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Social vocalizations indicate behavioural type in Glossophagine bats.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.2217

Theresa Schabacker, Raffaella Castiglione, Lysanne Snijders, Mirjam Knörnschild

{"title":"Social vocalizations indicate behavioural type in Glossophagine bats.","authors":"Theresa Schabacker, Raffaella Castiglione, Lysanne Snijders, Mirjam Knörnschild","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2217","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2217","url":null,"abstract":"Vocalizations play a crucial role in the social systems of many animals and may inadvertently reveal behavioural characteristics of the sender. Bats, the second largest mammalian order, rely extensively on vocalizations owing to their nocturnal lifestyle and complex social systems, making them ideal for studying links between vocalizations and consistent behavioural traits. In this study, we developed a new testing regime to investigate whether consistent individual vocalization differences in nectarivorous bats are associated with specific behavioural types. We exposed 60 wild, male Glossophaga soricina handleyi bats to novel and risky stressors and assessed their behavioural and vocal responses. Proactive, exploratory and bold bats were more likely to produce social calls, and among the vocalizing bats, more agitated bats produced higher numbers of social calls. We thus show that bat vocalization behaviour can be indicative of a certain behavioural type, potentially allowing conspecifics to assess personalities from a distance, which in turn could impact subsequent social interactions, group dynamics and reproductive success. Our results, in combination with previous findings in birds, suggest that advertent or inadvertent long-distance broadcasting of personality may be widespread, thus opening up new exciting questions about the links between vocalizations and sociality.","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2039","pages":"20242217"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11775602/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143060455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The release of sexual conflict after sex loss is associated with evolutionary changes in gene expression.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.2631

Hélène Defendini, Nathalie Prunier-Leterme, Stéphanie Robin, Sonia Lameiras, Sylvain Baulande, Jean-Christophe Simon, Julie Jaquiéry

{"title":"The release of sexual conflict after sex loss is associated with evolutionary changes in gene expression.","authors":"Hélène Defendini, Nathalie Prunier-Leterme, Stéphanie Robin, Sonia Lameiras, Sylvain Baulande, Jean-Christophe Simon, Julie Jaquiéry","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2631","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2631","url":null,"abstract":"Sexual conflict can arise because males and females, while sharing most of their genome, can have different phenotypic optima. Sexually dimorphic gene expression may help reduce conflict, but the expression of many genes may remain sub-optimal owing to unresolved tensions between the sexes. Asexual lineages lack such conflict, making them relevant models for understanding the extent to which sexual conflict influences gene expression. We investigate the evolution of sexual conflict subsequent to sex loss by contrasting the gene expression patterns of sexual and asexual lineages in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. Although asexual lineages of this aphid produce a small number of males in autumn, their mating opportunities are limited because of geographic isolation between sexual and asexual lineages. Therefore, gene expression in parthenogenetic females of asexual lineages is no longer constrained by that of other morphs. We found that the expression of genes in males from asexual lineages tended towards the parthenogenetic female optimum, in agreement with theoretical predictions. Surprisingly, males and parthenogenetic females of asexual lineages overexpressed genes normally found in the ovaries and testes of sexual morphs. These changes in gene expression in asexual lineages may arise from the relaxation of selection or the dysregulation of gene networks otherwise used in sexual lineages.","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2039","pages":"20242631"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11775605/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143060469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Phylogenomic resolution of lampreys reveals the recent evolution of an ancient vertebrate lineage. 七鳃鳗的系统基因组分析揭示了一个古老脊椎动物谱系的最新进化。

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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-08 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.2101

