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Phylogenetic signal in the circadian rhythm of morphologically convergent species of Neotropical deer

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Deer species included in the genus Mazama descend from two different clades that experienced a strong evolutionary convergence in morphology and behaviour when they adapted to Neotropical forests. We would expect that circadian activity rhythms also converged according to habitat features or responded to temporal niche segregation in sympatric species. We used camera trapping in four study areas, representing three main biomes in Brazil, together with data taken from the literature, to analyse activity patterns of five Mazama species in four biomes in South America. Our results show that clade assignment was the main predictor of diurnal versus nocturnal activity, thus suggesting a phylogenetic constraint rather than any other ecological influence on circadian activity. We discuss how the evolutionary history of both lineages may have influenced their activity patterns.

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  1. Núcleo de Pesquisa e Conservação de Cervídeos (NUPECCE), Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), SP, Jaboticabal, Brazil

    Márcio Leite de Oliveira, Pedro Henrique de Faria Peres, Francisco Grotta-Neto, Allyson Diaz Koester de Azevedo, Josi Fernanda Cerveira, Juan Carranza & José Maurício Barbanti Duarte

  2. Laboratório de Estatística Aplicada à Genética e Melhoramento Animal, Departamento de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), SP, Jaboticabal, Brazil

    Guilherme Batista do Nascimento

  3. Departamento de Ciências Exatas—Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), SP, Jaboticabal, Brazil

    Nelson José Peruzzi

  4. Ungulate Research Unit, Cátedra de Recursos Cinegéticos y Piscícolas (CRCP), Universidad de Córdoba, 14071, Córdoba, Spain

    Juan Carranza

  5. Departamento de Zootecnia, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), SP, Jaboticabal, Brazil

    José Maurício Barbanti Duarte

  6. Instituto Latino-Americano de Ciências da Vida e da Natureza, Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (UNILA), PR, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil

    Alexandre Vogliotti

  7. Laboratório de Biodiversidade, Conservação e Ecologia de Animais Silvestres (LABCEAS), Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), PR, Curitiba, Brazil

    Francisco Grotta-Neto

  8. Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Agraria del Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador

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de Oliveira, M.L., de Faria Peres, P.H., Vogliotti, A. et al. Phylogenetic signal in the circadian rhythm of morphologically convergent species of Neotropical deer. Mamm Biol 81, 281–289 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mambio.2016.01.004

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