Avian obligate brood parasitic lineages evolved variable complex polycrystalline structures to build tougher eggshells

0580511 - ÚBO 2024 RIV US eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
López, A. V. - Choi, S. - Park, Y. - Hanley, D. - Lee, J.-W. - Honza, Marcel - Bolmaro, R. E.
Avian obligate brood parasitic lineages evolved variable complex polycrystalline structures to build tougher eggshells.
iScience. Roč. 26, č. 12 (2023), č. článku 108552. E-ISSN 2589-0042
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68081766
Klíčová slova: Evolutionary biology * Ornithology * Zoology
Obor OECD: Ornithology
Impakt faktor: 5.8, rok: 2022
Způsob publikování: Open access
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223026299?via%3Dihub

Avian brood parasites and their hosts display varied egg-puncture behaviors, exerting asymmetric co-evolutionary selection pressures on eggshells’ breaking strength. We investigated eggshell structural and textural characteristics that may improve its mechanical performance. Parasitic eggshell calcified layers showed complex ultra- and microstructural patterns. However, stronger parasitic eggshells are not due to lower textural severity (characterized by lower preferred crystallographic orientation, larger local grain misorientation and smaller Kearns factor), but rather to grain boundary (GB) microstructure characteristics within the eggshell outermost layer (palisade layer, PL). Accordingly, the thicker the PL and the more complex the GB pathways are, the tougher the parasitic eggshells will be. These characteristics, which we can identify as a “GB Engineering” driven co-evolutionary process, further improve eggshell breaking strength in those parasitic species that suffer relatively high frequencies of egg-puncturing by congeneric or hosts. Overall, plain textural patterns are not suitable predictors for comparing mechanical performance of bioceramic materials.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0349284