ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2024
The rise of dietary diversity in coral reef fishes.
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- Twist and Snout: Head and Body Morphologies Determine Feeding Kinematics in Substrate-Biting Fishes.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- The rise of dietary diversity in coral reef fishes.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
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Diet has been identified as a major driver of reef fish lineage diversification, producing one of the most speciose vertebrate assemblages today. Yet, there is minimal understanding of how, when and why diet itself has evolved. To address this, we used a comprehensive gut content dataset, alongside a recently developed phylogenetic comparative method to assess multivariate prey use across a diverse animal assemblage, coral reef fishes. Specifically, we investigated the diversification, transitions and phylogenetic conservatism of fish diets through evolutionary time. We found two major pulses of diet diversification: one at the end-Cretaceous and one during the Eocene, suggesting that the Cretaceous-Palaeogene mass extinction probably provided the initial ecological landscape for fish diets to diversify. The birth of modern families during the Eocene then provided the foundation for a second wave of dietary expansion. Together, our findings showcase the role of extinction rebound events in shaping the dietary diversity of fishes on present-day coral reefs.
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