Potential enhanced ability of giant squid to detect sperm whales is an exaptation tied to their large body size

It has been hypothesized that sperm whale predation is the driver of eye size evolution in giant squid. Given that the eyes of giant squid have the size expected for a squid this big, it is likely that any enhanced ability of giant squid to detect whales is an exaptation tied to their body size. Fut...

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Published in:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Main Authors: Schmitz, Lars, Motani, Ryosuke, Oufiero, Christopher E, Martin, Christopher H, McGee, Matthew D, Wainwright, Peter C
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Published: BioMed Central 2013
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Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3852725
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24127991
https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-226
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spelling ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3852725 2023-05-15T18:26:41+02:00 Potential enhanced ability of giant squid to detect sperm whales is an exaptation tied to their large body size Schmitz, Lars Motani, Ryosuke Oufiero, Christopher E Martin, Christopher H McGee, Matthew D Wainwright, Peter C 2013-10-15 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3852725 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24127991 https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-226 en eng BioMed Central http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3852725 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24127991 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-226 Copyright © 2013 Schmitz et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. CC-BY CC0 PDM Correspondence Text 2013 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-226 2013-12-08T01:55:06Z It has been hypothesized that sperm whale predation is the driver of eye size evolution in giant squid. Given that the eyes of giant squid have the size expected for a squid this big, it is likely that any enhanced ability of giant squid to detect whales is an exaptation tied to their body size. Future studies should target the mechanism behind the evolution of large body size, not eye size. Reconstructions of the evolutionary history of selective regime, eye size, optical performance, and body size will improve the understanding of the evolution of large eyes in large ocean animals. Text Sperm whale PubMed Central (PMC) BMC Evolutionary Biology 13 1 226
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Potential enhanced ability of giant squid to detect sperm whales is an exaptation tied to their large body size
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description It has been hypothesized that sperm whale predation is the driver of eye size evolution in giant squid. Given that the eyes of giant squid have the size expected for a squid this big, it is likely that any enhanced ability of giant squid to detect whales is an exaptation tied to their body size. Future studies should target the mechanism behind the evolution of large body size, not eye size. Reconstructions of the evolutionary history of selective regime, eye size, optical performance, and body size will improve the understanding of the evolution of large eyes in large ocean animals.
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title Potential enhanced ability of giant squid to detect sperm whales is an exaptation tied to their large body size
title_short Potential enhanced ability of giant squid to detect sperm whales is an exaptation tied to their large body size
title_full Potential enhanced ability of giant squid to detect sperm whales is an exaptation tied to their large body size
title_fullStr Potential enhanced ability of giant squid to detect sperm whales is an exaptation tied to their large body size
title_full_unstemmed Potential enhanced ability of giant squid to detect sperm whales is an exaptation tied to their large body size
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