Ancient origins and multiple appearances of carotenoid-pigmented feathers in birds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1788, 2014, Pages

  Thomas, Daniel B ^a,b,c   McGraw, Kevin J ^d   Butler, Michael W ^e   Carrano, Matthew T ^a   Madden, Odile ^b   James, Helen F ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b MUSEUM CONSERVATION INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral state reconstruction; Birds; Coloration; Pigmentation; Plumage; Supertree

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID;

BIRD; CAROTENOID; FEATHER; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; MELANIN; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMAL; BIRD; EVOLUTION; FEATHER; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; CAROTENOIDS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FEATHERS; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84903146702     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0806     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Stoddard MC, Prum RO. 2011 How colorful are birds? Evolution of the avian plumage color gamut. Behav. Ecol. 22, 1042-1052. (do:10.1093/beheco/arr088)
2. Li Q, Gao K-Q, Vinther J, Shawkey MD, Clarke JA, D'Alba L, Meng Q, Briggs DEG, Prum RO. 2010 Plumage color patterns of an extinct dinosaur. Science 327, 1369-1372. (do:10.1126/science.1186290)
3. Zhang F, Kearns SL, Orr PJ, Benton MJ, Zhou Z, Johnson D, Xu X, Wang X. 2010 Fossilized melanosomes and the colour of Cretaceous dinosaurs and birds. Nature 463, 1075-1078. (do:10.1038/nature08740)
4. Li Q et al. 2012 Reconstruction of Microraptor and the evolution of iridescent plumage. Science 335, 1215-1219. (do:10.1126/science.1213780)
5. McGraw KJ. 2006 The mechanics of carotenoid coloration in birds. In Bird coloration. I. Mechanisms and measurements (eds GE Hill, KJ McGraw), pp. 177-242. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
6. Mendes-Pinto MM, LaFountain AM, Stoddard MC, Prum RO, Franks HA, Robert B. 2012 Variation in carotenoid-protein interaction in bird feathers produces novel plumage coloration. J. R. Soc. Interface 9, 3338-3350. (do:10.1098/rsif.2012.0471)
7. McGraw KJ. 2006 Mechanics of uncommon colours: pterins, porphyrins, and psittacofulvins. In Bird coloration. I. Mechanisms and measurements (eds GE Hill, KJ McGraw), pp. 354-398. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
8. During A, Dawson HD, Harrison EH. 2005 Carotenoid transport is decreased and expression of the lipid transporters SR-BI, NPC1L1 and ABCA1 is downregulated in Caco-2 cells treated with Ezetimibe. J. Nutr. 135, 2305-2312.
9. Duggan AE, Marie Jr RS, Callard IP. 2002 Expression of SR-BI (scavenger receptor class B type I) in turtle (Chrysemys picta) tissues and other nonmammalian vertebrates. J. Exp. Zool. 292, 430-434. (do:10. 1002/jez.10067)
10. Walsh N, Dale J, McGraw KJ, Pointer MA, Mundy NI. 2012 Candidate genes for carotenoid coloration in vertebrates and their expression profiles in the carotenoid-containing plumage and bill of a wild bird. Proc. R. Soc. B 279, 58-66. (do:10.1098/rspb.2011.0765)
11. Holmes RS, Cox LA. 2002 Comparative studies of vertebrate scavenger receptor class B type I: a highdensity lipoprotein biding protein. Res. Rep. Biochem. 2, 9-24.
12. Steffen JE, McGraw KJ. 2007 Contributions of pterin and carotenoid pigments to dewlap coloration in two anole species. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. B 146, 42-46. (do:10.1016/j.cbpb.2006.08.017)
13. Eriksson J et al. 2008 Identification of the Yellow Skin gene reveals a hybrid origin of the domestic chicken. PLoS Genet. 4, e1000010. (do:10.1371/ journal.pgen.1000010)
14. Boles WE. 1995 The world's oldest songbird. Nature 374, 21-22. (do:10.1038/374021b0)
15. Hadfield JD, Owens IPF. 2006 Strong environmental determination of a carotenoid-based plumage trait is not mediated by carotenoid availability. J. Evol. Biol. 19, 1104-1114. (do:10.1111/j.1420-9101. 2006.01095.x)
16. McGraw KJ, Schuetz JG. 2004 The evolution of carotenoid coloration in estrildid finches: a biochemical analysis. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. B 139, 45-51. (do:10.1016/j.cbpc.2004.06.006)
17. Prum RO, LaFountain AM, Berro J, Stoddard MC, Frank HA. 2012 Molecular diversity, metabolic transformation, and evolution of carotenoid feather pigments in cotingas (Aves: Cotingidae). J. Comp. Physiol. B. 182, 1095-1116. (do:10.1007/s00360- 012-0677-4)
18. Thomas DB, McGraw KJ, James HF, Madden O. 2014 Non-destructive descriptions of carotenoids in feathers using Raman spectroscopy. Anal. Methods 6, 1301-1308. (do:10.1039/C3AY41870G)
