dc.contributor.author | Minter, EJA | |
dc.contributor.author | Watts, PC | |
dc.contributor.author | Lowe, CD | |
dc.contributor.author | Brockhurst, MA | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-09T13:18:19Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-06 | |
dc.description.abstract | Natural populations of free-living protists often exhibit high-levels of intraspecific diversity, yet this is puzzling as classic evolutionary theory predicts dominance by genotypes with high fitness, particularly in large populations where selection is efficient. Here, we test whether negative frequency-dependent selection (NFDS) plays a role in the maintenance of diversity in the marine flagellate Oxyrrhis marina using competition experiments between multiple pairs of strains. We observed strain-specific responses to frequency and density, but an overall signature of NFDS that was intensified at higher population densities. Because our strains were not selected a priori on the basis of particular traits expected to exhibit NFDS, these data represent a relatively unbiased estimate of the role for NFDS in maintaining diversity in protist populations. These findings could help to explain how bloom-forming plankton, which periodically achieve exceptionally high population densities, maintain substantial intraspecific diversity. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | E.J.A.M. was supported by a NERC research studentship (NE/H025472/2) as part of the UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 11 (6), article 20150192 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0192 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/26373 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Royal Society | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26063750 | en_GB |
dc.rights | Open access. © 2015 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | density dependence | en_GB |
dc.subject | diversity | en_GB |
dc.subject | frequency dependence | en_GB |
dc.subject | plankton | en_GB |
dc.subject | selection | en_GB |
dc.subject | Dinoflagellida | en_GB |
dc.subject | Genetic Variation | en_GB |
dc.subject | Population Density | en_GB |
dc.subject | Selection, Genetic | en_GB |
dc.title | Negative frequency-dependent selection is intensified at higher population densities in protist populations | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2017-03-09T13:18:19Z | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the final version of the article. Available from the Royal Society via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Biology Letters | en_GB |