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Miho H, Atallah M, Trapero C, Koubouris G, Valverde P. Parental Effect on Agronomic and Olive Oil Traits in Olive Progenies from Reciprocal Crosses. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 13:2467. [PMID: 39273951 PMCID: PMC11396948 DOI: 10.3390/plants13172467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2024] [Revised: 08/29/2024] [Accepted: 09/02/2024] [Indexed: 09/15/2024]
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Olive growing is undergoing a transition from traditional cultivation systems to a more technological model characterized by increased mechanization and a higher density of plants per hectare. This shift implies the use of less vigorous varieties that can adapt to the new system. Most traditional varieties are highly vigorous, and breeding programs can provide solutions to this challenge. This study investigates the parental effect on different agronomic and olive oil characteristics and its role in breeding programs. The objectives were to evaluate and characterize different agronomic and olive oil traits in the progenies from 'Arbosana' × 'Sikitita' cross and its reciprocal cross 'Sikitita' × 'Arbosana'. The results showed a high variability of the characters evaluated in the progenitors of the reciprocal crosses. The highest coefficients of variation were observed in traits related to ripening index, phenolic compounds, polyunsaturated fatty acids, and Δ5-avenasterol, with phenolic content exhibiting the greatest variability. No statistically significant maternal effect was detected for any of the evaluated traits, although a slight positive maternal effect was systematically observed in the mean values of the evaluated traits. These results suggest that the maternal effect on olive is quite subtle, although due to a slight tendency of the maternal effect in the descriptive analyses, future studies are suggested to understand in depth the possible maternal effect on olive breeding.
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- Hristofor Miho
- Agronomy Department, University of Cordoba (UCO), 14005 Cordoba, Spain
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- Agronomy Department, University of Cordoba (UCO), 14005 Cordoba, Spain
- Santa Cruz Ingeniería S.L., 41018 Sevilla, Spain
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- Agronomy Department, University of Cordoba (UCO), 14005 Cordoba, Spain
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- Hellenic Agricultural Organization ELGO-DIMITRA, Institute for Olive Tree Subtropical Crops and Viticulture, 73134 Chania, Greece
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- Agronomy Department, University of Cordoba (UCO), 14005 Cordoba, Spain
- Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, Marche Polytechnic University, 60121 Ancona, Italy
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Burch J, Nava C, Blackmon H. Assessing the opportunity for selection to impact morphological traits in crosses between two Solanum species. PeerJ 2024; 12:e17985. [PMID: 39221264 PMCID: PMC11365482 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.17985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2024] [Accepted: 08/06/2024] [Indexed: 09/04/2024] Open
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Within biology, there have been long-standing goals to understand how traits impact fitness, determine the degree of adaptation, and predict responses to selection. One key step in answering these questions is to study the mode of gene action or genetic architecture of traits. The genetic architecture underlying a trait will ultimately determine whether selection can lead to a change in the phenotype. Theoretical and empirical research have shown that additive architectures are most responsive to selection. The genus Solanum offers a unique system to quantify the genetic architecture of traits. Crosses between Solanum pennellii and S. lycopersicum, which have evolved unique adaptive traits for very different environments, offer an opportunity to investigate the genetic architecture of a variety of morphological traits that often are not variable within species. We generated cohorts between strains of these two Solanum species and collected phenotypic data for eight morphological traits. The genetic architectures underlying these traits were estimated using an information-theoretic approach to line cross analysis. By estimating the genetic architectures of these traits, we were able to show a key role for maternal and epistatic effects and infer the accessibility of these traits to selection.
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- Jorja Burch
- Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States
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- Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States
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- Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States
- Interdisciplinary Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States
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Landi V, Maggiolino A, Hidalgo J, Rossoni A, Chebel RC, De Palo P. Effect of transgenerational environmental condition on genetics parameters of Italian Brown Swiss. J Dairy Sci 2024; 107:1549-1560. [PMID: 37806626 DOI: 10.3168/jds.2023-23741] [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: 05/13/2023] [Accepted: 09/15/2023] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
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The aim of this study was to infer the effects of heat stress (HS) of dams during late gestation on direct and maternal genetic parameters for traits related to milk production and milk quality parameters (90,558 records) in Italian Brown Swiss cattle (12,072 cows in 617 herds). Daily average temperature-humidity indices (THI) during the last 56 d of pregnancy were calculated, using the climate data from the nearest public weather station for each herd. Heat load effects were considered as the average across the entire periods considering a thermoneutrality condition for data below the THI 60. For parameter estimation a random regression model using the second-order Legendre polynomial regression coefficient for THI considering both animal and maternal effect for heat load. Direct heritability increased sharply from THI 60 to 65, then decreased gradually up to THI ∼72, and sharply thereafter. Maternal heritability showed a different trend, with values close to 0 up until to THI 65 and slightly increasing toward extreme THI values. The study suggests a lower threshold of THI 60 for the onset of HS. Higher heritability values indicate greater selective efficiency in the THI range of 65 to 70, even if a higher standard deviation value have been detected. The effects of high THI during intrauterine life varied among traits with different heritability levels. Genetic correlations for milk, fat, and protein content at 60 THI with increasing value of environmental variable, remained constant (∼0.90) until THI >75, where they slightly decreased (∼0.85). Fat and protein yields, as well as milk and energy-corrected milk, showed correlations dropping to 0.80 around THI 67 to 68 and stabilizing between 0.75 and 0.85 at extreme THI values. Maternal component correlations dropped close to zero, with negative values for protein content at THI 65 to 70. Antagonism between direct and maternal components was stronger for intermediate THI values but less divergent for extremes. Genotype by environment interaction was observed, indicating the selection of resilient animals would be theoretically possible. In the future, the application of climate variables in selection schemes first should take into account the dimensions of the genetic correlations to be able to decide between the simple inclusion of the environmental effect in the statistical models, rather than a real parallel genetic evaluation.
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- V Landi
- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari A. Moro, 70010 Valenzano, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari A. Moro, 70010 Valenzano, Italy.
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- Department of Animal and Dairy Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
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- Italian Brown Swiss Breeders Association, Loc. Ferlina 204, Bussolengo 37012, Italy
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- Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari A. Moro, 70010 Valenzano, Italy
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Lafond J, Angers B. Maternal ploidy shapes reproductive pathways in the triploid hybrid Chrosomus eos × eos-neogaeus. Mol Ecol 2024; 33:e17264. [PMID: 38205506 DOI: 10.1111/mec.17264] [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: 09/29/2023] [Revised: 12/12/2023] [Accepted: 01/04/2024] [Indexed: 01/12/2024]
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Elements transferred from a mother to her eggs may strongly influence the phenotype of her offspring. Such maternal effects depend on the genotype of the mother, and while multiple ploidy levels occur naturally in some vertebrate species, studies evaluating the impact of maternal ploidy on offspring are scarce. This paper aimed to test whether maternal ploidy is responsible for the two reproductive phenotypes observed in the triploid fish Chrosomus eos × eos-neogaeus. Indeed, these hybrids have two different maternal origins (diploid or triploid) and display two reproductive phenotypes, ameiotic and meiotic hybridogenesis, resulting in diploid and haploid eggs, respectively. To this end, we first conducted a genomic survey to identify epigenetic variations in triploid larvae reared under common garden conditions, concordantly with their maternal origin. The results revealed that the polymorphic epigenetic loci of the larvae clustered into two highly distinct groups consistently with the ploidy of their mother. Diagnostic epigenetic loci were then tested in triploid adult females whose reproductive pathways were already known, to infer their own maternal origin. Altogether, the results suggest that triploid larvae from diploid and triploid mothers will develop the ameiotic and meiotic hybridogenesis pathway, respectively. This confirms that the development of a given reproductive pathway in triploid females results from the ploidy of their mother. Overall, this study supports a strong maternal effect, introducing maternal ploidy and reproductive pathways as additional cause and effect of maternal effects, respectively.
