Afrotropical passerines grow wing feathers faster than their
European counterparts

J 2025

Afrotropical passerines grow wing feathers faster than their European counterparts

HORÁK, Kryštof; Marie KOTASOVÁ ADÁMKOVÁ; Oldřich TOMÁŠEK; Ondřej KAUZÁL; Tereza KAUZÁLOVÁ et al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Afrotropical passerines grow wing feathers faster than their European counterparts

Autoři

HORÁK, Kryštof; Marie KOTASOVÁ ADÁMKOVÁ; Oldřich TOMÁŠEK; Ondřej KAUZÁL; Tereza KAUZÁLOVÁ; Francis Teke MANI; Esembe Jacques CHI a Tomáš ALBRECHT

Vydání

ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, OXFORD, OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2025, 0024-4082

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10613 Zoology

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL, URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 2.800 v roce 2024

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Ano

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

fault bars; feather growth rate; feather quality; latitude; long-distance migration; ptilochronology

Štítky

14314020, rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 7. 1. 2026 12:58, Mgr. Marie Novosadová Šípková, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

Latitudinal gradients in environmental conditions shape avian life-history strategies by influencing resource allocation among growth, survival, and reproduction. Feather production, which is essential for flight, thermoregulation, and predator avoidance, represents a key component of avian energy allocation. We examined interspecific variation in wing and tail feather growth rates and quality in passerine birds from European temperate and Afrotropical regions using data from 679 adults representing 132 species from 36 families. Our findings reveal distinct latitudinal differences in feather growth: tropical breeding passerines exhibit significantly faster wing feather growth rates than temperate zone breeding species, while tail feather growth is lower in tropical species. Additionally, fault bars were common in the tail feathers of tropical species but almost absent in wing feathers across both regions. This absence was particularly apparent among temperate breeding long-distance migratory species. Overall, feather traits were strongly influenced by breeding rather than moulting latitudes, suggesting that latitude-driven selection on energy allocation and intrinsic physiological mechanisms shape feather investment strategies. Our results thus indicate that investments in feather traits are part of a recently uncovered and widening spectrum of avian evolutionary syndromes convergently evolving among phylogenetically unrelated lineages sharing the same breeding latitudes.

Citovat

HORÁK, Kryštof; Marie KOTASOVÁ ADÁMKOVÁ; Oldřich TOMÁŠEK; Ondřej KAUZÁL; Tereza KAUZÁLOVÁ; Francis Teke MANI; Esembe Jacques CHI a Tomáš ALBRECHT. Afrotropical passerines grow wing feathers faster than their European counterparts. ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. OXFORD: OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2025, roč. 205, č. 2, s. 1-9. ISSN 0024-4082. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf123.

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N2  - Latitudinal gradients in environmental conditions shape avian life-history strategies by influencing resource allocation among growth, survival, and reproduction. Feather production, which is essential for flight, thermoregulation, and predator avoidance, represents a key component of avian energy allocation. We examined interspecific variation in wing and tail feather growth rates and quality in passerine birds from European temperate and Afrotropical regions using data from 679 adults representing 132 species from 36 families. Our findings reveal distinct latitudinal differences in feather growth: tropical breeding passerines exhibit significantly faster wing feather growth rates than temperate zone breeding species, while tail feather growth is lower in tropical species. Additionally, fault bars were common in the tail feathers of tropical species but almost absent in wing feathers across both regions. This absence was particularly apparent among temperate breeding long-distance migratory species. Overall, feather traits were strongly influenced by breeding rather than moulting latitudes, suggesting that latitude-driven selection on energy allocation and intrinsic physiological mechanisms shape feather investment strategies. Our results thus indicate that investments in feather traits are part of a recently uncovered and widening spectrum of avian evolutionary syndromes convergently evolving among phylogenetically unrelated lineages sharing the same breeding latitudes.
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HORÁK, Kryštof; Marie KOTASOVÁ ADÁMKOVÁ; Oldřich TOMÁŠEK; Ondřej KAUZÁL; Tereza KAUZÁLOVÁ; Francis Teke MANI; Esembe Jacques CHI a Tomáš ALBRECHT. Afrotropical passerines grow wing feathers faster than their European counterparts. \textit{ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY}. OXFORD: OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2025, roč.~205, č.~2, s.~1-9. ISSN~0024-4082. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf123.

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