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García M, Benítez-Vieyra S, Sérsic AN, Pauw A, Cocucci AA, Traveset A, Sazatornil F, Paiaro V. Is variation in flower shape and length among native and non-native populations of Nicotiana glauca a product of pollinator-mediated selection? Evol Ecol 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s10682-020-10082-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Magnoli SM. Rapid adaptation (or not) in restored plant populations. Evol Appl 2020; 13:2030-2037. [PMID: 32908602 PMCID: PMC7463322 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2019] [Revised: 02/27/2020] [Accepted: 03/02/2020] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Mismatches between the traits of a colonizing population and a novel habitat can generate strong selection, potentially resulting in rapid adaptation. However, for most colonization events, it can be difficult to detect rapid adaptation or distinguish it from nonadaptive evolutionary changes. Here, I take advantage of a replicated prairie restoration experiment to compare recently established plant populations in two closely located restored prairies to each other and to their shared source population to test for rapid adaptation. Using a reciprocal transplant experiment six years after the populations were established, I found that one restored plant population showed evidence of adaptation, outperforming the other restored population when grown at its home site. In contrast, I detected no evidence for adaptation at the other site. These findings demonstrate that while rapid adaptation can occur in colonizing plant populations, it may not be the rule. Better understanding of when adaptation may or may not occur in these contexts may help us use evolution to our advantage, potentially improving establishment of desirable species in restored habitats.
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- Susan M. Magnoli
- W.K. Kellogg Biological Station and Department of Plant BiologyMichigan State UniversityHickory CornersMIUSA
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Papach A, Williams GR, Neumann P. Evolution of starvation resistance in an invasive insect species, Aethina tumida (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae). Ecol Evol 2020; 10:9003-9010. [PMID: 32884674 PMCID: PMC7452757 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2020] [Revised: 06/18/2020] [Accepted: 06/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Starvation resistance, or the ability to survive periods without food, can shed light on selection pressure imposed by food scarcity, including chances to invade new regions as a result of human transport. Surprisingly, little information is known about starvation resistance for invasive insect species. Given that native and invasive populations differ in starvation resistance, this would suggest different selection scenarios and adaptive shifts fostering invasion success. Here, we show striking differences in starvation resistance of adult small hive beetles Aethina tumida (SHB) between native and invasive populations. In the laboratory, starvation resistance of freshly emerged laboratory-reared and field-collected adult females and males was evaluated in the beetle's native African range and in their invasive North American range. SHB in their native African range survived longer than SHB in their invasive North American range. Across ranges, females survived longer than males. Field-collected SHB survived in Africa longer than freshly emerged ones, but not in the invasive range. This suggests no selection for starvation resistance in the invasive range, possibly due to differences between African and European-derived honey bee hosts facilitating a trade-off scenario between reproduction and starvation resistance. The ability of adult females to survive up to two months without food appears to be one factor contributing to the invasion success of this species. Assuming food availability is usually high in the invasive ranges, and trade-offs between starvation resistance and fecundity/reproduction are common, it seems as if selection for starvation resistance during transport could set up potential trade-offs that enhance reproduction after invasion. It would be interesting to see if this is a possible general pattern for invasive insect species.
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- Anna Papach
- Institute of Bee Health, Vetsuisse FacultyUniversity of BernBernSwitzerland
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- Institute of Bee Health, Vetsuisse FacultyUniversity of BernBernSwitzerland
- Swiss Bee Research CentreAgroscopeBernSwitzerland
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Magnoli SM, Lau JA. Evolution in novel environments: Do restored prairie populations experience strong selection? Ecology 2020; 101:e03120. [PMID: 32535882 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2019] [Revised: 04/08/2020] [Accepted: 05/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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When populations colonize new habitats, they are likely to experience novel environmental conditions, and as a consequence may experience strong selection. While selection and the resulting evolutionary responses may have important implications for establishment success in colonizing populations, few studies have estimated selection in such scenarios. Here we examined evidence of selection in recently established plant populations in two prairie restorations in close proximity (<15 km apart) using two approaches: (1) we tested for evidence of past selection on a suite of traits in two Chamaecrista fasciculata populations by comparing the restored populations to each other and their shared source population in common gardens to quantify evolutionary responses and (2) we measured selection in the field. We found evidence of past selection on flowering time, specific leaf area, and root nodule production in one of the populations, but detected contemporary selection on only one trait (plant height). Our findings demonstrate that while selection can occur in colonizing populations, resulting in significant trait differences between restored populations in fewer than six generations, evolutionary responses differ across even nearby populations sown with the same source population. Because contemporary measures of selection differed from evolutionary responses to past selection, our findings also suggest that selection likely differs over the early stages of succession that characterize young prairies.
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- Susan M Magnoli
- W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, Michigan, 49060.,Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 48823
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
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Santi F, Riesch R, Baier J, Grote M, Hornung S, Jüngling H, Plath M, Jourdan J. A century later: Adaptive plasticity and rapid evolution contribute to geographic variation in invasive mosquitofish. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 726:137908. [PMID: 32481217 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2019] [Revised: 03/09/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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One century after their introduction to Europe, eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) represent a natural experiment to determine the relative contributions of adaptive plasticity and rapid evolutionary change in creating large-scale geographic variation in phenotypes. We evaluated the population-genetic structure and invasion history based on allele length polymorphisms of 15 nuclear microsatellites, which we quantified for N = 660 individuals from 23 populations sampled in 2013 across the invasive range of G. holbrooki in Europe. We analysed body-shape and life-history variation in N = 1331 individuals from 36 populations, sampled in 2013 and 2017, and tested heritability of phenotypic differences in a subset of four populations using a common-garden experiment. The genetic structure of wild-caught individuals suggested a single introduction for all European mosquitofish, which were genetically impoverished compared to their native counterparts. We found some convergent patterns of phenotypic divergence across native and invasive climatic gradients (e.g., increased body size in colder/more northern populations); however, several phenotypic responses were not consistent between sampling years, pointing towards plastic phenotypes. Our analysis of common-garden reared individuals uncovered moderate heritability estimates only for two measures of male body size (intraclass correlation coefficient, ICC = 0.628 and 0.556) and offspring fat content (ICC = 0.734), while suggesting high levels of plasticity in most other phenotypic traits (ICC ≤ 0.407). Our results highlight the importance of phenotypic plasticity in invasive species during range expansions and demonstrate that strong selective pressures-in this case towards increased body size in colder environments-simultaneously promote rapid evolutionary divergence.
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- Francesco Santi
- Department of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham TW20 0EX, UK.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham TW20 0EX, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, PR China
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- Department of Aquatic Ecotoxicology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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McGoey BV, Hodgins KA, Stinchcombe JR. Parallel flowering time clines in native and introduced ragweed populations are likely due to adaptation. Ecol Evol 2020; 10:4595-4608. [PMID: 32551046 PMCID: PMC7297792 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2019] [Revised: 12/04/2019] [Accepted: 12/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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As introduced species expand their ranges, they often encounter differences in climate which are often correlated with geography. For introduced species, encountering a geographically variable climate sometimes leads to the re-establishment of clines seen in the native range. However, clines can also be caused by neutral processes, and so it is important to gather additional evidence that population differentiation is the result of selection as opposed to nonadaptive processes. Here, we examine phenotypic and genetic differences in ragweed from the native (North America) and introduced (European) ranges. We used a common garden to assess phenotypic differentiation in size and flowering time in ragweed populations. We found significant parallel clines in flowering time in both North America and Europe. Height and branch number had significant clines in North America, and, while not statistically significant, the patterns in Europe were the same. We used SNP data to assess population structure in both ranges and to compare phenotypic differentiation to neutral genetic variation. We failed to detect significant patterns of isolation by distance, geographic patterns in population structure, or correlations between the major axes of SNP variation and phenotypes or latitude of origin. We conclude that the North American clines in size and the parallel clines seen for flowering time are most likely the result of adaptation.
