Reinitialization of evolutionary clocks during sublethal environmental stress in some invertebrates

Details Reinitialization of evolutionary clocks during sublethal environmental stress in some invertebrates Reinitialization of evolutionary clocks during sublethal environmental stress in some invertebrates

Feb 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006e%26psl.242..240g&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 242, Issue 3-4, p. 240-253.

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This paper describes the influence of high environmental stress on evolutionary trends in some selected Mesozoic ammonite lineages and some protists. During extinction periods, many ammonoids are affected by drastic simplifications of their shell geometry, ornamentation and suture line. We observe that relatively tightly coiled ammonites can give rise to highly evolute forms or uncoiled heteromorphs with simple ornamentation and almost ceratitic suture line—a phenomenon called “proteromorphosis”. Such simplifications often correspond to a reappearance of ancestral geometries (primitive ornamentation, evolute coiling or uncoiling) which suggest that the evolutionary clock of these organisms can be reinitialized by extreme, sublethal, environmental stress such as giant volcanism (including its consequences on diverse pollutions and on climatic changes) and major regressive events.

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