Data for: Local environments, not hybridization, influence cardiac performance of native trout under acute thermal stress
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Cardiac_admixture_data.csv
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README.md
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Abstract
Climate-induced expansion of invasive hybridization (breeding between invasive and native species) poses a significant threat to the persistence of many native species worldwide. In the northern US Rocky Mountains, hybridization between native cutthroat trout and non-native rainbow trout has increased in recent decades due, in part, to climate-driven increases in water temperature. It has been postulated that invasive hybridization may enhance physiological tolerance to climate-induced thermal stress because laboratory studies indicate that rainbow trout have a higher thermal tolerance than cutthroat trout. Here, we assessed whether invasive hybridization improves cardiac performance response to acute water temperature stress of native wild trout populations. We collected trout from four streams with a wide range of non-native admixture among individuals and with different temperature and streamflow regimes in the upper Flathead River drainage, USA. We measured individual cardiac performance (maximum heart rate, “MaxHR”, and temperature at arrhythmia, “ArrTemp”) during laboratory trials with increasing water temperatures (10-28°C). Across the study populations, we observed substantial variation in cardiac performance of individual trout when exposed to thermal stress. Notably, we found significant differences in the cardiac response to thermal regimes among native cutthroat trout populations, suggesting the importance of genotype-by-environment interactions in shaping the physiological performance of native cutthroat trout. However, rainbow trout admixture had no significant effect on cardiac performance (MaxHR and ArrTemp) within any of the populations. Our results suggest that invasive hybridization with a warmer-adapted species does not enhance the cardiac performance of native trout under warming conditions. Maintaining numerous populations across thermally and hydrologically diverse stream environments will be crucial for native trout to adapt and persist in a warming climate.
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.crjdfn3c4
Paper: Local environments, not invasive hybridization, influence cardiac performance of native trout under acute thermal stress
Authors: Jeffrey T. Strait, Jared A. Grummer, Nicholas F. Hoffman, Clint C. Muhlfeld, Shawn R. Narum, and Gordon Luikart
Description:
This README file describes the data accompanying the above publication.
Files:
1. data folder: Includes the csv file with the containing information for each fish tested as part of the study.
1a. dataset: Cardic_admixture_data.csv
population - the creek in which the individual was sampled
LabID - unique laboratory ID used to track genetic data
year - the year in which the individual was captured and cardiac performance test conducted
prbt - the estimate of proportion Rainbow Trout admixture (hybridization) from RAD-capture genotyping
weight.g - the mass in grams of each individual
Arr.Temp - the temperature (celsius) at which the individual's cardiac signal became arrhythmic
Max.HR - the maximum heart rate measured for the individual during the cardiac performance trial
Max.HR.MC the mass-corrected maximum heart rate calculated using the following formula: (measured heart rate) * ( (weight (g) / 11.8) ^ 0.1 )
- Strait, Jeffrey T.; Grummer, Jared A.; Hoffman, Nicholas F. et al. (2024). Local environments, not invasive hybridization, influence cardiac performance of native trout under acute thermal stress. Evolutionary Applications. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13663