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- Brechann V. McGoey
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of TorontoTorontoONCanada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of TorontoTorontoONCanada
- Koffler Scientific ReserveUniversity of TorontoTorontoONCanada
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Gillard MB, Drenovsky RE, Thiébaut G, Tarayre M, Futrell CJ, Grewell BJ. Seed source regions drive fitness differences in invasive macrophytes. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2020; 107:749-760. [PMID: 32406537 PMCID: PMC7384113 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2019] [Accepted: 02/27/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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PREMISE Worldwide, ecosystems are threatened by global changes, including biological invasions. Invasive species arriving in novel environments experience new climatic conditions that can affect their successful establishment. Determining the response of functional traits and fitness components of invasive populations from contrasting environments can provide a useful framework to assess species responses to climate change and the variability of these responses among source populations. Much research on macrophytes has focused on establishment from clonal fragments; however, colonization from sexual propagules has rarely been studied. Our objective was to compare trait responses of plants generated from sexual propagules sourced from three climatic regions but grown under common environmental conditions, using L. peploides subsp. montevidensis as a model taxon. METHODS We grew seedlings to reproductive stage in experimental mesocosms under a mediterranean California (MCA) climate from seeds collected in oceanic France (OFR), mediterranean France (MFR), and MCA. RESULTS Seed source region was a major factor influencing differences among invasive plants recruiting from sexual propagules of L. peploides subsp. montevidensis. Trait responses of young individual recruits from MCA and OFR, sourced from geographically distant and climatically distinct source regions, were the most different. The MCA individuals accumulated more biomass, flowered earlier, and had higher leaf N concentrations than the OFR plants. Those from MFR had intermediate profiles. CONCLUSIONS By showing that the closer a seedling is from its parental climate, the better it performs, this study provides new insights to the understanding of colonization of invasive plant species and informs its management under novel and changing environmental conditions.
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- Morgane B. Gillard
- USDA‐Agricultural Research ServiceInvasive Species and Pollinator Health Research UnitDepartment of Plant Sciences MS‐4University of California, Davis1 Shields AvenueDavisCA95616USA
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- USDA‐Agricultural Research ServiceInvasive Species and Pollinator Health Research UnitDepartment of Plant Sciences MS‐4University of California, Davis1 Shields AvenueDavisCA95616USA
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- USDA‐Agricultural Research ServiceInvasive Species and Pollinator Health Research UnitDepartment of Plant Sciences MS‐4University of California, Davis1 Shields AvenueDavisCA95616USA
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van Boheemen LA, Hodgins KA. Rapid repeatable phenotypic and genomic adaptation following multiple introductions. Mol Ecol 2020; 29:4102-4117. [PMID: 32246535 DOI: 10.1111/mec.15429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2019] [Revised: 03/19/2020] [Accepted: 03/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Uncovering the genomic basis of repeated adaption can provide important insights into the constraints and biases that limit the diversity of genetic responses. Demographic processes such as admixture or bottlenecks affect genetic variation underlying traits experiencing selection. The impact of these processes on the genetic basis of adaptation remains, however, largely unexamined empirically. We here test repeatability in phenotypes and genotypes along parallel climatic clines within the native North American and introduced European and Australian Ambrosia artemisiifolia ranges. To do this, we combined multiple lines of evidence from phenotype-environment associations, FST -like outlier tests, genotype-environment associations and genotype-phenotype associations. We used 853 individuals grown in common garden from 84 sampling locations, targeting 19 phenotypes, >83 k SNPs and 22 environmental variables. We found that 17%-26% of loci with adaptive signatures were repeated among ranges, despite alternative demographic histories shaping genetic variation and genetic associations. Our results suggest major adaptive changes can occur on short timescales, with seemingly minimum impacts due to demographic changes linked to introduction. These patterns reveal some predictability of evolutionary change during range expansion, key in a world facing ongoing climate change, and rapid invasive spread.
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Vic., Australia
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Ollivier M, Kazakou E, Corbin M, Sartori K, Gooden B, Lesieur V, Thomann T, Martin JF, Tixier MS. Trait differentiation between native and introduced populations of the invasive plant Sonchus oleraceus L. (Asteraceae). NEOBIOTA 2020. [DOI: 10.3897/neobiota.55.49158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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There is growing evidence that rapid adaptation to novel environments drives successful establishment and spread of invasive plant species. However, the mechanisms driving trait adaptation, such as selection pressure from novel climate niche envelopes, remain poorly tested at global scales. In this study, we investigated differences in 20 traits (relating to growth, resource acquisition, reproduction, phenology and defence) amongst 14 populations of the herbaceous plant Sonchus oleraceus L. (Asteraceae) across its native (Europe and North Africa) and introduced (Australia and New Zealand) ranges. We compared traits amongst populations grown under standard glasshouse conditions. Introduced S. oleraceus plants seemed to outperform native plants, i.e. possessing higher leaf and stem dry matter content, greater number of leaves and were taller at first flowering stage. Although introduced plants produced fewer seeds, they had a higher germination rate than native plants. We found strong evidence for adaptation along temperature and precipitation gradients for several traits (e.g. shoot height, biomass, leaf and stem dry matter contents increased with minimum temperatures, while germination rate decreased with annual precipitations and temperatures), which suggests that similar selective forces shape populations in both the native and invaded ranges. We detected significant shifts in the relationships (i.e. trade-offs) (i) between plant height and flowering time and (ii) between leaf-stem biomass and grain yield between native and introduced plants, indicating that invasion was associated with changes to life-history dynamics that may confer competitive advantages over native vegetation. Specifically, we found that, at first flowering, introduced plants tended to be taller than native ones and that investment in leaf and stem biomass was greater in introduced than in native plants for equivalent levels of grain yield. Our study has demonstrated that climatic conditions may drive rapid adaption to novel environments in invasive plant species.
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Dickey JWE, Cuthbert RN, South J, Britton JR, Caffrey J, Chang X, Crane K, Coughlan NE, Fadaei E, Farnsworth KD, Ismar-Rebitz SMH, Joyce PWS, Julius M, Laverty C, Lucy FE, MacIsaac HJ, McCard M, McGlade CLO, Reid N, Ricciardi A, Wasserman RJ, Weyl OLF, Dick JTA. On the RIP: using Relative Impact Potential to assess the ecological impacts of invasive alien species. NEOBIOTA 2020. [DOI: 10.3897/neobiota.55.49547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Invasive alien species continue to arrive in new locations with no abatement in rate, and thus greater predictive powers surrounding their ecological impacts are required. In particular, we need improved means of quantifying the ecological impacts of new invasive species under different contexts. Here, we develop a suite of metrics based upon the novel Relative Impact Potential (RIP) metric, combining the functional response (consumer per capita effect), with proxies for the numerical response (consumer population response), providing quantification of invasive species ecological impact. These metrics are comparative in relation to the eco-evolutionary baseline of trophically analogous natives, as well as other invasive species and across multiple populations. Crucially, the metrics also reveal how impacts of invasive species change under abiotic and biotic contexts. While studies focused solely on functional responses have been successful in predictive invasion ecology, RIP retains these advantages while adding vital other predictive elements, principally consumer abundance. RIP can also be combined with propagule pressure to quantify overall invasion risk. By highlighting functional response and numerical response proxies, we outline a user-friendly method for assessing the impacts of invaders of all trophic levels and taxonomic groups. We apply the metric to impact assessment in the face of climate change by taking account of both changing predator consumption rates and prey reproduction rates. We proceed to outline the application of RIP to assess biotic resistance against incoming invasive species, the effect of evolution on invasive species impacts, application to interspecific competition, changing spatio-temporal patterns of invasion, and how RIP can inform biological control. We propose that RIP provides scientists and practitioners with a user-friendly, customisable and, crucially, powerful technique to inform invasive species policy and management.
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Sun Y, Ding J, Siemann E, Keller SR. Biocontrol of invasive weeds under climate change: progress, challenges and management implications. CURRENT OPINION IN INSECT SCIENCE 2020; 38:72-78. [PMID: 32200301 DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2020.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2019] [Revised: 02/03/2020] [Accepted: 02/14/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency and impact of plant invasions, creating a need for new control strategies as part of mitigation planning. The complex interactions between invasive plants and biocontrol agents have created distinct policy and management challenges, including the effectiveness and risk assessment of biocontrol under different climate change scenarios. In this brief review, we synthesize recent studies describing the potential ecological and evolutionary outcomes for biocontrol agents/candidates for plant invaders under climate change. We also discuss potential methodologies that can be used as a framework for predicting ecological and evolutionary responses of plant-natural enemy interactions under climate change, and for refining our understanding of the efficacy and risk of using biocontrol on invasive plants.
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- Yan Sun
- Department of Biology/Ecology & Evolution, University of Fribourg, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.
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- School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan 475004, China
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- Biosciences Department, Rice University, Houston, TX USA
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Liu W, Zhang Y, Chen X, Maung-Douglass K, Strong DR, Pennings SC. Contrasting plant adaptation strategies to latitude in the native and invasive range of Spartina alterniflora. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2020; 226:623-634. [PMID: 31834631 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2019] [Accepted: 12/03/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Biological invasions offer model systems of contemporary evolution. We examined trait differences and evolution across geographic clines among continents of the intertidal grass Spartina alterniflora within its invasive and native ranges. We sampled vegetative and reproductive traits in the field at 20 sites over 20° latitude in China (invasive range) and 28 sites over 17° in the US (native range). We grew both Chinese and US plants in a glasshouse common garden for 3 yr. Chinese plants were c. 15% taller, c. 10% denser, and set up to four times more seed than US plants in both the field and common garden. The common garden experiments showed a striking genetic cline of seven-fold greater seed set at higher latitudes in the introduced but not the native range. By contrast, there was a slight genetic cline in some vegetative traits in the native but not the introduced range. Our results are consistent with others showing that introduced plants can evolve rapidly in the new range. S. alterniflora has evolved different trait clines in the native and introduced ranges, showing the importance of phenotypic plasticity and genetic control of change during the invasion process.
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- Wenwen Liu
- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Fujian, 361102, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Fujian, 361102, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Fujian, 361102, China
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- Coastal Sustainability Studio, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA
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- Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 77204, USA
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Santangelo JS, Thompson KA, Cohan B, Syed J, Ness RW, Johnson MTJ. Predicting the strength of urban-rural clines in a Mendelian polymorphism along a latitudinal gradient. Evol Lett 2020; 4:212-225. [PMID: 32547782 PMCID: PMC7293085 DOI: 10.1002/evl3.163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2019] [Revised: 12/19/2019] [Accepted: 02/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Cities are emerging as models for addressing the fundamental question of whether populations evolve in parallel to similar environments. Here, we examine the environmental factors that drive the evolution of parallel urban‐rural clines in a Mendelian trait—the cyanogenic antiherbivore defense of white clover (Trifolium repens). Previous work suggested urban‐rural gradients in frost and snow depth could drive the evolution of reduced hydrogen cyanide (HCN) frequencies in urban populations. Here, we sampled over 700 urban and rural clover populations across 16 cities along a latitudinal transect in eastern North America. In each population, we quantified changes in the frequency of genotypes that produce HCN, and in a subset of the cities we estimated the frequency of the alleles at the two genes (CYP79D15 and Li) that epistatically interact to produce HCN. We then tested the hypothesis that cold climatic conditions are necessary for the evolution of cyanogenesis clines by comparing the strength of clines among cities located along a latitudinal gradient of winter temperature and frost exposure. Overall, half of the cities exhibited urban‐rural clines in the frequency of HCN, whereby urban populations evolved lower HCN frequencies. Clines did not evolve in cities with the lowest temperatures and greatest snowfall, supporting the hypothesis that snow buffers plants against winter frost and constrains the formation of clines. By contrast, the strongest clines occurred in the warmest cities where snow and frost are rare, suggesting that alternative selective agents are maintaining clines in warmer cities. Some clines were driven by evolution at only CYP79D15, consistent with stronger and more consistent selection on this locus than on Li. Together, our results demonstrate that urban environments often select for similar phenotypes, but different selective agents and targets underlie the evolutionary response in different cities.
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- James S Santangelo
- Department of Biology University of Toronto Mississauga Mississauga ON L5L 1C6 Canada.,Centre for Urban Environments University of Toronto Mississauga Mississauga ON L5L 1C6 Canada.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Toronto Toronto ON M5S 3B2 Canada
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- Department of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Centre University of British Columbia Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
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- Department of Biology University of Toronto Mississauga Mississauga ON L5L 1C6 Canada
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- Department of Biology University of Toronto Mississauga Mississauga ON L5L 1C6 Canada
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- Department of Biology University of Toronto Mississauga Mississauga ON L5L 1C6 Canada.,Centre for Urban Environments University of Toronto Mississauga Mississauga ON L5L 1C6 Canada.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Toronto Toronto ON M5S 3B2 Canada
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- Department of Biology University of Toronto Mississauga Mississauga ON L5L 1C6 Canada.,Centre for Urban Environments University of Toronto Mississauga Mississauga ON L5L 1C6 Canada.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Toronto Toronto ON M5S 3B2 Canada
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Popovic I, Matias AMA, Bierne N, Riginos C. Twin introductions by independent invader mussel lineages are both associated with recent admixture with a native congener in Australia. Evol Appl 2020; 13:515-532. [PMID: 32431733 PMCID: PMC7045716 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2019] [Revised: 06/27/2019] [Accepted: 07/24/2019] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Introduced species can impose profound impacts on the evolution of receiving communities with which they interact. If native and introduced taxa remain reproductively semi-isolated, human-mediated secondary contact may promote genetic exchange across newly created hybrid zones, potentially impacting native genetic diversity and invasive species spread. Here, we investigate the contributions of recent divergence histories and ongoing (post-introduction) gene flow between the invasive marine mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis, and a morphologically indistinguishable and taxonomically contentious native Australian taxon, Mytilus planulatus. Using transcriptome-wide markers, we demonstrate that two contemporary M. galloprovincialis introductions into south-eastern Australia originate from genetically divergent lineages from its native range in the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Europe, where both introductions have led to repeated instances of admixture between introduced and endemic populations. Through increased genome-wide resolution of species relationships, combined with demographic modelling, we validate that mussels sampled in Tasmania are representative of the endemic Australian taxon (M. planulatus), but share strong genetic affinities to M. galloprovincialis. Demographic inferences indicate late-Pleistocene divergence times and historical gene flow between the Tasmanian endemic lineage and northern M. galloprovincialis, suggesting that native and introduced taxa have experienced a period of historical isolation of at least 100,000 years. Our results demonstrate that many genomic loci and sufficient sampling of closely related lineages in both sympatric (e.g. Australian populations) and allopatric (e.g. northern hemisphere Mytilus taxa) ranges are necessary to accurately (a) interpret patterns of intraspecific differentiation and to (b) distinguish contemporary invasive introgression from signatures left by recent divergence histories in high dispersal marine species. More broadly, our study fills a significant gap in systematic knowledge of native Australian biodiversity and sheds light on the intrinsic challenges for invasive species research when native and introduced species boundaries are not well defined.
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- Iva Popovic
- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of QueenslandSt LuciaQldAustralia
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- Institut des Sciences de l’EvolutionUMR 5554CNRS‐IRD‐EPHE‐UMUniversité de MontpellierMontpellierFrance
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- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of QueenslandSt LuciaQldAustralia
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Zhang W, Zhao L, Zhou J, Yu H, Zhang C, Lv Y, Lin Z, Hu S, Zou Z, Sun J. Enhancement of oxidative stress contributes to increased pathogenicity of the invasive pine wood nematode. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2020; 374:20180323. [PMID: 30967022 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play important roles in defence response of host plants versus pathogens. While generation and detoxification of ROS is well understood, how varied ability of different isolates of pathogens to overcome host ROS, or ROS contribution to a particular isolate's pathogenicity, remains largely unexplored. Here, we report that transcriptional regulation of the ROS pathway, in combination with the insulin pathway, increases the pathogenicity of invasive species Bursaphelenchus xylophilus. The results showed a positive correlation between fecundity and pathogenicity of different nematode isolates. The virulent isolates from introduced populations in Japan, China and Europe had significantly higher fecundity than native avirulent isolates from the USA. Increased expression of Mn-SOD and reduced expression of catalase/ GPX-5 and H2O2 accumulation during invasion are associated with virulent strains. Additional H2O2 could improve fecundity of Bu. xylophilus. Furthermore, depletion of Mn-SOD decreased fecundity and virulence of Bu. xylophilus, while the insulin pathway is significantly affected. Thus, we propose that destructive pathogenicity of Bu. xylophilus to pines is partly owing to upregulated fecundity modulated by the insulin pathway in association with the ROS pathway and further enhanced by H2O2 oxidative stress. These findings provide a better understanding of pathogenic mechanisms in plant-pathogen interactions and adaptive evolution of invasive species. This article is part of the theme issue 'Biotic signalling sheds light on smart pest management'.
