@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref23789,
author = {Takao K Suzuki and Shuichiro Tomita and Hideki Sezutsu},
title = {Gradual and contingent evolutionary emergence of leaf mimicry in butterfly wing patterns},
year = {2014},
keywords = {Masquerade; Butterfly wing pattern; Phylogenetic comparative methods; Nymphalid ground plan},
doi = {},
url = {http://},
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journal = {BMC Evolutionary Biology},
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abstract = {Background
Special resemblance of animals to natural objects such as leaves provides a representative example of evolutionary adaptation. The existence of such sophisticated features challenges our understanding of how complex adaptive phenotypes evolved. Leaf mimicry typically consists of several pattern elements, the spatial arrangement of which generates the leaf venation-like appearance. However, the process by which leaf patterns evolved remains unclear.
Results
In this study we show the evolutionary origin and process for the leaf pattern in Kallima (Nymphalidae) butterflies. Using comparative morphological analyses, we reveal that the wing patterns of Kallima and 45 closely related species share the same ground plan, suggesting that the pattern elements of leaf mimicry have been inherited across species with lineage-specific changes of their character states. On the basis of these analyses, phylogenetic comparative methods estimated past states of the pattern elements and enabled reconstruction of the wing patterns of the most recent common ancestor. This analysis shows that the leaf pattern has evolved through several intermediate patterns. Further, we use Bayesian statistical methods to estimate the temporal order of character-state changes in the pattern elements by which leaf mimesis evolved, and show that the pattern elements changed their spatial arrangement (e.g., from a curved line to a straight line) in a stepwise manner and finally establish a close resemblance to a leaf venation-like appearance.
Conclusions
Our study provides the first evidence for stepwise and contingent evolution of leaf mimicry.?Leaf mimicry patterns evolved in a gradual, rather than a sudden, manner from a non-mimetic ancestor. Through a lineage of Kallima butterflies, the leaf patterns evolutionarily originated through temporal accumulation of orchestrated changes in multiple pattern elements.
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Citation for Study 16541
Citation title:
"Gradual and contingent evolutionary emergence of leaf mimicry in butterfly wing patterns".
Study name:
"Gradual and contingent evolutionary emergence of leaf mimicry in butterfly wing patterns".
This study is part of submission 16541
(Status: Published).
Citation
Suzuki T.K., Tomita S., & Sezutsu H. 2014. Gradual and contingent evolutionary emergence of leaf mimicry in butterfly wing patterns. BMC Evolutionary Biology, .
Authors
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Suzuki T.K.
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81-29-838-6202
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Tomita S.
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Sezutsu H.
Abstract
Background
Special resemblance of animals to natural objects such as leaves provides a representative example of evolutionary adaptation. The existence of such sophisticated features challenges our understanding of how complex adaptive phenotypes evolved. Leaf mimicry typically consists of several pattern elements, the spatial arrangement of which generates the leaf venation-like appearance. However, the process by which leaf patterns evolved remains unclear.
Results
In this study we show the evolutionary origin and process for the leaf pattern in Kallima (Nymphalidae) butterflies. Using comparative morphological analyses, we reveal that the wing patterns of Kallima and 45 closely related species share the same ground plan, suggesting that the pattern elements of leaf mimicry have been inherited across species with lineage-specific changes of their character states. On the basis of these analyses, phylogenetic comparative methods estimated past states of the pattern elements and enabled reconstruction of the wing patterns of the most recent common ancestor. This analysis shows that the leaf pattern has evolved through several intermediate patterns. Further, we use Bayesian statistical methods to estimate the temporal order of character-state changes in the pattern elements by which leaf mimesis evolved, and show that the pattern elements changed their spatial arrangement (e.g., from a curved line to a straight line) in a stepwise manner and finally establish a close resemblance to a leaf venation-like appearance.
Conclusions
Our study provides the first evidence for stepwise and contingent evolution of leaf mimicry.?Leaf mimicry patterns evolved in a gradual, rather than a sudden, manner from a non-mimetic ancestor. Through a lineage of Kallima butterflies, the leaf patterns evolutionarily originated through temporal accumulation of orchestrated changes in multiple pattern elements.
