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Interbreeding between local and translocated populations of a cleaner fish in an experimental mesocosm predicts risk of disrupted local adaptation

2019

Source at https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5246. Translocation of organisms within or outside its native range carries the risk of modifying the community of the recipient ecosystems and induces gene flow between locally adapted populations or closely related species. In this study, we evaluated the genetic consequences of large‐scale translocation of cleaner wrasses that has become a common practice within the salmon aquaculture industry in northern Europe to combat sea lice infestation. A major concern with this practice is the potential for hybridization of escaped organisms with the local, recipient wrasse population, and thus potentially introduce exogenous alleles and breaking down coadap…

0106 biological sciencesMating behaviorPopulationReproductive fitnessZoologyVDP::Landbruks- og Fiskerifag: 900::Fiskerifag: 920::Akvakultur: 922Parentage assignmentBiologyCleaner fish010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesGene flowMesocosm03 medical and health scienceslcsh:QH540-549.5VDP::Agriculture and fishery disciplines: 900::Fisheries science: 920::Fish health: 923VDP::Landbruks- og Fiskerifag: 900::Fiskerifag: 920::Fiskehelse: 923Corkwing wrasseeducationMicrosatellitesEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsOriginal Research030304 developmental biologyNature and Landscape ConservationLocal adaptationVDP::Agriculture and fishery disciplines: 900::Fisheries science: 920::Aquaculture: 9220303 health scienceseducation.field_of_studySymphodus melopsEcologyReproductive successbiology.organism_classificationWrasselcsh:EcologyCorkwing wrasse
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The evolutionary dynamics of adaptive virginity, sex-allocation and altruistic helping in haplodiploid animals

2018

In haplodiploids, females can produce sons from unfertilized eggs without mating. However, virgin reproduction is usually considered to be a result of a failure to mate, rather than an adaptation. Here, we build an analytical model for evolution of virgin reproduction, sex-allocation, and altruistic female helping in haplodiploid taxa. We show that when mating is costly (e.g., when mating increases predation risk), virginity can evolve as an adaptive female reproductive strategy. Furthermore, adaptive virginity results in strongly divergent sex-ratios in mated and virgin queen nests ("split sex ratios"), which promotes the evolution of altruistic helping by daughters in mated queen nests. H…

animal structureslisääntymiskäyttäytyminenvirgin reproductionKIN SELECTIONANT WORKERSfood and beveragesmating behaviorSOCIAL INSECTSlisääntyminenAlternative reproduction strategiesRATIOSreproductive altruismCENTRIS-PALLIDA1181 Ecology evolutionary biologyalternative reproduction strategiessplit sex ratiosWORKER REPRODUCTIONINSECT SOCIETIESPARASITOID WASPEUSOCIALITYBEEreproductive and urinary physiology
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Data from: Harvesting changes mating behavior in European lobster

2018

Removing individuals from a wild population can affect the availability of prospective mates and the outcome of competitive interactions, with subsequent effects on mating patterns and sexual selection. Consequently, the rate of harvest-induced evolution is predicted to be strongly dependent on the strength and dynamics of sexual selection yet, there is limited empirical knowledge on the interplay between selective harvesting and the mating systems of exploited species. In this study, we used genetic parentage assignment to compare mating patterns of the highly valued and overexploited European lobster (Homarus gammarus) in a designated lobster reserve and nearby fished area in Southern Nor…

medicine and health careMating behaviorassortative matingmarine protected area (MPA)parentage analysisMedicineHomarus gammarusLife sciences
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