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- Wei Zhang
- 1 State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100101 , People's Republic of China.,3 Laboratory of Forest Pathogen Integrated Biology, Research Institute of Forestry New Technology, Chinese Academy of Forestry , Beijing l00091 , People's Republic of China
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- 1 State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100101 , People's Republic of China.,4 College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049 , People's Republic of China
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- 1 State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100101 , People's Republic of China
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- 2 CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100101 , People's Republic of China
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- 1 State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100101 , People's Republic of China.,4 College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049 , People's Republic of China
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- 1 State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100101 , People's Republic of China.,4 College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049 , People's Republic of China
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- 1 State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100101 , People's Republic of China
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- 2 CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100101 , People's Republic of China
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- 1 State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100101 , People's Republic of China.,4 College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049 , People's Republic of China.,5 School of Medicine, Huzhou University , Huzhou 311300 , People's Republic of China
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- 1 State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100101 , People's Republic of China.,4 College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049 , People's Republic of China
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Pfenninger M, Foucault Q. Genomic processes underlying rapid adaptation of a natural
Chironomus riparius
population to unintendedly applied experimental selection pressures. Mol Ecol 2020; 29:536-548. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.15347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2019] [Revised: 12/13/2019] [Accepted: 12/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Markus Pfenninger
- Department of Molecular Ecology Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre Frankfurt am Main Germany
- Institute for Molecular and Organismic Evolution Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Germany
- LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre Frankfurt am Main Germany
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- Department of Molecular Ecology Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre Frankfurt am Main Germany
- Institute for Molecular and Organismic Evolution Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Germany
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Essl F, Dullinger S, Genovesi P, Hulme PE, Jeschke JM, Katsanevakis S, Kühn I, Lenzner B, Pauchard A, Pyšek P, Rabitsch W, Richardson DM, Seebens H, van Kleunen M, van der Putten WH, Vilà M, Bacher S. Distinct Biogeographic Phenomena Require a Specific Terminology: A Reply to Wilson and Sagoff. Bioscience 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biz161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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- Franz Essl
- Division of Conservation Biology, Vegetation, and Landscape Ecology, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Division of Conservation Biology, Vegetation, and Landscape Ecology, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute for Environmental Protection and Research and is chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Species Survival Commission Invasive Species Specialist Group, Rome, Italy
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- Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, with Freie Universität Berlin's Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy's Institute of Biology, and with the Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ’s Department of Community Ecology and with Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg's Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Halle, Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle–Jena–Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Division of Conservation Biology, Vegetation, and Landscape Ecology, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Laboratorio de Invasiones Biológicas, part of the Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, University of Concepcion, in Concepción, Chile, and with the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity Santiago, Chile
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- Czech Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Botany, Department of Invasion Ecology, Průhonice, Czech Republic
- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Environment Agency Austria's Department of Biodiversity and Nature Conservation, Vienna, Austria
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- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Ecology division of the Department of Biology at the University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation, Taizhou University, Taizhou, China
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- Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology and with the Laboratory of Nematology, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC) in Sevilla and the Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of Seville, Spain
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- Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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Popovic I, Riginos C. Comparative genomics reveals divergent thermal selection in warm‐ and cold‐tolerant marine mussels. Mol Ecol 2020; 29:519-535. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.15339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2018] [Revised: 12/10/2019] [Accepted: 12/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- Iva Popovic
- School of Biological Sciences University of Queensland St Lucia Qld Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences University of Queensland St Lucia Qld Australia
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Hamelin RC, Roe AD. Genomic biosurveillance of forest invasive alien enemies: A story written in code. Evol Appl 2020; 13:95-115. [PMID: 31892946 PMCID: PMC6935587 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2019] [Revised: 06/30/2019] [Accepted: 07/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The world's forests face unprecedented threats from invasive insects and pathogens that can cause large irreversible damage to the ecosystems. This threatens the world's capacity to provide long-term fiber supply and ecosystem services that range from carbon storage, nutrient cycling, and water and air purification, to soil preservation and maintenance of wildlife habitat. Reducing the threat of forest invasive alien species requires vigilant biosurveillance, the process of gathering, integrating, interpreting, and communicating essential information about pest and pathogen threats to achieve early detection and warning and to enable better decision-making. This process is challenging due to the diversity of invasive pests and pathogens that need to be identified, the diverse pathways of introduction, and the difficulty in assessing the risk of establishment. Genomics can provide powerful new solutions to biosurveillance. The process of invasion is a story written in four chapters: transport, introduction, establishment, and spread. The series of processes that lead to a successful invasion can leave behind a DNA signature that tells the story of an invasion. This signature can help us understand the dynamic, multistep process of invasion and inform management of current and future introductions. This review describes current and future application of genomic tools and pipelines that will provide accurate identification of pests and pathogens, assign outbreak or survey samples to putative sources to identify pathways of spread, and assess risk based on traits that impact the outbreak outcome.
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- Richard C. Hamelin
- Department of Forest and Conservation SciencesThe University of British ColumbiaVancouverBCCanada
- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS)Université LavalQuébecQCCanada
- Département des sciences du bois et de la forêt, Faculté de Foresterie et GéographieUniversité LavalQuébecQCCanada
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- Great Lakes Forestry CenterNatural Resources CanadaSault Ste. MarieONCanada
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Liao ZY, Scheepens JF, Li QM, Wang WB, Feng YL, Zheng YL. Founder effects, post-introduction evolution and phenotypic plasticity contribute to invasion success of a genetically impoverished invader. Oecologia 2019; 192:105-118. [PMID: 31792607 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-019-04566-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2019] [Accepted: 11/22/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Multiple mechanisms may act synergistically to promote success of invasive plants. Here, we tested the roles of three non-mutually exclusive mechanisms-founder effects, post-introduction evolution and phenotypic plasticity-in promoting invasion of Chromolaena odorata. We performed a common garden experiment to investigate phenotypic diversification and phenotypic plasticity of the genetically impoverished invader in response to two rainfall treatments (ambient and 50% rainfall). We used ancestor-descendant comparisons to determine post-introduction evolution and the QST-FST approach to estimate past selection on phenotypic traits. We found that eight traits differed significantly between plants from the invasive versus native ranges, for two of which founder effects can be inferred and for six of which post-introduction evolution can be inferred. The invader experienced strong diversifying selection in the invasive range and showed clinal variations in six traits along water and/or temperature gradients. These clinal variations are likely attributed to post-introduction evolution rather than multiple introductions of pre-adapted genotypes, as most of the clinal variations were absent or in opposite directions from those for native populations. Compared with populations, rainfall treatments explained only small proportions of total variations in all studied traits for plants from both ranges, highlighting the importance of heritable phenotypic differentiation. In addition, phenotypic plasticity was similar for plants from both ranges although neutral genetic diversity was much lower for plants from the invasive range. Our results showed that founder effects, post-introduction evolution and phenotypic plasticity may function synergistically in promoting invasion success of C. odorata.
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- Zhi-Yong Liao
- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, 666303, Yunnan, China.,Plant Evolutionary Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 5, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Plant Evolutionary Ecology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 5, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, 666303, Yunnan, China
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory for Biological Invasions and Global Changes, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, 110866, Liaoning Province, China
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory for Biological Invasions and Global Changes, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, 110866, Liaoning Province, China.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, 666303, Yunnan, China. .,Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, 666303, Yunnan, China.
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Alfaro B, Marshall DL. Phenotypic variation of life-history traits in native, invasive, and landrace populations of Brassica tournefortii. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:13127-13141. [PMID: 31871634 PMCID: PMC6912919 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2019] [Revised: 09/10/2019] [Accepted: 09/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Varying environments can result in different patterns of adaptive phenotypes. By performing a common greenhouse experiment, we identified phenotypic differentiation on phenology, leaf morphology, branch architecture, size, and reproduction, among native, invasive, and landrace ranges of Brassica tournefortii. We first compared trait means and fitness functions among ranges, then we analyzed how trait means and selection strength of populations respond to varying aridity. Most traits varied such that landrace > invasive > native. Excluding reproduction, which was positively selected, most trait PCs experienced nonlinear selection in the native range but frequently shifted to directional selection in invasive and/or landrace ranges. The absence of strong clines for trait means in landrace and invasive populations suggest that agricultural practices and novel environments in source locations affected adaptive potential. Selection strength on faster reproductive phenology (negative directional) and leaf margin trait (disruptive) PCs coincided with increasing moisture. In native populations, higher aridity was associated with more days to reproduction, but landrace and invasive populations show stable mean time to reproduction with increasing moisture. A stable adaptive trait can increase range expansion in the invasive range, but stability can be beneficial for future harvest of B. tournefortii seed crops in the face of climate change.
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- Brian Alfaro
- Department of BiologyUniversity of New MexicoAlbuquerqueNew Mexico
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McGaugh SE, Weaver S, Gilbertson EN, Garrett B, Rudeen ML, Grieb S, Roberts J, Donny A, Marchetto P, Gluesenkamp AG. Evidence for rapid phenotypic and behavioural shifts in a recently established cavefish population. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Cave colonization offers a natural laboratory to study an extreme environmental shift, and diverse cave species from around the world often have converged on robust morphological, physiological and behavioural traits. The Mexican tetra (Astyanax mexicanus) has repeatedly colonized caves in the Sierra de El Abra and Sierra de Guatemala regions of north-east Mexico ~0.20–1 Mya, indicating an ability to adapt to the cave environment. The time frame for the evolution of these traits in any cave animal, however, is poorly understood. Astyanax mexicanus from the Río Grande in South Texas were brought to Central Texas beginning in the early 1900s and colonized underground environments. Here, we investigate whether phenotypic and behavioural differences have occurred rapidly between a surface population and a geographically proximate cave population, probably of recent origin. Fish from the cave and surface populations differ significantly in morphological traits, including coloration, lateral line expansion and dorsal fin placement. Striking behavioural shifts in aggression, feeding and wall-following have also occurred. Together, our results suggest that morphological and behavioural changes accompanying cave colonization can be established rapidly, and this system offers an exciting and unique opportunity for isolating the genetic and environmental contributions to colonization of extreme environments.
