EvolutionPub Date : 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae110
Marjorie D Matocq, Elizabeth A Hunter, Peter J Murphy, Casey L Adkins, Kevin T Shoemaker
{"title":"Asymmetric mate preference and reproductive interference mediate climate-induced changes in mate availability in a small mammal hybrid zone.","authors":"Marjorie D Matocq, Elizabeth A Hunter, Peter J Murphy, Casey L Adkins, Kevin T Shoemaker","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae110","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae110","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Range expansion and contraction are among the most common biotic responses to changing environmental conditions, yet much is to be learned about the mechanisms that underlie range-edge population dynamics, especially when those areas are points of secondary contact between closely related species. Here, we present field-measured parentage data that document the reproductive outcomes of changes in mate availability at a secondary contact zone between two species of woodrat in the genus Neotoma. Changes in mate availability resulted from drought-driven differential survival between the species and their hybrids. As the availability of conspecific mates declined, rates of hybridization increased, leading to the accumulation of admixed individuals in the zone of contact. Patterns of reproductive success in the wild appear to be the result of a combination of both pre-mating isolation and post-zygotic selection resulting from genomic incompatibilities between the parental lineages. Evidence of asymmetric mate preference between the parental lineages came from both skewed reproductive output in the field and laboratory preference trials. Moreover, partial genomic incompatibility was evident from the near-zero reproductive success of F1 males and because nearly all surviving hybrids had one pure parent. Nonetheless, the high reproductive success of F1 females and backcrossing in both parental directions allow for introgression between the parental species. These findings reveal how climate change may alter evolutionary outcomes for species at the edge of their ranges through an interplay of behavioral, demographic, and genetic mechanisms.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":"1818-1830"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141897215","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 : 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae120
Lisa Zoé Auclert, Daniela Pierro, Felipe Cerpa Águila
{"title":"Digest: Large-effect loci involved in maturation timing affect the early survival of Atlantic salmon.","authors":"Lisa Zoé Auclert, Daniela Pierro, Felipe Cerpa Águila","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae120","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae120","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How might variations in genomic regions that impact many traits modulate fitness across different life stages? Aykanat et al. (2024) show that two large-effect loci associated with age at maturity, six6 and vgll3, impact the survival of wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) through nutrient-dependent, indirect genetic effects. Specifically, the late maturation allele in parental vgll3, and the early maturation allele in maternal six6, increase survival in early life under high nutrient conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":"1888-1890"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142105773","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 : 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae134
Robert H Melde, JoHanna M Abraham, Maryn R Ugolini, Madison P Castle, Molly M Fjalstad, Daniela M Blumstein, Sarah J Durski, Nathaniel P Sharp
{"title":"Sex-specific viability effects of mutations in Drosophila melanogaster.","authors":"Robert H Melde, JoHanna M Abraham, Maryn R Ugolini, Madison P Castle, Molly M Fjalstad, Daniela M Blumstein, Sarah J Durski, Nathaniel P Sharp","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae134","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae134","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In populations with separate sexes, genetic load due to deleterious mutations may be expressed differently in males and females. Evidence from insect models suggests that selection against mutations is stronger in males. This pattern will reduce deleterious allele frequencies at the expense of males, such that female mean fitness is greater than expected, preserving population persistence in the face of high mutation rates. While previous studies focus on reproductive success, mutation load depends on total selection in each sex, including selection for viability. We might expect minimal sex differences in viability effects in fruit flies, since male and female larvae behave similarly, yet many genes show sex-biased expression in larvae. We measured the sex-specific viability effects of nine \"marker\" mutations and 123 mutagenized chromosomes. We find that both types of mutations generally reduce viability in both sexes. Among marker mutations we detect instances of sex-biased effects in each direction; mutagenized chromosomes show little sex-specific mutational variance, but recessive lethals show a female bias, including in FlyBase records. We conclude that mutations regularly affect viability in a sex-specific manner, but that the strong pattern of male-biased mutational effects observed previously for reproductive success is not apparent at the pre-reproductive stage.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":"1844-1853"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142282519","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 : 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae109
Ava J Garrison, Lauren A Norwood, Jeffrey K Conner
