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Rodrigues AMM, Gardner A. Transmission of social status drives cooperation and offspring philopatry. Proc Biol Sci 2023; 290:20231314. [PMID: 38018113 PMCID: PMC10685119 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.1314] [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: 06/13/2023] [Accepted: 10/21/2023] [Indexed: 11/30/2023] Open
Abstract
The evolution of cooperation depends on two crucial overarching factors: relatedness, which describes the extent to which the recipient shares genes in common with the actor; and quality, which describes the recipient's basic capacity to transmit genes into the future. While most research has focused on relatedness, there is a growing interest in understanding how quality modulates the evolution of cooperation. However, the impact of inheritance of quality on the evolution of cooperation remains largely unexplored, especially in spatially structured populations. Here, we develop a mathematical model to understand how inheritance of quality, in the form of social status, influences the evolution of helping and harming within social groups in a viscous-population setting. We find that: (1) status-reversal transmission, whereby parental and offspring status are negatively correlated, strongly inhibits the evolution of cooperation, with low-status individuals investing less in cooperation and high-status individuals being more prone to harm; (2) transmission of high status promotes offspring philopatry, with more cooperation being directed towards the higher-dispersal social class; and (3) fertility inequality and inter-generational status inheritance reduce within-group conflict. Overall, our study highlights the importance of considering different mechanisms of phenotypic inheritance, including social support, and their potential interactions in shaping animal societies.
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Affiliation(s)
- António M. M. Rodrigues
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
- School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9TH, UK
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- School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9TH, UK
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Sha Y, Hansson L. Ancestral environment determines the current reaction to ultraviolet radiation in Daphnia magna. Evolution 2022; 76:1821-1835. [PMID: 35788927 PMCID: PMC9542806 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2022] [Revised: 06/08/2022] [Accepted: 06/20/2022] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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An individual's phenotype can be altered by direct contact with its present environment but also by environmental features experienced by previous generations, that is, parental or grandparental effects. However, the strength and direction of these transgenerational effects may be highly variable according to the ecological conditions experienced by ancestral generations. Here, we performed a reciprocal split-brood experiment to compare transgenerational responses to the threat of ultraviolet radiation (UVR) in the zooplankter Daphnia magna, which had, or had not, been exposed to UVR for more than 150 generations. We found that the environment at which parents and grandparents were reared significantly influenced both behavior and life-history traits of their descendants. However, such transgenerational responses differed between D. magna individuals with contrasting ancestral stress history, that is, when exposed to UVR previously unexposed individuals rapidly changed their behavior and life-history traits, whereas individuals previously exposed to UVR showed less pronounced response when the UVR threat level relaxed. Hence, we here demonstrate an asymmetric transgenerational plasticity in response to UVR threat. The findings advance our understanding on the evolutionary ecology of such transgenerational effects and their potential role in response to changes in the local environment.
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- Yongcui Sha
- Department of Biology, Aquatic EcologyLund UniversityLundSE‐22362Sweden,School of Marine Science and EngineeringQingdao Agricultural UniversityQingdao266109China
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Hasoon MSR, Plaistow SJ. Embryogenesis plasticity and the transmission of maternal effects in Daphnia pulex. Evol Dev 2020; 22:345-357. [PMID: 32579775 DOI: 10.1111/ede.12346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Understanding how genetic, nongenetic, and environmental cues are integrated during development may be critical in understanding if, and how, organisms will respond to rapid environmental change. Normally, only post-embryonic studies are possible. But in this study, we developed a real-time, high-throughput confocal microscope assay that allowed us to link Daphnia embryogenesis to offspring life history variation at the individual level. Our assay identified eight clear developmental phenotypes linked by seven developmental stages, the duration of which were correlated with the expression of specific offspring life history traits. Daphnia embryogenesis varied not only between clones reared in the same environment, but also within a single clone when mothers were of different ages or reared in different food environments. Our results support the hypothesis that Daphnia embryogenesis is plastic and can be altered by changes in maternal state or maternal environment. As well as furthering our understanding of the mechanisms underpinning parental effects, our assay may also have an industrial application if it can be used as a rapid ecotoxicological prescreen for testing the effect that pollutant doses have on offspring life histories traditionally assayed with a 21-day Daphnia reproduction test.