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- Suzanne E McGaugh
- Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
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- Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
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- Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
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- Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
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- Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
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- Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
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- Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
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- Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
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Teixeira DF, Neto FRA, Gomes LC, Beheregaray LB, Carvalho DC. Invasion dynamics of the white piranha (Serrasalmus brandtii) in a Neotropical river basin. Biol Invasions 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-019-02138-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Hierro JL, Eren Ö, Montesinos D, Andonian K, Kethsuriani L, Özcan R, Diaconu A, Török K, Cavieres L, French K. Increments in weed seed size track global range expansion and contribute to colonization in a non-native region. Biol Invasions 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-019-02137-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Faillace CA, Morin PJ. Evolution alters post-invasion temporal dynamics in experimental communities. J Anim Ecol 2019; 89:285-298. [PMID: 31556097 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2019] [Accepted: 09/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The causes and consequences of temporal variation in the abundance of organisms constitute central themes in ecological inquiry. Rapid evolution can occur over ecological time-scales, potentially resulting in altered temporal variation in abundance and complicating inferences about the consequences of temporal variation. We assessed whether evolution altered the temporal variability in species' abundances in simple assemblages of species. We then compared experimental results to predictions from two-species models to better understand our results in the context of competitive and predator-prey interactions. We compared founder populations and their evolved descendants in experimental communities of ciliates and rotifers. Using a series of orthogonal contrasts, we then evaluated whether: (a) evolutionary history of invaders or (b) residents, (c) co-evolution among invaders and residents, and (d) invasion itself altered temporal variability in species abundances following invasion by a novel species. Using two-species competition and predator-prey models, we also generated predictions to better understand the effects of evolution on temporal variation in the abundances of interacting species. Finally, we compared experimental and modelling results to aid in the interpretation of which interspecific interactions might be affected by ongoing evolution in our communities. In experimental populations, differing evolutionary histories resulted in significant differences among treatments in abundances and temporal variation in abundances of both resident and invading species. For the contrasts, we found evidence that evolutionary history of the invader and residents, co-evolution among invaders and residents, and invasion itself affected temporal variability in abundance, but the importance of each differed for the two communities and the species within those communities. When comparing experimental results to model predictions, the increased abundance and decreased temporal variation in one invader, Euplotes daidaleos, are potentially consistent with evolution resulting in reduced attack rates in the novel community. Evolutionary history alone can affect temporal variation in the abundances of species, generating important consequences for interspecific interactions among species and complicating inferences about the consequences of temporal variability in biological communities.
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- Cara A Faillace
- Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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- Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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Traveset A, Escribano‐Avila G, Gómez JM, Valido A. Conflicting selection on
Cneorum tricoccon
(Rutaceae) seed size caused by native and alien seed dispersers. Evolution 2019; 73:2204-2215. [DOI: 10.1111/evo.13852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2019] [Revised: 09/03/2019] [Accepted: 09/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- Anna Traveset
- Global Change Research GroupInstitut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats (CSIC‐UIB) 07190 Esporles Mallorca Balearic Islands Spain
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- Global Change Research GroupInstitut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats (CSIC‐UIB) 07190 Esporles Mallorca Balearic Islands Spain
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- Departamento Ecología Funcional y EvolutivaEstación Experimental de Zonas Áridas (EEZA‐CSIC) 04120 Almería Spain
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- Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología (IPNA‐CSIC) 38206 La Laguna Tenerife Islas Canarias Spain
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Epigenetic patterns associated with an ascidian invasion: a comparison of closely related clades in their native and introduced ranges. Sci Rep 2019; 9:14275. [PMID: 31582771 PMCID: PMC6776620 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-49813-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2018] [Accepted: 08/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Environmentally induced epigenetic modifications have been proposed as one mechanism underlying rapid adaptive evolution of invasive species. Didemnum vexillum is an invasive colonial ascidian that has established in many coastal waters worldwide. Phylogenetic analyses have revealed that D. vexillum populations consist of two distinct clades; clade B appears to be restricted to the native range (Japan), whereas clade A is found in many regions throughout the world, including New Zealand. The spread of D. vexillum clade A suggests that it might be intrinsically more invasive than clade B, despite low levels of genetic diversity compared to populations from the native region. This study investigated whether D. vexillum clade A exhibits epigenetic signatures (specifically differences in DNA methylation) associated with invasiveness. Global DNA methylation patterns were significantly different between introduced clade A colonies, and both clades A and B in the native range. Introduced colonies also showed a significant reduction in DNA methylation levels, which could be a mechanism for increasing phenotypic plasticity. High levels of DNA methylation diversity were maintained in the introduced population, despite reduced levels of genetic diversity, which may allow invasive populations to respond quickly to changes in new environments. Epigenetic changes induced during the invasion process could provide a means for rapid adaptation despite low levels of genetic variation in introduced populations.
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Bélouard N, Paillisson J, Oger A, Besnard A, Petit EJ. Genetic drift during the spread phase of a biological invasion. Mol Ecol 2019; 28:4375-4387. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.15238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2019] [Revised: 08/27/2019] [Accepted: 08/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- Nadège Bélouard
- UMR ECOBIO CNRS Université de Rennes 1 Rennes France
- UMR ESE Ecology and Ecosystem Health INRA, Agrocampus Ouest Rennes France
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- UMR ECOBIO CNRS Université de Rennes 1 Rennes France
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- UMR ESE Ecology and Ecosystem Health INRA, Agrocampus Ouest Rennes France
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- UMR ESE Ecology and Ecosystem Health INRA, Agrocampus Ouest Rennes France
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Brandes U, Furevik BB, Nielsen LR, Kjær ED, Rosef L, Fjellheim S. Introduction history and population genetics of intracontinental scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius) invasion. DIVERS DISTRIB 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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- Ursula Brandes
- Department of Plant Sciences Norwegian University of Life Sciences Ås Norway
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- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management University of Copenhagen Frederiksberg Denmark
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- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management University of Copenhagen Frederiksberg Denmark
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- Department of Plant Sciences Norwegian University of Life Sciences Ås Norway
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- Department of Plant Sciences Norwegian University of Life Sciences Ås Norway
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Qiao H, Liu W, Zhang Y, Zhang YY, Li QQ. Genetic admixture accelerates invasion via provisioning rapid adaptive evolution. Mol Ecol 2019; 28:4012-4027. [PMID: 31339595 DOI: 10.1111/mec.15192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2018] [Revised: 06/26/2019] [Accepted: 07/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Genetic admixture, the intraspecific hybridization among divergent introduced sources, can immediately facilitate colonization via hybrid vigor and profoundly enhance invasion via contributing novel genetic variation to adaption. As hybrid vigor is short-lived, provisioning adaptation is anticipated to be the dominant and long-term profit of genetic admixture, but the evidence for this is rare. We employed the 30 years' geographic-scale invasion of the salt marsh grass, Spartina alterniflora, as an evolutionary experiment and evaluated the consequences of genetic admixture by combining the reciprocal transplant experiment with quantitative and population genetic surveys. Consistent with the documentation, we found that the invasive populations in China had multiple origins from the southern Atlantic coast and the Gulf of Mexico in the US. Interbreeding among these multiple sources generated a "hybrid swarm" that spread throughout the coast of China. In the northern and mid-latitude China, natural selection greatly enhanced fecundity, plant height and shoot regeneration compared to the native populations. Furthermore, genetic admixture appeared to have broken the negative correlation between plant height and shoot regeneration, which was genetically-based in the native range, and have facilitated the evolution of super competitive genotypes in the invasive range. In contrast to the evolved northern and mid-latitude populations, the southern invasive populations showed slight increase of plant height and shoot regeneration compared to the native populations, possibly reflecting the heterotic effect of the intraspecific hybridization. Therefore, our study suggests a critical role of genetic admixture in accelerating the geographic invasion via provisioning rapid adaptive evolution.
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- Hongmei Qiao
- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.,Graduate College of Biomedical Sciences, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA, USA
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Castillo G, Calahorra‐Oliart A, Núñez‐Farfán J, Valverde PL, Arroyo J, Cruz LL, Tapia‐López R. Selection on tropane alkaloids in native and non-native populations of Datura stramonium. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:10176-10184. [PMID: 31632642 PMCID: PMC6787939 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2019] [Revised: 06/21/2019] [Accepted: 07/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Theories of plant invasion based on enemy release in a new range assume that selection exerted by specialist herbivores on defence traits should be reduced, absent, or even selected against in the new environment. Here, we measured phenotypic selection on atropine and scopolamine concentration of Datura stramonium in eight native (Mexico) and 14 non-native (Spain) populations. Native populations produced between 20 and 40 times more alkaloid than non-native populations (atropine: 2.0171 vs. 0.0458 mg/g; scopolamine: 1.004 vs. 0.0488 mg/g, respectively). Selection on alkaloids was negative for atropine and positive for scopolamine concentration in both ranges. However, the effect sizes of selection gradients were only significant in the native range. Our results support the assumption that the reduction of plant defence in the absence of the plant's natural enemies in invasive ranges is driven by natural selection.
