Morphological integration and developmental progress during fish ontogeny in two contrasting habitats
dc.contributor.author | Fischer-Rousseau, Laurence | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Cloutier, Richard | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Zelditch, Miriam Leah | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-01-13T19:43:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-01-13T19:43:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009-11 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Fischer-Rousseau, Laurence; Cloutier, Richard; Zelditch, Miriam leah; (2009). "Morphological integration and developmental progress during fish ontogeny in two contrasting habitats." Evolution & Development 11(6): 740-753. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78677> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1520-541X | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1525-142X | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78677 | |
dc.description.abstract | Morphological integration can respond to environmental conditions, a response that may be dynamic through ontogeny. Among fishes, brook charrs ( Salvelinus fontinalis ) display a trophic polymorphism that makes it a good species for analyzing the ontogeny of morphological integration. To better understand the processes regulating variation and integration, we assess the ontogenetic dynamics of covariances and developmental progress for populations of S. fontinalis from two habitats that differ in water velocity; lake and stream. Geometric morphometrics and developmental progress were evaluated on 751 and 198 specimens, respectively. In both habitats, most ossification events occur before the transition from alevin to juvenile. This threshold defines two distinct periods. During the first period representing free-embryos and alevins, there are important shape changes and rapid ossification, integration tends to be relatively low and decreasing and the variance of shape drastically decreases. During the juvenile period, the rate of shape change decreases and the onset of ossification is nearly complete, plus integration increases and shape variance stabilizes. While we find two distinct developmental periods, we nonetheless find a notable stability underlying the ontogenetic dynamics of variability as well as gradual change in the structure of covariation within each habitat. Our results imply that the variability of juvenile body shape does not seem to retain signals of variability determined early in ontogeny and warrants caution in using juvenile as guides to the earlier causes of variability. Overall, this study highlights the difficulty of inferring causes of integration from studies of static covariance. | en_US |
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dc.publisher | Blackwell Publishing Inc | en_US |
dc.title | Morphological integration and developmental progress during fish ontogeny in two contrasting habitats | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109 USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Laboratoire de Biologie évolutive, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, QC G5L 3A1, Canada | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 19878295 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/78677/1/j.1525-142X.2009.00381.x.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2009.00381.x | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Evolution & Development | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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