bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.13.431107; this version posted February 14, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 Influence of warming temperatures on coregonine embryogenesis within and among species 2 3 Taylor R. Stewart1,5, Mikko Mäkinen2, Chloé Goulon3, Jean Guillard3, Timo J. Marjomäki2, 4 Emilien Lasne4, Juha Karjalainen2, and Jason D. Stockwell5 5 6 1Department of Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA 7 2University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland 8 3University Savoie Mont Blanc, INRAE, CARRTEL, Thonon-les-Bains, France 9 4UMR ESE Agrocampus Ouest-INRAE, Rennes, France 10 5Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA 11 12 Correspondence: Taylor R. Stewart, Department of Biology, Rubenstein Ecosystem Science 13 Laboratory, University of Vermont, 3 College St, Burlington, VT 05401, USA. Email: 14
[email protected] 15 16 ABSTRACT: 17 The greatest response of lakes to climate change has been the increase in water temperatures on a 18 global scale. The responses of many lake fishes to warming water temperatures are projected to 19 be inadequate to counter the speed and magnitude of climate change, leaving some species 20 vulnerable to decline and extinction. We experimentally evaluated the responses of embryos 21 from a group of cold, stenothermic fishes (Salmonidae Coregoninae) – within conspecifics 22 across lake systems, between congeners within the same lake system, and among congeners 23 across lake systems – to a thermal gradient using an incubation method that enabled global 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.13.431107; this version posted February 14, 2021.