Environmental correlates of phenotypic evolution in ecologically diverse Liolaemus lizards.

ABSTRACT: Evolutionary correlations between phenotypic and environmental traits characterize adaptive radiations. However, the lizard genus Liolaemus, one of the most ecologically diverse terrestrial vertebrate radiations on earth, has so far shown limited or mixed evidence of adaptive diversification in phenotype. Restricted use of comprehensive environmental data, incomplete taxonomic representation and not considering phylogenetic uncertainty may have led to contradictory evidence. We compiled a 26-taxon dataset for the Liolaemus gracilis species group, representing much of the ecological diversity represented within Liolaemus and used environmental data to characterize how environments occupied by species' relate to phenotypic evolution. Our analyses, explicitly accounting f

SUBMITTER: Edwards DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9201750 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature