Does Motility‐Restricting Fibrosis Influence Dispersal? An Experiment in Nature With Threespine Stickleback
ABSTRACT Dispersal can affect individual‐level fitness and population‐level ecological and evolutionary processes. Factors that affect dispersal could therefore have important eco‐evolutionary implications. Here, we investigated the extent to which an inflammation and tissue repair response—peritone...
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| description | ABSTRACT Dispersal can affect individual‐level fitness and population‐level ecological and evolutionary processes. Factors that affect dispersal could therefore have important eco‐evolutionary implications. Here, we investigated the extent to which an inflammation and tissue repair response—peritoneal fibrosis—which is known to restrict movement, could influence dispersal by conducting a mark‐recapture experiment in a lake in Alaska with threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculatus). A subset of captured stickleback were injected with aluminium phosphate to experimentally induce fibrosis (‘treatment group’), and another subset were injected with saline or received no injection—both of which do not induce fibrosis (‘control group’). We released all fish at one introduction point and re‐sampled stickleback throughout the lake for 8 days. We recaptured 123 individuals (n = 47 fibrosis treatment; n = 76 control) and dissected them to determine fibrosis levels. Overall, fibrosis did not affect dispersal. Some compelling (but not statistically significant) trends suggest that early‐stage inflammation may affect dispersal, providing opportunities for future work. By showing that effects on dispersal are not important side effects of fibrosis, these findings improve our understanding of the ecological implications of immune responses. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-36eba417ca0b4e429d8962438f9341c12025-08-20T02:00:48ZengWileyEcology and Evolution2045-77582024-12-011412n/an/a10.1002/ece3.70697Does Motility‐Restricting Fibrosis Influence Dispersal? An Experiment in Nature With Threespine SticklebackAlexis M. Heckley0Daniel I. Bolnick1Francis Dinh2Andrew P. Hendry3Natalie C. Steinel4Department of Biology McGill University Quebec CanadaDepartment of Ecology Evolutionary Biology University of Connecticut Storrs Connecticut USADepartment of Biology McGill University Quebec CanadaDepartment of Biology McGill University Quebec CanadaDepartment of Biological Sciences University of Massachusetts Lowell Lowell Massachusetts USAABSTRACT Dispersal can affect individual‐level fitness and population‐level ecological and evolutionary processes. Factors that affect dispersal could therefore have important eco‐evolutionary implications. Here, we investigated the extent to which an inflammation and tissue repair response—peritoneal fibrosis—which is known to restrict movement, could influence dispersal by conducting a mark‐recapture experiment in a lake in Alaska with threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculatus). A subset of captured stickleback were injected with aluminium phosphate to experimentally induce fibrosis (‘treatment group’), and another subset were injected with saline or received no injection—both of which do not induce fibrosis (‘control group’). We released all fish at one introduction point and re‐sampled stickleback throughout the lake for 8 days. We recaptured 123 individuals (n = 47 fibrosis treatment; n = 76 control) and dissected them to determine fibrosis levels. Overall, fibrosis did not affect dispersal. Some compelling (but not statistically significant) trends suggest that early‐stage inflammation may affect dispersal, providing opportunities for future work. By showing that effects on dispersal are not important side effects of fibrosis, these findings improve our understanding of the ecological implications of immune responses.https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70697fibrosisimmunitylocomotionmovementparasitismSchistocephalus |
| spellingShingle | Alexis M. Heckley Daniel I. Bolnick Francis Dinh Andrew P. Hendry Natalie C. Steinel Does Motility‐Restricting Fibrosis Influence Dispersal? An Experiment in Nature With Threespine Stickleback Ecology and Evolution fibrosis immunity locomotion movement parasitism Schistocephalus |
| title | Does Motility‐Restricting Fibrosis Influence Dispersal? An Experiment in Nature With Threespine Stickleback |
| title_full | Does Motility‐Restricting Fibrosis Influence Dispersal? An Experiment in Nature With Threespine Stickleback |
| title_fullStr | Does Motility‐Restricting Fibrosis Influence Dispersal? An Experiment in Nature With Threespine Stickleback |
| title_full_unstemmed | Does Motility‐Restricting Fibrosis Influence Dispersal? An Experiment in Nature With Threespine Stickleback |
| title_short | Does Motility‐Restricting Fibrosis Influence Dispersal? An Experiment in Nature With Threespine Stickleback |
| title_sort | does motility restricting fibrosis influence dispersal an experiment in nature with threespine stickleback |
| topic | fibrosis immunity locomotion movement parasitism Schistocephalus |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70697 |
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