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Alarcón CM, Colombi CE, Gallego OF, Drovandi JM, Monferran MD. Dispersal of Late Triassic clam shrimps across Pangea linking northwestern Gondwana and central Pangea rift basins. Sci Rep 2024; 14:15025. [PMID: 38951594 PMCID: PMC11217500 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-66015-y] [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: 04/24/2024] [Accepted: 06/26/2024] [Indexed: 07/03/2024] Open
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Clam shrimps are a group of freshwater crustaceans who prospered during the Late Triassic. They were abundant in lacustrine sedimentary records of continental basins distributed throughout Pangea during this time. However, they show significant taxonomic differences between the clamp shrimp faunas from the rift basins of central Pangea and the southern Gondwanan basins. In this contribution, we show new fossil clam shrimp assemblages from the lacustrine sedimentary successions of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia (the Bocas and Montebel formations), providing information on the Late Triassic species that inhabited the northwestern Gondwana basins. This study demonstrates that the basins of northwestern Gondwana shared Norian clamp shrimp species with rift basins of central Pangea and differed in their faunas with the basins of the southern portion of Gondwana. In addition, the Late Triassic clam shrimps paleobiogeographic distribution reflects the dispersal of this fauna throughout fluvial-lacustrine environments established in the rift valleys along the central Pangea. Therefore, the rift valleys produced during the early fragmentation of central Pangea could have acted as corridors for dispersion. Simultaneously, rift valleys also provided paleobiogeographic barriers that isolated the central Pangea clam shrimp faunas from southern Gondwana.
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- Carlos M Alarcón
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Instituto y Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, CIGEOBIO, CONICET, Av. España 400 (N), J5400DNQ, San Juan, San Juan, Argentina.
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Instituto y Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, CIGEOBIO, CONICET, Av. España 400 (N), J5400DNQ, San Juan, San Juan, Argentina
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- Grupo Paleontología y paleoambientes continentales fanerozoicos, Centro de Ecología Aplicada del Litoral, CECOAL, CONICET, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, UNNE, Ruta Provincial Nº 5, Km 2,5, W3400, Corrientes, Argentina
- Geología Histórica-Paleoinvertebrados-Micropaleontología (Área Ciencias de la Tierra -Departamento de Biología), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Naturales y Agrimensura (FaCENA), Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE), Av. Libertad 4450, W3400, Corrientes, Argentina
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Instituto y Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, CIGEOBIO, CONICET, Av. España 400 (N), J5400DNQ, San Juan, San Juan, Argentina
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- Grupo Paleontología y paleoambientes continentales fanerozoicos, Centro de Ecología Aplicada del Litoral, CECOAL, CONICET, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, UNNE, Ruta Provincial Nº 5, Km 2,5, W3400, Corrientes, Argentina
- Geología Histórica-Paleoinvertebrados-Micropaleontología (Área Ciencias de la Tierra -Departamento de Biología), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Naturales y Agrimensura (FaCENA), Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE), Av. Libertad 4450, W3400, Corrientes, Argentina
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Evolution of sexual systems, sex chromosomes and sex-linked gene transcription in flatworms and roundworms. Nat Commun 2022; 13:3239. [PMID: 35688815 PMCID: PMC9187692 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30578-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2022] [Accepted: 05/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Many species with separate male and female individuals (termed ‘gonochorism’ in animals) have sex-linked genome regions. Here, we investigate evolutionary changes when genome regions become completely sex-linked, by analyses of multiple species of flatworms (Platyhelminthes; among which schistosomes recently evolved gonochorism from ancestral hermaphroditism), and roundworms (Nematoda) which have undergone independent translocations of different autosomes. Although neither the evolution of gonochorism nor translocations fusing ancestrally autosomal regions to sex chromosomes causes inevitable loss of recombination, we document that formerly recombining regions show genomic signatures of recombination suppression in both taxa, and become strongly genetically degenerated, with a loss of most genes. Comparisons with hermaphroditic flatworm transcriptomes show masculinisation and some defeminisation in schistosome gonad gene expression. We also find evidence that evolution of sex-linkage in nematodes is accompanied by transcriptional changes and dosage compensation. Our analyses also identify sex-linked genes that could assist future research aimed at controlling some of these important parasites. Transitions between hermaphroditic and separate sexes are relatively understudied in animals compared to pants. Here, Wang et al. reconstruct the evolution of separate sexes in the flatworms and complex changes of sex chromosomes in the roundworms.
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Sun X, Cheng J. Phylogenetic Signal Dissection of Heterogeneous 28S and 16S rRNA Genes in Spinicaudata (Branchiopoda, Diplostraca). Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:1705. [PMID: 34828311 PMCID: PMC8625258 DOI: 10.3390/genes12111705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2021] [Revised: 10/20/2021] [Accepted: 10/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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It is still a challenge to reconstruct the deep phylogenetic relationships within spinicaudatans, and there are several different competing hypotheses regarding the interrelationships among Eocyzicidae, Cyzicidae s. s., Leptestheriidae, and Limnadiidae of the Suborder Spinicaudata. In order to explore the source of the inconsistencies, we focus on the sequence variation and the structure model of two rRNA genes based on extensive taxa sampling. The comparative sequence analysis revealed heterogeneity across species and the existence of conserved motifs in all spinicaudatan species. The level of intraspecific heterogeneity differed among species, which suggested that some species might have undergone a relaxed concerted evolution with respect to the 28S rRNA gene. The Bayesian analyses were performed on nuclear (28S rRNA, EF1α) and mitochondrial (16S rRNA, COI) genes. Further, we investigated compositional heterogeneity between lineages and assessed the potential for phylogenetic noise compared to signal in the combined data set. Reducing the non-phylogenetic signals and application of optimal rRNA model recovered a topology congruent with inference from the transcriptome data, whereby Limnadiidae was placed as a sister group to Leptestheriidae + Eocyzicidae with high support (topology I). Tests of alternative hypotheses provided implicit support for four competing topologies, and topology I was the best.