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- Guillermo Castillo
- Departamento de Ecología EvolutivaInstituto de EcologíaUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)Mexico CityMexico
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Facultad de Enología y GastronomíaUniversidad Autónoma de Baja CaliforniaBaja CaliforniaMéxico
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- Departamento de Ecología EvolutivaInstituto de EcologíaUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)Mexico CityMexico
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- Departamento de Ecología EvolutivaInstituto de EcologíaUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)Mexico CityMexico
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- Departamento de BiologíaUniversidad Autónoma Metropolitana‐IztapalapaMexico CityMexico
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- Departamento de Biología Vegetal y EcologíaUniversidad de SevillaSevillaSpain
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- Departamento de Ecología EvolutivaInstituto de EcologíaUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)Mexico CityMexico
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- Departamento de Ecología EvolutivaInstituto de EcologíaUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)Mexico CityMexico
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Herden J, Eckert S, Stift M, Joshi J, van Kleunen M. No evidence for local adaptation and an epigenetic underpinning in native and non-native ruderal plant species in Germany. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:9412-9426. [PMID: 31534665 PMCID: PMC6745855 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2018] [Revised: 04/07/2019] [Accepted: 05/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Many invasive species have rapidly adapted to different environments in their new ranges. This is surprising, as colonization is usually associated with reduced genetic variation. Heritable phenotypic variation with an epigenetic basis may explain this paradox.Here, we assessed the contribution of DNA methylation to local adaptation in native and naturalized non-native ruderal plant species in Germany. We reciprocally transplanted offspring from natural populations of seven native and five non-native plant species between the Konstanz region in the south and the Potsdam region in the north of Germany. Before the transplant, half of the seeds were treated with the demethylation agent zebularine. We recorded survival, flowering probability, and biomass production as fitness estimates.Contrary to our expectations, we found little evidence for local adaptation, both among the native and among the non-native plant species. Zebularine treatment had mostly negative effects on overall plant performance, regardless of whether plants were local or not, and regardless of whether they were native or non-native. Synthesis. We conclude that local adaptation, at least at the scale of our study, plays no major role in the success of non-native and native ruderal plants. Consequently, we found no evidence yet for an epigenetic basis of local adaptation.
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- Jasmin Herden
- Ecology, Department of BiologyUniversity of KonstanzKonstanzGermany
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- Biodiversity Research/Systematic Botany, Institute of Biochemistry and BiologyUniversity of PotsdamPotsdamGermany
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- Ecology, Department of BiologyUniversity of KonstanzKonstanzGermany
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- Biodiversity Research/Systematic Botany, Institute of Biochemistry and BiologyUniversity of PotsdamPotsdamGermany
- Berlin‐Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Institute of BiologyFreie Universität BerlinBerlinGermany
- Institute for Landscape and Open SpaceHochschule für Technik Rapperswil (HSR)RapperswilSwitzerland
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- Ecology, Department of BiologyUniversity of KonstanzKonstanzGermany
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Evolutionary Ecology and ConservationTaizhou UniversityTaizhouChina
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Medley KA, Westby KM, Jenkins DG. Rapid local adaptation to northern winters in the invasive Asian tiger mosquito
Aedes albopictus
: A moving target. J Appl Ecol 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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- Kim A. Medley
- Tyson Research Center Washington University in St. Louis Eureka Missouri
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- Tyson Research Center Washington University in St. Louis Eureka Missouri
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- Department of Biology University of Central Florida Orlando Florida
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Samis KE, Stinchcombe JR, Murren CJ. Population climatic history predicts phenotypic responses in novel environments for Arabidopsis thaliana in North America. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2019; 106:1068-1080. [PMID: 31364776 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2018] [Accepted: 05/28/2019] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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PREMISE Determining how species perform in novel climatic environments is essential for understanding (1) responses to climate change and (2) evolutionary consequences of biological invasions. For the vast majority of species, the number of population characteristics that will predict performance and patterns of natural selection in novel locations in the wild remains limited. METHODS We evaluated phenological, vegetative, architectural, and fitness-related traits in experimental gardens in contrasting climates (Ontario, Canada, and South Carolina, USA) in the North American non-native distribution of Arabidopsis thaliana. We assessed the effects of climatic distance, geographic distance, and genetic features of history on performance and patterns of natural selection in the novel garden settings. RESULTS We found that plants had greater survivorship, flowered earlier, were larger, and produced more fruit in the south, and that genotype-by-environment interactions were significant between gardens. However, our analyses revealed similar patterns of natural selection between gardens in distinct climate zones. After accounting for genetic ancestry, we also detected that population climatic distance best predicted performance within gardens. CONCLUSIONS These data suggest that colonization success in novel, non-native environments is determined by a combination of climate and genetic history. When performance at novel sites was assessed with seed sources from geographically and genetically disparate, established non-native populations, proximity to the garden alone was insufficient to predict performance. Our study highlights the need to evaluate seed sources from diverse origins to describe comprehensively phenotypic responses to novel environments, particularly for taxa in which many source populations may contribute to colonization.
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- Karen E Samis
- Department of Biology, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Koffler Scientific Reserve at Joker's Hill, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, 29424, USA
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Peniston JH, Barfield M, Holt RD. Pulsed Immigration Events Can Facilitate Adaptation to Harsh Sink Environments. Am Nat 2019; 194:316-333. [PMID: 31553211 DOI: 10.1086/704608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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In nature, rates of dispersal vary greatly over time, yet most theoretical explorations of ecological and evolutionary dynamics to date have assumed constant movement rates. Here we examine how a particular pattern of temporal variation-periodic pulses of immigration-influences adaptation to a harsh environment, in which a species experiences conditions outside its niche requirements. Using both deterministic models and stochastic individual-based simulations, we show that for many ecological and genetic scenarios, temporally spacing out immigration events increases the probability that local adaptation is sufficient for persistence (i.e., niche evolution). When immigration events are too frequent, gene flow can hamper local adaptation in sexual species, but sufficiently infrequent pulses of immigration allow for repeated opportunities for adaptation with temporary escapes from gene flow during which local selection is unleashed. We develop versions of our models with and without density dependence for three different assumptions about the genetics underlying fitness (haploid, diploid, and quantitative genetic variation) so that our results may be applicable to a wide range of natural systems. Our study adds to a growing body of literature showing that temporal variation in migration rates can have significant effects on local adaptation and is among the first to show how such variation affects niche evolution.
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Sherpa S, Blum MGB, Després L. Cold adaptation in the Asian tiger mosquito's native range precedes its invasion success in temperate regions. Evolution 2019; 73:1793-1808. [DOI: 10.1111/evo.13801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2019] [Revised: 06/06/2019] [Accepted: 06/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- Stéphanie Sherpa
- Université Grenoble Alpes CNRS, UMR 5553 LECA F‐38000 Grenoble France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes CNRS, UMR 5525 TIMC‐IMAG F‐38000 Grenoble France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes CNRS, UMR 5553 LECA F‐38000 Grenoble France
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Climate outweighs native vs. nonnative range‐effects for genetics and common garden performance of a cosmopolitan weed. ECOL MONOGR 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Winkler DE, Chapin KJ, François O, Garmon JD, Gaut BS, Huxman TE. Multiple introductions and population structure during the rapid expansion of the invasive Sahara mustard ( Brassica tournefortii). Ecol Evol 2019; 9:7928-7941. [PMID: 31380061 PMCID: PMC6662425 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2019] [Revised: 04/13/2019] [Accepted: 04/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The specific mechanisms that result in the success of any species invasion case are difficult to document. Reproductive strategies are often cited as a primary driver of invasive success, with human activities further facilitating invasions by, for example, acting as seed vectors for dispersal via road, train, air, and marine traffic, and by producing efficient corridors for movement including canals, drainages, and roadways. Sahara mustard (Brassica tournefortii) is a facultative autogamous annual native to Eurasia that has rapidly invaded the southwestern United States within the past century, displacing natives, and altering water-limited landscapes in the southwest. We used a genotyping-by-sequencing approach to study the population structure and spatial geography of Sahara mustard from 744 individuals from 52 sites across the range of the species' invasion. We also used herbaria records to model range expansion since its initial introduction in the 1920s. We found that Sahara mustard occurs as three populations in the United States unstructured by geography, identified three introduction sites, and combined herbaria records with genomic analyses to map the spread of the species. Low genetic diversity and linkage disequilibrium are consistent with self-fertilization, which likely promoted rapid invasive spread. Overall, we found that Sahara mustard experienced atypical expansion patterns, with a relatively constant rate of expansion and without the lag phase that is typical of many invasive species.
