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Zhang X, Blaxter M, Wood JMD, Tracey A, McCarthy S, Thorpe P, Rayner JG, Zhang S, Sikkink KL, Balenger SL, Bailey NW. Temporal genomics in Hawaiian crickets reveals compensatory intragenomic coadaptation during adaptive evolution. Nat Commun 2024; 15:5001. [PMID: 38866741 PMCID: PMC11169259 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49344-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2023] [Accepted: 05/24/2024] [Indexed: 06/14/2024] Open
Abstract
Theory predicts that compensatory genetic changes reduce negative indirect effects of selected variants during adaptive evolution, but evidence is scarce. Here, we test this in a wild population of Hawaiian crickets using temporal genomics and a high-quality chromosome-level cricket genome. In this population, a mutation, flatwing, silences males and rapidly spread due to an acoustically-orienting parasitoid. Our sampling spanned a social transition during which flatwing fixed and the population went silent. We find long-range linkage disequilibrium around the putative flatwing locus was maintained over time, and hitchhiking genes had functions related to negative flatwing-associated effects. We develop a combinatorial enrichment approach using transcriptome data to test for compensatory, intragenomic coevolution. Temporal changes in genomic selection were distributed genome-wide and functionally associated with the population's transition to silence, particularly behavioural responses to silent environments. Our results demonstrate how 'adaptation begets adaptation'; changes to the sociogenetic environment accompanying rapid trait evolution can generate selection provoking further, compensatory adaptation.
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Affiliation(s)
- Xiao Zhang
- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Conservation and Utilization of Animal Diversity, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China.
- Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, UK.
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- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
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- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
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- School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, UK
- Data Analysis Group, Division of Computational Biology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
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- Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, UK
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- Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, UK
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- College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
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- Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, UK.
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Schneider WT, Rutz C, Bailey NW. Behavioural plasticity compensates for adaptive loss of cricket song. Ecol Lett 2024; 27:e14404. [PMID: 38519842 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2023] [Accepted: 02/08/2024] [Indexed: 03/25/2024]
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Behavioural flexibility might help animals cope with costs of genetic variants under selection, promoting genetic adaptation. However, it has proven challenging to experimentally link behavioural flexibility to the predicted compensation of population-level fitness. We tested this prediction using the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus. In Hawaiian populations, a mutation silences males and protects against eavesdropping parasitoids. To examine how the loss of this critical acoustic communication signal impacts offspring production and mate location, we developed a high-resolution, individual-based tracking system for low-light, naturalistic conditions. Offspring production did not differ significantly in replicate silent versus singing populations, and fitness compensation in silent conditions was associated with significantly increased locomotion in both sexes. Our results provide evidence that flexible behaviour can promote genetic adaptation via compensation in reproductive output and suggest that rapid evolution of animal communication systems may be less constrained than previously appreciated.
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- Will T Schneider
- Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, UK
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- Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, UK
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- Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, UK
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Tanner JC, Johnson ER, Zuk M. Is plasticity in field cricket mating behaviour mediated by experience of song quality? Anim Behav 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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OUP accepted manuscript. Behav Ecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arac049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Tanner JC, Simmons LW. Spoiled for choice: number of signalers constrains mate choice based on acoustic signals. Behav Ecol 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arab136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Animal communication mediates social interactions with important fitness consequences for individuals. Receivers use signals to detect and discriminate among potential mates. Extensive research effort has focused on how receiver behavior imposes selection on signalers and signals. However, animals communicate in socially and physically complex environments with important biotic and abiotic features that are often excluded from controlled laboratory experiments, including noise. “Noise” is any factor that prevents signal detection and discrimination. The noise caused by aggregates of acoustic signalers is a well-known impediment to receivers, but how many individual signalers are required to produce the emergent effects of chorus noise on receiver behavior? In Teleogryllus oceanicus, the Australian field cricket, we assayed female preferences for a temporal property of male advertisement signals, the number of long chirp pulses, using two-, four-, six-, and eight-choice phonotaxis experiments. We found that, as the number of individual signalers increased, receivers became less likely to respond phonotactically and less likely to express their well-documented preference for more long chirp pulses. We found that very few individual signalers can create a sufficiently noisy environment, due either to acoustic interference or choice overload, to substantially impair female preference expression. Our results suggest that receivers may not always be able to express their well-documented mating preferences in nature.