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- State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Palaeoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 39, Beijing Eastroad, Nanjing 210008, China;
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Mongue AJ, Michaelides S, Coombe O, Tena A, Kim DS, Normark BB, Gardner A, Hoddle MS, Ross L. Sex, males, and hermaphrodites in the scale insect Icerya purchasi. Evolution 2021; 75:2972-2983. [PMID: 33844310 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2020] [Revised: 03/25/2021] [Accepted: 03/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Androdioecy (the coexistence of males and hermaphrodites) is a rare mating system for which the evolutionary dynamics are poorly understood. Here, we investigate the cottony cushion scale, Icerya purchasi, one of only three reported cases of androdioecy in insects. In this species, female-like hermaphrodites have been shown to produce sperm and self-fertilize. However, males are ocassionally observed as well. In a large genetic analysis, we show for the first time that, although self-fertilization appears to be the primary mode of reproduction, rare outbreeding events do occur in natural populations, supporting the hypothesis that hermaphrodites mate with males and hence androdioecy is the mating system of I. purchasi. Thus, this globally invasive pest insect appears to enjoy the colonization advantages of a selfing organism while also benefitting from periodic reintroduction of genetic variation through outbreeding with males.
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- Andrew J Mongue
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, United Kingdom
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PS, United Kingdom.,Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, H4B 1R6, Canada
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PS, United Kingdom
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- Institut Valencià d'Investigacions Agràries (IVIA), Centre de Protecció Vegetal i Biotecnologia, Unitat d'Entomologia, Moncada, 46113, Spain
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- Majors in Plant Resource Sciences and Environment, College of Applied Life Science, SARI, Jeju National University, Jeju, 63243, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biology and Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, 01003
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PS, United Kingdom.,School of Biology, University of St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9TH, United Kingdom
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- Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, California, 92521
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, United Kingdom.,Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PS, United Kingdom.,Department of Biology and Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, 01003
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Hegna TA, Rogers DC. The World's First Clam Shrimp Symposium: Drawing Paleontology and Biology Together. Zool Stud 2020; 59:e46. [PMID: 33335595 PMCID: PMC7736770 DOI: 10.6620/zs.2020.59-46] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2020] [Accepted: 06/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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After a symposium and special issue devoted to the study of clam shrimp, it is tempting to ask what is next... where is the study of clam shrimp going? Rather than try to read the tea leaves to predict the future, we will instead offer some closing thoughts on where the study of clam shrimp should go and what areas are ripe for investigation. Many of these ideas integrate both fossil and modern clam shrimp to get at a more complete view of their evolution and ecology.
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- Thomas A Hegna
- Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences, SUNY Fredonia, 203 Jewett Hall, 280 Central Avenue, Fredonia, NY 14063, USA. E-mail: (Hegna)
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- Kansas Biological Survey, and The Biodiversity Institute, The University of Kansas, Higuchi Hall, 2101 Constant Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66047-3759, USA. E-mail: (Rogers)
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Astrop TI, Park Boush L, Weeks SC. Testing Weissman's Lineage Selection Model for the Maintenance of Sex: The Evolutionary Dynamics of Clam Shrimp Reproduction over Geologic Time. Zool Stud 2020; 59:e34. [PMID: 33262856 PMCID: PMC7689051 DOI: 10.6620/zs.2020.59-34] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2020] [Accepted: 06/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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One of the most perplexing questions within evolutionary biology is: "why are there so many methods of reproduction?" Contemporary theories assume that sexual reproduction should allow long term survival as dispersal and recombination of genetic material provides a population of organisms with the ability to adapt to environmental change. One of the most frustrating aspects of studying the evolution of reproductive systems is that we have not yet been able to utilize information locked within the fossil record to assess breeding system evolution in deep time. While the fossil record provides us with information on an organism's living environment, as well as some aspects of its ecology, the preservation of biological interactions (reproduction, feeding, symbiosis, communication) is exceedingly rare. Using both information from extant taxa uncovered by a plethora of biological and ecological studies and the rich representation of the Spinicaudata (Branchiopoda: Crustacea) throughout the fossil record (from the Devonian to today), we address two hypotheses of reproductive evolutionary theory: (1) that unisexual species should be short lived and less speciose than their outcrossing counterparts and (2) that androdioecy (mixtures of males and hermaphrodites) is an unstable, transitionary system that should not persist over long periods of time. We find no evidence of all-unisexual spinicaudatan taxa (clam shrimp) in the fossil record, but do find evidence of both androdioecious and dioecious clam shrimp. We find that clades with many androdioecious species are less speciose but persist longer than their mostly dioecious counterparts. These data suggest that all-unisexual lineages likely do not persist long whereas mixtures of unisexual and sexual breeding can persist for evolutionarily long periods but tend to produce fewer species than mostly sexual breeding.
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- Timothy I Astrop
- Fossil Forest Project, Blast Road, Brymbo, Wales, United Kingdom, LI11 5BT. E-mail: (Astrop)
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- Department of Geosciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-1045, USA. E-mail: (Park Boush)
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- Department of Biology, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-3908, USA. E-mail: (Weeks)
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Rogers DC. Spinicaudata Catalogus (Crustacea: Branchiopoda). Zool Stud 2020; 59:e45. [PMID: 33335594 PMCID: PMC7736771 DOI: 10.6620/zs.2020.59-45] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2019] [Accepted: 01/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The Spinicaudata (spiny clam shrimp) are a large group of freshwater, bivalved branchiopod crustaceans in need of taxonomic revision. Herein, the extant Spinicaudata families and genera are defined and diagnosed according to modern standards. An annotated catalogue of the Spinicaudata taxa is presented with synonyms. More than 747 spinicaudatan taxa are presented, of which 215 are considered valid families, genera and species. Chresonyms are provided for taxa redescribed according to modern standards. It is hoped that this catalogue will provide a basis for further taxonomic revision and phylogenetic work within the Spinicaudata.
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- D Christopher Rogers
- Kansas Biological Survey, and The Biodiversity Institute, The University of Kansas, Higuchi Hall, 2101 Constant Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66047-3759, USA. E-mail:
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Timms BV, Rogers DC. Diagnosing Eulimnadia and Paralimnadia (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata: Limnadiidae). Zool Stud 2020; 59:e38. [PMID: 33335588 PMCID: PMC7736776 DOI: 10.6620/zs.2020.59-38] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2020] [Accepted: 03/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Eulimnadia and Paralimnadia are both strongly supported, monophyletic limnadiid lineages based on molecular studies. However, defining the two taxa morphologically relies on the presence/absence of a subcercopodal spiniform projection; otherwise there is considerable overlap and confusion in morphological characters between the two taxa. The most discriminatory of these characters are examined here and applied to Australasian species. As a result, five Eulimnadia species are transferred to Paralimnadia. These characters are then applied to world Eulimnadia species and other limnadiid genera which share key features with Eulimnadia.
