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Haarr ML, Miller EH, Gaudette J, Rochette R. An Assessment of the Biological Significance of a Visual Clutch Staging Scheme for Ovigerous Female American Lobster ( Homarus americanus). Animals (Basel) 2023; 13:3856. [PMID: 38136894 PMCID: PMC10741083 DOI: 10.3390/ani13243856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2023] [Revised: 12/01/2023] [Accepted: 12/04/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023] Open
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Qualitative visual clutch staging is a useful tool for rapidly and non-invasively assessing the developmental stage of American lobster, Homarus americanus, embryos. While such a scheme has been used in fisheries monitoring strategies in Canada since the 1980s, the biological relevance of its four visually distinguishable stages is poorly understood. We conducted a laboratory experiment in which 10 ovigerous females were housed and the development of their embryos regularly assessed, both qualitatively and quantitatively, from November until hatching in July/August. We confirmed the biological relevance of the qualitative staging scheme by showing clear quantitative differences in the duration and rate of embryonic development of stages 2-4 (stage 1 was not assessed as the precise spawning date was unknown). Stage 2 represents winter-spring "dormancy". Stage 3 represents a shorter period of rapid development preceding hatch. Stage 4 represents hatching. We also recommend some improvements to the qualitative staging scheme, specifically (1) adding criteria related to the portion of eggs that are occupied by yolk to increase the accuracy of staging, (2) slightly redefining stage 3 to ensure it encompasses the full period of rapid embryonic development pre-hatch, and (3) adding the presence of pre-zoeae as a key indicator of hatching to avoid the misclassification of clutches in the early stages of hatching or those that are completely spent but still have adhesive substance.
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- Marthe Larsen Haarr
- Biology Department, University of New Brunswick Saint John, Saint John, NB E2L 4L5, Canada; (M.L.H.)
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- Biology Department, University of New Brunswick Saint John, Saint John, NB E2L 4L5, Canada; (M.L.H.)
- St. Andrews Biological Station, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, St. Andrews, NB E5B 0E4, Canada
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- St. Andrews Biological Station, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, St. Andrews, NB E5B 0E4, Canada
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- Biology Department, University of New Brunswick Saint John, Saint John, NB E2L 4L5, Canada; (M.L.H.)
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Dorant Y, Laporte M, Rougemont Q, Cayuela H, Rochette R, Bernatchez L. Landscape genomics of the American lobster (Homarus americanus). Mol Ecol 2022; 31:5182-5200. [PMID: 35960266 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2021] [Revised: 08/03/2022] [Accepted: 08/08/2022] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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In marine species experiencing intense fishing pressures, knowledge of genetic structure and local adaptation represent a critical information to assist sustainable management. In this study, we performed a landscape genomics analysis in the American lobster to investigate the issues pertaining to the consequences of making use of putative adaptive loci to reliably infer population structure and thus more rigorously delineating biological management units in marine exploited species. Toward this end, we genotyped 14,893 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) in 4190 lobsters sampled across 96 sampling sites distributed along 1000 km in the northwest Atlantic in both Canada and the USA. As typical for most marine species, we observed a weak, albeit highly significant genetic structure. We also found that adaptive genetic variation allows detecting fine-scale population structure not resolved by neutral genetic variation alone. Using the recent genome assembly of the American lobster, we were able to map and annotate several SNPs located in functional genes potentially implicated in adaptive processes such as thermal stress response, salinity tolerance and growth metabolism pathways. Taken together, our study indicates that weak population structure in high gene flow systems can be resolved at various spatial scales, and that putatively adaptive genetic variation can substantially enhance the delineation of biological management units of marine exploited species.
