Absence of intrinsic post-zygotic incompatibilities in artificial crosses between sympatric coregonid species from upper Lake Constance

作者：Eckmann R^*

来源：Journal of Fish Biology, 2015, 86(5): 1601-1611.

DOI：10.1111/jfb.12673

• biodiversity
• eutrophication
• introgressive hybridization
• speciation reversal
• stocking

A full factorial crossing experiment with five females and five males of each of two coregonid species from upper Lake Constance was used to test for intrinsic post-zygotic incompatibilities during early ontogeny. Up until shortly before hatching, there was no difference in embryo mortality between homo and heterologous crosses. A maternal effect on mortality was found in both species, but paternal effects and female-male interactions were absent. Thus, genetic incompatibility during early ontogeny does not appear to prevent introgressive hybridization, suggesting that genetic divergence between these species is maintained primarily by pre-zygotic barriers. The recent genetic homogenizations of coregonid species flocks in European alpine lakes may have been caused by a flattening of adaptive landscapes through eutrophication, but intensive stocking with larvae obtained in hatcheries from artificially fertilized eggs is also likely to be a contributing factor. To safeguard diversity among sympatric coregonids, it is important to re-establish ecological conditions conducive to species divergence and to revise traditional management strategies.

• 出版日期2015-5