Common evolutionary origin of acoustic communication in choanate vertebrates
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Acoustic communication, broadly distributed along the vertebrate phylogeny, plays a fundamental role in parental care, mate attraction and various other behaviours. Despite its importance, comparatively less is known about the evolutionary roots of acoustic communication. Phylogenetic comparative analyses can provide insights into the deep time evolutionary origin of acoustic communication, but they are often plagued by missing data from key species. Here we present evidence for 53 species of four major clades (turtles, tuatara, caecilian and lungfish) in the form of vocal recordings and contextual behavioural information accompanying sound production. This and a broad literature-based dataset evidence acoustic abilities in several groups previously considered non-vocal. Critically, phylogenetic analyses encompassing 1800 species of choanate vertebrates reconstructs acoustic communication as a homologous trait, and suggests that it is at least as old as the last common ancestor of all choanate vertebrates, that lived approx. 407 million years before present.
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The digital era changed the questions researchers asked, allowing communication systems to be compared across species and clades with statistical precision and laying groundwork for phylogenetically informed studies of communication evolution.
“In hindsight, the digital era did more than speed up data collection—it changed the very questions researchers asked. Communication systems could now be compared across species and clades with statistical precision, laying the groundwork for phylogenetically informed studies of communication evolution”
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- Authors
- Jorgewich-Cohen, G., Townsend, S. W., Padovese, L. R., Klein, N., Praschag, P., Ferrara, C. R., Ettmar, S., Menezes, S., Varani, A. P., Serano, J., & Sánchez-Villagra, M. R.
- Affiliations
- University of Zurich (CH)
- Universidade de São Paulo (BR)
- Universidade Federal do Tocantins (BR)
- Universidade Metodista de São Paulo (BR)
- University of Florida (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2022-10-25
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 6089-6089
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC9596459
- OpenAlex
- W4307210345
- Cited by
- 59
- References
- 58
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 10.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick) (acceptedVersion)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
- Funders
- Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships (ESKAS) https://www.sbfi.admin.ch/sbfi/en/home/education/scholarships-and-grants/swiss-government-excellence-scholarships.html
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (PP003_198912)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology › Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Marine animal studies overview
- Keywords
- acoustic communication, vocalizations, evolutionary origin, homology, turtles, tuatara, caecilians, lungfish, phylogenetic comparative analysis, sound production, last common ancestor, vertebrate evolution
- MeSH terms
- Acoustics, Animals, Communication, Biological Evolution, Phylogeny, Vertebrates
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