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- Joëlle Lafond
- Department of Biological Sciences, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Harry ND, Zakas C. Maternal patterns of inheritance alter transcript expression in eggs. BMC Genomics 2023; 24:191. [PMID: 37038099 PMCID: PMC10084599 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-023-09291-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2023] [Accepted: 04/01/2023] [Indexed: 04/12/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Modifications to early development can lead to evolutionary diversification. The early stages of development are under maternal control, as mothers produce eggs loaded with nutrients, proteins and mRNAs that direct early embryogenesis. Maternally provided mRNAs are the only expressed genes in initial stages of development and are tightly regulated. Differences in maternal mRNA provisioning could lead to phenotypic changes in embryogenesis and ultimately evolutionary changes in development. However, the extent that maternal mRNA expression in eggs can vary is unknown for most developmental models. Here, we use a species with dimorphic development- where females make eggs and larvae of different sizes and life-history modes-to investigate the extent of variation in maternal mRNA provisioning to the egg. RESULTS We find that there is significant variation in gene expression across eggs of different development modes, and that there are both qualitative and quantitative differences in mRNA expression. We separate parental effects from allelic effects, and find that both mechanisms contribute to mRNA expression differences. We also find that offspring of intraspecific crosses differentially provision their eggs based on the parental cross direction (a parental effect), which has not been previously demonstrated in reproductive traits like oogenesis. CONCLUSION We find that maternally controlled initiation of development is functionally distinct between eggs of different sizes and maternal genotypes. Both allele-specific effects and parent-of-origin effects contribute to gene expression differences in eggs. The latter indicates an intergenerational effect where a parent's genotype can affect gene expression in an egg made by the next generation.
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- Nathan D Harry
- Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, 112 Derieux Place, Raleigh, NC, 27607, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, 112 Derieux Place, Raleigh, NC, 27607, USA.
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Johnston SE, Chen N, Josephs EB. Taking quantitative genomics into the wild. Proc Biol Sci 2022; 289:20221930. [PMID: 36541172 PMCID: PMC9768650 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2022] [Accepted: 11/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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We organized this special issue to highlight new work and review recent advances at the cutting edge of 'wild quantitative genomics'. In this editorial, we will present some history of wild quantitative genetic and genomic studies, before discussing the main themes in the papers published in this special issue and highlighting the future outlook of this dynamic field.
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- Susan E. Johnston
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FL, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, 14627, NY, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824, MI, USA
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Pepke ML, Kvalnes T, Lundregan S, Boner W, Monaghan P, Saether BE, Jensen H, Ringsby TH. Genetic architecture and heritability of early-life telomere length in a wild passerine. Mol Ecol 2022; 31:6360-6381. [PMID: 34825754 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2021] [Revised: 10/01/2021] [Accepted: 11/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Early-life telomere length (TL) is associated with fitness in a range of organisms. Little is known about the genetic basis of variation in TL in wild animal populations, but to understand the evolutionary and ecological significance of TL it is important to quantify the relative importance of genetic and environmental variation in TL. In this study, we measured TL in 2746 house sparrow nestlings sampled across 20 years and used an animal model to show that there is a small heritable component of early-life TL (h2 = 0.04). Variation in TL among individuals was mainly driven by environmental (annual) variance, but also brood and parental effects. Parent-offspring regressions showed a large maternal inheritance component in TL ( h maternal 2 = 0.44), but no paternal inheritance. We did not find evidence for a negative genetic correlation underlying the observed negative phenotypic correlation between TL and structural body size. Thus, TL may evolve independently of body size and the negative phenotypic correlation is likely to be caused by nongenetic environmental effects. We further used genome-wide association analysis to identify genomic regions associated with TL variation. We identified several putative genes underlying TL variation; these have been inferred to be involved in oxidative stress, cellular growth, skeletal development, cell differentiation and tumorigenesis in other species. Together, our results show that TL has a low heritability and is a polygenic trait strongly affected by environmental conditions in a free-living bird.
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- Michael Le Pepke
- Department of Biology, Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics (CBD), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Biology, Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics (CBD), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Biology, Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics (CBD), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
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- Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine (IBAHCM), University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine (IBAHCM), University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Department of Biology, Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics (CBD), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Biology, Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics (CBD), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Biology, Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics (CBD), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
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Predator-induced transgenerational plasticity in animals: a meta-analysis. Oecologia 2022; 200:371-383. [DOI: 10.1007/s00442-022-05274-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2022] [Accepted: 10/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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AbstractThere is growing evidence that the environment experienced by one generation can influence phenotypes in the next generation via transgenerational plasticity (TGP). One of the best-studied examples of TGP in animals is predator-induced transgenerational plasticity, whereby exposing parents to predation risk triggers changes in offspring phenotypes. Yet, there is a lack of general consensus synthesizing the predator–prey literature with existing theory pertaining to ecology and evolution of TGP. Here, we apply a meta-analysis to the sizable literature on predator-induced TGP (441 effect sizes from 29 species and 49 studies) to explore five hypotheses about the magnitude, form and direction of predator-induced TGP. Hypothesis #1: the strength of predator-induced TGP should vary with the number of predator cues. Hypothesis #2: the strength of predator-induced TGP should vary with reproductive mode. Hypothesis #3: the strength and direction of predator-induced TGP should vary among offspring phenotypic traits because some traits are more plastic than others. Hypothesis #4: the strength of predator-induced TGP should wane over ontogeny. Hypothesis #5: predator-induced TGP should generate adaptive phenotypes that should be more evident when offspring are themselves exposed to risk. We found strong evidence for predator-induced TGP overall, but no evidence that parental predator exposure causes offspring traits to change in a particular direction. Additionally, we found little evidence in support of any of the specific hypotheses. We infer that the failure to find consistent evidence reflects the heterogeneous nature of the phenomena, and the highly diverse experimental designs used to study it. Together, these findings set an agenda for future work in this area.
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Mendel's laws of heredity on his 200th birthday: What have we learned by considering exceptions? Heredity (Edinb) 2022; 129:1-3. [PMID: 35778507 DOI: 10.1038/s41437-022-00552-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 06/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Bayesian analysis reveals the influence of maternal effect on pre-weaning body weights in Landlly piglets. ZYGOTE 2022; 30:625-632. [PMID: 35478068 DOI: 10.1017/s0967199422000065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The present study was undertaken to estimate the (co)variance components and genetic parameters of body weights recorded in Landlly piglets from birth to weaning at weekly intervals (w0 to w6). The data pertained to body weights of 2462 piglets, born to 91 sires and 159 dams across different generations during a 7-year period from 2014 to 2020. Five animal models (I-V), differentiated by inclusion or exclusion of maternal effects with or without covariance between maternal and direct genetic effects, were fitted on the data using the Bayesian algorithm. The analyses were implemented by Gibbs sampling in the BLUPF90 program and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methodology was used to draw samples of posterior distribution pertaining to (co)variance components. Based on deviance information criteria (DIC), model V with inclusion of direct additive genetic, direct maternal genetic and permanent environmental effect of dam as random factors along with covariance between direct additive and maternal effects best fitted the data on pre-weaning traits (w0 to w5). Whereas, model I incorporating only the direct additive genetic effect best fitted the weaning weight (w6) data in Landlly piglets. The posterior mean estimates of direct heritability under the best models for W0 to W6 were 0.13, 0.19, 0.29, 0.13, 0.26, 0.32 and 0.46, respectively. Inclusion of the maternal component helped in better partitioning of variance for different body weights in Landlly piglets. The maternal heritability ranged from 0.06 to 0.14, while the litter heritability ranged from 0.11 to 0.15 for pre-weaning weights (W0 to W5) under the best-fit models. The influence of maternal environment was greater than maternal genetic effect from birth to 4th week of age. The results implied that variations in body weight of Landlly pigs were genetically controlled to moderate levels (especially w2 and w4) with contributions from direct additive and maternal genotype that can be exploited by designing efficient breeding programmes.
