EvolutionPub Date : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae037
Haley A Branch, Daniel N Anstett, Amy L Angert
{"title":"Phenotypic lags influence rapid evolution throughout a drought cycle.","authors":"Haley A Branch, Daniel N Anstett, Amy L Angert","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae037","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae037","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Climate anomalies are increasing and posing strong selection, which can lead to rapid evolution. This is occurring on a backdrop of interannual variability that might weaken or even reverse selection. However, the effect of interannual climatic variability on rapid evolution is rarely considered. We study the climatic differences that contribute to rapid evolution throughout a 7-year period, encompassing a severe drought across 12 populations of Mimulus cardinalis (scarlet monkeyflower). Plants were grown in a common greenhouse environment under wet and dry treatments, where specific leaf area and date of flowering were measured. We examine the association between trait values and different climate metrics at different time periods, including the collection year, prior years, and cumulative metrics across sequential years. Of the climatic variables we assessed, we find that anomalies in mean annual precipitation best describe trait differences over our study period. Past climates, of 1-2 years prior, are often related to trait values in a conflicting direction to collection-year climate. Uncovering these complex climatic impacts on evolution is critical to better predict and interpret the impacts of climate change.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140136692","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 : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae045
Guillaume Lavanchy, Alexander Brandt, Marc Bastardot, Zoé Dumas, Marjorie Labédan, Morgane Massy, William Toubiana, Patrick Tran Van, Andrea Luchetti, Valerio Scali, Barbara Mantovani, Tanja Schwander
{"title":"Evolution of alternative reproductive systems in Bacillus stick insects.","authors":"Guillaume Lavanchy, Alexander Brandt, Marc Bastardot, Zoé Dumas, Marjorie Labédan, Morgane Massy, William Toubiana, Patrick Tran Van, Andrea Luchetti, Valerio Scali, Barbara Mantovani, Tanja Schwander","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae045","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae045","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Reproduction is a key feature of all organisms, yet the way in which it is achieved varies greatly across the tree of life. One striking example of this variation is the stick insect genus Bacillus, in which five different reproductive modes have been described: sex, facultative and obligate parthenogenesis, and two highly unusual reproductive modes: hybridogenesis and androgenesis. Under hybridogenesis, the entire genome from the paternal species is eliminated and replaced each generation by mating with the corresponding species. Under androgenesis, an egg is fertilized, but the developing diploid offspring bear two paternal genomes and no maternal genome, as a consequence of unknown mechanisms. Here, we reevaluate the previous descriptions of Bacillus lineages and the proposed F1 hybrid ancestries of the hybridogenetic and obligately parthenogenetic lineages (based on allozymes and karyotypes) from Sicily, where all these reproductive modes are found. We generate a chromosome-level genome assembly for a facultative parthenogenetic species (B. rossius) and combine extensive field sampling with RADseq and mtDNA data. We identify and genetically corroborate all previously described species and confirm the ancestry of hybrid lineages. All hybrid lineages have fully retained their F1 hybrid constitution throughout the genome, indicating that the elimination of the paternal genome in hybridogens is always complete and that obligate parthenogenesis in Bacillus hybrid species is not associated with an erosion of heterozygosity as known in other hybrid asexuals. Our results provide a stepping stone toward understanding the transitions between reproductive modes and the proximate mechanisms of genome elimination.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140157860","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 : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae036
Rachael A DiSciullo, Anna M Forsman, Robert R Fitak, John Hunt, Pirmin Nietlisbach, Charles F Thompson, Scott K Sakaluk
{"title":"Male song structure predicts offspring recruitment to the breeding population in a migratory bird.","authors":"Rachael A DiSciullo, Anna M Forsman, Robert R Fitak, John Hunt, Pirmin Nietlisbach, Charles F Thompson, Scott K Sakaluk","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae036","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae036","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bird song is a classic example of a sexually selected trait, but much of the work relating individual song components to fitness has not accounted for song typically being composed of multiple, often-correlated components, necessitating a multivariate approach. We explored the role of sexual selection in shaping the complex male song of house wrens (Troglodytes aedon) by simultaneously relating its multiple components to fitness using multivariate selection analysis, which is widely used in insect and anuran studies but not in birds. The analysis revealed significant variation in the form and strength of selection acting on song across different selection episodes, from nest-site defense to recruitment of offspring to the breeding population. Males that sang more song typically employed in close communication sired more offspring that were subsequently recruited to the breeding population than those that sang more far-communication song. However, this relationship was not consistent across earlier selection episodes, as evidenced by non-linear selection acting on these song components in other contexts. Collectively, our results present a complex picture of multivariate selection on male song structure that would not be evident using univariate approaches and suggest possible trade-offs within and among song components at different points of the breeding season.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11135616/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140027815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EvolutionPub Date : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae043
Lutz Fromhage, Michael D Jennions, Lauri Myllymaa, Jonathan M Henshaw
