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Salinas S, Irvine SE, Schertzing CL, Golden SQ, Munch SB. Trait variation in extreme thermal environments under constant and fluctuating temperatures. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2019; 374:20180177. [PMID: 30966956 PMCID: PMC6365863 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/11/2018] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Climate change is increasingly exposing populations to rare and novel environmental conditions. Theory suggests that extreme conditions will expose cryptic phenotypes, with a concomitant increase in trait variation. Although some empirical support for this exists, it is also well established that physiological mechanisms (e.g. heat shock protein expression) change when organisms are exposed to constant versus fluctuating temperatures. To determine the effect of common, rare and novel temperatures on the release of hidden variation, we exposed fathead minnows, Pimephales promelas, to five fluctuating and four constant temperature regimes (constant treatments: 23.5, 25, 28.5 and 31°C; all fluctuating treatments shared a minimum temperature of 22°C at 00.00 and a maximum of 25, 28, 31, 34 or 37°C at 12.00). We measured each individual's length weekly over 60 days, critical thermal maximum (CTmax), five morphometric traits (eye anterior-posterior distance, pelvic fin length, pectoral fin length, pelvic fin ray count and pectoral fin ray count) and fluctuating asymmetry (FA, absolute difference between left and right morphometric measurements; FA is typically associated with stress). Length-at-age in both constant and fluctuating conditions decreased with temperature, and this trait's variance decreased with temperature under fluctuating conditions but increased and then decreased in constant temperatures. CTmax in both treatments increased with increasing water temperature, while its variance decreased in warmer waters. No consistent pattern in mean or variance was found across morphometric traits or FA. Our results suggest that, for fathead minnows, variance can decrease in important traits (e.g. length-at-age and CTmax) as the environment becomes more stressful, so it may be difficult to establish comprehensive rules for the effects of rarer or stressful environments on trait variation. This article is part of the theme issue 'The role of plasticity in phenotypic adaptation to rapid environmental change'.
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- Santiago Salinas
- Department of Biology, Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49006, USA
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- Department of Biology, Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49006, USA
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- Department of Biology, Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49006, USA
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- Department of Biology, Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49006, USA
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- National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, 110 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA
- Center for Stock Assessment Research, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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Merilä J. EXPRESSION OF GENETIC VARIATION IN BODY SIZE OF THE COLLARED FLYCATCHER UNDER DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS. Evolution 2017; 51:526-536. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1997.tb02440.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/1996] [Accepted: 11/20/1996] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Juha Merilä
- Department of Zoology; Uppsala University; Villavägen 9 S-752 36 Uppsala Sweden
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Zu P, Schiestl FP. The effects of becoming taller: direct and pleiotropic effects of artificial selection on plant height in Brassica rapa. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 89:1009-1019. [PMID: 27889935 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2016] [Revised: 10/07/2016] [Accepted: 11/18/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Plant height is an important trait for plant reproductive success. Plant height is often under pollinator-mediated selection, and has been shown to be correlated with various other traits. However, few studies have examined the evolutionary trajectory of plant height under selection and the pleiotropic effects of plant height evolution. We conducted a bi-directional artificial selection experiment on plant height with fast cycling Brassica rapa plants to estimate its heritability and genetic correlations, and to reveal evolutionary responses to artificial selection on height and various correlated traits. With the divergent lines obtained through artificial selection, we subsequently conducted pollinator-choice assays and investigated resource limitation of fruit production. We found that plant height variation is strongly genetically controlled (with a realized heritability of 41-59%). Thus, plant height can evolve rapidly under phenotypic selection. In addition, we found remarkable pleiotropic effects in phenology, morphology, floral scent, color, nectar and leaf glucosinolates. Most traits were increased in tall-line plants, but flower size, UV reflection and glucosinolates were decreased, indicating potential trade-offs. Pollinators preferred plants of the tall selection lines over the short selection lines in both greenhouse experiments with bumblebees and field experiment with natural pollinators. We did not detect any differences in resource limitation between plants of the different selection lines. Overall, our study predicts that increased height should evolve under positive pollinator-mediated directional selection with potential trade-offs in floral signals and herbivore defense.