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Callejas‐Díaz M, Chambel MR, San‐Martín‐Lorén J, Gea‐Izquierdo G, Santos‐Del‐Blanco L, Postma E, Climent JM. The role of maternal age, growth, and environment in shaping offspring performance in an aerial conifer seed bank. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2022; 109:366-376. [PMID: 34973037 PMCID: PMC9790720 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1811] [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: 08/04/2021] [Revised: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 12/14/2021] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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PREMISE Maternal effects have been demonstrated to affect offspring performance in many organisms, and in plants, seeds are important mediators of these effects. Some woody plant species maintain long-lasting canopy seed banks as an adaptation to wildfires. Importantly, these seeds stored in serotinous cones are produced by the mother plant under varying ontogenetic and physiological conditions. METHODS We sampled the canopy seed bank of a highly serotinous population of Pinus pinaster to test whether maternal age and growth and the environmental conditions during each crop year affected seed mass and ultimately germination and early survival. After determining retrospectively the year of each seed cohort, we followed germination and early survival in a semi-natural common garden. RESULTS Seed mass was related to maternal age and growth at the time of seed production; i.e., slow-growing, older mothers had smaller seeds, and fast-growing, young mothers had larger seeds, which could be interpreted either as a proxy of senescence or as a maternal strategy. Seed mass had a positive effect on germination success, but aside from differences in seed mass, maternal age had a negative effect and diameter had a positive effect on germination timing and subsequent survival. CONCLUSIONS The results highlight the importance of maternal conditions combined with seed mass in shaping seedling establishment. Our findings open new insights in the offspring performance deriving from long-term canopy seed banks, which may have high relevance for plant adaptation.
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- Marta Callejas‐Díaz
- Department of Forest Ecology and GeneticsForest Research Centre, National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA‐CSIC)MadridSpain
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- Department of Forest Ecology and GeneticsForest Research Centre, National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA‐CSIC)MadridSpain
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- Department of Forest Ecology and GeneticsForest Research Centre, National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA‐CSIC)MadridSpain
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- Department of Forest Ecology and GeneticsForest Research Centre, National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA‐CSIC)MadridSpain
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- Department of Forest Ecology and GeneticsForest Research Centre, National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA‐CSIC)MadridSpain
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- Centre for Ecology and ConservationUniversity of ExeterPenrynUK
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- Department of Forest Ecology and GeneticsForest Research Centre, National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA‐CSIC)MadridSpain
- Sustainable Forest Management Research InstituteUniversity of Valladolid‐National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and TechnologyPalenciaSpain
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Wade MJ. Maternal-Offspring Interactions: Reciprocally Coevolving Social Environments. J Hered 2022; 113:54-60. [PMID: 34850902 PMCID: PMC8851670 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esab044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Maternal-zygotic co-evolution is one of the most common examples of indirect genetic effects. I investigate how maternal-zygotic gene interactions affect rates of evolution and adaptation. Using comparably parameterized population genetic models, I compare evolution to an abiotic environment with genotype-by-environment interaction (G × E) to evolution to a maternal environment with offspring genotype-by-maternal environment interaction (G × Gmaternal). There are strong parallels between the 2 models in the components of fitness variance but they differ in their rates of evolution measured in terms of ∆p, gene frequency change, or of ∆W, change in mean fitness. The Price Equation is used to partition ∆W into 2 components, one owing to the genetic variance in fitness by natural selection and a second owing to change in environment. Adaptive evolution is faster in the 2-locus model with G × Gmaternal with free recombination, than it is in the 1-locus model with G × E, because in the former the maternal genetic environment coevolves with the zygotic phenotype adapting to it. I discuss the relevance of these findings for the evolution of genes with indirect genetic effects.
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- Michael J Wade
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
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Fitzpatrick CL, Wade MJ. When is Offspring Viability Fitness a Measure of Paternal Fitness and When is it not? J Hered 2022; 113:48-53. [PMID: 34850026 PMCID: PMC8851674 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esab055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2021] [Accepted: 09/14/2021] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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We use population genetics to model the evolution of a gene with an indirect effect owing to paternal care and with a second pleiotropic, direct effect on offspring viability. We use the model to illustrate how the common empirical practice of considering offspring viability as a component of parent fitness can confound a gene's direct and indirect fitness effects. We investigate when this confounding results in a distorted picture of overall evolution and when it does not. We find that the practice has no effect on mean fitness, W, but it does have an effect on the dynamics of gene frequency change, ∆q. We also find that, for some regions of parameter space associated with fitness trade-offs, the distortion is not only quantitative but also qualitative, obscuring the direction of gene frequency change. Because it affects the evolutionary dynamics, it also affects the expected amount of genetic variation at mutation-selection balance, an important consideration in molecular evolution. We discuss empirical techniques for separating direct from indirect effects and how field studies measuring the value of male paternal care might be improved by using them.
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- Courtney L Fitzpatrick
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, 1001 East 3rd Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.,Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, 1001 East 3rd Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
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MacLeod KJ, While GM, Uller T. Viviparous mothers impose stronger glucocorticoid-mediated maternal stress effects on their offspring than oviparous mothers. Ecol Evol 2021; 11:17238-17259. [PMID: 34938505 PMCID: PMC8668768 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2021] [Revised: 10/20/2021] [Accepted: 10/29/2021] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Maternal stress during gestation has the potential to affect offspring development via changes in maternal physiology, such as increases in circulating levels of glucocorticoid hormones that are typical after exposure to a stressor. While the effects of elevated maternal glucocorticoids on offspring phenotype (i.e., "glucocorticoid-mediated maternal effects") have been relatively well established in laboratory studies, it remains poorly understood how strong and consistent such effects are in natural populations. Using a meta-analysis of studies of wild mammals, birds, and reptiles, we investigate the evidence for effects of elevated maternal glucocorticoids on offspring phenotype and investigate key moderators that might influence the strength and direction of these effects. In particular, we investigate the potential importance of reproductive mode (viviparity vs. oviparity). We show that glucocorticoid-mediated maternal effects are stronger, and likely more deleterious, in mammals and viviparous squamate reptiles compared with birds, turtles, and oviparous squamates. No other moderators (timing and type of manipulation, age at offspring measurement, or type of trait measured) were significant predictors of the strength or direction of the phenotypic effects on offspring. These results provide evidence that the evolution of a prolonged physiological association between embryo and mother sets the stage for maladaptive, or adaptive, prenatal stress effects in vertebrates driven by glucocorticoid elevation.
