GROWTH RATE CORRELATES TO INDIVIDUAL HETEROZYGOSITY IN THE EUROPEAN EEL, ANGUILLA ANGUILLA L
Heterozygosity-fitness correlations (HFCs) have been reported in populations of many species. We provide evidence for a positive correlation between genetic variability and growth rate at 12 allozyme loci in a catadromous marine fish species, the European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.). More heterozygou...
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ftbioone:10.1554/04-377 2023-07-30T03:56:11+02:00 GROWTH RATE CORRELATES TO INDIVIDUAL HETEROZYGOSITY IN THE EUROPEAN EEL, ANGUILLA ANGUILLA L J. M. Pujolar G. E. Maes C. Vancoillie F. A M. Volckaert J. M. Pujolar G. E. Maes C. Vancoillie F. A M. Volckaert world 2005-01-01 text/HTML https://doi.org/10.1554/04-377 en eng The Society for the Study of Evolution doi:10.1554/04-377 All rights reserved. https://doi.org/10.1554/04-377 Text 2005 ftbioone https://doi.org/10.1554/04-377 2023-07-09T09:27:36Z Heterozygosity-fitness correlations (HFCs) have been reported in populations of many species. We provide evidence for a positive correlation between genetic variability and growth rate at 12 allozyme loci in a catadromous marine fish species, the European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.). More heterozygous individuals show a significantly higher length and weight increase and an above average condition index in comparison with more homozygous individuals. To a lesser extent, six microsatellite loci show a similar pattern, with positive but not significant correlations between heterozygosity and growth rate. The HFCs observed could be explained by an effect of either direct allozyme overdominance or associative overdominance. Selection affecting some of the allozyme loci would explain the greater strength of the HFCs found at allozymes in comparison with microsatellites and the lack of correlation between MLH at allozymes and MLH at microsatellites. Associative overdominance (where allozyme loci are merely acting as neutral markers of closely linked fitness loci) might provide an explanation for the HFCs if we consider that allozyme loci have a higher chance than microsatellites to be in linkage disequilibrium with fitness loci. Text Anguilla anguilla European eel BioOne Online Journals Evolution 59 1 189 |
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Heterozygosity-fitness correlations (HFCs) have been reported in populations of many species. We provide evidence for a positive correlation between genetic variability and growth rate at 12 allozyme loci in a catadromous marine fish species, the European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.). More heterozygous individuals show a significantly higher length and weight increase and an above average condition index in comparison with more homozygous individuals. To a lesser extent, six microsatellite loci show a similar pattern, with positive but not significant correlations between heterozygosity and growth rate. The HFCs observed could be explained by an effect of either direct allozyme overdominance or associative overdominance. Selection affecting some of the allozyme loci would explain the greater strength of the HFCs found at allozymes in comparison with microsatellites and the lack of correlation between MLH at allozymes and MLH at microsatellites. Associative overdominance (where allozyme loci are merely acting as neutral markers of closely linked fitness loci) might provide an explanation for the HFCs if we consider that allozyme loci have a higher chance than microsatellites to be in linkage disequilibrium with fitness loci. |
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GROWTH RATE CORRELATES TO INDIVIDUAL HETEROZYGOSITY IN THE EUROPEAN EEL, ANGUILLA ANGUILLA L |
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GROWTH RATE CORRELATES TO INDIVIDUAL HETEROZYGOSITY IN THE EUROPEAN EEL, ANGUILLA ANGUILLA L |
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GROWTH RATE CORRELATES TO INDIVIDUAL HETEROZYGOSITY IN THE EUROPEAN EEL, ANGUILLA ANGUILLA L |
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GROWTH RATE CORRELATES TO INDIVIDUAL HETEROZYGOSITY IN THE EUROPEAN EEL, ANGUILLA ANGUILLA L |
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GROWTH RATE CORRELATES TO INDIVIDUAL HETEROZYGOSITY IN THE EUROPEAN EEL, ANGUILLA ANGUILLA L |
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growth rate correlates to individual heterozygosity in the european eel, anguilla anguilla l |
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