Many roads to success: alternative routes to building an economic shell in land snails.

Autor:	Páll-Gergely B; Plant Protection Institute, HUN-REN Centre for Agricultural Research, Budapest, Hungary., Sipos AÁ; HUN-REN-BME Morphodynamics Research Group, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary.; Department of Morphology and Geometric Modeling, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary., Harzhauser M; Geological-Paleontological Department, Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria.; Institut für Erdwissenschaften, Bereich Geologie und Paläontologie, Universität Graz, Graz, Austria., Örstan A; Section of Mollusks, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA, USA., Winkler V; Geological-Paleontological Department, Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria.; Central Research Laboratories, Natural History Museum Vienna, Vienna, Austria., Neubauer TA; SNSB-Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology, Munich, Germany.; Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Evolution; international journal of organic evolution [Evolution] 2024 Mar 26; Vol. 78 (4), pp. 778-786.
DOI:	10.1093/evolut/qpae018
Abstrakt:	Land snails exhibit an extraordinary variety of shell shapes. The way shells are constructed underlies biological and mechanical constraints that vary across gastropod clades. Here, we quantify shell geometry of the two largest groups, Stylommatophora and Cyclophoroidea, to assess the potential causes for variation in shell shape and its relative frequency. Based on micro-computed tomography scans, we estimate material efficiency through 2D and 3D generalizations of the isoperimetric ratio, quantifying the ratios between area and perimeter of whorl cross-sections (2D) and shell volume and surface (3D), respectively. We find that stylommatophorans optimize material usage through whorl overlap, which may have promoted the diversification of flat-shelled species. Cyclophoroids are bound to a circular cross-section because of their operculum; flat shells are comparatively rare. Both groups show similar solutions for tall shells, where local geometry has a smaller effect because of the double overlap between previous and current whorls. Our results suggest that material efficiency is a driving factor in the selection of shell geometry. Essentially, the evolutionary success of Stylommatophora likely roots in their higher flexibility to produce an economic shell. (© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE). All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.)
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