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D'Aguillo M, Hazelwood C, Quarles B, Donohue K. Genetic Consequences of Biologically Altered Environments. J Hered 2021; 113:26-36. [PMID: 34534330 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esab047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2021] [Accepted: 08/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Evolvable traits of organisms can alter the environment those organisms experience. While it is well appreciated that those modified environments can influence natural selection to which organisms are exposed, they can also influence the expression of genetic variances and covariances of traits under selection. When genetic variance and covariance change in response to changes in the evolving, modified environment, rates and outcomes of evolution also change. Here we discuss the basic mechanisms whereby organisms modify their environments, review how those modified environments have been shown to alter genetic variance and covariance, and discuss potential evolutionary consequences of such dynamics. With these dynamics, responses to selection can be more rapid and sustained, leading to more extreme phenotypes, or they can be slower and truncated, leading to more conserved phenotypes. Patterns of correlated selection can also change, leading to greater or less evolutionary independence of traits, or even causing convergence or divergence of traits, even when selection on them is consistent across environments. Developing evolutionary models that incorporate changes in genetic variances and covariances when environments themselves evolve requires developing methods to predict how genetic parameters respond to environments-frequently multifactorial environments. It also requires a population-level analysis of how traits of collections of individuals modify environments for themselves and/or others in a population, possibly in spatially explicit ways. Despite the challenges of elucidating the mechanisms and nuances of these processes, even qualitative predictions of how environment-modifying traits alter evolutionary potential are likely to improve projections of evolutionary outcomes.
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- Michelle D'Aguillo
- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.,Department of Biological Sciences, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.,Department of Philosophy, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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Zablocki-Thomas P, Lailvaux S, Aujard F, Pouydebat E, Herrel A. Maternal and genetic correlations between morphology and physical performance traits in a small captive primate, Microcebus murinus. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blab071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Physical performance traits are key components of fitness and direct targets of selection. Although maternal effects have important influences on integrated phenotypes, their contributions to variation in performance and to phenotypic traits associated with performance remain poorly understood. We used an animal model to quantify the contribution of maternal effects to performance trait variation, in addition to the genetic and maternal correlations between performance and the relevant underlying morphology in Microcebus murinus. We showed that bite force is heritable (h2 ≈ 0.23) and that maternal effects are an important source of variation, resulting in a medium inclusive heritability (IH2 ≈ 0.47). Bite force and head depth showed a significant genetic correlation (0.70), and other genetic correlations were generally high (0.63 for bite force and head width; 0.41 for pull strength and radius length, albeit not significant), as were the maternal correlations for bite force and head dimensions (0.44, 0.73 and 0.29). Finally, we found differences in evolvability for pull strength and bite force that were also consistent with a higher potential for evolutionary change in pull force. This demonstrates clear effects of the maternal environment on performance expression and on the relationships between morphology and performance. This illustrates the importance of accounting for maternal identity when considering the heritabilities of functional traits.
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- Pauline Zablocki-Thomas
- UMR 7179 CNRS/MNHN, Département Adaptations du Vivant, Bâtiment d’Anatomie Comparée, Paris, France
- California National Primate Research Center, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- UMR 7179 CNRS/MNHN, Département Adaptations du Vivant, Bâtiment d’Anatomie Comparée, Paris, France
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- UMR 7179 CNRS/MNHN, Département Adaptations du Vivant, Bâtiment d’Anatomie Comparée, Paris, France
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- UMR 7179 CNRS/MNHN, Département Adaptations du Vivant, Bâtiment d’Anatomie Comparée, Paris, France
- Evolutionary Morphology of Vertebrates, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat, Ghent, Belgium
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Fortuny AP, Bueno RA, Pereira da Costa JH, Zanor MI, Rodríguez GR. Tomato fruit quality traits and metabolite content are affected by reciprocal crosses and heterosis. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2021; 72:5407-5425. [PMID: 34013312 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erab222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2021] [Accepted: 05/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Heterosis occurs when the F1s outperform their parental lines for a trait. Reciprocal hybrids are obtained by changing the cross direction of parental genotypes. Both biological phenomena could affect the external and internal attributes of fleshy fruits. This work aimed to detect reciprocal effects and heterosis in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) fruit quality traits and metabolite content. Twelve agronomic traits and 28 metabolites identified and estimated by 1H-NMR were evaluated in five cultivars grown in two environments. Given that the genotype component was more important than the phenotype, the traits were evaluated following a full diallel mating design among those cultivars, in a greenhouse. Hybrids showed a higher phenotypic diversity than parental lines. Interestingly, the metabolites, mainly amino acids, displayed more reciprocal effects and heterosis. Agronomic traits were more influenced by general combining ability (GCA) and metabolites by specific combining ability (SCA). Furthermore, the genetic distance between parental lines was not causally related to the occurrence of reciprocal effects or heterosis. Hybrids with heterosis and a high content of metabolites linked to tomato flavour and nutritious components were obtained. Our results highlight the impact of selecting a cultivar as male or female in a cross to enhance the variability of fruit attributes through hybrids as well as the possibility to exploit heterosis for fruit composition.
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- Agustina P Fortuny
- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR), CONICET-UNR, Rosario, Argentina
- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Agrarias de Rosario (IICAR-CONICET-UNR), Rosario, Argentina
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- Cátedra de Genética, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Agrarias de Rosario (IICAR-CONICET-UNR), Rosario, Argentina
- Cátedra de Genética, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR), CONICET-UNR, Rosario, Argentina
- Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Agrarias de Rosario (IICAR-CONICET-UNR), Rosario, Argentina
- Cátedra de Genética, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
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Henriques JF, Lacava M, Guzmán C, Gavín-Centol MP, Ruiz-Lupión D, De Mas E, Magalhães S, Moya-Laraño J. The sources of variation for individual prey-to-predator size ratios. Heredity (Edinb) 2021; 126:684-694. [PMID: 33452465 PMCID: PMC8115045 DOI: 10.1038/s41437-020-00395-5] [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: 08/16/2020] [Revised: 12/03/2020] [Accepted: 12/07/2020] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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The relative body size at which predators are willing to attack prey, a key trait for predator-prey interactions, is usually considered invariant. However, this ratio can vary widely among individuals or populations. Identifying the range and origin of such variation is key to understanding the strength and constraints on selection in both predators and prey. Still, these sources of variation remain largely unknown. We filled this gap by measuring the genetic, maternal and environmental variation of the maximum prey-to-predator size ratio (PPSRmax) in juveniles of the wolf spider Lycosa fasciiventris using a paternal half-sib split-brood design, in which each male was paired with two females and the offspring reared in two food environments: poor and rich. Each juvenile spider was then sequentially offered crickets of decreasing size and the maximum prey size killed was determined. We also measured body size and body condition of spiders upon emergence and just before the trial. We found low, but significant heritability (h2 = 0.069) and dominance and common environmental variance (d2 + 4c2 = 0.056). PPSRmax was also partially explained by body condition (during trial) but there was no effect of the rearing food environment. Finally, a maternal correlation between body size early in life and PPSRmax indicated that offspring born larger were less predisposed to feed on larger prey later in life. Therefore, PPSRmax, a central trait in ecosystems, can vary widely and this variation is due to different sources, with important consequences for changes in this trait in the short and long terms.
