Developmental plasticity of growth and digestive efficiency in dependence of early-life food availability

Functional Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 878-885

  Kotrschal, Alexander ^a,b   Szidat, Sönke ^a   Taborsky, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cichlid fish; Digestive efficiency; Early environment; Growth rate; Lake Tanganyika; Phenotypic plasticity; Plasticity window

Indexed keywords

CICHLID; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DIGESTION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GROWTH RATE; JUVENILE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; TRADE-OFF;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE TANGANYIKA;

CICHLIDAE; SIMOCHROMIS;

EID: 84904277370     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12230     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Ali, M., Nicieza, A. & Wootton, R.J. (2003) Compensatory growth in fishes: a response to growth depression. Fish and Fisheries, 4, 147-190.
2. Aubin-Horth, N. & Renn, S.C.P. (2009) Genomic reaction norms: using integrative biology to understand molecular mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity. Molecular Ecology, 18, 3763-3780.
3. Barrett, E.L.B., Hunt, J., Moore, A.J. & Moore, P.J. (2009) Separate and combined effects of nutrition during juvenile and sexual development on female life-history trajectories: the thrifty phenotype in a cockroach. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 276, 3257-3264.
4. Bashey, F. (2006) Cross-generational environmental effects and the evolution of offspring size in the Trinidadian guppy Poecilia reticulata. Evolution, 60, 348-361.
5. Bateson, P., Barker, D., Clutton-Brock, T., Deb, D., D'udine, B., Foley, R.A. et al. (2004) Developmental plasticity and human health. Nature, 430, 419-421.
6. Bradshaw, A.D. (1965) Evolutionary significance of phenotypic plasticity in plants. Advances in Genetics, 13, 115-155.
7. Brasier, C.M. (1987) The Dynamics of Fungal Speciation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
8. Britt, E.J., Hicks, J.W. & Bennett, A.F. (2006) The energetic consequences of dietary specialization in populations of the garter snake, Thamnophis elegans. Journal of Experimental Biology, 209, 3164-3169.
9. Cox, C.L. & Secor, S.A. (2007) Effects of meal size, clutch, and metabolism on the energy efficiencies of juvenile Burmese pythons, Python molurus. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A - Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 148, 861-868.
10. Dmitriew, C.M. (2011) The evolution of growth trajectories: what limits growth rate? Biological Reviews, 86, 97-116.
11. Dufty, A.M., Clobert, J. & Moller, A.P. (2002) Hormones, developmental plasticity and adaptation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 17, 190-196.
12. Fischer, B., Van Doorn, G.S., Dieckmann, U. & Taborsky, B. (2014) The evolution of age-dependent plasticity. American Naturalist, 183, 108-125.
13. Flowerdew, M.W. & Grove, D.J. (1980) An energy budget for juvenile thick-lipped mullet, Crenimugil labrosus (Risso). Journal of Fish Biology, 17, 395-410.
14. Geluso, K. & Hayes, J.P. (1999) Effects of dietary quality on basal metabolic rate and internal morphology of European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 72, 189-197.
15. Govoni, J.J., Boehlert, G.W. & Watanabe, Y. (1986) The physiology of digestion in fish larvae. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 16, 59-77.
16. Holm, S. (1979) A simple sequentially rejective multiple test procedure. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 6, 65-70.
17. Holveck, M.J. & Riebel, K. (2010) Low-quality females prefer low-quality males when choosing a mate. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 277, 153-160.
18. Hoverman, J.T. & Relyea, R.A. (2007) How flexible is phenotypic plasticity? Developmental windows for trait induction and reversal. Ecology, 88, 693-705.
19. Jobling, M., Gwyther, D. & Grove, D.J. (1977) Some effects of temperature, meal size and body-weight on gastric evacuation time in dab Limanda limanda (L). Journal of Fish Biology, 10, 291-298.
20. Karasov, W.H. (1996) Digestive plasticity and avian energetics in feeding ecology. Avian Energetics and Nutritional Ecology (ed C. Carey), pp. 61-84. Chapman Hall, New York, NY.
