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Parejo-Pulido D, Pérez-Rodríguez L, Abril-Colón I, Potti J, Redondo T. Passive and active parental food allocation in a songbird. Behav Ecol 2023; 34:729-740. [PMID: 37744166 PMCID: PMC10516681 DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arad043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2022] [Revised: 03/13/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 09/26/2023] Open
Abstract
Parent-offspring conflict over food allocation can be modeled using two theoretical frameworks: passive (scramble competition) and active choice (signaling) resolution models. However, differentiating between these models empirically can be challenging. One possibility involves investigating details of decision-making by feeding parents. Different nestling traits, related to competitive prowess or signaling cryptic condition, may interact additively or non-additively as predictors of parental feeding responses. To explore this, we experimentally created even-sized, small broods of pied flycatchers and manipulated nestling cryptic quality, independently of size, by vitamin E supplementation. We explored how interactions between nestling cryptic condition, size, signals, and spatial location predicted food allocation and prey-testing by parents. Parents created the potential for spatial scramble competition between nestlings by feeding from and to a narrow range of nest locations. Heavier supplemented nestlings grew faster and were more likely to access profitable nest locations. However, the most profitable locations were not more contested, and nestling turnover did not vary in relation to spatial predictability or food supply. Postural begging was only predicted by nestling hunger and body mass, but parents did not favor heavier nestlings. This suggests that size-mediated and spatial competition in experimental broods was mild. Pied flycatcher fathers allocated food in response to nestling position and begging order, while mothers seemingly followed an active choice mechanism involving assessment of more complex traits, including postural intensity interacting with order, position, and treatment, and perhaps other stimuli when performing prey-testings. Differences in time constraints may underlie sex differences in food allocation rules.
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- Daniel Parejo-Pulido
- Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC), CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ronda de Toledo 12, 13005 Ciudad Real, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC), CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ronda de Toledo 12, 13005 Ciudad Real, Spain
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- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN), CSIC, Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD), CSIC, Américo Vespucio 26, 41092 Seville, Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD), CSIC, Américo Vespucio 26, 41092 Seville, Spain
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Halupka L, Arlt D, Tolvanen J, Millon A, Bize P, Adamík P, Albert P, Arendt WJ, Artemyev AV, Baglione V, Bańbura J, Bańbura M, Barba E, Barrett RT, Becker PH, Belskii E, Bolton M, Bowers EK, Bried J, Brouwer L, Bukacińska M, Bukaciński D, Bulluck L, Carstens KF, Catry I, Charter M, Chernomorets A, Covas R, Czuchra M, Dearborn DC, de Lope F, Di Giacomo AS, Dombrovski VC, Drummond H, Dunn MJ, Eeva T, Emmerson LM, Espmark Y, Fargallo JA, Gashkov SI, Golubova EY, Griesser M, Harris MP, Hoover JP, Jagiełło Z, Karell P, Kloskowski J, Koenig WD, Kolunen H, Korczak-Abshire M, Korpimäki E, Krams I, Krist M, Krüger SC, Kuranov BD, Lambin X, Lombardo MP, Lyakhov A, Marzal A, Møller AP, Neves VC, Nielsen JT, Numerov A, Orłowska B, Oro D, Öst M, Phillips RA, Pietiäinen H, Polo V, Porkert J, Potti J, Pöysä H, Printemps T, Prop J, Quillfeldt P, Ramos JA, Ravussin PA, Rosenfield RN, Roulin A, Rubenstein DR, Samusenko IE, Saunders DA, Schaub M, Senar JC, Sergio F, Solonen T, Solovyeva DV, Stępniewski J, Thompson PM, Tobolka M, Török J, van de Pol M, Vernooij L, Visser ME, Westneat DF, Wheelwright NT, Wiącek J, Wiebe KL, Wood AG, Wuczyński A, Wysocki D, Zárybnická M, Margalida A, Halupka K. The effect of climate change on avian offspring production: A global meta-analysis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2208389120. [PMID: 37126701 PMCID: PMC10175715 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2208389120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023] Open
Abstract
Climate change affects timing of reproduction in many bird species, but few studies have investigated its influence on annual reproductive output. Here, we assess changes in the annual production of young by female breeders in 201 populations of 104 bird species (N = 745,962 clutches) covering all continents between 1970 and 2019. Overall, average offspring production has declined in recent decades, but considerable differences were found among species and populations. A total of 56.7% of populations showed a declining trend in offspring production (significant in 17.4%), whereas 43.3% exhibited an increase (significant in 10.4%). The results show that climatic changes affect offspring production through compounded effects on ecological and life history traits of species. Migratory and larger-bodied species experienced reduced offspring production with increasing temperatures during the chick-rearing period, whereas smaller-bodied, sedentary species tended to produce more offspring. Likewise, multi-brooded species showed increased breeding success with increasing temperatures, whereas rising temperatures were unrelated to reproductive success in single-brooded species. Our study suggests that rapid declines in size of bird populations reported by many studies from different parts of the world are driven only to a small degree by changes in the production of young.