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- Jessie C Tanner
- Centre for Evolutionary Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
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- Centre for Evolutionary Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
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Rogers KJ, Beckers OM. Parasitism of
Neoconocephalus
katydids by the parasitoid fly,
Ormia lineifrons. Ethology 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/eth.13245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Kyler J. Rogers
- Department of Biological Sciences Murray State University Murray Kentucky USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences Murray State University Murray Kentucky USA
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Bailey NW, Desjonquères C, Drago A, Rayner JG, Sturiale SL, Zhang X. A neglected conceptual problem regarding phenotypic plasticity's role in adaptive evolution: The importance of genetic covariance and social drive. Evol Lett 2021; 5:444-457. [PMID: 34621532 PMCID: PMC8484725 DOI: 10.1002/evl3.251] [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: 01/26/2021] [Revised: 07/12/2021] [Accepted: 07/19/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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There is tantalizing evidence that phenotypic plasticity can buffer novel, adaptive genetic variants long enough to permit their evolutionary spread, and this process is often invoked in explanations for rapid adaptive evolution. However, the strength and generality of evidence for it is controversial. We identify a conceptual problem affecting this debate: recombination, segregation, and independent assortment are expected to quickly sever associations between genes controlling novel adaptations and genes contributing to trait plasticity that facilitates the novel adaptations by reducing their indirect fitness costs. To make clearer predictions about this role of plasticity in facilitating genetic adaptation, we describe a testable genetic mechanism that resolves the problem: genetic covariance between new adaptive variants and trait plasticity that facilitates their persistence within populations. We identify genetic architectures that might lead to such a covariance, including genetic coupling via physical linkage and pleiotropy, and illustrate the consequences for adaptation rates using numerical simulations. Such genetic covariances may also arise from the social environment, and we suggest the indirect genetic effects that result could further accentuate the process of adaptation. We call the latter mechanism of adaptation social drive, and identify methods to test it. We suggest that genetic coupling of plasticity and adaptations could promote unusually rapid ‘runaway’ evolution of novel adaptations. The resultant dynamics could facilitate evolutionary rescue, adaptive radiations, the origin of novelties, and other commonly studied processes.
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- Nathan W Bailey
- School of Biology University of St Andrews St Andrews KY16 9TH United Kingdom
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- School of Biology University of St Andrews St Andrews KY16 9TH United Kingdom.,Department of Biological Sciences University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee Wisconsin 53201
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- School of Biology University of St Andrews St Andrews KY16 9TH United Kingdom
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- School of Biology University of St Andrews St Andrews KY16 9TH United Kingdom
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- School of Biology University of St Andrews St Andrews KY16 9TH United Kingdom.,Current Address: Department of Biology Georgetown University Washington DC 20057
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- School of Biology University of St Andrews St Andrews KY16 9TH United Kingdom
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Tinghitella RM, Broder ED, Gallagher JH, Wikle AW, Zonana DM. Responses of intended and unintended receivers to a novel sexual signal suggest clandestine communication. Nat Commun 2021; 12:797. [PMID: 33542210 PMCID: PMC7862365 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-20971-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2020] [Accepted: 01/04/2021] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Inadvertent cues can be refined into signals through coevolution between signalers and receivers, yet the earliest steps in this process remain elusive. In Hawaiian populations of the Pacific field cricket, a new morph producing a novel and incredibly variable song (purring) has spread across islands. Here we characterize the current sexual and natural selection landscape acting on the novel signal by (1) determining fitness advantages of purring through attraction to mates and protection from a prominent deadly natural enemy, and (2) testing alternative hypotheses about the strength and form of selection acting on the novel signal. In field studies, female crickets respond positively to purrs, but eavesdropping parasitoid flies do not, suggesting purring may allow private communication among crickets. Contrary to the sensory bias and preference for novelty hypotheses, preference functions (selective pressure) are nearly flat, driven by extreme inter-individual variation in function shape. Our study offers a rare empirical test of the roles of natural and sexual selection in the earliest stages of signal evolution.
