Bone histology, phylogeny, and palaeognathous birds (Aves: Palaeognathae). (August 2014)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Bone histology, phylogeny, and palaeognathous birds (Aves: Palaeognathae). (August 2014)
- Main Title:
- Bone histology, phylogeny, and palaeognathous birds (Aves: Palaeognathae)
- Authors:
- Legendre, Lucas J.
Bourdon, Estelle
Scofield, R. Paul
Tennyson, Alan J. D.
Lamrous, Hayat
de Ricqlès, Armand
Cubo, Jorge - Abstract:
- <abstract abstract-type="main"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>The presence of a phylogenetic signal in the variation of osteohistological features has been recently debated in the literature. Previous studies have found a significant signal for some features, but these results were obtained on a small amount of characters and a reduced sample. Here we perform a comprehensive study in which we quantify the phylogenetic signal on 62 osteohistological features in an exhaustive sample of palaeognathous birds. We used four different estimators to measure phylogenetic signal – Pagel's λ, Abouheif's C<sub>mean</sub>, Blomberg's K, and Diniz‐Filho's phylogenetic eigenvector regressions PVR – and four topologies taken from the literature. Bone size and bone vascular density exhibit a strong phylogenetic signal, whereas all but four of the remaining features measured at the histological level – cellular size in caudal and medial transects of femora, and proportion of oblique vascular canals in rostral and caudal transects of tibiotarsi – exhibit a weaker signal. We also found that the impact of the topologies used in the analyses is very low compared with that of sample size. We conclude that the analysis of a comprehensive sample is crucial to obtain reliable quantifications of the phylogenetic signal. © 2014 The Linnean Society of London, <italic>Biological Journal of the Linnean Society</italic>, 2014, <bold>112</bold>, 688–700.</p> </abstract>
- Is Part Of:
- Biological journal of the Linnean Society. Volume 112:Number 4(2014:Aug.)
- Journal:
- Biological journal of the Linnean Society
- Issue:
- Volume 112:Number 4(2014:Aug.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 112, Issue 4 (2014)
- Year:
- 2014
- Volume:
- 112
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2014-0112-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 688
- Page End:
- 700
- Publication Date:
- 2014-08
- Subjects:
- Biology -- Periodicals
Evolution (Biology) -- Periodicals
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1111/bij.12312 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0024-4066
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