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- Lucyna Halupka
- Ornithological Station, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wrocław, Wrocław 50-335, Poland
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala SE-750 07, Sweden
- SLU Swedish Species Information Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala SE-750 07, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu 90014, Finland
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- Aix Marseille University, University of Avignon, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Institut Méditerranéen Biodiversité & Ecologie (IMBE), Aix-en-Provence 13545, France
- Groupe d'Etudes et de Protection des Busards (GepB), Beurville 52110, France
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- Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach CH-6204, Switzerland
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, Olomouc 771 46, Czech Republic
- Museum of Natural History, Olomouc 771 73, Czech Republic
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- USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Sabana Field Research Station, Luquillo 00773, PR
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- Department of Zoology, Institute of Biology, Karelian Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk 185910, Russia
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- Departamento de Biodiversidad y Gestión Ambiental, Universidad de León, León 24071, Spain
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- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Łódź, Łódź 90-237, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Łódź, Łódź 90-237, Poland
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- "Cavanilles" Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Valencia E46080, Spain
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- Department of Natural Sciences, Tromsø University Museum, Tromsø NO-9037, Norway
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- Institute of Avian Research "Vogelwarte Helgoland", head office Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven 26386, Germany
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- Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg 620144, Russia
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- Centre for Conservation Science, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Aberdeen AB10 1YP, UK
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Edward J. Meeman Biological Station, and Center for Biodiversity Research, University of Memphis, Memphis TN 38152
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- Institute of Marine Sciences - OKEANOS, University of the Azores, Horta 9901-862, Portugal
- Private address, 64200 Biarritz, France
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- Department of Zoology & Ecology, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia
- Division of Ecology & Evolution Research, School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Department of Environmental Conservation, Institute of Biological Sciences, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University of Warsaw, Warsaw 01-938, Poland
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- Department of Environmental Conservation, Institute of Biological Sciences, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University of Warsaw, Warsaw 01-938, Poland
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- Department of Biology and Center for Environmental Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284
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- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
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- Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (CIBIO) / Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (InBIO), Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto, Vairăo 4485-601, Portugal
- Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (CIBIO) / Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (InBIO), Laboratório Associado, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon 1349-017, Portugal
- BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (CIBIO), Vairăo 4485-661, Portugal
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- Shamir Research Institute and Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel
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- Laboratory of Ornithology, Scientific and Practical Center for Biological Resources of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk 220072, Belarus
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- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
- Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (CIBIO) / Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (InBIO), Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto, Vairăo 4485-601, Portugal
- BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (CIBIO), Vairăo 4485-661, Portugal
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- Department of Behavioural Ecology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wrocław, Wrocław 50-335, Poland
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- Biology Department, Bates College, Lewiston, ME 04240
- Division of Organisms and Environment, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AX, UK
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- Department of Anatomy, Cellular Biology and Zoology, University of Extremadura, Badajoz E-506071, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Biología de la Conservación, Centro de Ecología Aplicada del Litoral, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICET), Corrientes 3400, Argentina
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- Laboratory of Molecular Zoology, National Academy of Sciences, Minsk 220072, Belarus
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- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México 04510, Mexico
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- British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku 20014, Finland
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- Australian Antarctic Division, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, 7050 Kingston TAS, Australia
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- Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim 7491, Norway
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid 28006, Spain
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- Departament of Museum Technologies, Zoology Museum, Tomsk State University, Tomsk 634050, Russia
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- Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan 685000, Russia
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- Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz 78457, Germany
- Center for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz, Konstanz 78457, Germany
