ArticleHeredity2013
Rapid, habitat-related evolution of land snail colour morphs on reclaimed land.
Article in Heredity, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Shell colour diversification induced by ecological release: A shift in natural selection after a migration event.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Experimental simulation of environmental warming selects against pigmented morphs of land snails.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Genome sequencing of deep-sea hydrothermal vent snails reveals adaptions to extreme environments.GigaScience · 2020Article
- Snails in the sun: Strategies of terrestrial gastropods to cope with hot and dry conditions.Ecology and evolution · 2019Review
- Discrete or indiscrete? Redefining the colour polymorphism of the land snail Cepaea nemoralis.Heredity · 2019Article
- Snail shell colour evolution in urban heat islands detected via citizen science.Communications biology · 2019Article
- Shell colour, temperature, (micro)habitat structure and predator pressure affect the behaviour of Cepaea nemoralis.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2018Article
- Candidate genes for shell colour polymorphism inPeerJ · 2017Article
- Conservation at a slow pace: terrestrial gastropods facing fast-changing climate.Conservation physiology · 2017Article
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- Contemporary climate change and terrestrial invertebrates: evolutionary versus plastic changes.Evolutionary applications · 2014Article
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Abstract
I made use of the known dates of reclamation (and of afforestations) in the IJsselmeerpolders in The Netherlands to assess evolutionary adaptation in Cepaea nemoralis. At 12 localities (three in each polder), I sampled a total of 4390 adult individuals in paired open and shaded habitats, on average 233 m apart, and scored these for genetic shell colour polymorphisms. The results show (highly) significant differentiation at most localities, although the genes involved differed per locality. Overall, though, populations in shaded habitats had evolved towards darker shells than those in adjacent open habitats, whereas a 'Cain & Sheppard' diagram (proportion yellow shells plotted against 'effectively unbanded' shells) failed to reveal a clear pattern. This might suggest that thermal selection is more important than visual selection in generating this pattern. Trait differentiation, regardless of whether they were plotted against polder age or habitat age, showed a linear increase of differentiation with time, corresponding to a mean rate of trait evolution of 15-31 kilodarwin. In conclusion, C. nemoralis is capable of rapid and considerable evolutionary differentiation over 1-25 snail generations, though equilibrium may be reached only at longer time scales.
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