Mother-offspring conflict for water and its mitigation in the oviparous form of the reproductively bimodal lizard, Zootoca vivipara
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Date | 2020-04 | ||||||||||||
Language | English | ||||||||||||
Author(s) | Dupoue Andreaz1, 2, Sorlin Mahaut1, Richard Murielle1, Le Galliard Jean Francois3, 4, Lourdais Olivier5, 6, Clobert Jean1, Aubret Fabien1, 7 | ||||||||||||
Affiliation(s) | 1 : CNRS, UMR 5321, Stn Ecol Theor & Expt Moulis, F-09200 St Girons, France. 2 : Monash Univ, Sch Biol Sci, 25 Rainforest Walk,Clayton Campus, Melbourne, Vic 3800, Australia. 3 : Sorbonne Univ, iEES Paris, CNRS, UMR 7618, Tours 44-45,4 Pl Jussieu, F-75005 Paris, France. 4 : PSL Res Univ, Ctr Rech Ecol Expt & Predict CEREEP Ecotron IleDe, UMS 3194, Ecole Normale Super,Dept Biol,CNRS, 78 Rue Chateau, F-77140 St Pierre Les Nemours, France. 5 : La Rochelle Univ, Ctr Etud Biol Chize, CNRS, UMR 7372, F-79360 Beauvoir Sur Niort, France. 6 : Arizona State Univ, Sch Life Sci, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA. 7 : Curtin Univ, Sch Mol & Life Sci, Brand Dr, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia. |
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Source | Biological Journal Of The Linnean Society (0024-4066) (Oxford Univ Press), 2020-04 , Vol. 129 , N. 4 , P. 888-900 | ||||||||||||
DOI | 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa012 | ||||||||||||
WOS© Times Cited | 3 | ||||||||||||
Keyword(s) | altitude, dehydration, ectotherm, mother-offspring conflicts, parity mode, reproduction | ||||||||||||
Abstract | Parent-offspring conflicts are widespread given that resources are often limited. Recent evidence has shown that availability of water can trigger such conflict during pregnancy in viviparous squamate species (lizards and snakes) and thus questions the role of water in the evolution of reproductive modes. Here, we examined the impact of water restriction during gravidity in the oviparous form of the bimodal common lizard (Zootoca vivipara), using a protocol previously used on the viviparous form. Females were captured in early gravidity from six populations along a 600 m altitudinal gradient to investigate whether environmental conditions (altitude, water access and temperature) exacerbate responses to water restriction. Females were significantly dehydrated after water restriction, irrespective of their reproductive status (gravid vs. non-reproductive), relative reproductive effort (relative clutch mass), and treatment timing (embryonic development stage). Female dehydration, together with reproductive performance, varied with altitude, probably due to long term acclimation or local adaptation. This moderate water-based intergenerational conflict in gravid females contrasts sharply with previous findings for the viviparous form, with implications to the evolutionary reversion from viviparity to oviparity. It is likely that oviparity constitutes a water-saving reproductive mode which might help mitigate intensive temperature-driven population extinctions at low altitudes. |
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