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- Yann Dorant
- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS), Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada.,IHPE, CNRS, Ifremer, Université de Montpellier, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS), Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada.,Ministère des Forêts de la Faune et des Parcs du Québec, Québec, Québec, Canada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS), Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada.,CEFE, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS), Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada.,Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France
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- Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS), Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada
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Fischer-Rush J, Rochette R, Paton E, Dickey A, Hayden B. An arithmetic correction for the effect of lipid on carbon stable isotope ratios in muscle and digestive glands of the American lobster (Homarus americanus). Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 2021; 35:e9204. [PMID: 34549474 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.9204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2020] [Revised: 09/16/2021] [Accepted: 09/21/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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RATIONALE Lipid correction models use elemental carbon-to-nitrogen ratios to estimate the effect of lipids on δ13 C values and provide a fast and inexpensive alternative to chemically removing lipids. However, the performance of these models varies, especially in whole-body invertebrate samples. The generation of tissue-specific lipid correction models for American lobsters, both an ecologically and an economically important species in eastern North America, will aid ecological research of this species and our understanding of the function of these models in invertebrates. METHOD We determined the δ13 C and δ15 N values before and after lipid extraction in muscle and digestive glands of juvenile and adult lobster. We assessed the performance of four commonly used models (nonlinear, linear, natural logarithm (LN) and generalized linear model (GLM)) at estimating lipid-free δ13 C values based on the non-lipid-extracted δ13 C values and elemental C:N ratios. The accuracy of model predictions was tested using paired t-tests, and the performance of the different models was compared using the Akaike information criterion score. RESULTS Lipid correction models accurately estimated post-lipid-extraction δ13 C values in both tissues. The nonlinear model was the least accurate for both tissues. In muscle, the three other models performed well, and in digestive glands, the LN model provided the most accurate estimates throughout the range of C:N values. In both tissues, the GLM estimates were not independent of the post-lipid-extraction δ13 C values, thus reducing their transferability to other datasets. CONCLUSIONS Whereas previous work found that whole-body models poorly estimated the effect of lipids in invertebrates, we show that tissue-specific lipid correction models can generate accurate and precise estimates of lipid-free δ13 C values in lobster. We suggest that the tissue-specific logarithmic models presented here are the preferred models for accounting for the effect of lipid on lobster isotope ratios.
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- Jonathan Fischer-Rush
- Canadian Rivers Institute, Biology Department, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada
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- University of New Brunswick Saint John, Saint John, NB, Canada
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- University of New Brunswick Saint John, Saint John, NB, Canada
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- Canadian Rivers Institute, Biology Department, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada
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- Canadian Rivers Institute, Biology Department, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada
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Dorant Y, Cayuela H, Wellband K, Laporte M, Rougemont Q, Mérot C, Normandeau E, Rochette R, Bernatchez L. Copy number variants outperform SNPs to reveal genotype–temperature association in a marine species. Mol Ecol 2020; 29:4765-4782. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.15565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2020] [Revised: 07/16/2020] [Accepted: 07/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Yann Dorant
- Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Systèmes (IBIS) Université Laval Québec QC Canada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Systèmes (IBIS) Université Laval Québec QC Canada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Systèmes (IBIS) Université Laval Québec QC Canada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Systèmes (IBIS) Université Laval Québec QC Canada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Systèmes (IBIS) Université Laval Québec QC Canada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Systèmes (IBIS) Université Laval Québec QC Canada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Systèmes (IBIS) Université Laval Québec QC Canada
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- Department of Biology University of New Brunswick Saint John NB Canada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Systèmes (IBIS) Université Laval Québec QC Canada
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Dorant Y, Benestan L, Rougemont Q, Normandeau E, Boyle B, Rochette R, Bernatchez L. Comparing Pool-seq, Rapture, and GBS genotyping for inferring weak population structure: The American lobster ( Homarus americanus) as a case study. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:6606-6623. [PMID: 31236247 PMCID: PMC6580275 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2019] [Revised: 04/10/2019] [Accepted: 04/13/2019] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Unraveling genetic population structure is challenging in species potentially characterized by large population size and high dispersal rates, often resulting in weak genetic differentiation. Genotyping a large number of samples can improve the detection of subtle genetic structure, but this may substantially increase sequencing cost and downstream bioinformatics computational time. To overcome this challenge, alternative, cost-effective sequencing approaches, namely Pool-seq and Rapture, have been developed. We empirically measured the power of resolution and congruence of these two methods in documenting weak population structure in nonmodel species with high gene flow comparatively to a conventional genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) approach. For this, we used the American lobster (Homarus americanus) as a case study. First, we found that GBS, Rapture, and Pool-seq approaches gave similar allele frequency estimates (i.e., correlation coefficient over 0.90) and all three revealed the same weak pattern of population structure. Yet, Pool-seq data showed F ST estimates three to five times higher than GBS and Rapture, while the latter two methods returned similar F ST estimates, indicating that individual-based approaches provided more congruent results than Pool-seq. We conclude that despite higher costs, GBS and Rapture are more convenient approaches to use in the case of species exhibiting very weak differentiation. While both GBS and Rapture approaches provided similar results with regard to estimates of population genetic parameters, GBS remains more cost-effective in project involving a relatively small numbers of genotyped individuals (e.g., <1,000). Overall, this study illustrates the complexity of estimating genetic differentiation and other summary statistics in complex biological systems characterized by large population size and migration rates.
