Ontogeny, phylogeny and mechanisms of adaptive changes in evaporative water loss in geckos

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/21:10430888

Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jeb.13891" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jeb.13891</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13891" target="_blank" >10.1111/jeb.13891</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ontogeny, phylogeny and mechanisms of adaptive changes in evaporative water loss in geckos

Original language description

Body size dependence of metabolic rate, body surface and scale morphology complicate disentangling the contribution of these characteristics to adaptive changes in total evaporative water loss (TEWL) of reptiles. To separate adaptive changes from size-related dependence, we compared intra- and interspecific scaling of several candidate traits in eyelid geckos (Eublepharidae), a group exhibiting large variation in body size and TEWL. The intraspecific allometry of TEWL of a eublepharid species fits the geometric surface-mass relationship. However, evolutionary shifts to both higher and lower evaporation were strongly correlated with habitat aridity and cannot be explained by shifts in body size alone. The intraspecific allometry of standard metabolic rate is nearly the same as the interspecific allometry. Unlike for mammals and birds, this pattern rules out respiratory water loss as a driver of the adaptive changes in TEWL among eublepharids. Scale morphology was independent of TEWL variation as well, but the correlation between cutaneous water loss and TEWL suggests a crucial role of skin permeability in adaptation to habitat aridity. Our analyses demonstrate how powerful a comparison between intra- and interspecific allometries can be for detecting body size-dependent mechanisms of adaptive changes in ecophysiological traits correlated with body size.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - 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

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

ISSN

1010-061X

e-ISSN

1420-9101

Volume of the periodical

34

Issue of the periodical within the volume

8

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

1290-1301

UT code for WoS article

000673903700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85110396459