Data from: How old are you? Genet age estimates in a clonal animal
Foundation species such as redwoods, seagrasses and corals are often long-lived and clonal. Genets may consist of hundreds of members (ramets) and originated hundreds to thousands of years ago. As climate change and other stressors exert selection pressure on species, the demography of populations c...
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ftdryad:oai:v1.datadryad.org:10255/dryad.114959 2023-05-15T17:40:22+02:00 Data from: How old are you? Genet age estimates in a clonal animal Devlin-Durante, Meghann K. Miller, Margaret W. Caribbean Acropora Research Group Precht, William F. Baums, Iliana B. Caribbean North-West Atlantic Holocene 2016-09-26T15:23:30Z http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.114959 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6600.1 unknown doi:10.5061/dryad.f6600.1/1.1 doi:10.5061/dryad.f6600.1/2.1 doi:10.1111/mec.13865 PMID:27671533 doi:10.5061/dryad.f6600.1 Devlin-Durante MK, Miller MW, Caribbean Acropora Research Group, Precht WF, Baums IB (2016) How old are you? Genet age estimates in a clonal animal. Molecular Ecology 25(22): 5628–5646. 0962-1083 http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.114959 Somatic mutations microsatellite Longevity Clonal Population Dynamics Article 2016 ftdryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6600.1 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6600.1/1.1 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6600.1/2.1 https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13865 2020-01-01T15:34:19Z Foundation species such as redwoods, seagrasses and corals are often long-lived and clonal. Genets may consist of hundreds of members (ramets) and originated hundreds to thousands of years ago. As climate change and other stressors exert selection pressure on species, the demography of populations changes. Yet, because size does not indicate age in clonal organisms, demographic models are missing data necessary to predict the resilience of many foundation species. Here, we correlate somatic mutations with genet age of corals and provide the first, preliminary estimates of genet age in a colonial animal. We observed somatic mutations at five microsatellite loci in rangewide samples of the endangered coral, Acropora palmata (n = 3352). Colonies harboured 342 unique mutations in 147 genets. Genet age ranged from 30 to 838 years assuming a mutation rate of 1.195−04 per locus per year based on colony growth rates and 236 to 6500 years assuming a mutation rate of 1.542−05 per locus per year based on sea level changes to habitat availability. Long-lived A. palmata genets imply a large capacity to tolerate past environmental change, and yet recent mass mortality events in A. palmata suggest that capacity is now being frequently exceeded. Article in Journal/Newspaper North West Atlantic Dryad Digital Repository (Duke University) |
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Foundation species such as redwoods, seagrasses and corals are often long-lived and clonal. Genets may consist of hundreds of members (ramets) and originated hundreds to thousands of years ago. As climate change and other stressors exert selection pressure on species, the demography of populations changes. Yet, because size does not indicate age in clonal organisms, demographic models are missing data necessary to predict the resilience of many foundation species. Here, we correlate somatic mutations with genet age of corals and provide the first, preliminary estimates of genet age in a colonial animal. We observed somatic mutations at five microsatellite loci in rangewide samples of the endangered coral, Acropora palmata (n = 3352). Colonies harboured 342 unique mutations in 147 genets. Genet age ranged from 30 to 838 years assuming a mutation rate of 1.195−04 per locus per year based on colony growth rates and 236 to 6500 years assuming a mutation rate of 1.542−05 per locus per year based on sea level changes to habitat availability. Long-lived A. palmata genets imply a large capacity to tolerate past environmental change, and yet recent mass mortality events in A. palmata suggest that capacity is now being frequently exceeded. |
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Devlin-Durante, Meghann K. Miller, Margaret W. Caribbean Acropora Research Group Precht, William F. Baums, Iliana B. |
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Devlin-Durante, Meghann K. Miller, Margaret W. Caribbean Acropora Research Group Precht, William F. Baums, Iliana B. |
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Data from: How old are you? Genet age estimates in a clonal animal |
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doi:10.5061/dryad.f6600.1/1.1 doi:10.5061/dryad.f6600.1/2.1 doi:10.1111/mec.13865 PMID:27671533 doi:10.5061/dryad.f6600.1 Devlin-Durante MK, Miller MW, Caribbean Acropora Research Group, Precht WF, Baums IB (2016) How old are you? Genet age estimates in a clonal animal. Molecular Ecology 25(22): 5628–5646. 0962-1083 http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.114959 |
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