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- Yann Dorant
- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS)Université LavalQuébecCanada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS)Université LavalQuébecCanada
- Pêches et Océans CanadaInstitut Maurice‐LamontagneMont‐JoliCanada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS)Université LavalQuébecCanada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS)Université LavalQuébecCanada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS)Université LavalQuébecCanada
- Plateforme d'analyses génomiques, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS)Université LavalQuébecCanada
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of New BrunswickSaint JohnCanada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS)Université LavalQuébecCanada
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Benestan L, Quinn BK, Maaroufi H, Laporte M, Clark FK, Greenwood SJ, Rochette R, Bernatchez L. Seascape genomics provides evidence for thermal adaptation and current-mediated population structure in American lobster (Homarus americanus). Mol Ecol 2016; 25:5073-5092. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.13811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2016] [Revised: 08/09/2016] [Accepted: 08/16/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Laura Benestan
- Departement de Biologie; Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS); Université Laval; Pavillon Charles-Eugène-Marchand 1030 Avenue de la Médecine Québec Québec Canada G1V 0A6
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- Department of Biological Sciences; University of New Brunswick; P.O. Box 5050 Saint John NB Canada E2L 4L5
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- Institut de Biologie Integrative et des Systemes (IBIS); Pavillon Charles-Eugène Marchand; 1030, Avenue de la Médecine Québec Québec Canada G1V 0A6
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- Departement de Biologie; Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS); Université Laval; Pavillon Charles-Eugène-Marchand 1030 Avenue de la Médecine Québec Québec Canada G1V 0A6
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences; Atlantic Veterinary College; University of Prince Edward Island; Charlottetown Prince Edward Island Canada C1A 4P3
- AVC Lobster Science Centre; Atlantic Veterinary College; University of Prince Edward Island; Charlottetown Prince Edward Island Canada C1A 4P3
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences; Atlantic Veterinary College; University of Prince Edward Island; Charlottetown Prince Edward Island Canada C1A 4P3
- AVC Lobster Science Centre; Atlantic Veterinary College; University of Prince Edward Island; Charlottetown Prince Edward Island Canada C1A 4P3
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- Department of Biological Sciences; University of New Brunswick; P.O. Box 5050 Saint John NB Canada E2L 4L5
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- Departement de Biologie; Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS); Université Laval; Pavillon Charles-Eugène-Marchand 1030 Avenue de la Médecine Québec Québec Canada G1V 0A6
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Benestan L, Gosselin T, Perrier C, Sainte-Marie B, Rochette R, Bernatchez L. RAD genotyping reveals fine-scale genetic structuring and provides powerful population assignment in a widely distributed marine species, the American lobster (Homarus americanus). Mol Ecol 2015; 24:3299-315. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.13245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 197] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2014] [Revised: 05/09/2015] [Accepted: 05/12/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Laura Benestan
- Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Systèmes (IBIS); Université Laval; Québec Quebec Canada G1V0A6
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Systèmes (IBIS); Université Laval; Québec Quebec Canada G1V0A6
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Systèmes (IBIS); Université Laval; Québec Quebec Canada G1V0A6
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- Pêches et Océans Canada; Institut Maurice-Lamontagne; CP 1000 Mont-Joli Quebec Canada G5H 3Z4
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- Department of Biology; University of New Brunswick; PO Box 5050 Saint John New Brunswick Canada E2L 4L5
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Systèmes (IBIS); Université Laval; Québec Quebec Canada G1V0A6
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Phenotypic plasticity has been the object of considerable interest over the past several decades, but in few cases are mechanisms underlying plastic responses well understood. For example, it is unclear whether predator-induced changes in gastropod shell morphology represent an active physiological response or a by-product of reduced feeding. We address this question by manipulating feeding and growth of intertidal snails, Littorina obtusata, using two approaches: (i) exposure to predation cues from green crabs Carcinus maenas and (ii) reduced food availability, and quantifying growth in shell length, shell mass, and body mass, as well as production of faecal material and shell micro-structural characteristics (mineralogy and organic fraction) after 96 days. We demonstrate that L. obtusata actively increases calcification rate in response to predation threat, and that this response entails energetic and developmental costs. That this induced response is not strictly tied to the animal's behaviour should enhance its evolutionary potential.