Lily C Hughes, Devin D Bloom, Kyle R Piller, Nicholas Lang, Richard L Mayden

{"title":"Phylogenomic resolution of lampreys reveals the recent evolution of an ancient vertebrate lineage.","authors":"Lily C Hughes, Devin D Bloom, Kyle R Piller, Nicholas Lang, Richard L Mayden","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2101","url":null,"abstract":"Jawless vertebrates once dominated Palaeozoic waters, but just two lineages have persisted to the present day: lampreys and hagfishes. Living lampreys are a relatively small clade, with just over 50 species described, but knowledge of their evolutionary relationships has always been based on either a few mitochondrial genes or a small number of taxa. Biogeographers have noted the disjunct antitropical distribution of living lamprey families. Here, we present a comprehensive phylogenomic analysis of living and fossil lampreys, sampling 36 species with phylogenomic data and 46 in total with genetic data. We present new divergence time estimates based on comprehensive nuclear data and analysis of their diversification dynamics. Our analysis indicates a central role for extreme global warming during the Late Cretaceous Cenomanian-Turonian Boundary Event as a likely cause for the antitropical distribution of living lampreys, and a notable increase in lineage diversification in Northern Hemisphere lampreys during the Miocene corresponding with a period of global cooling.","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2038","pages":"20242101"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11706654/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142953899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Silent cells? Potential for context-dependent gene expression in mature sperm. 沉默的细胞?成熟精子中环境依赖性基因表达的可能性。

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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-08 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.1516

Rowan A Lymbery, Francisco Garcia-Gonzalez, Jonathan P Evans

{"title":"Silent cells? Potential for context-dependent gene expression in mature sperm.","authors":"Rowan A Lymbery, Francisco Garcia-Gonzalez, Jonathan P Evans","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.1516","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.1516","url":null,"abstract":"Sperm are traditionally viewed as transcriptionally and translationally silent cells. However, observations that components of the cellular machinery of gene expression are maintained in ejaculated sperm are increasingly cited as challenges to this fundamental assumption. Here, we critically evaluate these arguments and present three lines of evidence from both model and non-model systems that collectively raise the question of whether ejaculated sperm may be capable of active gene expression. First, and critical for arguments surrounding the possibility of differential gene expression, we review recent evidence that spermatozoa may retain the capacity to transcribe and translate their genomes. Second, we highlight how sperm cells can exhibit differential transcript quantities across different post-ejaculation environments. Third, we ask whether the accumulating evidence of remarkable phenotypic plasticity in post-ejaculatory sperm phenotypes could be mechanistically underpinned by changes in sperm gene expression. While these lines of evidence are indirect and do not definitively show transcription of sperm genomes, we highlight how emerging technologies may enable us to test this hypothesis explicitly. Our review advocates for progress in this field and highlights several important evolutionary, ecological and practical implications that will probably transcend disciplines to the clinical and applied reproductive sectors.","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2038","pages":"20241516"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11706646/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142953900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The adaptive value of recombination in resolving intralocus sexual conflict by gene duplication. 重组在解决基因复制性冲突中的适应性价值。

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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.2629

Jon Alexander Harper, Edward H Morrow

{"title":"The adaptive value of recombination in resolving intralocus sexual conflict by gene duplication.","authors":"Jon Alexander Harper, Edward H Morrow","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2629","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2629","url":null,"abstract":"Recombination plays a key role in increasing the efficacy of selection. We investigate whether recombination can also play a role in resolving adaptive conflicts at loci coding for traits shared between the sexes. Errors during recombination events resulting in gene duplications may provide a long-term evolutionary advantage if those loci also experience sexually antagonistic (SA) selection since, after duplication, sex-specific expression profiles will be free to evolve, thereby reducing the load on population fitness and resolving the conflict. The potential advantage of gene duplication may be tempered by the short-term deleterious effects on gamete and zygote survival, which may be tolerable in a species with high reproductive output but not with low reproductive output. We used datasets of candidate SA loci from Drosophila melanogaster and humans to test these ideas. As in humans, sexually antagonistic alleles in flies with net positive effects across the two sexes occurred at higher frequencies than alleles with net negative effects. In flies, higher recombination rates were associated with more intense levels of sexual conflict and genes with paralogues occur in regions with higher recombination rates, indicating gene duplication events are associated with a history of SA selection. Genes experiencing higher levels of conflict also showed both a higher proportion with paralogues and higher numbers of paralogues. Together, our findings reveal multiple lines of evidence for a possible route towards the resolution of an adaptive conflict via gene duplication that is facilitated by higher recombination rates.","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2039","pages":"20242629"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11750403/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143010549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A new sexual selection pattern in a frog (Odorrana tormota) with ultrasonic communication. 一种利用超声波通讯的蛙性选择新模式。

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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.2139