- Department of Collective Behavior, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz 78457, Germany
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- Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 61820
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- Institute of Zoology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poznań 60-625, Poland
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- Bioeconomy Research Team, Novia University of Applied Sciences, Raseborg FI-10600, Finland
- Evolutionary Ecology Unit, Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund SE-223 62, Sweden
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- Institute of Zoology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poznań 60-625, Poland
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- Hastings Reservation, University of California Berkeley, Carmel Valley, CA 93924
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850
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- Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku 20014, Finland
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- Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology, Faculty of Biology, University of Latvia, Riga 1004, Latvia
- Department of Biotechnology, Daugavpils University, Daugavpils 5401, Latvia
- Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, Olomouc 771 46, Czech Republic
- Museum of Natural History, Olomouc 771 73, Czech Republic
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- Conservation Services Division, Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife, Cascades 3202, South Africa
- School of Life Sciences, Centre for Functional Biodiversity University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg 3201, South Africa
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology and Ecology, Tomsk State University, Tomsk 634050, Russia
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 2TZ, UK
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- Biology Department, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 49401-9403
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- Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg 620144, Russia
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- Department of Anatomy, Cellular Biology and Zoology, University of Extremadura, Badajoz E-506071, Spain
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- Ecologie Systématique Evolution, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette 91190, France
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- Institute of Marine Sciences - OKEANOS, University of the Azores, Horta 9901-862, Portugal
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- Department of Zoology and Parasitology, Voronezh State University, Voronezh 394006, Russia
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- Ornithological Station, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wrocław, Wrocław 50-335, Poland
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- Theoretical and Computation Ecology Lab, Centre d'Estudis Acançats de Blanes (CEAB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Blanes 17300, Spain
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- Environmental and Marine Biology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku 20500, Finland
- Novia University of Applied Sciences, Raseborg FI-10600, Finland
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- British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland
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- Department of Biology and Geology, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles 28933, Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Dońana - CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Seville 41092, Spain
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- Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu FI-80101, Finland
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- Groupe d'Etudes et de Protection des Busards (GepB), Beurville 52110, France
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- Arctic Centre, University of Groningen, Groningen 9718CW, the Netherlands
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus Liebig University, Giessen 35392, Germany
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- Department of Life Sciences, Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE), University of Coimbra, Coimbra 3000-456, Portugal
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- Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI 54481
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027
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- Laboratory of Ornithology, Scientific and Practical Center for Biological Resources of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk 220072, Belarus
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 2TZ, UK
- Division of Conservation Biology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Bern CH-3012, Switzerland
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- Departament de Vertebrats, Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, Barcelona 08003, Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Dońana - CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Seville 41092, Spain
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- Luontotutkimus Solonen Oy, Helsinki FI-00960, Finland
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- Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan 685000, Russia
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- Panurus Monitoringi Inwentaryzacje Opinie Przyrodnicze, Osieczna 64-113, Poland
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- School of Biological Sciences, Lighthouse Field Station, University of Aberdeen, Cromarty IV11 8YL, UK
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- Institute of Zoology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poznań 60-625, Poland
- Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna 1160, Austria
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- Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Behavioural Ecology Group, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest H-1117, Hungary
- Integrative Ecology Research Group, Eötvös Loránd Research Network - Eötvös Loránd University - The Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest H-1117, Hungary
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- Department of Animal Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen 6708PB, the Netherlands
- Department of Physical Sciences, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia
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- Department of Animal Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen 6708PB, the Netherlands
