Adding the third dimension to studies of parallel evolution of morphology and function: An exploration based on parapatric lake-stream stickleback.

Autor: Haines GE; Redpath Museum and Department of Biology McGill University Montréal QC Canada., Stuart YE; Department of Biology Loyola University Chicago IL USA., Hanson D; Redpath Museum and Department of Biology McGill University Montréal QC Canada., Tasneem T; Kealing Middle School Austin Independent School District Austin TX USA., Bolnick DI; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Connecticut Storrs CT USA., Larsson HCE; Redpath Museum and Department of Biology McGill University Montréal QC Canada., Hendry AP; Redpath Museum and Department of Biology McGill University Montréal QC Canada.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Ecology and evolution [Ecol Evol] 2020 Nov 17; Vol. 10 (23), pp. 13297-13311. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Nov 17 (Print Publication: 2020).
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6929
Abstrakt: Recent methodological advances have led to a rapid expansion of evolutionary studies employing three-dimensional landmark-based geometric morphometrics (GM). GM methods generally enable researchers to capture and compare complex shape phenotypes, and to quantify their relationship to environmental gradients. However, some recent studies have shown that the common, inexpensive, and relatively rapid two-dimensional GM methods can distort important information and produce misleading results because they cannot capture variation in the depth ( Z ) dimension. We use micro-CT scanned threespine stickleback ( Gasterosteus aculeatus Linnaeus, 1758) from six parapatric lake-stream populations on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to test whether the loss of the depth dimension in 2D GM studies results in misleading interpretations of parallel evolution. Using joint locations described with 2D or 3D landmarks, we compare results from separate 2D and 3D shape spaces, from a combined 2D-3D shape space, and from estimates of biomechanical function. We show that, although shape is distorted enough in 2D projections to strongly influence the interpretation of morphological parallelism, estimates of biomechanical function are relatively robust to the loss of the Z dimension.
Competing Interests: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
(© 2020 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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