An experimental test of character displacement's role in promoting postmating isolation between conspecific populations in contrasting competitive environments

Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2433-2443

  Pfennig, David W ^a   Rice, Amber M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Ecological character displacement; Ecological speciation; Ecologically dependent postmating isolation; Spadefoot toads

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; CONSPECIFIC; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE FLOW; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION TYPE; RESOURCE USE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMPATRY; TOAD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; TOAD; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ARIZONA; BODY WEIGHT; BUFONIDAE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; LARVA; NEW MEXICO; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION;

ANURA; PELOBATIDAE;

EID: 34848829138     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00190.x     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Bragg, A. N. 1965. Gnomes of the night: the spadefoot toads. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA.
2. Brown, W. L., and E. O. Wilson. 1956. Character displacement. Syst. Zool. 5: 49 64.
3. Coyne, J. A., and H. A. Orr. 2004. Speciation. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA.
4. Day, T., and K. A. Young. 2004. Competitive and facilitative evolutionary diversification. BioScience 54: 101 109.
5. Dayan, T., and D. Simberloff. 2005. Ecological and community-wide character displacement: the next generation. Ecol. Lett. 8: 875 894.
6. Funk, D. J. 1998. Isolating a role for natural selection in speciation: host adaptation and sexual isolation in Neochlamisus bebbianae leaf beetles. Evolution 52: 1744 1759.
7. Hatfield, T., and D. Schluter. 1999. Ecological speciation in sticklebacks: environmental-dependent hybrid fitness. Evolution 53: 866 873.
8. Hoskin, C. J., M. Higgie, K. R. McDonald, and C. Moritz. 2005. Reinforcement drives rapid allopatric speciation. Nature 437: 1353 1356.
9. Jaenike, J., K. A. Dyer, C. Cornish, and M. S. Minhas. 2006. Asymmetrical reinforcement and Wolbachia infection in Drosophila. PLoS Biol. 4: 1852 1862.
10. Mayr, E. 1963. Animal species and evolution. Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge.
11. Nosil, P., T. H. Vines, and D. J. Funk. 2005. Perspective: reproductive isolation driven by natural selection against migrants between divergent environments. Evolution 59: 705 719.
12. Pfennig, D. W. 1990. The adaptive significance of an environmentally-cued developmental switch in an anuran tadpole. Oecologia 85: 101 107.
13. Pfennig, D. W. 1992. Proximate and functional causes of polyphenism in an anuran tadpole. Funct. Ecol. 6: 167 174.
14. Pfennig, D. W. 2000. Effect of predator-prey phylogenetic distance on the fitness consequences of predation: a tradeoff between nutrition and disease? Am. Nat. 155: 335 345.
15. Pfennig, D. W., and P. J. Murphy. 2000. Character displacement in polyphenic tadpoles. Evolution 54: 1738 1749.
16. Pfennig, D. W., and P. J. Murphy. 2002. How fluctuating competition and phenotypic plasticity mediate species divergence. Evolution 56: 1217 1228.
17. Pfennig, D. W., and P. J. Murphy 2003. A test of alternative hypotheses for character divergence between coexisting species. Ecology 84: 1288 1297.
18. Pfennig, D. W., A. M. Rice, and R. A. Martin. 2006. Ecological opportunity and phenotypic plasticity interact to promote character displacement and species coexistence. Ecology 87: 769 779.
19. Pfennig, D. W., A. M. Rice, and R. A. Martin. 2007. Field and experimental evidence for competition's role in phenotypic divergence. Evolution 61: 257 271.
20. Pfennig, K. S. 2000. Female spadefoot toads compromise on mate quality to ensure conspecific matings. Behav. Ecol. 11: 220 227.
21. Pfennig, K. S., and D. W. Pfennig. 2005. Character displacement as the 'best of a bad situation': fitness trade-offs resulting from selection to minimize resource and mate competition. Evolution 59: 2200 2208.
22. Pfennig, K. S., and M. J. Ryan. 2006. Reproductive character displacement generates reproductive isolation among conspecific populations: an artificial neural network study. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 273: 1361 1368.
23. Pomeroy, L. V. 1981. Developmental polymorphism in the tadpoles of the spadefoot toad Scaphiopus multiplicatus. Univ. of California, Riverside, CA.
24. Rice, W. R. 1987. Speciation via habitat specialization: the evolution of reproductive isolation as a correlated character. Evol. Ecol. 1: 301 315.
25. Rundle, H. D. 2002. A test of ecologically dependent postmating isolation between sympatric sticklebacks. Evolution 56: 322 329.
26. Rundle, H. D., and P. Nosil. 2005. Ecological speciation. Ecol. Lett. 8: 336 352.
27. Schluter, D. 2000. The ecology of adaptive radiation. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, U. K.
28. Schluter, D. 2001. Ecology and the origin of species. Trends Ecol. Evol. 16: 372 380.