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- Pengjuan Zu
- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zürich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH-8008 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zürich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH-8008 Zürich, Switzerland
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Wood CW, Brodie ED. Evolutionary response when selection and genetic variation covary across environments. Ecol Lett 2016; 19:1189-200. [DOI: 10.1111/ele.12662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2016] [Revised: 06/27/2016] [Accepted: 07/13/2016] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Corlett W. Wood
- Mountain Lake Biological Station and Department of Biology University of Virginia Charlottesville VA22904 USA
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- Mountain Lake Biological Station and Department of Biology University of Virginia Charlottesville VA22904 USA
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Peterson ML, Kay KM. Mating System Plasticity Promotes Persistence and Adaptation of Colonizing Populations of Hermaphroditic Angiosperms. Am Nat 2015; 185:28-43. [DOI: 10.1086/679107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Volis S. Adaptive genetic differentiation in a predominantly self-pollinating species analyzed by transplanting into natural environment, crossbreeding and Q(ST)-F(ST) test. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2011; 192:237-248. [PMID: 21729087 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03799.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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• Both genetic drift and natural selection result in genetic/phenotypic differentiation over space. I analyzed the role of local adaptation in the genetic differentiation of populations of the annual grass Hordeum spontaneum sampled along an aridity gradient. • The study included the introduction of plants having desert vs nondesert origin into natural (desert) environment, analysis of population differentiation in allozymes and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers vs phenotypic traits (Q(ST) -F(ST) comparison), and planting interpopulation hybrids under simulated desert conditions in a glasshouse. • The results of the home advantage test, Q(ST) -F(ST) comparison and crossbreeding were consistent with local adaptation; that is, that differentiation of the desert plants from plants of nondesert origin in phenotypic traits was adaptive, giving them home advantage. Each method used provided additional, otherwise unavailable, information, meaning that they should be viewed as complementary rather than alternative approaches. • Gene flow from adjacent populations (i.e. populations experiencing the desert environment) via seeds (but not pollen) had a positive effect on fitness by enhancing natural selection and counteracting drift. At the same time, the effect of genes from the species distributional core (nondesert plants) by either seed or pollen had a negative fitness effect despite its enriching effect on neutral diversity. The pattern of outbreeding depression observed in interpopulation hybrids (F(1) ) and their segregating progeny (F(2) ) was inconsistent with underdominance, but indicated the presence of additive, dominance and epistatic effects.
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- S Volis
- The Institutes for Applied Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, POB 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
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Mercer KL, Perales HR. Evolutionary response of landraces to climate change in centers of crop diversity. Evol Appl 2010; 3:480-93. [PMID: 25567941 PMCID: PMC3352508 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2010.00137.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2010] [Accepted: 05/03/2010] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Landraces cultivated in centers of crop diversity result from past and contemporary patterns of natural and farmer-mediated evolutionary forces. Successful in situ conservation of crop genetic resources depends on continuity of these evolutionary processes. Climate change is projected to affect agricultural production, yet analyses of impacts on in situ conservation of crop genetic diversity and farmers who conserve it have been absent. How will crop landraces respond to alterations in climate? We review the roles that phenotypic plasticity, evolution, and gene flow might play in sustaining production, although we might expect erosion of genetic diversity if landrace populations or entire races lose productivity. For example, highland maize landraces in southern Mexico do not express the plasticity necessary to sustain productivity under climate change, but may evolve in response to altered conditions. The outcome for any given crop in a given region will depend on the distribution of genetic variation that affects fitness and patterns of climate change. Understanding patterns of neutral and adaptive diversity from the population to the landscape scale is essential to clarify how landraces conserved in situ will continue to evolve and how to minimize genetic erosion of this essential natural resource.
