Dorsal and Ventral Plumage Coloration Evolve as Distinct Modules with Different Environmental Correlations
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F24%3A10489162" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/24:10489162 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/61989592:15310/24:73627784
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=RgSQf4UtIQ" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=RgSQf4UtIQ</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/728766" target="_blank" >10.1086/728766</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Dorsal and Ventral Plumage Coloration Evolve as Distinct Modules with Different Environmental Correlations
Original language description
Many animals exhibit contrast between their dorsal coloration and their ventral coloration. If selection acts differently on dorsal versus ventral coloration, ancestral covariance between these traits should break down, eventually leading to independent modules of trait evolution. Here, we compare the evolution of feather color across body regions for a clade of Australasian songbirds (Meliphagoidea). We find evidence for three modules of covarying color regions. Among these modules, ventral feathers evolve with high lability, evolving at three times the rate of dorsal plumage and 20 times the rate of flight feathers. While both dorsal plumage and ventral plumage are darker in areas with more precipitation and vegetation, we find that dorsal plumage is twice as similar to colors in satellite photos of background substrates. Overall, differential selection on ventral and dorsal colors likely maintains these as distinct modules over evolutionary timescales-a novel explanation for dorsoventral contrast in pigmentation.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
American Naturalist
ISSN
0003-0147
e-ISSN
1537-5323
Volume of the periodical
203
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
528-534
UT code for WoS article
001159730800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85188201978