EvolutionPub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae101
Bonita M Mendel, Angelique K Asselin, Karyn N Johnson, Katrina McGuigan
{"title":"Effects of spontaneous mutations on survival and reproduction of Drosophila serrata infected with Drosophila C virus.","authors":"Bonita M Mendel, Angelique K Asselin, Karyn N Johnson, Katrina McGuigan","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae101","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae101","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The impact of selection on host immune function genes has been widely documented. However, it remains essentially unknown how mutation influences the quantitative immune traits that selection acts on. Applying a classical mutation accumulation (MA) experimental design in Drosophila serrata, we found the mutational variation in susceptibility (median time of death, LT50) to Drosophila C virus (DCV) was of similar magnitude to that reported for intrinsic survival traits. Mean LT50 did not change as mutations accumulated, suggesting no directional bias in mutational effects. Maintenance of genetic variance in immune function is hypothesized to be influenced by pleiotropic effects on immunity and other traits that contribute to fitness. To investigate this, we assayed female reproductive output for a subset of MA lines with relatively long or short survival times under DCV infection. Longer survival time tended to be associated with lower reproductive output, suggesting that mutations affecting susceptibility to DCV had pleiotropic effects on investment in reproductive fitness. Further studies are needed to uncover the general patterns of mutational effect on immune responses and other fitness traits, and to determine how selection might typically act on new mutations via their direct and pleiotropic effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":"1661-1672"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141456107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EvolutionPub Date : 2024-09-18DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae122
Leigh W Simmons,Maxine Lovegrove
{"title":"Interacting phenotypic plasticities: Do male and female responses to the sociosexual environment interact to determine fitness?","authors":"Leigh W Simmons,Maxine Lovegrove","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpae122","url":null,"abstract":"Socially induced plasticity in reproductive effort is a widely documented phenomenon. However, few empirical studies have examined how male and female plastic responses to the social environment might interact in determining fitness outcomes. In field crickets, Teleogryllus oceanicus, males respond to rival song by increasing expenditure on seminal fluid proteins that enhance competitive fertilization success at the cost of reduced embryo survival. It remains unknown whether plastic responses in females could moderate the effects of male competitiveness on offspring performance. Here we used a fully factorial design to explore the interacting effects on fitness of male and female plasticity to the sociosexual environment. We found that female crickets exposed to male song increased the number of eggs produced during early life reproduction, which came at a cost of reduced offspring size. There was evidence, albeit weak, that interacting effects of male and female sociosexual environment contributed to variation in the hatching success of eggs laid by females. Lifetime offspring production was unaffected by the sociosexual environments to which upstream male and female plastic responses were made. Our data offer a rare test of the theoretical expectation that male and female plasticities should interact in their effects on female fitness.","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142267043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EvolutionPub Date : 2024-09-18DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae121
Carina Edel,Peter T Rühr,Melina Frenzel,Thomas van de Kamp,Tomáš Faragó,Jörg U Hammel,Fabian Wilde,Alexander Blanke
{"title":"Bite force transmission and mandible shape in grasshoppers, crickets, and allies is not driven by dietary niches.","authors":"Carina Edel,Peter T Rühr,Melina Frenzel,Thomas van de Kamp,Tomáš Faragó,Jörg U Hammel,Fabian Wilde,Alexander Blanke","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpae121","url":null,"abstract":"Although species evolve in response to many intrinsic and extrinsic factors, frequently one factor has a dominating influence on a given organ system. In this context, mouthpart shape and function are thought to correlate strongly with dietary niche and this was advocated for decades, e.g., for insects. Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, and allies) are a prominent case in this respect because mandible shape has been even used to predict feeding preferences. Here, we analysed mandible shape, force transmission efficiency, and their potential correlation with dietary categories in a phylogenetic framework for 153 extant Orthoptera. The mechanical advantage profile was used as a descriptor of gnathal edge shape and bite force transmission efficiency in order to understand how mandible shape is linked to biting efficiency and diet, and how these traits are influenced by phylogeny and allometry. Results show that mandible shape in fact is a poor predictor of feeding ecology and phylogenetic history has a strong influence on gnathal edge shape. Being ancestrally phytophagous, Orthoptera evolved in an environment with food sources being always abundant so that selective pressures leading to more specialized mouthpart shapes and force transmission efficiencies were low.","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142267044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EvolutionPub Date : 2024-09-17DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae136
Anna M Kearns,Michael G Campana,Beth Slikas,Lainie Berry,Takema Saitoh,Gary R Graves,Alice Cibois,Robert C Fleischer
