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Hu M, Zhou S, Xiong X, Wang X, Sun Y, Meng Z, Hui D, Li J, Zhang D, Deng Q. Dynamics of soil microbial communities involved in carbon cycling along three successional forests in southern China. Front Microbiol 2024; 14:1326057. [PMID: 38287955 PMCID: PMC10822976 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1326057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2023] [Accepted: 12/31/2023] [Indexed: 01/31/2024] Open
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Dynamics of plant communities during forest succession have been received great attention in the past decades, yet information about soil microbial communities that are involved in carbon cycling remains limited. Here we investigated soil microbial community composition and carbohydrate degradation potential using metagenomic analysis and examined their influencing factors in three successional subtropical forests in southern China. Results showed that the abundances of soil bacteria and fungi increased (p ≤ 0.05 for both) with forest succession in relation to both soil and litter characteristics, whereas the bacterial diversity did not change (p > 0.05) and the fungal diversity of Shannon-Wiener index even decreased (p ≤ 0.05). The abundances of microbial carbohydrate degradation functional genes of cellulase, hemicellulase, and pectinase also increased with forest succession (p ≤ 0.05 for all). However, the chitinase gene abundance did not change with forest succession (p > 0.05) and the amylase gene abundance decreased firstly in middle-succession forest and then increased in late-succession forest. Further analysis indicated that changes of functional gene abundance in cellulase, hemicellulase, and pectinase were primarily affected by soil organic carbon, soil total nitrogen, and soil moisture, whereas the variation of amylase gene abundance was well explained by soil phosphorus and litterfall. Overall, we created a metagenome profile of soil microbes in subtropical forest succession and fostered our understanding of microbially-mediated soil carbon cycling.
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- Minghui Hu
- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- South China National Botanical Garden, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- South China National Botanical Garden, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- South China National Botanical Garden, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- South China National Botanical Garden, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Lushan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiujiang, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN, United States
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- South China National Botanical Garden, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- South China National Botanical Garden, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- South China National Botanical Garden, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Xue X, Su X, Zhou L, Ji J, Qin Z, Liu J, Li K, Wang H, Wang Z. Antibiotic-Induced Recruitment of Specific Algae-Associated Microbiome Enhances the Adaptability of Chlorella vulgaris to Antibiotic Stress and Incidence of Antibiotic Resistance. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2023; 57:13336-13345. [PMID: 37642958 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c02801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
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Insights into the symbiotic relation between eukaryotic hosts and their microbiome lift the curtain on the crucial roles of microbes in host fitness, behavior, and ecology. However, it remains unclear whether and how abiotic stress shapes the microbiome and further affects host adaptability. This study first investigated the effect of antibiotic exposure on behavior across varying algae taxa at the community level. Chlorophyta, in particular Chlorella vulgaris, exhibited remarkable adaptability to antibiotic stress, leading to their dominance in phytoplankton communities. Accordingly, we isolated C. vulgaris strains and compared the growth of axenic and nonaxenic ones under antibiotic conditions. The positive roles of antibiotics in algal growth were apparent only in the presence of bacteria. Results of 16S rRNA sequencing further revealed that antibiotic challenges resulted in the recruitment of specific bacterial consortia in the phycosphere, whose functions were tightly linked to the host growth promotion and adaptability enhancement. In addition, the algal phycosphere was characterized with 47-fold higher enrichment capability of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) than the surrounding water. Under antibiotic stress, specific ARG profiles were recruited in C. vulgaris phycosphere, presumably driven by the specific assembly of bacterial consortia and mobile genetic elements induced by antibiotics. Moreover, the antibiotics even enhanced the dissemination potential of the bacteria carrying ARGs from the algal phycosphere to broader environmental niches. Overall, this study provides an in-depth understanding into the potential functional significance of antibiotic-mediated recruitment of specific algae-associated bacteria for algae adaptability and ARG proliferation in antibiotic-polluted waters.
