ArticleEvolution; international journal of organic evolution2020
The evolution of autotomy in leaf-footed bugs.
Article in Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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- Low hybridization temperatures improve target capture success of invertebrate loci: a case study of leaf-footed bugs (Hemiptera: Coreoidea).Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Evolution of stridulatory mechanisms: vibroacoustic communication may be common in leaf-footed bugs and allies (Heteroptera: Coreoidea).Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Metabolomics approach to assess the effect of siphonal autotomy on metabolic characteristics of razor clam Solen grandis.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Morphological diversity of acoustic and electric communication systems of mochokid catfish.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2021Article
- Weapon performance drives weapon evolution.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Leaf-footed bugs possess multiple hidden contrasting color signals, but only one is associated with increased body size.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Juvenile leg autotomy predicts adult male morph in a New Zealand harvestman with weapon polymorphism.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
- Fighting-related injuries do not affect mate choice in the giant mesquite bug,Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Sacrificing body parts is one of many behaviors that animals use to escape predation. This trait, termed autotomy, is classically associated with lizards. However, several other taxa also autotomize, and this trait has independently evolved multiple times throughout Animalia. Despite having multiple origins and being an iconic antipredatory trait, much remains unknown about the evolution of autotomy. Here, we combine morphological, behavioral, and genomic data to investigate the evolution of autotomy within leaf-footed bugs and allies (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coreidae + Alydidae). We found that the ancestor of leaf-footed bugs autotomized and did so slowly; rapid autotomy (<2 min) then arose multiple times. The ancestor likely used slow autotomy to reduce the cost of injury or to escape nonpredatory entrapment but could not use autotomy to escape predation. This result suggests that autotomy to escape predation is a co-opted benefit (i.e., exaptation), revealing one way that sacrificing a limb to escape predation may arise. In addition to identifying the origins of rapid autotomy, we also show that across species variation in the rates of autotomy can be explained by body size, distance from the equator, and enlargement of the autotomizable appendage.
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