{"title":"Untangling the colonization history of the Australo-Pacific reed warblers, one of the world's great island radiations.","authors":"Anna M Kearns,Michael G Campana,Beth Slikas,Lainie Berry,Takema Saitoh,Gary R Graves,Alice Cibois,Robert C Fleischer","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpae136","url":null,"abstract":"Island radiations, such as those of the Australo-Pacific, offer unique insight into diversification, extinction, and early speciation processes. Yet, their speciation and colonization histories are often obscured by conflicting genomic signals from incomplete lineage sorting or hybridization. Here, we integrated mitogenomes and genome-wide SNPs to unravel the evolutionary history of one of the world's most geographically widespread island radiations. The Australo-Pacific reed warblers (Acrocephalus luscinius complex) are a speciose lineage including five species that have become extinct since the 19th century and ten additional species of conservation concern. The radiation spans over 10,000 km across Australo-Papua, Micronesia and Polynesia, including the Mariana, Hawaii and Pitcairn Island archipelagos. Earlier mtDNA studies suggested a stepping-stone colonization process, resulting in archipelago-level secondary sympatry of divergent mtDNA lineages in the Mariana Islands and Marquesas. These studies hypothesised that morphologically similar species on neighbouring islands arose from ecological convergence. Using hDNA from historical museum specimens and modern genetic samples, we show that incomplete lineage sorting and/or gene flow have shaped the radiation of Australo-Pacific reed warblers rather than secondary sympatry. The nuclear genome reconstructs a simpler biogeographic history than mtDNA, showing close relationships between species in the Mariana Islands and Marquesas despite their paraphyletic mtDNA lineages. Gene flow likely involved early and late colonizing waves of the radiation before the loss of ancestral dispersive ability. Our results highlight how collection genomics can elucidate evolutionary history and inform conservation efforts for threatened species.","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142269844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EvolutionPub Date : 2024-09-14DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae135
Jonas O Wolff
{"title":"Spider silk tensile performance does not correlate with web use.","authors":"Jonas O Wolff","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpae135","url":null,"abstract":"Spider silk is amongst the toughest materials produced by living systems, but its tensile performance varies considerably between species. Despite the extensive sampling of the material properties and composition of dragline silk, the understanding why some silks perform better than others is still limited. Here, I adopted a phylogenetic comparative approach to re-analyse structural and mechanical data from the Silkome database and the literature across 164 species to (a) provide an extended model of silk property evolution, (b) test for correlations between structural and mechanical properties, and (c) to test if silk tensile performance differs between web-building and non-web-building species. Unlike the common notion that orb-weavers have evolved the best performing silks, outstanding tensile properties were found both in and outside the araneoid clade. Phylogenetic linear models indicated that the mechanical and structural properties of spider draglines poorly correlate, but silk strength and toughness correlated better with birefringence (an indicator of the material anisotropy) than crystallinity. Furthermore, in contrast to previous ideas, silk tensile performance did not differ between ecological guilds. These findings indicate multiple unknown pathways towards the evolution of spider silk tensile super-performance, calling for a better integration of non-orb-weaving spiders in spider silk studies.","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142269843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EvolutionPub Date : 2024-09-13DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae131
Peter Santema,Wolfgang Forstmeier,Bart Kempenaers
{"title":"Variance Partitioning of nest provisioning rates in blue tits: Individual Repeatability, heritability, and partner interactions.","authors":"Peter Santema,Wolfgang Forstmeier,Bart Kempenaers","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpae131","url":null,"abstract":"In many animal species, including most birds, parental care is performed by both parents, which has important implications for mate choice (good parent hypothesis) and parental investment strategies. Partitioning the variance in measures of parental care into heritable and non-heritable components is important to understand the evolvability of parental investment and its potential role in mate choice. We employed an automated system to monitor provisioning behavior at 817 blue tit nests over 10 years (totaling ~3 million visits). Daily provisioning rates of males and females were moderately repeatable between years (Radj = 0.16 and 0.15 respectively), which was almost entirely explained by additive genetic effects. While this degree of heritability is sufficient for parental investment to respond to selection, we argue that the modest level of repeatability provides limited potential for a 'provisioning phenotype' to be used as a criterion in mate choice. Daily visit rates were positively correlated between pair members, but after accounting for shared environmental factors this relationship became clearly negative, thereby providing support for models of partial compensation. Visit rates also differed substantially between years, and between days within a year. Thus, it is important to account for these variables when comparing parental investment between individuals. Our results highlight the interplay between genetic, social, and environmental influences on provisioning behavior.","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142267045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EvolutionPub Date : 2024-09-11DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae127
Emily M Troyer,Kory M Evans,Christopher Goatley,Matt Friedman,Giorgio Carnevale,Benjamin Nicholas,Matthew Kolmann,Katherine E Bemis,Dahiana Arcila