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- Brian V Timms
- Honorary Research Associate, Australian Museum, 10 William St, Sydney, 2010 and Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia. E-mail: (Timms)
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- Kansas Biological Survey, and The Biodiversity Institute, The University of Kansas, Higuchi Hall, 2101 Constant Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66047-3759, USA. E-mail: (Rogers)
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Schwentner M, Rabet N, Richter S, Giribet G, Padhye S, Cart JF, Bonillo C, Rogers DC. Phylogeny and Biogeography of Spinicaudata (Crustacea: Branchiopoda). Zool Stud 2020; 59:e44. [PMID: 33365101 PMCID: PMC7746975 DOI: 10.6620/zs.2020.59-44] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2019] [Accepted: 03/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Spinicaudata (spiny clam shrimp) is a taxon of Branchiopoda occurring since the Devonian and today it occurs nearly globally in temporary water bodies. We present the most species-rich phylogenetic analyses of this taxon based on four molecular loci: COI, 16S rRNA, EF1α and 28S rRNA. Our results support previous findings that Cyzicidae sensu lato is paraphyletic. To render Cyzicidae monophyletic we establish a fourth extant spinicaudatan family to accommodate Eocyzicus. Within Cyzicidae, none of the genera Cyzicus, Caenestheria or Caenestheriella are monophyletic, and the morphological characters used to define these genera (condyle length and rostrum shape) are not associated with well-delimited clades within Cyzicidae. There is insufficient resolution to elucidate the relationships within Leptestheriidae. However, there is sufficient evidence to show that the leptestheriid genera Eoleptestheria and Leptestheria are non-monophyletic, and there is no support for the genus Leptestheriella. Molecular clock analyses suggest that the wide geographic distribution of many spinicaudatan taxa across multiple continents is largely based on vicariance associated with the break-up of Pangea and Gondwana. Trans-oceanic dispersal has occurred in some taxa (e.g., Eulimnadia and within Leptestheriidae) but has been relatively rare. Our results highlight the need to revise the taxonomy of Cyzicidae and Leptestheriidae and provide evidence that the global spinicaudatan diversity may be underestimated due to the presence of numerous cryptic species. We establish Eocyzicidae fam. nov. to accommodate the genus Eocyzicus. Consequently, Cyzicidae comprises only two genera -Cyzicus and Ozestheria. Ozestheria occurs also in Africa and Asia and Ozestheria pilosa new comb. is assigned to this genus.
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- Martin Schwentner
- Center of Natural History, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. E-mail: (Schwentner)
- Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
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- Sorbonne Université, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Biologie des organismes et écosystèmes aquatiques (BOREA), CNRS, IRD, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, CP26 75231, 43 rue Cuvier Paris Cedex 05, France. E-mail: (Rabet), (Bonillo)
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- Allgemeine und Spezielle Zoologie, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany. E-mail: (Richter)
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- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. E-mail: (Giribet)
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- Systematics, Ecology & Conservation Lab, Zoo Outreach Organization, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. E-mail: (Padhye)
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- Sorbonne Université, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Biologie des organismes et écosystèmes aquatiques (BOREA), CNRS, IRD, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, CP26 75231, 43 rue Cuvier Paris Cedex 05, France. E-mail: (Rabet), (Bonillo)
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- Kansas Biological Survey, and The Biodiversity Institute, The University of Kansas, Higuchi Hall, 2101 Constant Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66047-3759, USA. E-mail: (Rogers)
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Rogers DC, Severo-Neto F, Volcan MV, De los Ríos P, Epele LB, Ferreira AO, Rabet N. Comments and records on the large branchiopod Crustacea (Anostraca, Notostraca, Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata, Cyclestherida) of the Neotropical and Antarctic bioregions. STUDIES ON NEOTROPICAL FAUNA AND ENVIRONMENT 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/01650521.2020.1728879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- D. Christopher Rogers
- Kansas Biological Survey, and the Natural History Museum (Biodiversity Institute), The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
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- Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas y Químicas, Facultad de Recursos Naturales, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Temuco, Chile
- Núcleo de Estudios Ambientales, UC Temuco, Temuco, Chile
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- Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagónica (CONICET-UNPSJB), Esquel, Argentina
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- Sorbonne Université, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, Unité Biologie des Organismes et Écosystèmes Aquatiques (BOREA, UMR 7208), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université de Caen Normandie, Université des Antilles, CNRS, IRD, Paris, France
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Several species of Caenorhabditis nematodes, including Caenorhabditis elegans, have recently evolved self-fertile hermaphrodites from female/male ancestors. These hermaphrodites can either self-fertilize or mate with males, and the extent of outcrossing determines subsequent male frequency. Using experimental evolution, the authors show that a gene family with a historical role in sperm competition plays a large role in regulating male frequency after self-fertility evolves. By reducing, but not completely eliminating outcrossing, loss of the mss genes contributes to adaptive tuning of the sex ratio in a newly self-fertile species. The maintenance of males at intermediate frequencies is an important evolutionary problem. Several species of Caenorhabditis nematodes have evolved a mating system in which selfing hermaphrodites and males coexist. While selfing produces XX hermaphrodites, cross-fertilization produces 50% XO male progeny. Thus, male mating success dictates the sex ratio. Here, we focus on the contribution of the male secreted short (mss) gene family to male mating success, sex ratio, and population growth. The mss family is essential for sperm competitiveness in gonochoristic species, but has been lost in parallel in androdioecious species. Using a transgene to restore mss function to the androdioecious Caenorhabditis briggsae, we examined how mating system and population subdivision influence the fitness of the mss+ genotype. Consistent with theoretical expectations, when mss+ and mss-null (i.e., wild type) genotypes compete, mss+ is positively selected in both mixed-mating and strictly outcrossing situations, though more strongly in the latter. Thus, while sexual mode alone affects the fitness of mss+, it is insufficient to explain its parallel loss. However, in genetically homogenous androdioecious populations, mss+ both increases male frequency and depresses population growth. We propose that the lack of inbreeding depression and the strong subdivision that characterize natural Caenorhabditis populations impose selection on sex ratio that makes loss of mss adaptive after self-fertility evolves.