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- Kristin L Mercer
- Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, The Ohio State University Columbus, OH, USA
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- Departamento de Agroecologia, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico and Diversity for Livelihoods Programme, Bioversity International Rome, Italy
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LAMPEI CHRISTIAN, TIELBÖRGER KATJA. Evolvability of between-year seed dormancy in populations along an aridity gradient. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2010. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01453.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [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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Sherrard ME, Maherali H, Latta RG. WATER STRESS ALTERS THE GENETIC ARCHITECTURE OF FUNCTIONAL TRAITS ASSOCIATED WITH DROUGHT ADAPTATION INAVENA BARBATA. Evolution 2009; 63:702-15. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00580.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Badri M, Ilahi H, Huguet T, Aouani ME. Quantitative and molecular genetic variation in sympatric populations ofMedicago laciniataandM. truncatula(Fabaceae): relationships with eco-geographical factors. Genet Res (Camb) 2007; 89:107-22. [PMID: 17669230 DOI: 10.1017/s0016672307008725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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SummaryMedicago laciniatais restricted to south of the Mediterranean basin and it extends in Tunisia from the inferior semi-arid to Saharan stages, whereasM. truncatulais a widespread species in such areas. The genetic variability in four Tunisian sympatric populations ofM. laciniataandM. truncatulawas analysed using 19 quantitative traits and 20 microsatellites. We investigated the amplification transferability of 52 microsatellites developed inM. truncatulatoM. laciniata. Results indicate that about 78·85% of used markers are valuable genetic markers forM. laciniata.M. laciniatadisplayed significantly lower quantitative differentiation among populations (QST=0·12) than didM. truncatula(QST=0·45). However, high molecular differentiations, with no significant difference, were observed inM. laciniata(FST=0·48) andM. truncatula(FST=0·47). Several quantitative traits exhibited significantly smallerQSTthanFSTforM. laciniata, consistent with constraining selection. ForM. truncatula, the majority of traits displayed no statistical difference in the level ofQSTandFST. Furthermore, these traits are significantly associated with eco-geographical factors, consistent with selection for local adaptation rather than genetic drift. In both species, there was no significant correlation between genetic variation at quantitative traits and molecular markers. The site-of-origin explains about 5·85% and 11·27% of total quantitative genetic variability among populations ofM. laciniataandM. truncatula, respectively. Established correlations between quantitative traits and eco-geographical factors were generally more moderate forM. laciniatathan forM. truncatula, suggesting that the two species exhibit different genetic bases of local adaptation to varying environmental conditions. Nevertheless, no consistent patterns of associations were found between gene diversity (He) and environmental factors in either species.
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- Mounawer Badri
- Laboratoire Interactions Légumineuses Microorganismes, Centre de Biotechnologie, Technopole de Borj-Cédria, B.P. 901, 2050 Hammam-Lif, Tunisia.
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Donohue K, Pyle EH, Messiqua D, Heschel MS, Schmitt J. ADAPTIVE DIVERGENCE IN PLASTICITY IN NATURAL POPULATIONS OF IMPATIENS CAPENSIS AND ITS CONSEQUENCES FOR PERFORMANCE IN NOVEL HABITATS. Evolution 2007. [DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2001.tb00805.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Swindell WR, Bouzat JL. Associations between environmental stress, selection history, and quantitative genetic variation in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetica 2006; 127:311-20. [PMID: 16850235 DOI: 10.1007/s10709-005-5240-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2005] [Accepted: 11/14/2005] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Stressful environments may increase quantitative genetic variation in populations by promoting the expression of genetic variation that has not previously been eliminated or canalized by natural selection. This "selection history" hypothesis predicts that novel stressors will increase quantitative genetic variation, and that the magnitude of this effect will decrease following continued stress exposure. We tested these predictions using Drosophila melanogaster and sternopleural bristle number as a model system. In particular, we examined the effect of high temperature stress (31 degrees Celsius) on quantitative genetic variation before and after our study population had been reared at 31 degrees Celsius for 15 generations. High temperature stress was found to increase both additive genetic variance and heritability, but contrary to the selection history hypothesis prediction, the magnitude of this effect significantly increased after the study population had been reared for 15 generations under high temperature stress. These results demonstrate that high temperature stress increases quantitative genetic variation for bristle number, but do not support the selection history hypothesis as an explanation for this effect.
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- William R Swindell
- Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403-0212, USA.