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- Xue Xue
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
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Saltini M, Vasconcelos P, Rueffler C. Complex life cycles drive community assembly through immigration and adaptive diversification. Ecol Lett 2023. [PMID: 37125448 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2022] [Revised: 03/13/2023] [Accepted: 03/20/2023] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Most animals undergo ontogenetic niche shifts during their life. Yet, standard ecological theory builds on models that ignore this complexity. Here, we study how complex life cycles, where juvenile and adult individuals each feed on different sets of resources, affect community richness. Two different modes of community assembly are considered: gradual adaptive evolution and immigration of new species with randomly selected phenotypes. We find that under gradual evolution complex life cycles can lead to both higher and lower species richness when compared to a model of species with simple life cycles that lack an ontogenetic niche shift. Thus, complex life cycles do not per se increase the scope for gradual adaptive diversification. However, complex life cycles can lead to significantly higher species richness when communities are assembled trough immigration, as immigrants can occupy isolated peaks of the dynamic fitness landscape that are not accessible via gradual evolution.
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- Marco Saltini
- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Animal Ecology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Animal Ecology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Animal Ecology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Dupret V, Byrne HM, Castro N, Hammer Ø, Higgs KT, Long JA, Niedźwiedzki G, Qvarnström M, Stössel I, Ahlberg PE. The Bothriolepis (Placodermi, Antiarcha) material from the Valentia Slate Formation of the Iveragh Peninsula (middle Givetian, Ireland): Morphology, evolutionary and systematic considerations, phylogenetic and palaeogeographic implications. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0280208. [PMID: 36821588 PMCID: PMC9949654 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2022] [Accepted: 12/21/2022] [Indexed: 02/24/2023] Open
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Material of the antiarch placoderm Bothriolepis from the middle Givetian of the Valentia Slate Formation in Iveragh Peninsula, Ireland, is described and attributed to a new species, B. dairbhrensis sp. nov. A revision of the genus Bothriolepis is proposed, and its taxonomic content and previous phylogenetic analyses are reviewed, as well as the validity of morphologic characteristics considered important for the establishment of the genus, such as the shape of the preorbital recess of the neurocranium. A series of computerised phylogenetic analyses was performed, which reveals that our new species is the sister taxon to the Frasnian Scottish form B. gigantea. New phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses of the genus Bothriolepis together with comparisons between faunal assemblages reveal a first northward dispersal wave from Gondwana to Euramerica at the latest in the mid Givetian. Other Euramerican species of Bothriolepis seem to belong to later dispersal waves from Gondwana, non-excluding southward waves from Euramerica. Questions remain open such as the taxonomic validity and stratigraphic constraints for the most ancient forms of Bothriolepis in China, and around the highly speciose nature of the genus.
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- Vincent Dupret
- Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia
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- Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Biogeographical and Diversification Analyses of Indian Pseudoscorpions Reveal the Western Ghats as Museums of Ancient Biodiversity. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2022; 175:107495. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2022] [Revised: 04/13/2022] [Accepted: 04/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Chaparro-Pedraza PC, Roth G, Seehausen O. The enrichment paradox in adaptive radiations: Emergence of predators hinders diversification in resource rich environments. Ecol Lett 2022; 25:802-813. [PMID: 35032146 PMCID: PMC9303570 DOI: 10.1111/ele.13955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2021] [Revised: 10/25/2021] [Accepted: 12/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Adaptive radiations are known for rapid niche diversification in response to ecological opportunity. While most resources usually exist prior to adaptive radiation, novel niches associated with novel resources can be created as a clade diversifies. For example, in African lake cichlid radiations some species prey upon other species of the clade (intraclade consumers). Using a trait‐based eco‐evolutionary model, we investigate the evolution of intraclade consumers in adaptive radiations and the effect of this novel trophic interaction on the diversification process of the radiating clade. We find that the evolutionary emergence of intraclade consumers halts the diversification processes of other ecomorphs as a result of increased top‐down control of density. Because high productivity enables earlier evolution of intraclade consumers, highly productive environments come to harbour less species‐rich radiations than comparable radiations in less productive environments. Our results reveal how macroevolutionary and community patterns can emerge from ecological and microevolutionary processes.