Keywords
Masquerade; Butterfly wing pattern; Phylogenetic comparative methods; Nymphalid ground plan
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@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref23789,
author = {Takao K Suzuki and Shuichiro Tomita and Hideki Sezutsu},
title = {Gradual and contingent evolutionary emergence of leaf mimicry in butterfly wing patterns},
year = {2014},
keywords = {Masquerade; Butterfly wing pattern; Phylogenetic comparative methods; Nymphalid ground plan},
doi = {},
url = {http://},
pmid = {},
journal = {BMC Evolutionary Biology},
volume = {},
number = {},
pages = {},
abstract = {Background
Special resemblance of animals to natural objects such as leaves provides a representative example of evolutionary adaptation. The existence of such sophisticated features challenges our understanding of how complex adaptive phenotypes evolved. Leaf mimicry typically consists of several pattern elements, the spatial arrangement of which generates the leaf venation-like appearance. However, the process by which leaf patterns evolved remains unclear.
Results
In this study we show the evolutionary origin and process for the leaf pattern in Kallima (Nymphalidae) butterflies. Using comparative morphological analyses, we reveal that the wing patterns of Kallima and 45 closely related species share the same ground plan, suggesting that the pattern elements of leaf mimicry have been inherited across species with lineage-specific changes of their character states. On the basis of these analyses, phylogenetic comparative methods estimated past states of the pattern elements and enabled reconstruction of the wing patterns of the most recent common ancestor. This analysis shows that the leaf pattern has evolved through several intermediate patterns. Further, we use Bayesian statistical methods to estimate the temporal order of character-state changes in the pattern elements by which leaf mimesis evolved, and show that the pattern elements changed their spatial arrangement (e.g., from a curved line to a straight line) in a stepwise manner and finally establish a close resemblance to a leaf venation-like appearance.
Conclusions
Our study provides the first evidence for stepwise and contingent evolution of leaf mimicry.?Leaf mimicry patterns evolved in a gradual, rather than a sudden, manner from a non-mimetic ancestor. Through a lineage of Kallima butterflies, the leaf patterns evolutionarily originated through temporal accumulation of orchestrated changes in multiple pattern elements.
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TY - JOUR
ID - 23789
AU - Suzuki,Takao K
AU - Tomita,Shuichiro
AU - Sezutsu,Hideki
T1 - Gradual and contingent evolutionary emergence of leaf mimicry in butterfly wing patterns
PY - 2014
KW - Masquerade; Butterfly wing pattern; Phylogenetic comparative methods; Nymphalid ground plan
UR - http://dx.doi.org/
N2 - Background
Special resemblance of animals to natural objects such as leaves provides a representative example of evolutionary adaptation. The existence of such sophisticated features challenges our understanding of how complex adaptive phenotypes evolved. Leaf mimicry typically consists of several pattern elements, the spatial arrangement of which generates the leaf venation-like appearance. However, the process by which leaf patterns evolved remains unclear.
Results
In this study we show the evolutionary origin and process for the leaf pattern in Kallima (Nymphalidae) butterflies. Using comparative morphological analyses, we reveal that the wing patterns of Kallima and 45 closely related species share the same ground plan, suggesting that the pattern elements of leaf mimicry have been inherited across species with lineage-specific changes of their character states. On the basis of these analyses, phylogenetic comparative methods estimated past states of the pattern elements and enabled reconstruction of the wing patterns of the most recent common ancestor. This analysis shows that the leaf pattern has evolved through several intermediate patterns. Further, we use Bayesian statistical methods to estimate the temporal order of character-state changes in the pattern elements by which leaf mimesis evolved, and show that the pattern elements changed their spatial arrangement (e.g., from a curved line to a straight line) in a stepwise manner and finally establish a close resemblance to a leaf venation-like appearance.
Conclusions
Our study provides the first evidence for stepwise and contingent evolution of leaf mimicry.?Leaf mimicry patterns evolved in a gradual, rather than a sudden, manner from a non-mimetic ancestor. Through a lineage of Kallima butterflies, the leaf patterns evolutionarily originated through temporal accumulation of orchestrated changes in multiple pattern elements.
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