Plasticity in probabilistic reaction norms for maturation in a salmonid fish

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 628-631

  Morita, Kentaro ^a   Tsuboi, Jun Ichi ^b   Nagasawa, Toru ^a  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b Yamanashi Fisheries Technology Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mature male parr; Phenotypic plasticity; Probabilistic reaction norm; Threshold

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENETIC VARIATION; MATURATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REACTION NORM; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SALMONID; STREAM; THRESHOLD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SALMONID; WATER TEMPERATURE;

SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 70349273764     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0290     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Aubin-Horth, N. & Dodson, J. J. 2004 Influence of individual body size and variable thresholds on the incidence of a sneaker male reproductive tactic in Atlantic salmon. Evolution 58, 136-144.
2. Aubin-Horth, N., Bourque, J. F., Daigle, G., Hedger, R. & Dodson, J. J. 2006 Longitudinal gradients in threshold sizes for alternative male life history tactics in a population of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 63, 2067-2075. (doi:10.1139/F06-103)
3. Baum, D., Laughton, R., Armstrong, J. D. & Metcalfe, N. B. 2004 Altitudinal variation in the relationship between growth and maturation rate in salmon parr. J. Anim. Ecol. 73, 253-260. (doi:10.1111/j.0021-8790.2004.00803.x)
4. Baum, D., Laughton, R., Armstrong, J. D. & Metcalfe, N. B. 2005 The effect of temperature on growth and early maturation in a wild population of Atlantic salmon parr. J. Fish. Biol. 67, 1370-1380. (doi:10.1111/j.0022-1112. 2005.00832.x)
5. Dhillon, R. S. & Fox, M. G. 2004 Growth-independent effects of temperature on age and size at maturity in Japanese Medaka (Oryzias latipes). Copeia 2004, 37-45. (doi:10.1643/CI-02-098R1)
6. Gross, M. R. 1991 Salmon breeding behavior and life history evolution in changing environments. Ecology 72, 1180-1186. (doi:10.2307/1941091)
7. Heino, M., Dieckmann, U. & Godø, O. R. 2002 Measuring probabilistic reaction norms for age and size at maturation. Evolution 56, 669-678.
8. Kozel, S. J. & Hubert, W. A. 1989 Factors influencing the abundance of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in forested mountain streams. J. Freshwater Ecol. 5, 113-122.
9. Kuparinen, A. & Merilä, J. 2007 Detecting and managing fisheries-induced evolution. Trends Ecol. Evol. 22, 652-659. (doi:10.1016/j.tree.2007.08.011)
10. Marshall, C. T. & Browman, H. I. 2007 Disentangling the causes of maturation trends in exploited fish populations. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 335, 249-251.
11. Morita, K. & Fukuwaka, M. 2007 Why age and size at maturity have changed in Pacific salmon. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 335, 289-294. (doi:10.3354/meps335289)
12. Morita, K. & Yamamoto, S. 2002 Effects of habitat fragmentation by damming on the persistence of stream-dwelling charr populations. Conserv. Biol. 16, 1318-1323. (doi:10.1046/j.1523-1739.2002.01476.x)
13. Morita, K., Tsuboi, J. & Matsuda, H. 2004 The impact of exotic trout on native charr in a Japanese stream. J. Appl. Ecol. 41, 962-972. (doi:10.1111/j.0021-8901.2004.00927.x)
14. Morita, K., Morita, S. H. & Yamamoto, S. In press. Effects of habitat fragmentation by damming on salmonid fishes: lessons from white-spotted charr in Japan. Ecol. Res.
15. Olsen, E. M., Heino, M., Lilly, G. R., Morgan, M. J., Brattey, J., Ernande, B. & Dieckmann, U. 2004 Maturation trends indicative of rapid evolution preceded the collapse of northern cod. Nature 428, 932-935. (doi:10.1038/nature02430)
16. Piché, J., Huchings, J. A. & Blanchard, W. 2008 Genetic variation in threshold reaction norms for alternative reproductive tactics in male Atlantic salmon. Salmo salar. Proc. R. Soc. B 275, 1517-1574. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.0251)