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- Jorge F. Henriques
- grid.9983.b0000 0001 2181 4263cE3c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal ,grid.466639.80000 0004 0547 1725Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, CSIC, Carretera de Sacramento s/n, 04120-La Cañada De San Urbano, Almeria, Spain
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- grid.11630.350000000121657640CENUR Noreste Sede Rivera, Universidad de la República, Ituzaingó, 667 Rivera Uruguay
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- grid.466639.80000 0004 0547 1725Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, CSIC, Carretera de Sacramento s/n, 04120-La Cañada De San Urbano, Almeria, Spain
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- grid.466639.80000 0004 0547 1725Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, CSIC, Carretera de Sacramento s/n, 04120-La Cañada De San Urbano, Almeria, Spain
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- grid.466639.80000 0004 0547 1725Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, CSIC, Carretera de Sacramento s/n, 04120-La Cañada De San Urbano, Almeria, Spain
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- grid.466639.80000 0004 0547 1725Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, CSIC, Carretera de Sacramento s/n, 04120-La Cañada De San Urbano, Almeria, Spain
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- grid.9983.b0000 0001 2181 4263cE3c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- grid.466639.80000 0004 0547 1725Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, CSIC, Carretera de Sacramento s/n, 04120-La Cañada De San Urbano, Almeria, Spain
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Ahmad SF, Khan NN, Chakraborty D, Rather MA, Shanaz S, Alam S, Ganai NA. Estimation of (Co)Variance components and genetic parameters of fibre traits in Rambouillet sheep using multi-trait analysis. Trop Anim Health Prod 2021; 53:190. [PMID: 33660098 DOI: 10.1007/s11250-021-02637-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2020] [Accepted: 02/22/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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The present study aimed to estimate the genetic parameters of different fibre traits, viz., greasy fleece weight, staple length, and fibre diameter in Rambouillet sheep population using a multi-trait animal model. Data, spanning over 10 years (1998-2007) and pertaining to fibre traits at first clip, were collected for a total of 4186 Rambouillet sheep maintained at an organized farm. (Co)Variance structure and genetic parameters were estimated using a multi-trait animal model. The genetic analysis of data was performed based on restricted maximum likelihood (REML) procedure using WOMBAT software. The model incorporated sex of lamb (i = 1, 2), year of birth (j = 1-10), season of birth (k = 1-2), and litter size (l = 1-2) as fixed effects while direct additive genetic and maternal genetic effects were included as random effects. The direct additive genetic heritability estimates were 0.120±0.034, 0.136±0.037, and 0.356±0.070 for greasy fleece weight, staple length, and fibre diameter, respectively. The maternal genetic heritability of all fibre traits under study was very low. Additive genetic correlation was positive and low between greasy fleece weight and staple length; and between staple length and fibre diameter. In conclusion, fibre diameter was moderately heritable which implies that selection may lead to moderate improvement in this trait. The results from the present study will help in formulating optimal breeding plans for improvement of fibre traits in Rambouillet sheep.
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- Sheikh Firdous Ahmad
- Animal Genetics and Breeding, ICAR-National Research Centre on Pig, Rani, Guwahati, Assam, 781131, India.
- Division of Animal Genetics, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly, Izatnagar, 243122, India.
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- Division of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, Shuhama, Ganderbal, 190006, J&K, India
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- Division of Animal Genetics and Breeding, FVSc & AH, SKUAST-J, R.S. Pura, Jammu, J&K, 181102, India
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- Division of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, Shuhama, Ganderbal, 190006, J&K, India
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- Division of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, Shuhama, Ganderbal, 190006, J&K, India
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- Planning and Monitoring, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Shuhama, Alusteng, Srinagar, J&K, 190006, India
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Byrne PG, Keogh JS, O'Brien DM, Gaitan-Espitia JD, Silla AJ. Evidence that genetic compatibility underpins female mate choice in a monandrous amphibian. Evolution 2021; 75:529-541. [PMID: 33389749 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2020] [Revised: 12/03/2020] [Accepted: 12/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Mate choice for genetic benefits remains controversial, largely because few studies have estimated the relative contributions of additive and non-additive sources of genetic variation to offspring fitness. Moreover, there remains a deficit of these estimates for species where female-mate preferences have been quantified in the wild, especially species characterized by monandry or monogamy. Here, we use artificial fertilization techniques combined with a cross-classified breeding design to simultaneously test for "good genes" and "compatible genes" benefits of mate choice in the monandrous red backed toadlet (Pseudophryne coriacea). In addition, we used a genomic approach to estimate effects of parental-genetic relatedness (assessed using 27, 768 single nucleotide polymorphisms) on offspring fitness. Our results revealed no significant additive genetic effects (sire effects), but highly significant non-additive genetic effects (sire × dam interaction effects), on fertilization success, survival during embryonic development, and hatching success. We also found significant associations between parental genetic similarity and offspring survival (whereby survival was higher when parents were more related), and significant positive relationships between fertilization success and embryo survival through to hatching. These results indicate that offspring viability is significantly influenced by the genetic compatibility of parental genotypes, that more related parents are more genetically compatible, and that gametes with greater compatibility at fertilization produce more viable offspring. More broadly, our findings provide new quantitative genetic evidence that genetic incompatibility underpins female mate preferences. Continued quantitative genetic assessment of the relative importance of good genes versus compatible genes is needed to ascertain the general importance of genetic benefits as a driver of female mate choice.
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- Phillip G Byrne
- School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
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- Ecology & Evolution, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
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- The Swire Institute of Marine Science, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
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Fitzpatrick C, Ciresi CM, Wade MJ. The evolutionary genetics of paternal care: How good genes and extrapair copulation affect the trade-off between paternal care and mating success. Ecol Evol 2021; 11:1165-1174. [PMID: 33598121 PMCID: PMC7863384 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2020] [Revised: 09/21/2020] [Accepted: 09/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We investigate the evolution of a gene for paternal care, with pleiotropic effects on male mating fitness and offspring viability, with and without extrapair copulations (EPCs). We develop a population genetic model to examine how pleiotropic effects of a male mating advantage and paternal care are affected by "good genes" and EPCs. Using this approach, we show that the relative effects of each on fitness do not always predict the evolutionary change. We then find the line of combinations of mating success and paternal care that bisects the plane of possible values into regions of positive or negative gene frequency change. This line shifts when either good genes or EPCs are introduced, thereby expanding or contracting the region of positive gene frequency change and significantly affecting the evolution of paternal care. Predictably, a direct viability effect of "good genes" that enhances offspring viability constrains or expands the parameter space over which paternal care can evolve, depending on whether the viability effect is associated with the paternal care allele or not. In either case, the effect of a "good gene" that enhances offspring viability is substantial; when strong enough, it can even facilitate the evolution of poor paternal care, where males harm their young. When nonrandom mating is followed by random EPCs, the genetic regression between sire and offspring is reduced and, consequently, the relative strengths of selection are skewed away from paternal care and toward the male mating advantage. However, when random mating is followed by nonrandom EPCs, a situation called "trading up" by females, we show that selection is skewed in the opposite direction, away from male mating advantage and toward paternal care across the natural range of EPC frequencies.
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Tigreros N, Agrawal AA, Thaler JS. Genetic Variation in Parental Effects Contributes to the Evolutionary Potential of Prey Responses to Predation Risk. Am Nat 2021; 197:164-175. [PMID: 33523783 DOI: 10.1086/712341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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AbstractDespite the ubiquity of parental effects and their potential effect on evolutionary dynamics, their contribution to the evolution of predator-prey interactions remains poorly understood. Using quantitative genetics, here we demonstrate that parental effects substantially contribute to the evolutionary potential of larval antipredator responses in a leaf beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata). Previous research showed that larger L. decemlineata larvae elicit stronger antipredator responses, and mothers perceiving predators improved offspring responses by increasing intraclutch cannibalism-an extreme form of offspring provisioning. We now report substantial additive genetic variation underlying maternal ability to induce intraclutch cannibalism, indicating the potential of this adaptive maternal effect to evolve by natural selection. We also show that paternal size, a heritable trait, affected larval responses to predation risk but that larval responses themselves had little additive genetic variation. Together, these results demonstrate how larval responses to predation risk can evolve via two types of parental effects, both of which provide indirect sources of genetic variation for offspring traits.
