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Wagner JD, Bakare A. Lifetime reproductive effort is equal between the sexes in seed beetles ( Callosobruchus maculatus): dispelling the myth of the cheap male. ETHOL ECOL EVOL 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/03949370.2016.1211743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- James D. Wagner
- Biology Program, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY 40508, USA
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- Biology Program, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY 40508, USA
- Current affiliation: The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, 4072, Australia
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Burke MK, Barter TT, Cabral LG, Kezos JN, Phillips MA, Rutledge GA, Phung KH, Chen RH, Nguyen HD, Mueller LD, Rose MR. Rapid divergence and convergence of life‐history in experimentally evolved
Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 2016; 70:2085-98. [DOI: 10.1111/evo.13006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2015] [Accepted: 06/26/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Molly K. Burke
- Department of Integrative Biology Oregon State University Corvallis Oregon 97331
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Irvine Irvine California 92697‐2525
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Irvine Irvine California 92697‐2525
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Irvine Irvine California 92697‐2525
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Irvine Irvine California 92697‐2525
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Irvine Irvine California 92697‐2525
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Irvine Irvine California 92697‐2525
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Irvine Irvine California 92697‐2525
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Irvine Irvine California 92697‐2525
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Irvine Irvine California 92697‐2525
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Irvine Irvine California 92697‐2525
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Irvine Irvine California 92697‐2525
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Blackmon H, Demuth JP. An information-theoretic approach to estimating the composite genetic effects contributing to variation among generation means: Moving beyond the joint-scaling test for line cross analysis. Evolution 2016; 70:420-32. [DOI: 10.1111/evo.12844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2014] [Revised: 12/03/2015] [Accepted: 12/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Heath Blackmon
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; University of Minnesota; Saint Paul Minnesota 55108
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- Department of Biology; University of Texas at Arlington; Texas 76019
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Marinosci C, Magalhães S, Macke E, Navajas M, Carbonell D, Devaux C, Olivieri I. Effects of host plant on life-history traits in the polyphagous spider mite Tetranychus urticae. Ecol Evol 2015; 5:3151-8. [PMID: 26356681 PMCID: PMC4559057 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2015] [Accepted: 05/04/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
Studying antagonistic coevolution between host plants and herbivores is particularly relevant for polyphagous species that can experience a great diversity of host plants with a large range of defenses. Here, we performed experimental evolution with the polyphagous spider mite Tetranychus urticae to detect how mites can exploit host plants. We thus compared on a same host the performance of replicated populations from an ancestral one reared for hundreds of generations on cucumber plants that were shifted to either tomato or cucumber plants. We controlled for maternal effects by rearing females from all replicated populations on either tomato or cucumber leaves, crossing this factor with the host plant in a factorial design. About 24 generations after the host shift and for all individual mites, we measured the following fitness components on tomato leaf fragments: survival at all stages, acceptance of the host plant by juvenile and adult mites, longevity, and female fecundity. The host plant on which mite populations had evolved did not affect the performance of the mites, but only affected their sex ratio. Females that lived on tomato plants for circa 24 generations produced a higher proportion of daughters than did females that lived on cucumber plants. In contrast, maternal effects influenced juvenile survival, acceptance of the host plant by adult mites and female fecundity. Independently of the host plant species on which their population had evolved, females reared on the tomato maternal environment produced offspring that survived better on tomato as juveniles, but accepted less this host plant as adults and had a lower fecundity than did females reared on the cucumber maternal environment. We also found that temporal blocks affected mite dispersal and both female longevity and fecundity. Taken together, our results show that the host plant species can affect critical parameters of population dynamics, and most importantly that maternal and environmental conditions can facilitate colonization and exploitation of a novel host in the polyphagous T. urticae, by affecting dispersal behavior (host acceptance) and female fecundity.
