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Life history strategies are decoupled from ecomorphological convergence in two Anolis lizards


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dc.contributorJoshua M. Hall, jmhall@tntech.eduen_US
dc.coverage.spatialFloridaen_US
dc.coverage.temporal2017-2018en_US
dc.creatorHall, Joshua
dc.creatorThawley, Christopher
dc.creatorStroud, James
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-03T06:10:18Z
dc.date.available2024-10-03T06:10:18Z
dc.date.created2024
dc.identifier.urihttps://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50651
dc.description.abstractConvergence is considered powerful evidence for adaptation to similar natural selection pressures. However, for many ecologically and morphologically convergent species, it remains unclear if convergence extends to reproductive strategies, which are particularly important because of their tight connection to fitness. Here, by measuring key life-history traits (e.g., reproductive status, egg size, oviposition frequency, reproductive effort) across a full annual cycle comprising both reproductive and non-reproductive seasons, we discover divergence in reproductive strategies in two Anolis lizards that are otherwise strikingly convergent in ecology, morphology, and behavior. The Cuban brown anole (A. sagrei) rapidly produces many small eggs during a concentrated summer reproductive season, while the Puerto Rican crested anole (A. cristatellus) produces comparatively fewer, larger eggs over a longer period. Thus, despite evolving highly convergent ecomorphological phenotypes and both being constrained to a single-egg clutch, these species exhibit marked divergence in life-history trade-off strategies along the fast-slow continuum. Our results indicate that ecomorphological convergence evolved uncoupled from life-history pathways in these species.en_US
dc.formatCSVen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.relation.ispartofBiological Journal of the Linnean Societyen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries1095-8312en_US
dc.titleLife history strategies are decoupled from ecomorphological convergence in two Anolis lizardsen_US
dc.typeDataseten_US
dc.type.genreDataseten_US
dc.description.statusAccpeteden_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.creator.orcid0000-0002-5587-3402en_US
dc.creator.orcid0000-0002-6040-2613en_US
dc.creator.orcid0000-0003-0734-6795en_US

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