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- Megan S R Hasoon
- Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.,Department of Biology, University of York, York, UK
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- Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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Zhou L, Declerck SAJ. Maternal effects in zooplankton consumers are not only mediated by direct but also by indirect effects of phosphorus limitation. OIKOS 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/oik.06898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Libin Zhou
- Dept of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Inst. of Ecology (NIOO‐KNAW) Droevendaalsesteeg 10 NL‐6708 PB Wageningen the Netherlands
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- Dept of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Inst. of Ecology (NIOO‐KNAW) Droevendaalsesteeg 10 NL‐6708 PB Wageningen the Netherlands
- Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, KULeuven Leuven Belgium
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Bonamour S, Chevin LM, Charmantier A, Teplitsky C. Phenotypic plasticity in response to climate change: the importance of cue variation. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2020; 374:20180178. [PMID: 30966957 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Phenotypic plasticity is a major mechanism of response to global change. However, current plastic responses will only remain adaptive under future conditions if informative environmental cues are still available. We briefly summarize current knowledge of the evolutionary origin and mechanistic underpinnings of environmental cues for phenotypic plasticity, before highlighting the potentially complex effects of global change on cue availability and reliability. We then illustrate some of these aspects with a case study, comparing plasticity of blue tit breeding phenology in two contrasted habitats: evergreen and deciduous forests. Using long-term datasets, we investigate the climatic factors linked to the breeding phenology of the birds and their main food source. Blue tits occupying different habitats differ extensively in the cues affecting laying date plasticity, as well as in the reliability of these cues as predictors of the putative driver of selective pressure, the date of caterpillar peak. The temporal trend for earlier laying date, detected only in the evergreen populations, is explained by increased temperature during their cue windows. Our results highlight the importance of integrating ecological mechanisms shaping variation in plasticity if we are to understand how global change will affect plasticity and its consequences for population biology. This article is part of the theme issue 'The role of plasticity in phenotypic adaptation to rapid environmental change'.
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- Suzanne Bonamour
- CEFE UMR 5175, CNRS - Université de Montpellier - Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier - EPHE , Campus CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier 5 , France
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- CEFE UMR 5175, CNRS - Université de Montpellier - Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier - EPHE , Campus CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier 5 , France
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- CEFE UMR 5175, CNRS - Université de Montpellier - Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier - EPHE , Campus CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier 5 , France
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- CEFE UMR 5175, CNRS - Université de Montpellier - Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier - EPHE , Campus CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier 5 , France
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Peng S, Deng D, He P, Xu X, Zhang C, Cao J, Liu Q, Zhang T. Effects of Microcystis aeruginosa on the life history traits and SOD activity of Daphnia similoides sinensis. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2018; 25:30696-30707. [PMID: 30178409 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-018-3040-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2017] [Accepted: 08/22/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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With water eutrophication and global warming, cyanobacteria blooms have occurred frequently, and the interaction between M. aeruginosa and Daphnia has been widely paid attention by researchers. However, the effects of toxic M. aeruginosa on the SOD activity of Daphnia are poorly known. Six D. similoides sinensis clones collected from Lake Junshan and the offspring of two clones were employed. The effects of toxic M. aeruginosa on the life history traits and SOD activities of D. similoides sinensis in the mother and their offspring were studied. Toxic M. aeruginosa could significantly inhibit the life history traits (e.g., body lengths, offspring numbers at first reproduction, cumulative offspring numbers, and the intrinsic rate of population) and induce higher SOD activities of D. similoides sinensis. Compared with the mother, the effects of toxic M. aeruginosa on the life history traits and SOD activities of D. similoides sinensis in the offspring showed obvious differences. Moreover, the adaptability of the offspring to M. aeruginosa indicated also the differences between two clones. Our results suggested that the mother exposed to toxic M. aeruginosa could enhance the fitness of their offspring to Microcystis by maternal effect and was also affected by the D. similoides sinensis genotypes.
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- Shuixiu Peng
- School of Life Science, Anhui Key Laboratory of Resource and Plant Biology, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, 235000, China
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- School of Life Science, Anhui Key Laboratory of Resource and Plant Biology, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, 235000, China.
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- School of Life Science, Anhui Key Laboratory of Resource and Plant Biology, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, 235000, China
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- School of Life Science, Anhui Key Laboratory of Resource and Plant Biology, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, 235000, China
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- School of Life Science, Anhui Key Laboratory of Resource and Plant Biology, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, 235000, China
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- School of Life Science, Anhui Key Laboratory of Resource and Plant Biology, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, 235000, China
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- School of Life Science, Anhui Key Laboratory of Resource and Plant Biology, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, 235000, China
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- School of Life Science, Anhui Key Laboratory of Resource and Plant Biology, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, 235000, China
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Stein LR, Bukhari SA, Bell AM. Personal and transgenerational cues are nonadditive at the phenotypic and molecular level. Nat Ecol Evol 2018; 2:1306-1311. [PMID: 29988159 PMCID: PMC6062471 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0605-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2017] [Accepted: 06/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
Organisms can gain information about their environment from their
ancestors, their parents, or their own personal experience. “Cue
integration” models often start with the simplifying assumption that
information from different sources is additive. Here, we test key assumptions
and predictions of cue integration theory at both the phenotypic and molecular
level in threespined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus). We
show that regardless of whether cues about predation risk were provided by their
father or acquired through personal experience, sticklebacks produced the same
set of predator-adapted phenotypes. Moreover, there were nonadditive effects of
personal and paternal experience: animals that received cues from both sources
resembled animals that received cues from a single source. A similar pattern was
detected at the molecular level: there was a core set of genes that were
differentially expressed in the brains of offspring regardless of whether risk
was experienced by their father, themselves or both. These results provide
strong support for cue integration theory because they show that cues provided
by parents and personal experience are comparable at both the phenotypic and
molecular level, and draw attention to the importance of nonadditive responses
to multiple cues.
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Affiliation(s)
- Laura R Stein
- Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA. .,Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
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- Illinois Informatics Program, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA.,Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA.,Illinois Informatics Program, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA.,Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA.,Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA.,Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
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