Title |
Parallel evolution of senescence in annual fishes in response to extrinsic mortality
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Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, April 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-13-77 |
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Authors |
Eva Terzibasi Tozzini, Alexander Dorn, Enoch Ng’oma, Matej Polačik, Radim Blažek, Kathrin Reichwald, Andreas Petzold, Brian Watters, Martin Reichard, Alessandro Cellerino |
Abstract |
Early evolutionary theories of aging predict that populations which experience low extrinsic mortality evolve a retarded onset of senescence. Experimental support for this theory in vertebrates is scarce, in part for the difficulty of quantifying extrinsic mortality and its condition- and density-dependent components that -when considered- can lead to predictions markedly different to those of the "classical" theories. Here, we study annual fish of the genus Nothobranchius whose maximum lifespan is dictated by the duration of the water bodies they inhabit. Different populations of annual fish do not experience different strengths of extrinsic mortality throughout their life span, but are subject to differential timing (and predictability) of a sudden habitat cessation. In this respect, our study allows testing how aging evolves in natural environments when populations vary in the prospect of survival, but condition-dependent survival has a limited effect. We use 10 Nothobranchius populations from seasonal pools that differ in their duration to test how this parameter affects longevity and aging in two independent clades of these annual fishes. |
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