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Ashman TL, Majetic CJ. Genetic constraints on floral evolution: a review and evaluation of patterns. Heredity (Edinb) 2006; 96:343-52. [PMID: 16598191 DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 159] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The characteristics of flowers influence most aspects of angiosperm reproduction, including the agents of pollination and patterns of mating. Thus, a clear view of the forces that mediate floral phenotypic evolution is central to understanding angiosperm diversity. Here, we inform on the capacity for floral phenotype to respond to selection by reviewing published data on heritabilities and genetic correlations for several classes of floral traits (primary sexual, attraction, mating system) in hermaphroditic plants. We find significant heritability for all floral traits but also variation among them, as well as a tendency for heritability to vary with mating system, but not life history. We additionally test predictions stemming from life history theory (eg, negative covariation between male-female traits and flower size-flower number), and ideas concerning the extent and pattern of genetic integration between flowers and leaves, and between the sexes of dioecious and gynodioecious species. We find mixed evidence for life history tradeoffs. We find strong support for floral integration and its relation with floral morphology (actinomorphy vs zygomorphy) and for a decoupling of floral and vegetative traits, but no evidence that modular integration varies with floral morphology. Lastly, we find mixed evidence for a relationship between the level of sexual dimorphism in attraction traits and the between-sex correlation in gender dimorphic plants.
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- T-L Ashman
- 1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 4249 Fifth Ave and Ruskin, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
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Bouvet JM, Vigneron P, Saya A. Phenotypic plasticity of growth trajectory and ontogenic allometry in response to density for eucalyptus hybrid clones and families. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2005; 96:811-21. [PMID: 16043439 PMCID: PMC4247045 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mci231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND and Aims Response to density is a crucial aspect of the ecology of trees in forests and plantations. Few studies have investigated the genetics of plasticity in response to density for growth traits such as height and circumference through development. METHODS Two experiments were carried out in the field, the first with full-sib families of Eucalyptus urophylla x E. grandis hybrids, and the second with clones of E. tereticornis x E. grandis hybrids planted across a range of densities (625, 1111 and 2500 trees ha-1). Height, circumference and stem taper were measured through development in both experiments. Variance components were estimated and a repeated measure approach for plasticity and three different methods were used to compare the variance-covariance matrix across densities. KEY RESULTS Genetic variance was significantly different from zero but the density x genotype interaction was significant only for clone experiments at the adult stage. Significant plasticity for three traits in both experiments was found. In the clone experiments, a significant clone x time x density interaction was found, suggesting that plasticity for growth and stem form is under genetic control. In both experiments, density did not affect environmental correlation, which remained high throughout tree development. The impact of density on genetic correlation was marked in the clone experiment, with a reduced value at lower density, but was not observed in the family trial. The differences between clones and family are mainly explained by the distribution of genetic variation within and among genotypes. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that plasticity for growth traits and form of tropical Eucalyptus species is under genetic control and that the environment changes genetic co-variation through ontogeny. The findings confirm that a tree population with a narrow genetic basis (represented by clones) is sensitive to a changing environment, whereas a population with a broader genetic basis (full-sib family here) exhibits a more stable reaction.
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- Jean-Marc Bouvet
- Cirad-Forest Department-Research Unit 39 Diversity and Breeding of Forest Tree Species TA 10C, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier Cedex, France.
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Thorpe RS, Reardon JT, Malhotra A. Common garden and natural selection experiments support ecotypic differentiation in the Dominican anole (Anolis oculatus). Am Nat 2005; 165:495-504. [PMID: 15791540 DOI: 10.1086/428408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2004] [Accepted: 12/08/2004] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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The theory behind ecotypic differentiation and ecological speciation assumes a predominant role for natural selection working on characteristics with genetic variance, but experimental support for these assumptions is limited. Lesser Antillean anoles show marked ecotypic variation within islands and the potential for ecological speciation. Common garden rearing experiments on the Dominican anole (Anolis oculatus) suggest that the characters showing geographic variation have genetic variance and are not primarily determined by environmental plasticity. Replicated natural selection experiments using large-scale enclosures show that translocated montane samples experience significant (multivariate) directional selection in both wet and dry seasons in both males and females. The targets of selection appear to be spread among the various character systems. An experiment on 12 geographically segregated populations along a coastal xeric-montane rainforest gradient (four replicate enclosures) clearly showed that the magnitude of the directional selection intensity is positively related to the position along this gradient. The results of the common garden and natural selection experiments support the interpretation that the geographic differentiation is primarily driven by natural selection and are compatible with the potential for ecological speciation in this system.
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- Roger S Thorpe
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW, United Kingdom.