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- Department of Animal Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen 6708PB, the Netherlands
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- Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0225
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- Department of Zoology and Nature Protection, Institute of Biological Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin 20-033, Poland
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- Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon S7N 5E2, Canada
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- British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
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- Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków 31-120, Poland
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology and Anthropology, Szczecin University, Szczecin 71-415, Poland
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- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague 16521, Czech Republic
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- Institute for Game and Wildlife Research, IREC (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ciudad Real E- 13005, Spain
- Pyrenean Institute of Ecology, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Jaca 22700, Spain
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- Department of Behavioural Ecology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wrocław, Wrocław 50-335, Poland
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Kärkkäinen T, Laaksonen T, Burgess M, Cantarero A, Martínez‐Padilla J, Potti J, Moreno J, Thomson RL, Tilgar V, Stier A. Population differences in the length and early-life dynamics of telomeres among European pied flycatchers. Mol Ecol 2022; 31:5966-5978. [PMID: 34875134 PMCID: PMC9788103 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2021] [Revised: 11/09/2021] [Accepted: 12/01/2021] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
Abstract
Telomere length and shortening rate are increasingly being used as biomarkers for long-term costs in ecological and evolutionary studies because of their relationships with survival and fitness. Both early-life conditions and growth, and later-life stressors can create variation in telomere shortening rate. Studies on between-population telomere length and dynamics are scarce, despite the expectation that populations exposed to varying environmental constraints would present divergent telomere length patterns. The pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) is a passerine bird breeding across Eurasia (from Spain to western Siberia) and migrating through the Iberian Peninsula to spend the nonbreeding period in sub-Saharan Africa. Thus, different populations show marked differences in migration distance. We studied the large-scale variation of telomere length and early-life dynamics in the pied flycatcher by comparing six European populations across a north-south gradient (Finland, Estonia, England and Spain) predicting a negative effect of migration distance on adult telomere length, and of nestling growth on nestling telomere dynamics. There were clear population differences in telomere length, with English birds from midlatitudes having the longest telomeres. Telomere length did not thus show consistent latitudinal variation and was not linearly linked to differences in migration distance. Early-life telomere shortening rate tended to vary between populations. Fast growth was associated with shorter telomeres in the early life, but faster nestling growth affected telomeres more negatively in northern than southern populations. While the sources of between-population differences in telomere-related biology remain to be more intensively studied, our study illustrates the need to expand telomere studies at the between-population level.
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- RSPB Centre for Conservation ScienceSandyUK,Centre for Research in Animal BehaviourUniversity of ExeterExeterUK
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of TurkuTurkuFinland,Department of Evolutionary EcologyMuseo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC)MadridSpain
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- Department of Biological Conservation and Ecosystem RestorationPyrenean Institute of Ecology (CSIC)JacaSpain
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- Department of Evolutionary EcologyEstación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC)SevilleSpain
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- Department of Evolutionary EcologyMuseo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC)MadridSpain
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of TurkuTurkuFinland,Department of Biological SciencesUniversity of Cape TownRondeboschSouth Africa,FitzPatrick Institute of African OrnithologyDST‐NRF Centre of ExcellenceUniversity of Cape TownRondeboschSouth Africa
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- Department of ZoologyInstitute of Ecology and Earth SciencesUniversity of TartuTartuEstonia
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of TurkuTurkuFinland,Univ LyonUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1CNRSENTPEUMR 5023 LEHNAVilleurbanneFrance
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Morales-Mata JI, Potti J, Camacho C, Martínez-Padilla J, Canal D. Phenotypic selection on an ornamental trait is not modulated by breeding density in a pied flycatcher population. J Evol Biol 2022; 35:610-620. [PMID: 35293060 PMCID: PMC9311403 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2021] [Revised: 01/25/2022] [Accepted: 02/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Most studies of phenotypic selection in the wild have focussed on morphological and life‐history traits and looked at abiotic (climatic) variation as the main driver of selection. Consequently, our knowledge of the effects of biotic environmental variation on phenotypic selection on sexual traits is scarce. Population density can be considered a proxy for the intensity of intrasexual and intersexual competition and could therefore be a key factor influencing the covariation between individual fitness and the expression of sexual traits. Here, we used an individual‐based data set from a population of pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) monitored over 24 years to analyze the effect of breeding density on phenotypic selection on dorsal plumage colouration, a heritable and sexually selected ornament in males of this species. Using the number of recruits as a fitness proxy, our results showed overall stabilizing selection on male dorsal colouration, with intermediate phenotypes being favoured over extremely dark and dull individuals. However, our results did not support the hypothesis that breeding density mediates phenotypic selection on this sexual trait. We discuss the possible role of other biotic factors influencing selection on ornamental plumage.