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Baldwin-Brown JG, Weeks SC, Long AD. A New Standard for Crustacean Genomes: The Highly Contiguous, Annotated Genome Assembly of the Clam Shrimp Eulimnadia texana Reveals HOX Gene Order and Identifies the Sex Chromosome. Genome Biol Evol 2018; 10:143-156. [PMID: 29294012 PMCID: PMC5765565 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evx280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/23/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Vernal pool clam shrimp (Eulimnadia texana) are a promising model system due to their ease of lab culture, short generation time, modest sized genome, a somewhat rare stable androdioecious sex determination system, and a requirement to reproduce via desiccated diapaused eggs. We generated a highly contiguous genome assembly using 46× of PacBio long read data and 216× of Illumina short reads, and annotated using Illumina RNAseq obtained from adult males or hermaphrodites. Of the 120 Mb genome 85% is contained in the largest eight contigs, the smallest of which is 4.6 Mb. The assembly contains 98% of transcripts predicted via RNAseq. This assembly is qualitatively different from scaffolded Illumina assemblies: It is produced from long reads that contain sequence data along their entire length, and is thus gap free. The contiguity of the assembly allows us to order the HOX genes within the genome, identifying two loci that contain HOX gene orthologs, and which approximately maintain the order observed in other arthropods. We identified a partial duplication of the Antennapedia complex adjacent to the few genes homologous to the Bithorax locus. Because the sex chromosome of an androdioecious species is of special interest, we used existing allozyme and microsatellite markers to identify the E. texana sex chromosome, and find that it comprises nearly half of the genome of this species. Linkage patterns indicate that recombination is extremely rare and perhaps absent in hermaphrodites, and as a result the location of the sex determining locus will be difficult to refine using recombination mapping.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine
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Schwentner M, Richter S, Rogers DC, Giribet G. Tetraconatan phylogeny with special focus on Malacostraca and Branchiopoda: highlighting the strength of taxon-specific matrices in phylogenomics. Proc Biol Sci 2018; 285:20181524. [PMID: 30135168 PMCID: PMC6125901 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2018] [Accepted: 07/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Understanding the evolution of Tetraconata or Pancrustacea-the clade that includes crustaceans and insects-requires a well-resolved hypothesis regarding the relationships within and among its constituent taxa. Here, we assembled a taxon-rich phylogenomic dataset focusing on crustacean lineages based solely on genomes and new-generation Illumina-generated transcriptomes, including 89 representatives of Tetraconata. This constitutes, to our knowledge, the first phylogenomic study specifically addressing internal relationships of Malacostraca (with 26 species included) and Branchiopoda (36 species). Seven matrices comprising 81-684 orthogroups and 17 690-242 530 amino acid positions were assembled and analysed under five different analytical approaches. To maximize gene occupancy and to improve resolution, taxon-specific matrices were designed for Malacostraca and Branchiopoda. Key tetraconatan taxa (i.e. Oligostraca, Multicrustacea, Branchiopoda, Malacostraca, Thecostraca, Copepoda and Hexapoda) were monophyletic and well supported. Within Branchiopoda, Phyllopoda, Diplostraca, Cladoceromorpha and Cladocera were monophyletic. Within Malacostraca, the clades Eumalacostraca, Decapoda and Reptantia were well supported. Recovery of Caridoida or Peracarida was highly dependent on the analysis for the complete matrix, but it was consistently monophyletic in the malacostracan-specific matrices. From such examples, we demonstrate that taxon-specific matrices and particular evolutionary models and analytical methods, namely CAT-GTR and Dayhoff recoding, outperform other approaches in resolving certain recalcitrant nodes in phylogenomic analyses.
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- Martin Schwentner
- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Centrum of Natural History, Universität Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Allgemeine und Spezielle Zoologie, Universität Rostock, Universitätsplatz 2, 18055 Rostock, Germany
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- Kansas Biological Survey, Kansas University, Higuchi Hall, 2101 Constant Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66047, USA
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- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Ford RE, Weeks SC. Intersexual conflict in androdioecious clam shrimp: Do androdioecious hermaphrodites evolve to avoid mating with males? Ethology 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/eth.12738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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- Rebecah E. Ford
- Program In Integrated Biosciences; Department of Biology; The University of Akron; Akron OH USA
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- Program In Integrated Biosciences; Department of Biology; The University of Akron; Akron OH USA
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Boikova OS. The Origin of Cladocera (Crustacea, Branchiopoda): A New Understanding of an Old Hypothesis. BIOL BULL+ 2018. [DOI: 10.1134/s1062359017070044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Temperature effects on life history traits of two sympatric branchiopods from an ephemeral wetland. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0179449. [PMID: 28654929 PMCID: PMC5487261 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2016] [Accepted: 05/29/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Temperature effects on organisms are of multiple scientific interests, such as for their life history performance and for the study of evolutionary strategies. We have cultured two sympatric branchiopod species from an ephemeral pond in northern Taiwan, Branchinella kugenumaensis and Eulimnadia braueriana, and compared their hatching rate, maturation time, sex ratio, growth of body length, survivorship, clutch size, net reproductive rate R0, generation time TG, and intrinsic rate of natural increase r in relation to temperature (15, 20, 25 and 30°C). We found that E. braueriana had a significantly higher temperature-dependent fecundity and intrinsic population growth pattern (R0 and r). In contrast, B. kugenumaensis reproduced much slower than E. braueriana with much lower R0 (90–100 folds less) and r (about 10 folds less) at 15, 20 and 25°C and with a double as long TG at 20 and 25°C. In addition, E. braueriana increased its chance of hermaphroditic sexual reproductive mode at higher temperature because of a significantly delayed maturation of males from hermaphrodites. In contrast, B. kugenumaensis showed no significant change in reproductive mode with temperature. This is the first study indicating a significant differentiation in life history parameters of two sympatric branchiopods mediated by temperature.