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- J I Brookes
- University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB, Canada
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Rochette R, Tétreault F, Himmelman JH. Aggregation of whelks, Buccinum undatum, near feeding predators: the role of reproductive requirements. Anim Behav 2001; 61:31-41. [PMID: 11170694 DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2000.1555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In the Mingan Islands, northern Gulf of St Lawrence (eastern Canada), the whelk Buccinum undatum displays a strong escape response to its predator, the asteroid Leptasterias polaris, nevertheless large sexually mature individuals occasionally approach feeding L. polaris to obtain food. In this study, we investigated the hypothesis that reproductive requirements increase the tendency of sexually mature whelks to approach feeding asteroids. Prior to egg laying, females (which invest more energy than males into the production of reproductive structures) represented 72% of the adult whelks that approached feeding L. polaris, but only 36% of the adults randomly collected from the study area. Furthermore, females that were attracted to feeding asteroids had smaller reproductive organs (after accounting for body size) than females randomly collected from the study area. Similarly, prior to egg laying, females fed longer and ingested more food than males when tested in the presence of L. polaris in the laboratory. After egg laying, however, females and males displayed a similar tendency to feed in the presence of a predator, both in the field and in the laboratory. Predator-impact indices, computed by contrasting the feeding activity of whelks in the absence and presence of a predator, indicated that females (but not males) responded more boldly to predators prior to than after egg laying, despite a general decrease in feeding activity at that period. Taken together, our observations indicate that the tendency of adult whelks to approach feeding predators is influenced by potential reproductive gains. Because such gains are presumably more directly linked to a given feeding opportunity in sexually active individuals, whelks may be selected to display increased levels of boldness towards predators with the onset of sexual maturity. Thus, potential reproductive benefits may partly explain the size-dependent tendency of whelks to approach feeding asteroids. Copyright 2001 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.
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- Rémy Rochette
- Département de Biologie et GIROQ (Groupe interuniversitaire de recherches océanographiques du Québec), Université Laval
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Rochette R, Dill LM. Mortality, behavior and the effects of predators on the intertidal distribution of littorinid gastropods. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 2000; 253:165-191. [PMID: 11033363 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-0981(00)00253-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Predators can affect the vertical distribution of mobile intertidal invertebrates in two ways: they can (1) cause greater mortality of prey at certain intertidal levels, and (2) induce prey to seek safer intertidal areas. In this study, we investigate whether low-intertidal and subtidal predators affect the intertidal distribution of two congeneric species of small herbivorous gastropods of northeastern Pacific shores, Littorina sitkana Philippi 1846, and L. scutulata Gould 1849. In particular, we tested the hypothesis that predators affect the distribution of these snails by inducing them to seek higher and safer intertidal areas. On a wave-sheltered shore in Barkley Sound, British Columbia, L. sitkana and L. scutulata were both killed by predatory crabs (e.g., Cancer productus) more frequently when tethered near the lower limit of their intertidal distribution ( approximately 1 m) than when tethered where they were most common ( approximately 2.5 m), suggesting that high mortality rates are partly responsible for the lower-limit of these snails' intertidal distribution. However, two field mark-recapture experiments indicated that the snails' behavioral response to predation risk also influences their distribution. In the first experiment, snails from the 2.5-m level (low risk) transplanted to the 1.0-m level (high risk) displayed a strong and consistent tendency to move shoreward, especially L. sitkana, some traveling 10-15 m in 2-3 days to regain their original level. These shoreward movements were especially precise in the northern part of the study area, where predation rates on tethered snails were greatest. Furthermore, larger more vulnerable snails were more strongly oriented shoreward than smaller individuals, indicating that antipredator behavior might also contribute to intertidal size gradients in these species. In the second mark-recapture experiment, we manipulated predation risk using small cages and found that snails exposed to the odors of C. productus crabs foraging on conspecific and heterospecific snails displayed more precise (L. sitkana and L. scutulata) and longer (L. sitkana) shoreward movements than snails held in control conditions. These results provide the first experimental evidence that antipredator behavior may contribute to the intertidal distribution patterns of littorinids.