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), Seville, Spain
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- Department of Biological Conservation and Ecosystem Restoration, Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (IPE-CSIC), Jaca, Spain
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- Department of Biological Conservation and Ecosystem Restoration, Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (IPE-CSIC), Jaca, Spain
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- Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Vácrátót, Hungary
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Santoro S, Fernández-Díaz P, Canal D, Camacho C, Garamszegi LZ, Martínez-Padilla J, Potti J. High frequency of social polygyny reveals little costs for females in a songbird. Sci Rep 2022; 12:277. [PMID: 34997143 PMCID: PMC8742037 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-04423-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2021] [Accepted: 12/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Mating system theory predicts that social polygyny—when one male forms pair bonds with two females—may evolve by female choice in species with biparental care. Females will accept a polygynous male if the benefit of mating with a male providing high-quality genes or rearing resources outweighs the cost of sharing mate assistance in parental care. Based on this rationale, we hypothesise that the population frequency of social polygyny (FSP) varies due to changes in mate sharing costs caused by changing environmental conditions. We predicted that: (1) polygamous females (i.e. mated with a polygynous male) pay a survival cost compared to monogamous females; (2) FSP would be higher in years with better rearing conditions and (3) the difference in survival rates between monogamous and polygamous females would be small following years with higher FSP. We tested these predictions using regression and multistate analyses of capture-recapture data of pied flycatchers, Ficedula hypoleuca, in central Spain collected over 26 years (1990–2016). Monogamous females had a higher mean survival rate than polygamous females (prediction 1), but there was no difference in survival between polygynous and monogamous males. In addition, FSP was positively associated with annual reproductive success (a proxy of the quality of rearing conditions—prediction 2). Finally, following years with high FSP, the survival of polygamous females was similar to that of monogamous females (prediction 3), while the chance of breeding in a polygamous state for 2 years in a row increased for both males and females. Our findings suggest that fluctuating environmental conditions may be a necessary but neglected aspect of understanding social polygyny mechanisms.
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- Simone Santoro
- Department of Integrated Sciences, Faculty of Experimental Sciences, University of Huelva, 21007, Huelva, Spain. .,Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemical Engineering, University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain.
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), Seville, Spain
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- Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Alkotmány u. 2-4, Hungary
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- Department of Biological Conservation and Ecosystem Restoration, Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (CSIC), Jaca, Spain
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- Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Alkotmány u. 2-4, Hungary.,MTA-ELTE, Theoretical Biology and Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Department of Plant Systematics, Ecology and Theoretical Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Biological Conservation and Ecosystem Restoration, Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (CSIC), Jaca, Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), Seville, Spain
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Culina A, Adriaensen F, Bailey LD, Burgess MD, Charmantier A, Cole EF, Eeva T, Matthysen E, Nater CR, Sheldon BC, Sæther B, Vriend SJG, Zajkova Z, Adamík P, Aplin LM, Angulo E, Artemyev A, Barba E, Barišić S, Belda E, Bilgin CC, Bleu J, Both C, Bouwhuis S, Branston CJ, Broggi J, Burke T, Bushuev A, Camacho C, Campobello D, Canal D, Cantarero A, Caro SP, Cauchoix M, Chaine A, Cichoń M, Ćiković D, Cusimano CA, Deimel C, Dhondt AA, Dingemanse NJ, Doligez B, Dominoni DM, Doutrelant C, Drobniak SM, Dubiec A, Eens M, Einar Erikstad K, Espín S, Farine DR, Figuerola J, Kavak Gülbeyaz P, Grégoire A, Hartley IR, Hau M, Hegyi G, Hille S, Hinde CA, Holtmann B, Ilyina T, Isaksson C, Iserbyt A, Ivankina E, Kania W, Kempenaers B, Kerimov A, Komdeur J, Korsten P, Král M, Krist M, Lambrechts M, Lara CE, Leivits A, Liker A, Lodjak J, Mägi M, Mainwaring MC, Mänd R, Massa B, Massemin S, Martínez‐Padilla J, Mazgajski TD, Mennerat A, Moreno J, Mouchet A, Nakagawa S, Nilsson J, Nilsson JF, Cláudia Norte A, van Oers K, Orell M, Potti J, Quinn JL, Réale D, Kristin Reiertsen T, Rosivall B, Russell AF, Rytkönen S, Sánchez‐Virosta P, Santos ESA, Schroeder J, Senar JC, Seress G, Slagsvold T, Szulkin M, Teplitsky C, Tilgar V, Tolstoguzov A, Török J, Valcu M, Vatka E, Verhulst S, Watson H, Yuta T, Zamora‐Marín JM, Visser ME. Connecting the data landscape of long-term ecological studies: The SPI-Birds data hub. J Anim Ecol 2021; 90:2147-2160. [PMID: 33205462 PMCID: PMC8518542 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2020] [Accepted: 11/01/2020] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
Abstract
