Evidence for a cost of sex in the freshwater snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 452-460

  Jokela, Jukka ^a,b   Lively, Curtis M ^a   Dybdahl, Mark F ^a   Fox, Jennifer A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

All else equal assumption; Asexual reproduction; Brood size; Cost of males; Developmental errors; Lake Alexandrina; Maintenance of sex; New Zealand; Ploidy; Potamopyrgus antipodarum; Sexual reproduction; Size at maturity

Indexed keywords

POTAMOPYRGUS ANTIPODARUM; GASTROPODA;

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; FRESHWATER SNAIL; GROWTH; SEX MAINTENANCE; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

EID: 0030616866     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[0452:efacos]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Bell, G. 1982. The masterpiece of nature: the evolution and genetics of sexuality. University ot California Press, Berkeley, California, USA.
2. Bierzychudek, P. 1987. Patterns in plant parthenogenesis. Pages 197-217 in S. C. Stearns, editor. The evolution of sex and its consequences. Birkhäuser, Basel, Switzerland.
3. Bolger, D. T., and T. J. Case. 1994. Divergent ecology of sympatric clones of the asexual gecko. Lepidodactylus lugubris. Oecologia 100:397-405.
4. Browne, R. A., L. E. Davis, and S. E. Sallee. 1988. Effects of temperature and relative fitness of sexual and asexual brine shrimp Artemia. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 124:1-20.
5. Chaplin, J. A., J. E. Havel, and P. D. N. Hebert. 1994. Sex and ostracods. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9:435-439.
6. Congdon, J. D., L. J. Vitt, and N. F. Hadley. 1978. Parental investment, comparative reproductive energetics in bisexual and unisexual lizards, genus Cnemidophorus. American Naturalist 112:509-521.
7. Cuellar, O. 1994. Biogeography of parthenogenetic animals. Compte Rendu des Séances de la Societe de Biogeographie 70:1-13.
8. Dybdahl, M. F., and C. M. Lively. 1995a. Diverse endemic and polyphyletic clones in mixed populations of the freshwater snail. Potamopyrgus antipodarum. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 8:385-398.
9. Dybdahl, M. F. and C. M. Lively. 1995b. Host-parasite interactions: infection of common clones in natural populations of a freshwater snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 260:99-103.
10. Enghoff, H. 1976. Competition in connection with geographic parthenogenesis. Theory and examples, including some original observations on Nemasoma varicorne C. L. Koch (Diplopoda: Blaniulidae). Journal of Natural History 10:475-479.
11. Fisher, R. A. 1930. The genetical theory of natural selection. Clarendon Press, Oxford, England.
12. Fox, J. A., M. F. Dybdahl, J. Jokela, and C. M. Lively. 1996. Genetic structure of coexisting sexual and clonal subpopulutions in a freshwater snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum). Evolution 50:1541-1546.
13. Glesener, R. R., and D. Tilman. 1978. Sexuality and the components of environmental uncertainty: clues from the geographic parthenogenesis in terrestrial animals. American Naturalist 112:659-673.
14. Hamilton, W. D. 1980. Sex versus non-sex versus parasite. Oikos 35-282-290.
15. Hamilton, W. D., R. Axelrod, and R. Tanese. 1990. Sexual reproduction as an adaptation to resist parasites (a review). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 87:3566-3573.
16. Havel, J. E., and P. D. N. Hebert. 1989. Apomictic parthenogenesis and genotypic diversity in Cypridopsis vidua (Ostracoda: Cyprinidae). Heredity 62:383-392.
17. Howard, R. S., and C. M. Lively. 1994. Parasitism, mutation accumulation and the maintenance of sex. Nature 367:554-557.
18. Innes, D. J., and P. D. N. Hebert. 1988. The origin and genetic basis of obligate parthenogenesis in Daphnia pulex. Evolution 42:1024-1035.
19. Jaenike, J. 1978 An hypothesis to account for the maintenance of sex in populations. Evolutionary Theory 3:191-194.
20. Jokela, J., and C. M. Lively 1995a. Parasites, sex and early reproduction in a mixed population of freshwater snails. Evolution 49:1268-1271.
21. Jokela, J., and C. M. Lively. 1995b. Spatial variation in infection by digenetic trematodes in a population of freshwater snails (Potamopyrgus antipodarum). Oecologia 103:509-517.
22. Kondrashov, A. S. 1993. Classification of hypotheses on the advantages of amphimixis. Journal of Heredity 84:372-387.
23. Lamb, R. Y., and K. B. Willey. 1979. Are parthenogenetic and related bisexual insects equal in fertility? Evolution 33:774-775.
24. Little, T. J., and P. D. N. Hebert. 1994. Abundant asexuality in tropical freshwater ostracodes. Heredity 73:549-555.
25. Lively. C. M. 1987. Evidence from a New Zealand snail for the maintenance of sex by parasitism. Nature 328:519-521.
26. _. 1992. Parthenogenesis in a freshwater snail: reproductive assurance versus parasitic release. Evolution 46:907-913.
27. _. 1996. Host-parasite coevolution and sex. BioScience 46:107-113.
28. Lively, C. M., and S. G. Johnson. 1994. Brooding and the evolution of parthenogenesis: strategy models and evidence from aquatic invertebrates. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 256:89-95.