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Gimenez MD, Vazquez DV, Trepat F, Cambiaso V, Rodríguez GR. Fruit quality and DNA methylation are affected by parental order in reciprocal crosses of tomato. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2021; 40:171-186. [PMID: 33079280 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-020-02624-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2020] [Accepted: 10/03/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Reciprocal effects were found for tomato fruit quality and DNA methylation. The epigenetic identity of reciprocal hybrids indicates that DNA methylation might be one of the mechanisms involved in POEs. Crosses between different genotypes and even between different species are commonly used in plant breeding programs. Reciprocal hybrids are obtained by changing the cross direction (or the sexual role) of parental genotypes in a cross. Phenotypic differences between these hybrids constitute reciprocal effects (REs). The aim of this study was to evaluate phenotypic differences in tomato fruit traits and DNA methylation profiles in three inter- and intraspecific reciprocal crosses. REs were detected for 13 of the 16 fruit traits analyzed. The number of traits with REs was the lowest in the interspecific cross, whereas the highest was found in the cross between recombinant inbred lines (RILs) derived from the same interspecific cross. An extension of gene action analysis was proposed to incorporate parent-of-origin effects (POEs). Maternal and paternal dominance were found in four fruit traits. REs and paternal inheritance were found for epiloci located at coding and non-coding regions. The epigenetic identity displayed by the reciprocal hybrids accounts for the phenotypic differences among them, indicating that DNA methylation might be one of the mechanisms involved in POEs.
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- Magalí Diana Gimenez
- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Agrarias de Rosario (IICAR-CONICET-UNR), Campo Experimental Villarino, S2125ZAA, Zavalla, Santa Fe, Argentina
- CIGEOBIO, (CONICET-UNSJ), Complejo Universitario "Islas Malvinas", FCEFN, Universidad de San Juan, Av. Ignacio de la Roza 590, J5402DCS, Rivadavia, San Juan, Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Agrarias de Rosario (IICAR-CONICET-UNR), Campo Experimental Villarino, S2125ZAA, Zavalla, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Cátedra de Genética, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Campo Experimental Villarino, S2125ZAA, Zavalla, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Agrarias de Rosario (IICAR-CONICET-UNR), Campo Experimental Villarino, S2125ZAA, Zavalla, Santa Fe, Argentina
- Cátedra de Genética, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Campo Experimental Villarino, S2125ZAA, Zavalla, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Agrarias de Rosario (IICAR-CONICET-UNR), Campo Experimental Villarino, S2125ZAA, Zavalla, Santa Fe, Argentina.
- Cátedra de Genética, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Campo Experimental Villarino, S2125ZAA, Zavalla, Santa Fe, Argentina.
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Venney CJ, Love OP, Drown EJ, Heath DD. DNA Methylation Profiles Suggest Intergenerational Transfer of Maternal Effects. Mol Biol Evol 2020; 37:540-548. [PMID: 31651942 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msz244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The view of maternal effects (nongenetic maternal environmental influence on offspring phenotype) has changed from one of distracting complications in evolutionary genetics to an important evolutionary mechanism for improving offspring fitness. Recent studies have shown that maternal effects act as an adaptive mechanism to prepare offspring for stressful environments. Although research into the magnitude of maternal effects is abundant, the molecular mechanisms of maternal influences on offspring phenotypic variation are not fully understood. Despite recent work identifying DNA methylation as a potential mechanism of nongenetic inheritance, currently proposed links between DNA methylation and parental effects are indirect and primarily involve genomic imprinting. We combined a factorial breeding design and gene-targeted sequencing methods to assess inheritance of methylation during early life stages at 14 genes involved in growth, development, metabolism, stress response, and immune function of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). We found little evidence for additive or nonadditive genetic effects acting on methylation levels during early development; however, we detected significant maternal effects. Consistent with conventional maternal effect data, maternal effects on methylation declined through development and were replaced with nonadditive effects when offspring began exogenous feeding. We mapped methylation at individual CpG sites across the selected candidate genes to test for variation in site-specific methylation profiles and found significant maternal effects at selected CpG sites that also declined with development stage. While intergenerational inheritance of methylated DNA is controversial, we show that CpG-specific methylation may function as an underlying molecular mechanism for maternal effects, with important implications for offspring fitness.
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- Clare J Venney
- Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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- Yellow Island Aquaculture Ltd., Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada
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- Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Integrative Biology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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Gauzere J, Pemberton JM, Morris S, Morris A, Kruuk LEB, Walling CA. The genetic architecture of maternal effects across ontogeny in the red deer. Evolution 2020; 74:1378-1391. [DOI: 10.1111/evo.14000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2020] [Revised: 04/24/2020] [Accepted: 05/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Julie Gauzere
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences University of Edinburgh Edinburgh EH9 3FL United Kingdom
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences University of Edinburgh Edinburgh EH9 3FL United Kingdom
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences University of Edinburgh Edinburgh EH9 3FL United Kingdom
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences University of Edinburgh Edinburgh EH9 3FL United Kingdom
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- Research School of Biology The Australian National University ACT 0200 Canberra Australia
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences University of Edinburgh Edinburgh EH9 3FL United Kingdom
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Dury GJ, Wade MJ. When mother knows best: A population genetic model of transgenerational versus intragenerational plasticity. J Evol Biol 2020; 33:127-137. [PMID: 31549475 PMCID: PMC7891633 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2019] [Revised: 09/14/2019] [Accepted: 09/18/2019] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Many organisms exhibit phenotypic plasticity; producing alternate phenotypes depending on the environment. Individuals can be plastic (intragenerational or direct plasticity), wherein individuals of the same genotype produce different phenotypes in response to the environments they experience. Alternatively, an individual's phenotype may be under the control of its parents, usually the mother (transgenerational or indirect plasticity), so that mother's genotype determines the phenotype produced by a given genotype of her offspring. Under what conditions does plasticity evolve to have intragenerational as opposed to transgenerational genetic control? To explore this question, we present a population genetic model for the evolution of transgenerational and intragenerational plasticity. We hypothesize that the capacity for plasticity incurs a fitness cost, which is borne either by the individual developing the plastic phenotype or by its mother. We also hypothesize that individuals are imperfect predictors of future environments and their capacity for plasticity can lead them occasionally to make a low-fitness phenotype for a particular environment. When the cost, benefit and error parameters are equal, we show that there is no evolutionary advantage to intragenerational over transgenerational plasticity, although the rate of evolution of transgenerational plasticity is half the rate for intragenerational plasticity, as predicted by theory on indirect genetic effects. We find that transgenerational plasticity evolves when mothers are better predictors of future environments than offspring or when the fitness cost of the capacity for plasticity is more readily borne by a mother than by her developing offspring. We discuss different natural systems with either direct intragenerational plasticity or indirect transgenerational plasticity and find a pattern qualitatively in accord with the predictions of our model.
