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Morales CC, Gómez JP, Parra JL. Patterns of morphological differentiation within Manacus manacus (Aves: Pipridae) in Colombia: revisiting hypotheses of isolation and secondary contact. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blab106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Determining the factors responsible for phenotypic variation within species is a fundamental task in evolutionary ecology. Isolation by distance, isolation by environment and clines along secondary contact zones between formerly isolated populations are common patterns of morphological variation. In this study, we evaluated whether patterns of morphological variation exhibit association with isolation by distance, isolation by environment or secondary contact in populations of Manacus manacus with contrasting plumage colour. We used field and museum measurements of five morphological characters from 311 individuals from 88 localities distributed across a highly heterogeneous environmental range within Colombia. Climatic variables explained a higher proportion of the variation than geographic distance among localities. We found differences in wing and culmen length between white and yellow phenotypes of M. manacus in Colombia. Overall morphology did not change in a clinal fashion in relation to the contact zone and the few traits that exhibit clinal variation suggest a distant locality for the contact zone, not in line with our expectations by secondary contact between differentiated populations, suggesting alternative mechanisms for differentiation between subspecies. Our results suggest that this species exhibits marked morphological variation associated with changes in temperature and precipitation. These associations are consistent throughout the geographic range analysed, leading us to postulate that dispersal and local adaptation jointly shape the distribution of phenotypic variation.
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- Christian C Morales
- Grupo de Ecología y Evolución de Vertebrados, Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín 050010, Colombia
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- Departamento de Química y Biología, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla 08001, Colombia
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- Grupo de Ecología y Evolución de Vertebrados, Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín 050010, Colombia
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Nieto‐Lugilde D, Maguire KC, Blois JL, Williams JW, Fitzpatrick MC. Multiresponse algorithms for community‐level modelling: Review of theory, applications, and comparison to species distribution models. Methods Ecol Evol 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.12936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Diego Nieto‐Lugilde
- Appalachian Laboratory University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Frostburg MD USA
- Departamento de Botánica Ecología y Fisiología Vegetal Universidad de Córdoba Córdoba Spain
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- School of Natural Sciences University of California Merced CA USA
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- Center for Climatic Research University of Wisconsin Madison WI USA
- Department of Geography University of Wisconsin Madison WI USA
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- Appalachian Laboratory University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Frostburg MD USA
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Termignoni-García F, Jaramillo-Correa JP, Chablé-Santos J, Liu M, Shultz AJ, Edwards SV, Escalante-Pliego P. Genomic footprints of adaptation in a cooperatively breeding tropical bird across a vegetation gradient. Mol Ecol 2017; 26:4483-4496. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.14224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2016] [Revised: 05/06/2017] [Accepted: 06/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Flavia Termignoni-García
- Department of Zoology; National Collection of Birds (CNAV); Institute of Biology; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; CdMx México
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology; Institute of Ecology; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; CdMx México
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- Department of Zoology; Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia; Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán; Yucatán México
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- Biodiversity Research Center; Academia Sinica; Taipei Nankang Taiwan
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB); Harvard University; Cambridge MA USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB); Harvard University; Cambridge MA USA
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- Department of Zoology; National Collection of Birds (CNAV); Institute of Biology; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; CdMx México
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Baldassarre DT, Greig EI, Webster MS. The couple that sings together stays together: duetting, aggression and extra-pair paternity in a promiscuous bird species. Biol Lett 2016; 12:20151025. [PMID: 26911342 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.1025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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When individuals mate outside the pair bond, males should employ behaviours such as aggression or vocal displays (e.g. duetting) that help assure paternity of the offspring they care for. We tested whether male paternity was associated with aggression or duetting in the red-backed fairy-wren, a species exhibiting high rates of extra-pair paternity. During simulated territorial intrusions, aggression and duetting were variable among and repeatable within males, suggesting behavioural consistency of individuals. Males with quicker and stronger duet responses were cuckolded less often than males with slower and weaker responses. In contrast, physical aggression was not correlated with male paternity. These results suggest that either acoustic mate guarding or male-female vocal negotiations via duetting lead to increased paternity assurance, whereas physical aggression does not.
