Island- and Lake-like Parallel Adaptive Radiations Replicated in Rivers

Overview

Journal Proc Biol Sci

Specialty Biology

Date 2018 Jan 5

PMID 29298932

Citations 8

Authors

Edward D Burress

Lubomir Pialek

Jorge R Casciotta

Adriana Almiron

Milton Tan

Jonathan W Armbruster

Oldrich rican

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Abstract

Parallel adaptive radiations have arisen following the colonization of islands by lizards and lakes by fishes. In these classic examples, parallel adaptive radiation is a response to the ecological opportunities afforded by the colonization of novel ecosystems and similar adaptive landscapes that favour the evolution of similar suites of ecomorphs, despite independent evolutionary histories. Here, we demonstrate that parallel adaptive radiations of cichlid fishes arose in South American rivers. Speciation-assembled communities of pike cichlids () have independently diversified into similar suites of novel ecomorphs in the Uruguay and Paraná Rivers, including crevice feeders, periphyton grazers and molluscivores. There were bursts in phenotypic evolution associated with the colonization of each river and the subsequent expansion of morphospace following the evolution of the ecomorphs. These riverine clades demonstrate that characteristics emblematic of textbook parallel adaptive radiations of island- and lake-dwelling assemblages are feasible evolutionary outcomes even in labile ecosystems such as rivers.

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