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Eliason CM, McCullough JM, Hackett SJ, Andersen MJ. Complex plumages spur rapid color diversification in kingfishers (Aves: Alcedinidae). eLife 2023; 12:83426. [PMID: 37083474 PMCID: PMC10121218 DOI: 10.7554/elife.83426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2022] [Accepted: 03/22/2023] [Indexed: 04/22/2023] Open
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Colorful signals in nature provide some of the most stunning examples of rapid phenotypic evolution. Yet, studying color pattern evolution has been historically difficult owing to differences in perceptual ability of humans and analytical challenges with studying how complex color patterns evolve. Island systems provide a natural laboratory for testing hypotheses about the direction and magnitude of phenotypic change. A recent study found that plumage colors of island species are darker and less complex than continental species. Whether such shifts in plumage complexity are associated with increased rates of color evolution remains unknown. Here, we use geometric morphometric techniques to test the hypothesis that plumage complexity and insularity interact to influence color diversity in a species-rich clade of colorful birds-kingfishers (Aves: Alcedinidae). In particular, we test three predictions: (1) plumage complexity enhances interspecific rates of color evolution, (2) plumage complexity is lower on islands, and (3) rates of plumage color evolution are higher on islands. Our results show that more complex plumages result in more diverse colors among species and that island species have higher rates of color evolution. Importantly, we found that island species did not have more complex plumages than their continental relatives. Thus, complexity may be a key innovation that facilitates evolutionary response of individual color patches to distinct selection pressures on islands, rather than being a direct target of selection itself. This study demonstrates how a truly multivariate treatment of color data can reveal evolutionary patterns that might otherwise go unnoticed.
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- Chad M Eliason
- Grainger Bioinformatics Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, United States
- Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, United States
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- Department of Biology and Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, United States
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- Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, United States
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- Department of Biology and Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, United States
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O'Connor TK, Sandoval MC, Wang J, Hans JC, Takenaka R, Child M, Whiteman NK. Ecological basis and genetic architecture of crypsis polymorphism in the desert clicker grasshopper (Ligurotettix coquilletti). Evolution 2021; 75:2441-2459. [PMID: 34370317 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14321] [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: 04/30/2021] [Revised: 07/09/2021] [Accepted: 07/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Color polymorphic species can offer exceptional insight into the ecology and genetics of adaptation. Although the genetic architecture of animal coloration is diverse, many color polymorphisms are associated with large structural variants and maintained by biotic interactions. Grasshoppers are notably polymorphic in both color and karyotype, which makes them excellent models for understanding the ecological drivers and genetic underpinnings of color variation. Banded and uniform morphs of the desert clicker grasshopper (Ligurotettix coquilletti) are found across the western deserts of North America. To address the hypothesis that predation maintains local color polymorphism and shapes regional crypsis variation, we surveyed morph frequencies and tested for covariation with two predation environments. Morphs coexisted at intermediate frequencies at most sites, consistent with local balancing selection. Morph frequencies covaried with the appearance of desert substrate-an environment used only by females-suggesting that ground-foraging predators are major agents of selection on crypsis. We next addressed the hypothesized link between morph variation and genome structure. To do so, we designed an approach for detecting inversions and indels using only RADseq data. The banded morph was perfectly correlated with a large putative indel. Remarkably, indel dominance differed among populations, a rare example of dominance evolution in nature.
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- Timothy K O'Connor
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 94720.,Current Address: Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 60637
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 94720
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 94720
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- Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, 92521
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- Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195.,Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, 98109
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 94720
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Bick CS, Lee I, Coote T, Haponski AE, Blaauw D, Foighil DÓ. Millimeter-sized smart sensors reveal that a solar refuge protects tree snail Partula hyalina from extirpation. Commun Biol 2021; 4:744. [PMID: 34131271 PMCID: PMC8206136 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02124-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2019] [Accepted: 04/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Pacific Island land snails are highly endangered due in part to misguided biological control programs employing the alien predator Euglandina rosea. Its victims include the fabled Society Island partulid tree snail fauna, but a few members have avoided extirpation in the wild, including the distinctly white-shelled Partula hyalina. High albedo shell coloration can facilitate land snail survival in open, sunlit environments and we hypothesized that P. hyalina has a solar refuge from the predator. We developed a 2.2 × 4.8 × 2.4 mm smart solar sensor to test this hypothesis and found that extant P. hyalina populations on Tahiti are restricted to forest edge habitats, where they are routinely exposed to significantly higher solar radiation levels than those endured by the predator. Long-term survival of this species on Tahiti may require proactive conservation of its forest edge solar refugia and our study demonstrates the utility of miniaturized smart sensors in invertebrate ecology and conservation.