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Bégin M, Roff DA, Debat V. The effect of temperature and wing morphology on quantitative genetic variation in the cricket Gryllus firmus, with an appendix examining the statistical properties of the Jackknife-manova method of matrix comparison. J Evol Biol 2004; 17:1255-67. [PMID: 15525410 DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2004.00772.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We investigated the effect of temperature and wing morphology on the quantitative genetic variances and covariances of five size-related traits in the sand cricket, Gryllus firmus. Micropterous and macropterous crickets were reared in the laboratory at 24, 28 and 32 degrees C. Quantitative genetic parameters were estimated using a nested full-sib family design, and (co)variance matrices were compared using the T method, Flury hierarchy and Jackknife-manova method. The results revealed that the mean phenotypic value of each trait varied significantly among temperatures and wing morphs, but temperature reaction norms were not similar across all traits. Micropterous individuals were always smaller than macropterous individuals while expressing more phenotypic variation, a finding discussed in terms of canalization and life-history trade-offs. We observed little variation between the matrices of among-family (co)variation corresponding to each combination of temperature and wing morphology, with only one matrix of six differing in structure from the others. The implications of this result are discussed with respect to the prediction of evolutionary trajectories.
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- M Bégin
- Department of Biology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
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Etterson JR. EVOLUTIONARY POTENTIAL OF CHAMAECRISTA FASCICULATA IN RELATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE. II. GENETIC ARCHITECTURE OF THREE POPULATIONS RECIPROCALLY PLANTED ALONG AN ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT IN THE GREAT PLAINS. Evolution 2004; 58:1459-71. [PMID: 15341149 DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb01727.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Climate change will test the evolutionary potential of populations. Information regarding the genetic architecture within and among populations is essential for prediction of evolutionary outcomes. However, little is known about the distribution of genetic variation for relevant traits in natural populations or alteration of genetic architecture in a changing environment. In this study, pedigreed families from three populations of the annual prairie legume Chamaecrista fasciculata were reciprocally transplanted in three environments across a broad latitudinal range in the Great Plains. The underlying premise of this work is that northern populations will in the future experience climates similar to current-day climates further south. Estimates of narrow-sense heritability ranged from 0.053 to 0.481, suggesting the potential for evolutionary change is possible for most traits. In general, the northern population harbored less genetic variation and had lower heritability for traits than the southern population. This population also experienced large reductions in fitness, as measured by estimated lifetime fecundity, when raised in either the intermediate or the southern climate, whereas the difference between the intermediate and southern population was less extreme. For fecundity, the pattern of cross-environment additive genetic correlations was antagonistic to evolutionary change in four of six cases when native and nonnative sites were compared. Six additional antagonistic positive correlations were found for the rate of phenological development and leaf thickness. Overall, the data suggest that if climate changes as predicted, the northern population will face a severe evolutionary challenge in the future because of low heritabilities, cross-environment genetic correlations antagonistic to selection, and demographic instability due to lower seed production in a hotter and drier climate.
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- Julie R Etterson
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55812-3003, USA.
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Charmantier A, Kruuk LEB, Blondel J, Lambrechts MM. Testing for microevolution in body size in three blue tit populations. J Evol Biol 2004; 17:732-43. [PMID: 15271072 DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2004.00734.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Quantifying the genetic variation and selection acting on phenotypes is a prerequisite for understanding microevolutionary processes. Surprisingly, long-term comparisons across conspecific populations exposed to different environments are still lacking, hampering evolutionary studies of population differentiation in natural conditions. Here, we present analyses of additive genetic variation and selection using two body-size traits in three blue tit (Parus caeruleus) populations from distinct habitats. Chick tarsus length and body mass at fledging showed substantial levels of genetic variation in the three populations. Estimated heritabilities of body mass increased with habitat quality. The poorer habitats showed weak positive selection on tarsus length, and strong positive selection on body mass, but there was no significant selection on either trait in the good habitat. However, there was no evidence of any microevolutionary response to selection in any population during the study periods. Potential explanations for this absence of a response to selection are discussed, including the effects of spatial heterogeneity associated with gene flow between habitats.
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- A Charmantier
- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle Evolutive, CNRS, Montpellier Cedex, France.
