THE EVOLUTION OF BIPEDALISM IN JERBOAS (RODENTIA: DIPODOIDEA): ORIGIN IN HUMID AND FORESTED ENVIRONMENTS
文献类型：期刊论文
| 作者 | Wu, Shaoyuan1; Zhang, Fuchun2; Edwards, Scott V.3; Wu, Wenyu4; Ye, Jie4; Bi, Shundong4; Ni, Xijun4; Quan, Cheng5; Meng, Jin6; Organ, Chris L.7 |
| 刊名 | EVOLUTION
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| 出版日期 | 2014-07-01 |
| 卷号 | 68期号:7页码:2108-2118 |
| 关键词 | Adaptation Bipedalism Convergent Function Decoupled Evolution Humid Environments |
| ISSN号 | 0014-3820 |
| 文献子类 | Article |
| 英文摘要 | Mammalian bipedalism has long been thought to have arisen in response to arid and open environments. Here, we tested whether bipedalism coevolved with environmental changes using molecular and paleontological data from the rodent superfamily Dipodoidea and statistical methods for reconstructing ancestral characteristics and past climates. Our results show that the post-Late Miocene aridification exerted selective pressures on tooth shape, but not on leg length of bipedal jerboas. Cheek tooth crown height has increased since the Late Miocene, but the hind limb/head-body length ratios remained stable and high despite the environmental change from humid and forested to arid and open conditions, rather than increasing from low to high as predicted by the arid-bipedalism hypothesis. The decoupling of locomotor and dental character evolution indicates that bipedalism evolved under selective pressure different from that of dental hypsodonty in jerboas. We reconstructed the habitats of early jerboas using floral and faunal data, and the results show that the environments in which bipedalism evolved were forested. Our results suggest that bipedalism evolved as an adaptation to humid woodlands or forests for vertical jumping. Running at high speeds is likely a by-product of selection for jumping, which became advantageous in open environments later on. |
| WOS关键词 | QUANTITATIVE RECONSTRUCTIONS ; PLANT FOSSILS ; LATE NEOGENE ; NORTH CHINA ; MIOCENE ; ARIDIFICATION ; PATTERNS ; CLIMATE ; MAMMALS ; LOCOMOTION |
| WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology ; Genetics & Heredity |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000339052000023 |
| 资助机构 | Tianjin Medical University; National Natural Science Foundation of China [41172008, 41372002, 41128002, 60901080] |
| 公开日期 | 2014-12-12 |
| 源URL | [http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/5147]  |
| 专题 | 古脊椎动物与古人类研究所_古低等脊椎动物研究室 |
| 通讯作者 | Wu, SY (reprint author), Tianjin Med Univ, Sch Basic Med Sci, Tianjin Key Lab Med Epigenet, Dept Biochem & Mol Biol, Tianjin 300070, Peoples R China. |
| 作者单位 | 1.Tianjin Med Univ, Sch Basic Med Sci, Tianjin Key Lab Med Epigenet, Dept Biochem & Mol Biol, Tianjin 300070, Peoples R China 2.Xinjiang Univ, Coll Life Sci & Technol, Xinjiang Key Lab Biol Resources & Genet Engn, Urumqi 830046, Xinjiang, Peoples R China 3.Harvard Univ, Museum Comparat Zool, Dept Organism & Evolutionary Biol, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origin, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 5.Jilin Univ, Res Ctr Paleontol & Stratig, Changchun 130026, Peoples R China 6.Amer Museum Nat Hist, Div Paleontol, New York, NY 10024 USA 7.Montana State Univ, Dept Earth Sci, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Wu, Shaoyuan,Zhang, Fuchun,Edwards, Scott V.,et al. THE EVOLUTION OF BIPEDALISM IN JERBOAS (RODENTIA: DIPODOIDEA): ORIGIN IN HUMID AND FORESTED ENVIRONMENTS[J]. EVOLUTION,2014,68(7):2108-2118. |
| APA | Wu, Shaoyuan.,Zhang, Fuchun.,Edwards, Scott V..,Wu, Wenyu.,Ye, Jie.,...&Wu, SY .(2014).THE EVOLUTION OF BIPEDALISM IN JERBOAS (RODENTIA: DIPODOIDEA): ORIGIN IN HUMID AND FORESTED ENVIRONMENTS.EVOLUTION,68(7),2108-2118. |
| MLA | Wu, Shaoyuan,et al."THE EVOLUTION OF BIPEDALISM IN JERBOAS (RODENTIA: DIPODOIDEA): ORIGIN IN HUMID AND FORESTED ENVIRONMENTS".EVOLUTION 68.7(2014):2108-2118. |
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