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What is gradualism? Cryptic speciation in globorotaliid foraminifera

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2016

Richard D. Norris ,
Richard M. Corfield  and
Julie Cartlidge
Richard D. Norris
Affiliation:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543
Richard M. Corfield
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford University, OX1 3PR Oxford, United Kingdom
Julie Cartlidge
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford University, OX1 3PR Oxford, United Kingdom
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Abstract

Analysis of the evolution of the Globorotalia (Fohsella) lineage of planktic foraminifera suggests that reproductive ecology and shell shape have evolved independently in this group. The silhouette of fohsellid shells displays a nearly unbroken anagenetic trend, yet isotopic data show that the fohsellids changed their depth of reproduction during the anagenetic evolution of their skeletons. Remarkably, there are no correlations between anagenesis in skeletal shape and the establishment of reproductive isolation. Apparently, anagenesis masks at least one speciation event that is apparent only in the isotopic evidence for a change in reproductive ecology. Although anagenetic trends have been widely cited as evidence for gradual speciation in planktic foraminifera and other microfossil groups, our data suggest that they should not always be considered to record either the tempo or mode of speciation.

Speciation was apparently uncoupled from morphological evolution in fohsellids because these evolutionary phenomena occurred in different phases of ontogeny. Gradual morphological changes were associated with the main phase of shell growth of both the ancestor and descendant species in the near-surface ocean. Reproductive isolation occurred when ancestral and descendant populations became established at different depths near the end of the life cycle. Morphological evolution may also be uncoupled from reproductive isolation in other organisms that experience very different selection pressures over the duration of their ontogenies, such as parasites with many hosts, species with multiple phases of metamorphosis, and organisms that broadcast their gametes.

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Paleobiology , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , Summer 1996 , pp. 386 - 405
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