Guangxuan Liu, Shuibo Pan, Qingkai Shi, Zhongyu Lei, Juntao Wu, Huijuan Zhang, Yilin Shu, Hailong Wu

{"title":"A new sexual selection pattern in a frog (Odorrana tormota) with ultrasonic communication.","authors":"Guangxuan Liu, Shuibo Pan, Qingkai Shi, Zhongyu Lei, Juntao Wu, Huijuan Zhang, Yilin Shu, Hailong Wu","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2139","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2139","url":null,"abstract":"The current study has revealed a unique sexual selection pattern in Odorrana tormota, a species renowned for its ultrasonic communication, which differs from the patterns observed in other anuran taxa. Typically, females listen to male vocalizations and exhibit phonotaxis towards preferred traits for mate selection. In contrast, female O. tormota do not actively approach displaying males for mate selection; instead, they use courtship calls to attract potential mates and incite male competition for access to them. Considering that successful male O. tormota in securing a mating opportunity are always those who embrace the female first, and the majority of them (84%) exhibit faster response times to female calls. We propose that female O. tormota can increase their likelihood of mating with high-quality males (as indicated by heightened responsiveness) by using courtship calls to attract males, while minimizing potential costs associated with active mate selection. Additionally, the differences in ultrasound perception between male and female O. tormota can be attributed to their divergent selection pressures, as male frogs must accurately perceive and locate the female's call in challenging environments to increase their mating opportunities, whereas females do not face similar pressure.","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2039","pages":"20242139"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11750359/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143010327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Adaptation in a keystone grazer under novel predation pressure. 新型捕食压力下楔石食草动物的适应性。

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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.1935

Danai Kontou, Andrew M Paterson, Elizabeth J Favot, Christopher Grooms, John P Smol, Andrew J Tanentzap

{"title":"Adaptation in a keystone grazer under novel predation pressure.","authors":"Danai Kontou, Andrew M Paterson, Elizabeth J Favot, Christopher Grooms, John P Smol, Andrew J Tanentzap","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.1935","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.1935","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding how species adapt to environmental change is necessary to protect biodiversity and ecosystem services. Growing evidence suggests species can adapt rapidly to novel selection pressures like predation from invasive species, but the repeatability and predictability of selection remain poorly understood in wild populations. We tested how a keystone aquatic herbivore, Daphnia pulicaria, evolved in response to predation pressure by the introduced zooplanktivore Bythotrephes longimanus. Using high-resolution 210Pb-dated sediment cores from 12 lakes in Ontario (Canada), which primarily differed in invasion status by Bythotrephes, we compared Daphnia population genetic structure over time using whole-genome sequencing of individual resting embryos. We found strong genetic differentiation between populations approximately 70 years before versus 30 years after reported Bythotrephes invasion, with no difference over this period in uninvaded lakes. Compared with uninvaded lakes, we identified, on average, 64 times more loci were putatively under selection in the invaded lakes. Differentiated loci were mainly associated with known reproductive and stress responses, and mean body size consistently increased by 14.1% over time in invaded lakes. These results suggest Daphnia populations were repeatedly acquiring heritable genetic adaptations to escape gape-limited predation. More generally, our results suggest some aspects of environmental change predictably shape genome evolution.","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2039","pages":"20241935"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11750393/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143010331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Covert variations of a musician's loudness during collective improvisation capture other musicians' attention and impact their interactions. 在集体即兴演奏中，音乐家音量的隐蔽变化会吸引其他音乐家的注意力，并影响他们的互动。

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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.2623

Armand Schwarz, Arthur Faraco, Coralie Vincent, Patrick Susini, Emmanuel Ponsot, Clément Canonne

