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Rates of Dinosaur Body Mass Evolution Indicate 170 Million Years of Sustained Ecological Innovation on the Avian Stem Lineage

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作者Benson, Roger B. J.1; Campione, Nicolas E.2,3,4; Carrano, Matthew T.5; Mannion, Philip D.6; Sullivan, Corwin7; Upchurch, Paul8; Evans, David C.4,9
刊名PLOS BIOLOGY
出版日期2014-05-01
卷号12期号:5
文献子类Article
英文摘要Large-scale adaptive radiations might explain the runaway success of a minority of extant vertebrate clades. This hypothesis predicts, among other things, rapid rates of morphological evolution during the early history of major groups, as lineages invade disparate ecological niches. However, few studies of adaptive radiation have included deep time data, so the links between extant diversity and major extinct radiations are unclear. The intensively studied Mesozoic dinosaur record provides a model system for such investigation, representing an ecologically diverse group that dominated terrestrial ecosystems for 170 million years. Furthermore, with 10,000 species, extant dinosaurs (birds) are the most speciose living tetrapod clade. We assembled composite trees of 614-622 Mesozoic dinosaurs/birds, and a comprehensive body mass dataset using the scaling relationship of limb bone robustness. Maximum-likelihood modelling and the node height test reveal rapid evolutionary rates and a predominance of rapid shifts among size classes in early (Triassic) dinosaurs. This indicates an early burst niche-filling pattern and contrasts with previous studies that favoured gradualistic rates. Subsequently, rates declined in most lineages, which rarely exploited new ecological niches. However, feathered maniraptoran dinosaurs (including Mesozoic birds) sustained rapid evolution from at least the Middle Jurassic, suggesting that these taxa evaded the effects of niche saturation. This indicates that a long evolutionary history of continuing ecological innovation paved the way for a second great radiation of dinosaurs, in birds. We therefore demonstrate links between the predominantly extinct deep time adaptive radiation of non-avian dinosaurs and the phenomenal diversification of birds, via continuing rapid rates of evolution along the phylogenetic stem lineage. This raises the possibility that the uneven distribution of biodiversity results not just from large-scale extrapolation of the process of adaptive radiation in a few extant clades, but also from the maintenance of evolvability on vast time scales across the history of life, in key lineages.
WOS关键词CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY ; ADAPTIVE RADIATION ; SIZE EVOLUTION ; MORPHOLOGICAL DISPARITY ; STABILIZING SELECTION ; SPECIES-DIVERSITY ; CHARACTER CHANGE ; RED QUEEN ; MAMMALS ; EXTINCTION
WOS研究方向Biochemistry & Molecular Biology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics
语种英语
WOS记录号WOS:000336969200004
源URL[http://124.16.247.212/handle/311034/7362]  
专题古脊椎动物与古人类研究所_图书馆1
作者单位1.Univ Oxford, Dept Earth Sci, Oxford OX1 3PR, England
2.Uppsala Univ, Dept Earth Sci Palaeobiol, Uppsala, Sweden
3.Uppsala Univ, Dept Organismal Biol Evolut & Dev, Uppsala, Sweden
4.Univ Toronto, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Toronto, ON, Canada
5.Smithsonian Inst, Dept Paleobiol, Washington, DC 20560 USA
6.Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Dept Earth Sci & Engn, London, England
7.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing, Peoples R China
8.UCL, Dept Earth Sci, London, England
9.Royal Ontario Museum, Dept Nat Hist, Toronto, ON M5S 2C6, Canada
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Benson, Roger B. J.,Campione, Nicolas E.,Carrano, Matthew T.,et al. Rates of Dinosaur Body Mass Evolution Indicate 170 Million Years of Sustained Ecological Innovation on the Avian Stem Lineage[J]. PLOS BIOLOGY,2014,12(5).
APA Benson, Roger B. J..,Campione, Nicolas E..,Carrano, Matthew T..,Mannion, Philip D..,Sullivan, Corwin.,...&Evans, David C..(2014).Rates of Dinosaur Body Mass Evolution Indicate 170 Million Years of Sustained Ecological Innovation on the Avian Stem Lineage.PLOS BIOLOGY,12(5).
MLA Benson, Roger B. J.,et al."Rates of Dinosaur Body Mass Evolution Indicate 170 Million Years of Sustained Ecological Innovation on the Avian Stem Lineage".PLOS BIOLOGY 12.5(2014).

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