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Narayan VP, Wasana N, Wilson AJ, Chenoweth SF. Misalignment of plastic and evolutionary responses of lifespan to novel carbohydrate diets. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2024; 11:231732. [PMID: 38234441 PMCID: PMC10791524 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.231732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2023] [Accepted: 12/14/2023] [Indexed: 01/19/2024]
Abstract
Diet elicits varied effects on longevity across a wide range of animal species where dietary discordance between an organisms' evolutionary and developmental dietary history is increasingly recognized to play a critical role in shaping lifespan. However, whether such changes, predominantly assessed in a single generation, lead to evolutionary shifts in lifespan remains unclear. In this study, we used an experimental evolution approach to test whether changes in an organisms' evolutionary and developmental dietary history, specifically carbohydrate content, causes lifespan evolution in Drosophila serrata. After 30 generations, we investigated the evolutionary potential of lifespan in response to four novel diets that varied systematically in their ratio of carbohydrate-protein content. We also examined developmental plasticity effects using a set of control populations that were raised on the four novel environments allowing us to assess the extent to which plastic responses of lifespan mirrored adaptive responses observed following experimental evolution. Both high- and low-carbohydrate diets elicited plastic effects on lifespan; however, the plastic responses for lifespan to developmental diets bore little resemblance to the evolved responses on evolutionary diets. Understanding the dietary conditions regulating the match/mismatch of plastic and evolved responses will be important in determining whether a particular match/mismatch combination is adaptive for lifespan. While the differences in evolutionary diet by developmental diet interactions are only beginning to be elucidated, this study lays the foundation for future investigations of carbohydrate contributions to evolved and plastic effects on health and lifespan.
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Affiliation(s)
- Vikram P. Narayan
- School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9FE, UK
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- School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9FE, UK
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- School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
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Malani A, Archie EA, Rosenbaum S. Conceptual and analytical approaches for modelling the developmental origins of inequality. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2023; 378:20220306. [PMID: 37381859 PMCID: PMC10291426 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2023] [Accepted: 04/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/30/2023] Open
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In many species, individuals that experience harsh conditions during development have poor health and fitness outcomes in adulthood, compared with peers that do not. These early-life contributions to inequality are often attributed to two classes of evolutionary hypotheses: Developmental Constraints (DC) models, which focus on the deleterious effects of low-quality early-life environments, and Predictive Adaptive Response (PAR) hypotheses, which emphasize the costs individuals incur when they make incorrect predictions about conditions in adulthood. Testing these hypotheses empirically is difficult for conceptual and analytical reasons. Here, we help resolve some of these difficulties by providing mathematical definitions for DC, PAR (particularly focusing on 'external' PAR) and related concepts. We propose a novel, quadratic regression-based statistical test derived from these definitions. Our simulations show that this approach markedly improves the ability to discriminate between DC and PAR hypotheses relative to the status quo approach, which uses interaction effects. Simulated data indicate that the interaction effects approach often conflates PAR with DC, while the quadratic regression approach yields high sensitivity and specificity for detecting PAR. Our results highlight the value of linking verbal and visual models to a formal mathematical treatment for understanding the developmental origins of inequitable adult outcomes. This article is part of the theme issue 'Evolutionary ecology of inequality'.
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- Anup Malani
- University of Chicago Law School and National Bureau of Economic Research, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Tscholl T, Nachman G, Spangl B, Serve HC, Walzer A. Reproducing during Heat Waves: Influence of Juvenile and Adult Environment on Fecundity of a Pest Mite and Its Predator. BIOLOGY 2023; 12:biology12040554. [PMID: 37106755 PMCID: PMC10136120 DOI: 10.3390/biology12040554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2023] [Revised: 03/29/2023] [Accepted: 04/04/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023]
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The thermal history of arthropod predators and their prey may affect their reproductive performance during heat waves. Thus, a matching juvenile and adult environment should be beneficial as it enables the individuals to acclimate to extreme conditions. Prey fecundity, however, is also affected by a second stressor, namely predation risk. Here, we assessed the impact of extreme and mild heat waves on the reproductive output of acclimated (juvenile and adult heat wave conditions are matching) and non-acclimated females of the biocontrol agent Phytoseiulus persimilis, a predatory mite, and its herbivorous prey, the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae, on bean leaves. Their escape and oviposition rates and egg sizes were recorded over 10 days. Additionally, ovipositing prey females were exposed to predator cues and heat waves. Acclimation changed the escape rates and egg sizes of both species, whereas fecundity was only influenced by the adult thermal environment via increased egg numbers under extreme heat waves. Acclimation reduced predator and prey escape rates, which were higher for the predator. Pooled over acclimation, both species deposited more but smaller eggs under extreme heat waves. Acclimation dampened this effect in prey eggs, whereas acclimation resulted in smaller female eggs of the predator. Prey deposited larger male and female eggs. Predator cues reduced prey oviposition, but the effect was small compared to the large increase gained under extreme heat waves. We argue that the success of predators in controlling spider mites during heat waves mainly depends on the fates of escaping predators. A permanent absence of predators may result in the numerical dominance of prey.
