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Rates of anagenetic evolution and selection intensity in Middle and Upper Ordovician species of the bryozoan genus Peronopora

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

Joseph F. Pachut  and
Robert L. Anstey
Joseph F. Pachut
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 723 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202-5132, U.S.A. E-mail: jpachut@iupui.edu
Robert L. Anstey
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, Michigan State University, 206 Natural Science Building, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1115, U.S.A. E-mail: anstey@msu.edu
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Abstract

Evolutionary rates and selection intensities in eight cladistically defined species-level evolutionary sequences of the Middle and Upper Ordovician bryozoan genus Peronopora were calculated for comparison with values published for fossil and living taxa. Calculations were restricted to statistically significant unidirectional segments of anagenetic series to minimize the mixing of different modes, directions, and rates of evolutionary change.

Rates and selection intensities ranged from 10−7 to 10−6 darwins and from 10−6 to 10−5 haldanes. Across characters, the weighted mean evolutionary rate equaled 5.86 × 10−7 darwins and the mean selection intensity was 6.44 × 10−7. Mean rates of 2.15 × 10−6, 4.31 × 10−6, and 8.61 × 10−6 haldanes, and corresponding mean selection intensities equaling 2.39 × 10−6, 4.78 × 10−6, and 9.56 × 10−6, were calculated for generation lengths of 0.5, 1, and 2 years, respectively.

The magnitudes of positive and negative evolutionary rates and selection intensities do not differ statistically, individual characters display no consistent pattern of positive or negative values, and no character complexes were detectable. A mosaic pattern of change occurs across characters in evolutionary sequences.

Eighty percent of analyzed evolutionary series were multispecies lineages. Both individual and mean values provide direct estimates of the rates of evolution within those lineages at the moment of speciation.

Rates of anagenetic evolution in Peronopora were low and similar to published rates for a variety of fossil protists, invertebrates, and vertebrates. However, earlier rate calculations did not isolate the effect of unidirectional anagenesis from that of stasis, random walks, trend reversals, or rate variations. Eight percent of characters in Peronopora produced anagenetic series that were statistically significant, a percentage similar to the 5% calculated in a study of 251 sequences of evolving traits in 53 fossil lineages (Hunt 2007). Stasis and mutation-drift are the most common patterns detectable in the fossil record, although anagenesis remains a potentially important force in shaping the course of both micro- and macroevolution.

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Paleobiology , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , Summer 2012 , pp. 403 - 423
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