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- Cindy S Bick
- Museum of Zoology and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.,Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Partulid Global Species Management Programme, Tahiti, Polynésie Française
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- Museum of Zoology and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
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- Museum of Zoology and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
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Jackson HJ, Larsson J, Davison A. Quantitative measures and 3D shell models reveal interactions between bands and their position on growing snail shells. Ecol Evol 2021; 11:6634-6648. [PMID: 34141246 PMCID: PMC8207382 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7517] [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: 02/01/2021] [Revised: 03/10/2021] [Accepted: 03/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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The nature of shell growth in gastropods is useful because it preserves the ontogeny of shape, colour, and banding patterns, making them an ideal system for understanding how inherited variation develops, is established and maintained within a population. However, qualitative scoring of inherited shell characters means there is a lack of knowledge regarding the mechanisms that control fine variation. Here, we combine empirical measures of quantitative variation and 3D modeling of shells to understand how bands are placed and interact. By comparing five-banded Cepaea individuals to shells lacking individual bands, we show that individual band absence has minor but significant impacts upon the position of remaining bands, implying that the locus controlling band presence/absence mainly acts after position is established. Then, we show that the shell grows at a similar rate, except for the region below the lowermost band. This demonstrates that wider bands of Cepaea are not an artifact of greater shell growth on the lower shell; they begin wider and grow at the same rate as other bands. Finally, we show that 3D models of shell shape and banding pattern, inferred from 2D photos using ShellShaper software, are congruent with empirical measures. This work therefore establishes a method that may be used for comparative studies of quantitative banding variation in snail shells, extraction of growth parameters, and morphometrics. In the future, studies that link the banding phenotype to the network of shell matrix proteins involved in biomineralization and patterning may ultimately aid in understanding the diversity of shell forms found in molluscs.
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- Department of Animal and Plant SciencesUniversity of SheffieldSheffieldUK
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- School of Life SciencesUniversity of NottinghamNottinghamUK
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Köhler H, Capowiez Y, Mazzia C, Eckstein H, Kaczmarek N, Bilton MC, Burmester JKY, Capowiez L, Chueca LJ, Favilli L, Florit Gomila J, Manganelli G, Mazzuca S, Moreno‐Rueda G, Peschke K, Piro A, Quintana Cardona J, Sawallich L, Staikou AE, Thomassen HA, Triebskorn R. Experimental simulation of environmental warming selects against pigmented morphs of land snails. Ecol Evol 2021; 11:1111-1130. [PMID: 33598118 PMCID: PMC7863387 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2020] [Revised: 10/14/2020] [Accepted: 10/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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In terrestrial snails, thermal selection acts on shell coloration. However, the biological relevance of small differences in the intensity of shell pigmentation and the associated thermodynamic, physiological, and evolutionary consequences for snail diversity within the course of environmental warming are still insufficiently understood. To relate temperature-driven internal heating, protein and membrane integrity impairment, escape behavior, place of residence selection, water loss, and mortality, we used experimentally warmed open-top chambers and field observations with a total of >11,000 naturally or experimentally colored individuals of the highly polymorphic species Theba pisana (O.F. MÜller, 1774). We show that solar radiation in their natural Mediterranean habitat in Southern France poses intensifying thermal stress on increasingly pigmented snails that cannot be compensated for by behavioral responses. Individuals of all morphs acted neither jointly nor actively competed in climbing behavior, but acted similarly regardless of neighbor pigmentation intensity. Consequently, dark morphs progressively suffered from high internal temperatures, oxidative stress, and a breakdown of the chaperone system. Concomitant with increasing water loss, mortality increased with more intense pigmentation under simulated global warming conditions. In parallel with an increase in mean ambient temperature of 1.34°C over the past 30 years, the mortality rate of pigmented individuals in the field is, currently, about 50% higher than that of white morphs. A further increase of 1.12°C, as experimentally simulated in our study, would elevate this rate by another 26%. For 34 T. pisana populations from locations that are up to 2.7°C warmer than our experimental site, we show that both the frequency of pigmented morphs and overall pigmentation intensity decrease with an increase in average summer temperatures. We therefore predict a continuing strong decline in the frequency of pigmented morphs and a decrease in overall pigmentation intensity with ongoing global change in areas with strong solar radiation.
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- Heinz‐R. Köhler
- Animal Physiological EcologyInstitute for Evolution and EcologyUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
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- Mediterranean Institute of Marine and Terrestrial Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE) UMR 7263AMU, CNRSUniversité d´AvignonAvignon Cedex 9France
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- Animal Physiological EcologyInstitute for Evolution and EcologyUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
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- Animal Physiological EcologyInstitute for Evolution and EcologyUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
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- Namibian University of Science and TechnologyWindhoekNamibia
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- Animal Physiological EcologyInstitute for Evolution and EcologyUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research CentreFrankfurt am MainGermany
- Department of Zoology and Animal Cell BiologyFaculty of PharmacyUniversity of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)Vitoria‐GasteizSpain
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell'AmbienteSezione di Scienze AmbientaliUniversità degli Studi di SienaSienaItaly
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell'AmbienteSezione di Scienze AmbientaliUniversità degli Studi di SienaSienaItaly
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- Lab of Plant Biology and Plant ProteomicsDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical TechnologiesUniversity of CalabriaRendeItaly
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- Animal Physiological EcologyInstitute for Evolution and EcologyUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
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- Lab of Plant Biology and Plant ProteomicsDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical TechnologiesUniversity of CalabriaRendeItaly
