American NaturalistPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1086/732807
Jenna M Hulke, Charles D Criscione
{"title":"Testing the Mating System Model of Parasite Complex Life Cycle Evolution Reveals Demographically Driven Mixed Mating.","authors":"Jenna M Hulke, Charles D Criscione","doi":"10.1086/732807","DOIUrl":"10.1086/732807","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>AbstractMany parasite species use multiple host species to complete development; however, empirical tests of models that seek to understand factors impacting evolutionary changes or maintenance of host number in parasite life cycles are scarce. Specifically, one model incorporating parasite mating systems that posits that multihost life cycles are an adaptation to prevent inbreeding in hermaphroditic parasites and thus preclude inbreeding depression remains untested. The model assumes that loss of a host results in parasite inbreeding and predicts that host loss can evolve only if there is no parasite inbreeding depression. We provide the first empirical tests of this model using a novel approach we developed for assessing inbreeding depression from field-collected parasite samples. The method compares genetically based selfing rate estimates to a demographic-based selfing rate, which was derived from the closed mating system experienced by endoparasites. Results from the hermaphroditic trematode <i>Alloglossidium renale</i>, which has a derived two-host life cycle, supported both the assumption and the prediction of the mating system model, as this highly inbred species had no indication of inbreeding depression. Additionally, comparisons of genetic and demographic selfing rates revealed a mixed mating system that could be explained completely by the parasite's demography (i.e., its infection intensities).</p>","PeriodicalId":50800,"journal":{"name":"American Naturalist","volume":"204 6","pages":"600-615"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142669923","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}
American NaturalistPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2023-11-28DOI: 10.1086/728406
Grant Emerson Haines, Louis Moisan, Alison M Derry, Andrew P Hendry
{"title":"Corrigendum.","authors":"Grant Emerson Haines, Louis Moisan, Alison M Derry, Andrew P Hendry","doi":"10.1086/728406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/728406","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50800,"journal":{"name":"American Naturalist","volume":"203 1","pages":"147-159"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139425936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2023 American Society of Naturalists Awards.","authors":"","doi":"10.1086/726123","DOIUrl":"10.1086/726123","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50800,"journal":{"name":"American Naturalist","volume":"203 1","pages":"ii-iv"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139425935","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}
American NaturalistPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-10-26DOI: 10.1086/726785
Gregor-Fausto Siegmund, David A Moeller, Vincent M Eckhart, Monica A Geber
{"title":"Bet Hedging Is Not Sufficient to Explain Germination Patterns of a Winter Annual Plant.","authors":"Gregor-Fausto Siegmund, David A Moeller, Vincent M Eckhart, Monica A Geber","doi":"10.1086/726785","DOIUrl":"10.1086/726785","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>AbstractBet hedging consists of life history strategies that buffer against environmental variability by trading off immediate and long-term fitness. Delayed germination in annual plants is a classic example of bet hedging and is often invoked to explain low germination fractions. We examined whether bet hedging explains low and variable germination fractions among 20 populations of the winter annual plant <i>Clarkia xantiana</i> ssp. <i>xantiana</i> that experience substantial variation in reproductive success among years. Leveraging 15 years of demographic monitoring and 3 years of field germination experiments, we assessed the fitness consequences of seed banks and compared optimal germination fractions from a density-independent bet-hedging model to observed germination fractions. We did not find consistent evidence of bet hedging or the expected trade-off between arithmetic and geometric mean fitness, although delayed germination increased long-term fitness in 7 of 20 populations. Optimal germination fractions were two to five times higher than observed germination fractions, and among-population variation in germination fractions was not correlated with risks across the life cycle. Our comprehensive test suggests that bet hedging is not sufficient to explain the observed germination patterns. Understanding variation in germination strategies will likely require integrating bet hedging with complementary forces shaping the evolution of delayed germination.</p>","PeriodicalId":50800,"journal":{"name":"American Naturalist","volume":"202 6","pages":"767-784"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138464171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Secretary's Report, 2023 : American Society of Naturalists.","authors":"Joel McGlothlin","doi":"10.1086/727824","DOIUrl":"10.1086/727824","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50800,"journal":{"name":"American Naturalist","volume":"202 6","pages":"851-853"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138464172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Treasurer's Report, 2022 : Statement of Activities For the Year Ending December 31, 2022.","authors":"Rebecca C Fuller","doi":"10.1086/726749","DOIUrl":"10.1086/726749","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50800,"journal":{"name":"American Naturalist","volume":"202 6","pages":"854-855"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138464173","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}
Lisa Dickel, Peter Arcese, Lukas F. Keller, Pirmin Nietlisbach, Debora Goedert, Henrik Jensen, Jane M. Reid
{"title":"Multi-generational fitness effects of natural immigration indicate strong heterosis and epistatic breakdown in a wild bird population","authors":"Lisa Dickel, Peter Arcese, Lukas F. Keller, Pirmin Nietlisbach, Debora Goedert, Henrik Jensen, Jane M. Reid","doi":"10.1086/728669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/728669","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50800,"journal":{"name":"American Naturalist","volume":"81 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135091755","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}