Intra-gastric phytoliths provide evidence for folivory in basal avialans of the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota
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| 作者 | Wu, Yan4; Ge, Yong3,4; Hu, Han2; Stidham, Thomas A.1,4; Li, Zhiheng4 ; Bailleul, Alida M.4; Zhou, Zhonghe1,4
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| 刊名 | NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
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| 出版日期 | 2023-07-28 |
| 卷号 | 14期号:1页码:7 |
| DOI | 10.1038/s41467-023-40311-z |
| 通讯作者 | Li, Zhiheng(lizhiheng@ivpp.ac.cn) |
| 英文摘要 | Angiosperms became the dominant plant group in early to middle Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems, coincident with the timing of the earliest pulse of bird diversification. While living birds and angiosperms exhibit strong interactions across pollination/nectivory, seed dispersal/frugivory, and folivory, documentation of the evolutionary origins and construction of that ecological complexity remains scarce in the Mesozoic. Through the first study of preserved in situ dietary derived phytoliths in a nearly complete skeleton of the early diverging avialan clade Jeholornithidae, we provide direct dietary evidence that Jeholornis consumed leaves likely from the magnoliid angiosperm clade, and these results lend further support for early ecological connections among the earliest birds and angiosperms. The broad diet of the early diverging avialan Jeholornis including at least fruits and leaves marks a clear transition in the early evolution of birds in the establishment of an arboreal (angiosperm) herbivore niche in the Early Cretaceous occupied largely by birds today. Morphometric reanalysis of the lower jaw of Jeholornis further supports a generalized morphology shared with other herbivorous birds, including an extant avian folivore, the hoatzin. Birds exhibit extensive close ecological interactions with flowering plants, but the evolutionary origins of those relationships remain unclear. Plant phytolith analysis of stomach contents of the Early Cretaceous long-tailed bird Jeholornis reveals the earliest example of leaf eating by birds. |
| WOS关键词 | BIOGENIC SILICA ; ANGIOSPERM ; EVOLUTION ; FREQUENCIES ; WOODLANDS ; INSIGHTS ; FOSSILS ; ORIGIN |
| 资助项目 | National Science Foundation of China[42288201] ; NSFC[41877427] ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Science[XDB26000000] ; National Key Ramp;D Program of China[2022YFF0801500] ; Major Program of National Social Science Foundation of China[ZD246] ; Major Program of National Social Science Foundation of China[22] ; European Union[101024572] |
| WOS研究方向 | Science & Technology - Other Topics |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 出版者 | NATURE PORTFOLIO |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:001040551400019 |
| 资助机构 | National Science Foundation of China ; NSFC ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Science ; National Key Ramp;D Program of China ; Major Program of National Social Science Foundation of China ; European Union |
| 源URL | [http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/22840]  |
| 专题 | 中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所 |
| 通讯作者 | Li, Zhiheng |
| 作者单位 | 1.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Earth & Planetary Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 2.Univ Oxford, Dept Earth Sci, Oxford OX1 3AN, England 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Archaeol & Anthropol, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, 142 Xi Zhi Men Wai St, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Wu, Yan,Ge, Yong,Hu, Han,et al. Intra-gastric phytoliths provide evidence for folivory in basal avialans of the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota[J]. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,2023,14(1):7. |
| APA | Wu, Yan.,Ge, Yong.,Hu, Han.,Stidham, Thomas A..,Li, Zhiheng.,...&Zhou, Zhonghe.(2023).Intra-gastric phytoliths provide evidence for folivory in basal avialans of the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota.NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,14(1),7. |
| MLA | Wu, Yan,et al."Intra-gastric phytoliths provide evidence for folivory in basal avialans of the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota".NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 14.1(2023):7. |
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