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Carpenter JA, Hadfield JD, Bangham J, Jiggins FM. Specific interactions between host and parasite genotypes do not act as a constraint on the evolution of antiviral resistance in Drosophila. Evolution 2011; 66:1114-25. [PMID: 22486692 DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01501.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Genetic correlations between parasite resistance and other traits can act as an evolutionary constraint and prevent a population from evolving increased resistance. For example, previous studies have found negative genetic correlations between host resistance and life-history traits. In invertebrates, the level of resistance often depends on the combination of the host and parasite genotypes, and in this study, we have investigated whether such specific resistance also acts as an evolutionary constraint. We measured the resistance of different genotypes of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster to different genotypes of a naturally occurring pathogen, the sigma virus. Using a multitrait analysis, we examine whether genetic covariances alter the potential to select for general resistance against all of the different viral genotypes. We found large amounts of heritable variation in resistance, and evidence for specific interactions between host and parasite, but these interactions resulted in little constraint on Drosophila evolving greater resistance.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jennifer A Carpenter
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK.
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Jarvis JP, Cropp SN, Vaughn TT, Pletscher LS, King-Ellison K, Adams-Hunt E, Erickson C, Cheverud JM. The effect of a population bottleneck on the evolution of genetic variance/covariance structure. J Evol Biol 2011; 24:2139-52. [PMID: 21726329 DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02347.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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It is well known that standard population genetic theory predicts decreased additive genetic variance (V(a) ) following a population bottleneck and that theoretical models including interallelic and intergenic interactions indicate such loss may be avoided. However, few empirical data from multicellular model systems are available, especially regarding variance/covariance (V/CV) relationships. Here, we compare the V/CV structure of seventeen traits related to body size and composition between control (60 mating pairs/generation) and bottlenecked (2 mating pairs/generation; average F = 0.39) strains of mice. Although results for individual traits vary considerably, multivariate analysis indicates that V(a) in the bottlenecked populations is greater than expected. Traits with patterns and amounts of epistasis predictive of enhanced V(a) also show the largest deviations from additive expectations. Finally, the correlation structure of weekly weights is not significantly different between control and experimental lines but correlations between necropsy traits do differ, especially those involving the heart, kidney and tail length.
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- J P Jarvis
- Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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Andersson S, Ellmer M, Jorgensen TH, Palmé A. Quantitative Genetic Effects of Bottlenecks: Experimental Evidence from a Wild Plant Species, Nigella degenii. J Hered 2009; 101:298-307. [DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esp108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Tabanao DA, Yu J, Bernardo R. Multilocus epistasis, linkage, and genetic variance in breeding populations with few parents. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2007; 115:335-42. [PMID: 17563867 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-007-0565-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2006] [Accepted: 04/23/2007] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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In a previous study of maize (Zea mays L.) populations formed from few parents, we found that estimates of genetic variances were inconsistent with a simple additive genetic model. Our objective in the current study was to determine how multilocus epistasis and linkage affect the loss of genetic variance in populations created from a small number of parents (N). In simulation experiments, F(2) individuals from the same single cross were intermated to form progeny populations from N = 1, 2, 4, and 8 parents. Additive gene effects and metabolic flux epistasis due to L = 10, 50, and 100 loci were modeled. For additive, additive-with-linkage, epistatic, and epistasis-with-linkage models, we estimated the ratio between total genetic variance in the progeny population (V(N)) and base population (V(B) as well as the 95th (Delta(95%)) and 75th (Delta(75%)) percentile differences between the estimated V(N)/V(B) and the V(N)/V(B) expected for the additive model. The mean V(N)/V(B) ratio was lower under epistasis than under additivity, indicating that metabolic flux epistasis hastens the decline in genetic variance due to small N. In contrast, Delta(95%) was higher with epistasis than with additivity across the different levels of N and L. Linkage had little effect on the mean V(N)/V(B), whereas it increased Delta(95%) and Delta(75%) under both additivity and epistasis. Smaller N and L led to higher V(N)/V(B) particularly when epistasis was present. Overall, the results indicated that while metabolic flux epistasis led to a faster average decline in genetic variance, it also led to greater variability in this decline to the point that V(N)/V(B)was larger than expected in many populations.
