Does evolutionary innovation in pharyngeal jaws lead to rapid lineage diversification in labrid fishes?
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Major modifications to the pharyngeal jaw apparatus are widely regarded as a recurring evolutionary key innovation that has enabled adaptive radiation in many species-rich clades of percomorph fishes. However one of the central predi...
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| description | <p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Major modifications to the pharyngeal jaw apparatus are widely regarded as a recurring evolutionary key innovation that has enabled adaptive radiation in many species-rich clades of percomorph fishes. However one of the central predictions of this hypothesis, that the acquisition of a modified pharyngeal jaw apparatus will be positively correlated with explosive lineage diversification, has never been tested. We applied comparative methods to a new time-calibrated phylogeny of labrid fishes to test whether diversification rates shifted at two scales where major pharyngeal jaw innovations have evolved: across all of Labridae and within the subclade of parrotfishes.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Diversification patterns within early labrids did not reflect rapid initial radiation. Much of modern labrid diversity stems from two recent rapid diversification events; one within julidine fishes and the other with the origin of the most species-rich clade of reef-associated parrotfishes. A secondary pharyngeal jaw innovation was correlated with rapid diversification within the parrotfishes. However diversification rate shifts within parrotfishes are more strongly correlated with the evolution of extreme dichromatism than with pharyngeal jaw modifications.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The temporal lag between pharyngeal jaw modifications and changes in diversification rates casts doubt on the key innovation hypothesis as a simple explanation for much of the richness seen in labrids and scarines. Although the possession of a secondarily modified PJA was correlated with increased diversification rates, this pattern is better explained by the evolution of extreme dichromatism (and other social and behavioral characters relating to sexual selection) within <it>Scarus </it>and <it>Chlorurus</it>. The PJA-innovation hypothesis also fails to explain the most dominant aspect of labrid lineage diversification, the radiation of the julidines. We suggest that pharyngeal jaws might have played a more important role in enabling morphological evolution of the feeding apparatus in labrids and scarines rather than in accelerating lineage diversification.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7ab5fd13053b493d87556c6632b9b2962022-12-21T21:09:26ZengBMCBMC Evolutionary Biology1471-21482009-10-019125510.1186/1471-2148-9-255Does evolutionary innovation in pharyngeal jaws lead to rapid lineage diversification in labrid fishes?Wainwright Peter CBanbury Barbara LBrock Chad DAlfaro Michael E<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Major modifications to the pharyngeal jaw apparatus are widely regarded as a recurring evolutionary key innovation that has enabled adaptive radiation in many species-rich clades of percomorph fishes. However one of the central predictions of this hypothesis, that the acquisition of a modified pharyngeal jaw apparatus will be positively correlated with explosive lineage diversification, has never been tested. We applied comparative methods to a new time-calibrated phylogeny of labrid fishes to test whether diversification rates shifted at two scales where major pharyngeal jaw innovations have evolved: across all of Labridae and within the subclade of parrotfishes.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Diversification patterns within early labrids did not reflect rapid initial radiation. Much of modern labrid diversity stems from two recent rapid diversification events; one within julidine fishes and the other with the origin of the most species-rich clade of reef-associated parrotfishes. A secondary pharyngeal jaw innovation was correlated with rapid diversification within the parrotfishes. However diversification rate shifts within parrotfishes are more strongly correlated with the evolution of extreme dichromatism than with pharyngeal jaw modifications.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The temporal lag between pharyngeal jaw modifications and changes in diversification rates casts doubt on the key innovation hypothesis as a simple explanation for much of the richness seen in labrids and scarines. Although the possession of a secondarily modified PJA was correlated with increased diversification rates, this pattern is better explained by the evolution of extreme dichromatism (and other social and behavioral characters relating to sexual selection) within <it>Scarus </it>and <it>Chlorurus</it>. The PJA-innovation hypothesis also fails to explain the most dominant aspect of labrid lineage diversification, the radiation of the julidines. We suggest that pharyngeal jaws might have played a more important role in enabling morphological evolution of the feeding apparatus in labrids and scarines rather than in accelerating lineage diversification.</p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/9/255 |
| spellingShingle | Wainwright Peter C Banbury Barbara L Brock Chad D Alfaro Michael E Does evolutionary innovation in pharyngeal jaws lead to rapid lineage diversification in labrid fishes? BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| title | Does evolutionary innovation in pharyngeal jaws lead to rapid lineage diversification in labrid fishes? |
| title_full | Does evolutionary innovation in pharyngeal jaws lead to rapid lineage diversification in labrid fishes? |
| title_fullStr | Does evolutionary innovation in pharyngeal jaws lead to rapid lineage diversification in labrid fishes? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Does evolutionary innovation in pharyngeal jaws lead to rapid lineage diversification in labrid fishes? |
| title_short | Does evolutionary innovation in pharyngeal jaws lead to rapid lineage diversification in labrid fishes? |
| title_sort | does evolutionary innovation in pharyngeal jaws lead to rapid lineage diversification in labrid fishes |
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