{"title":"Covert variations of a musician's loudness during collective improvisation capture other musicians' attention and impact their interactions.","authors":"Armand Schwarz, Arthur Faraco, Coralie Vincent, Patrick Susini, Emmanuel Ponsot, Clément Canonne","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2623","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2623","url":null,"abstract":"While research on auditory attention in complex acoustical environment is a thriving field, experimental studies thus far have typically treated participants as passive listeners. The present study-which combined real-time covert loudness manipulations and online probe detection-investigates for the first time to our knowledge, the effects of acoustic salience on auditory attention during live interactions, using musical improvisation as an experimental paradigm. We found that musicians were more likely to pay attention to a given co-performer when this performer was made sounding louder or softer; that such salient effect was not owing to the local variations introduced by our manipulations but rather likely to be driven by the more long-term context; and that improvisers tended to be more strongly and more stably coupled when a musician was made more salient. Our results thus demonstrate that a meaningful change of the acoustical context not only captured attention but also impacted the ongoing musical interaction itself, highlighting the tight relationship between attentional selection and interaction in such social scenarios and opening novel perspectives to address whether similar processes are at play in human linguistic interactions.","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2039","pages":"20242623"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11750383/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143010385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Dating the origin of a viral domestication event in parasitoid wasps attacking Diptera. 在攻击双翅目昆虫的寄生蜂中病毒驯化事件的起源定年。

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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.2135

Benjamin Guinet, Jonathan Vogel, Nabila Kacem Haddj El Mrabet, Ralph S Peters, Jan Hrcek, Mattew L Buffington, Julien Varaldi

{"title":"Dating the origin of a viral domestication event in parasitoid wasps attacking Diptera.","authors":"Benjamin Guinet, Jonathan Vogel, Nabila Kacem Haddj El Mrabet, Ralph S Peters, Jan Hrcek, Mattew L Buffington, Julien Varaldi","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2135","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2135","url":null,"abstract":"Over the course of evolution, hymenopteran parasitoids have developed a close relationship with heritable viruses, sometimes integrating viral genes into their chromosomes. For example, in Drosophila parasitoids belonging to the Leptopilina genus, 13 viral genes from the Filamentoviridae family have been domesticated to deliver immunosuppressive factors to host immune cells, thereby protecting parasitoid offspring from the host immune response. The present study aims to comprehensively characterize this domestication event in terms of the viral genes involved, the wasp diversity affected by this event and its chronology. Our genomic analysis of 41 Cynipoidea wasps from six subfamilies revealed 18 viral genes that were endogenized during the early radiation of the Eucoilini/Trichoplastini clade around 75 million years ago. Wasps from this highly diverse clade develop not only from Drosophila but also from a variety of Schizophora. This event coincides with the radiation of Schizophora, a highly speciose Diptera clade, suggesting that viral domestication facilitated wasp diversification in response to host diversification. Additionally, in one of the species, at least one viral gene was replaced by another gene derived from a related filamentovirus. This study highlights the impact of viral domestication on the diversification of parasitoid wasps.","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2039","pages":"20242135"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11750357/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143010405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Socio-ecological context modulates the significance of territorial contest competition in Drosophila prolongata. 社会生态环境调节了长果蝇领土竞争的意义。

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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.2501

Alessio N De Nardo, Broti Biswas, Jhoniel Perdigón Ferreira, Abhishek Meena, Stefan Lüpold

{"title":"Socio-ecological context modulates the significance of territorial contest competition in Drosophila prolongata.","authors":"Alessio N De Nardo, Broti Biswas, Jhoniel Perdigón Ferreira, Abhishek Meena, Stefan Lüpold","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2501","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2024.2501","url":null,"abstract":"The intensity and direction of sexual selection are intricately linked to the social and ecological context. Both operational sex ratios (OSRs) and population densities can affect the ability of males to monopolize resources and mates, and thus the form and intensity of sexual selection on them. Here, we studied how the mating system of the promiscuous and strongly sexually dimorphic fruit fly Drosophila prolongata responds to changes in the OSR and population density. We recorded groups of flies over five days and quantified territory occupancy, mating success (MS) and competitive fertilization success. Although sexual selection was stronger under male-biased than even OSRs but unrelated to density, realized selection on morphological traits was higher under even OSRs and increased with density. Larger and more territorial males achieved both higher MS and competitive fertilization success, but only under even OSRs. Our combined results also support a shift in the mating system from territorial contest competition to scramble competition under male-biased OSRs and potentially at low density, where there was no clear contribution of the measured traits to reproductive success. Our study emphasizes the limitations of traditional selection metrics and the role of the socio-ecological context in predicting adaptation to a changing environment.","PeriodicalId":20589,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences","volume":"292 2039","pages":"20242501"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11750366/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143010546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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