Article
Soil calcium availability influences shell ecophenotype formation in the sub-antarctic land snail, Notodiscus hookeri.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Charrier Maryvonne, Marie Arul, Guillaume Damien, Bédouet Laurent, Le Lannic Joseph, Roiland Claire, Berland Sophie, Pierre Jean-Sébastien, Le Floch Marie, Frenot Yves, Lebouvier Marc
Abstract excerpt
Ecophenotypes reflect local matches between organisms and their environment, and show plasticity across generations in response to current living conditions. Plastic responses in shell morphology and shell growth have been widely studied in gastropods and are often related to environmental calcium availability, which influences shell biomineralisation. To date, all of these studies have overlooked micro-scale...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Age Factors
- Analysis of Variance
- Animal Shells
- Animals
- Calcium
- Cluster Analysis
- Environment
- Indian Ocean Islands
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging