Unveiling the roles of interspecific competition and local adaptation in phenotypic differentiation of parapatric frogs.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how ecological processes affect phenotypic evolution has been and continues to be an important goal of ecology and evolutionary biology. Interspecific competition for resources can be a selective force driving phenotypic differentiation that reduces competition among sympatric species (character divergence), enabling closely-related species to coexist. However, although patterns of character divergence are well documented in both empirical and theoretical researches, how local adaptation to abiotic environment affects trait evolution in the face of interspecific competition is less known. Here, we investigate how patterns in morphological traits of 2 parapatric frog species, Feirana quadranus and F. taihangnica, vary among allopatric and sympatric regions using range-wide dat

SUBMITTER: Huang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7319442 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature