sires an average of 43% of the eggs laid during the next five days. More importantly, the proportion of eggs sired does not change significantly during that period. We argue that intermediate levels of paternity can select for paternal care in this system because: (1) benefits of care in terms of offspring survival are very high; (2) males have nothing to gain from decreasing their parental effort in a given reproductive event because sperm mixing makes it difficult for males to reach high paternity levels and males are left with no cues to assess paternity; (3) males cannot chose to care for their offspring exclusively because they can neither discriminate their own eggs, nor can they predict when their own eggs will be produced; and (4) males suffer no loss of further matings with other females when they carry eggs. Thus, our findings do not support the traditional view that paternal investment is expected to arise only in species where confidence of paternity is high. The results suggest that females maximize the chances that several males will accept eggs at different times by promoting a mechanism of sperm mixing that ensures that all males that have copulated with a female have some chance of fathering offspring, that this probability remains constant with time, and that males have no cues as to when their own offspring will be produced.
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- Francisco García-González
- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
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García-González F, Gomendio M. Oviposition site selection and oviposition stimulation by conspecifics in the golden egg bug (Phyllomorpha laciniata): implications for female fitness. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2003. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-003-0591-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A field test of the intraspecific brood parasitism hypothesis in the golden egg bug ( Phyllomorpha laciniata). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2003. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-002-0566-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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García-González F, Núñez Y, Ponz F, Roldán ERS, Gomendio M. SPERM COMPETITION MECHANISMS, CONFIDENCE OF PATERNITY, AND THE EVOLUTION OF PATERNAL CARE IN THE GOLDEN EGG BUG (PHYLLOMORPHA LACINIATA). Evolution 2003. [DOI: 10.1554/0014-3820(2003)057[1078:scmcop]2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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