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- Thomas Tscholl
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Department of Crop Sciences, Institute of Plant Protection, Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria
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- University of Copenhagen, Department of Biology, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Department of Landscape, Spatial and Infrastructure Sciences, Institute of Statistics, Peter-Jordan-Straße 82/I, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Department of Crop Sciences, Institute of Plant Protection, Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria
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- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Department of Crop Sciences, Institute of Plant Protection, Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria
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Sanghvi K, Iglesias‐Carrasco M, Zajitschek F, Kruuk LEB, Head ML. Effects of developmental and adult environments on ageing. Evolution 2022; 76:1868-1882. [PMID: 35819127 PMCID: PMC9543291 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2021] [Revised: 06/03/2022] [Accepted: 06/28/2022] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Developmental and adult environments can interact in complex ways to influence the fitness of individuals. Most studies investigating effects of the environment on fitness focus on environments experienced and traits expressed at a single point in an organism's life. However, environments vary with time, so the effects of the environments that organisms experience at different ages may interact to affect how traits change throughout life. Here, we test whether thermal stress experienced during development leads individuals to cope better with thermal stress as adults. We manipulated temperature during both development and adulthood and measured a range of life-history traits, including senescence, in male and female seed beetles (Callosobruchus maculatus). We found that thermal stress during development reduced adult reproductive performance of females. In contrast, life span and age-dependent mortality were affected more by adult than developmental environments, with high adult temperatures decreasing longevity and increasing age-dependent mortality. Aside from an interaction between developmental and adult environments to affect age-dependent changes in male weight, we did not find any evidence of a beneficial acclimation response to developmental thermal stress. Overall, our results show that effects of developmental and adult environments can be both sex and trait specific, and that a full understanding of how environments interact to affect fitness and ageing requires the integrated study of conditions experienced during different stages of ontogeny.
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- Krish Sanghvi
- Reserach School of BiologyAustralian National UniversityCanberraACT2601Australia
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- School of Biology Earth and Environmental SciencesUniversity of New South WalesSydneyNSW2052Australia
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- Reserach School of BiologyAustralian National UniversityCanberraACT2601Australia
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- Reserach School of BiologyAustralian National UniversityCanberraACT2601Australia
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Seong JM, Lee KP. Effects of Different Legume Seeds on Individual Performance in the Bean Bug, Riptortus pedestris (Hemiptera: Alydidae). JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 2021; 114:2326-2335. [PMID: 34580732 DOI: 10.1093/jee/toab187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The bean bug, Riptortus pedestris (Fabricius), is a serious pest of legume crops in East Asia. Here, we report how the consumption of different types of legume seeds affects various aspects of nymphal and adult traits related to fitness in R. pedestris. Two experiments were conducted. In the first experiment, we assessed how R. pedestris nymphs and adults performed on one of 10 different legume seeds: adzuki bean, chickpea, cowpea, two kidney bean varieties (red, white), mung bean, peanut, small black bean, and two soybean varieties (black, yellow). Riptortus pedestris fed on yellow soybean and chickpea performed well in terms of nymphal survivorship and fecundity. However, R. pedestris fed on two kidney bean varieties suffered 100% nymphal mortality and reduced fecundity. Small black bean and black soybean supported high fecundity, but were not suitable for nymphal development. Lipid content was 4- to 11-folds higher in R. pedestris raised on peanuts than those on the others. In the second experiment, we recorded the key parameters of adult performance from R. pedestris assigned to one of nine combinations of three nymphal and three adult diets (yellow soybean, adzuki bean, peanut). Riptortus pedestris raised on yellow soybean during development produced more eggs over their lifetime than those raised on the others. However, this beneficial effect of consuming yellow soybean during development occurred only when yellow soybean was consumed during adulthood. Our data have implications for predicting the occurrence and population dynamics of this pest.
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- Jae Min Seong
- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Tuljapurkar S, Zuo W, Coulson T, Horvitz C, Gaillard JM. Distributions of LRS in varying environments. Ecol Lett 2021; 24:1328-1340. [PMID: 33904254 DOI: 10.1111/ele.13745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2020] [Accepted: 03/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The lifetime reproductive success (LRS) of individuals is affected by random events such as death, realized growth or realized reproduction, and the outcomes of these events can differ even when individuals have identical probabilities. Another source of randomness arises when these probabilities also change over time in variable environments. For structured populations in stochastic environments, we extend our recent method to determine how birth environment and birth stage determine the random distribution of the LRS. Our results provide a null model that quantifies effects on LRS of just the birth size or stage. Using Roe deer Capreolus capreolus as a case study, we show that the effect of an individual's birth environment on LRS varies with the frequency of environments and their temporal autocorrelation, and that lifetime performance is affected by changes in the pattern of environmental states expected as a result of climate change.
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
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- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
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