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Hasoon MSR, Plaistow SJ. Embryogenesis plasticity and the transmission of maternal effects in Daphnia pulex. Evol Dev 2020; 22:345-357. [PMID: 32579775 DOI: 10.1111/ede.12346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Understanding how genetic, nongenetic, and environmental cues are integrated during development may be critical in understanding if, and how, organisms will respond to rapid environmental change. Normally, only post-embryonic studies are possible. But in this study, we developed a real-time, high-throughput confocal microscope assay that allowed us to link Daphnia embryogenesis to offspring life history variation at the individual level. Our assay identified eight clear developmental phenotypes linked by seven developmental stages, the duration of which were correlated with the expression of specific offspring life history traits. Daphnia embryogenesis varied not only between clones reared in the same environment, but also within a single clone when mothers were of different ages or reared in different food environments. Our results support the hypothesis that Daphnia embryogenesis is plastic and can be altered by changes in maternal state or maternal environment. As well as furthering our understanding of the mechanisms underpinning parental effects, our assay may also have an industrial application if it can be used as a rapid ecotoxicological prescreen for testing the effect that pollutant doses have on offspring life histories traditionally assayed with a 21-day Daphnia reproduction test.
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- Megan S R Hasoon
- Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.,Department of Biology, University of York, York, UK
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- Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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Toyota K, Cambronero Cuenca M, Dhandapani V, Suppa A, Rossi V, Colbourne JK, Orsini L. Transgenerational response to early spring warming in Daphnia. Sci Rep 2019; 9:4449. [PMID: 30872717 PMCID: PMC6418131 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-40946-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2018] [Accepted: 02/27/2019] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Temperature and photoperiod regulate key fitness traits in plants and animals. However, with temperature increase due to global warming, temperature cue thresholds are experienced at shorter photoperiods, disrupting the optimal seasonal timing of physiological, developmental and reproductive events in many species. Understanding the mechanisms of adaptation to the asynchrony between temperature and photoperiod is key to inform our understanding of how species will respond to global warming. Here, we studied the transgenerational mechanisms of responses of the cyclical parthenogen Daphnia magna to different photoperiod lengths co-occurring with warm temperature thereby assessing the impact of earlier spring warming on its fitness. Daphnia uses temperature and photoperiod cues to time dormancy, and to switch between sexual and asexual reproduction. Daphnia life cycle offers the opportunity to measure the relative contribution of plastic and genetic responses to environmental change across generations and over evolutionary time. We use transgenerational common garden experiments on three populations 'resurrected' from a biological archive experiencing temperature increase over five decades. Our results suggest that response to early spring warming evolved underpinned by a complex interaction between plastic and genetic mechanisms while a positive maternal contribution at matching environments between parental and offspring generation was also observed.
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- Kenji Toyota
- Environmental Genomics Group, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
- Department of Biological Science, Faculty of Science, Kanagawa University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, 259-1293, Japan
- Department of Biological Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan
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- Environmental Genomics Group, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
- Aquatic Ecology Department, EAWAG, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland
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- Environmental Genomics Group, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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- Environmental Genomics Group, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability University of Parma, Department of Life Sciences, Viale Usberti, 11/A, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability University of Parma, Department of Life Sciences, Viale Usberti, 11/A, Parma, Italy
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- Environmental Genomics Group, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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- Environmental Genomics Group, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
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Donelson JM, Salinas S, Munday PL, Shama LNS. Transgenerational plasticity and climate change experiments: Where do we go from here? GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2018; 24:13-34. [PMID: 29024256 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2017] [Accepted: 08/30/2017] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Phenotypic plasticity, both within and across generations, is an important mechanism that organisms use to cope with rapid climate change. While an increasing number of studies show that plasticity across generations (transgenerational plasticity or TGP) may occur, we have limited understanding of key aspects of TGP, such as the environmental conditions that may promote it, its relationship to within-generation plasticity (WGP) and its role in evolutionary potential. In this review, we consider how the detection of TGP in climate change experiments is affected by the predictability of environmental variation, as well as the timing and magnitude of environmental change cues applied. We also discuss the need to design experiments that are able to distinguish TGP from selection and TGP from WGP in multigenerational experiments. We conclude by suggesting future research directions that build on the knowledge to date and admit the limitations that exist, which will depend on the way environmental change is simulated and the type of experimental design used. Such an approach will open up this burgeoning area of research to a wider variety of organisms and allow better predictive capacity of the role of TGP in the response of organisms to future climate change.
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- Jennifer M Donelson
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld, Australia
- School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, NSW, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld, Australia
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- Coastal Ecology Section, Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Wadden Sea Station Sylt, List, Germany
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Münzbergová Z, Hadincová V. Transgenerational plasticity as an important mechanism affecting response of clonal species to changing climate. Ecol Evol 2017; 7:5236-5247. [PMID: 28770062 PMCID: PMC5528211 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2017] [Accepted: 05/02/2017] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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In spite of the increasing number of studies on the importance of transgenerational plasticity for species response to novel environments, its effects on species ability to respond to climate change are still largely unexplored. We study the importance of transgenerational plasticity for response of a clonal species Festuca rubra. Individuals from four natural populations representing two levels of temperature and two levels of precipitation were cultivated in four growth chambers that simulate the temperature and precipitation of origin of the populations (maternal phase). Each population was represented in each growth chamber. After 6 months, single young ramets of these plants were reshuffled among the growth chambers and let to grow for additional 2 months (offspring phase). The results show that transgenerational effects (i.e., maternal phase conditions) significantly modify species response to novel climates, and the direction and intensity of the response depend on the climate of origin of the plants. For traits related to recourse acquisition, the conditions of maternal phase, either alone or in interaction mainly with climate of origin, had stronger effect than the conditions of cultivation. Overall, the maternal climate interacted more intensively with the climate of origin than with the offspring climate. The direction of the effect of the maternal climate was of different directions and intensities depending on plant origin and trait studied. The data demonstrated strong significant effects of conditions during maternal phase on species response to novel climates. These transgenerational affects were, however, not adaptive. Still, transgenerational plasticity may be an important driver of species response to novel conditions across clonal generations. These effects thus need to be carefully considered in future studies exploring species response to novel climates. This will also have strong effects on species performance under increasingly variable climates expected to occur with the climate change.
