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Population structure was estimated in a continuous population of a small land snail (Trochoidea geyeri). Mark-recapture experiments and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analyses indicate that the population structure can be described by the isolation by distance model of Wright (1946). Estimates of density and dispersal suggest a neighbourhood size of 70-208 individuals on an area of 13-21 m². A principal component analysis of the randomly amplified polymorphic DNA data reveals clinal variation of genetic composition across the population, as predicted by the neighbourhood concept. An analysis of molecular variance indicates substantial genetic structuring. Comparisons of the genetic distances, expressed as euclidean distances among individuals, versus the geographic distance between sampling sites yield a highly significant positive correlation (Mantel test: r = 0.567, p<0.0001). The revealed pattern of populational subdivision on a microgeographic scale seems to be one of the principal processes generating and maintaining genetic diversity within populations of small land gastropods.
In an effort to link quantitative morphometric information with molecular data on the population level, we have analysed 19 populations of the conchologically variable land snail Candidula unifasciata from across the species range for variation in quantitative shell traits and at the mitochondrial 16S ribosomal (r)DNA locus. In genetic analysis, including 21 additional populations, we observed two fundamental haplotype clades with an average pairwise sequence divergence of 0.209 ± 0.009 between clades compared to 0.017 ± 0.012 within clades, suggesting the presence of two different evolutionary lineages. Integrating additional shell material from the Senckenberg Malacological Collection, a highly significant discriminant analysis on the morphological shell traits with fundamental haplotype clades as grouping variable suggested that the less frequent haplotype corresponds to the described subspecies C. u. rugosiuscula, which we propose to regard as a distinct species. Both taxa were highly subdivided genetically (FST = 0.648 and 0.777 P < 0.001). This was contrasted by the partition of morphological variance, where only 29.6% and 21.9% of the variance were distributed among populations, respectively. In C. unifasciata, no significant association between population pairwise FST estimates and corresponding morphological fixation indices could be detected, indicating independent evolution of the two character sets. Partial least square analysis of environmental factors against shell trait variables in C. u. unifasciata revealed significant correlations between environmental factors and certain quantitative shell traits, whose potential adaptational values are discussed.
In the present study the population genetic structure of the terrestrial snail Pomatias elegans was related to habitat structure on a microspatial scale. The genetic variability of 1607 individuals from 51 sampling sites in five different populations in Provence, France, was studied with an allozyme marker using population genetic methods, Mantel tests and spatial autocorrelation techniques were applied to different connectivity networks accounting for the structural features of the landscape. It is suggested that the population structure is, to a large extent, a function of the habitat quality, quantified as population density, and of the spatial arrangement of the habitat in the landscape and not of the geographical distance per se. In fragmented habitats, random genetic drift was the prevailing force for sampling sites separated by a few hundred meters.
The study of organisms with restricted dispersal abilities and presence in the fossil record is particularly adequate to understand the impact of climate changes on the distribution and genetic structure of species. Trochoidea geyeri (Soós 1926) is a land snail restricted to a patchy, insular distribution in Germany and France. Fossil evidence suggests that current populations of T. geyeri are relicts of a much more widespread distribution during more favourable climatic periods in the Pleistocene. Results: Phylogeographic analysis of the mitochondrial 16S rDNA and nuclear ITS-1 sequence variation was used to infer the history of the remnant populations of T. geyeri. Nested clade analysis for both loci suggested that the origin of the species is in the Provence from where it expanded its range first to Southwest France and subsequently from there to Germany. Estimated divergence times predating the last glacial maximum between 25–17 ka implied that the colonization of the northern part of the current species range occurred during the Pleistocene. Conclusion: We conclude that T. geyeri could quite successfully persist in cryptic refugia during major climatic changes in the past, despite of a restricted capacity of individuals to actively avoid unfavourable conditions.
The adaptive response of Sorghum bicolor landraces from Egypt to drought stress and following recovery was analyzed using two-dimensional difference gel electrophoresis, 2D-DIGE. Physiological measurements and proteome alterations of accession number 11434, drought tolerant, and accession number 11431, drought sensitive, were compared to their relative control values after drought stress and following recovery. Differentially expressed proteins were analysed by Matrix assisted laser desorption ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry, MALDI-TOF-MS. Alterations in protein contents related to the energy balance, metabolism (sensu Mewes et al. 1997), and chaperons were the most apparent features to elucidate the differences between the drought tolerant and sensitive accessions. Further alterations in the levels of proteins related to transcription and protein synthesis are discussed.
