Bone histology of the Late Pleistocene Prolagus sardus (Lagomorpha: Mammalia) provides further insights into life-history strategy of insular giant small mammals

doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad112

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	Bone histology of the Late Pleistocene Prolagus sardus (Lagomorpha: Mammalia) provides further insights into life-history strategy of insular giant small mammals
	Fernandez-Bejarano, Eva 1; Blanco, Alejandro 1; Angelone, Chiara 2,3,4; Zhang, Zhaoqun3,5 ; Moncunill-Sole, Blanca 1,2,6
	2023-09-23
发表期刊	ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
ISSN	0024-4082
页码	15
通讯作者	Moncunill-Sole, Blanca()
摘要	Fossils provide an excellent opportunity to study and understand the evolution of insular environments free of human-made perturbations. Here, we evaluated the life-history traits and strategy of the extinct insular giant Prolagus sardus (Mammalia: Lagomorpha) by examining microscopically its fossilized bone tissues (osteohistology, skeletochronology, and quantitative geometry). For this task, a complete ontogenetic series of femora retrieved from the Late Pleistocene Grotta della Medusa (NW Sardinia, Italy) were analysed. Our results reveal that: (i) P. sardus' pups were weaned at large size; (ii) the species' maturation was delayed in its life cycle; and (iii) P. sardus lived longer than expected for its size. Hence, the giant P. sardus should have a slow pace of life triggered by the low levels of extrinsic mortality of the insular habitat. On the other hand, bone tissue differences between P. sardus and Ochotona were found in the vascularization, slow- growing bone presence, and cortical and medullary growth trajectories. The results obtained in this study concur with the eco-evolutionary responses described to date in extinct insular lagomorphs, as well as provide new empirical evidence about the phenomenon known as 'insular gigantism' as a pattern of evolution of small-sized mammals in genuine insular ecosystems.
关键词	insular gigantism Grotta della Medusa life-history strategy Lagomorpha Mammalia palaeohistology osteohistology Sardinia skeletochronology
DOI	10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad112
关键词[WOS]	BODY-SIZE ; AGE-DETERMINATION ; ORYCTOLAGUS-CUNICULUS ; PHYLOGENETIC SIGNAL ; EUROPEAN RABBIT ; 1ST APPROACH ; GROWTH-RATE ; EVOLUTION ; ISLANDS ; PIKA
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	'Ramon y Cajal' fellowship - MCIN/AEI[RYC2021-034269-I] ; European Union << NextGenerationEU >> /PRTR ; Visiting Professor grant of the President's International Fellowship Initiative of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigacion ; European Regional Development Fund of the European Union[CGL2016-76431-P] ; Cerca Program of the Generalitat de Catalunya ; Grant to Department of Science, Roma Tre University (CA, MIUR-Italy Dipartimenti di Eccellensa) ; Conselleria de Cultura, Educacion e Universidade, Xunta de Galicia[ED481D-2022-013] ; Universidade da Coruna/CISUG
项目资助者	'Ramon y Cajal' fellowship - MCIN/AEI ; European Union << NextGenerationEU >> /PRTR ; Visiting Professor grant of the President's International Fellowship Initiative of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigacion ; European Regional Development Fund of the European Union ; Cerca Program of the Generalitat de Catalunya ; Grant to Department of Science, Roma Tre University (CA, MIUR-Italy Dipartimenti di Eccellensa) ; Conselleria de Cultura, Educacion e Universidade, Xunta de Galicia ; Universidade da Coruna/CISUG
WOS研究方向	Zoology
WOS类目	Zoology
WOS记录号	WOS:001080187500001
出版者	OXFORD UNIV PRESS
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/22931
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Moncunill-Sole, Blanca
作者单位	1.Univ A Coruna, Dept Fis & Ciencias Terra, La Coruna 15008, Spain 2.Univ Roma Tre, Dipartimento Sci, I-00146 Rome, Italy 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 4.Campus Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Inst Catala Paleontol Miquel Crusafont, Cerdanyola Del Valles 08193, Spain 5.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Earth & Planetary Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 6.Univ A Coruna, Dept Fis & Ciencias Terra, Campus Zapateira,Rua Fraga 10, La Coruna 15008, Spain
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Fernandez-Bejarano, Eva,Blanco, Alejandro,Angelone, Chiara,et al. Bone histology of the Late Pleistocene Prolagus sardus (Lagomorpha: Mammalia) provides further insights into life-history strategy of insular giant small mammals[J]. ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY,2023:15.
APA	Fernandez-Bejarano, Eva,Blanco, Alejandro,Angelone, Chiara,Zhang, Zhaoqun,&Moncunill-Sole, Blanca.(2023).Bone histology of the Late Pleistocene Prolagus sardus (Lagomorpha: Mammalia) provides further insights into life-history strategy of insular giant small mammals.ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY,15.
MLA	Fernandez-Bejarano, Eva,et al."Bone histology of the Late Pleistocene Prolagus sardus (Lagomorpha: Mammalia) provides further insights into life-history strategy of insular giant small mammals".ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY (2023):15.