コウモリの内耳神経解剖学の進化とエコロケーションへの影響
R Benjamin Sulser1, Bruce D Patterson2, Daniel J Urban3,4
1Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA. rsulser@amnh.org.
Nature
|January 27, 2022
まとめ
エコロケーションの進化に関する洞察を,トランスオティック・ギャングリオンを含む,ヤコキロプター類の渦巻きギャングリオン構造から得られた. この独特な神経解剖学的特徴が 蝙蝠の回声定位戦略の多様化につながったのです
科学分野:
- 神経解剖学
- 進化生物学
- 哺乳類学
背景:
- バットエコーロケーションの進化は議論され,理論では別々の起源または単一の起源が後に失われたことを示唆しています.
- エコロケーションにおける聴覚に不可欠な 渦巻きのギャングリオンには 進化の軌跡がよくわかっていません
- 内耳の構造を理解することは 蝙蝠の感覚システムの進化を解読する鍵です
研究 の 目的:
- スパイラル・ギャングリアの 神経解剖学的特性を調べるため
- YinpterochiropteraとYangochiropteraのスパイラルギャングリオン構造を比較する
- 進化の起源と,コウモリ群の特徴の多様性を追跡する.
主な方法:
- 様々なコウモリ種のスパイラルギャングリアの比較神経解剖学.
- スパイラル・ギャングリオン構造の骨質学的相関分析
- スパイラル・ギャングリアの特徴をバット進化史にマッピングする 系統遺伝分析
主要な成果:
- ヤコキロプテリアのコウモリは,透視性コウモリと壁のないロゼンタル運河を含む,高度に導かれた螺旋性コウモリ特徴を示しています.
- これらの派生特性は,インプテロキロプテラやキロプテラ以外の哺乳類と比較して,より大きなガンリア,ニューロン密度の増加,およびより密度の高い頭神経束を可能にします.
- スパイラル・ギャングリオン形態は,Yangochiroptera内の有意な変動性と差異を示すが,Yingpterochiropteraはそうではない.
結論:
- ヤンゴキロプテラの派生した螺旋性関節神経解剖学は,ヤンゴキロプテラと重要な進化的差異を示している.
- 独特の神経解剖学的適応は 異なった回声定位戦略と ヤンゴキロプテラの爆発的な多様化に関連しています
- この研究は,コウモリサブオーダー内の螺旋性ギャングリオン構造の進化的差異化に関する直接的な証拠を提供します.
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