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- D A Tabanao
- Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, 1991 Upper Buford Circle, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
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Gilchrist GW, Lee CE. All stressed out and nowhere to go: does evolvability limit adaptation in invasive species? Genetica 2006; 129:127-32. [PMID: 16924404 DOI: 10.1007/s10709-006-9009-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2006] [Accepted: 06/16/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Introduced and invasive species are major threats native species and communities and, quite naturally, most scientists and managers think of them in terms of ecological problems. However, species introductions are also experiments in evolution, both for the alien species and for the community that they colonize. We focus here on the introduced species because these offer opportunities to study the properties that allow a species to succeed in a novel habitat and the constraints that limit range expansion. Moreover, an increasing body of evidence from diverse taxa suggests that the introduced species often undergo rapid and observable evolutionary change in their new habitat. Evolution requires genetic variation, which may be decreased or expanded during an invasion, and an evolutionary mechanism such as genetic drift or natural selection. In this volume, we seek to understand how natural selection produces adaptive evolution during invasions. Key questions include what is the role of biotic and abiotic stress in driving adaptation, and what is the source of genetic variation in introduced populations.
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- George W Gilchrist
- Department of Biology, College of William & Mary, Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795, USA.
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Quantitative genetics provides a powerful framework for studying phenotypic evolution and the evolution of adaptive genetic variation. Central to the approach is G, the matrix of additive genetic variances and covariances. G summarizes the genetic basis of the traits and can be used to predict the phenotypic response to multivariate selection or to drift. Recent analytical and computational advances have improved both the power and the accessibility of the necessary multivariate statistics. It is now possible to study the relationships between G and other evolutionary parameters, such as those describing the mutational input, the shape and orientation of the adaptive landscape, and the phenotypic divergence among populations. At the same time, we are moving towards a greater understanding of how the genetic variation summarized by G evolves. Computer simulations of the evolution of G, innovations in matrix comparison methods, and rapid development of powerful molecular genetic tools have all opened the way for dissecting the interaction between allelic variation and evolutionary process. Here I discuss some current uses of G, problems with the application of these approaches, and identify avenues for future research.
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- Katrina McGuigan
- Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 5289 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA.
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Turelli M, Barton NH. WILL POPULATION BOTTLENECKS AND MULTILOCUS EPISTASIS INCREASE ADDITIVE GENETIC VARIANCE? Evolution 2006. [DOI: 10.1554/05-585.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Neiman M, Linksvayer TA. The conversion of variance and the evolutionary potential of restricted recombination. Heredity (Edinb) 2005; 96:111-21. [PMID: 16333302 DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Genetic recombination is usually considered to facilitate adaptive evolution. However, recombination prevents the reliable cotransmission of interacting gene combinations and can disrupt complexes of coadapted genes. If interactions between genes have important fitness effects, restricted recombination may lead to evolutionary responses that are different from those predicted from a purely additive model and could even aid adaptation. Theory and data have demonstrated that phenomena that limit the effectiveness of recombination via increasing homozygosity, such as inbreeding and population subdivision and bottlenecks, can temporarily increase the additive genetic variance available to these populations. This effect has been attributed to the conversion of nonadditive to additive genetic variance. Analogously, phenomena such as chromosomal inversions and apomictic parthenogenesis that physically restrict recombination in part or all of the genome may also result in a release of additive variance. Here, we review and synthesize literature concerning the evolutionary potential of populations with effectively or physically restricted recombination. Our goal is to emphasize the common theme of increased short-term access to additive genetic variance in all of these situations and to motivate research directed towards a more complete characterization of the relevance of the conversion of variance to the evolutionary process.
