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  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Developmental Biology
  • Morphology

Background:

  • Understanding the link between ontogeny (development) and phylogeny (evolution) is crucial in biology.
  • Few studies have investigated the patterns and processes driving complex morphological transformations.
  • The gastropod radula offers a model system with significant shape variability and fusion patterns.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the patterns and processes of shape change in the gastropod radula within an evolutionary context.
  • To test hypotheses of heterochrony and heterotopy by comparing ontogenetic and phylogenetic shape divergence.
  • To develop a mechanistic model explaining gastropod radula shape evolution.

Main Methods:

  • Phylogenetic analysis to determine the polarity of developmental events.
  • Morphometric analysis (relative warp analysis) to quantify ontogenetic and phylogenetic shape divergence.
  • Construction of a mechanistic model of shape change based on ontogenetic events.

Main Results:

  • Results did not conform to expectations of pure heterochrony, indicating initial shape differences and distinct shape variability dimensions for ontogenetic and evolutionary changes.
  • Empirical evidence rejected heterochrony due to significant differences in shape and size covariance between taxa.
  • The mechanistic model demonstrated that spatial process parameters, rather than solely temporal shifts, drive non-spatial morphological patterns.

Conclusions:

  • Spatial changes in initial developmental conditions, not just process-driven spatial changes, are key to morphological evolution.
  • Different ontogenetic processes can converge to produce similar final morphologies.
  • The study integrates pattern and process to explain evolutionary morphology in the gastropod radula.