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Etterson JR. EVOLUTIONARY POTENTIAL OF CHAMAECRISTA FASCICULATA IN RELATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE. II. GENETIC ARCHITECTURE OF THREE POPULATIONS RECIPROCALLY PLANTED ALONG AN ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT IN THE GREAT PLAINS. Evolution 2004. [DOI: 10.1554/03-375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Gomez-Mestre I, Tejedo M. CONTRASTING PATTERNS OF QUANTITATIVE AND NEUTRAL GENETIC VARIATION IN LOCALLY ADAPTED POPULATIONS OF THE NATTERJACK TOAD, BUFO CALAMITA. Evolution 2004. [DOI: 10.1554/03-671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Conner JK, Franks R, Stewart C. EXPRESSION OF ADDITIVE GENETIC VARIANCES AND COVARIANCES FOR WILD RADISH FLORAL TRAITS: COMPARISON BETWEEN FIELD AND GREENHOUSE ENVIRONMENTS. Evolution 2003. [DOI: 10.1554/0014-3820(2003)057[0487:eoagva]2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Volis S, Mendlinger S, Turuspekov Y, Esnazarov U. PHENOTYPIC AND ALLOZYME VARIATION IN MEDITERRANEAN AND DESERT POPULATIONS OF WILD BARLEY, HORDEUM SPONTANEUM KOCH. Evolution 2002. [DOI: 10.1554/0014-3820(2002)056[1403:paavim]2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Donohue K, Pyle EH, Messiqua D, Heschel MS, Schmitt J. Adaptive divergence in plasticity in natural populations of Impatiens capensis and its consequences for performance in novel habitats. Evolution 2001; 55:692-702. [PMID: 11392387 DOI: 10.1554/0014-3820(2001)055[0692:adipin]2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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We tested for adaptive differentiation between two natural populations of Impatiens capensis from sites known to differ in selection on plasticity to density. We also determined the degree to which plasticity to density within a site was correlated with plastic responses of experimental immigrants to foreign sites. Inbred lines, derived from natural populations in an open-canopy site and a woodland site, were planted reciprocally in both original sites at naturally occurring high densities and at low density. The density manipulation represents environmental variation typically experienced within the site of a given population, and the transplant manipulation represents environmental differences between sites of different populations. Internode elongation, meristem allocation, leaf length, flowering date, and total lifetime fitness were measured. Genotypes originating in the open site, where selection favored plasticity of first internode length and flowering time (Donohue et al. 2000a), were more plastic in those characters than genotypes originating from the woodland site, where plasticity was maladaptive. Therefore, these two populations appear to have responded to divergent selection on plasticity. Plasticity to density strongly resembled plasticity to site differences for many characters, suggesting that similar environmental factors elicit plasticity both to density and to overhead canopy. Thus, plasticity that evolved in response to density variation within a site influenced phenotypic expression in the foreign site. Plastic responses to site caused immigrants from foreign populations to resemble native genotypes more closely. In particular, immigrants from the open site converged toward the selectively favored early-flowering phenotype of native genotypes in the woodland site, thereby reducing potential fitness differences between foreign and native genotypes. However, because genotypes from the woods population were less plastic than genotypes from the sun population, phenotypic differences between populations were greatest in the open site at low density. Therefore, population differences in plasticity can cause genotypes from foreign populations to be more strongly selected against in some environments than in others. However, genetic constraints and limits to plasticity prevented complete convergence of immigrants to the native phenotype in any environment.
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- K Donohue
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA.
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Donohue K, Pyle EH, Messiqua D, Heschel MS, Schmitt J. Adaptive divergence in plasticity in natural populations of Impatiens capensis and its consequences for performance in novel habitats. Evolution 2001. [PMID: 11392387 DOI: 10.1554/0014-3820(2001)055%5b0692:adipin%5d2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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We tested for adaptive differentiation between two natural populations of Impatiens capensis from sites known to differ in selection on plasticity to density. We also determined the degree to which plasticity to density within a site was correlated with plastic responses of experimental immigrants to foreign sites. Inbred lines, derived from natural populations in an open-canopy site and a woodland site, were planted reciprocally in both original sites at naturally occurring high densities and at low density. The density manipulation represents environmental variation typically experienced within the site of a given population, and the transplant manipulation represents environmental differences between sites of different populations. Internode elongation, meristem allocation, leaf length, flowering date, and total lifetime fitness were measured. Genotypes originating in the open site, where selection favored plasticity of first internode length and flowering time (Donohue et al. 2000a), were more plastic in those characters than genotypes originating from the woodland site, where plasticity was maladaptive. Therefore, these two populations appear to have responded to divergent selection on plasticity. Plasticity to density strongly resembled plasticity to site differences for many characters, suggesting that similar environmental factors elicit plasticity both to density and to overhead canopy. Thus, plasticity that evolved in response to density variation within a site influenced phenotypic expression in the foreign site. Plastic responses to site caused immigrants from foreign populations to resemble native genotypes more closely. In particular, immigrants from the open site converged toward the selectively favored early-flowering phenotype of native genotypes in the woodland site, thereby reducing potential fitness differences between foreign and native genotypes. However, because genotypes from the woods population were less plastic than genotypes from the sun population, phenotypic differences between populations were greatest in the open site at low density. Therefore, population differences in plasticity can cause genotypes from foreign populations to be more strongly selected against in some environments than in others. However, genetic constraints and limits to plasticity prevented complete convergence of immigrants to the native phenotype in any environment.