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Sigvardt ZMS, Rogers DC, Olesen J. Functional morphology of amplexus (clasping) in spinicaudatan clam shrimps (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) and its evolution in bivalved branchiopods: A video-based analysis. J Morphol 2017; 278:523-546. [DOI: 10.1002/jmor.20649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2016] [Revised: 12/06/2016] [Accepted: 12/10/2016] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Zandra M. S. Sigvardt
- Natural History Museum of Denmark; University of Copenhagen; Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark
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- Kansas Biological Survey and the Natural History Museum (Biodiversity Institute), Kansas University; Higuchi Hall, 2101 Constant Avenue Lawrence KS 66047-3759 USA
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark; University of Copenhagen; Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark
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Schwentner M, Just F, Richter S. Evolutionary systematics of the Australian Cyzicidae (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Spinicaudata) with the description of a new genus. Zool J Linn Soc 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Martin Schwentner
- Institut für Biowissenschaften; Allgemeine und Spezielle Zoologie; Universität Rostock; Rostock Germany
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- Institut für Biowissenschaften; Allgemeine und Spezielle Zoologie; Universität Rostock; Rostock Germany
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- Institut für Biowissenschaften; Allgemeine und Spezielle Zoologie; Universität Rostock; Rostock Germany
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Theologidis I, Chelo IM, Goy C, Teotónio H. Reproductive assurance drives transitions to self-fertilization in experimental Caenorhabditis elegans. BMC Biol 2014; 12:93. [PMID: 25369737 PMCID: PMC4234830 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-014-0093-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2014] [Accepted: 10/23/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Evolutionary transitions from outcrossing between individuals to selfing are partly responsible for the great diversity of animal and plant reproduction systems. The hypothesis of 'reproductive assurance' suggests that transitions to selfing occur because selfers that are able to reproduce on their own ensure the persistence of populations in environments where mates or pollination agents are unavailable. Here we test this hypothesis by performing experimental evolution in Caenorhabditis elegans. RESULTS We show that self-compatible hermaphrodites provide reproductive assurance to a male-female population facing a novel environment where outcrossing is limiting. Invasions of hermaphrodites in male-female populations, and subsequent experimental evolution in the novel environment, led to successful transitions to selfing and adaptation. Adaptation was not due to the loss of males during transitions, as shown by evolution experiments in exclusively hermaphroditic populations and in male-hermaphrodite populations. Instead, adaptation was due to the displacement of females by hermaphrodites. Genotyping of single-nucleotide polymorphisms further indicated that the observed evolution of selfing rates was not due to selection of standing genetic diversity. Finally, numerical modelling and evolution experiments in male-female populations demonstrate that the improvement of male fitness components may diminish the opportunity for reproductive assurance. CONCLUSIONS Our findings support the hypothesis that reproductive assurance can drive the transition from outcrossing to selfing, and further suggest that the success of transitions to selfing hinges on adaptation of obligate outcrossing populations to the environment where outcrossing was once a limiting factor.
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Weeks SC, Benvenuto C, Reed SK, Duff RJ, Duan ZH, David P. A field test of a model for the stability of androdioecy in the freshwater shrimp, Eulimnadia texana. J Evol Biol 2014; 27:2080-95. [PMID: 25145977 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2014] [Accepted: 07/04/2014] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The evolution of hermaphroditism from dioecy is a poorly studied transition. Androdioecy (the coexistence of males and hermaphrodites) has been suggested as an intermediate step in this evolutionary transition or could be a stable reproductive mode. Freshwater crustaceans in the genus Eulimnadia have reproduced via androdioecy for 24+ million years and thus are excellent organisms to test models of the stability of androdioecy. Two related models that allow for the stable maintenance of males and hermaphrodites rely on the counterbalancing of three life history parameters. We tested these models in the field over three field seasons and compared the results to previous laboratory estimates of these three parameters. Male and hermaphroditic ratios within years were not well predicted using either the simpler original model or a version of this model updated to account for differences between hermaphroditic types ('monogenic' and 'amphigenic' hermaphrodites). Using parameter estimates of the previous year to predict the next year's sex ratios revealed a much better fit to the original relative to the updated version of the model. Therefore, counter to expectations, accounting for differences between the two hermaphroditic types did not improve the fit of these models. At the moment, we lack strong evidence that the long-term maintenance of androdioecy in these crustaceans is the result of a balancing of life history parameters; other factors, such as metapopulation dynamics or evolutionary constraints, may better explain the 24+ million year maintenance of androdioecy in clam shrimp.
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- S C Weeks
- Integrated Bioscience Program, Department of Biology, The University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA
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Weeks SC, Brantner JS, Astrop TI, Ott DW, Rabet N. The Evolution of Hermaphroditism from Dioecy in Crustaceans: Selfing Hermaphroditism Described in a Fourth Spinicaudatan Genus. Evol Biol 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s11692-013-9265-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Slancarova V, Zdanska J, Janousek B, Talianova M, Zschach C, Zluvova J, Siroky J, Kovacova V, Blavet H, Danihelka J, Oxelman B, Widmer A, Vyskot B. Evolution of sex determination systems with heterogametic males and females in silene. Evolution 2013; 67:3669-77. [PMID: 24299418 DOI: 10.1111/evo.12223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2011] [Accepted: 07/29/2013] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The plant genus Silene has become a model for evolutionary studies of sex chromosomes and sex-determining mechanisms. A recent study performed in Silene colpophylla showed that dioecy and the sex chromosomes in this species evolved independently from those in Silene latifolia, the most widely studied dioecious Silene species. The results of this study show that the sex-determining system in Silene otites, a species related to S. colpophylla, is based on female heterogamety, a sex determination system that is unique among the Silene species studied to date. Our phylogenetic data support the placing of S. otites and S. colpophylla in the subsection Otites and the analysis of ancestral states suggests that the most recent common ancestor of S. otites and S. colpophylla was most probably dioecious. These observations imply that a switch from XX/XY sex determination to a ZZ/ZW system (or vice versa) occurred in the subsection Otites. This is the first report of two different types of heterogamety within one plant genus of this mostly nondioecious plant family.