{"title":"Plasticity-mediated persistence and subsequent local adaptation in a global agricultural weed.","authors":"Ava J Garrison, Lauren A Norwood, Jeffrey K Conner","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae109","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae109","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Phenotypic plasticity can alter traits that are crucial to population establishment in a new environment before adaptation can occur. How often phenotypic plasticity enables subsequent adaptive evolution is unknown, and examples of the phenomenon are limited. We investigated the hypothesis of plasticity-mediated persistence as a means of colonization of agricultural fields in one of the world's worst weeds, Raphanus raphanistrum ssp. raphanistrum. Using non-weedy native populations of the same species and subspecies as a comparison, we tested for plasticity-mediated persistence in a growth chamber reciprocal transplant experiment. We identified traits with genetic differentiation between the weedy and native ecotypes as well as phenotypic plasticity between growth chamber environments. We found that most traits were both plastic and differentiated between ecotypes, with the majority plastic and differentiated in the same direction. This suggests that phenotypic plasticity may have enabled radish populations to colonize and then adapt to novel agricultural environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":"1804-1817"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141598955","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 : 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae115
Sikander B Khare, Robert D Holt, Samuel M Scheiner
{"title":"The genetics of phenotypic plasticity. XVIII. Developmental limits restrict adaptive plasticity.","authors":"Sikander B Khare, Robert D Holt, Samuel M Scheiner","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae115","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae115","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>After environmental change, the trait evolution needed to rescue a population depends on the functional form of the plastic change (reaction norm) of that trait. Nearly all previous models of plasticity evolution for continuous traits have assumed that the functional form is linear, that is, no limits on the range of plasticity. This paper examines the effect of developmental limits, modeled as a sigmoidal reaction norm, on evolutionary rescue after an abrupt environmental change and the subsequent evolution of plasticity, including genetic assimilation. We examined four different scenarios: (1) developmental limits only, (2) developmental limits plus a cost of plasticity, (3) developmental limits with developmental noise, and (4) developmental limits plus environmental variation. The probability of evolutionary rescue increased with an increase in phenotypic variation allowed by plastic development. With a smaller limit to the range of the plastic phenotype, the evolution of adaptive plasticity was limited, meaning the evolution of non-plastic genes was necessary. The addition of developmental constraints to the model did not speed up genetic assimilation, suggesting a new theory is needed to understand empirical observations. The modeling framework presented here could be extended to different ecological and evolutionary conditions, alternative reaction norm shapes, the evolution of additional reaction norm parameters such as the range or the location of the inflection point on the environmental axis, or other function-valued traits.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":"1761-1773"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141888880","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 : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae103
Ida Naughton, Neil D Tsutsui, Philip S Ward, David A Holway
{"title":"An assemblage-level comparison of genetic diversity and population genetic structure between island and mainland ant populations.","authors":"Ida Naughton, Neil D Tsutsui, Philip S Ward, David A Holway","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae103","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae103","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Island biotas provide unparalleled opportunities to examine evolutionary processes. Founder effects and bottlenecks, e.g., typically decrease genetic diversity in island populations, while selection for reduced dispersal can increase population structure. Given that support for these generalities mostly comes from single-species analyses, assemblage-level comparisons are needed to clarify how (i) colonization affects the gene pools of interacting insular organisms, and (ii) patterns of genetic differentiation vary within assemblages of organisms. Here, we use genome-wide sequence data from ultraconserved elements (UCEs) to compare the genetic diversity and population structure of mainland and island populations of nine ant species in coastal southern California. As expected, island populations (from Santa Cruz Island) had lower expected heterozygosity and Watterson's theta compared to mainland populations (from the Lompoc Valley). Island populations, however, exhibited smaller genetic distances among samples, indicating less population subdivision. Within the focal assemblage, pairwise Fst values revealed pronounced interspecific variation in mainland-island differentiation, which increases with gyne body size. Our results reveal population differences across an assemblage of interacting species and illuminate general patterns of insularization in ants. Compared to single-species studies, our analysis of nine conspecific population pairs from the same island-mainland system offers a powerful approach to studying fundamental evolutionary processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":"1685-1698"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141563132","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 : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae106
Simon A Rella, Yuliya A Kulikova, Aygul R Minnegalieva, Fyodor A Kondrashov
