دورية أكاديمية
The trunk replaces the longer mandible as the main feeding organ in elephant evolution
| العنوان: | The trunk replaces the longer mandible as the main feeding organ in elephant evolution |
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| المؤلفون: | Chunxiao Li, Tao Deng, Yang Wang, Fajun Sun, Burt Wolff, Qigao Jiangzuo, Jiao Ma, Luda Xing, Jiao Fu, Ji Zhang, Shiqi Wang |
| المصدر: | eLife, Vol 12 (2024) |
| بيانات النشر: | eLife Sciences Publications Ltd, 2024. |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Science LCC:Biology (General) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Miocene, elephant, trunk, mandible, stable isotope, finite element analysis, Medicine, Science, Biology (General), QH301-705.5 |
| الوصف: | The long-trunked elephantids underwent a significant evolutionary stage characterized by an exceptionally elongated mandible. The initial elongation and subsequent regression of the long mandible, along with its co-evolution with the trunk, present an intriguing issue that remains incompletely understood. Through comparative functional and eco-morphological investigations, as well as feeding preference analysis, we reconstructed the feeding behavior of major groups of longirostrine elephantiforms. In the Platybelodon clade, the rapid evolutionary changes observed in the narial region, strongly correlated with mandible and tusk characteristics, suggest a crucial evolutionary transition where feeding function shifted from the mandible to the trunk, allowing proboscideans to expand their niches to more open regions. This functional shift further resulted in elephantids relying solely on their trunks for feeding. Our research provides insights into how unique environmental pressures shape the extreme evolution of organs, particularly in large mammals that developed various peculiar adaptations during the late Cenozoic global cooling trends. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2050-084X |
| العلاقة: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/90908Test; https://doaj.org/toc/2050-084XTest |
| DOI: | 10.7554/eLife.90908 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://doaj.org/article/846827390f824aee8ee109977c449481Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.846827390f824aee8ee109977c449481 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 2050084X |
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| DOI: | 10.7554/eLife.90908 |