{"title":"Evolutionary innovation accelerates morphological diversification in pufferfishes and their relatives.","authors":"Emily M Troyer,Kory M Evans,Christopher Goatley,Matt Friedman,Giorgio Carnevale,Benjamin Nicholas,Matthew Kolmann,Katherine E Bemis,Dahiana Arcila","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpae127","url":null,"abstract":"Evolutionary innovations have played an important role in shaping the diversity of life on Earth. However, how these innovations arise, and their downstream effects on patterns of morphological diversification remain poorly understood. Here, we examine the impact of evolutionary innovation on trait diversification in tetraodontiform fishes (pufferfishes, boxfishes, ocean sunfishes, and allies). This order provides an ideal model system for studying morphological diversification owing to their range of habitats and divergent morphologies, including the fusion of the teeth into a beak in several families. Using three-dimensional geometric morphometric data for 176 extant and fossil species, we examine the effect of skull integration and novel habitat association on the evolution of innovation. Strong integration may be a requirement for rapid trait evolution and facilitating the evolution of innovative structures, like the tetraodontiform beak. Our results show that the beak arose in the presence of highly conserved patterns of integration across the skull, suggesting that integration did not limit the range of available phenotypes to tetraodontiforms. Furthermore, we find that beaks have allowed tetraodontiforms to diversify into novel ecological niches, irrespective of habitat. Our results suggest that general rules pertaining to evolutionary innovation may be more nuanced than previously thought.","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142205811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EvolutionPub Date : 2024-09-11DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae126
Andrés N Molina,Mauricio J Carter,Enrico L Rezende
{"title":"Plasticity cannot fully compensate evolutionary differences in heat tolerance across fish species.","authors":"Andrés N Molina,Mauricio J Carter,Enrico L Rezende","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpae126","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding how evolution and phenotypic plasticity contribute to variation in heat tolerance is crucial to predict responses to warming. Here we analyze 272 thermal death time curves of 53 fish species acclimated to different temperatures and quantify their relative contributions. Analyses show that evolution and plasticity account, respectively, for 80.5 % and 12.4 % of the variation in elevation across curves, whereas their slope remained invariant. Evolutionary and plastic adaptive responses differ in magnitude, with heat tolerance increasing 0.54 ºC between species and 0.32 ºC within species for every 1 ºC increase in environmental temperatures. After successfully predicting critical temperatures under ramping conditions to validate these estimates, we show that fish populations can only partly ameliorate the impact of warming waters via thermal acclimation and this deficit in plasticity could increase as the warming accelerates.","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142205812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EvolutionPub Date : 2024-09-03DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae097
Krish Sanghvi, Tommaso Pizzari, Irem Sepil
{"title":"What does not kill you makes you stronger? Effects of paternal age at conception on fathers and sons.","authors":"Krish Sanghvi, Tommaso Pizzari, Irem Sepil","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae097","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae097","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Advancing male age is often hypothesized to reduce both male fertility and offspring quality due to reproductive senescence. However, the effects of advancing male age on reproductive output and offspring quality are not always deleterious. For example, older fathers might buffer the effects of reproductive senescence by terminally investing in reproduction. Similarly, males that survive to reproduce at an old age might carry alleles that confer high viability (viability selection), which are then inherited by offspring, or might have high reproductive potential (selective disappearance). Differentiating these mechanisms requires an integrated experimental study of paternal survival and reproductive performance, as well as offspring quality, which is currently lacking. Using a cross-sectional study in Drosophila melanogaster, we test the effects of paternal age at conception (PAC) on paternal survival and reproductive success, and on the lifespans of sons. We discover that mating at an old age is linked with decreased future male survival, suggesting that mating-induced mortality is possibly due to old fathers being frail. We find no evidence for terminal investment and show that reproductive senescence in fathers does not onset until their late-adult life. Additionally, we find that as a father's lifespan increases, his probability of siring offspring increases for older PAC treatments only. Lastly, we show that sons born to older fathers live longer than those born to younger fathers due to viability selection. Collectively, our results suggest that advancing paternal age is not necessarily associated with deleterious effects for offspring and may even lead to older fathers producing longer-lived offspring.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":"1619-1632"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141442388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digest: Sexually selected traits can affect individual fitness and trait evolution in a butterfly species.","authors":"Hernani Fernandes Magalhães Oliveira, Geraldo Freire-Jr, Fabricius Maia Chaves Bicalho Domingos","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae104","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae104","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Wedell and Kemp ([2024]. Examined the importance of female sexual preferences for male UV reflectance on offspring viability and the evolution of male traits in the butterfly Eurema hecabe. Female preferences were found to have multiple consequences, including increased trait value, higher offspring viability, and reduced mutational load. These findings highlight that female sexual preferences for specific male traits can also have further consequences for individual fitness and evolution of specific morphological characteristics.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":"1639-1640"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141563133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}