10.5281/zenodo.3459466
https://zenodo.org/records/3459466
oai:zenodo.org:3459466
Océane C. Salles
Océane C. Salles
Glenn R. Almany
Glenn R. Almany
Michael L. Berumen
Michael L. Berumen
Geoffrey P. Jones
Geoffrey P. Jones
Pablo Saenz-Agudelo
Pablo Saenz-Agudelo
Maya Srinivasan
Maya Srinivasan
Simon R. Thorrold
Simon R. Thorrold
Benoit Pujol
Benoit Pujol
Serge Planes
Serge Planes
Strong habitat and weak genetic effects shape the lifetime reproductive success in a wild clownfish population
Zenodo
2019
multi-generational pedigree, additive genetic variation, maternal effects, environmental effects, adaptation, selection, heritability, evolvability
2019-06-18
eng
10.5281/zenodo.3248744
Version 3
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Lifetime reproductive success (LRS), the number of offspring an individual contributes to the next generation, is of fundamental importance in ecology and evolutionary biology. LRS may be influenced by environmental, maternal and additive genetic factors, and the relative contributions of each are critical in determining whether species can adapt to rapid environmental change. However, studies quantifying LRS across multiple generations in wild populations are extremely rare, and to date, non-existent for marine species. Here we use pedigrees of up to 5 generations resolved from a 10-year data-set for a wild orange clownfish population from Kimbe Island (PNG) to assess the contribution of every breeder to the local population. We quantified the additive genetic, maternal and environmental contributions to variation in LRS for the self-recruiting portion of the population using a genetic linear mixed model approach. We found that the habitat of the breeder, including the anemone species and geographic location, made the greatest contribution to LRS, explaining ~97% of the variation. There were low to negligible contributions of genetic (1.3%) and maternal factors (1.9%) equating with low heritability and evolvability. Our findings imply our population will be extremely susceptible to short-term, small-scale changes in habitat structure and may have limited capacity to adapt to these changes.
Response to reviewers, Manuscript, Supplementary information and R code