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DOI: 10.1086/599300
Adaptive Changes in Life History and Survival following a New Guppy Introduction
Swanne P. Gordon,1,2,* David N. Reznick,1 Michael T. Kinnison,3 Michael J. Bryant,1 Dylan J. Weese,3 Katja Räsänen,4 Nathan P. Millar,2 and Andrew P. Hendry2
1. Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521;
2. Redpath Museum and Department of Biology, McGill University, 859 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2K6, Canada;
3. School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469;
4. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Institute of Integrative Biology, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland; and Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Department of Aquatic Ecology, Überlandstrasse 133, CH‐8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
Fonte.Abstract
Numerous studies of wild populations have shown that phenotypic traits can change adaptively on short timescales, but very few studies have considered coincident changes in major fitness components. We here examine adaptive changes in life‐history traits and survival rates for wild guppies introduced into new environments. Female life‐history traits in the derived (Damier River) populations diverged from the ancestral (Yarra River) population, as a result of adaptation to predation regime (high vs. low) and other aspects of the local river. Moreover, some components of the derived Damier populations, particularly juveniles, now show higher survival in the Damier than do contemporary representatives from the ancestral Yarra population. These results suggest that adaptive change can improve survival rates after fewer than 10 years (fewer than 30 guppy generations) in a new environment.
Submitted March 13, 2008; Accepted February 3, 2009; Electronically published May 13, 2009
Keywords:
adaptive divergence, fitness, Poecilia reticulata, contemporary evolution, mark recapture, life‐history evolution.
