The success and the evolutionary fate of hybridogenetic lineages are explained by both a generalistic heterosis hypothesis and an alternative hypothesis, the habitat segregation hypothesis. Because such hypotheses have rarely been tested at the level of whole habitats, our aim was to compare performances of two taxa within a hybridogenetic complex across diverse natural habitats. We took advantage of the waterfrog hybridogenetic complex (Rana esculenta and R. lessonae) by rearing tadpoles in natural contrasted habitats by means of enclosure experiments. We also monitored the frequency of each taxon in the waterfrog assemblages that naturally breed in the studied ponds. The hybridogenenetic taxon showed no evidence of broader tolerance as growth, development and physiology strongly varied in response to environmental heterogeneity. Our study reveals a differential success of the hybridogenetic taxon and its sexual host among environments. Moreover, hybridogenetic taxa rarely dominated the sexual species in natural assemblages. Consequently, our results show that the generalistic model does not explain the success of hybridogenetic lineages, but rather support the habitat segregation, among other alternative concepts.
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