{"title":"Complex vaccination strategies prevent the emergence of vaccine resistance.","authors":"Simon A Rella, Yuliya A Kulikova, Aygul R Minnegalieva, Fyodor A Kondrashov","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae106","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae106","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Vaccination is the most effective tool to control infectious diseases. However, the evolution of vaccine resistance, exemplified by vaccine resistance in SARS-CoV-2, remains a concern. Here, we model complex vaccination strategies against a pathogen with multiple epitopes-molecules targeted by the vaccine. We found that a vaccine targeting one epitope was ineffective in preventing vaccine escape. Vaccine resistance in highly infectious pathogens was prevented by the full-epitope vaccine, that is, one targeting all available epitopes, but only when the rate of pathogen evolution was low. Strikingly, a bet-hedging strategy of random administration of vaccines targeting different epitopes was the most effective in preventing vaccine resistance in pathogens with the low rate of infection and high rate of evolution. Thus, complex vaccination strategies, when biologically feasible, may be preferable to the currently used single-vaccine approaches for long-term control of disease outbreaks, especially when applied to livestock with near 100% vaccination rates.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":"1722-1738"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141590032","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 : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae114
Avishikta Chakraborty, Débora Y C Brandt
{"title":"Digest: Evaluating sexual conflict in the genome.","authors":"Avishikta Chakraborty, Débora Y C Brandt","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae114","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae114","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Audet et al. (2024) investigate the genomic basis of sexual conflict in response to sexually discordant size selection in Drosophila melanogaster. They report interesting morphological changes in sexual dimorphism and multivariate allometry. Although they do not find any genetic variants that individually show a strong effect on these traits, as expected for a polygenic trait such as body size, they do find a region on chromosome 3L showing signs of sexually discordant selection (i.e., conflict between males and females). This study highlights potential genomic regions involved in sexual conflict, offering insights into sex-specific adaptations.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":"1748-1749"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141888879","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 : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae100
Balázs Vági, Gergely Katona, Oscar G Miranda, Mihály Gábor Mándi, Hans A Hofmann, Éva Plagányi, Zsolt Végvári, András Liker, Robert P Freckleton, Tamás Székely
{"title":"The evolution of exceptional diversity in parental care and fertilization modes in ray-finned fishes.","authors":"Balázs Vági, Gergely Katona, Oscar G Miranda, Mihály Gábor Mándi, Hans A Hofmann, Éva Plagányi, Zsolt Végvári, András Liker, Robert P Freckleton, Tamás Székely","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae100","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae100","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Among vertebrates, ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) display the highest diversity in parental care, and their diversification has been hypothesized to be related to phylogenetic changes in fertilization modes. Using the most comprehensive, sex-specific data from 7,600 species of 62 extant orders of ray-finned fishes, we inferred ancestral states and transitions among care types and caring episodes (i.e., the stage of offspring development). Our work has uncovered 3 novel findings. First, transitions among different care types (i.e., male-only care, female-only care, biparental care, and no care) are common, and the frequencies of these transitions show unusually diverse patterns concerning fertilization modes (external, or internal via oviduct, mouth, or brood pouch). Second, both oviduct and mouth fertilization are selected for female-biased care, whereas fertilization in a brood pouch is selected for male-biased care. Importantly, internal fertilization without parental care is extremely unstable phylogenetically. Third, we show that egg care in both sexes is associated with nest building (which is male-biased) and fry care (which is female-biased). Taken together, the aquatic environment, which supports considerable flexibility in care, facilitated the diversification of parenting behavior, creating the evolutionary bases for more comprehensive parenting to protect offspring in semiterrestrial or terrestrial environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":"1673-1684"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141456108","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 : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpae112
Daniel J Schoen, Doug Speed
{"title":"The heritability of fitness in a wild annual plant population with hierarchical size structure.","authors":"Daniel J Schoen, Doug Speed","doi":"10.1093/evolut/qpae112","DOIUrl":"10.1093/evolut/qpae112","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The relative magnitude of additive genetic vs. residual variation for fitness traits is important in models for predicting the rate of evolution and population persistence in response to changes in the environment. In many annual plants, lifetime reproductive fitness is correlated with end-of-season plant biomass, which can vary significantly from plant to plant in the same population. We measured end-of-season plant biomasses and obtained single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotypes of plants in a dense, natural population of the annual plant species Impatiens capensis with hierarchical size structure. These data were used to estimate the amount of heritable variation for position in the size hierarchy and for plant biomass. Additive genetic variance for a position in the size hierarchy and plant biomass were both significantly different from zero. These results are discussed in relationship to the theory for the heritability of fitness in natural populations and ecological factors that potentially influence heritable variation for fitness in this species.</p>","PeriodicalId":12082,"journal":{"name":"Evolution","volume":" ","pages":"1739-1745"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141751464","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}