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ArticleEcology and evolution2016

Lateral plate number in low-plated threespine stickleback: a study of plasticity and heritability.

Truls H Hansson, Barbara Fischer, Anna B Mazzarella, Kjetil L Voje, Leif Asbjørn Vøllestad

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Truls H HanssonDepartment of Biosciences Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis University of Oslo PO Box 1066 Blindern N-0316 Oslo Norway.
Barbara FischerDepartment of Biosciences Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis University of Oslo PO Box 1066 Blindern N-0316 Oslo Norway; Department of Theoretical Biology University of Vienna Althanstrasse 141090 Vienna Austria; Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research Martinstrasse 12A-3400 Klosterneuburg Austria.
Anna B MazzarellaDepartment of Biosciences Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis University of Oslo PO Box 1066 Blindern N-0316 Oslo Norway.
Kjetil L VojeDepartment of Biosciences Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis University of Oslo PO Box 1066 Blindern N-0316 Oslo Norway.
Leif Asbjørn VøllestadDepartment of Biosciences Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis University of Oslo PO Box 1066 Blindern N-0316 Oslo Norway.
University of Oslo · NOUniversity of Vienna · AT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus model system, phenotypes are often classified into three morphs according to lateral plate number. Morph identity has been shown to be largely genetically determined, but substantial within-morph variation in plate number exists. In this study, we test whether plate number has a plastic component in response to salinity in the low-plated morph using a split-clutch experiment where families were split in two, one half raised in water at 0 and the other at 30 ppt salt. We find a small salinity-induced plastic effect on plate number in an unexpected direction, opposite to what we predicted: Fish raised in freshwater on average have slightly more plates than fish raised in saltwater. Our results confirm that heritability of plate number is high. Additionally, we find that variance in plate number at the family level can be predicted from other family level traits, which might indicate that epistatic interactions play a role in creating the observed pattern of lateral plate number variation.

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AdaptationepistasisevolutionGasterosteus aculeatusphenotypic plasticity

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PMID27096076
PMCPMC4829041
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