的体力表现和达尔文的健康状况
Jean-François Le Galliard1, Jean Clobert, Régis Ferrière
1Laboratoire Fonctionnement et Evolution des Systèmes Ecologiques, CNRS UMR 7625, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 46 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris cedex 05, France. j.f.l.galliard@bio.uio.no
Nature
|November 27, 2004
概括
身体表现具有很高的遗传性,但选择性较弱. 早期的营养对其表达有显著的影响,饮食决定了耐力方面的遗传优势是否保持或丧失.
科学领域:
- 进化生理学 进化生理学
- 动物行为 动物行为
背景情况:
- 遗传变异影响身体表现,这是一种与进化健康相关的特征.
- 尽管如此,身体表现在不同人群中显示出显著的变化.
研究的目的:
- 研究遗传性,自然选择和环境因素对运动能力的相互作用.
- 了解物理性能变化的持续背后的机制.
主要方法:
- 在普通 (Lacerta vivipara) 中评估了初始耐力的遗传性.
- 操纵饮食条件 (全 vs. 饮食限制) 来观察一个月的表现变化.
- 与饮食和初始耐力相关的运动性能 (跑步时间到疲劳) 的跟踪变化.
主要成果:
- 初始耐力在新生中是高度遗传的.
- 自然选择有利于高耐力是出乎意料的弱.
- 完全养的青少年表现逆转,耐力较低的个体赶上,耐力较高的个体失去优势.
- 饮食限制允许高耐力新生儿保持他们的性能优势.
结论:
- 对于高体能的遗传潜力的表达,严重依赖于生命早期的环境条件,特别是营养.
- 通过饮食调解的环境可塑性,可以掩盖自然选择对遗传特征的影响.
- 这突出了塑造自然种群表型变异的复杂相互作用.
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