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Byrne PG, Gaitan‐Espitia JD, Silla AJ. Genetic benefits of extreme sequential polyandry in a terrestrial‐breeding frog. Evolution 2019; 73:1972-1985. [DOI: 10.1111/evo.13823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2019] [Accepted: 07/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Phillip G. Byrne
- School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life SciencesUniversity of Wollongong Wollongong New South Wales Australia 2522
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- The Swire Institute of Marine Science, School of Biological SciencesThe University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Rd Hong Kong SAR China
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- School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life SciencesUniversity of Wollongong Wollongong New South Wales Australia 2522
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Bertram J, Masel J. Different mechanisms drive the maintenance of polymorphism at loci subject to strong versus weak fluctuating selection. Evolution 2019; 73:883-896. [DOI: 10.1111/evo.13719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2018] [Accepted: 02/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Jason Bertram
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of ArizonaTucson Arizona 85721
- Environmental Resilience InstituteIndiana UniversityBloomington Indiana 47401
- Department of BiologyIndiana UniversityBloomington Indiana 47401
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of ArizonaTucson Arizona 85721
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O'Brien EK, Wolf JB. Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics of Genomic Imprinting. Genetics 2019; 211:75-88. [PMID: 30389806 PMCID: PMC6325703 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.118.301373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2018] [Accepted: 10/23/2018] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Genomic imprinting shapes the genotype-phenotype relationship by creating an asymmetry between the influences of paternally and maternally inherited gene copies. Consequently, imprinting can impact heritable and nonheritable variation, resemblance of relatives, and evolutionary dynamics. Although previous analyses have identified some of the quantitative genetic consequences of imprinting, we lack a framework that cleanly separates the influence of imprinting from other components of variation, particularly dominance. Here we apply a simple orthogonal genetic model to evaluate the roles of genetic (additive and dominance) and epigenetic (imprinting) effects. Imprinting increases the resemblance of relatives who share the expressed allele, and therefore increases variance among families of full or half-siblings. However, only part of this increased variance is heritable and contributes to selection responses. When selection is within, or among, families sharing only a single parent (half-siblings), which is common in selective breeding programs, imprinting can alter overall responses. Selection is more efficient when it acts among families sharing the expressed parent, or within families sharing the parent with lower expression. Imprinting also affects responses to sex-specific selection. When selection is on the sex whose gene copy has lower expression, the response is diminished or delayed the next generation, although the long-term response is unaffected. Our findings have significant implications for understanding patterns of variation, interpretation of short-term selection responses, and the efficacy of selective breeding programs, demonstrating the importance of considering the independent influence of genomic imprinting in quantitative genetics.
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- Eleanor K O'Brien
- Milner Centre for Evolution, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
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- Milner Centre for Evolution, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
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Zakas C, Deutscher JM, Kay AD, Rockman MV. Decoupled maternal and zygotic genetic effects shape the evolution of development. eLife 2018; 7:e37143. [PMID: 30198842 PMCID: PMC6168281 DOI: 10.7554/elife.37143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2018] [Accepted: 09/09/2018] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Evolutionary transitions from indirect to direct development involve changes in both maternal and zygotic genetic factors, with distinctive population-genetic implications, but empirical data on the genetics of such transitions are lacking. The polychaete Streblospio benedicti provides an opportunity to dissect a major transition in developmental mode using forward genetics. Females in this species produce either small eggs that develop into planktonic larvae or large eggs that develop into benthic juveniles. We identify large-effect loci that act maternally to influence larval size and independent, unlinked large-effect loci that act zygotically to affect discrete aspects of larval morphology. The likely fitness of zygotic alleles depends on their maternal background, creating a positive frequency-dependence that may homogenize local populations. Developmental and population genetics interact to shape larval evolution.
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- Christina Zakas
- Center for Genomics & Systems Biology, Department of BiologyNew York UniversityNew YorkUnited States
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- Center for Genomics & Systems Biology, Department of BiologyNew York UniversityNew YorkUnited States
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- Center for Genomics & Systems Biology, Department of BiologyNew York UniversityNew YorkUnited States
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- Center for Genomics & Systems Biology, Department of BiologyNew York UniversityNew YorkUnited States
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Banta JA, Richards CL. Quantitative epigenetics and evolution. Heredity (Edinb) 2018; 121:210-224. [PMID: 29980793 PMCID: PMC6082842 DOI: 10.1038/s41437-018-0114-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2017] [Revised: 06/07/2018] [Accepted: 06/15/2018] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Epigenetics refers to chemical modifications of chromatin or transcribed DNA that can influence gene activity and expression without changes in DNA sequence. The last 20 years have yielded breakthroughs in our understanding of epigenetic processes that impact many fields of biology. In this review, we discuss how epigenetics relates to quantitative genetics and evolution. We argue that epigenetics is important for quantitative genetics because: (1) quantitative genetics is increasingly being combined with genomics, and therefore we should expand our thinking to include cellular-level mechanisms that can account for phenotypic variance and heritability besides just those that are hard-coded in the DNA sequence; and (2) epigenetic mechanisms change how phenotypic variance is partitioned, and can thereby change the heritability of traits and how those traits are inherited. To explicate these points, we show that epigenetics can influence all aspects of the phenotypic variance formula: VP (total phenotypic variance) = VG (genetic variance) + VE (environmental variance) + VGxE (genotype-by-environment interaction) + 2COVGE (the genotype-environment covariance) + Vɛ (residual variance), requiring new strategies to account for different potential sources of epigenetic effects on phenotypic variance. We also demonstrate how each of the components of phenotypic variance not only can be influenced by epigenetics, but can also have evolutionary consequences. We argue that no sources of epigenetic effects on phenotypic variance can be easily cast aside in a quantitative genetic research program that seeks to understand evolutionary processes.
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- Joshua A Banta
- Department of Biology, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX, 75799, USA.
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 33620, USA
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Abreu LRA, Ribeiro VMP, Gouveia GC, Cardoso EP, Toral FLB. Genetic trends and trade-offs between growth and reproductive traits in a Nellore herd. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0201392. [PMID: 30114191 PMCID: PMC6095503 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2018] [Accepted: 07/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The knowledge of genetic trends and trade-offs between growth and reproductive traits might be useful to understand the evolution of these traits in livestock and natural populations of animals. We estimated the genetic trends and trade-offs between pre-weaning growth and calving intervals of Nellore animals from a commercial farm. Two-trait animal models were used to estimate covariance components and breeding values (EBV) for direct and maternal genetic effects of pre-weaning growth and direct genetic effects of calving intervals. Regression analyses were performed to examine the relationship between direct and maternal EBV of pre-weaning growth and direct EBV of calving intervals (dependent variables) and the coefficient of generation of each animal (independent variable). We also performed regression analyses to examine the relationship between direct EBV of calving intervals (dependent variables) and direct and maternal EBV of pre-weaning growth (independent variables). The genetic trends for direct and maternal genetic effect for pre-weaning growth were significant and presented genetic evolution in the studied Nellore herd. The genetic trends for the reproductive traits were also significant but indicated genetic changes in an unfavorable way. The genetic correlations between direct effects of pre-weaning growth and calving intervals traits and the genetic correlations between maternal effects of pre-weaning growth traits and direct effects of calving interval traits were not different from zero. The presence of trade-offs between the direct effects of growth and reproductive traits were confirmed through regression from direct EBV of calving intervals over EBV of pre-weaning growth traits. In addition, regression analyses showed that selection to increase pre-weaning growth also increased calving intervals. Our results showed that pre-weaning growth and calving intervals are increasing over generations and that trade-offs occurred between those traits in the studied Nellore herd.
