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MULTIPLE-LOCUS HETEROZYGOSITY AND THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ENERGETICS OF GROWTH IN THE COOT CLAM, MULINIA LATERALIS, FROM A NATURAL POPULATION
David W. Garton 1, Richard K. Koehn 1, and Timothy M. Scott 1
1 Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New
York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794
The relationship between individual energy budgets and multiple-locus heterozygosity at six polymorphic enzyme loci was examined in Mulinia lateralis. Energy budgets were determined by measuring growth rates, rates of oxygen consumption, ammonia excretion and clearance rates. Enzyme genotypes were determined using starch gel electrophoresis. Growth rate and net growth efficiency (the ratio of energy available for growth to total energy absorbed) increased with individual heterozygosity. The positive relationship between observed growth and multiple-locus heterozygosity was associated with a negative relationship between routine metabolic costs and increasing heterozygosity. Reduction in routine metabolic costs explained 60% of the observed increased growth of more heterozygous individuals. When routine metabolic costs were standardized for differences in feeding rates, these standard metabolic costs explained 97% of the differences in growth rate. Lower standard metabolic costs, associated with increasing heterozygosity, have been proposed as a physiological mechanism for the relationship between multiple-locus heterozygosity and growth rate that has been reported for a variety of organisms, ranging in diversity from aspens to humans. This study demonstrates that reduction of standard metabolic costs, at least in clams, accounts for virtually all of the differences in growth rate among individuals of differing heterozygosity.
Submitted on February 29, 1984Accepted on June 4, 1984
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