The interplay between movement, morphology and dispersal in Tetrahymena ciliates.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how and why individual movement translates into dispersal between populations is a long-term goal in ecology. Movement is broadly defined as 'any change in the spatial location of an individual', whereas dispersal is more narrowly defined as a movement that may lead to gene flow. Because the former may create the condition for the latter, behavioural decisions that lead to dispersal may be detectable in underlying movement behaviour. In addition, dispersing individuals also have specific sets of morphological and behavioural traits that help them coping with the costs of movement and dispersal, and traits that mitigate costs should be under selection and evolve if they have a genetic basis. Here, we experimentally study the relationships between movement behaviour, morphology

SUBMITTER: Pennekamp F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6924321 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature