Abstract
Abstract The hypothesis of superiority of hybrid phenotype to explain the maintenance of hybridogenesis (exclusion of one parental genome in the germline before meiosis) was investigated in the Rana esculenta complex. Survival and growth of progenies from each parental and hybrid lineages were compared across contrasted conditions of oxygen availability (this factor is suspected to influence habitat utilization of each form of the complex). Whereas growth and development were strongly affected by constant hypoxic conditions in the R. ridibunda lineage, they were not altered in the R. lessonae lineage. Because the performance of the hybrid (R. esculenta) lineage proved to be intermediate between the parental species, no heterosis effect was detected. These results supported the intermediate niche hypothesis as an alternative to the heterotic hybrid superiority hypothesis. The ecological and evolutionary implications are then discussed.
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