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Data from: Is sociality required for the evolution of communicative complexity? Evidence weighed against alternative hypotheses in diverse taxonomic groups
Complex social communication is expected to evolve whenever animals engage in many and varied social interactions; that is, sociality should promote communicative complexity. Yet informal comparisons among phylogenetically independent taxonomic groups seem to cast doubt on the putative role of social factors in the evolution of complex communication. Here, we provide a formal test of the sociality hypothesis along side alternative explanations for the evolution of communicative complexity. We compiled data documenting variation in signal complexity among closely related species for several case study groups – ants, frogs, lizards and birds – and used new phylogenetic methods to investigate the factors underlying communication evolution. Social factors were only implicated in the evolution of complex visual signals in lizards. Ecology, and to some degree allometry, were most likely explanations for complexity in the vocal signals of frogs (ecology) and birds (ecology and allometry). There was some evidence for adaptive evolution in the pheromone complexity of ants, although no compelling selection pressure was identified. For most taxa, phylogenetic null models were consistently ranked above adaptive models and, for some taxa, signal complexity seems to have accumulated in species via incremental or random changes over long periods of evolutionary time. Becoming social presumably lead to the origin of social communication in animals, but its subsequent influence on the trajectory of signal evolution has been neither clear-cut nor general among taxonomic groups.
FIGURE 1 in The taxonomic status and sister group relationship of the cardinalfish species Jaydia striatodes (Percomorphaceae: Apogonidae)
FIGURE 1. Sampling localities of Jaydia striatodes at Beibu Gulf, China.
FIGURES 8–31 in A taxonomic revision of the Pheidole roosevelti - group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Fiji
FIGURES 8–31. Morphological characters used to diagnose species.
FIGURE 84 in Taxonomic revision of New World species of the genus Oosternum Sharp (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae) I. Definition of species groups and revision of the Oosternum aequinoctiale group
FIGURE 84. Distribution of the representatives of the Oosternum aequinoctiale species group.
FIGURE 8 in A taxonomic study on Chrysotus Meigen (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from southwest China: descriptions of eleven new species belonging to the redefined C. laesus - group
FIGURE 8. Chrysotus laxifacialus sp. nov., male terminalia, left lateral view.
FIGURE 7 in A taxonomic study on Chrysotus Meigen (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from southwest China: descriptions of eleven new species belonging to the redefined C. laesus - group
FIGURE 7. Chrysotus fuscitibialis sp. nov., male terminalia, left lateral view.
FIGURE 6 in A taxonomic study on Chrysotus Meigen (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from southwest China: descriptions of eleven new species belonging to the redefined C. laesus - group
FIGURE 6. Chrysotus fanjingshanus sp. nov., male terminalia, left lateral view.
FIGURE 48 in Redefinition of the vittata species group of Epicauta Dejean (1834) (Coleoptera: Meloidae) and taxonomic revision of the species from southern South America
FIGURE 48. Distribution map of Epicauta monachica and Epicauta rutilifrons.
FIGURE 47 in Redefinition of the vittata species group of Epicauta Dejean (1834) (Coleoptera: Meloidae) and taxonomic revision of the species from southern South America
FIGURE 47. Distribution map of Epicauta leopardina and Epicauta missionum.
FIGURE 46 in Redefinition of the vittata species group of Epicauta Dejean (1834) (Coleoptera: Meloidae) and taxonomic revision of the species from southern South America
FIGURE 46. Distribution map of Epicauta excavata and Epicauta grammica.
FIGURE 45 in Redefinition of the vittata species group of Epicauta Dejean (1834) (Coleoptera: Meloidae) and taxonomic revision of the species from southern South America
FIGURE 45. Distribution map of Epicauta bosqi and E. clericalis.
FIGURE 49 in Redefinition of the vittata species group of Epicauta Dejean (1834) (Coleoptera: Meloidae) and taxonomic revision of the species from southern South America
FIGURE 49. Distribution map of Epicauta luteolineata and Epicauta semivittata.
FIGURE 40 in Taxonomic study of the protecta - group in the genus Pagaronia Ball (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Evacanthinae) from Japan
FIGURE 40. Left inner pygofer process of Pagaronia tridens. Scale; 0.3 mm
FIGURE 4 in Taxonomic study of the protecta - group in the genus Pagaronia Ball (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Evacanthinae) from Japan
FIGURE 4. Distributional map of the Pagaronia species belong to the protecta-group.
FIGURES 41–43 in Taxonomic study of the protecta - group in the genus Pagaronia Ball (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Evacanthinae) from Japan
FIGURES 41–43. Aedeagus of Pagaronia tridens in lateral view. Scale; 0.3 mm
FIGURES 65–68. 65 in Phylogeny of Protopolybia Ducke, 1905 and taxonomic revision of the Protopolybia exigua species-group (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae), with description of four new species
FIGURES 65–68. 65. Protopolybia exigua; 66. P. sedula; 67. P. fuscatus; 68. P. nitida. Mesoscutum.
FIGURE 1 in Taxonomic and distributional notes on two species groups of the genus Dasyrhicnoessa Hendel (Diptera: Canacidae: Tethininae)
FIGURE 1. Dasyrhicnoessa tripunctata Sasakawa. Abdomen in dorsal view. Scale bar = 0.5 mm.
FIGURE 13 in Taxonomic study and morphology based phylogeny of the patagonic clade Liolaemus melanops group (Iguania: Liolaemidae), with the description of three new taxa
FIGURE 13: Liolaemus dumerili. Paratype. adult male from type locality. Ventral View.
FIGURE 9 in Taxonomic study and morphology based phylogeny of the patagonic clade Liolaemus melanops group (Iguania: Liolaemidae), with the description of three new taxa
FIGURE 9: Liolaemus purul. Paratype. adult female from type locality.
FIGURE 11 in Taxonomic study and morphology based phylogeny of the patagonic clade Liolaemus melanops group (Iguania: Liolaemidae), with the description of three new taxa
FIGURE 11: Liolaemus dumerili. Holotype. Ventral view.
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