Publication Date:
2003-05-17
Description:
Although pairs of species often interact over broad geographic ranges, few studies have explored how interactions vary across these large spatial scales. Surveys along 1500 kilometers of the Pacific coast of North America documented marked variation in the frequency of predation by the snail Nucella canaliculata on the intertidal mussel Mytilus californianus. Laboratory rearing experiments suggest that regional differences in drilling behavior have a genetic basis, and mitochondrial sequence variation confirms that gene flow is low among these snail populations. Marine communities separated by hundreds of kilometers may have intrinsically different dynamics, with interactions shaped by restricted gene flow and spatially varying selection.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sanford, Eric -- Roth, Melissa S -- Johns, Glenn C -- Wares, John P -- Somero, George N -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2003 May 16;300(5622):1135-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA. eric_sanford@brown.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12750518" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Bivalvia/*physiology
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California
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Ecosystem
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Genetic Variation
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Genetics, Population
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Pacific Ocean
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*Predatory Behavior
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Selection, Genetic
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Snails/*physiology
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Washington
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
