Independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism linked to Plio-Pleistocene ocean dynamics
Vertebrates have evolved to gigantic sizes repeatedly over the past 250 Myr, reaching their extreme in today's baleen whales (Mysticeti). Hypotheses for the evolution of exceptionally large size in mysticetes range from niche partitioning to predator avoidance, but there has been no quantitativ...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:50|dedup_wf_001::3ccdebbfc706fd62a97214c2a56afc12 2023-05-15T15:36:56+02:00 Independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism linked to Plio-Pleistocene ocean dynamics Jeremy A. Goldbogen Graham J. Slater Nicholas D. Pyenson 2017-05-24 http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5454272 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0546 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2017.0546 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rspb.2017.0546 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.0546 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28539520/ http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/284/1855/20170546 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28539520 https://europepmc.org/article/MED/28539520 https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2618729099 en eng The Royal Society http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5454272 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0546 https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0546 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2017.0546 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rspb.2017.0546 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.0546 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28539520/ http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/284/1855/20170546 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28539520 https://europepmc.org/article/MED/28539520 https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2618729099 lic_creative-commons oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:5454272 10.1098/rspb.2017.0546 28539520 2618729099 10|opendoar____::eda80a3d5b344bc40f3bc04f65b7a357 10|opendoar____::8b6dd7db9af49e67306feb59a8bdc52c 10|openaire____::9e3be59865b2c1c335d32dae2fe7b254 10|openaire____::55045bd2a65019fd8e6741a755395c8c 10|openaire____::081b82f96300b6a6e3d282bad31cb6e2 openaire____::1256f046-bf1f-4afc-8b47-d0b147148b18 10|issn___print::a941ba918ee7dd850619e823995f4257 10|openaire____::8ac8380272269217cb09a928c8caa993 10|openaire____::5f532a3fc4f1ea403f37070f59a7a53a 10|openaire____::806360c771262b4d6770e7cdf04b5c5a 1001 70 144 Palaeobiology Research Article macroevolution tempo and mode phylogeny fossil body size trend General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology General Immunology and Microbiology General Agricultural and Biological Sciences General Environmental Science General Medicine envir geo Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2017 fttriple https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0546 2023-01-22T17:08:26Z Vertebrates have evolved to gigantic sizes repeatedly over the past 250 Myr, reaching their extreme in today's baleen whales (Mysticeti). Hypotheses for the evolution of exceptionally large size in mysticetes range from niche partitioning to predator avoidance, but there has been no quantitative examination of body size evolutionary dynamics in this clade and it remains unclear when, why or how gigantism evolved. By fitting phylogenetic macroevolutionary models to a dataset consisting of living and extinct species, we show that mysticetes underwent a clade-wide shift in their mode of body size evolution during the Plio-Pleistocene. This transition, from Brownian motion-like dynamics to a trended random walk towards larger size, is temporally linked to the onset of seasonally intensified upwelling along coastal ecosystems. High prey densities resulting from wind-driven upwelling, rather than abundant resources alone, are the primary determinant of efficient foraging in extant mysticetes and Late Pliocene changes in ocean dynamics may have provided an ecological pathway to gigantism in multiple independent lineages. Article in Journal/Newspaper baleen whale baleen whales Unknown Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284 1855 20170546 |
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Vertebrates have evolved to gigantic sizes repeatedly over the past 250 Myr, reaching their extreme in today's baleen whales (Mysticeti). Hypotheses for the evolution of exceptionally large size in mysticetes range from niche partitioning to predator avoidance, but there has been no quantitative examination of body size evolutionary dynamics in this clade and it remains unclear when, why or how gigantism evolved. By fitting phylogenetic macroevolutionary models to a dataset consisting of living and extinct species, we show that mysticetes underwent a clade-wide shift in their mode of body size evolution during the Plio-Pleistocene. This transition, from Brownian motion-like dynamics to a trended random walk towards larger size, is temporally linked to the onset of seasonally intensified upwelling along coastal ecosystems. High prey densities resulting from wind-driven upwelling, rather than abundant resources alone, are the primary determinant of efficient foraging in extant mysticetes and Late Pliocene changes in ocean dynamics may have provided an ecological pathway to gigantism in multiple independent lineages. |
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Independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism linked to Plio-Pleistocene ocean dynamics |
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Independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism linked to Plio-Pleistocene ocean dynamics |
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Independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism linked to Plio-Pleistocene ocean dynamics |
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Independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism linked to Plio-Pleistocene ocean dynamics |
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Independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism linked to Plio-Pleistocene ocean dynamics |
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independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism linked to plio-pleistocene ocean dynamics |
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