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dc.contributor.authorCarvajal-Castro, Juan D.
dc.contributor.authorVargas-Salinas, Fernando
dc.contributor.authorCasas-Cardona, Santiago
dc.contributor.authorRojas, Bibiana
dc.contributor.authorSantos, Juan C.
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-26T09:43:19Z
dc.date.available2021-10-26T09:43:19Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationCarvajal-Castro, J. D., Vargas-Salinas, F., Casas-Cardona, S., Rojas, B., & Santos, J. C. (2021). Aposematism facilitates the diversification of parental care strategies in poison frogs. <i>Scientific Reports</i>, <i>11</i>, Article 19047. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97206-6" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97206-6</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_101598329
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/78360
dc.description.abstractMany organisms have evolved adaptations to increase the odds of survival of their offspring. Parental care has evolved several times in animals including ectotherms. In amphibians, ~ 10% of species exhibit parental care. Among these, poison frogs (Dendrobatidae) are well-known for their extensive care, which includes egg guarding, larval transport, and specialized tadpole provisioning with trophic eggs. At least one third of dendrobatids displaying aposematism by exhibiting warning coloration that informs potential predators about the presence of defensive skin toxins. Aposematism has a central role in poison frog diversification, including diet specialization, and visual and acoustic communication; and it is thought to have impacted their reproductive biology as well. We tested the latter association using multivariate phylogenetic methods at the family level. Our results show complex relationships between aposematism and certain aspects of the reproductive biology in dendrobatids. In particular, aposematic species tend to use more specialized tadpole-deposition sites, such as phytotelmata, and ferry fewer tadpoles than non-aposematic species. We propose that aposematism may have facilitated the diversification of microhabitat use in dendrobatids in the context of reproduction. Furthermore, the use of resource-limited tadpole-deposition environments may have evolved in tandem with an optimal reproductive strategy characterized by few offspring, biparental care, and female provisioning of food in the form of unfertilized eggs. We also found that in phytotelm-breeders, the rate of transition from cryptic to aposematic phenotype is 17 to 19 times higher than vice versa. Therefore, we infer that the aposematism in dendrobatids might serve as an umbrella trait for the evolution and maintenance of their complex offspring-caring activities.en
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherNature Publishing Group
dc.relation.ispartofseriesScientific Reports
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.titleAposematism facilitates the diversification of parental care strategies in poison frogs
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-202110265390
dc.contributor.laitosBio- ja ympäristötieteiden laitosfi
dc.contributor.laitosDepartment of Biological and Environmental Scienceen
dc.contributor.oppiaineEkologia ja evoluutiobiologiafi
dc.contributor.oppiaineEvoluutiotutkimus (huippuyksikkö)fi
dc.contributor.oppiaineEcology and Evolutionary Biologyen
dc.contributor.oppiaineCentre of Excellence in Evolutionary Researchen
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.relation.issn2045-2322
dc.relation.volume11
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2021
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dc.subject.ysovaroitusväri
dc.subject.ysoeläinten käyttäytyminen
dc.subject.ysoevoluutio
dc.subject.ysolisääntymiskäyttäytyminen
dc.subject.ysoeriytyminen
dc.subject.ysosammakot
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jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p27907
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p18481
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p8278
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p10522
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p16955
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p19282
dc.rights.urlhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.relation.datasethttps://figshare.com/s/338fc287ef792d432bb8
dc.relation.doi10.1038/s41598-021-97206-6
jyx.fundinginformationJDCC and JCS thanks SJU starting funds and NSF-DEB # 2016372. JDCC thanks the Humboldt Institute for logistical support. BR is funded by the Academy of Finland (Academy Research Fellowship No. 21000042021). FVS and SCC thank the Universidad del Quindío and the Colección de Anfibios y Reptiles (ARUQ) for logistic support during the completition of this study. Special thanks to MJ Tovar, AM Ospina-L and DL Rivera for the drawings used in Fig. 1.
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