In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird ein neu entwickeltes Erfassungsinstrument für die pflanzliche Artenvielfalt in der Normallandschaft vorgestellt, dass den Namen GISMap trägt. Die standardisierte Vorgehensweise und eine große Reproduzierbarkeit des Aufnahmeverfahrens sind wichtige Eigenschaften der Methode. GISMap basiert auf der GIS-gestützten Auswertung der Landschaftsstruktur, die in Form eines digitalen Landschaftsmodells (DLM) zugrunde gelegt wird. Im Zentrum der Methode steht ein im Rahmen der Arbeit entwickelter Algorithmus, der eine zufallsgesteuerte Festlegung von Aufnahmeflächen in der zu untersuchenden Landschaft vornimmt und sich dabei an den Ökotonen orientiert, die sich zwischen zwei benachbarten Landschaftselementen ausbilden. Ökotone sind als Übergangsbiotope häufig sehr reich an Strukturen und können daher eine große Artenvielfalt aufweisen. GIS-Map macht sich diese ökologische Gegebenheit zunutze, um auf möglichst kleinem Raum eine große Artenzahl zu erfassen. Die von GISMap errechneten Aufnahmeflächenkoordinaten wurden mit Hilfe eines GPS-Empfängers im Gelände lokalisiert und einer floristischen Untersuchung unterzogen. Als geeignete Aufnahmeflächengröße erwies sich dabei ein Kreis mit einer Fläche von 700 m². Die Flächen wurden mit Magneten markiert, um sie zur Dauerbeobachtung der Flora nutzen zu können. In dem 33 km² großen Untersuchungsgebiet, das im östlichen Bereich des Taunus liegt, wurden insgesamt 141 Aufnahmeflächen für 16 64tel-MTB-Rasterfelder angelegt. Um den mit der Methode zu erzielenden Erfassungsgrad abschätzen zu können, wurden umfangreiche Vergleichsuntersuchungen durchgeführt, die auch eine Auswertung vorliegender Literaturquellen mit einschlossen. In den 16 untersuchten Rasterfeldern konnten durchschnittlich 73 % der insgesamt vorkommenden Arten mit der Methode erfasst werden. Dazu müssen nur 0,3 % der Fläche tatsächlich einer floristischen Untersuchung unterzogen werden. Alle kartierten Arten erhalten dabei eine punktgenaue Koordinate. Die Methode wurde als Basisinstrument konzipiert und sollte mit bereits vorliegenden Fachdaten kombiniert werden, um die Erfassung der Farn- und Samenpflanzen eines Gebietes zu vervollständigen. Diskutiert wird der Einsatz im Rahmen eines Landschaftsinformationssystems (LIS). Durch eine Ergänzung der mit GISMap erhobenen Daten mit anderen vegetationskundlichen Daten aus dem Untersuchungsgebiet konnte der Erfassungs-grad von 73 % auf 85 % gesteigert werden. Im Rahmen der Arbeit werden zahlreiche Möglichkeiten der technischen Weiterentwicklung dargestellt, die zu einer Optimierung der Methode beitragen können. Ausgehend von den Daten des digitalen Landschaftsmodells wurden zur Beschreibung der landschaftlichen Struktur des Untersuchungsgebietes verschiedene Landschaftsstrukturmaße berechnet, wie sie in der modernen landschaftsökologischen Forschung mittlerweile häufig zum Einsatz kommen. Diese wurden mit den erfassten Sippenzahlen korreliert, um Zusammenhänge zwischen der Landschaftsstruktur und dem auftretenden floristischen Ar-tenreichtum darzustellen. Dabei wurde auch der Fragestellung nachgegangen, ob auf der Basis von Maßzahlen für die Landschaftsstruktur Prognosen über die zu erwartende pflanzli-che Artenvielfalt getroffen werden können. Ein weiterer Aspekt der Untersuchungen bestand in der Nutzung des entstandenen Aufnahmeflächennetzes zur langfristigen Beobachtung von Veränderungen der Vegetation des betrachteten Landschaftsausschnittes. Anhand der Frequenzen in den Aufnahmeflächen kann mit GISMap ein langfristiges Monitoring auf der Ebene einzelner Arten durchgeführt werden. Dies wird u. a. in Hinblick auf die im Untersuchungsgebiet auftretenden Neophyten diskutiert. Als Möglichkeit zum Monitoring der gesamten Vegetation wurde der Ansatz verfolgt, die Verteilung der kartierten Arten auf 24 häufig in der Literatur beschriebene Pflanzenformationen festzustellen. Es wird vorgeschlagen, eine langfristige Beobachtung dieses Verteilungsmusters vorzunehmen, um einen Aufschluss über ökologische Veränderungen der Landschaft anhand der Vegetation zu erhalten. Weitere Auswertungen der gesammelten floristischen Daten beziehen sich auf ihre Eignung zum Monitoring von klimatischen Veränderungen. Die Berechnung mittlerer Temperaturzahlen für 6 Höhenstufen erwies sich dabei als ungeeignet, da ihre Unterschiede zwischen den Höhenstufen nicht statistisch abzusichern waren. Darüber hinaus wurde die Verteilung von Kühlezeigern in dem entstandenen Aufnahmeflächennetz für die verschiedenen Höhenstufen untersucht. Hinweise zu ihrer Eignung als Indikatoren für klimatische Veränderungen werden diskutiert.
