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Sex dependent sexual reproduction strategies in a cyclic parthenogen—A case study from intermittent urban pond

dc.abstract.enThe fitness of animals inhabiting highly unpredictable intermittent ponds depends on the effectiveness of the production of their resting stages. Daphnia living in such an environment produce sexual eggs as well as the males needed to fertilize them. We hypothesize that the strategy of permanent male presence should coexist with the synchronization of the production of males with that of sexual eggs. To test this hypothesis, we collected plankton samples from a model urban pond, two times a week, throughout the growing season. We analyzed in detail a number of environmental factors and the population dynamics of two Daphnia populations. The percentage of ephippial females and males periodically reached c.a. 50 % of the population. Depending on the moment of the growing season, this proportion was primarily influenced by population crowding, the richness of invertebrate predators in the habitat, extreme high temperatures and the occurrence of the autumnal photoperiod. Our results confirm the hypothesis that Daphnia produce simultaneously long-living males and males synchronized with receptive females. Additionally, we have shown that the number of resting eggs deposited by temporally-isolated populations varied significantly; thus the fitness of a particular genotype depends on the season and on the particular timing of its activation.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorGrzesiuk, Malgorzata
dc.contributor.authorMikulski, Andrzej
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-26T07:34:54Z
dc.date.available2024-01-26T07:34:54Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.financePublikacja bezkosztowa
dc.description.volume83
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/J.LIMNO.2020.125795
dc.identifier.issn0075-9511
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/119693
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0075951119302440?via%3Dihub
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationbiological sciences
dc.relation.ispartofLimnologica
dc.relation.pages1-10
dc.rightsClosedAccess
dc.sciencecloudnosend
dc.subject.enResting eggs
dc.subject.enCyclical parthenogenesis
dc.subject.enCrowding
dc.subject.enUnpredictable environment
dc.subject.enFitness
dc.subject.enMale
dc.subject.enReceptive female
dc.subject.enEphippia
dc.subject.enDaphnia
dc.titleSex dependent sexual reproduction strategies in a cyclic parthenogen—A case study from intermittent urban pond
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication