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Increasing melanism...
Increasing melanism along a latitudinal gradient in a widespread amphibian : local adaptation, ontogenic or environmental plasticity?
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- Alho, Jussi S. (författare)
- University of Helsinki
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- Herczeg, Gabor (författare)
- University of Helsinki
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- Söderman, Fredrik (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för ekologi och evolution,Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University,Evolutionsbiologiskt centrum
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- Laurila, Anssi (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för ekologi och evolution,Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University,Evolutionsbiologiskt centrum
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- Jönsson, K. Ingemar (författare)
- Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för genetik, mikrobiologi och toxikologi,Man and Biosphere Health (MABH)
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- Merilä, Juha (författare)
- University of Helsinki
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- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2010
- 2010
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: BMC Evolutionary Biology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1471-2148. ; 10:1, s. 317-
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Abstract
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- Background: The thermal benefits of melanism in ectothermic animals are widely recognized, but relatively little is known about population differentiation in the degree of melanism along thermal gradients, and the relative contributions of genetic vs. environmental components into the level of melanism expressed. We investigated variation in the degree of melanism in the common frog (Rana temporaria; an active heliotherm thermoregulator) by comparing the degree of melanism (i) among twelve populations spanning over 1500 km long latitudinal gradient across the Scandinavian Peninsula and (ii) between two populations from latitudinal extremes subjected to larval temperature treatments in a common garden experiment. Results: We found that the degree of melanism increased steeply in the wild as a function of latitude. Comparison of the degree of population differentiation in melanism (P-ST) and neutral marker loci (F-ST) revealed that the P-ST >F-ST, indicating that the differences cannot be explained by random genetic drift alone. However, the latitudinal trend observed in the wild was not present in the common garden data, suggesting that the cline in nature is not attributable to direct genetic differences. Conclusions: As straightforward local adaptation can be ruled out, the observed trend is likely to result from environment-driven phenotypic plasticity or ontogenetic plasticity coupled with population differences in age structure. In general, our results provide an example how phenotypic plasticity or even plain ontogeny can drive latitudinal clines and result in patterns perfectly matching the genetic differences expected under adaptive hypotheses.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Ekologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Ecology (hsv//eng)
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- Biology
- Biologi
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