The morphological plastic response to water current velocity varies with age and sexual state in juvenile Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar
Summary 1. Salmonids, like many other fish species, exhibit morphological plasticity to variations in water current velocity. However, little is known about how this response varies with age and alternative sexual tactics that usually coexist in the same area. We therefore sampled immature 1‐ and 2‐...
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crwiley:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.01989.x 2024-06-02T08:03:41+00:00 The morphological plastic response to water current velocity varies with age and sexual state in juvenile Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar PÁEZ, DAVID JAMES HEDGER, RICHARD BERNATCHEZ, LOUIS DODSON, JULIAN J. 2008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.01989.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1365-2427.2008.01989.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.01989.x en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Freshwater Biology volume 53, issue 8, page 1544-1554 ISSN 0046-5070 1365-2427 journal-article 2008 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.01989.x 2024-05-03T11:58:52Z Summary 1. Salmonids, like many other fish species, exhibit morphological plasticity to variations in water current velocity. However, little is known about how this response varies with age and alternative sexual tactics that usually coexist in the same area. We therefore sampled immature 1‐ and 2‐year‐old and sexually mature Salmo salar parr to determine how the morphological response to slow and rapid water currents varies across these groups. 2. Both 1‐ and 2‐year‐old immature parr in rapid habitats can be distinguished from individuals in slow habitats using a combination of fin measurements. In contrast, body shape measurements were useful only to distinguish 2‐year‐old individuals in the different habitat types. We also showed that mature parr are notably robust, irrespective of habitat type. For these individuals, only their body length differed between slow and rapid water currents, being bigger in slow water currents. 3. Our results imply that fins are the first structures to respond to water current velocity, followed by changes in body shape as individuals grow bigger. The robust phenotype observed for mature parr is likely to pose extra limitations on movement due to an increase in drag forces, thus contributing to their smaller size in rapid water currents. Article in Journal/Newspaper Atlantic salmon Salmo salar Wiley Online Library Freshwater Biology 53 8 1544 1554 |
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Summary 1. Salmonids, like many other fish species, exhibit morphological plasticity to variations in water current velocity. However, little is known about how this response varies with age and alternative sexual tactics that usually coexist in the same area. We therefore sampled immature 1‐ and 2‐year‐old and sexually mature Salmo salar parr to determine how the morphological response to slow and rapid water currents varies across these groups. 2. Both 1‐ and 2‐year‐old immature parr in rapid habitats can be distinguished from individuals in slow habitats using a combination of fin measurements. In contrast, body shape measurements were useful only to distinguish 2‐year‐old individuals in the different habitat types. We also showed that mature parr are notably robust, irrespective of habitat type. For these individuals, only their body length differed between slow and rapid water currents, being bigger in slow water currents. 3. Our results imply that fins are the first structures to respond to water current velocity, followed by changes in body shape as individuals grow bigger. The robust phenotype observed for mature parr is likely to pose extra limitations on movement due to an increase in drag forces, thus contributing to their smaller size in rapid water currents. |
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PÁEZ, DAVID JAMES HEDGER, RICHARD BERNATCHEZ, LOUIS DODSON, JULIAN J. The morphological plastic response to water current velocity varies with age and sexual state in juvenile Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar |
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PÁEZ, DAVID JAMES HEDGER, RICHARD BERNATCHEZ, LOUIS DODSON, JULIAN J. |
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PÁEZ, DAVID JAMES |
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The morphological plastic response to water current velocity varies with age and sexual state in juvenile Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar |
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The morphological plastic response to water current velocity varies with age and sexual state in juvenile Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar |
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The morphological plastic response to water current velocity varies with age and sexual state in juvenile Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar |
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The morphological plastic response to water current velocity varies with age and sexual state in juvenile Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar |
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The morphological plastic response to water current velocity varies with age and sexual state in juvenile Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar |
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morphological plastic response to water current velocity varies with age and sexual state in juvenile atlantic salmon, salmo salar |
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