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- R Rochette
- Behavioural Ecology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, BC, V5A 1S6, Burnaby, Canada
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Rochette R, Maltais MJ, Dill LM, Himmelman JH. Interpopulation and context-related differences in responses of a marine gastropod to predation risk. Anim Behav 1999; 57:977-987. [PMID: 10202105 DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We conducted laboratory experiments to investigate interpopulation differences in the behavioural responses of the whelk Buccinum undatum to the predatory lobster Homarus americanus and the asteroid Leptasterias polaris, both in the absence and presence of feeding opportunities. Whelks from three populations in the eastern North Atlantic (1) responded to lobsters by displaying avoidance behaviours (burrowing in the sediments or retreating inside their shell), (2) responded to asteroids by displaying escape responses (rapid crawling, shell rocking behaviour or foot contortions), and (3) more often refrained from feeding in the presence of a lobster than in the presence of an asteroid. Although whelks from the three populations responded similarly to lobsters and asteroids, interpopulation differences were evident. Thus, whelks from populations sympatric with a given predator more frequently displayed 'appropriate' antipredator behaviours (i.e. avoidance in the presence of a lobster, and escape in the presence of an asteroid) than did whelks allopatric with that predator. Also, whelks from a population sympatric with both predators fed less readily in the presence of a given predator than did whelks allopatric with that predator. However, the presence of a lobster or an asteroid had the same impact on the feeding response of whelks from two populations with contrasting predator fields, one sympatric with lobsters, but allopatric with asteroids, and one sympatric with asteroids, but allopatric with lobsters. The results of our study indicate that coexistence (over evolutionary or ecological time) with lobsters and asteroids increases the propensity of the whelk to display avoidance and escape behaviours in the presence of lobsters and asteroids, respectively, but has a less predictable effect on how whelks trade off predation risk and food acquisition. Studies are needed to investigate the roles of inheritance and experience on the development of antipredator behaviours and decision making by prey animals when predation risk conflicts with other fitness-related activities such as the acquisition of food or reproductive opportunities. Copyright 1999 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.
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- R Rochette
- Département de biologie et GIROQ (Groupe interuniversitaire de recherches océanographiques du Québec), Université Laval
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In the Mingan Islands, the whelk Buccinum undatum displays defensive manoeuvres to both contact and water-borne chemical cues from the predatory asteroid Leptasterias polarisIn spite of this, whelks occasionally aggregate in great numbers near L. polaris while it is ingesting a prey; they then attempt to steal food from their predator and also wait for leftovers. In this study, the response of whelks in different types of encounters with L. polaris was examined to test the hypothesis that whelks are sensitive to the magnitude of the threat their predator represents. In a field experiment, whelks consistently fled both non-feeding and feeding L. polaris (asteroids used were consuming small prey items that were unlikely to provide food for whelks). When current flow was stable, whelks fled more directly down current and more frequently displayed violent defensive behaviours, in response to non-feeding L. polariswhich presented a higher risk, than in response to feeding asteroids (lower risk; 47% versus 2%). Consequently, whelks tested with non-feeding asteroids more rapidly distanced themselves from the predators than did whelks tested with feeding asteroids. In a field survey, there were more active whelks in the vicinity of cruising (higher risk) than stationary (lower risk) L. polaris (53% versus 14%). Among those whelks that were active, defensive behaviour patterns such as shell rocking and leaping escape movements were frequently shown by whelks near cruising predators (69%), but never by whelks near stationary predators (0%). The discriminative capabilities apparent in these results are likely to be adaptive, because they enable whelks to limit the cost of escape responses while still keeping predation risk low, and also because they facilitate a close association with L. polaris from which the whelks receive feeding benefits.Copyright 1997 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour1997The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
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- R Rochette
- Departement de biologie et GIROQ, Universite Laval
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Fontaine N, Rochette R. [Elsewhere and otherwise.]. Sante Ment Que 1986; 11:75-88. [PMID: 17093551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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The network of mental health services is constantly in movement. From a relatively simple model it has become a complex service with a multiple ideology, its results are indetermined and have now to be revised. While commenting on the elaboration of a politic in mental health, the authors describe an experience where the mental health services in a Montreal region were diversified and reorganised in sub-regions. They then give an idea of the situation, the arms hoped for, the organisational mode, and the sub-regions; the main problems encountered are identified as well as the stakes and the areas of action. They uncover the particularities and the different realities that are the mainstay of the Greater Montreal.
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Brousseau G, Chassé F, Rochette R. [The " Agent de quartier " : information and help service to the community.]. Sante Ment Que 1986; 11:143-8. [PMID: 17093558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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This article describes the process of instituting in a community a mental health preventive program that had originated in a third line psychiatric institution. The author describe the different stages of the project as much from the point of view of the workers'experiences, the ideological evolution, the organisational modalities as from its impact on the network of the mental health distribution services. The implantation of this new service was not easy for the community nor for the initiators. Luckily, the efforts encountered were worth while since the need for such a service is now recognised.
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Rochette R. [To become someone.]. Sante Ment Que 1986; 11:117-21. [PMID: 17093556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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The author in this article tells in simple but eloquent terms of the establishment of a farm designed to welcome asylum patients. With the help of a case history, Real's, he describes life at the farm, the possibilities and difficulties of integration.
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