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- M Neiman
- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA.
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Malmberg RL, Held S, Waits A, Mauricio R. Epistasis for fitness-related quantitative traits in Arabidopsis thaliana grown in the field and in the greenhouse. Genetics 2005; 171:2013-27. [PMID: 16157670 PMCID: PMC1456117 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.046078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2005] [Accepted: 08/29/2005] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The extent to which epistasis contributes to adaptation, population differentiation, and speciation is a long-standing and important problem in evolutionary genetics. Using recombinant inbred (RI) lines of Arabidopsis thaliana grown under natural field conditions, we have examined the genetic architecture of fitness-correlated traits with respect to epistasis; we identified both single-locus additive and two-locus epistatic QTL for natural variation in fruit number, germination, and seed length and width. For fruit number, we found seven significant epistatic interactions, but only two additive QTL. For seed germination, length, and width, there were from two to four additive QTL and from five to eight epistatic interactions. The epistatic interactions were both positive and negative. In each case, the magnitude of the epistatic effects was roughly double that of the effects of the additive QTL, varying from -41% to +29% for fruit number and from -5% to +4% for seed germination, length, and width. A number of the QTL that we describe participate in more than one epistatic interaction, and some loci identified as additive also may participate in an epistatic interaction; the genetic architecture for fitness traits may be a network of additive and epistatic effects. We compared the map positions of the additive and epistatic QTL for germination, seed width, and seed length from plants grown in both the field and the greenhouse. While the total number of significant additive and epistatic QTL was similar under the two growth conditions, the map locations were largely different. We found a small number of significant epistatic QTL x environment effects when we tested directly for them. Our results support the idea that epistatic interactions are an important part of natural genetic variation and reinforce the need for caution in comparing results from greenhouse-grown and field-grown plants.
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- Russell L Malmberg
- Department of Plant Biology, 2502 Plant Sciences Building, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
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López-Fanjul C, Fernández A, Toro MA. The effect of genetic drift on the variance/covariance components generated by multilocus additive x additive epistatic systems. J Theor Biol 2005; 239:161-71. [PMID: 16242726 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.08.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2005] [Revised: 05/10/2005] [Accepted: 07/23/2005] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The effect of population bottlenecks on the components of the genetic variance/covariance generated by n neutral independent additive x additive loci has been studied theoretically. In its simplest version, this situation can be modelled by specifying the allele frequencies and homozygous effects at each locus, and an additional factor measuring the strength of the n-th order epistatic interaction. The variance/covariance components in an infinitely large panmictic population (ancestral components) were compared with their expected values at equilibrium over replicates randomly derived from the base population, after t bottlenecks of size N (derived components). Formulae were obtained giving the derived components (and the between-line variance) as functions of the ancestral ones (alternatively, in terms of allele frequencies and effects) and the corresponding inbreeding coefficient F(t). The n-th order derived component of the genetic variance/covariance is continuously eroded by inbreeding, but the remaining components may increase initially until a critical F(t) value is attained, which is inversely related to the order of the pertinent component, and subsequently decline to zero. These changes can be assigned to the between-line variances/covariances of gene substitution and epistatic effects induced by drift. Numerical examples indicate that: (1) the derived additive variance/covariance component will generally exceed its ancestral value unless epistasis is weak; (2) the derived epistatic variance/covariance components will generally exceed their ancestral values unless allele frequencies are extreme; (3) for systems showing equal ancestral additive and total non-additive variance/covariance components, those including a smaller number of epistatic loci may generate a larger excess in additive variance/covariance after bottlenecks than others involving a larger number of loci, provided that F(t) is low. Our results indicate that it is unlikely that the rate of evolution may be significantly accelerated after population bottlenecks, in spite of occasional increments of the derived additive variance over its ancestral value.
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- Carlos López-Fanjul
- Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
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