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- Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel CrusafontUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaEdifici ICTA‐ICP, campus de la UABBarcelonaSpain
- Ciutadella de MenorcaIlles BalearsSpain
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- Animal Physiological EcologyInstitute for Evolution and EcologyUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
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- Department of ZoologySchool of BiologyAristotle University of ThessalonikiThessalonikiGreece
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- Comparative ZoologyInstitute for Evolution and EcologyUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
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- Animal Physiological EcologyInstitute for Evolution and EcologyUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
- Steinbeis‐Transfer Centre for Ecotoxicology and EcophysiologyRottenburgGermany
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Ożgo M, Cameron RAD, Marzec M, Pokryszko BM, Sulikowska-Drozd A. Cepaea nemoralis (L.) in Poland: an open access database of the shell colour and banding polymorphism. FOLIA MALACOLOGICA 2019. [DOI: 10.12657/folmal.027.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Schweizer M, Triebskorn R, Köhler H. Snails in the sun: Strategies of terrestrial gastropods to cope with hot and dry conditions. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:12940-12960. [PMID: 31788227 PMCID: PMC6875674 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2019] [Revised: 07/15/2019] [Accepted: 08/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Terrestrial gastropods do not only inhabit humid and cool environments but also habitat in which hot and dry conditions prevail. Snail species that are able to cope with such climatic conditions are thus expected to having developed multifaceted strategies and mechanisms to ensure their survival and reproduction under heat and desiccation stress. This review paper aims to provide an integrative overview of the numerous adaptation strategies terrestrial snails have evolved to persist in hot and dry environments as well as their mutual interconnections and feedbacks, but also to outline research gaps and questions that remained unanswered. We extracted relevant information from more than 140 publications in order to show how biochemical, cellular, physiological, morphological, ecological, thermodynamic, and evolutionary parameters contribute to provide an overall picture of this classical example in stress ecology. These mechanisms range from behavioral and metabolic adaptations, including estivation, to the induction of chaperones and antioxidant enzymes, mucocyte and digestive gland cell responses and the modification and frequency of morphological features, particularly shell pigmentation. In this context, thermodynamic constraints call for processes of complex adaptation at varying levels of biological organization that are mutually interwoven. We were able to assemble extensive, mostly narrowly focused information from the literature into a web of network parameters, showing that future work on this subject requires multicausal thinking to account for the complexity of relationships involved in snails' adaptation to insolation, heat, and drought.
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- Mona Schweizer
- Animal Physiological EcologyInstitute of Evolution and EcologyUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
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- Animal Physiological EcologyInstitute of Evolution and EcologyUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
- Steinbeis Transfer Center for Ecotoxicology and EcophysiologyRottenburgGermany
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- Animal Physiological EcologyInstitute of Evolution and EcologyUniversity of TübingenTübingenGermany
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Ożgo M, Cameron RAD, Horsák M, Pokryszko B, Chudaś M, Cichy A, Kaczmarek S, Kobak J, Marzec M, Mierzwa-Szymkowiak D, Parzonko D, Pyka G, Rosin Z, Skawina A, Soroka M, Sulikowska-Drozd A, Surowiec T, Szymanek M, Templin J, Urbańska M, Zając K, Zielska J, Żbikowska E, Żołądek J. Cepaea nemoralis (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) in Poland: patterns of variation in a range-expanding species. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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- Małgorzata Ożgo
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Kazimierz Wielki University, Ossolinskich, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
- Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, London, UK
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- Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Kotlářská, Brno, Czechia
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- Museum of Natural History, Wrocław University, Sienkiewicza, Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Kazimierz Wielki University, Ossolinskich, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Kazimierz Wielki University, Ossolinskich, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Experimental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska, Poznań, Poland
- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Animal Physiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Miecznikowa, Warszawa, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of Szczecin, Wąska, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Banacha, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Kazimierz Wielki University, Ossolinskich, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geology, Żwirki i Wigury, Warszawa, Poland
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Science, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego, Poznań, Poland
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Hydrobiology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Kazimierz Wielki University, Ossolinskich, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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Layton K, Warne C, Nicolai A, Ansart A, deWaard J. Molecular evidence for multiple introductions of the banded grove snail ( Cepaea nemoralis) in North America. CAN J ZOOL 2019. [DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2018-0084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Global identification and monitoring programs for invasive species aim to reduce imminent impacts to biodiversity, ecosystem services, agriculture, and human health. This study employs a 658 base pair fragment of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene to identify and categorize clades of the banded grove snail (Cepaea nemoralis (Linnaeus, 1758)) from native (European) and introduced (North American) ranges using a maximum-likelihood phylogeny and haplotype networks. This work corroborates the existence of eight clades within C. nemoralis and further identified three clades that were common to both Europe and North America (A, D, O). Clades A and D were found in eastern Canada, Ontario (Canada), and British Columbia (Canada), whereas clade O was restricted to Ontario, possibly introduced from Poland or central Europe. Haplotype networks suggest clade A was introduced from northern Europe, whereas clade D was introduced from western and central Europe. Networks contained many private haplotypes and a lack of haplotype sharing, suggesting strong genetic structure in this system, possibly resulting from reduced dispersal in this species. This study describes the contemporary distribution of C. nemoralis in Canada and demonstrates the efficacy of DNA barcoding for monitoring the spread of invasive species, warranting its widespread adoption in management policies.
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- K.K.S. Layton
- Centre for Evolutionary Biology, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia, 6009
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Université Rennes, UMR CNRS 6553 EcoBio/OSUR, Station Biologique Paimpont, 35380 Paimpont, France
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- Université Rennes, UMR CNRS 6553 EcoBio/OSUR, Campus Beaulieu, 35000 Rennes, France
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
- Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
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Bick CS, Pearce-Kelly P, Coote T, Ó Foighil D. Survival among critically endangered partulid tree snails is correlated with higher clutch sizes in the wild and higher reproductive rates in captivity. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/bly124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- C S Bick
- Museum of Zoology and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Partulid Global Species Management Programme, Papeete, Tahiti, Polynésie Française
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- Museum of Zoology and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Hantak MM, Kuchta SR. Predator perception across space and time: relative camouflage in a colour polymorphic salamander. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blx132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Holmes IA, Grundler MR, Davis Rabosky AR. Predator Perspective Drives Geographic Variation in Frequency-Dependent Polymorphism. Am Nat 2017; 190:E78-E93. [PMID: 28937812 DOI: 10.1086/693159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Color polymorphism in natural populations can manifest as a striking patchwork of phenotypes in space, with neighboring populations characterized by dramatic differences in morph composition. These geographic mosaics can be challenging to explain in the absence of localized selection because they are unlikely to result from simple isolation-by-distance or clinal variation in selective regimes. To identify processes that can lead to the formation of geographic mosaics, we developed a simulation-based model to explore the influence of predator perspective, selection, migration, and genetic linkage of color loci on allele frequencies in polymorphic populations over space and time. Using simulated populations inspired by the biology of Heliconius longwing butterflies, Cepaea land snails, Oophaga poison frogs, and Sonora ground snakes, we found that the relative sizes of predator and prey home ranges can produce large differences in morph composition between neighboring populations under both positive and negative frequency-dependent selection. We also demonstrated the importance of the interaction of predator perspective with the type of frequency dependence and localized directional selection across migration and selection intensities. Our results show that regional-scale predation can promote the formation of phenotypic mosaics in prey species, without the need to invoke spatial variation in selective regimes. We suggest that predator behavior can play an important and underappreciated role in the formation and maintenance of geographic mosaics in polymorphic species.
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Nicolai A, Ansart A. Conservation at a slow pace: terrestrial gastropods facing fast-changing climate. CONSERVATION PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 5:cox007. [PMID: 28852510 PMCID: PMC5570025 DOI: 10.1093/conphys/cox007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2016] [Revised: 12/26/2016] [Accepted: 02/09/2017] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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The climate is changing rapidly, and terrestrial ectotherms are expected to be particularly vulnerable to changes in temperature and water regime, but also to an increase in extreme weather events in temperate regions. Physiological responses of terrestrial gastropods to climate change are poorly studied. This is surprising, because they are of biodiversity significance among litter-dwelling species, playing important roles in ecosystem function, with numerous species being listed as endangered and requiring efficient conservation management. Through a summary of our ecophysiological work on snail and slug species, we gained some insights into physiological and behavioural responses to climate change that we can organize into the following four threat categories. (i) Winter temperature and snow cover. Terrestrial gastropods use different strategies to survive sub-zero temperatures in buffered refuges, such as the litter or the soil. Absence of the insulating snow cover exposes species to high variability in temperature. The extent of specific cold tolerance might influence the potential of local extinction, but also of invasion. (ii) Drought and high temperature. Physiological responses involve high-cost processes that protect against heat and dehydration. Some species decrease activity periods, thereby reducing foraging and reproduction time. Related costs and physiological limits are expected to increase mortality. (iii) Extreme events. Although some terrestrial gastropod communities can have a good resilience to fire, storms and flooding, an increase in the frequency of those events might lead to community impoverishment. (iv) Habitat loss and fragmentation. Given that terrestrial gastropods are poorly mobile, landscape alteration generally results in an increased risk of local extinction, but responses are highly variable between species, requiring studies at the population level. There is a great need for studies involving non-invasive methods on the plasticity of physiological and behavioural responses and the ability for local adaptation, considering the spatiotemporally heterogeneous climatic landscape, to allow efficient management of ecosystems and conservation of biodiversity.
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- Annegret Nicolai
- UMR CNRS 6553 EcoBio/OSUR, Station Biologique Paimpont, Université Rennes 1, 35380 Paimpont, France
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- UMR CNRS 6553 EcoBio/OSUR, Université Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes cedex, France
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Johannesson K, Butlin RK. What explains rare and conspicuous colours in a snail? A test of time-series data against models of drift, migration or selection. Heredity (Edinb) 2016; 118:21-30. [PMID: 27649616 PMCID: PMC5176118 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2016.77] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2016] [Revised: 06/24/2016] [Accepted: 07/26/2016] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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It is intriguing that conspicuous colour morphs of a prey species may be maintained at low frequencies alongside cryptic morphs. Negative frequency-dependent selection by predators using search images ('apostatic selection') is often suggested without rejecting alternative explanations. Using a maximum likelihood approach we fitted predictions from models of genetic drift, migration, constant selection, heterozygote advantage or negative frequency-dependent selection to time-series data of colour frequencies in isolated populations of a marine snail (Littorina saxatilis), re-established with perturbed colour morph frequencies and followed for >20 generations. Snails of conspicuous colours (white, red, banded) are naturally rare in the study area (usually <10%) but frequencies were manipulated to levels of ~50% (one colour per population) in 8 populations at the start of the experiment in 1992. In 2013, frequencies had declined to ~15-45%. Drift alone could not explain these changes. Migration could not be rejected in any population, but required rates much higher than those recorded. Directional selection was rejected in three populations in favour of balancing selection. Heterozygote advantage and negative frequency-dependent selection could not be distinguished statistically, although overall the results favoured the latter. Populations varied idiosyncratically as mild or variable colour selection (3-11%) interacted with demographic stochasticity, and the overall conclusion was that multiple mechanisms may contribute to maintaining the polymorphisms.
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- K Johannesson
- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Strömstad, Sweden.,Centre for Marine Evolutionary Biology, University of Gothenburg, Strömstad, Sweden
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- Centre for Marine Evolutionary Biology, University of Gothenburg, Strömstad, Sweden.,Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.,Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (STIAS), Wallenberg Research Centre at Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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McLean CA, Stuart-Fox D, Moussalli A. Environment, but not genetic divergence, influences geographic variation in colour morph frequencies in a lizard. BMC Evol Biol 2015; 15:156. [PMID: 26253642 PMCID: PMC4528382 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-015-0442-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2015] [Accepted: 07/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Background Identifying the causes of intraspecific phenotypic variation is essential for understanding evolutionary processes that maintain diversity and promote speciation. In polymorphic species, the relative frequencies of discrete morphs often vary geographically; yet the drivers of spatial variation in morph frequencies are seldom known. Here, we test the relative importance of gene flow and natural selection to identify the causes of geographic variation in colour morph frequencies in the Australian tawny dragon lizard, Ctenophorus decresii. Results Populations of C. decresii are polymorphic for male throat coloration and all populations surveyed shared the same four morphs but differed in the relative frequencies of morphs. Despite genetic structure among populations, there was no relationship between genetic similarity or geographic proximity and similarity in morph frequencies. However, we detected remarkably strong associations between morph frequencies and two environmental variables (mean annual aridity index and vegetation cover), which together explained approximately 45 % of the total variance in morph frequencies. Conclusions Spatial variation in selection appears to play an important role in shaping morph frequency patterns in C. decresii. Selection associated with differences in local environmental conditions, combined with relatively low levels of gene flow, is expected to favour population divergence in morph composition, but may be counteracted by negative frequency-dependent selection favouring rare morphs. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0442-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Claire A McLean
- School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 2010, Australia. .,Sciences Department, Museum Victoria, Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, VIC, 3053, Australia.
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- School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 2010, Australia.
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- Sciences Department, Museum Victoria, Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, VIC, 3053, Australia.
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Stankowski S. Layers of contingency shroud pervasive ecological divergence in a local radiation of land snails. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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- Sean Stankowski
- School of Animal Biology (M092); University of Western Australia; Crawley WA 6009 Australia
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Muñoz AR, Márquez AL, Real R. An approach to consider behavioral plasticity as a source of uncertainty when forecasting species' response to climate change. Ecol Evol 2015; 5:2359-73. [PMID: 26120426 PMCID: PMC4475369 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2014] [Revised: 04/10/2015] [Accepted: 04/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The rapid ecological shifts that are occurring due to climate change present major challenges for managers and policymakers and, therefore, are one of the main concerns for environmental modelers and evolutionary biologists. Species distribution models (SDM) are appropriate tools for assessing the relationship between species distribution and environmental conditions, so being customarily used to forecast the biogeographical response of species to climate change. A serious limitation of species distribution models when forecasting the effects of climate change is that they normally assume that species behavior and climatic tolerances will remain constant through time. In this study, we propose a new methodology, based on fuzzy logic, useful for incorporating the potential capacity of species to adapt to new conditions into species distribution models. Our results demonstrate that it is possible to include different behavioral responses of species when predicting the effects of climate change on species distribution. Favorability models offered in this study show two extremes: one considering that the species will not modify its present behavior, and another assuming that the species will take full advantage of the possibilities offered by an increase in environmental favorability. This methodology may mean a more realistic approach to the assessment of the consequences of global change on species' distribution and conservation. Overlooking the potential of species' phenotypical plasticity may under- or overestimate the predicted response of species to changes in environmental drivers and its effects on species distribution. Using this approach, we could reinforce the science behind conservation planning in the current situation of rapid climate change.
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- Antonio-Román Muñoz
- Biogeography, Diversity and Conservation Research Team, Department of Animal Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of MalagaE-29071, Malaga, Spain
- Department of Didactic of Science, Faculty of Science Education, University of MalagaE-29071, Malaga, Spain
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- Biogeography, Diversity and Conservation Research Team, Department of Animal Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of MalagaE-29071, Malaga, Spain
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- Biogeography, Diversity and Conservation Research Team, Department of Animal Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of MalagaE-29071, Malaga, Spain
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Differential survival among Tahitian tree snails during a mass extinction event: persistence of the rare and fecund. ORYX 2014. [DOI: 10.1017/s0030605314000325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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AbstractThe deliberate introduction of the rosy wolf snail Euglandina rosea to the Society Islands in the 1970s led to the mass extirpation of its rich Partulidae (Pilsbry, 1900) fauna, comprising approximately half of all species in this Pacific island tree snail family. On Tahiti ongoing field surveys have documented the survival of two of seven endemic species of Partula (P. hyalina and/or P. clara) in 38 valleys. E. rosea is now a potent extinction agent across Oceania and determining the factors enabling these two taxa to endure may have wide conservation import. We hypothesized that P. hyalina and P. clara have survived because they were the most abundant and/or widespread species and that they will eventually become extinct. We lack demographic data contemporaneous with predator introduction, but an early 20th century study by H.E. Crampton provides historical demographic data for intact Tahitian partulid populations. Crampton found that P. clara and P. hyalina, although widespread, were consistently rarer than their now-extirpated congeners, including in the 23 valleys he surveyed that retain surviving populations. Given this result, and the recent finding that P. clara and P. hyalina comprise a discrete founding lineage in Tahiti, it is plausible that some shared biological attribute(s) may have contributed to their survival. Crampton recorded the clutch sizes of thousands of gravid Tahitian partulids and found that these two taxa had higher instantaneous mean clutch sizes than did co-occurring congeners. Higher fecundities may have contributed to the survival of P. hyalina and P. clara in the valleys of Tahiti.
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Cameron RAD, Cox RJ, Von Proschwitz T, Horsák M. Cepaea nemoralis (L.) in Göteborg, S.W. Sweden: variation in a recent urban invader. FOLIA MALACOLOGICA 2014. [DOI: 10.12657/folmal.022.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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McLean CA, Stuart-Fox D. Geographic variation in animal colour polymorphisms and its role in speciation. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2014; 89:860-73. [PMID: 24528520 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2012] [Revised: 12/30/2013] [Accepted: 01/12/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Polymorphic species, in which multiple variants coexist within a population, are often used as model systems in evolutionary biology. Recent research has been dominated by the hypothesis that polymorphism can be a precursor to speciation. To date, the majority of research regarding polymorphism and speciation has focused on whether polymorphism is maintained within a population or whether morphs within populations may diverge to form separate species (sympatric speciation); however, the geographical context of speciation in polymorphic systems is likely to be both diverse and complex. In this review, we draw attention to the geographic variation in morph composition and frequencies that characterises many, if not most polymorphic species. Recent theoretical and empirical developments suggest that such variation in the number, type and frequency of morphs present among populations can increase the probability of speciation. Thus, the geographical context of a polymorphism requires a greater research focus. Here, we review the prevalence, causes and evolutionary consequences of geographic variation in polymorphism in colour-polymorphic animal species. The prevalence and nature of geographic variation in polymorphism suggests that polymorphism may be a precursor to and facilitate speciation more commonly than appreciated previously. We argue that a better understanding of the processes generating geographic variation in polymorphism is vital to understanding how polymorphism can promote speciation.
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- Claire A McLean
- Department of Zoology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia; Sciences Department, Museum Victoria, Carlton Gardens, Victoria, 3053, Australia
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Schilthuizen M, Kellermann V. Contemporary climate change and terrestrial invertebrates: evolutionary versus plastic changes. Evol Appl 2013; 7:56-67. [PMID: 24454548 PMCID: PMC3894898 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2013] [Accepted: 08/27/2013] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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To forecast the responses of species to future climate change, an understanding of the ability of species to adapt to long-term shifts in temperature is crucial. We present a review on evolutionary adaptation and phenotypic plasticity of temperature-related traits in terrestrial invertebrates. The evidence for adaptive evolution in melanization is good, but we caution that genetic determination needs to be tested in each individual species, and complex genetic correlations may exist. For phenological traits allochronic data sets provide powerful means to track climate-induced changes; however, rarely are responses deconstructed into evolutionary and plastic responses. Laboratory studies suggest climate change responses in these traits will be driven by both. For stress resistance, the evidence for shifts in traits is poor. Studies leaning heavily on Drosophila have demonstrated potential limits to evolutionary responses in desiccation and heat resistance. Quantifying the capacity for these species to respond plastically and extending this work to other taxa will be an important next step. We also note that, although not strictly speaking a species trait, the response of endosymbionts to heat stress requires further study. Finally, while clearly genetic, and possibly adaptive, the anonymous nature of latitudinal shifts in clines of genetic markers in Drosophila prevents further interpretation.
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- Menno Schilthuizen
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center Leiden, The Netherlands ; Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Groningen, The Netherlands ; Institute Biology Leiden, Leiden University Leiden, The Netherlands
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University Clayton, Vic., Australia
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Karpestam E, Merilaita S, Forsman A. Detection experiments with humans implicate visual predation as a driver of colour polymorphism dynamics in pygmy grasshoppers. BMC Ecol 2013; 13:17. [PMID: 23639215 PMCID: PMC3648452 DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-13-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2012] [Accepted: 04/16/2013] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Background Animal colour patterns offer good model systems for studies of biodiversity and evolution of local adaptations. An increasingly popular approach to study the role of selection for camouflage for evolutionary trajectories of animal colour patterns is to present images of prey on paper or computer screens to human ‘predators’. Yet, few attempts have been made to confirm that rates of detection by humans can predict patterns of selection and evolutionary modifications of prey colour patterns in nature. In this study, we first analyzed encounters between human ‘predators’ and images of natural black, grey and striped colour morphs of the polymorphic Tetrix subulata pygmy grasshoppers presented on background images of unburnt, intermediate or completely burnt natural habitats. Next, we compared detection rates with estimates of capture probabilities and survival of free-ranging grasshoppers, and with estimates of relative morph frequencies in natural populations. Results The proportion of grasshoppers that were detected and time to detection depended on both the colour pattern of the prey and on the type of visual background. Grasshoppers were detected more often and faster on unburnt backgrounds than on 50% and 100% burnt backgrounds. Striped prey were detected less often than grey or black prey on unburnt backgrounds; grey prey were detected more often than black or striped prey on 50% burnt backgrounds; and black prey were detected less often than grey prey on 100% burnt backgrounds. Rates of detection mirrored previously reported rates of capture by humans of free-ranging grasshoppers, as well as morph specific survival in the wild. Rates of detection were also correlated with frequencies of striped, black and grey morphs in samples of T. subulata from natural populations that occupied the three habitat types used for the detection experiment. Conclusions Our findings demonstrate that crypsis is background-dependent, and implicate visual predation as an important driver of evolutionary modifications of colour polymorphism in pygmy grasshoppers. Our study provides the clearest evidence to date that using humans as ‘predators’ in detection experiments may provide reliable information on the protective values of prey colour patterns and of natural selection and microevolution of camouflage in the wild.
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- Einat Karpestam
- Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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Schilthuizen M. Rapid, habitat-related evolution of land snail colour morphs on reclaimed land. Heredity (Edinb) 2013; 110:247-52. [PMID: 23149460 PMCID: PMC3669759 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2012.74] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2012] [Revised: 08/20/2012] [Accepted: 09/10/2012] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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I made use of the known dates of reclamation (and of afforestations) in the IJsselmeerpolders in The Netherlands to assess evolutionary adaptation in Cepaea nemoralis. At 12 localities (three in each polder), I sampled a total of 4390 adult individuals in paired open and shaded habitats, on average 233 m apart, and scored these for genetic shell colour polymorphisms. The results show (highly) significant differentiation at most localities, although the genes involved differed per locality. Overall, though, populations in shaded habitats had evolved towards darker shells than those in adjacent open habitats, whereas a 'Cain & Sheppard' diagram (proportion yellow shells plotted against 'effectively unbanded' shells) failed to reveal a clear pattern. This might suggest that thermal selection is more important than visual selection in generating this pattern. Trait differentiation, regardless of whether they were plotted against polder age or habitat age, showed a linear increase of differentiation with time, corresponding to a mean rate of trait evolution of 15-31 kilodarwin. In conclusion, C. nemoralis is capable of rapid and considerable evolutionary differentiation over 1-25 snail generations, though equilibrium may be reached only at longer time scales.
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- M Schilthuizen
- Research Department, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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- Laurence M. Cook
- Faculty of Life Sciences; University of Manchester; Manchester M13 9PT UK
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Correlated phenotypic responses to habitat difference in Cepaea nemoralis (L.). FOLIA MALACOLOGICA 2012. [DOI: 10.2478/v10125-012-0020-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Shell polymorphism in the land-snail Cepaea nemoralis (L.) along a West-East transect in continental Europe. FOLIA MALACOLOGICA 2012. [DOI: 10.2478/v10125-012-0015-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Variation in the shell colour and banding polymorphism of <i>Cepaea nemoralis</i> (L.) in rural areas around Wrocław. FOLIA MALACOLOGICA 2012. [DOI: 10.2478/v10125-012-0012-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Johnson MS. Epistasis, phenotypic disequilibrium and contrasting associations with climate in the land snail Theba pisana. Heredity (Edinb) 2012; 108:229-35. [PMID: 21811302 PMCID: PMC3282386 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2011.62] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2011] [Revised: 05/04/2011] [Accepted: 05/13/2011] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Hotter conditions favour effectively unbanded (EUB) shells in the snail Theba pisana. T. pisana is also polymorphic for colour of the shell's apex, determined by a pair of alleles at a locus linked to the banding locus. Apex colour is epistatic to shell banding, such that banded snails with a dark apex have darker bands. Annual censuses over 22 years across an ecotone between a sheltered Acacia thicket and open dune vegetation showed a persistent association of both EUB shells and pale apex with the Open habitat. The parallel variation was due partly to strong phenotypic disequilibrium, as the combination of EUB with dark apex was rare. Nevertheless, in fully banded shells the frequency of pale apex was also higher in the Open habitat, confirming independent, parallel associations of the two contributors to paleness. Within the Acacia habitat, temporal variation of the frequencies of banding morphs was much greater than for apex colour, and EUB shells were associated with hotter summers. Consistent with its primary effect only on the very small snails, apex colour did not vary with summer conditions, but instead, higher frequencies of pale apices were associated with sunnier winters. The intensity of selection was lower on apex colour than shell banding, due partly to the constraint of phenotypic disequilibrium. The shell traits in T. pisana are an example of complex responses to climatic variation, in which phenotypic disequilibrium constrains evolution of apex colour, but separate mechanisms of selection are evident.
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- M S Johnson
- School of Animal Biology (M092), University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia.