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- Luiza Rodrigues Alves Abreu
- Departamento de Zootecnia, Escola de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zootecnia, Escola de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zootecnia, Escola de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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Ma L, Strickler AG, Parkhurst A, Yoshizawa M, Shi J, Jeffery WR. Maternal genetic effects in Astyanax cavefish development. Dev Biol 2018; 441:209-220. [PMID: 30031754 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2018.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2018] [Revised: 06/28/2018] [Accepted: 07/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The role of maternal factors in the evolution of development is poorly understood. Here we describe the use of reciprocal hybridization between the surface dwelling (surface fish, SF) and cave dwelling (cavefish, CF) morphs of the teleost Astyanax mexicanus to investigate the roles of maternal genetic effects in cavefish development. Reciprocal hybridization, a procedure in which F1 hybrids are generated by fertilizing SF eggs with CF sperm (SF × CF hybrids) and CF eggs with SF sperm (CF × SF hybrids), revealed that the CF degenerative eye phenotype showed maternal genetic effects. The eyes of CF × SF hybrids resembled the degenerate eyes of CF in showing ventral reduction of the retina and corresponding displacement of the lens within the optic cup, a smaller lens and eyeball, more lens apoptosis, a smaller cartilaginous sclera, and lens-specific gene expression characteristics compared to SF × CF hybrids, which showed eye and lens gene expression phenotypes resembling SF. In contrast, reciprocal hybridization failed to support roles for maternal genetic effects in the CF regressive pigmentation phenotype or in CF constructive changes related to enhanced jaw development. Maternal transcripts encoded by the pou2f1b, runx2b, and axin1 genes, which are involved in determining ventral embryonic fates, were increased in unfertilized CF eggs. In contrast, maternal mRNAs encoded by the ß-catenin and syntabulin genes, which control dorsal embryonic fates, showed similar expression levels in unfertilized SF and CF eggs. Furthermore, maternal transcripts of a sonic hedgehog gene were detected in SF and CF eggs and early cleaving embryos. This study reveals that CF eye degeneration is controlled by changes in maternal factors produced during oogenesis and introduces A. mexicanus as a model system for studying the role of maternal changes in the evolution of development.
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- Li Ma
- Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
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Zhang G, Srivastava A, Bacelis J, Juodakis J, Jacobsson B, Muglia LJ. Genetic studies of gestational duration and preterm birth. Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol 2018; 52:33-47. [PMID: 30007778 PMCID: PMC6290110 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2018.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2018] [Revised: 04/18/2018] [Accepted: 05/04/2018] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The fine control of birth timing is important to human survival and evolution. A key challenge in studying the mechanisms underlying the regulation of human birth timing is that human parturition is a unique to human event — animal models provide only limited information. The duration of gestation or the risk of preterm birth is a complex human trait under genetic control from both maternal and fetal genomes. Genomic discoveries through genome-wide association (GWA) studies would implicate relevant genes and pathways. Similar to other complex human traits, gestational duration is likely to be influenced by numerous genetic variants of small effect size. The detection of these small-effect genetic variants requires very large sample sizes. In addition, several practical and analytical challenges, in particular the involvement of both maternal and fetal genomes, further complicate the genetic studies of gestational duration and other pregnancy phenotypes. Despite these challenges, large-scale GWA studies have already identified several genomic loci associated with gestational duration or the risk of preterm birth. These genomic discoveries have revealed novel insights about the biology of human birth timing. Expanding genomic discoveries in larger datasets by more refined analytical approaches, together with the functional analysis of the identified genomic loci, will collectively elucidate the biological processes underlying the control of human birth timing.
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- Ge Zhang
- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA; The Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA; March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center Ohio Collaborative, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, USA.
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- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA; The Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA; March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center Ohio Collaborative, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital Östra (East), Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Department of Genetics and Bioinformatics, Area of Health Data and Digitalisation, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA; The Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA; March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center Ohio Collaborative, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, USA
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Vega-Trejo R, Head ML, Jennions MD, Kruuk LEB. Maternal-by-environment but not genotype-by-environment interactions in a fish without parental care. Heredity (Edinb) 2018; 120:154-167. [PMID: 29225350 PMCID: PMC5837127 DOI: 10.1038/s41437-017-0029-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2017] [Revised: 09/27/2017] [Accepted: 10/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The impact of environmental conditions on the expression of genetic variance and on maternal effects variance remains an important question in evolutionary quantitative genetics. We investigate here the effects of early environment on variation in seven adult life history, morphological, and secondary sexual traits (including sperm characteristics) in a viviparous poeciliid fish, the mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki. Specifically, we manipulated food availability during early development and then assessed additive genetic and maternal effects contributions to the overall phenotypic variance in adults. We found higher heritability for female than male traits, but maternal effects variance for traits in both sexes. An interaction between maternal effects variance and rearing environment affected two adult traits (female age at maturity and male size at maturity), but there was no evidence of trade-offs in maternal effects across environments. Our results illustrate (i) the potential for pre-natal maternal effects to interact with offspring environment during development, potentially affecting traits through to adulthood and (ii) that genotype-by-environment interactions might be overestimated if maternal-by-environment interactions are not accounted for, similar to heritability being overestimated if maternal effects are ignored. We also discuss the potential for dominance genetic variance to contribute to the estimate of maternal effects variance.
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- Regina Vega-Trejo
- Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Acton, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia.
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- Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Acton, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Acton, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
- Wissenschaftkolleg zu Berlin, Wallotstraße 19, 14193, Berlin, Germany
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- Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Acton, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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Lockwood BL, Julick CR, Montooth KL. Maternal loading of a small heat shock protein increases embryo thermal tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017; 220:4492-4501. [PMID: 29097593 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.164848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2017] [Accepted: 10/02/2017] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Maternal investment is likely to have direct effects on offspring survival. In oviparous animals whose embryos are exposed to the external environment, maternal provisioning of molecular factors like mRNAs and proteins may help embryos cope with sudden changes in the environment. Here, we sought to modify the maternal mRNA contribution to offspring embryos and test for maternal effects on acute thermal tolerance in early embryos of Drosophila melanogaster We drove in vivo overexpression of a small heat shock protein gene (Hsp23) in female ovaries and measured the effects of acute thermal stress on offspring embryonic survival and larval development. We report that overexpression of the Hsp23 gene in female ovaries produced offspring embryos with increased thermal tolerance. We also found that brief heat stress in the early embryonic stage (0-1 h old) caused decreased larval performance later in life (5-10 days old), as indexed by pupation height. Maternal overexpression of Hsp23 protected embryos against this heat-induced defect in larval performance. Our data demonstrate that transient products of single genes have large and lasting effects on whole-organism environmental tolerance. Further, our results suggest that maternal effects have a profound impact on offspring survival in the context of thermal variability.
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- Brent L Lockwood
- Department of Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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Griffiths PE. Genetic, epigenetic and exogenetic information in development and evolution. Interface Focus 2017; 7:20160152. [PMID: 28839922 DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2016.0152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The idea that development is the expression of information accumulated during evolution and that heredity is the transmission of this information is surprisingly hard to cash out in strict, scientific terms. This paper seeks to do so using the sense of information introduced by Francis Crick in his sequence hypothesis and central dogma of molecular biology. It focuses on Crick's idea of precise determination. This is analysed using an information-theoretic measure of causal specificity. This allows us to reconstruct some of Crick's claims about information in transcription and translation. Crick's approach to information has natural extensions to non-coding regions of DNA, to epigenetic marks, and to the genetic or environmental upstream causes of those epigenetic marks. Epigenetic information cannot be reduced to genetic information. The existence of biological information in epigenetic and exogenetic factors is relevant to evolution as well as to development.
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- Paul E Griffiths
- Department of Philosophy and Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
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Yamamichi M, Hoso M. Roles of maternal effects in maintaining genetic variation: Maternal storage effect. Evolution 2016; 71:449-457. [DOI: 10.1111/evo.13118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2016] [Revised: 10/31/2016] [Accepted: 11/02/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Masato Yamamichi
- Hakubi Center for Advanced Research; Kyoto University; Sakyo Kyoto 606-8501 Japan
- Center for Ecological Research; Kyoto University; Otsu Shiga 520-2113 Japan
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- Hakubi Center for Advanced Research; Kyoto University; Sakyo Kyoto 606-8501 Japan
- Graduate School of Science; Kyoto University; Sakyo Kyoto 606-8502 Japan
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Linksvayer TA, Wade MJ. Theoretical Predictions for Sociogenomic Data: The Effects of Kin Selection and Sex-Limited Expression on the Evolution of Social Insect Genomes. Front Ecol Evol 2016. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2016.00065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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