2019
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.2621
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Phenotypic evolution shaped by current enzyme function in the bioluminescent courtship signals of sea fireflies

Abstract: Mating behaviours are diverse and noteworthy, especially within species radiations where they may contribute to speciation. Studying how differences in mating behaviours arise between species can help us understand how diversity is generated at multiple biological levels. The bioluminescent courtship displays of cypridinid ostracods (or sea fireflies) are an excellent system for this because amazing variety evolves while using a conserved biochemical mechanism. We find that the evolution of one aspect in this … Show more

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“…Assuming Photeros is monophyletic, we infer an evolutionary increase in max along the branch leading to Photeros . Monophyly of Photeros is supported by published morphological (Cohen and Morin, 2003) and molecular (Hensley et al, 2019) phylogenetic analyses, by the phylogeny of c-luciferases we present here (Fig. 1), and by a diagnostic ratio of length:height of carapace (Gerrish and Morin, 2016;Morin and Cohen, 2017;Reda et al, 2019) , which we also used here to classify undescribed species into genera (Table S5).…”
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“…Assuming Photeros is monophyletic, we infer an evolutionary increase in max along the branch leading to Photeros . Monophyly of Photeros is supported by published morphological (Cohen and Morin, 2003) and molecular (Hensley et al, 2019) phylogenetic analyses, by the phylogeny of c-luciferases we present here (Fig. 1), and by a diagnostic ratio of length:height of carapace (Gerrish and Morin, 2016;Morin and Cohen, 2017;Reda et al, 2019) , which we also used here to classify undescribed species into genera (Table S5).…”
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confidence: 68%
“…Despite strong similarity in c-luciferases in these two species, their enzymes have dramatic differences in decay parameters (Fig. 1) that are related to duration of courtship pulses (Hensley et al, 2019) . However, which selective forces influence rates of light decay at the organismal level is not yet certain, because there are very few experiments on the fitness effects of different ostracod signals (Rivers and Morin, 2013) .…”
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