{"title":"Anther modes influence diversification rates in the animal-pollinated species-rich Didymocarpoideae.","authors":"Shao-Jun Ling, Xiao-Lan Yao, Wen-Qian Xiang, Ming-Xun Ren","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpaf038","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpaf038","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Stamen traits significantly influence pollen presentation patterns and play a critical role in mating systems, floral evolution, and the diversification of angiosperms. Anthers within a flower can either develop freely or be united, resulting in 3 primary modes: separated anthers, synandry, and paired-united anthers. The impact of these anther modes on species diversification remains inadequately understood. In this study, we employed 14 plastid and nuclear ribosomal markers from 789 species to reconstruct the phylogenetic relationships of the Old World Didymocarpoideae, which are predominantly bee-pollinated. We then investigated the evolutionary patterns of anther modes and assessed their potential role in species diversification. Our findings indicate that the evolution of anther modes and associated floral traits exhibited significant trait conservatism. Paired-united anthers likely represent the ancestral form of Didymocarpoideae, characterized by 4 fertile stamens with exserted locations for the anthers. Notably, derived synandry was associated with relatively high rates of species diversification, particularly in the species-rich Cyrtandra, Primulina, and Streptocarpus, which could be due to enhanced pollination precision facilitated by aggregations of anthers and pollen grains. This study elucidates the evolutionary transitions of different anther modes while highlighting their influence on diversification rates within Didymocarpoideae.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":"837-846"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143476382","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 : 2025-05-14DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpaf020
Evan T Saitta, Lilja Balaji, Jonathan S Mitchell, Peter J Makovicky
{"title":"Feather evolution following flight loss in crown group birds: relaxed selection and developmental constraints.","authors":"Evan T Saitta, Lilja Balaji, Jonathan S Mitchell, Peter J Makovicky","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpaf020","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpaf020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Feathers are complex structures exhibiting structural/functional disparity across species and plumage. Flight was lost in >30 extant lineages from ~79.58 Ma-15 Ka. Effects of flight loss on senses, neuroanatomy, and skeletomusculature are known. To study how flightlessness affects feathers, we measured 11 feather metrics across the plumage of 30 flightless taxa and their phylogenetically closest volant taxa, with broader sampling of primaries across all orders of crown birds. Our sample includes 27 independent flight losses, representing nearly half of extant flightless species. Feather asymmetry measured by barb angle differences between trailing and leading vanes decreases in flightless lineages, most prominently in flight feathers and weakest in contour feathers. Greatest changes in feather anatomy occur in older flightless lineages (penguins, ratites). Comparative methods show that many microscopic feather traits are not dramatically modified after flightlessness compared to body mass increase and relative wing and tail fan reduction. Changes involved with greater vane symmetry show stronger shifts, however. Relaxing selection for flight does not rapidly modify feather flight adaptations, apart from asymmetry. Developmental constraints and relaxed selection for novel feather morphologies may explain some observed changes. Macroscopic changes to flight apparati (skeletomusculature, airfoil size) are more evident in recently flightless taxa and could more reliably detect flightlessness in fossils, with increased feather symmetry as a potential microscopic signal. We observed apical modification in later stages of feather development (asymmetric displacement of barb loci), while morphologies arising during early developmental stages are only altered after millions of years of flightlessness.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":"737-751"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143079083","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 : 2025-05-14DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpaf023
Natalie Ann Lozano-Huntelman, Emoni Cook, Austin Bullivant, Nick Ida, April Zhou, Sada Boyd, Pamela J Yeh
{"title":"Interactions within higher-order antibiotic combinations do not influence the rate of adaptation in bacteria.","authors":"Natalie Ann Lozano-Huntelman, Emoni Cook, Austin Bullivant, Nick Ida, April Zhou, Sada Boyd, Pamela J Yeh","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpaf023","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpaf023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The prevalence and strength of antibiotic resistance has led to an ongoing battle between the development of new treatments and the evolution of resistance. Combining multiple drugs simultaneously is a potential solution for combating antibiotic resistance. However, this approach introduces new factors that must be considered, including the influence of drug interactions on the rate of resistance evolution. When antibiotics are used in combination, their effects can be additive, synergistic, or antagonistic. In this study, we investigated the effect of higher-order interactions involving 3 drugs on resistance evolution in Staphylococcus epidermidis. Previous studies have shown that synergistic interactions can increase the adaptation rate. However, the effects of higher-order interactions on rates of adaptation are unclear. We investigated the adaptation of Staphylococcus epidermidis to single-, 2-, and 3-drug environments to assess how interactions within drug combinations influence the rate of adaptation. We analyzed both the overall interaction and emergent interaction, the latter being a unique interaction that occurs in 3-drug combinations due to the presence of all three drugs, rather than simply strong pairwise interactions. Our results show that neither the overall interactions nor the emergent interactions affect adaptation rates.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":"875-882"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12081359/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143370666","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 : 2025-05-13DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpaf097