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- Veronika Slancarova
- Department of Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Kralovopolska 135, CZ-612 65, Brno, Czech Republic
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Leonard JL. Williams' paradox and the role of phenotypic plasticity in sexual systems. Integr Comp Biol 2013; 53:671-88. [PMID: 23970358 DOI: 10.1093/icb/ict088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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As George Williams pointed out in 1975, although evolutionary explanations, based on selection acting on individuals, have been developed for the advantages of simultaneous hermaphroditism, sequential hermaphroditism and gonochorism, none of these evolutionary explanations adequately explains the current distribution of these sexual systems within the Metazoa (Williams' Paradox). As Williams further pointed out, the current distribution of sexual systems is explained largely by phylogeny. Since 1975, we have made a great deal of empirical and theoretical progress in understanding sexual systems. However, we still lack a theory that explains the current distribution of sexual systems in animals and we do not understand the evolutionary transitions between hermaphroditism and gonochorism. Empirical data, collected over the past 40 years, demonstrate that gender may have more phenotypic plasticity than was previously realized. We know that not only sequential hermaphrodites, but also simultaneous hermaphrodites have phenotypic plasticity that alters sex allocation in response to social and environmental conditions. A focus on phenotypic plasticity suggests that one sees a continuum in animals between genetically determined gonochorism on the one hand and simultaneous hermaphroditism on the other, with various types of sequential hermaphroditism and environmental sex determination as points along the spectrum. Here I suggest that perhaps the reason we have been unable to resolve Williams' Paradox is because the problem was not correctly framed. First, because, for example, simultaneous hermaphroditism provides reproductive assurance or dioecy ensures outcrossing does not mean that there are no other evolutionary paths that can provide adaptive responses to those selective pressures. Second, perhaps the question we need to ask is: What selective forces favor increased versus reduced phenotypic plasticity in gender expression? It is time to begin to look at the question of sexual system as one of understanding the timing and degree of phenotypic plasticity in gender expression in the life history in terms of selection acting on a continuum, rather than on a set of discrete sexual systems.
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- Janet L Leonard
- Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA
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Schwentner M, Timms BV, Richter S. Evolutionary systematics of the Australian Eocyzicus
fauna (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata) reveals hidden diversity and phylogeographic structure. J ZOOL SYST EVOL RES 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Martin Schwentner
- Institut für Biowissenschaften, Allgemeine und Spezielle Zoologie; Universität Rostock; Rostock Germany
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- Australian Museum; Sydney NSW Australia
- Australian Wetland and Rivers Centre; University of NSW; Sydney NSW Australia
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- Institut für Biowissenschaften, Allgemeine und Spezielle Zoologie; Universität Rostock; Rostock Germany
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Fritsch M, Bininda-Emonds ORP, Richter S. Unraveling the origin of Cladocera by identifying heterochrony in the developmental sequences of Branchiopoda. Front Zool 2013; 10:35. [PMID: 23777384 PMCID: PMC3716531 DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-10-35] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2012] [Accepted: 05/31/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION One of the most interesting riddles within crustaceans is the origin of Cladocera (water fleas). Cladocerans are morphologically diverse and in terms of size and body segmentation differ considerably from other branchiopod taxa (Anostraca, Notostraca, Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata and Cyclestherida). In 1876, the famous zoologist Carl Claus proposed with regard to their origin that cladocerans might have evolved from a precociously maturing larva of a clam shrimp-like ancestor which was able to reproduce at this early stage of development. In order to shed light on this shift in organogenesis and to identify (potential) changes in the chronology of development (heterochrony), we investigated the external and internal development of the ctenopod Penilia avirostris and compared it to development in representatives of Anostraca, Notostraca, Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata and Cyclestherida. The development of the nervous system was investigated using immunohistochemical labeling and confocal microscopy. External morphological development was followed using a scanning electron microscope and confocal microscopy to detect the autofluorescence of the external cuticle. RESULTS In Anostraca, Notostraca, Laevicaudata and Spinicaudata development is indirect and a free-swimming nauplius hatches from resting eggs. In contrast, development in Cyclestherida and Cladocera, in which non-swimming embryo-like larvae hatch from subitaneous eggs (without a resting phase) is defined herein as pseudo-direct and differs considerably from that of the other groups. Both external and internal development in Anostraca, Notostraca, Laevicaudata and Spinicaudata is directed from anterior to posterior, whereas in Cyclestherida and Cladocera differentiation is more synchronous. CONCLUSIONS In this study, developmental sequences from representatives of all branchiopod taxa are compared and analyzed using a Parsimov event-pairing approach. The analysis reveals clear evolutionary transformations towards Cladocera and the node of Cladoceromorpha which correspond to distinct heterochronous signals and indicate that the evolution of Cladocera was a stepwise process. A switch from a strategy of indirect development to one of pseudo-direct development was followed by a shift in a number of morphological events to an earlier point in ontogenesis and simultaneously by a reduction in the number of pre-metamorphosis molts. A compression of the larval phase as well as a shortening of the juvenile phase finally leads to a precocious maturation and is considered as a gradual progenetic process.
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- Martin Fritsch
- Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und Spezielle Zoologie, University of Rostock, Universitaetsplatz 2, 18055 Rostock, Germany
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- Fakultät V, Institut für Biologie und Umweltwissenschaften (IBU), AG Systematik und Evolutionsbiologie, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Carl von Ossietzky Str. 9-11, 26111, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und Spezielle Zoologie, University of Rostock, Universitaetsplatz 2, 18055 Rostock, Germany
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Yusa Y, Takemura M, Sawada K, Yamaguchi S. Diverse, Continuous, and Plastic Sexual Systems in Barnacles. Integr Comp Biol 2013; 53:701-12. [DOI: 10.1093/icb/ict016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Mathers TC, Hammond RL, Jenner RA, Zierold T, Hänfling B, Gómez A. High lability of sexual system over 250 million years of evolution in morphologically conservative tadpole shrimps. BMC Evol Biol 2013; 13:30. [PMID: 23384124 PMCID: PMC3585860 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-30] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2012] [Accepted: 01/25/2013] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Sexual system is a key factor affecting the genetic diversity, population structure, genome structure and the evolutionary potential of species. The sexual system androdioecy - where males and hermaphrodites coexist in populations - is extremely rare, yet is found in three crustacean groups, barnacles, a genus of clam shrimps Eulimnadia, and in the order Notostraca, the tadpole shrimps. In the ancient crustacean order Notostraca, high morphological conservatism contrasts with a wide diversity of sexual systems, including androdioecy. An understanding of the evolution of sexual systems in this group has been hampered by poor phylogenetic resolution and confounded by the widespread occurrence of cryptic species. Here we use a multigene supermatrix for 30 taxa to produce a comprehensive phylogenetic reconstruction of Notostraca. Based on this phylogenetic reconstruction we use character mapping techniques to investigate the evolution of sexual systems. We also tested the hypothesis that reproductive assurance has driven the evolution of androdioecy in Notostraca. RESULTS Character mapping analysis showed that sexual system is an extremely flexible trait within Notostraca, with repeated shifts between gonochorism and androdioecy, the latter having evolved a minimum of five times. In agreement with the reproductive assurance hypothesis androdioecious notostracans are found at significantly higher latitudes than gonochoric ones indicating that post glacial re-colonisation may have selected for the higher colonisation ability conferred by androdioecy. CONCLUSIONS In contrast to their conserved morphology, sexual system in Notostraca is highly labile and the rare reproductive mode androdioecy has evolved repeatedly within the order. Furthermore, we conclude that this lability of sexual system has been maintained for at least 250 million years and may have contributed to the long term evolutionary persistence of Notostraca. Our results further our understanding of the evolution of androdioecy and indicate that reproductive assurance is a recurrent theme involved in the evolution of this sexual system.
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- Thomas C Mathers
- School of Biological, Biomedical and Environmental Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological, Biomedical and Environmental Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK
- Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz, Moritzstrasse 20, D-09111, Chemnitz, Germany
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- School of Biological, Biomedical and Environmental Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK
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- School of Biological, Biomedical and Environmental Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK
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Chapman EG, Przhiboro AA, Harwood JD, Foote BA, Hoeh WR. Widespread and persistent invasions of terrestrial habitats coincident with larval feeding behavior transitions during snail-killing fly evolution (Diptera: Sciomyzidae). BMC Evol Biol 2012; 12:175. [PMID: 22963084 PMCID: PMC3483186 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2012] [Accepted: 08/17/2012] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Transitions in habitats and feeding behaviors were fundamental to the diversification of life on Earth. There is ongoing debate regarding the typical directionality of transitions between aquatic and terrestrial habitats and the mechanisms responsible for the preponderance of terrestrial to aquatic transitions. Snail-killing flies (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) represent an excellent model system to study such transitions because their larvae display a range of feeding behaviors, being predators, parasitoids or saprophages of a variety of mollusks in freshwater, shoreline and dry terrestrial habitats. The remarkable genus Tetanocera (Tetanocerini) occupies five larval feeding groups and all of the habitat types mentioned above. This study has four principal objectives: (i) construct a robust estimate of phylogeny for Tetanocera and Tetanocerini, (ii) estimate the evolutionary transitions in larval feeding behaviors and habitats, (iii) test the monophyly of feeding groups and (iv) identify mechanisms underlying sciomyzid habitat and feeding behavior evolution. RESULTS Bayesian inference and maximum likelihood analyses of molecular data provided strong support that the Sciomyzini, Tetanocerini and Tetanocera are monophyletic. However, the monophyly of many behavioral groupings was rejected via phylogenetic constraint analyses. We determined that (i) the ancestral sciomyzid lineage was terrestrial, (ii) there was a single terrestrial to aquatic habitat transition early in the evolution of the Tetanocerini and (iii) there were at least 10 independent aquatic to terrestrial habitat transitions and at least 15 feeding behavior transitions during tetanocerine phylogenesis. The ancestor of Tetanocera was aquatic with five lineages making independent transitions to terrestrial habitats and seven making independent transitions in feeding behaviors. CONCLUSIONS The preponderance of aquatic to terrestrial transitions in sciomyzids goes against the trend generally observed across eukaryotes. Damp shoreline habitats are likely transitional where larvae can change habitat but still have similar prey available. Transitioning from aquatic to terrestrial habitats is likely easier than the reverse for sciomyzids because morphological characters associated with air-breathing while under the water's surface are lost rather than gained, and sciomyzids originated and diversified during a general drying period in Earth's history. Our results imply that any animal lineage having aquatic and terrestrial members, respiring the same way in both habitats and having the same type of food available in both habitats could show a similar pattern of multiple independent habitat transitions coincident with changes in behavioral and morphological traits.
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- Eric G Chapman
- Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40546, USA
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- Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. I St., Petersburg, 199034, Russia
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- Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40546, USA
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- Evolutionary, Population, and Systematic Biology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Cunningham Hall, Kent State University, Kent, OH, 44242, USA
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- Evolutionary, Population, and Systematic Biology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Cunningham Hall, Kent State University, Kent, OH, 44242, USA
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Schwentner M, Timms BV, Richter S. Flying with the birds? Recent large-area dispersal of four Australian Limnadopsis species (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata). Ecol Evol 2012; 2:1605-26. [PMID: 22957166 PMCID: PMC3434933 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2012] [Accepted: 03/26/2012] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Temporary water bodies are important freshwater habitats in the arid zone of Australia. They harbor a distinct fauna and provide important feeding and breeding grounds for water birds. This paper assesses, on the basis of haplotype networks, analyses of molecular variation and relaxed molecular clock divergence time estimates, the phylogeographic history, and population structure of four common temporary water species of the Australian endemic clam shrimp taxon Limnadopsis in eastern and central Australia (an area of >1,350,000 km(2)). Mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I sequences of 413 individuals and a subset of 63 nuclear internal transcribed spacer 2 sequences were analyzed. Genetic differentiation was observed between populations inhabiting southeastern and central Australia and those inhabiting the northern Lake Eyre Basin and Western Australia. However, over large parts of the study area and across river drainage systems in southeastern and central Australia (the Murray-Darling Basin, Bulloo River, and southern Lake Eyre Basin), no evidence of population subdivision was observed in any of the four Limnadopsis species. This indicates recent gene flow across an area of ∼800,000 km(2). This finding contrasts with patterns observed in other Australian arid zone taxa, particularly freshwater species, whose populations are often structured according to drainage systems. The lack of genetic differentiation within the area in question may be linked to the huge number of highly nomadic water birds that potentially disperse the resting eggs of Limnadopsis among temporary water bodies. Genetically undifferentiated populations on a large geographic scale contrast starkly with findings for many other large branchiopods in other parts of the world, where pronounced genetic structure is often observed even in populations inhabiting pools separated by a few kilometers. Due to its divergent genetic lineages (up to 5.6% uncorrected p-distance) and the relaxed molecular clock divergence time estimates obtained, Limnadopsis parvispinus is assumed to have inhabited the Murray-Darling Basin continuously since the mid-Pliocene (∼4 million years ago). This means that suitable temporary water bodies would have existed in this area throughout the wet-dry cycles of the Pleistocene.