21. Kotrschal, A., Fischer, B. & Taborsky, B. (2011) An noninvasive method to determine fat content in small fish based on swim bladder size estimation. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part a-Ecological Genetics and Physiology, 315A, 408-415.
22. Kotrschal, A. & Taborsky, B. (2010a) Environmental change enhances cognitive abilities in fish. Public Library of Science - Biology, 8, e1000351.
23. Kotrschal, A. & Taborsky, B. (2010b) Resource defence or exploded lek - A question of perspective. Ethology, 116, 1-10.
24. Kotrschal, A., Heckel, G., Bonfils, D. & Taborsky, B. (2012) Life-stage specific environments in a cichlid fish: implications for inducible maternal effects. Evolutionary Ecology, 26, 123-137.
25. Lee, W.B. & Houston, D.C. (1993) The role of coprophagy in digestion in voles (Microtus agrestis and Clethrionomys glareolus). Functional Ecology, 7, 427-432.
26. McGinnis, A.J. & Kasting, R. (1964) Colorimetric analysis of chromic oxide used to study food utilization by phytophagous insects. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 12, 259-262.
27. Nakagawa, S. (2004) A farewell to Bonferroni: the problems of low statistical power and publication bias. Behavioral Ecology, 15, 1044-1045.
28. Norusis, M.J. (2007) SPSS 15.0 Advanced Statistical Procedures Companion. Prentica Hall Inc., Chicago.
29. Piersma, T. & Gils, J.A. (2010) The Flexible Phenotype. Towards a Body-Centred Integration of Physiology, Ecology and Behaviour. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
30. Ricker, W.E. (1979) Growth rates and models. Fish Physiology (eds W.S. Hoar, D.J. Randall & J.R. Brett), pp. 677-743. Academic Press, New York, NY.
31. Sage, R.D. & Selander, R.K. (1975) Trophic radiation through polymorphism in cichlid fishes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 72, 4669-4673.
32. Scheuber, H., Jacot, A. & Brinkhof, M.W.G. (2004) Female preference for multiple condition-dependent components of a sexually selected signal. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 271, 2453-2457.
33. Schlichting, C.D. & Pigliucci, M. (1998) Phenotypic Evolution. A Reaction Norm Perspective. Sinauer associates, Sunderland.
34. Schmalhausen, I.I. (1949) Factors of Evolution. Blakiston, Philadelphia.
35. Segers, F.H.I.D. & Taborsky, B. (2012) Juvenile exposure to predator cues induces a larger egg size in fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 279, 1241-1248.
36. Sibly, R.M. (1981) Strategies in digestion and defecation. Physiological Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach to Resource Use (eds T. Townsend & P. Calow), pp. 109-138. Blackwell, Oxford.
37. Sogard, S.M. (1997) Size-selective mortality in the juvenile stage of teleost fishes: a review. Bulletin of Marine Science, 60, 1129-1157.
38. Solomon, D.J. & Brafield, A.E. (1972) The energetics of feeding, metabolism and growth of perch (Perca fluviatils). Journal of Animal Ecology, 41, 699-718.
39. Taborsky, B. (1999) Size-dependent distribution in littoral fish: optimization or competitive exclusion? Behaviour and Conservation of Littoral Fishes (eds V.C. Almada, R.F. Oliveira & E.J. Goncalves), pp. 351-376. ISPA, Lisboa.
40. Taborsky, B. (2006a) Mothers determine offspring size in response to own juvenile growth conditions. Biology Letters, 2, 225-228.
41. Taborsky, B. (2006b) The influence of juvenile and adult environments on life-history trajectories. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 273, 741-750.
42. Throckmorton, G. (1973) Digestive efficiency in herbivorous lizard Ctenosaura pectinata. Copeia, 1973, 431-435.
43. Vervust, B., Pafilis, P., Valakos, E.D. & Van Damme, R. (2010) Anatomical and physiological changes associated with a recent dietary shift in the lizard Podarcis sicula. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 83, 632-642.
44. Waldschmidt, S.R., Jones, S.M. & Porter, W.P. (1986) The effect of body-temperature and feeding regime on activity, passage time, and digestive coefficient in the lizard Uta Stansburiana. Physiological Zoology, 59, 376-383.
45. West-Eberhard, M. (2003) Developmental Plasticity and Evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford.