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| High melanosome diversity exhibits weak correlation with color and environmental variables in the early evolution of therian mammals | |
Li, Xin1; Bi, Shundong2,3; Clarke, Julia A.4; Li, Zhongqiu5; Zhu, Xichao6; Liu, Quansheng7; Peng, Yajun8; Zhao, Lingling9; Li, Zhiheng10 ; Pan, Yanhong1
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| 2025-10-24 | |
| 发表期刊 | SCIENCE ADVANCES
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| 卷号 | 11期号:43页码:11 |
| 摘要 | Melanosome (melanin-containing organelles) geometries sampled from fossil Jurassic fur have recently indicated uniformly dark colors consistent with a proposed nocturnal bottleneck early in the mammal lineage. Here, we use a distinct dataset of similar to 8000 melanosomes from 60 species (11 mammalian orders) including a Jurassic species to ask more generally what color or environmental variables may explain melanosome geometry in mammals. We confirm support for limited melanosome variation in Jurassic mammals. Crown therian mammalian melanosome diversity as extreme as that in birds is recovered within placental lineages. More environmental variables substantially explain aspects of melanosome geometry than do color variables, but the explanatory power of both sets of variables is limited. Prediction of color from melanosomes in fossil mammals merits caution, given observed lineage-specific trends. Potentially comparatively weak selection on the melanosome geometry-color relationship in mammals or correlations with other life history variables may further explain the evolution of these geometries. |
| DOI | 10.1126/sciadv.adw8707 |
| 关键词[WOS] | JURASSIC YANLIAO BIOTA ; MELANIN ; PIGMENTATION ; PATTERNS ; MODELS ; SKIN ; MELANOCYTES ; ADAPTATION ; REFLECTS ; SUPPORT |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 资助项目 | Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB26000000] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[42288201] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41922011] ; National Key Research and Development Project of China[2024YFF0807603] ; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities[0206-14380219] ; Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and The University of Texas |
| WOS研究方向 | Science & Technology - Other Topics |
| WOS类目 | Multidisciplinary Sciences |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:001600695700003 |
| 出版者 | AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE |
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/25073 |
| 专题 | 中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所 |
| 通讯作者 | Bi, Shundong; Pan, Yanhong |
| 作者单位 | 1.Nanjing Univ, Ctr Res & Educ Biol Evolut & Environm & Frontiers, State Key Lab Mineral Deposits Res, Sch Earth Sci & Engn,Ctr Crit Earth Mat Cycling, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu, Peoples R China 2.Yunnan Univ, Ctr Vertebrate Evolutionary Biol, Sch Life Sci, Kunming 650091, Peoples R China 3.Howard Univ, Dept Anat, Coll Med, Washington, DC 20059 USA 4.Univ Texas Austin, Jackson Sch Geosci, Dept Earth & Planetary Sci, Austin, TX 78712 USA 5.Nanjing Univ, Sch Life Sci, Lab Anim Behav & Conservat, Nanjing 210023, Peoples R China 6.Chinese Acad Sci, Natl Anim Collect Resource Ctr, Inst Zool, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 7.Guangdong Inst Appl Biol Resources, Guangdong Key Lab Anim Conservat & Resource Utiliz, Guangdong Publ Lab Wild Anim Conservat & Utilizat, Guangzhou 510260, Peoples R China 8.Zhejiang Museum Nat Hist, Hangzhou 310014, Peoples R China 9.Hongshan Forest Zoo, Nanjing 210028, Peoples R China 10.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Li, Xin,Bi, Shundong,Clarke, Julia A.,et al. High melanosome diversity exhibits weak correlation with color and environmental variables in the early evolution of therian mammals[J]. SCIENCE ADVANCES,2025,11(43):11. |
| APA | Li, Xin.,Bi, Shundong.,Clarke, Julia A..,Li, Zhongqiu.,Zhu, Xichao.,...&Pan, Yanhong.(2025).High melanosome diversity exhibits weak correlation with color and environmental variables in the early evolution of therian mammals.SCIENCE ADVANCES,11(43),11. |
| MLA | Li, Xin,et al."High melanosome diversity exhibits weak correlation with color and environmental variables in the early evolution of therian mammals".SCIENCE ADVANCES 11.43(2025):11. |
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