29. Lynch, M. 1984. Destabilizing hybridization, general purpose genotypes and geographic parthenogenesis. Quarterly Review of Biology 59:257-290.
30. MacKay, P. A., R. J. Lamb, and M. A. H. Smith. 1993 Variability in life history traits of the aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum (Harris), from sexual and asexual populations. Oecologia 94:330-338.
31. Maynard Smith, J. 1978. The evolution of sex. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.
32. McCullagh, P., and J. A. Neider. 1983. Generalized linear models. Chapman and Hall, London, England.
33. Michaels, H. J., and F. A. Bazzaz. 1986. Resource allocation and demography of sexual and apomictic Antennaria parlinii. Ecology 67:27-36.
34. Mitter, C., and J. A. Klun. 1987. Evidence of pheromonal constancy among sexual and asexual females in a population of fall cankerworm, Alsophila pometaria (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). Journal of Chemical Ecology 13:1823-1832.
35. Mladenov, P. V., and R. H. Kinson. 1990. Genetic structure of populations of two closely related brittle stars with contrasting sexual and asexual life histories, with observation on the genetic structure of a second asexual species. Marine Biology 104:265-274.
36. Moore, W. S. 1975. Stabilily of unisexual-bisexual populations of Poeciliopsis (Pisces: Poeciliidae). Ecology 56:791-808.
37. _. 1976. Components of fitness in the unisexual fish Poeciliopsis monacha-occidentalis. Evolution 30:564-578.
38. Norusis, M. J. 1990. SPSS advanced statistics user's guide. SPSS, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
39. Radtkey, R. R., S. C. Donnellan, R. N. Fisher, C. Moritz, K. A. Hanley, and T. J. Case. 1995. When species collide: the origin and spread of an asexual species of gecko. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 259:145-152.
40. Salonen, V., and A. Pemtinen. 1988. Factors affecting nest predation in the Great Crested Grebe: Held observations, experiments and their statistical analysis. Ornis Fennica 65:13-20.
41. Saura, A., J. Lokki, and K. Suomalainen. 1993. Origin of polyploidy in parthenogenetic weevils. Journal of Theoretical Biology 163:449-456
42. Schenck, R. A., and R. C. Vrijenhoek. 1986. Spatial and temporal factors affecting coexistence among sexual and clonal forms of Poeciliopsis. Evolution 40:1060-1070.
43. Schrag, S. J., A. O. Mooers, G. T. Ndifon, and A. F. Read. 1994. Ecological correlates of male outcrossing ability in a simultaneous hermaphrodite snail American Naturalist 143:636-655.
44. Snell, T. W., and M. J. Carmona. 1995. Comparative toxicant sensitivity of sexual and asexual reproduction in the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 14:415-420.
45. Sokal, R. R., and F. J. Rohlf. 1981. Biometry. Second edition. Freeman, New York, New York, USA.
46. Suomalainen, E. 1962. The significance of parthenogenesis in the evolution of insects. Annual Review of Entomology 7:349-365.
47. Taylor, V. A. 1981. The adaptive and evolutionary significance of wing polymorphism and parthenogenesis in Ptinella Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae). Ecological Entomology 6:89-98.
48. Templeton, A. R. 1982. The prophesies of parthenogenesis. Pages 75-101 in H. Dingle and J. P. Hegmann, editors. Evolution and genetics of life histories. Springer Verlag, New York, New York, USA.
49. Theisen, B. F., B. Christensen, and P. Arctander. 1995. Origin of clonal diversity in triploid parthenogenetic Trichoniscus pusillus pusillus (Isopoda: Crustacea) based upon allozyme and nucleotide sequence data. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 8:71-80.
50. Uyenoyama, M. K. 1984. On the evolution of parthenogenesis: a genetic representation of the 'cost of meiosis'. Evolution 38:87-102.
51. Uzzell, T. M. 1964. Relations of diploid and triploid species of the Amblystoma jeffersonianum complex (Amphibia: Caudata). Copeia 1964:257-300.
52. Vandel, A. 1940. La parthénogenèse geographicue. IV. Polyploidie et distribution géeographique. Bulletin Biologique de la France et de la Belgique 74:94-100.
53. Vrijenhock, R. C. 1978a. Coexistence of clones in a heterogeneous environment. Science 199:549-552.
54. _. 1978b. Factors affecting clonal diversity and coexistence. American Zoologist 19:787-797.
55. _. 1984. Ecological differentiation among clones: the frozen niche variation model. Pages 217-231 in K. Wöhrmann and V. Loeschcke, editors. Population biology and evolution, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
56. _. 1990. Genetic diversity and the ecology of asexual populations. Pages 175-197 in K. Wohnnann and S. K. Jain, editors. Population biology, Ecological and evolutionary viewpoints, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
57. Williams, G. C. 1975. Sex and evolution. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
58. Winterbourn, M. J. 1970. Population studies on the New Zealand freshwater gastropod Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Gray). Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 39:139-149.
59. Zeyl, C., G. Bell, and J. Dasilva. 1994. Transposon abundance in sexual and asexual populations of Chlamydomonas remhardtii. Evolution 48:1406-1409.