Predator-induced phenotypic plasticity between sea ribbons (Octocorallia: pterogorgia) and Flamingo tongue snail (Cyphoma gibbosum)
Phenotypic plasticity has been proposed as an important factor in the evolutionary history of octocorals, as a response induced by abiotic factors of the environment. However, the biotic factors, such as predation by gastropod mollusks, have not been taken into account as triggered factors of phenot...
- Autores:
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Vergara Florez, Diana Carolina
- Tipo de recurso:
- Trabajo de grado de pregrado
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2017
- Institución:
- Universidad de los Andes
- Repositorio:
- Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/61918
- Acceso en línea:
- http://hdl.handle.net/1992/61918
- Palabra clave:
- Cyphoma gibbosum
Octocorallia
Plasticidad fenotípica
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
| Summary: | Phenotypic plasticity has been proposed as an important factor in the evolutionary history of octocorals, as a response induced by abiotic factors of the environment. However, the biotic factors, such as predation by gastropod mollusks, have not been taken into account as triggered factors of phenotypic plasticity. The objective of this study was to test that the morphological variations exhibited by Pterogorgia corals are a result of an evolutionary stable strategy due to phenotypic plasticity. The morphological variation among morphotypes with and without injuries in the coenenchymal tissue, was tested as a model of phenotypic plasticity due to predation by the flamingo tongue snail (Cyphoma gibbosum) using common garden experiments in San Andrús island, Colombian Caribbean. |
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