The integration and synthesis of the data in different areas of science is drastically slowed and hindered by a lack of standards and networking programmes. Long-term studies of individually marked animals are not an exception. These studies are especially important as instrumental for understanding evolutionary and ecological processes in the wild. Furthermore, their number and global distribution provides a unique opportunity to assess the generality of patterns and to address broad-scale global issues (e.g. climate change). To solve data integration issues and enable a new scale of ecological and evolutionary research based on long-term studies of birds, we have created the SPI-Birds Network and Database (www.spibirds.org)-a large-scale initiative that connects data from, and researchers working on, studies of wild populations of individually recognizable (usually ringed) birds. Within year and a half since the establishment, SPI-Birds has recruited over 120 members, and currently hosts data on almost 1.5 million individual birds collected in 80 populations over 2,000 cumulative years, and counting. SPI-Birds acts as a data hub and a catalogue of studied populations. It prevents data loss, secures easy data finding, use and integration and thus facilitates collaboration and synthesis. We provide community-derived data and meta-data standards and improve data integrity guided by the principles of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR), and aligned with the existing metadata languages (e.g. ecological meta-data language). The encouraging community involvement stems from SPI-Bird's decentralized approach: research groups retain full control over data use and their way of data management, while SPI-Birds creates tailored pipelines to convert each unique data format into a standard format. We outline the lessons learned, so that other communities (e.g. those working on other taxa) can adapt our successful model. Creating community-specific hubs (such as ours, COMADRE for animal demography, etc.) will aid much-needed large-scale ecological data integration.
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Le Vaillant J, Potti J, Camacho C, Canal D, Martínez-Padilla J. Fluctuating selection driven by global and local climatic conditions leads to stasis in breeding time in a migratory bird. J Evol Biol 2021; 34:1541-1553. [PMID: 34415649 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2019] [Revised: 07/26/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The origin of natural selection is linked to environmental heterogeneity, which influences variation in relative fitness among phenotypes. However, individuals in wild populations are exposed to a plethora of biotic and abiotic environmental factors. Surprisingly, the relative influence of multiple environmental conditions on the relative fitness of phenotypes has rarely been tested in wild populations. Identifying the main selection agent(s) is crucial when the target phenotype is tightly linked to reproduction and when temporal variation in selection is expected to affect evolutionary responses. By using individual-based data from a 29-year study of a short-lived migratory songbird, the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca), we studied the relative influence of 28 temperature- and precipitation-based factors at local and global scales on selection on breeding time (egg laying) at the phenotypic level. Selection, estimated using the number of recruits as a proxy for fitness, penalized late breeders. Minimum temperatures in April and May were the environmental drivers that best explained selection on laying date. In particular, there was negative directional selection on laying date mediated by minimum temperature in April, being strongest in cold years. In addition, nonlinear selection on laying date was influenced by minimum temperatures in May, with selection on laying date changing from null to negative as the breeding season progressed. The intensity of selection on late breeders increased when minimum temperatures in May were highest. Our results illustrate the complex influence of environmental factors on selection on laying date in wild bird populations. Despite minimum temperature in April being the only variable that changed over time, its increase did not induce a shift in laying date in the population. In this songbird population, stabilizing selection has led to a three-decade stasis in breeding time. We suggest that variation in the effects of multiple climatic variables on selection may constrain phenotypic change.
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- Justine Le Vaillant
- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Biological Conservation and Ecosystem Restoration, Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (CSIC), Jaca, Spain
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- Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary
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- Department of Biological Conservation and Ecosystem Restoration, Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (CSIC), Jaca, Spain
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Canal D, Schlicht L, Santoro S, Camacho C, Martínez-Padilla J, Potti J. Phenology-mediated effects of phenotype on the probability of social polygyny and its fitness consequences in a migratory passerine. BMC Ecol Evol 2021; 21:55. [PMID: 33849454 PMCID: PMC8042933 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-021-01786-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2021] [Accepted: 03/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Why females engage in social polygyny remains an unresolved question in species where the resources provided by males maximize female fitness. In these systems, the ability of males to access several females, as well as the willingness of females to mate with an already mated male, and the benefits of this choice, may be constrained by the socio-ecological factors experienced at the local scale. Here, we used a 19-year dataset from an individual-monitored population of pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) to establish local networks of breeding pairs. Then, we examined whether the probability of becoming socially polygynous and of mating with an already mated male (thus becoming a secondary female) is influenced by morphological and sexual traits as proxies of individual quality relative to the neighbours. We also evaluated whether social polygyny is adaptive for females by examining the effect of females’ mating status (polygamously-mated vs monogamously-mated) on direct (number of recruits in a given season) and indirect (lifetime number of fledglings produced by these recruits) fitness benefits. The phenotypic quality of individuals, by influencing their breeding asynchrony relative to their neighbours, mediated the probability of being involved in a polygynous event. Individuals in middle-age (2–3 years), with large wings and, in the case of males, with conspicuous sexual traits, started to breed earlier than their neighbours. By breeding locally early, males increased their chances of becoming polygynous, while females reduced their chances of mating with an already mated male. Our results suggest that secondary females may compensate the fitness costs, if any, of sharing a mate, since their number of descendants did not differ from monogamous females. We emphasize the need of accounting for local breeding settings (ecological, social, spatial, and temporal) and the phenotypic composition of neighbours to understand individual mating decisions.