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- Daniel T Baldassarre
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
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- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
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- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
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Safran RJ, Scordato ESC, Wilkins MR, Hubbard JK, Jenkins BR, Albrecht T, Flaxman SM, Karaardıç H, Vortman Y, Lotem A, Nosil P, Pap P, Shen S, Chan S, Parchman T, Kane NC. Genome‐wide differentiation in closely related populations: the roles of selection and geographic isolation. Mol Ecol 2016; 25:3865-83. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.13740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2016] [Revised: 06/08/2016] [Accepted: 06/15/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- R. J. Safran
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Colorado Boulder CO USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Colorado Boulder CO USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Colorado Boulder CO USA
- School of Biological Sciences University of Nebraska‐Lincoln Lincoln NE USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Colorado Boulder CO USA
- School of Biological Sciences University of Nebraska‐Lincoln Lincoln NE USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Colorado Boulder CO USA
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- Department of Zoology Charles University in Prague and Institute of Vertebrate Biology Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Prague Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Colorado Boulder CO USA
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- Elementary Science Education Department Education Faculty Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University Alanya Turkey
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- Department of Zoology Tel‐Aviv University Tel‐Aviv Israel
- Hula Research Center Department of Animal Sciences Tel‐Hai College Israel
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- Department of Zoology Tel‐Aviv University Tel‐Aviv Israel
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- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences University of Sheffield Sheffield UK
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- Department of Taxonomy and Ecology Babeş‐Bolyai University Cluj‐Napoca Romania
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- Biodiversity Research Center Academia Sinica Taipei Taiwan
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- Biodiversity Research Center Academia Sinica Taipei Taiwan
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- Department of Biology University of Nevada Reno NV USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Colorado Boulder CO USA
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Greig EI, Baldassarre DT, Webster MS. Differential rates of phenotypic introgression are associated with male behavioral responses to multiple signals. Evolution 2015; 69:2602-12. [PMID: 26292844 DOI: 10.1111/evo.12756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2015] [Revised: 08/04/2015] [Accepted: 08/12/2015] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Sexual selection on multiple signals may lead to differential rates of signal introgression across hybrid zones if some signals contribute to reproductive isolation but others facilitate gene flow. Competition among males is one powerful form of sexual selection, but male behavioral responses to multiple traits have not been considered in a system where traits have introgressed differentially. Using playbacks, mounts, and a reciprocal experimental design, we tested the hypothesis that male responses to song and plumage in two subspecies of red-backed fairy-wren (Malurus melanocephalus) explain patterns of differential signal introgression (song has not introgressed, whereas plumage color has introgressed asymmetrically). We found that males of both subspecies discriminated symmetrically between subspecies' songs at a long range, but at a close range, we found that aggression was equal for both subspecies' plumage and songs. Taken together, our results suggest that male behavioral responses hinder the introgression of song, but allow for the observed asymmetrical introgression of plumage. Our results highlight how behavioral responses are a key component of signal evolution when recently divergent taxa come together, and how differential responses to multiple signals may lead to differential signal introgression and novel trait combinations.
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- Emma I Greig
- Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14850.
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- Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14850.,Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, 33146
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- Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14850
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Baldassarre DT, White TA, Karubian J, Webster MS. GENOMIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF A SEMIPERMEABLE AVIAN HYBRID ZONE SUGGESTS ASYMMETRICAL INTROGRESSION OF A SEXUAL SIGNAL. Evolution 2014; 68:2644-57. [DOI: 10.1111/evo.12457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2014] [Accepted: 05/22/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Daniel T. Baldassarre
- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior; Cornell University; Ithaca New York 14850
- Macaulay Library; Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Ithaca New York 14853
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Cornell University; Ithaca New York 14850
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Tulane University; New Orleans Louisiana 70118
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior; Cornell University; Ithaca New York 14850
- Macaulay Library; Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Ithaca New York 14853
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Baldassarre DT, Webster MS. Experimental evidence that extra-pair mating drives asymmetrical introgression of a sexual trait. Proc Biol Sci 2013; 280:20132175. [PMID: 24089341 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Theory suggests that traits under positive selection may introgress asymmetrically across a hybrid zone, potentially driven by sexual selection. Two subspecies of the red-backed fairy-wren (Malurus melanocephalus) differ primarily in a sexual signal used in mate choice-red versus orange male back plumage colour-but phylogeographic analyses suggest asymmetrical introgression of red plumage into the genetic background of the orange subspecies. We hypothesized that this asymmetrical introgression may be facilitated by sexual selection if red males have a mating advantage over orange males. We tested this hypothesis with correlational data and a plumage manipulation experiment where we reddened the back plumage of a subset of orange males to mimic males of the red subspecies. There was no correlational evidence of a mating advantage to naturally redder males in this population. Experimentally reddened males sired a similar amount of within-pair young and lost paternity at the same rate as orange males, but they sired significantly more extra-pair young, leading to substantially higher total reproductive success. Thus, we conclude that sexual selection via extra-pair mating is a likely mechanism responsible for the asymmetrical introgression of plumage colour in this system, and is potentially driven by a sensory bias for the red plumage signal.
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- Daniel T Baldassarre
- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, , Ithaca, NY 14850, USA, Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, , Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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