There is a growing body of evidence that indicates common environmental pollutants are capable of disrupting reproductive and developmental processes by interfering with the actions of endogenous hormones. Many reports of endocrine disruption describe changes in the normal development of organs and tissues that are consistent with genetic damage, and recent studies confirm that many chemicals classified to have hormone-modulating effects also possess carcinogenic and mutagenic potential. To date, however, there have been no conclusive examples linking genetic damage with perturbation of endocrine function and adverse effects in vivo. Here, we provide the first evidence of DNA damage associated with the development of imposex (the masculinization of female gastropods considered to be the result of alterations to endocrine-mediated pathways) in the dog-whelk Nucella lapillus. Animals (n = 257) that displayed various stages of tributyltin (TBT)-induced imposex were collected from sites in southwest England, and their imposex status was determined by physical examination. Linear regression analysis revealed a very strong relationship (correlation coefficient of 0.935, p < 0.0001) between the degree of imposex and the extent of DNA damage (micronucleus formation) in hemocytes. Moreover, histological examination of a larger number of dog-whelks collected from sites throughout Europe confirmed the presence of hyperplastic growths, primarily on the vas deferens and penis in both TBT-exposed male snails and in females that exhibited imposex. A strong association was found between TBT body burden and the prevalence of abnormal growths, thereby providing compelling evidence to support the hypothesis that environmental chemicals that affect reproductive processes do so partly through DNA damage pathways.
Previous investigations have shown that bisphenol A (BPA) induces a superfeminization syndrome in the freshwater snail Marisa cornuarietis at concentrations as low as 1 μg/L. Superfemales are characterized by the formation of additional female organs, enlarged accessory sex glands, gross malformations of the pallial oviduct, and a stimulation of egg and clutch production, resulting in increased female mortality. However, these studies were challenged on the basis of incomplete experimentation. Therefore, the objective of the current approach was to bridge several gaps in knowledge by conducting additional experiments. In an initial series of experiments, study results from the reproductive phase of the snails were evaluated in the sub-micrograms per liter range. Before and after the spawning season, superfemale responses were observed [NOEC (no observed effect concentration) 7.9 ng/L, EC10 (effective concentration at 10%) 13.9 ng/L], which were absent during the spawning season. A further experiment investigated the temperature dependence of BPA responses by exposing snails at two temperatures in parallel. The adverse effect of BPA was at least partially masked at 27°C (EC10 998 ng/L) when compared with 20°C (EC10 14.8 ng/L). In M. cornuarietis, BPA acts as an estrogen receptor (ER) agonist, because effects were completely antagonized by a co-exposure to tamoxifen and Faslodex. Antiandrogenic effects of BPA, such as a significant decrease in penis length at 20°C, were also observed. Competitive receptor displacement experiments indicate the presence of androgen- and estrogen-specific binding sites. The affinity for BPA of the estrogen binding sites in M. cornuarietis is higher than that of the ER in aquatic vertebrates. The results emphasize that prosobranchs are affected by BPA at lower concentrations than are other wildlife groups, and the findings also highlight the importance of exposure conditions.
We welcome critical appraisals that help to provide balance; however, Dietrich et al. gave an unjustified reproach. We feel that Dietrich’s position is severely compromised because he serves as an expert for the bisphenol A (BPA) Industry Group (Brussels, Belgium). We would like to respond to the issues raised by Dietrich et al., as well as to their oversights and inappropriate interpretations of our findings...
Resting egg banks of microcrustaceans have been used to reconstruct the evolutionary and ecological history of species. However, recent studies provided evidence for a discrepancy between dormant propagules in the sediment and the planktonic population. This pattern raises two questions: First, what is the value of data on resting egg banks for population dynamics over time and second, which component of the reproductive cycle causes the observed inconsistency? In our study we focussed on the second question by comparing the taxon composition of a resting egg bank with the reproductive success of ex-ephippial hatchlings. Species and interspecific hybrid identification of dormant and hatched stages was achieved through the application of restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of an internal transcribed spacer region. We found no significant deviation between the proportion of hatched Daphnia galeata, D. galeata x hyalina and D. hyalina individuals and the observed taxon composition of the resting egg bank. However, species and hybrids differed in their mode and relative success of reproduction. We conclude that the components of reproductive success in Daphnia contribute differentially to the fitness of species and interspecific hybrids. The discrepancy between resting egg banks and "active" planktonic populations results not from differential hatching of species but from the reproductive success of ex-ephippial females and the timing and frequency of sexual reproduction of the different taxa.