At the north-eastern extremity: variation in Cepaea nemoralis
around Gdańsk, northern Poland

J 2011

At the north-eastern extremity: variation in Cepaea nemoralis around Gdańsk, northern Poland

CAMERON, Robert A.D., Małgorzata OŻGO, Michal HORSÁK and Zdzislaw BOGUCKI

Basic information

Original name

At the north-eastern extremity: variation in Cepaea nemoralis around Gdańsk, northern Poland

Authors

CAMERON, Robert A.D. (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Małgorzata OŻGO (616 Poland), Michal HORSÁK (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Zdzislaw BOGUCKI (616 Poland)

Edition

Biologia, 2011, 0006-3088

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

Slovakia

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 0.557

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/11:00053753

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

UT WoS

000299102900020

Keywords in English

Cepaea nemoralis; polymorphism; natural selection; founder effects

Abstract

V originále

Variation in the shell colour and banding polymorphism in the land snail Cepaea nemoralis was studied in 260 populations in the region of Gdańsk, northern Poland. Unlike in other regions of Poland, many populations contain brown shells. Populations from shaded habitats have higher frequencies of brown than those from open and intermediate habitats, largely at the expense of yellow shells. Nearly all brown shells are also unbanded. Apart from this disequilibrium, banding morphs among yellow and pink shells show no relationship to habitat. There are no broad geographical trends in morph-frequencies, but there are very strong correlations among populations very close together, revealed both by pairwise analysis and Moran’s I. Principal Component Analyses show that these correlations relate to overall genetic similarity at the loci involved. The populations are at the north-eastern limits of the species’ range; habitats are mostly anthropogenic, and comparisons with studies in two urban areas (Wrocław, SW Poland, and Sheffield, central England) suggest that the patterns of variation seen are a product of human transport of propagules followed by local dispersal. The effect of habitat here is much less marked than in regions much further west, but it indicates that natural selection has occurred.

Links

MSM0021622416, plan (intention)

Name: Diverzita biotických společenstev a populací: kauzální analýza variability v prostoru a čase

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Diversity of Biotic Communities and Populations: Causal Analysis of variation in space and time

Citovat

CAMERON, Robert A.D., Małgorzata OŻGO, Michal HORSÁK and Zdzislaw BOGUCKI. At the north-eastern extremity: variation in Cepaea nemoralis around Gdańsk, northern Poland. Biologia. 2011, vol. 66, No 6, p. 1097-1113. ISSN 0006-3088.

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CAMERON, Robert A.D., Małgorzata O$\backslash$.ZGO, Michal HORSÁK and Zdzislaw BOGUCKI. At the north-eastern extremity: variation in Cepaea nemoralis around Gda\'nsk, northern Poland. \textit{Biologia}. 2011, vol.~66, No~6, p.~1097-1113. ISSN~0006-3088.

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