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- David Canal
- Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Alkotmány u. 2-4, 2163, Vácrátót, Hungary.
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- Department of Behavioural Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Eberhard- Gwinner-Str. 7, 82319, Seewiesen, Germany
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- Department of Integrated Sciences, Faculty of Experimental Sciences, University of Huelva, Avda de las Fuerzas Armadas s/n, 21007, Huelva, Spain
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- Department of Biological Conservation and Ecosystem Restoration, Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (IPE-CSIC), Nuestra Señora de la Victoria, 16. 22700, Jaca, Spain
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- Department of Biological Conservation and Ecosystem Restoration, Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (IPE-CSIC), Nuestra Señora de la Victoria, 16. 22700, Jaca, Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), Américo Vespucio 26, 41092, Seville, Spain
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Baños‐Villalba A, Carrete M, Tella JL, Blas J, Potti J, Camacho C, Diop MS, Marchant TA, Cabezas S, Edelaar P. Selection on individuals of introduced species starts before the actual introduction. Evol Appl 2021; 14:781-793. [PMID: 33767752 PMCID: PMC7980263 DOI: 10.1111/eva.13159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2020] [Revised: 09/27/2020] [Accepted: 10/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
Abstract
Biological invasion is a global problem with large negative impacts on ecosystems and human societies. When a species is introduced, individuals will first have to pass through the invasion stages of uptake and transport, before actual introduction in a non-native range. Selection is predicted to act during these earliest stages of biological invasion, potentially influencing the invasiveness and/or impact of introduced populations. Despite this potential impact of pre-introduction selection, empirical tests are virtually lacking. To test the hypothesis of pre-introduction selection, we followed the fate of individuals during capture, initial acclimation, and captivity in two bird species with several invasive populations originating from the international trade in wild-caught pets (the weavers Ploceus melanocephalus and Euplectes afer). We confirm that pre-introduction selection acts on a wide range of physiological, morphological, behavioral, and demographic traits (incl. sex, age, size of body/brain/bill, bill shape, body mass, corticosterone levels, and escape behavior); these are all traits which likely affect invasion success. Our study thus comprehensively demonstrates the existence of hitherto ignored selection acting before the actual introduction into non-native ranges. This could ultimately change the composition and functioning of introduced populations, and therefore warrants greater attention. More knowledge on pre-introduction selection also might provide novel targets for the management of invasive species, if pre-introduction filters can be adjusted to change the quality and/or quantity of individuals passing through such that invasion probability and/or impacts are reduced.
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana‐CSICSevillaSpain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana‐CSICSevillaSpain
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Why females pair with already mated males and the mechanisms behind variation in such polygynous events within and across populations and years remain open questions. Here, we used a 19-year data set from a pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) population to investigate, through local networks of breeding pairs, the socio-ecological factors related to the probability of being involved in a polygynous event in both sexes. Then, we examined how the breeding contexts experienced by individuals shaped the spatial and temporal separation between broods of polygamous males. The probability of polygyny decreased with the distance between nests. Indeed, secondary females were often close neighbors of primary females, although the distance between both nests increased slightly with increasing synchrony between them. The probability of polygyny was also related to the breeding time of individuals because early breeding males were more likely to become polygynous with late-breeding females. Throughout the season, there was substantial variation in the temporal separation between primary and secondary broods, and this separation was, in turn, related to the breeding asynchrony of the polygamous males (in the primary nest) relative to the neighbors. Polygynous males that bred late relative to their neighbors had a short time window to attract a second female and, thus, the breeding interval between their primary and secondary broods was reduced. Overall, the spatial proximity between polygynous males’ broods and, if the opportunity existed, their temporal staggering are compatible with a male strategy to maximize paternity and reduce the costs of caring for two broods, though the effect of female’s interest, either primary or secondary, cannot be fully ruled out. We highlight that a comprehensive assessment of the breeding contexts faced by individuals is essential to understand mating decisions and reconcile the discrepancies raised by previous work on social polygyny.