Marina Rafajlović
{"title":"Digest: The evolution of self-fertilization following dispersal in an androdioecious species.","authors":"Marina Rafajlović","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpaf097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf097","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Does dispersal facilitate the evolution of self-fertilization? McCauley et al. (2025) showed experimentally that dispersal from unfavorable conditions supports the evolution of self-fertilization in a nematode worm, thereby providing experimental evidence for Baker's law. This finding is in line with previous theoretical studies on the evolution of self-fertilization.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143971268","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 : 2025-05-13DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpaf101
Joleen Khey, Michael Travisano
{"title":"Historical effects during experimental evolution of multicellularity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.","authors":"Joleen Khey, Michael Travisano","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpaf101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf101","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Natural selection is the basis of adaptive evolution, and any adaptations that arise are contingent upon the genetic background of a population. Because the genetic background is a product of prior evolution, adaptive evolution is also contingent upon the evolutionary history of a population. Here, we show the scope for historically contingent outcomes across several selection experiments involving alternating adaptations for size. Previously, replicate laboratory yeast populations rapidly evolved multicellularity via settling selection and then reverted to unicellularity during selection in a spatially structured environment. In this study, we show that genetic recombination via selfing regenerates multicellularity from some secondarily unicellular genotypes, and those same genotypes give rise to populations that rapidly re-evolved multicellularity under settling selection. We also observe that some secondarily derived multicellular phenotypes had different cellular architectures across populations. Because source lineages in our study varied in their degree of common ancestry, we can identify the depth of historical contingency. Our results show that the earliest adaptive changes in a lineage have substantial, persistent evolutionary consequences, demonstrating historically contingent outcomes even when evolutionary history is only measured in hundreds of generations.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143993857","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 : 2025-05-13DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpaf102
Weston J Gray, Logan M Rakes, Christine Cole, Ansleigh Gunter, Guanting He, Samantha Morgan, Camille R Walsh-Antzak, Jillian A Yates, Priscilla A Erickson
{"title":"Rapid wing size evolution in African fig flies (Zaprionus indianus) following temperate colonization.","authors":"Weston J Gray, Logan M Rakes, Christine Cole, Ansleigh Gunter, Guanting He, Samantha Morgan, Camille R Walsh-Antzak, Jillian A Yates, Priscilla A Erickson","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpaf102","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpaf102","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Invasive species often encounter novel selective pressures in their invaded range, and understanding their potential for rapid evolution can offer insight towards evolutionary processes and the factors that drive invasion success. Zaprionus indianus is an invasive drosophilid native to Africa that reached Florida in 2005 and likely re-establishes temperate North American populations each year. We addressed two evolutionary questions in this system: first, do populations evolve phenotypic changes in the generations immediately following colonization of temperate environments? Second, does Z. indianus evolve directional phenotypic changes along a latitudinal cline? We established isofemale lines from wild collections and measured twelve ecologically relevant phenotypes, using a reference strain as a control. Z. indianus evolved smaller wings following colonization, and we found evidence of significant post-colonization evolution when considering all phenotypes simultaneously. We found little evidence for latitudinal clines. However, we documented substantial laboratory evolution and large effects of the laboratory environment across multiple phenotypes, emphasizing the importance of controlling for both possibilities in common garden studies. Our results demonstrate the potential for rapid evolution in Z. indianus, which could contribute to its ongoing expansion, and offer insights towards the types of rapid evolutionary changes that might occur in invasive insects.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143998964","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 : 2025-05-13DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpaf096
Martin D Garlovsky, Ralph Dobler, Ruijian Guo, Susanne Voigt, Damian K Dowling, Klaus Reinhardt
{"title":"Testing for age- and sex- specific mitonuclear epistasis in Drosophila.","authors":"Martin D Garlovsky, Ralph Dobler, Ruijian Guo, Susanne Voigt, Damian K Dowling, Klaus Reinhardt","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpaf096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf096","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The need for efficient ATP production is predicted to result in the evolution of cooperation between the mitochondrial and nuclear encoded components of the electron transport system. Genotypes where mitochondrial and nuclear genomes from different geographic populations are combined (mismatched), are therefore predicted to result in negative fitness consequences. Such negative fitness effects are expected to be prominent in males, since maternal inheritance of mitochondria can lead to accumulation of male-harming mutations (the mother's curse hypothesis), and they may become more prevalent with ageing. To test these predictions, we measured fertility traits of females and males at different ages using a genetically diverse panel of 27 mitonuclear populations of Drosophila melanogaster with matched or experimentally mismatched mitonuclear genomes. We found no evidence that novel mitonuclear combinations had reduced fitness in females. In males, we found limited evidence of mitonuclear interactions affecting fitness in old age, however, not in the direction predicted. Novel mitonuclear combinations were associated with males that sired more offspring. Sex-specific advantages of mismatched males might arise if novel nuclear alleles compensate for deleterious mitochondrial alleles that have accumulated. If such compensatory effects of novel mitonuclear combinations increasing fitness occur in nature, they could represent a possible counterforce to the mother's curse.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143975248","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 : 2025-05-13DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpaf094