19. Witmer LM. 1995 The extant phylogenetic bracket and the importance of reconstructing soft tissues in fossils. In Functional morphology in vertebrate paleontology (ed. JJ Thomason), pp. 19-33. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
20. Pagel M. 1994 Detecting correlated evolution on phylogenies: a general method for the comparative analysis of discrete characters. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 22, 37-45. (do:10.1098/rspb.1994.0006)
21. Jetz W, Thomas GH, Joy JB, Hartmann K, Mooers AO. 2012 The global diversity of birds in space and time. Nature 491, 444-448. (do:10.1038/nature11631)
22. Olson VA, Owens IPF. 2005 Interspecific variation in the use of carotenoid-based coloration in birds: diet, life history and phylogeny. J. Evol. Biol. 18, 1534-1546. (do:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2005.00940.x)
23. del Hoyo J, Elliott A, Sargatal J, Christie DA (eds) 1992-2011 Handbook of the birds of the world, vol. 1-16. Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions.
24. McGraw KJ, HIll GE, Parker RS. 2003 Carotenoid pigments in a mutant cardinal: implications for the genetic and enzymatic control mechanisms of carotenoid metabolism in birds. Condor 105, 587-592. (do:10.1650/7281)
25. Thomas DB, McGoverin CM, McGraw KJ, James HF, Madden O. 2013 Vibrational spectroscopic analyses of unique yellow feather pigments (spheniscins) in penguins. J. R. Soc. Interface 10, 20121065. (do:10. 1098/rsif.2012.1065)
26. Galvan I, Jorge A, Solano F, Wakamatsu K. 2013 Vibrational characterization of pheomelanin and trichochrome F by Raman spectroscopy. Spectrochim. Acta A 110, 55-59. (do:10.1016/j.saa.2013.03.027)
27. Gill F, Donsker D (eds) 2013 IOC World Bird Names v 3.2. See http://www.worldbirdnames.org (accessed 7 March 2013).
28. Stradi R, Celentano G, Nava D. 1995 Separation and identification of carotenoids in bird's plumage by high-performance liquid chromatography-diode array detection. J. Chromatogr. B 670, 337-348. (do:10.1016/0378-4347(95)00173-5)
29. Veronelli M, Zerbi G, Stradi R. 1995 In situ resonance Raman spectra of carotenoids in bird's feathers. J. Raman Spectrosc. 26, 683-692. (do:10. 1002/jrs.1250260815)
30. Hackett SJ et al. 2008 A phylogenomic study of birds reveals their evolutionary history. Science 320, 1763-1768. (do:10.1126/science.1157704)
31. Paradis E, Claude J, Strimmer K. 2004 APE: analyses of phylogenetics and evolution in R language. Bioinformatics 20, 289-290. (do:10.1093/ bioinformatics/btg412)
32. Felsenstein J. 1981 A likelihood approach to character weighting and what it tells us about parsimony and compatibility. Biol. J. Linnean Soc. 16, 183-196. (do:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1981. tb01847.x)
33. Beaulieu JM, O'Meara BC, Donoghue MJ. 2013 Identifying hidden rate changes in the evolution of a binary morphological character: the evolution of plant habit in campanulid angiosperms. Syst. Biol. 62, 725-737. (do:10.1093/sysbio/syt034)
34. Yang ZH, Kumar S, Nei M. 1995 A new method of inference of ancestral nucleotide and amino-acid sequences. Genetics 141, 1641-1650.
35. R Core Team. 2012 R: a language and environment for statistical computing. See http://www.R-project.org/. Vienna, Austria: R Foundation for Statistical Computing.
36. Mayr G. 2013 The age of the crown group of passerine birds and its evolutionary significance- molecular calibrations versus the fossil record. Syst. Biodivers. 11, 1-6. (do:10.1080/14772000.2013. 765521)
37. Ricklefs RE, Pagel M. 2012 Evolutionary biology: birds of a feather. Nature 491, 336-337. (do:10. 1038/nature11642)
38. Brockman H, Volker O. 1934 Der gelbe Federfarbstoff des Kanarienvogels (Serinus canaria canaria [L.]) und das vorkommen von Carotinoiden bei Vögeln. Z. Physiol. Chem. 224, 193-215. (do:10.1515/bchm2.1934.224.5-6.193)
39. Volker O. 1961 The chemical characteristic of red lipochrome in bird feathers. J. Ornithol. 102, 430-438. (do:10.1007/BF01671012)
40. McGraw KJ, Hardy LS. 2006 Astaxanthin is responsible for the pink plumage flush in Franklin's and ring-billed gulls. J. Field Ornithol. 77, 29-33. (do:10.1111/j.1557-9263.2006.00008.x)
41. Hall BK. 2003 Descent with modification: the unity underlying homology and homoplasy as seen through an analysis of development and evolution. Biol. Rev. 78, 409-433. (do:10.1017/ S1464793102006097)
42. Price T. 1998 Sexual selection and natural selection in bird speciation. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 353, 251-260. (do:10.1098/ rstb.1998.0207)
43. Maddison WP, Midford PE, Otto SP. 2007 Estimating a binary character's effect on speciation and extinction. Syst. Biol. 56, 701-710. (do:10.1080/ 10635150701607033)