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- Daniel E. Winkler
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of California, IrvineIrvineCalifornia
- U.S. Geological SurveySouthwest Biological Science CenterMoabUtah
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of California, Los AngelesLos AngelesCalifornia
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of ArizonaTucsonArizona
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of California, IrvineIrvineCalifornia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of California, IrvineIrvineCalifornia
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Bruce SA, Daniel PC, Krause MK, Henson FG, Pershyn CE, Wright JJ. A methodological approach to the genetic identification of native Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) populations for conservation purposes. Glob Ecol Conserv 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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van Boheemen LA, Bou‐Assi S, Uesugi A, Hodgins KA. Rapid growth and defence evolution following multiple introductions. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:7942-7956. [PMID: 31380062 PMCID: PMC6662289 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2019] [Revised: 04/23/2019] [Accepted: 05/04/2019] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Rapid adaptation can aid invasive populations in their competitive success. Resource allocation trade-off hypotheses predict higher resource availability or the lack of natural enemies in introduced ranges allow for increased growth and reproduction, thus contributing to invasive success. Evidence for such hypotheses is however equivocal and tests among multiple ranges over productivity gradients are required to provide a better understanding of the general applicability of these theories.Using common gardens, we investigated the adaptive divergence of various constitutive and inducible defence-related traits between the native North American and introduced European and Australian ranges, while controlling for divergence due to latitudinal trait clines, individual resource budgets, and population differentiation, using >11,000 SNPs.Rapid, repeated clinal adaptation in defence-related traits was apparent despite distinct demographic histories. We also identified divergence among ranges in some defence-related traits, although differences in energy budgets among ranges may explain some, but not all, defence-related trait divergence. We do not identify a general reduction in defence in concert with an increase in growth among the multiple introduced ranges as predicted trade-off hypotheses. Synthesis: The rapid spread of invasive species is affected by a multitude of factors, likely including adaptation to climate and escape from natural enemies. Unravelling the mechanisms underlying invasives' success enhances understanding of eco-evolutionary theory and is essential to inform management strategies in the face of ongoing climate change. OPEN RESEARCH BADGES This article has been awarded Open Materials, Open Data, Preregistered Research Designs Badges. All materials and data are publicly accessible via the Open Science Framework at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8028875.v1, https://github.com/lotteanna/defence_adaptation,https://doi.org/10.1101/435271.
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- School of Biological SciencesMonash UniversityClaytonVictoriaAustralia
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- School of Biological SciencesMonash UniversityClaytonVictoriaAustralia
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Stinson K, Carley L, Hancock L, Donohue K. Effects of maternal source and progeny microhabitat on natural selection and population dynamics in Alliaria petiolata. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2019; 106:821-832. [PMID: 31162644 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2019] [Accepted: 04/15/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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PREMISE The success or failure of propagules in contrasting microhabitats may play a role in biological invasion. We tested for variation in demographic performance and phenotypic trait expression during invasion by Alliaria petiolata in different microhabitats. METHODS We performed a reciprocal transplant experiment with Alliaria petiolata from edge, intermediate, and forest understory microhabitats to determine the roles of the environment and maternal source on traits, fecundity, population growth rates (λ), and selection. RESULTS Observations of in situ populations show that edge populations had the highest density and reproductive output, and forest populations had the lowest. In experimental populations, population growth rates and reproductive output were highest in the edge, and the intermediate habitat had the lowest germination and juvenile survival. Traits exhibited phenotypic plasticity in response to microhabitat, but that plasticity was not adaptive. There were few effects of maternal source location on fitness components or traits. CONCLUSIONS Alliaria petiolata appears to be viable, or nearly so, in all three microhabitat types, with edge populations likely providing seed to the other microhabitats. The intermediate microhabitat may filter propagules at the seed stage, but discrepancies between in situ observations and experimental transplants preclude clear conclusions about the role of each microhabitat in niche expansion. However, edge microhabitats show the highest seed output in both analyses, suggesting that managing edge habitats might reduce spread to the forest understory.
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- Kristina Stinson
- University of Massachusetts, Environmental Conservation, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA
- Harvard University, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA, 01366, USA
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- Duke University Program in Ecology, Durham, NC, 27708, USA
- Duke University Biology Department, Durham, NC, 27708, USA
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- University of Massachusetts, Environmental Conservation, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA
- University of Massachusetts, Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA
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Braasch J, Barker BS, Dlugosch KM. Expansion history and environmental suitability shape effective population size in a plant invasion. Mol Ecol 2019; 28:2546-2558. [PMID: 30993767 DOI: 10.1111/mec.15104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2018] [Revised: 04/02/2019] [Accepted: 04/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The margins of an expanding range are predicted to be challenging environments for adaptation. Marginal populations should often experience low effective population sizes (Ne ) where genetic drift is high due to demographic expansion and/or census population size is low due to unfavourable environmental conditions. Nevertheless, invasive species demonstrate increasing evidence of rapid evolution and potential adaptation to novel environments encountered during colonization, calling into question whether significant reductions in Ne are realized during range expansions in nature. Here we report one of the first empirical tests of the joint effects of expansion dynamics and environment on effective population size variation during invasive range expansion. We estimate contemporary values of Ne using rates of linkage disequilibrium among genome-wide markers within introduced populations of the highly invasive plant Centaurea solstitialis (yellow starthistle) in North America (California, USA), and within native Eurasian populations. As predicted, we find that Ne within the invaded range is positively correlated with both expansion history (time since founding) and habitat quality (abiotic climate). History and climate had independent additive effects with similar effect sizes, indicating an important role for both factors in this invasion. These results support theoretical expectations for the population genetics of range expansion, though whether these processes can ultimately arrest the spread of an invasive species remains an unanswered question.
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- Joseph Braasch
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.,Integrated Plant Protection Center and Department of Horticulture, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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Re-establishment of latitudinal clines and local adaptation within the invaded area suggest rapid evolution of seed traits in Argentinean sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.). Biol Invasions 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-019-01998-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Sherpa S, Blum MGB, Capblancq T, Cumer T, Rioux D, Després L. Unravelling the invasion history of the Asian tiger mosquito in Europe. Mol Ecol 2019; 28:2360-2377. [PMID: 30849200 DOI: 10.1111/mec.15071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2018] [Revised: 03/03/2019] [Accepted: 03/04/2019] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Multiple introductions are key features for the establishment and persistence of introduced species. However, little is known about the contribution of genetic admixture to the invasive potential of populations. To address this issue, we studied the recent invasion of the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) in Europe. Combining genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms and historical knowledge using an approximate Bayesian computation framework, we reconstruct the colonization routes and establish the demographic dynamics of invasion. The colonization of Europe involved at least three independent introductions in Albania, North Italy and Central Italy that subsequently acted as dispersal centres throughout Europe. We show that the topology of human transportation networks shaped demographic histories with North Italy and Central Italy being the main dispersal centres in Europe. Introduction modalities conditioned the levels of genetic diversity in invading populations, and genetically diverse and admixed populations promoted more secondary introductions and have spread farther than single-source invasions. This genomic study provides further crucial insights into a general understanding of the role of genetic diversity promoted by modern trade in driving biological invasions.
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS UMR 5525 TIMC-IMAG, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS UMR 5553 LECA, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS UMR 5553 LECA, Grenoble, France
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Friedline CJ, Faske TM, Lind BM, Hobson EM, Parry D, Dyer RJ, Johnson DM, Thompson LM, Grayson KL, Eckert AJ. Evolutionary genomics of gypsy moth populations sampled along a latitudinal gradient. Mol Ecol 2019; 28:2206-2223. [PMID: 30834645 DOI: 10.1111/mec.15069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2018] [Revised: 01/31/2019] [Accepted: 02/13/2019] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The European gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar L.) was first introduced to Massachusetts in 1869 and within 150 years has spread throughout eastern North America. This large-scale invasion across a heterogeneous landscape allows examination of the genetic signatures of adaptation potentially associated with rapid geographical spread. We tested the hypothesis that spatially divergent natural selection has driven observed changes in three developmental traits that were measured in a common garden for 165 adult moths sampled from six populations across a latitudinal gradient covering the entirety of the range. We generated genotype data for 91,468 single nucleotide polymorphisms based on double digest restriction-site associated DNA sequencing and used these data to discover genome-wide associations for each trait, as well as to test for signatures of selection on the discovered architectures. Genetic structure across the introduced range of gypsy moth was low in magnitude (FST = 0.069), with signatures of bottlenecks and spatial expansion apparent in the rare portion of the allele frequency spectrum. Results from applications of Bayesian sparse linear mixed models were consistent with the presumed polygenic architectures of each trait. Further analyses indicated spatially divergent natural selection acting on larval development time and pupal mass, with the linkage disequilibrium component of this test acting as the main driver of observed patterns. The populations most important for these signals were two range-edge populations established less than 30 generations ago. We discuss the importance of rapid polygenic adaptation to the ability of non-native species to invade novel environments.