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- Department of Biology, St Ambrose University, Davenport, IA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA
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Sikkink KL, Bailey NW, Zuk M, Balenger SL. Immunogenetic and tolerance strategies against a novel parasitoid of wild field crickets. Ecol Evol 2020; 10:13312-13326. [PMID: 33304539 PMCID: PMC7713935 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2020] [Revised: 08/10/2020] [Accepted: 08/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Among the parasites of insects, endoparasitoids impose a costly challenge to host defenses because they use their host's body for the development and maturation of their eggs or larvae, and ultimately kill the host. Tachinid flies are highly specialized acoustically orienting parasitoids, with first instar mobile larvae that burrow into the host's body to feed. We investigated the possibility that Teleogryllus oceanicus field crickets employ postinfestation strategies to maximize survival when infested with the larvae of the parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea. Using crickets from the Hawaiian Islands of Kauai, where the parasitoid is present, and crickets from the Cook Islands (Mangaia), where the parasitoid is absent, we evaluated fitness consequences of infestation by comparing feeding behavior, reproductive capacity, and survival of males experimentally infested with O. ochracea larvae. We also evaluated mechanisms underlying host responses by comparing gene expression in crickets infested with fly larvae for different lengths of time with that of uninfested control crickets. We observed weak population differences in fitness (spermatophore production) and survival (total survival time postinfestation). These responses generally did not show an interaction between population and the number of larva hosts carried or by host body condition. Gene expression patterns also revealed population differences in response to infestation, but we did not find evidence for consistent differences in genes associated with immunity or stress response. One possibility is that any postinfestation evolved resistance does not involve genes associated with these particular functional categories. More likely, these results suggest that coevolution with the fly does not strongly select for either postinfestation resistance or tolerance of parasitoid larvae in male crickets.
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- Centre for Biological DiversitySchool of BiologyUniversity of St AndrewsSt AndrewsUK
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and BehaviorUniversity of Minnesota‐Twin CitiesSt. PaulMNUSA
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Spermatophore retention may accommodate sexual signal loss in Pacific field crickets. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-020-02850-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Tanner JC, Justison J, Bee MA. SynSing: open-source MATLAB code for generating synthetic signals in studies of animal acoustic communication. BIOACOUSTICS 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/09524622.2019.1674694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Jessie C. Tanner
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
- Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Heinen‐Kay JL, Strub DB, Balenger SL, Zuk M. Direct and indirect effects of sexual signal loss on female reproduction in the Pacific field cricket (Teleogryllus oceanicus). J Evol Biol 2019; 32:1382-1390. [DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2019] [Revised: 08/20/2019] [Accepted: 08/27/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Justa L. Heinen‐Kay
- Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior University of Minnesota St. Paul MN USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior University of Minnesota St. Paul MN USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior University of Minnesota St. Paul MN USA
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Heinen‐Kay JL, Strub DB, Zuk M. Limited flexibility in female Pacific field cricket (
Teleogryllus oceanicus
) exploratory behaviors in response to perceived social environment. Ethology 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/eth.12767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Justa L. Heinen‐Kay
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior University of Minnesota St. Paul Minnesota
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior University of Minnesota St. Paul Minnesota
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior University of Minnesota St. Paul Minnesota
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Zuk M, Bailey NW, Gray B, Rotenberry JT. Sexual signal loss: The link between behaviour and rapid evolutionary dynamics in a field cricket. J Anim Ecol 2018; 87:623-633. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2017] [Accepted: 12/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Marlene Zuk
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior University of Minnesota St. Paul MN USA
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- School of Biology Centre for Biological Diversity University of St Andrews Fife UK
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- Department of Biology University of California Riverside CA USA
- Columbia University New York NY USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior University of Minnesota St. Paul MN USA
- Department of Biology University of California Riverside CA USA
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Pascoal S, Liu X, Fang Y, Paterson S, Ritchie MG, Rockliffe N, Zuk M, Bailey NW. Increased socially mediated plasticity in gene expression accompanies rapid adaptive evolution. Ecol Lett 2018; 21:546-556. [DOI: 10.1111/ele.12920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2017] [Revised: 10/11/2017] [Accepted: 01/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Sonia Pascoal
- Department of Zoology; University of Cambridge; CB2 3EJ UK
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- Centre for Genomic Research; University of Liverpool; Liverpool L69 7ZB UK
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- Centre for Genomic Research; University of Liverpool; Liverpool L69 7ZB UK
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- Centre for Genomic Research; University of Liverpool; Liverpool L69 7ZB UK