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- K Donohue
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA.
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Donohue K, Pyle EH, Messiqua D, Heschel MS, Schmitt J. Density dependence and population differentiation of genetic architecture in Impatiens capensis in natural environments. Evolution 2000; 54:1969-81. [PMID: 11209774 DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2000.tb01241.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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We identified environment-dependent constraints on the evolution of plasticity to density under natural conditions in two natural populations of Impatiens capensis. We also examined the expression of population divergence in genetic variance-covariance matrices in these natural environments. Inbred lines, originally collected from a sunny site with high seedling densities and a woodland site with low seedling densities, were planted in both original sites at natural high densities and at low density. Morphological and life-history characters were measured. More genetic variation for plastic responses to density was expressed in the sun site than in the woodland site, so the evolutionary potential of plasticity was greater in the sun site. Strong genetic correlations between the same character expressed at different densities and correlations among different characters could constrain the evolution of plasticity in both sites. Genetically based trade-offs in meristem allocation to vegetative growth and reproduction were apparent only in the high-resource environment with no overhead canopy and no intraspecific competition. Therefore, genetic constraints on the evolution of plasticity depended on the site and density in which plants were grown, and correlated responses to selection on plastic characters are also expected to differ between sites and densities. Population differentiation in genetic variance-covariance matrices was detected, but matrix structural differences, as opposed to proportional differences, were detected between populations only in the sun site at natural high density. Thus, population divergence in genetic architecture can occur rapidly and on a fine spatial scale, but the expression of such divergence may depend on the environment.
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- K Donohue
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA.
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Bubliy OA, Loeschcke V, Imasheva AG. Effect of stressful and nonstressful growth temperatures on variation of sternopleural bristle number in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 2000; 54:1444-9. [PMID: 11005311 DOI: 10.1554/0014-3820(2000)054[1444:eosang]2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The effect of stressful (31 degrees C) and nonstressful (25 degrees C) growth temperatures on quantitative variation and developmental stability (fluctuating asymmetry) of Drosophila melanogaster was examined in a short-term selection experiment on sternopleural bristle number. Realized heritabilities based on 10 generations of selection in an upward direction did not differ between the two temperature regimes, which indicated that additive genetic variation was not affected by a high, stressful temperature. Phenotypic variability and fluctuating asymmetry of sternopleural bristles were significantly higher under stressful conditions when averaged over generations, although most pairwise comparisons in separate generations showed nonsignificant differences between temperatures.
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- O A Bubliy
- Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Moscow, Russia.
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Stanton ML, Roy BA, Thiede DA. EVOLUTION IN STRESSFUL ENVIRONMENTS. I. PHENOTYPIC VARIABILITY, PHENOTYPIC SELECTION, AND RESPONSE TO SELECTION IN FIVE DISTINCT ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSES. Evolution 2000. [DOI: 10.1554/0014-3820(2000)054[0093:eiseip]2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Donohue K, Hammond Pyle E, Messiqua D, Heschel MS, Schmitt J. DENSITY DEPENDENCE AND POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION OF GENETIC ARCHITECTURE IN IMPATIENS CAPENSIS IN NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS. Evolution 2000. [DOI: 10.1554/0014-3820(2000)054[1969:ddapdo]2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Paoletti, Holsinger. Spatial patterns of polygenic variation in Impatiens capensis, a species with an environmentally controlled mixed mating system. J Evol Biol 1999. [DOI: 10.1046/j.1420-9101.1999.00094.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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