Intraspecific phenotypic variation in life history traits of Daphnia galeata populations in response to fish kairomones.

ABSTRACT: Phenotypic plasticity is the ability of a genotype to produce different phenotypes depending on the environment. It has an influence on the adaptive potential to environmental change and the capability to adapt locally. Adaptation to environmental change happens at the population level, thereby contributing to genotypic and phenotypic variation within a species. Predation is an important ecological factor structuring communities and maintaining species diversity. Prey developed different strategies to reduce their vulnerability to predators by changing their behaviour, their morphology or their life history. Predator-induced life history responses in Daphnia have been investigated for decades, but intra-and inter-population variability was rarely addressed explicitly. We addressed t

SUBMITTER: Tams V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6195795 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature