Habitat and developmental constraints drove 330 million years of horseshoe crab evolution
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985831%3A_____%2F22%3A00552682" target="_blank" >RIV/67985831:_____/22:00552682 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/biolinnean/blab173/6513746?redirectedFrom=fulltext" target="_blank" >https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/biolinnean/blab173/6513746?redirectedFrom=fulltext</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blab173" target="_blank" >10.1093/biolinnean/blab173</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Habitat and developmental constraints drove 330 million years of horseshoe crab evolution
Original language description
Records of evolutionary stasis over time are central to uncovering large-scale evolutionary modes, whether by long-term gradual change or via enduring stability punctuated by rapid shifts. The key to this discussion is to identify and examine groups with long fossil records that, ideally, extend to the present day. One group often regarded as the quintessential example of stasis is Xiphosurida, the horseshoe crabs. However, when, how and, particularly, why stasis arose in xiphosurids remain fundamental, but complex, questions. Here, we explore the protracted history of fossil and living xiphosurids and demonstrate two levels of evolutionary stability: developmental stasis since at least the Pennsylvanian and shape stasis since the Late Jurassic. Furthermore, shape and diversity are punctuated by two high-disparity episodes during the Carboniferous and Triassic – transitions that coincide with forays into habitation of marginal environments. In an exception to these general patterns, body size increased gradually over this period and, thus, cannot be described under the same, oftentouted, static models of evolution. Therefore, we demonstrate that evolutionary stasis can be modular and fixed within the same group at different periods and in different biological traits, while other traits experience altogether different evolutionary modes. This mosaic in the tempo and mode of evolution is not unique to Xiphosurida but likely reflects variable mechanisms acting on biological traits, for example transitions in life modes, niche occupation and major evolutionary radiations.
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
10506 - Paleontology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GJ20-23550Y" target="_blank" >GJ20-23550Y: Exploring developmental aspects in fossil arthropods during Cambrian explosion and Ordovician biodiversification</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
ISSN
0024-4066
e-ISSN
1095-8312
Volume of the periodical
136
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
155-172
UT code for WoS article
000784999900013
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85130640028