{"title":"Fitness as the organismal performance measure guiding adaptive evolution.","authors":"Lutz Fromhage, Michael D Jennions, Lauri Myllymaa, Jonathan M Henshaw","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae043","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae043","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A long-standing problem in evolutionary theory is to clarify in what sense (if any) natural selection cumulatively improves the design of organisms. Various concepts, such as fitness and inclusive fitness, have been proposed to resolve this problem. In addition, there have been attempts to replace the original problem with more tractable questions, such as whether a given gene or trait is favored by selection. Here, we ask what theoretical properties the concept fitness should possess to encapsulate the improvement criterion required to talk meaningfully about adaptive evolution. We argue that natural selection tends to shape phenotypes based on the causal properties of individuals and that this tendency is, therefore, best captured by a fitness concept that focuses on these properties. We highlight a fitness concept that meets this role under broad conditions but requires adjustments in our conceptual understanding of adaptive evolution. These adjustments combine elements of Dawkinsian gene selectionism and Egbert Leigh's \"parliament of genes.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140109674","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 : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae048
Nia M Johnson, Regina S Baucom
{"title":"The double life of trichomes: understanding their dual role in herbivory and herbicide resistance.","authors":"Nia M Johnson, Regina S Baucom","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae048","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae048","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding the evolutionary forces that maintain phenotypic variation in ecologically relevant traits has long been one of the central goals of evolutionary ecology. While the maintenance of variation in plant defense is most often hypothesized to be due to trait trade-offs or spatiotemporal variation in herbivore abundance, the role that heterogeneous selective agents may play on the maintenance of variation in plant defense is less examined. Trichomes are hair-like appendages on plant surfaces that can defend against multiple damaging agents such as pathogens, herbivores, and UV radiation. It is currently unknown however if conflicting selection from such heterogeneous agents of damage may act to maintain the variation observed in trichome traits. Here, we assess whether trichomes serve as an herbicide resistance trait and how it coincides with the conventionally studied defensive strategy of herbivory resistance. In a series of experiments, we exposed the annual invasive velvetleaf (Abutilon theophrasti) to glyphosate (active ingredient in \"Roundup\") to investigate whether trichome traits (type and density) are linked to herbicide resistance and to test whether herbicide influences selection on plant trichomes. We found that an increased proportion of branched trichomes positively impacted herbicide resistance and chewing herbivory resistance. We also found evidence that glyphosate imposes positive selection on branched trichomes in velvetleaf. Overall, our results indicate that branched trichomes can contribute to both herbicide and herbivory resistance, serving a concordant rather than conflicting role to reduce plant injury. Our findings further suggest that novel anthropogenic agents of selection can alter the composition of plant defense traits, potentially impacting trait-mediated interactions among external stressors.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140189609","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 : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae050
Michael S Reichert, Iván de la Hera, Maria Moiron
{"title":"Partitioning variance in a signaling trade-off under sexual selection reveals among-individual covariance in trait allocation.","authors":"Michael S Reichert, Iván de la Hera, Maria Moiron","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae050","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae050","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding the evolution of traits subject to trade-offs is challenging because phenotypes can (co)vary at both the among- and within-individual levels. Among-individual covariation indicates consistent, possibly genetic, differences in how individuals resolve the trade-off, while within-individual covariation indicates trait plasticity. There is also the potential for consistent among-individual differences in behavioral plasticity, although this has rarely been investigated. We studied the sources of (co)variance in two characteristics of an acoustic advertisement signal that trade-off with one another and are under sexual selection in the gray treefrog, Hyla chrysoscelis: call duration and call rate. We recorded males on multiple nights calling spontaneously and in response to playbacks simulating different competition levels. Call duration, call rate, and their product, call effort, were all repeatable both within and across social contexts. Call duration and call rate covaried negatively, and the largest covariance was at the among-individual level. There was extensive plasticity in calling with changes in social competition, and we found some evidence for among-individual variance in call rate plasticity. The significant negative among-individual covariance in trait values is perpendicular to the primary direction of sexual selection in this species, indicating potential limits on the response to selection.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140206546","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 : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae039
Tyrone H Lavery, Devon A DeRaad, Piokera S Holland, Karen V Olson, Lucas H DeCicco, Jennifer M Seddon, Luke K-P Leung, Robert G Moyle
