| DOI: | 10.1111/gcb.12594
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| 论文题名: | Melanin-based colour polymorphism responding to climate change |
| 作者: | Roulin A.
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| 刊名: | Global Change Biology
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| ISSN: | 13541013
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| 出版年: | 2014
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| 卷: | 20, 期:11 | | 起始页码: | 3344
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| 结束页码: | 3350
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 英文关键词: | Climate change
; Colour polymorphism
; Melanin
; Melanocortin
; Phenoloxidase
; Pleiotropy
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| Scopus关键词: | melanin
; adaptation
; animal
; biodiversity
; climate change
; color
; evolution
; genetic polymorphism
; greenhouse effect
; metabolism
; pigmentation
; Adaptation, Biological
; Animals
; Biodiversity
; Biological Evolution
; Climate Change
; Color
; Global Warming
; Melanins
; Pigmentation
; Polymorphism, Genetic
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| 英文摘要: | Climate warming leads to a decrease in biodiversity. Organisms can deal with the new prevailing environmental conditions by one of two main routes, namely evolving new genetic adaptations or through phenotypic plasticity to modify behaviour and physiology. Melanin-based colouration has important functions in animals including a role in camouflage and thermoregulation, protection against UV-radiation and pathogens and, furthermore, genes involved in melanogenesis can pleiotropically regulate behaviour and physiology. In this article, I review the current evidence that differently coloured individuals are differentially sensitive to climate change. Predicting which of dark or pale colour variants (or morphs) will be more penalized by climate change will depend on the adaptive function of melanism in each species as well as how the degree of colouration covaries with behaviour and physiology. For instance, because climate change leads to a rise in temperature and UV-radiation and dark colouration plays a role in UV-protection, dark individuals may be less affected from global warming, if this phenomenon implies more solar radiation particularly in habitats of pale individuals. In contrast, as desertification increases, pale colouration may expand in those regions, whereas dark colourations may expand in regions where humidity is predicted to increase. Dark colouration may be also indirectly selected by climate warming because genes involved in the production of melanin pigments confer resistance to a number of stressful factors including those associated with climate warming. Furthermore, darker melanic individuals are commonly more aggressive than paler conspecifics, and hence they may better cope with competitive interactions due to invading species that expand their range in northern latitudes and at higher altitudes. To conclude, melanin may be a major component involved in adaptation to climate warming, and hence in animal populations melanin-based colouration is likely to change as an evolutionary or plastic response to climate warming. © 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
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| 资源类型: | 期刊论文
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/62239
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| Appears in Collections: | 影响、适应和脆弱性
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作者单位: | Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Building Biophore, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Roulin A.. Melanin-based colour polymorphism responding to climate change[J]. Global Change Biology,2014-01-01,20(11)
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