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- Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
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- Integrative Life Sciences Ph.D. Program, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
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- Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
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- Department of Environmental & Forest Biology, State University of New York, Syracuse, New York
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- Center for Environmental Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
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- Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
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- Department of Biology, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
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- Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
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Gleditsch JM, Sperry JH. Rapid morphological change of nonnative frugivores on the Hawaiian island of O'ahu*. Evolution 2019; 73:1456-1465. [DOI: 10.1111/evo.13744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2019] [Revised: 03/30/2019] [Accepted: 04/02/2019] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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- Jason M. Gleditsch
- Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign Urbana Illinois 61801
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- Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign Urbana Illinois 61801
- Engineer Research and Development Center Champaign Illinois 61826
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Santangelo JS, Johnson MTJ, Ness RW. Modern spandrels: the roles of genetic drift, gene flow and natural selection in the evolution of parallel clines. Proc Biol Sci 2019; 285:rspb.2018.0230. [PMID: 29743253 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2018] [Accepted: 04/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Urban environments offer the opportunity to study the role of adaptive and non-adaptive evolutionary processes on an unprecedented scale. While the presence of parallel clines in heritable phenotypic traits is often considered strong evidence for the role of natural selection, non-adaptive evolutionary processes can also generate clines, and this may be more likely when traits have a non-additive genetic basis due to epistasis. In this paper, we use spatially explicit simulations modelled according to the cyanogenesis (hydrogen cyanide, HCN) polymorphism in white clover (Trifolium repens) to examine the formation of phenotypic clines along urbanization gradients under varying levels of drift, gene flow and selection. HCN results from an epistatic interaction between two Mendelian-inherited loci. Our results demonstrate that the genetic architecture of this trait makes natural populations susceptible to decreases in HCN frequencies via drift. Gradients in the strength of drift across a landscape resulted in phenotypic clines with lower frequencies of HCN in strongly drifting populations, giving the misleading appearance of deterministic adaptive changes in the phenotype. Studies of heritable phenotypic change in urban populations should generate null models of phenotypic evolution based on the genetic architecture underlying focal traits prior to invoking selection's role in generating adaptive differentiation.
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- James S Santangelo
- Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5L 1C6 .,Centre for Urban Environments, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5L 1C6.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3B2
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- Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5L 1C6.,Centre for Urban Environments, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5L 1C6.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3B2
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- Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5L 1C6.,Centre for Urban Environments, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5L 1C6.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3B2
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Latimer AM, Jacobs BS, Gianoli E, Heger T, Salgado-Luarte C. Parallel functional differentiation of an invasive annual plant on two continents. AOB PLANTS 2019; 11:plz010. [PMID: 31044057 PMCID: PMC6479022 DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plz010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2018] [Accepted: 02/28/2019] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Rapid local adaptation frequently occurs during the spread of invading species. It remains unclear, however, how consistent, and therefore potentially predictable, such patterns of local adaptation are. One approach to this question is to measure patterns of local differentiation in functional traits and plasticity levels in invasive species in multiple regions. Finding consistent patterns of local differentiation in replicate regions suggests that these patterns are adaptive. Further, this outcome indicates that the invading species likely responds predictably to selection along environmental gradients, even though standing genetic variation is likely to have been reduced during introduction. We studied local differentiation in the invasive annual plant Erodium cicutarium in two invaded regions, California and Chile. We collected seeds from across strong gradients in precipitation and temperature in Mediterranean-climate parts of the two regions (10 populations per region). We grew seeds from maternal families from these populations through two generations and exposed the second generation to contrasting levels of water and nutrient availability. We measured growth, flowering time and leaf functional traits across these treatments to obtain trait means and plasticity measures. We found strong differentiation among populations in all traits. Plants from drier environments flowered earlier, were less plastic in flowering time and reached greater size in all treatments. Correlations among traits within regions suggested a coordinated evolutionary response along environmental gradients associated with growing season length. There was little divergence in traits and trait intercorrelations between regions, but strongly parallel divergence in traits within regions. Similar, statistically consistent patterns of local trait differentiation across two regions suggest that local adaptation to environmental gradients has aided the spread of this invasive species, and that the formation of ecotypes in newly invaded environments has been relatively consistent and predictable.
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- Andrew M Latimer
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Sacramento, CA, USA
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- Departamento de Biología, Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Casilla, Chile
- Departamento de Botánica, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Casilla, Chile
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- Biodiversity Research/Botany, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
- Technical University of Munich, Restoration Ecology, Freising, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
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van Boheemen LA, Atwater DZ, Hodgins KA. Rapid and repeated local adaptation to climate in an invasive plant. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2019; 222:614-627. [PMID: 30367474 DOI: 10.1111/nph.15564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2018] [Accepted: 10/18/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Biological invasions provide opportunities to study evolutionary processes occurring over contemporary timescales. To explore the speed and repeatability of adaptation, we examined the divergence of life-history traits to climate, using latitude as a proxy, in the native North American and introduced European and Australian ranges of the annual plant Ambrosia artemisiifolia. We explored niche changes following introductions using climate niche dynamic models. In a common garden, we examined trait divergence by growing seeds collected across three ranges with highly distinct demographic histories. Heterozygosity-fitness associations were used to explore the effect of invasion history on potential success. We accounted for nonadaptive population differentiation using 11 598 single nucleotide polymorphisms. We revealed a centroid shift to warmer, wetter climates in the introduced ranges. We identified repeated latitudinal divergence in life-history traits, with European and Australian populations positioned at either end of the native clines. Our data indicate rapid and repeated adaptation to local climates despite the recent introductions and a bottleneck limiting genetic variation in Australia. Centroid shifts in the introduced ranges suggest adaptation to more productive environments, potentially contributing to trait divergence between the ranges.
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- Lotte A van Boheemen
- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Vic., 3800, Australia
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- Department of Biology, Earlham College, Richmond, IN, 47374, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Vic., 3800, Australia
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Stepien CA, Snyder MR, Elz AE. Invasion genetics of the silver carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix across North America: Differentiation of fronts, introgression, and eDNA metabarcode detection. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0203012. [PMID: 30917127 PMCID: PMC6436794 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0203012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2018] [Accepted: 03/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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In the 1970s, the introduced silver carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (which is indigenous to eastern Asia) escaped from southern U.S. aquaculture to spread throughout the Mississippi River basin, and since has steadily moved northward. This large, prolific filter-feeder reduces food availability for other fishes. It now has reached the threshold of the Laurentian Great Lakes, where it likely will significantly impact food chains and fisheries. Our study evaluates population genetic variability and differentiation of the silver carp using 10 nuclear DNA microsatellite loci, and sequences of two mitochondrial genes-cytochrome b and cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1, along with the nuclear ribosomal protein S7 gene intron 1. We analyze population samples from: two primary Great Lakes' invasion fronts (at the Illinois River outside of Chicago, IL in Lake Michigan and in the Wabash River, which leads into the Maumee River and western Lake Erie), the original establishment "core" in the Lower Mississippi River, and expansion areas in the Upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. We analyze and compare our results with bighead and other invasive carps, and cyprinid relatives. Results reveal that the silver carp invasion possesses moderate levels of genetic diversity, with more mtDNA haplotypes and unique microsatellite alleles in the "core" Lower Mississippi River population, which also diverges the most. The two invasion fronts also significantly genetically differ. About 3% of individuals (including all populations except the Illinois River) contain a unique and very divergent mtDNA haplotype, which likely stems from historic introgression in Asia with female largescale silver carp H. harmandi. The nuclear microsatellites and S7 sequences of the introgressed individuals do not differ from silver carp and are very distant from bighead carp. These sequence variation data are employed to design and evaluate a targeted high-throughput metabarcoding sequence assay that identifies and distinguishes among species of invasive carps (i.e., silver, bighead, grass, black, and common carps, along with goldfish), as well as native cyprinids, using cytochrome b. Our assay further differentiates among selected silver carp haplotypes (including between H. molitrix and H. harmandi), for use in population genetics and future analyses of spread pathways. We test and evaluate this assay on environmental (e)DNA water samples from 48 bait shops in the Great Lakes' region (along the Lake Erie, Lake St. Clair, and Wabash River watersheds), using positive and negative controls and custom bioinformatic processing. Test results discern silver carp eDNA in four of the shops-three in Lake Erie and one in the Wabash River watershed-and bighead carp from one of the same Lake Erie venues, suggesting that retailers (who often source from established southerly populations) comprise another introduction vector. Our overall findings thus provide key population genetic and phylogenetic data for understanding and tracing introductions, vectors, and spread pathways for silver carp, their variants, and their relatives.
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- Carol A. Stepien
- NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Genetics and Genomics Group (G3), Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Genetics and Genomics Group (G3), Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Genetics and Genomics Group (G3), Seattle, WA, United States of America
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