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Life history plasticity in chimaeras of the colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri

1995; Royal Society; Volume: 262; Issue: 1364 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rspb.1995.0190

1471-2954

Nannette E. Chadwick-Furman, Irving L. Weissman,

Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies

Restricted accessMoreSectionsView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Chadwick-Furman Nannette E. and Weissman Irving L. 1995Life history plasticity in chimaeras of the colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseriProc. R. Soc. Lond. B.262157–162http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1995.0190SectionRestricted accessArticleLife history plasticity in chimaeras of the colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri Nannette E. Chadwick-Furman Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and Irving L. Weissman Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Nannette E. Chadwick-Furman Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed and Irving L. Weissman Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Published:22 November 1995https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1995.0190AbstractColonies of the ascidian Botryllus schlosseri may fuse with kin to form chimaeras which vary their life histories depending on environmental conditions. We placed chimaeric colonies of this species in Monterey Bay, California, U. S. A., where they received planktonic food continuously. In the field, chimaeras grew rapidly, attained large sizes, and produced m any eggs. They formed compact disc-shaped colonies in which genotypic composition remained stable throughout their lifespan. In most cases, genotypic partners in held chimaeras senesced and died synchronously. We also cultured genetically identical replicates of the same chimaeras under laboratory conditions, where they were fed once daily. In the laboratory environment, chimaeras grew slowly, shrank, and fragmented. Most genotypes in chimaeric colonies produced significantly fewer zooids and eggs in the laboratory than they did in the field. Somatic cell parasitism, in the form of resorption of tissues of one genotype by the other, occurred mainly in the laboratory environment, and not in the field. The phenomenon of resorption may thus be a dispensible strategy of fused genotypes depending on environmental conditions. Genotypes in held chimaeras may grow and reproduce rapidly because of the non-limiting food resources available. These data demonstrate that chimaeras of B. schlosseri have extremely plastic life histories, and employ different strategies depending on the environment.FootnotesThis text was harvested from a scanned image of the original document using optical character recognition (OCR) software. As such, it may contain errors. Please contact the Royal Society if you find an error you would like to see corrected. Mathematical notations produced through Infty OCR. 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