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- Cassandra Marinosci
- ISEM, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution Montpellier, UMR 5554 (Université de Montpellier/CNRS/IRD) Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095, Montpellier Cedex 05, France
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- CE3C, Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Sciences, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Edificio C2, 3° Piso, Campo Grande, P-1749016, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Laboratory Aquatic Biology, KU Leuven Kulak E. Sabbelaan 53, 8500, Kortrijk, Belgium
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- INRA UMR CBGP (INRA/IRD/Cirad/Montpellier SupAgro) Campus International de Baillarguet, CS 30016, F-34988, Montferrier-sur-Lez Cedex, France
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- CNRS, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution Montpellier, UMR 5554 (Université de Montpellier/CNRS/IRD) Bât. 22, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095, Montpellier Cedex 05, France
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- ISEM, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution Montpellier, UMR 5554 (Université de Montpellier/CNRS/IRD) Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095, Montpellier Cedex 05, France
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- ISEM, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution Montpellier, UMR 5554 (Université de Montpellier/CNRS/IRD) Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095, Montpellier Cedex 05, France
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Bailey SF, Rodrigue N, Kassen R. The effect of selection environment on the probability of parallel evolution. Mol Biol Evol 2015; 32:1436-48. [PMID: 25761765 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msv033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Across the great diversity of life, there are many compelling examples of parallel and convergent evolution-similar evolutionary changes arising in independently evolving populations. Parallel evolution is often taken to be strong evidence of adaptation occurring in populations that are highly constrained in their genetic variation. Theoretical models suggest a few potential factors driving the probability of parallel evolution, but experimental tests are needed. In this study, we quantify the degree of parallel evolution in 15 replicate populations of Pseudomonas fluorescens evolved in five different environments that varied in resource type and arrangement. We identified repeat changes across multiple levels of biological organization from phenotype, to gene, to nucleotide, and tested the impact of 1) selection environment, 2) the degree of adaptation, and 3) the degree of heterogeneity in the environment on the degree of parallel evolution at the gene-level. We saw, as expected, that parallel evolution occurred more often between populations evolved in the same environment; however, the extent of parallel evolution varied widely. The degree of adaptation did not significantly explain variation in the extent of parallelism in our system but number of available beneficial mutations correlated negatively with parallel evolution. In addition, degree of parallel evolution was significantly higher in populations evolved in a spatially structured, multiresource environment, suggesting that environmental heterogeneity may be an important factor constraining adaptation. Overall, our results stress the importance of environment in driving parallel evolutionary changes and point to a number of avenues for future work for understanding when evolution is predictable.
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- Susan F Bailey
- Biology Department and Center for Advanced Research in Environmental Genomics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Biology Department and Center for Advanced Research in Environmental Genomics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Biology Department and Center for Advanced Research in Environmental Genomics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Lind MI, Berg EC, Alavioon G, Maklakov AA. Evolution of differential maternal age effects on male and female offspring development and longevity. Funct Ecol 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Martin I. Lind
- Ageing Research Group Department of Animal Ecology Evolutionary Biology Centre Uppsala University Uppsala 75236 Sweden
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- Ageing Research Group Department of Animal Ecology Evolutionary Biology Centre Uppsala University Uppsala 75236 Sweden
- Department of Computer Science, Math & Science American University of Paris 31 Avenue Bosquet Paris 75007 France
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- Ageing Research Group Department of Animal Ecology Evolutionary Biology Centre Uppsala University Uppsala 75236 Sweden
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- Ageing Research Group Department of Animal Ecology Evolutionary Biology Centre Uppsala University Uppsala 75236 Sweden
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Fragata I, Simões P, Lopes-Cunha M, Lima M, Kellen B, Bárbaro M, Santos J, Rose MR, Santos M, Matos M. Laboratory selection quickly erases historical differentiation. PLoS One 2014; 9:e96227. [PMID: 24788553 PMCID: PMC4008540 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2014] [Accepted: 04/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The roles of history, chance and selection have long been debated in evolutionary biology. Though uniform selection is expected to lead to convergent evolution between populations, contrasting histories and chance events might prevent them from attaining the same adaptive state, rendering evolution somewhat unpredictable. The predictability of evolution has been supported by several studies documenting repeatable adaptive radiations and convergence in both nature and laboratory. However, other studies suggest divergence among populations adapting to the same environment. Despite the relevance of this issue, empirical data is lacking for real-time adaptation of sexual populations with deeply divergent histories and ample standing genetic variation across fitness-related traits. Here we analyse the real-time evolutionary dynamics of Drosophila subobscura populations, previously differentiated along the European cline, when colonizing a new common environment. By analysing several life-history, physiological and morphological traits, we show that populations quickly converge to the same adaptive state through different evolutionary paths. In contrast with other studies, all analysed traits fully converged regardless of their association with fitness. Selection was able to erase the signature of history in highly differentiated populations after just a short number of generations, leading to consistent patterns of convergent evolution.
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- Inês Fragata
- Centro de Biologia Ambiental and Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- * E-mail: (IF); (PS)
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- Centro de Biologia Ambiental and Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- * E-mail: (IF); (PS)
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- Centro de Biologia Ambiental and Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Centro de Biologia Ambiental and Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Centro de Biologia Ambiental and Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Centro de Biologia Ambiental and Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Centro de Biologia Ambiental and Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
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- Departament de Genètica i de Microbiologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Biologia Ambiental and Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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Smith HA, Snell TW. Differential evolution of asexual and sexual females in a benign culture environment. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF HYDROBIOLOGY 2014; 99:117-124. [PMID: 24795527 PMCID: PMC4004349 DOI: 10.1002/iroh.201301711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Here we report one of the first investigations of evolvability of lifespan and reproduction in metazoans, examining both extrinsic and intrinsic factors. We tested effects on senescence of an environmental variable (simulated lake hydroperiod, the length of time an aquatic habitat is inundated), female reproductive physiology (asexual females that reproduce by ameiosis, versus sexual females reproducing by meiosis), and time in a benign culture environment (minimal, if any, external mortality factors). To do this we established chemostat cultures of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis s.s., and maintained the cultures for 385 d. Hydroperiod alone or in interaction with the effects of time in the benign environment (season) or reproductive physiology had no significant effect on the net reproductive rate, generation time, or rate of aging. Yet combining animals from both ephemeral and permanent hydroperiods revealed a 26% increase in asexual female lifespan across seasons (23% decrease in the rate of aging) and a 56% increase in asexual fecundity, suggesting that maintenance in benign laboratory conditions leads to slower aging. The relative stasis of traits for sexual females implies an impact of reproductive physiology on evolvability. In addition we found a positive correlation between fecundity and lifespan, suggesting an absence of trade-offs in life history traits in the benign laboratory environment.
