Geographical and Temporal FA Variation in Threespine Stickleback Populations from Galicia (NW Spain)

Hermida, Miguel; López, José Carlos Fernández; González, Rafaela Amaro; Salán, Eduardo San Miguel

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“…One study (Prieto et al 2005) examined a suite of characters in fish taken from nineteen sites within two river catchments in Galicia province, northwest Spain. No relationship between character FA and geographical location was found.…”

Section: Fish Fluctuating Asymmetry Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fazio et al (2005) likewise found no relationship between parasite load and FA for fin, eye, or otolith measurements in the eel Anguilla anguilla, nor did Loot et al (2001) find a relationship between Ligula intestinalis infestation and FA in a number of morphometric characters in roach Rutilus rutilus. Landrum (1966), Downhower et al (1990), Shaikin (1992), Bergstrom and Reimchen (2000, Lajus (2001), Lajus et al (2003), Prieto et al (2005) Natural stressors…”

Section: Fish Fluctuating Asymmetry Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rearing density Leary et al (1991Leary et al ( , 1992 Condition Jarvi et al (1996), Somarakis et al (1997b), Sanchez-Galan et al (1998), Folkvord et al (2000, Sunderland (2001), Robinson and Wardrop (2002), Bakker et al (2006), Gronkjaer and Sand (2003), Fey and Hare (2008) Infection/parasites Escos et al (1995), Campbell and Emlen (1996), Berg et al (1997), Reimchen (1997), Reimchen and Nosil (2001a, b), Loot et al (2001), Reimchen (2002, 2005), Fazio et al (2005), Prieto et al (2005), Pecinkova et al (2007) Predators/predation Moodie and Reimchen (1976), Moodie (1977), Bergstrom and Reimchen (2003) Anthropogenic stressors…”

Section: Abiotic Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…… comparison of levels of FA among traits within single species may reveal differences in the strength of selection for canalization of different traits: presumably, characters of greater functional significance to the organism would be subject to stronger selection for Hechter et al (2000), Moodie (1977) Gasterosteus aculeatus N, A Bakker et al (2006), Bergstrom and Reimchen (2000, Mazzi and Bakker (2001), Moodie and Reimchen (1976), Prieto et al (2005), Reimchen (1997), Reimchen and Bergstrom (2009), Reimchen and Nosil (2001a, b), Reimchen et al (2008), Robinson and Wardrop (2002), Ryabov and Kryshev (1991) Beacham (1990)*, Bengtsson et al (1985)*, Campbell (2000), Campbell and Emlen (1996), Campbell et al (1998), Chebotareva and Izyumov (2001) (2001), Pecinkova et al (2007) canalization. In other words, differences in FA among characters may provide a way of ranking traits in terms of their functional significance to an organism with little or no a priori knowledge of how those characters actually function.…”

Section: Coregonus Lavaretusmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…of colored bands (Kitevski and Pyron 2003), no. of lateral forks on the ascending process of the pelvis (Prieto et al 2005) Rev Fish Biol Fisheries (2011 not distinguish between asymmetry types or assess measurement error despite repeated advice to do so. Deviation from perfect bilateral symmetry can be seen as three distinct types: fluctuating asymmetry (FA), directional asymmetry (DA), and antisymmetry (AA).…”

Section: Coregonus Lavaretusmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Fluctuating asymmetry and exogenous stress in fishes: a review

Allenbach

2010

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Fluctuating asymmetry (FA), which has been examined in a variety of plants and animals, is widely promoted as a useful bioindicator of exogenous stressors in habitats, whether of natural or anthropogenic origin. Wildlife managers and researchers often use a specific group of organisms as an indicator of the health of a given habitat. The purpose of this review is to demonstrate that FA can be an effective fish biomonitoring tool by presenting a vote counting meta-analysis of 81 fish FA studies published between 1966 and the first half of 2009. The vote counts were analyzed with the G test for independence to determine whether the probability of observing significant morphological asymmetry is determined by character type, exogenous stressor type, or fish order. The information obtained from these papers and their analysis is then used to outline areas in which FA studies can be improved: (1) carefully considering character choice; (2) distinguishing between asymmetry types; (3) determining the level of measurement error in between-sides character variation; (4) determining baseline FA levels in populations; (5) increasing the number of laboratory studies which corroborate field observations of FA; (6) conducting true replications of studies to validate previous findings. Only with more critical experimental design and data analysis can FA be used as a powerful tool for assessing environmental degradation.

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Section: Fish Fluctuating Asymmetry Studiesmentioning

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Section: Fish Fluctuating Asymmetry Studiesmentioning

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Fluctuating asymmetry and exogenous stress in fishes: a review

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Parasite infection impairs the shoaling behaviour of uninfected shoal members under predator attack

Demandt

Bierbach

Kurvers

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Behav Ecol Sociobiol

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A key benefit of sociality is a reduction in predation risk. Cohesive group behaviour and rapid collective decision making are essential for reducing predation risk in groups. Parasite infection might reduce an individuals’ grouping behaviours and thereby change the behaviour of the group as a whole. To investigate the relationship between parasite infection and grouping behaviours, we studied groups of three-spined sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus, varying the number of individuals experimentally infected with the cestode Schistocephalus solidus. We studied groups of six sticklebacks containing 0, 2, 3, 4 or 6 infected individuals before and after a simulated bird attack. We predicted that infected individuals would have reduced shoaling and swimming speed and that the presence of infected individuals within a group would reduce group cohesion and speed. Uninfected fish increased shoaling and reduced swimming speed more than infected fish after the bird attack. In groups containing both infected and uninfected fish, the group behaviours were dominated by the more frequent character (uninfected versus infected). Interestingly, groups with equal numbers of uninfected and infected fish showed the least shoaling and had the lowest swimming speeds, suggesting that these groups failed to generate a majority and therefore displayed signs of indecisiveness by reducing their swimming speed the most. Our results provide evidence for a negative effect of infection on a group’s shoaling behaviour, thereby potentially deteriorating collective decision making. The presence of infected individuals might thus have far-reaching consequences in natural populations under predation risk. Significance statement Parasite-infected individuals often show deviating group behaviours. This might reduce the anti-predator benefits of group living. However, it is unknown whether such deviations in group behaviour might influence the shoaling behaviour of uninfected group members and thereby the behaviour of the group as a whole. By experimentally infecting sticklebacks and investigating groups varying in infection rates, we show that infected sticklebacks differ in their shoaling behaviours from uninfected sticklebacks. Additionally, the presence of infected sticklebacks within the group affected the behaviour of uninfected shoal members. We show that shoals of infected fish are less cohesive and move slower compared to shoals of uninfected fish. Furthermore, we show that the infection rate of the shoal is crucial for how the group behaves.

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Morphological asymmetry of insular freshwater populations of threespine stickleback

Kenney

Hippel

2013

Environ Biol Fish

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Geographical and Temporal FA Variation in Threespine Stickleback Populations from Galicia (NW Spain)

Cited by 13 publications

References 47 publications

Fluctuating asymmetry and exogenous stress in fishes: a review

Fluctuating asymmetry and exogenous stress in fishes: a review

Parasite infection impairs the shoaling behaviour of uninfected shoal members under predator attack

Morphological asymmetry of insular freshwater populations of threespine stickleback

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