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- Martin Schwentner
- Universität Rostock, Allgemeine und Spezielle Zoologie, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Universitätsplatz 218055 Rostock, Germany
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- Australian MuseumSydney, NSW 2000, Australia
- Australian Wetland and Rivers Centre, University of NSWSydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- Universität Rostock, Allgemeine und Spezielle Zoologie, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Universitätsplatz 218055 Rostock, Germany
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Weeks SC. The role of androdioecy and gynodioecy in mediating evolutionary transitions between dioecy and hermaphroditism in the animalia. Evolution 2012. [PMID: 23206127 DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01714.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Dioecy (gonochorism) is dominant within the Animalia, although a recent review suggests hermaphroditism is also common. Evolutionary transitions from dioecy to hermaphroditism (or vice versa) have occurred frequently in animals, but few studies suggest the advantage of such transitions. In particular, few studies assess how hermaphroditism evolves from dioecy or whether androdioecy or gynodioecy should be an "intermediate" stage, as noted in plants. Herein, these transitions are assessed by documenting the numbers of androdioecious and gynodioecious animals and inferring their ancestral reproductive mode. Both systems are rare, but androdioecy was an order of magnitude more common than gynodioecy. Transitions from dioecious ancestors were commonly to androdioecy rather than gynodioecy. Hermaphrodites evolving from sexually dimorphic dioecious ancestors appear to be constrained to those with female-biased sex allocation; such hermaphrodites replace females to coexist with males. Hermaphrodites evolving from sexually monomorphic dioecious ancestors were not similarly constrained. Species transitioning from hermaphroditic ancestors were more commonly androdioecious than gynodioecious, contrasting with similar transitions in plants. In animals, such transitions were associated with size specialization between the sexes, whereas in plants these transitions were to avoid inbreeding depression. Further research should frame these reproductive transitions in a theoretical context, similar to botanical studies.
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- Stephen C Weeks
- Department of Biology, Program in Integrated Bioscience, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325-3908, USA.
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SCHWENTNER MARTIN, TIMMS BRIANV, RICHTER STEFAN. An integrative approach to species delineation incorporating different species concepts: a case study of Limnadopsis (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata). Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2011. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01746.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Yusa Y, Yoshikawa M, Kitaura J, Kawane M, Ozaki Y, Yamato S, Høeg JT. Adaptive evolution of sexual systems in pedunculate barnacles. Proc Biol Sci 2011; 279:959-66. [PMID: 21881138 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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How and why diverse sexual systems evolve are fascinating evolutionary questions, but few empirical studies have dealt with these questions in animals. Pedunculate (gooseneck) barnacles show such diversity, including simultaneous hermaphroditism, coexistence of dwarf males and hermaphrodites (androdioecy), and coexistence of dwarf males and females (dioecy). Here, we report the first phylogenetically controlled test of the hypothesis that the ultimate cause of the diverse sexual systems and presence of dwarf males in this group is limited mating opportunities for non-dwarf individuals, owing to mating in small groups. Within the pedunculate barnacle phylogeny, dwarf males and females have evolved repeatedly. Females are more likely to evolve in androdioecious than hermaphroditic populations, suggesting that evolution of dwarf males has preceded that of females in pedunculates. Both dwarf males and females are associated with a higher proportion of solitary individuals in the population, corroborating the hypothesis that limited mating opportunities have favoured evolution of these diverse sexual systems, which have puzzled biologists since Darwin.
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- Yoichi Yusa
- Faculty of Science, Nara Women's University, Nara 630-8506, Japan.
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Torices R, Méndez M, Gómez JM. Where do monomorphic sexual systems fit in the evolution of dioecy? Insights from the largest family of angiosperms. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2011; 190:234-248. [PMID: 21219336 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03609.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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A range of hypothesized evolutionary pathways has been proposed for describing the evolution of dioecy. However, the evolutionary links between other sexual systems not directly involved in dioecy evolution remain largely unexplored, and hence, a comprehensive picture of evolutionary transitions between sexual systems is still lacking. Here, we explored the diversity and evolution of sexual systems in Asteraceae, the largest family of flowering plants, where almost all sexual systems are present. We used a phylogenetic approach to build a model of evolutionary transitions between sexual systems. The best model involved nine transitions, including those from hermaphroditism to andromonoecy, gynomonoecy and gynodioecy, those from gynomonoecy to monoecy and trimonoecy, two transitions to dioecy -one through gynodioecy and the other through monoecy - and reversals from monoecy to gynomonoecy and from gynomonoecy to hermaphroditism. Our reconstruction of the evolution of sexual systems in Asteraceae provided, for the first time, a joint view of the evolutionary transitions between seven sexual systems, unveiling the evolutionary links between monomorphic sexual systems. A pathway from hermaphroditism to monoecy through gynomonoecy, instead of from andromonoecy, was highly supported, which was consistent with a gradient of floral gender specialization.
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- Rubén Torices
- Área de Biodiversidad y Conservación, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles-Madrid, Spain
- Área de Botánica, Departamento de Ciencias Agroforestales, Universidad de Valladolid, Soria, Spain
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- Área de Biodiversidad y Conservación, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles-Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Ecología, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
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Kazancioğlu E, Alonzo SH. A comparative analysis of sex change in Labridae supports the size advantage hypothesis. Evolution 2010; 64:2254-64. [PMID: 20394662 DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01016.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The size advantage hypothesis (SAH) predicts that the rate of increase in male and female fitness with size (the size advantage) drives the evolution of sequential hermaphroditism or sex change. Despite qualitative agreement between empirical patterns and SAH, only one comparative study tested SAH quantitatively. Here, we perform the first comparative analysis of sex change in Labridae, a group of hermaphroditic and dioecious (non-sex changer) fish with several model sex-changing species. We also estimate, for the first time, rates of evolutionary transitions between sex change and dioecy. Our analyses support SAH and indicate that the evolution of hermaphroditism is correlated to the size advantage. Furthermore, we find that transitions from sex change to dioecy are less likely under stronger size advantage. We cannot determine, however, how the size advantage affects transitions from dioecy to sex change. Finally, contrary to what is generally expected, we find that transitions from dioecy to sex change are more likely than transitions from sex change to dioecy. The similarity of sexual differentiation in hermaphroditic and dioecious labrids might underlie this pattern. We suggest that elucidating the developmental basis of sex change is critical to predict and explain patterns of the evolutionary history of sequential hermaphroditism.
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- Erem Kazancioğlu
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 165 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
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