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- P Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza
- Aquatic Ecology and Evolution, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,Department of Fish Ecology and Evolution, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Kastanienbaum, Switzerland.,Department Systems Analysis, Integrated Assessment and Modelling, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
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- Aquatic Ecology and Evolution, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,Department of Fish Ecology and Evolution, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Kastanienbaum, Switzerland
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Pontarp M. Ecological opportunity and adaptive radiations reveal eco-evolutionary perspectives on community structure in competitive communities. Sci Rep 2021; 11:19560. [PMID: 34599238 PMCID: PMC8486866 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-98842-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2021] [Accepted: 09/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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It is well known that ecological and evolutionary processes act in concert while shaping biological communities. Diversification can, for example, arise through ecological opportunity and adaptive radiations and competition play an essential role in such diversification. Eco-evolutionary components of competition are thus important for our understanding of community assembly. Such understanding in turn facilitates interpretation of trait- and phylogenetic community patterns in the light of the processes that shape them. Here, I investigate the link between competition, diversification, and trait- and phylogenetic- community patterns using a trait-based model of adaptive radiations. I evaluate the paradigm that competition is an ecological process that drives large trait- and phylogenetic community distances through limiting similarity. Contrary to the common view, I identify low or in some cases counterintuitive relationships between competition and mean phylogenetic distances due to diversification late in evolutionary time and peripheral parts of niche space when competition is weak. Community patterns as a function of competition also change as diversification progresses as the relationship between competition and trait similarity among species can flip from positive to negative with time. The results thus provide novel perspectives on community assembly and emphasize the importance of acknowledging eco-evolutionary processes when interpreting community data.
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- Mikael Pontarp
- Department of Biology, Lund University Biology Building, Sölvegatan 35, 223 62, Lund, Sweden.
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Chu XL, Zhang QG, Buckling A, Castledine M. Interspecific Niche Competition Increases Morphological Diversity in Multi-Species Microbial Communities. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:699190. [PMID: 34394041 PMCID: PMC8362326 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.699190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2021] [Accepted: 07/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Intraspecific competition for limited niches has been recognized as a driving force for adaptive radiation, but results for the role of interspecific competition have been mixed. Here, we report the adaptive diversification of the model bacteria Pseudomonas fluorescens in the presence of different numbers and combinations of four competing bacterial species. Increasing the diversity of competitive community increased the morphological diversity of focal species, which is caused by impeding the domination of a single morphotype. Specifically, this pattern was driven by more diverse communities being more likely to contain key species that occupy the same niche as otherwise competitively superior morphotype, and thus preventing competitive exclusion within the focal species. Our results suggest that sympatric adaptive radiation is driven by the presence or absence of niche-specific competitors.
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- Xiao-Lin Chu
- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom.,State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology and MOE Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology and MOE Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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Gaboriau T, Mendes FK, Joly S, Silvestro D, Salamin N. A multi‐platform package for the analysis of intra‐ and interspecific trait evolution. Methods Ecol Evol 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.13458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Théo Gaboriau
- Department of Computational Biology University of Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland
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- School of Computer Science The University of Auckland Auckland New Zealand
- School of Biological Sciences The University of Auckland Auckland New Zealand
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- Institut Recherche en Biologie Végétale Montréal QC Canada
- Montreal Botanical Garden Montreal QC Canada
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- Department of Biology University of Fribourg Fribourg Switzerland
- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Gothenburg and Global Gothenburg Biodiversity Centre Gothenburg Sweden
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- Department of Computational Biology University of Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland
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Pontarp M. Ecological opportunity and upward prey-predator radiation cascades. Sci Rep 2020; 10:10484. [PMID: 32591632 PMCID: PMC7320021 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-67181-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2020] [Accepted: 06/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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A general goal in community ecology and evolutionary biology is to understand how diversity has arisen. In our attempts to reach such goals we become increasingly aware of interacting ecological and evolutionary processes shaping biodiversity. Ecological opportunity and adaptive radiations can, for example, drive diversification in competitive communities but little is known about how such processes propagate through trophic levels in adaptive radiation cascades. I use an eco-evolutionary model of trait-based ecological interactions and micro-evolutionary processes to investigate the macro-evolutionary aspects of predator diversification in such cascades. Prey diversification facilitates predator radiation through predator feeding opportunity and disruptive selection. Predator radiation, however, often disconnects from the prey radiation as the diversification progresses. Only when predators have an intermediate niche width, high predatory efficiency, and high evolutionary potential can radiation cascades be maintained over macro-evolutionary time scales. These results provide expectations for predator response to prey divergence and insight into eco-evolutionary feedbacks between trophic levels. Such expectations are crucial for future studies that aim for a better understanding of how diversity is generated and maintained in complex communities.