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- Zuzana Münzbergová
- Department of BotanyFaculty of ScienceCharles UniversityPragueCzech Republic
- Institute of BotanyAcademy of Sciences of the Czech RepublicPrůhoniceCzech Republic
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- Institute of BotanyAcademy of Sciences of the Czech RepublicPrůhoniceCzech Republic
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Harney E, Paterson S, Plaistow SJ. Offspring development and life‐history variation in a water flea depends upon clone‐specific integration of genetic, non‐genetic and environmental cues. Funct Ecol 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Ewan Harney
- Ifremer UMR CNRS 6539 (CNRS/UBO/IRD/Ifremer) Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR) ZI de la Pointe du Diable CS 10070 Plouzané29280 France
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- Institute of Integrative Biology University of Liverpool Biosciences Building Crown Street LiverpoolL69 7ZB UK
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- Institute of Integrative Biology University of Liverpool Biosciences Building Crown Street LiverpoolL69 7ZB UK
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Bonduriansky R, Runagall‐McNaull A, Crean AJ. The nutritional geometry of parental effects: maternal and paternal macronutrient consumption and offspring phenotype in a neriid fly. Funct Ecol 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Russell Bonduriansky
- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences UNSW Australia Sydney NSW 2052 Australia
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences UNSW Australia Sydney NSW 2052 Australia
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences UNSW Australia Sydney NSW 2052 Australia
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Plaistow SJ, Shirley C, Collin H, Cornell SJ, Harney ED. Offspring Provisioning Explains Clone-Specific Maternal Age Effects on Life History and Life Span in the Water Flea, Daphnia pulex. Am Nat 2015; 186:376-89. [DOI: 10.1086/682277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Cayetano L, Bonduriansky R. Condition dependence of male and female genital structures in the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Bruchidae). J Evol Biol 2015; 28:1364-72. [PMID: 26077617 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2014] [Accepted: 05/13/2015] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Theory predicts that costly secondary sexual traits will evolve heightened condition dependence, and many studies have reported strong condition dependence of signal and weapon traits in a variety of species. However, although genital structures often play key roles in intersexual interactions and appear to be subject to sexual or sexually antagonistic selection, few studies have examined the condition dependence of genital structures, especially in both sexes simultaneously. We investigated the responses of male and female genital structures to manipulation of larval diet quality (new versus once-used mung beans) in the bruchid seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus. We quantified effects on mean relative size and static allometry of the male aedeagus, aedeagal spines, flap and paramere and the female reproductive tract and bursal spines. None of the male traits showed a significant effect of diet quality. In females, we found that longer bursal spines (relative to body size) were expressed on low-quality diet. Although the function of bursal spines is poorly understood, we suggest that greater bursal spine length in low-condition females may represent a sexually antagonistic adaptation. Overall, we found no evidence that genital traits in C. maculatus are expressed to a greater extent when nutrients are more abundant. This suggests that, even though some genital traits appear to function as secondary sexual traits, genital traits do not exhibit heightened condition dependence in this species. We discuss possible reasons for this finding.
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- L Cayetano
- EvoLab, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Crean AJ, Bonduriansky R. What is a paternal effect? Trends Ecol Evol 2014; 29:554-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2014] [Revised: 07/16/2014] [Accepted: 07/17/2014] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Plaistow SJ, Collin H. Phenotypic integration plasticity in Daphnia magna: an integral facet of G × E interactions. J Evol Biol 2014; 27:1913-20. [PMID: 25099216 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2014] [Revised: 05/25/2014] [Accepted: 05/30/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Phenotypic integration can be defined as the network of multivariate relationships among behavioural, physiological and morphological traits that describe the organism. Phenotypic integration plasticity refers to the change in patterns of phenotypic integration across environments or ontogeny. Because studies of phenotypic plasticity have predominantly focussed on single traits, a G × E interaction is typically perceived as differences in the magnitude of trait expression across two or more environments. However, many plastic responses involve coordinated responses in multiple traits, raising the possibility that relative differences in trait expression in different environments are an important, but often overlooked, source of G × E interaction. Here, we use phenotypic change vectors to statistically compare the multivariate life-history plasticity of six Daphnia magna clones collected from four disparate European populations. Differences in the magnitude of plastic responses were statistically distinguishable for two of the six clones studied. However, differences in phenotypic integration plasticity were statistically distinguishable for all six of the clones studied, suggesting that phenotypic integration plasticity is an important component of G × E interactions that may be missed unless appropriate multivariate analyses are used.
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- S J Plaistow
- Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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