ArticleGenes2021
Evolution of Reproductive Life History in Mammals and the Associated Change of Functional Constraints.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Diet, Microbes, and Cancer Across the Tree of Life: a Systematic Review.Current nutrition reports · 2022Pooled it
- Gestation length both shapes and is shaped by other life history traits in terrestrial eutherian mammals.Evolution letters · 2025Article
- Four decades of annual monitoring reveal declining reproductive success of a migratory baleen whale.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Use of organotypic or three-dimensional systems with basic fibroblast growth factor for in vitro culture of immature collared peccary testicle.Reproduction & fertility · 2025Article
- The evolution of gestation length in eutherian mammals.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- It is time to explore the impact of length of gestation and fetal health on the human lifespan.Aging cell · 2024Article
- Motus Vita Est: Fruit Flies Need to Be More Active and Sleep Less to Adapt to Either a Longer or Harder Life.Clocks & sleep · 2023Article
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Abstract
Phylogenetic trees based on multiple genomic loci enable us to estimate the evolution of functional constraints that operate on genes based on lineage-specific fluctuation of the evolutionary rate at particular gene loci, "gene-branch interactions". Using this information as predictors, our previous work inferred that the common ancestor of placental mammals was nocturnal, insectivorous, solitary, and bred seasonally. Here, we added seven new continuous traits including lifespan, bodyweight, and five reproduction-related traits and inferred the coevolution network of 14 core life history traits for 89 mammals. In this network, bodyweight and lifespan are not directly connected to each other; instead, their correlation is due to both of them coevolving with gestation period. Diurnal mammals are more likely to be monogamous than nocturnal mammals, while arboreal mammals tend to have a smaller litter size than terrestrial mammals. Coevolution between diet and the seasonal breeding behavior test shows that year-round breeding preceded the dietary change to omnivory, while seasonal breeding preceded the dietary change to carnivory. We also discuss the evolution of reproductive strategy of mammals. Genes selected as predictors were identified as well; for example, genes function as tumor suppressor were selected as predictors of weaning age.
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