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Reciprocal phenotypic plasticity in a predator-prey interaction between larval amphibians
| Title: | Reciprocal phenotypic plasticity in a predator-prey interaction between larval amphibians |
| Authors: | Kishida, Osamu Browse this author →KAKEN DB | | Mizuta, Yuuki Browse this author | | Nishimura, Kinya Browse this author |
| Keywords: | arms race | | bulgy phenotype | | coevolution | | Hynobius retardatus | | inducible defense | | inducible offense | | predator-induced plasticity | | Rana pirica |
| Issue Date: | Jun-2006 |
| Publisher: | Ecological Society of America |
| Journal Title: | Ecology |
| Volume: | 87 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page: | 1599 |
| End Page: | 1604 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1599:RPPIAP]2.0.CO;2 |
| PMID: | 16869435 |
| Abstract: | In biological interactions, phenotypic change in interacting organisms induced by their interaction partners causes a substantial shift in some environmental factor of the partners, which may subsequently change their phenotype in response to that modified environmental factor. Few examples of such arms-race-like plastic responses, known as reciprocal phenotypic plasticity, have been identified in predator–prey interactions. We experimentally identified a reciprocal defensive plastic response of a prey species against a predator with a predaceous phenotype using a model system of close predator–prey interaction. Rana pirica tadpoles (the prey species) were reared with larvae of the salamander Hynobius retardatus (the predator species) having either a predaceous or a typical, nonpredaceous phenotype. The H. retardatus larvae with the predaceous phenotype, which is known to be induced by the presence of R. pirica tadpoles, induced a more defensive phenotype in the tadpoles than did larvae with the typical phenotype. The result suggests that the reciprocal phenotypic plasticity of R. pirica tadpoles is in response to a phenotype-specific signal under a close-signal recognition process. |
| Type: | article |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/30191 |
| Appears in Collections: | 水産科学院・水産科学研究院 (Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences / Faculty of Fisheries Sciences) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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Submitter: 西村 欣也
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