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- Hilary A. Smith
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-0369, USA
- School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0230, USA
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- School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0230, USA
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Gillespie DOS, Trotter MV, Krishna-Kumar S, Tuljapurkar SD. Birth-order differences can drive natural selection on aging. Evolution 2014; 68:886-92. [PMID: 24274174 DOI: 10.1111/evo.12319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2013] [Accepted: 11/15/2013] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Senescence-the deterioration of survival and reproductive capacity with increasing age-is generally held to be an evolutionary consequence of the declining strength of natural selection with increasing age. The diversity in rates of aging observed in nature suggests that the rate at which age-specific selection weakens is determined by species-specific ecological factors. We propose that, in iteroparous species, relationships between parental age, offspring birth order, and environment may affect selection on senescence. Later-born siblings have, on average, older parents than do first borns. Offspring born to older parents may experience different environments in terms of family support or inherited resources, factors often mediated by competition from siblings. Thus, age-specific selection on parents may change if the environment produces birth-order related gradients in reproductive success. We use an age-and-stage structured population model to investigate the impact of sibling environmental inequality on the expected evolution of senescence. We show that accelerated senescence evolves when later-born siblings are likely to experience an environment detrimental to lifetime reproduction. In general, sibling inequality is likely to be of particular importance for the evolution of senescence in species such as humans, where family interactions and resource inheritance have important roles in determining lifetime reproduction.
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- Duncan O S Gillespie
- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305; Department of Public Health and Policy, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3GB, United Kingdom.
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Rogell B, Widegren W, Hallsson LR, Berger D, Björklund M, Maklakov AA. Sex-dependent evolution of life-history traits following adaptation to climate warming. Funct Ecol 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Björn Rogell
- Department of Animal Ecology; Evolutionary Biology Center, Uppsala University; Uppsala SE-752 36 Sweden
- Shool of Biological Sciences; Monash University; Clayton 3800 Australia
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- Department of Animal Ecology; Evolutionary Biology Center, Uppsala University; Uppsala SE-752 36 Sweden
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- Department of Animal Ecology; Evolutionary Biology Center, Uppsala University; Uppsala SE-752 36 Sweden
- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre; School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales; Sydney New South Wales 2052 Australia
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- Department of Animal Ecology; Evolutionary Biology Center, Uppsala University; Uppsala SE-752 36 Sweden
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- Department of Animal Ecology; Evolutionary Biology Center, Uppsala University; Uppsala SE-752 36 Sweden
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- Department of Animal Ecology; Evolutionary Biology Center, Uppsala University; Uppsala SE-752 36 Sweden
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Lehtovaara A, Schielzeth H, Flis I, Friberg U. Heritability of Life Span Is Largely Sex Limited in Drosophila. Am Nat 2013; 182:653-65. [DOI: 10.1086/673296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Vijendravarma RK, Kawecki TJ. Epistasis and maternal effects in experimental adaptation to chronic nutritional stress in Drosophila. J Evol Biol 2013; 26:2566-80. [PMID: 24118120 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2013] [Revised: 08/12/2013] [Accepted: 08/13/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Based on ecological and metabolic arguments, some authors predict that adaptation to novel, harsh environments should involve alleles showing negative (diminishing return) epistasis and/or that it should be mediated in part by evolution of maternal effects. Although the first prediction has been supported in microbes, there has been little experimental support for either prediction in multicellular eukaryotes. Here we use a line-cross design to study the genetic architecture of adaptation to chronic larval malnutrition in a population of Drosophila melanogaster that evolved on an extremely nutrient-poor larval food for 84 generations. We assayed three fitness-related traits (developmental rate, adult female weight and egg-to-adult viability) under the malnutrition conditions in 14 crosses between this selected population and a nonadapted control population originally derived from the same base population. All traits showed a pattern of negative epistasis between alleles improving performance under malnutrition. Furthermore, evolutionary changes in maternal traits accounted for half of the 68% increase in viability and for the whole of 8% reduction in adult female body weight in the selected population (relative to unselected controls). These results thus support both of the above predictions and point to the importance of nonadditive effects in adaptive microevolution.
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- R K Vijendravarma
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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