Presented By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
EEB Prelim Seminar Series - Evolution of “Collecting” Behavior in Deep Sea Carrier Snails
Yu Kai Tan, Ph.D. Student EEB
About this seminar: Predicting trait-environment relationships is especially challenging for marine gastropods with highly dispersive planktonic larvae and wide geographic distributions. Opposing selection pressures posed by bathymetric distribution and site heterogeneity synergistically drive the evolution of complex defensive shell morphologies. I will focus on the enigmatic carrier snails (family: Xenophoridae), a gastropod family that produce highly sculptured and forms by adorning their shells with “collected” foreign objects for camouflage or physical defence. Are carrier snails species specialized collectors as widely thought? What do they reveal about cryptic diversity and evolution of defensive behaviors in the deep sea? Melding geometric morphometrics, population genetics, comparative phylogenetic approaches, I will unravel bathymetric and populational patterns of defensive behavior evolution in carrier snails and beyond.
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