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- Mikael Pontarp
- Department of Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 37, 223 62, Lund, Sweden.
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Naciri Y, Linder HP. The genetics of evolutionary radiations. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2020; 95:1055-1072. [PMID: 32233014 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2018] [Revised: 03/12/2020] [Accepted: 03/17/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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With the realization that much of the biological diversity on Earth has been generated by discrete evolutionary radiations, there has been a rapid increase in research into the biotic (key innovations) and abiotic (key environments) circumstances in which such radiations took place. Here we focus on the potential importance of population genetic structure and trait genetic architecture in explaining radiations. We propose a verbal model describing the stages of an evolutionary radiation: first invading a suitable adaptive zone and expanding both spatially and ecologically through this zone; secondly, diverging genetically into numerous distinct populations; and, finally, speciating. There are numerous examples of the first stage; the difficulty, however, is explaining how genetic diversification can take place from the establishment of a, presumably, genetically depauperate population in a new adaptive zone. We explore the potential roles of epigenetics and transposable elements (TEs), of neutral process such as genetic drift in combination with trait genetic architecture, of gene flow limitation through isolation by distance (IBD), isolation by ecology and isolation by colonization, the possible role of intra-specific competition, and that of admixture and hybridization in increasing the genetic diversity of the founding populations. We show that many of the predictions of this model are corroborated. Most radiations occur in complex adaptive zones, which facilitate the establishment of many small populations exposed to genetic drift and divergent selection. We also show that many radiations (especially those resulting from long-distance dispersal) were established by polyploid lineages, and that many radiating lineages have small genome sizes. However, there are several other predictions which are not (yet) possible to test: that epigenetics has played a role in radiations, that radiations occur more frequently in clades with small gene flow distances, or that the ancestors of radiations had large fundamental niches. At least some of these may be testable in the future as more genome and epigenome data become available. The implication of this model is that many radiations may be hard polytomies because the genetic divergence leading to speciation happens within a very short time, and that the divergence history may be further obscured by hybridization. Furthermore, it suggests that only lineages with the appropriate genetic architecture will be able to radiate, and that such a radiation will happen in a meta-population environment. Understanding the genetic architecture of a lineage may be an essential part of accounting for why some lineages radiate, and some do not.
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- Yamama Naciri
- Plant Systematics and Biodiversity Laboratory, Department of Botany and Plant biology of the University of Geneva, 1 Chemin de l'Impératrice, CH-1292, Chambésy, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH-8008, Zurich, Switzerland
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Pontarp M, Brännström Å, Petchey OL. Inferring community assembly processes from macroscopic patterns using dynamic eco‐evolutionary models and Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC). Methods Ecol Evol 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.13129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Mikael Pontarp
- Department of BiologyLund University Lund Sweden
- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental StudiesUniversity of Zurich Zurich Switzerland
- Department of Ecology and Environmental ScienceUmeå University Umeå Sweden
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- Department of Mathematics and Mathematical StatisticsUmeå University Umeå Sweden
- Evolution and Ecology ProgramInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Laxenburg Austria
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental StudiesUniversity of Zurich Zurich Switzerland
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