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At the north-eastern extremity: variation in Cepaea nemoralis around Gdańsk, northern Poland. Biologia (Bratisl) 2011. [DOI: 10.2478/s11756-011-0128-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Kaeuffer R, Peichel CL, Bolnick DI, Hendry AP. Parallel and nonparallel aspects of ecological, phenotypic, and genetic divergence across replicate population pairs of lake and stream stickleback. Evolution 2011; 66:402-18. [PMID: 22276537 DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01440.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 172] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Parallel (or convergent) evolution provides strong evidence for a deterministic role of natural selection: similar phenotypes evolve when independent populations colonize similar environments. In reality, however, independent populations in similar environments always show some differences: some nonparallel evolution is present. It is therefore important to explicitly quantify the parallel and nonparallel aspects of trait variation, and to investigate the ecological and genetic explanations for each. We performed such an analysis for threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) populations inhabiting lake and stream habitats in six independent watersheds. Morphological traits differed in the degree to which lake-stream divergence was parallel across watersheds. Some aspects of this variation were correlated with ecological variables related to diet, presumably reflecting the strength and specifics of divergent selection. Furthermore, a genetic scan revealed some markers that diverged between lakes and streams in many of the watersheds and some that diverged in only a few watersheds. Moreover, some of the lake-stream divergence in genetic markers was associated within some of the lake-stream divergence in morphological traits. Our results suggest that parallel evolution, and deviations from it, are primarily the result of natural selection, which corresponds in only some respects to the dichotomous habitat classifications frequently used in such studies.
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- Renaud Kaeuffer
- Redpath Museum and Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, H3A 2K6.
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OŻGO MAŁGORZATA, BOGUCKI ZDZISŁAW. Colonization, stability, and adaptation in a transplant experiment of the polymorphic land snailCepaea nemoralis(Gastropoda: Pulmonata) at the edge of its geographical range. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2011. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01732.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Forsman A, Karlsson M, Wennersten L, Johansson J, Karpestam E. Rapid evolution of fire melanism in replicated populations of pygmy grasshoppers. Evolution 2011; 65:2530-40. [PMID: 21884054 DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01324.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Evolutionary theory predicts an interactive process whereby spatiotemporal environmental heterogeneity will maintain genetic variation, while genetic and phenotypic diversity will buffer populations against stress and allow for fast adaptive evolution in rapidly changing environments. Here, we study color polymorphism patterns in pygmy grasshoppers (Tetrix subulata) and show that the frequency of the melanistic (black) color variant was higher in areas that had been ravaged by fires the previous year than in nonburned habitats, that, in burned areas, the frequency of melanistic grasshoppers dropped from ca. 50% one year after a fire to 30% after four years, and that the variation in frequencies of melanistic individuals among and within populations was genetically based on and represented evolutionary modifications. Dark coloration may confer a selective benefit mediated by enhanced camouflage in recently fire-ravaged areas characterized by blackened visual backgrounds before vegetation has recovered. These findings provide rare evidence for unusually large, extremely rapid adaptive contemporary evolution in replicated natural populations in response to divergent and fluctuating selection associated with spatiotemporal environmental changes.
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- Anders Forsman
- School of Natural Sciences, Linnaeus University, SE-391 82 Kalmar, Sweden.
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Silvertown J, Cook L, Cameron R, Dodd M, McConway K, Worthington J, Skelton P, Anton C, Bossdorf O, Baur B, Schilthuizen M, Fontaine B, Sattmann H, Bertorelle G, Correia M, Oliveira C, Pokryszko B, Ożgo M, Stalažs A, Gill E, Rammul Ü, Sólymos P, Féher Z, Juan X. Citizen science reveals unexpected continental-scale evolutionary change in a model organism. PLoS One 2011; 6:e18927. [PMID: 21556137 PMCID: PMC3083392 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2011] [Accepted: 03/11/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Organisms provide some of the most sensitive indicators of climate change and evolutionary responses are becoming apparent in species with short generation times. Large datasets on genetic polymorphism that can provide an historical benchmark against which to test for recent evolutionary responses are very rare, but an exception is found in the brown-lipped banded snail (Cepaea nemoralis). This species is sensitive to its thermal environment and exhibits several polymorphisms of shell colour and banding pattern affecting shell albedo in the majority of populations within its native range in Europe. We tested for evolutionary changes in shell albedo that might have been driven by the warming of the climate in Europe over the last half century by compiling an historical dataset for 6,515 native populations of C. nemoralis and comparing this with new data on nearly 3,000 populations. The new data were sampled mainly in 2009 through the Evolution MegaLab, a citizen science project that engaged thousands of volunteers in 15 countries throughout Europe in the biggest such exercise ever undertaken. A known geographic cline in the frequency of the colour phenotype with the highest albedo (yellow) was shown to have persisted and a difference in colour frequency between woodland and more open habitats was confirmed, but there was no general increase in the frequency of yellow shells. This may have been because snails adapted to a warming climate through behavioural thermoregulation. By contrast, we detected an unexpected decrease in the frequency of Unbanded shells and an increase in the Mid-banded morph. Neither of these evolutionary changes appears to be a direct response to climate change, indicating that the influence of other selective agents, possibly related to changing predation pressure and habitat change with effects on micro-climate.
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- Jonathan Silvertown
- Department of Life Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom.
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