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作者Shin-ichi Kudo;Tomohiro Harano;Jing-Fu Tsai;Kazunori Yoshizawa;Nobuyuki Kutsukake
出版日期2025
已接受202503
著作名稱Parental guarding behaviour affects the evolution of egg shapes
刊名Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
145
被收錄索引SCI;SCI
主題動物;動物
關鍵字eggs; Heteroptera; parental care; predation risk
摘要The understanding of the adaptive evolution of egg shapes has developed rapidly. In some insects, females adopt a straddling posture on sub- strates to guard clutches against predators. Eggs located in the peripheral area of such clutches experience high predation pressure. Thus, selection might favour compact clutches composed of longitudinally elongated eggs. Shield bugs (Heteroptera: Acanthosomatidae), in which maternal guarding of eggs has undergone repeated evolution, provide a good opportunity to test this hypothesis. Our phylogenetic comparative analyses revealed that eggs were more elongated in caring species than in non-caring ones, although this difference was obscured in species with large eggs. Reconstructed ancestral states of egg shape and maternal care suggested that the enhanced elongation of eggs occurred after the establishment of maternal care. These findings indicate that post-ovipositional parental care affects the evolution of egg shapes, depending on egg geometry.
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaf019
系統號NO000007344

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