Phenotypic plasticity

Does predation pressure

influence
morphological traits and
tenacity within
populations of Lymnaea
peregra?

Introduction
Organisms can exhibit a range of
morphological and behavioural responses
in defence to predation pressures.
Functional diversity amongst predators
has been widely demonstrated to create
adaptive tradeoffs in morphology and drive
diversification and speciation of new
lineages.

The Study

Method: Sites
Maps?

Method: Tenacity
Photos? Glues and machine

Method: Foot area

Photo of microscope and camera

Method: Body and shell

measurements
My drawing/scan
Huge degree of
plasticity in Lymnaea
so need to measure
shell/aperture/lengths
photo

Method: Dislodgement force and

tenacity

Results
Morphology graphs as talk about them
2 way ancova to compare morphologies
between sites and predator and non
predator ditches within them, using shell
size as co variate to check that different
sizes didnt mess up data.

Results
Tenacity 3-way ancova
Tukey N.Moor, foot size appears to be
large meaning small forces, so do Newton
force so any trade offs can be seen.
Graph 1
Table of data?

Results

Newton force tenacity

3 way ancova
Graph 2
Graph b,d,c,e

Discussion
Morphological plasticity

Discussion
Tenacity and resulting plasticity

Bibliography