The heritability of shell morphometrics in the freshwater pulmonate gastropod Physa.
The cosmopolitan freshwater pulmonate snail Physa acuta hybridizes readily with Physa carolinae in the laboratory, although their F1 progeny are sterile. The two species differ qualitatively in shell shape, the former bearing a more globose shell and the latter more fusiform. We performed a hybridiz...
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| description | The cosmopolitan freshwater pulmonate snail Physa acuta hybridizes readily with Physa carolinae in the laboratory, although their F1 progeny are sterile. The two species differ qualitatively in shell shape, the former bearing a more globose shell and the latter more fusiform. We performed a hybridization experiment, measuring a set of 14 traditional (linear) and landmark-based shell morphological variables on even-aged parents and their offspring from both hybrids and purebred control lines. Parent-offspring regression yielded a strikingly high heritability estimate for score on the first relative warp axis, h2 = 0.819 ± 0.073, a result that would seem to confirm the value of geometric morphometrics as a tool for retrieving evolutionary relationships from gastropod shell form. Score on the second relative warp axis was also significantly heritable (h2 = 0.312 ± 0.123), although more moderate, as were scores on second principal components extracted from traditional measurements (correlation h2 = 0.308 ± 0.069, covariance h2 = 0.314 ± 0.050). Although score on the first relative warp axis was significantly correlated with centroid size (p < 0.001), scores on none of the three second axes were so correlated. This result suggests that second axis score might prove especially useful for estimating genetic divergence among mixed-age populations of gastropods sampled from the field. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4ba498057c734fffb228ea0b8595f8082022-12-21T19:09:58ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032015-01-01104e012196210.1371/journal.pone.0121962The heritability of shell morphometrics in the freshwater pulmonate gastropod Physa.Robert T DillonStephen J JacqueminThe cosmopolitan freshwater pulmonate snail Physa acuta hybridizes readily with Physa carolinae in the laboratory, although their F1 progeny are sterile. The two species differ qualitatively in shell shape, the former bearing a more globose shell and the latter more fusiform. We performed a hybridization experiment, measuring a set of 14 traditional (linear) and landmark-based shell morphological variables on even-aged parents and their offspring from both hybrids and purebred control lines. Parent-offspring regression yielded a strikingly high heritability estimate for score on the first relative warp axis, h2 = 0.819 ± 0.073, a result that would seem to confirm the value of geometric morphometrics as a tool for retrieving evolutionary relationships from gastropod shell form. Score on the second relative warp axis was also significantly heritable (h2 = 0.312 ± 0.123), although more moderate, as were scores on second principal components extracted from traditional measurements (correlation h2 = 0.308 ± 0.069, covariance h2 = 0.314 ± 0.050). Although score on the first relative warp axis was significantly correlated with centroid size (p < 0.001), scores on none of the three second axes were so correlated. This result suggests that second axis score might prove especially useful for estimating genetic divergence among mixed-age populations of gastropods sampled from the field.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4395110?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Robert T Dillon Stephen J Jacquemin The heritability of shell morphometrics in the freshwater pulmonate gastropod Physa. PLoS ONE |
| title | The heritability of shell morphometrics in the freshwater pulmonate gastropod Physa. |
| title_full | The heritability of shell morphometrics in the freshwater pulmonate gastropod Physa. |
| title_fullStr | The heritability of shell morphometrics in the freshwater pulmonate gastropod Physa. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The heritability of shell morphometrics in the freshwater pulmonate gastropod Physa. |
| title_short | The heritability of shell morphometrics in the freshwater pulmonate gastropod Physa. |
| title_sort | heritability of shell morphometrics in the freshwater pulmonate gastropod physa |
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