Title |
Hybridizing Daphnia communities from ten neighbouring lakes: spatio-temporal dynamics, local processes, gene flow and invasiveness
|
---|---|
Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, April 2014
|
DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-14-80 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Mingbo Yin, Sabine Gießler, Johanna Griebel, Justyna Wolinska |
Abstract |
In natural communities of cyclical parthenogens, rapid response to environmental change is enabled by switching between two reproduction modes. While long periods of asexual reproduction allow some clones to outcompete others, and may result in "clonal erosion", sexual reproduction restores genetic variation in such systems. Moreover, sexual reproduction may result in the formation of interspecific hybrids. These hybrids can then reach high abundances, through asexual clonal reproduction. In the present study, we explored genetic variation in water fleas of the genus Daphnia. The focus was on the short-term dynamics within several clonal assemblages from the hybridizing Daphnia longispina complex and the impact of gene flow at small spatial scales. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
Canada | 1 | 2% |
Brazil | 1 | 2% |
Unknown | 44 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Researcher | 15 | 32% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 13% |
Student > Master | 5 | 11% |
Librarian | 2 | 4% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 4% |
Other | 10 | 21% |
Unknown | 7 | 15% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 23 | 49% |
Environmental Science | 10 | 21% |
Engineering | 2 | 4% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 2% |
Mathematics | 1 | 2% |
Other | 3 | 6% |
Unknown | 7 | 15% |