島の形状に関するハリケーンによる選択
Colin M Donihue1,2, Anthony Herrel3,4,5, Anne-Claire Fabre3
1Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, USA. colin_donihue@fas.harvard.edu.
Nature
|July 27, 2018
まとめ
ハリケンは急速な進化的変化を引き起こします ハリケーン"イルマ"と"マリア"の後に行われたトカゲの研究で 身体のサイズと四肢の長さの変化が明らかになり 自然淘汰が活動していることが示されました
科学分野:
- エコロジー
- 進化生物学
- ヘルペトロジー
背景:
- ハリケーンがもたらす生態学的被害と 死亡率は大きい.
- 大量死亡事件は記録されていますが,ハリケーンによる自然選択はこれまで実証されていません.
- 極端な気候現象は 頻度と強度が増加すると予測されています
研究 の 目的:
- ハリケーンが自然集団に現象的変化を誘発するかどうかを調査する.
- ハリケーンによる自然選択を 示すために
- 極端な気候現象の 進化的影響を理解するためです
主な方法:
- トークス・カイコス諸島の アノリスの直前と直後の比較を行った.
- ハリケーン"イルマ"と"マリア"の前後を調査した.
- 身体の大きさ,相対的な四肢の長さ,トーパッドの大きさなど,粘着能力に関連する形態学的特徴を測定した.
主要な成果:
- 生き残ったアノリスの集団は形態学的に大きな変化を示した.
- 身体の大きさ,相対的な四肢の長さ,足の大きさが変化した.
- ハリケーン後6週間の間に これらの変化が起こりました
結論:
- ハリケンは自然集団の急速な現象変化を誘発する.
- これらの変化の原動力として 自然選択が強く関与しています
- 進化のダイナミクスは 極端な気候現象によって引き起こされる 厳格な選択的エピソードを説明しなければなりません
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