Journal
CONSERVATION GENETICS
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 567-579Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-011-0308-8
Keywords
Fitness; Hybrid breakdown; Interpopulation hybridization; Morphology; Multiple generation; Outbreeding depression
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- United States National Science Foundation [DEB-0316807]
- University of Southern California
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For the intertidal copepod Tigriopus californicus, outbreeding depression for a variety of fitness measures is typically observed in early-generation interpopulation hybrids. We examined both controlled crosses and long-term, freely mating experimental hybrid swarms composed of individuals from Baja California (Mexico) populations Playa Altamira and Punta Morro. In controlled crosses, F1 and F2 hybrids showed large and significant declines in hatching numbers compared to parentals, while reciprocal backcrosses produced no offspring at all. For long-term studies, four treatment groups were initiated: 100%PA, 100%PM, 50%PA: 50%PM, and 80%PA: 20%PM. Replicates were surveyed at 3-month intervals for morphometric, census and fitness measures. The PA and 80PA:20PM treatments had initial fitness below the PM treatment, and went extinct within the first 12 months of the experiment. The 50: 50 treatment had fitness below the PM parent at the 3- and 6-month time points, recovered to equivalent or superior fitness from months 9 to 18, and dropped again below PM at month 21. Limited genotyping of diagnostic microsatellites was consistent with PM alleles going nearly to fixation in hybrid replicates and male morphological data were concordant with a shift toward MP values. Results were strikingly different from a recent study of a different pair of populations showing extensive introgression and superior fitness in hybrid populations. This demonstrates how long-term consequences of population mixing depend on the relative fitness and level of compatibility between hybridizing populations.
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