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- Centre for Biological Diversity; University of St Andrews; St Andrews KY16 9TH UK
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- Centre for Genomic Research; University of Liverpool; Liverpool L69 7ZB UK
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior; University of Minnesota; St Paul MN 55108 USA
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- Centre for Biological Diversity; University of St Andrews; St Andrews KY16 9TH UK
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Ezenwa VO, Archie EA, Craft ME, Hawley DM, Martin LB, Moore J, White L. Host behaviour-parasite feedback: an essential link between animal behaviour and disease ecology. Proc Biol Sci 2016; 283:rspb.2015.3078. [PMID: 27053751 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.3078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2015] [Accepted: 03/15/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Animal behaviour and the ecology and evolution of parasites are inextricably linked. For this reason, animal behaviourists and disease ecologists have been interested in the intersection of their respective fields for decades. Despite this interest, most research at the behaviour-disease interface focuses either on how host behaviour affects parasites or how parasites affect behaviour, with little overlap between the two. Yet, the majority of interactions between hosts and parasites are probably reciprocal, such that host behaviour feeds back on parasites and vice versa. Explicitly considering these feedbacks is essential for understanding the complex connections between animal behaviour and parasite ecology and evolution. To illustrate this point, we discuss how host behaviour-parasite feedbacks might operate and explore the consequences of feedback for studies of animal behaviour and parasites. For example, ignoring the feedback of host social structure on parasite dynamics can limit the accuracy of predictions about parasite spread. Likewise, considering feedback in studies of parasites and animal personalities may provide unique insight about the maintenance of variation in personality types. Finally, applying the feedback concept to links between host behaviour and beneficial, rather than pathogenic, microbes may shed new light on transitions between mutualism and parasitism. More generally, accounting for host behaviour-parasite feedbacks can help identify critical gaps in our understanding of how key host behaviours and parasite traits evolve and are maintained.
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- Vanessa O Ezenwa
- Odum School of Ecology and Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
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- Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
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Future climate stimulates population out-breaks by relaxing constraints on reproduction. Sci Rep 2016; 6:33383. [PMID: 27625161 PMCID: PMC5022049 DOI: 10.1038/srep33383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2016] [Accepted: 08/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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When conditions are stressful, reproduction and population growth are reduced, but when favourable, reproduction and population size can boom. Theory suggests climate change is an increasingly stressful environment, predicting extinctions or decreased abundances. However, if favourable conditions align, such as an increase in resources or release from competition and predation, future climate can fuel population growth. Tests of such population growth models and the mechanisms by which they are enabled are rare. We tested whether intergenerational increases in population size might be facilitated by adjustments in reproductive success to favourable environmental conditions in a large-scale mesocosm experiment. Herbivorous amphipod populations responded to future climate by increasing 20 fold, suggesting that future climate might relax environmental constraints on fecundity. We then assessed whether future climate reduces variation in mating success, boosting population fecundity and size. The proportion of gravid females doubled, and variance in phenotypic variation of male secondary sexual characters (i.e. gnathopods) was significantly reduced. While future climate can enhance individual growth and survival, it may also reduce constraints on mechanisms of reproduction such that enhanced intra-generational productivity and reproductive success transfers to subsequent generations. Where both intra and intergenerational production is enhanced, population sizes might boom.
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Pascoal S, Liu X, Ly T, Fang Y, Rockliffe N, Paterson S, Shirran SL, Botting CH, Bailey NW. Rapid evolution and gene expression: a rapidly evolving Mendelian trait that silences field crickets has widespread effects on mRNA and protein expression. J Evol Biol 2016; 29:1234-46. [DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2015] [Accepted: 03/13/2016] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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- S. Pascoal
- Centre for Biological Diversity; University of St Andrews; St Andrews UK
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- Centre for Genomic Research; University of Liverpool; Liverpool UK
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- Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression; College of Life Sciences; University of Dundee; Dundee UK
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- Centre for Genomic Research; University of Liverpool; Liverpool UK
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- Centre for Genomic Research; University of Liverpool; Liverpool UK
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- Centre for Genomic Research; University of Liverpool; Liverpool UK
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- School of Chemistry; Biomedical Sciences Research Complex; BMS Annexe; University of St Andrews; St Andrews UK
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- School of Chemistry; Biomedical Sciences Research Complex; BMS Annexe; University of St Andrews; St Andrews UK
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- Centre for Biological Diversity; University of St Andrews; St Andrews UK
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