Incheol Shin, Sebastian Hayden, Bruno A Buzatto
{"title":"Mate competition and relatedness among males mediate the evolution of lethal fights in bulb mites.","authors":"Incheol Shin, Sebastian Hayden, Bruno A Buzatto","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpaf094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf094","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Aggression can enhance direct fitness by aiding the aggressor's in securing reproductive resources, but it negatively impacts inclusive fitness when directed toward kin. We investigated the trade-off between the indirect fitness costs of aggression among kin and the direct benefits of increased success in mate competition using the bulb mite Rhizoglyphus echinopus, a male dimorphic species in which male fighters kill rivals with their modified third legs, while unmodified male scramblers seek unguarded females to mate. Our experiments showed that fighter aggression was never directed toward females, suggesting that fighter aggression evolved as a tactic to monopolize mates. Fighters grab other males before killing them, and grabbing behavior increased in the presence of a female, regardless of the presence of kin. Scrambler mortality increased with fighters' grabbing activity, but whereas the presence of mate competition increased lethal aggression, kinship decreased it, as higher mortality was observed among non-kin. These findings suggest that aggressive behavior intensifies under mate competition, but the decision to escalate aggression to lethal levels is influenced by kinship. In conclusion, this study provides insight into the trade-offs underlying kin-discriminatory aggression and direct benefits.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143993585","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 : 2025-05-13DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpaf099
Laymon D Ball, Ana M Bedoya, Charlotte M Taylor, Laura P Lagomarsino
{"title":"Phylogenomics and macroevolution of a florally diverse Neotropical plant clade.","authors":"Laymon D Ball, Ana M Bedoya, Charlotte M Taylor, Laura P Lagomarsino","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpaf099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf099","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hillieae is a group of ∼30 florally diverse, Neotropical epiphyte species. Species richness peaks in southern Central America and taxa display bat, hawkmoth, or hummingbird pollination syndromes. A phylogenetic framework is needed to understand floral and biogeographic evolution. We used target enrichment data to infer a species tree and a Bayesian time-calibrated tree including ∼83% of the species in the group. We inferred ancestral biogeography and pollination syndromes, described species realized bioclimatic niches via a principal component analysis, and estimated significant niche shifts using Ornstein-Uhlenbeck models to understand how different abiotic and biotic variables have shaped Hillieae evolution. We estimated that Hillieae originated in southern Central America 19 Ma and that hawkmoth pollination is the ancestral character state. Multiple independent shifts in pollination syndrome, biogeographic distribution, and realized bioclimatic niche have occurred, though bioclimatic niche is largely conserved. Using generalized linear models, we identify two interactions-between species' biogeographic ranges and pollination syndromes, and between phylogenetic covariance and pollination syndromes-that additively affect the degree of bioclimatic niche overlap between species. Regional variation in pollination syndrome diversity and patterns of species bioclimatic niche overlap indicate a link between biogeography and species ecology in driving Hillieae diversification and syndrome evolution.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143960379","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 : 2025-05-13DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpaf100
Vincent Calcagno, Frédéric Grognard, Frédéric M Hamelin, Ludovic Mailleret
{"title":"Taking fear back into the Marginal Value Theorem: the rMVT and optimal boldness.","authors":"Vincent Calcagno, Frédéric Grognard, Frédéric M Hamelin, Ludovic Mailleret","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpaf100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf100","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Foragers exploiting heterogeneous habitats make strategic movement decisions to maximize fitness. Charnov's Marginal Value Theorem (MVT) models the sequential visit of habitat patches and their distribution to predict the optimal time allocation strategy. However, it notoriously ignores the effects of predation risk. Brown's giving-up density (GUD) theory is an alternative that includes predation risk. However, it is more abstract and does not have the specificity or graphical appeal of the MVT. Here, we formally introduce the rMVT (r stands for risk), a generalization of the MVT that incorporates predation risks. The rMVT retains the structure and graphical simplicity of the MVT, but implies a shift from residence time to expected dose of risk (micromorts) as the domain over which rate-maximization occurs. We show that the rMVT can handle most types of risk, whereas the GUD-theory is valid only for specific forms of risk. Applications of the rMVT show that different types of risk can yield opposite responses of optimal strategies to an increase in the risk level, and predict differential behavioral responses observed in experimental versus natural conditions. The rMVT also predicts the optimal level of risk taking, or \"optimal boldness\", and suggests that individuals should generally be bolder in riskier habitats.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143980662","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}