{"title":"Parallel evolution in an island archipelago revealed by genomic sequencing of Hipposideros leaf-nosed bats.","authors":"Tyrone H Lavery, Devon A DeRaad, Piokera S Holland, Karen V Olson, Lucas H DeCicco, Jennifer M Seddon, Luke K-P Leung, Robert G Moyle","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae039","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae039","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Body size is a key morphological attribute, often used to delimit species boundaries among closely related taxa. But body size can evolve in parallel, reaching similar final states despite independent evolutionary and geographic origins, leading to faulty assumptions of evolutionary history. Here, we document parallel evolution in body size in the widely distributed leaf-nosed bat genus Hipposideros, which has misled both taxonomic and evolutionary inference. We sequenced reduced representation genomic loci and measured external morphological characters from three closely related species from the Solomon Islands archipelago, delimited by body size. Species tree reconstruction confirms the paraphyly of two morphologically designated species. The nonsister relationship between large-bodied H. dinops lineages found on different islands indicates that large-bodied ecomorphs have evolved independently at least twice in the history of this radiation. A lack of evidence for gene flow between sympatric, closely related taxa suggests the rapid evolution of strong reproductive isolating barriers between morphologically distinct populations. Our results position Solomon Islands Hipposideros as a novel vertebrate system for studying the repeatability of parallel evolution under natural conditions. We conclude by offering testable hypotheses for how geography and ecology could be mediating the repeated evolution of large-bodied Hipposideros lineages in the Solomon Islands.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11135615/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140065022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EvolutionPub Date : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae041
Sarah P Otto, Ailene MacPherson, Caroline Colijn
{"title":"Endemic does not mean constant as SARS-CoV-2 continues to evolve.","authors":"Sarah P Otto, Ailene MacPherson, Caroline Colijn","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae041","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae041","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>COVID-19 has become endemic, with dynamics that reflect the waning of immunity and re-exposure, by contrast to the epidemic phase driven by exposure in immunologically naïve populations. Endemic does not, however, mean constant. Further evolution of SARS-CoV-2, as well as changes in behavior and public health policy, continue to play a major role in the endemic load of disease and mortality. In this article, we analyze evolutionary models to explore the impact that a newly arising variant can have on the short-term and longer-term endemic load, characterizing how these impacts depend on the transmission and immunological properties of the variants. We describe how evolutionary changes in the virus will increase the endemic load most for a persistently immune-escape variant, by an intermediate amount for a more transmissible variant, and least for a transiently immune-escape variant. Balancing the tendency for evolution to favor variants that increase the endemic load, we explore the impact of vaccination strategies and non-pharmaceutical interventions that can counter these increases in the impact of disease. We end with some open questions about the future of COVID-19 as an endemic disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140068316","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 : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae051
Tram N Nguyen, Márcio Repenning, Carla Suertegaray Fontana, Leonardo Campagna
{"title":"Genomic islands of speciation harbor genes underlying coloration differences in a pair of Neotropical seedeaters.","authors":"Tram N Nguyen, Márcio Repenning, Carla Suertegaray Fontana, Leonardo Campagna","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae051","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae051","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Incomplete speciation can be leveraged to associate phenotypes with genotypes, thus providing insights into the traits relevant to the reproductive isolation of diverging taxa. We investigate the genetic underpinnings of the phenotypic differences between Sporophila plumbea and Sporophila beltoni. Sporophila beltoni has only recently been described based, most notably, based on differences in bill coloration (yellow vs. black in S. plumbea). Both species are indistinguishable through mtDNA or reduced-representation genomic data, and even whole-genome sequencing revealed low genetic differentiation. Demographic reconstructions attribute this genetic homogeneity to gene flow, despite divergence in the order of millions of generations. We found a narrow hybrid zone in southern Brazil where genetically, yet not phenotypically, admixed individuals appear to be prevalent. Despite the overall low genetic differentiation, we identified 3 narrow peaks along the genome with highly differentiated SNPs. These regions harbor 6 genes, one of which is involved in pigmentation (EDN3) and is a candidate for controlling bill color. Within the outlier peaks, we found signatures of resistance to gene flow, as expected for islands of speciation. Our study shows how genes related to coloration traits are likely involved in generating prezygotic isolation and establishing species boundaries early in speciation.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140293268","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 : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae052
Carlo L Seifert, Patrick Strutzenberger, Konrad Fiedler
{"title":"Are day-flying moths more specialized in larval dietary breadth?-a test of the \"Salient Aroma Hypothesis\" in a predominantly nocturnal clade.","authors":"Carlo L Seifert, Patrick Strutzenberger, Konrad Fiedler","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae052","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae052","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although diurnality is widespread across Lepidoptera and has evolved many times independently, its causes and ecological implications are yet poorly understood. The \"Salient Aroma Hypothesis\" (SAH) postulates that diurnal insect herbivores are overall more specialized in dietary breadth than species active at night. It is furthermore assumed that diurnality evolved more frequently in species that live in cooler environments. Using European geometrid moths as a model group, we tested whether diurnal activity in adults is associated with an increased larval dietary breadth as predicted by the SAH. We further investigated whether species that exclusively occur in colder regions or whose flight period is restricted to cool seasons are more likely to exhibit a diurnal flight activity. Contrary to expectation, we found no consistent differences in larval dietary breadth between diurnal and nocturnal species, and thus no support for the SAH. Diurnal activity occurred more frequently in species restricted to cold regions but not in species restricted to cool seasons. We conclude that diurnality could serve as an advantageous adaptation in cold environments, depending on further factors such as resource availability or predation pressure, but has no immediate consequences for larval dietary breadth.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140305317","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}