TY - JOUR

T1 - Thermal reaction norms can surmount evolutionary constraints: Comparative evidence across leaf beetle species

AU - Kutcherov, Dmitry

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - © 2016 Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.One of the leitmotifs of the ecophysiological research on ectotherms is the variation and evolution of thermal reaction norms for biological rates. This long-standing issue is crucial both for our understanding of life-history diversification and for predicting the phenology of economically important species. A number of properties of the organism's thermal phenotype have been identified as potential constraints on the evolution of the rate-temperature relationship. This comparative study addresses several such constraints by testing whether the actual interspecific variation of thermal reaction norms across nearly hundred leaf beetle species agrees with the expected patterns. The results show that developmental rate and its temperature-dependent parameters are similar in closely related species and that the variation pattern depends on the taxonomic scale, the thermal reaction norms being mostly parallel for the representatives of distant subclades but intersecting m

AB - © 2016 Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.One of the leitmotifs of the ecophysiological research on ectotherms is the variation and evolution of thermal reaction norms for biological rates. This long-standing issue is crucial both for our understanding of life-history diversification and for predicting the phenology of economically important species. A number of properties of the organism's thermal phenotype have been identified as potential constraints on the evolution of the rate-temperature relationship. This comparative study addresses several such constraints by testing whether the actual interspecific variation of thermal reaction norms across nearly hundred leaf beetle species agrees with the expected patterns. The results show that developmental rate and its temperature-dependent parameters are similar in closely related species and that the variation pattern depends on the taxonomic scale, the thermal reaction norms being mostly parallel for the representatives of distant subclades but intersecting m

U2 - 10.1002/ece3.2231

DO - 10.1002/ece3.2231

M3 - Article

VL - 6

SP - 4670

EP - 4683

JO - Ecology and Evolution

JF - Ecology and Evolution

SN - 2045-7758

IS - 14

ER -