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BMC Evolutionary Biology
Increasing melanism along a latitudinal gradient in a widespread amphibian: local adaptation, ontogenic or environmental plasticity?
Research Article
Jussi S Alho1  Gábor Herczeg1  Juha Merilä1  Anssi Laurila2  Fredrik Söderman2  K Ingemar Jönsson3 
[1] Ecological Genetics Research Unit, Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, PO Box 65, FI-00014, Finland;Population and Conservation Biology, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, SE-75236, Uppsala, Sweden;School of Teacher Education, Kristianstad University, SE-29188, Kristianstad, Sweden;Department of Genetics, Microbiology & Toxicology, Stockholm University, SE-10691, Stockholm, Sweden;
关键词: Latitudinal Gradient;    Common Garden;    Common Garden Experiment;    Common Frog;    Adult Frog;   
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2148-10-317
 received in 2010-06-29, accepted in 2010-10-21,  发布年份 2010
来源: Springer
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【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe 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.ResultsWe 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 (PST ) and neutral marker loci (FST ) revealed that the PST > FST , 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.ConclusionsAs 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.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© Alho et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2010

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