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饮食推动了食虫目灵长类动物的大脑和牙齿形态的共同进化。

Diet drove brain and dental morphological coevolution in strepsirrhine primates.

机构信息

Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

出版信息

PLoS One. 2022 Jun 6;17(6):e0269041. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269041. eCollection 2022.

Abstract

The evolution of the remarkably complex primate brain has been a topic of great interest for decades. Multiple factors have been proposed to explain the comparatively larger primate brain (relative to body mass), with recent studies indicating diet has the greatest explanatory power. Dietary specialisations also correlate with dental adaptations, providing a potential evolutionary link between brain and dental morphological evolution. However, unambiguous evidence of association between brain and dental phenotypes in primates remains elusive. Here we investigate the effect of diet on variation in primate brain and dental morphology and test whether the two anatomical systems coevolved. We focused on the primate suborder Strepsirrhini, a living primate group that occupies a very wide range of dietary niches. By making use of both geometric morphometrics and dental topographic analysis, we extend the study of brain-dental ecomorphological evolution beyond measures of size. After controlling for allometry and evolutionary relatedness, differences in brain and dental morphology were found between dietary groups, and brain and dental morphologies were found to covary. Historical trajectories of morphological diversification revealed a strong integration in the rates of brain and dental evolution and similarities in their modes of evolution. Combined, our results reveal an interplay between brain and dental ecomorphological adaptations throughout strepsirrhine evolution that can be linked to diet.

摘要

几十年来,灵长类动物大脑惊人的复杂性进化一直是人们关注的焦点。有多种因素被提出来解释相对较大的灵长类动物大脑(相对于体重),最近的研究表明饮食具有最大的解释力。饮食特化也与牙齿适应有关,为大脑和牙齿形态进化之间提供了潜在的进化联系。然而,灵长类动物大脑和牙齿表型之间存在关联的明确证据仍然难以捉摸。在这里,我们研究了饮食对灵长类动物大脑和牙齿形态变化的影响,并测试了这两个解剖系统是否共同进化。我们专注于灵长类动物的次目树鼩目,这是一个生活在非常广泛的饮食小生境中的灵长类动物群体。通过使用几何形态测量学和牙齿地形分析,我们将大脑-牙齿生态形态进化的研究扩展到了尺寸测量之外。在控制了同形和进化相关性之后,我们发现不同饮食组之间的大脑和牙齿形态存在差异,并且大脑和牙齿形态存在共变关系。形态多样化的历史轨迹揭示了大脑和牙齿进化之间的强烈整合,以及它们进化模式的相似性。综合来看,我们的研究结果揭示了在整个树鼩目进化过程中,大脑和牙齿生态形态适应之间的相互作用,可以与饮食联系起来。

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