دورية أكاديمية
Diversification of insects since the Devonian: a new approach based on morphological disparity of mouthparts
| العنوان: | Diversification of insects since the Devonian: a new approach based on morphological disparity of mouthparts |
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| المؤلفون: | Patricia Nel, Sylvain Bertrand, André Nel |
| المصدر: | Scientific Reports, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2018) |
| بيانات النشر: | Nature Portfolio, 2018. |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Science |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medicine, Science |
| الوصف: | Abstract The majority of the analyses of the evolutionary history of the megadiverse class Insecta are based on the documented taxonomic palaeobiodiversity. A different approach, poorly investigated, is to focus on morphological disparity, linked to changes in the organisms’ functioning. Here we establish a hierarchy of the great geological epochs based on a new method using Wagner parsimony and a ‘presence/absence of a morphological type of mouthpart of Hexapoda’ dataset. We showed the absence of major rupture in the evolution of the mouthparts, but six epochs during which numerous innovations and few extinctions happened, i.e., Late Carboniferous, Middle and Late Triassic, ‘Callovian-Oxfordian’, ‘Early’ Cretaceous, and ‘Albian-Cenomanian’. The three crises Permian-Triassic, Triassic-Jurassic, and Cretaceous-Cenozoic had no strong, visible impact on mouthparts types. We particularly emphasize the origination of mouthparts linked to nectarivory during the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution. We also underline the origination of mouthparts linked to phytophagy during the Middle and the Late Triassic, correlated to the diversification of the gymnosperms, especially in relation to the complex ‘flowers’ producing nectar of the Bennettitales and Gnetales. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2045-2322 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-018-21938-1 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/bd7d4b7c948640708a603a67883c62a8 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.bd7d4b7c948640708a603a67883c62a8 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 20452322 |
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| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-018-21938-1 |