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A developmental explanation of stability-diversity-variation hypotheses: morphogenetic regulation in Ordovician bryozoan colonies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

Joseph F. Pachut  and
Robert L. Anstey
Joseph F. Pachut
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
Robert L. Anstey
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
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Abstract

A paradoxical relationship exists between the genetic and morphologic adaptive strategies of benthic marine invertebrates; morphologically variable species from unstable environments have been shown to possess less genetic variability than species with more constant phenotypes from stable habitats. The mode of growth of Ordovician bryozoans provides an insight into this paradox. These bryozoans exhibit morphologic gradients within zooidal subcolonies that change throughout colony development. Entire clusters of zooids begin and cease growth as a function of their spatial position with respect to neighboring clusters. A comparison of the within-colony and among-colony components of developmental and morphologic variability was made from populations inhabiting Ordovician environments of differing stability. In four stratigraphically persistent species, the level of developmental variability is homogeneous within species, but varies significantly across taxa. The two species with the highest levels of developmental variability (less canalized development) fit the concept of r-selected opportunistic species and are most abundant in communities of lowest diversity. The other two species have much lower levels of variability (more canalized development), fit the concept of K-selected equilibrium species, and are most abundant in the communities of highest diversity. Within-colony morphologic variability is also higher in the opportunistic rather than the equilibrium species, indicating that the higher morphologic variability observed in unstable environments is the product of within-genotype deregulation, and not the result of higher genetic polymorphism. The equilibrium species in stable environments have lower levels of morphologic deregulation and correspondingly greater variation among genotypes than within genotypes in fossil populations.

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Paleobiology , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , Spring 1979 , pp. 168 - 187
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