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- David Canal
- Institute of Ecology and Botany, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary
- Center for the Study and Conservation of Birds of Prey and Institute for Earth and Environmental Sciences of La Pampa, Scientific and Technical Research Council, Santa Rosa, Argentina
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- Department of Behavioural Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Seville, Spain
- Department of Biology, Centre for Animal Movement Research (CAnMove), Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Seville, Spain
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Negro JJ, Galván I, Potti J. Adaptive plumage wear for increased crypsis in the plumage of Palearctic larks (Alaudidae). Ecology 2019; 100:e02771. [DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2019] [Revised: 04/19/2019] [Accepted: 04/30/2019] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Juan J. Negro
- Department of Evolutionary Ecology Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC) Avenida Américo Vespucio 26 Sevilla 41092 Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC) Avenida Américo Vespucio 26 Sevilla 41092 Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC) Avenida Américo Vespucio 26 Sevilla 41092 Spain
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Pérez-Rodríguez L, Redondo T, Ruiz-Mata R, Camacho C, Moreno-Rueda G, Potti J. Vitamin E Supplementation—But Not Induced Oxidative Stress—Influences Telomere Dynamics During Early Development in Wild Passerines. Front Ecol Evol 2019. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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- Carlos Camacho
- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), Américo Vespucio, Seville, Spain
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- Research Unit of Biodiversity, UMIB (CSIC, PA), University of Oviedo, Mieres, Spain
- Pyrenean Institute of Ecology, IPE (CSIC), Avda. Nuestra Señora de la Victoria, Jaca, Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), Américo Vespucio, Seville, Spain
- Centre for the Study and Conservation of Birds of Prey of Argentina (CECARA-UNLPam) & Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences of La Pampa (INCITAP), National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), Américo Vespucio, Seville, Spain
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Samplonius JM, Bartošová L, Burgess MD, Bushuev AV, Eeva T, Ivankina EV, Kerimov AB, Krams I, Laaksonen T, Mägi M, Mänd R, Potti J, Török J, Trnka M, Visser ME, Zang H, Both C. Phenological sensitivity to climate change is higher in resident than in migrant bird populations among European cavity breeders. Glob Chang Biol 2018; 24:3780-3790. [PMID: 29691942 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2017] [Revised: 03/08/2018] [Accepted: 03/14/2018] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
Abstract
Many organisms adjust their reproductive phenology in response to climate change, but phenological sensitivity to temperature may vary between species. For example, resident and migratory birds have vastly different annual cycles, which can cause differential temperature sensitivity at the breeding grounds, and may affect competitive dynamics. Currently, however, adjustment to climate change in resident and migratory birds have been studied separately or at relatively small geographical scales with varying time series durations and methodologies. Here, we studied differential effects of temperature on resident and migratory birds using the mean egg laying initiation dates from 10 European nest box schemes between 1991 and 2015 that had data on at least one resident tit species and at least one migratory flycatcher species. We found that both tits and flycatchers advanced laying in response to spring warming, but resident tit populations advanced more strongly in relation to temperature increases than migratory flycatchers. These different temperature responses have already led to a divergence in laying dates between tits and flycatchers of on average 0.94 days per decade over the current study period. Interestingly, this divergence was stronger at lower latitudes where the interval between tit and flycatcher phenology is smaller and winter conditions can be considered more favorable for resident birds. This could indicate that phenological adjustment to climate change by flycatchers is increasingly hampered by competition with resident species. Indeed, we found that tit laying date had an additional effect on flycatcher laying date after controlling for temperature, and this effect was strongest in areas with the shortest interval between both species groups. Combined, our results suggest that the differential effect of climate change on species groups with overlapping breeding ecology affects the phenological interval between them, potentially affecting interspecific interactions.
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- Jelmer M Samplonius
- Conservation Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Agrosystems and Bioclimatology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
- RSPB Centre for Conservation Science, The Lodge, Sandy, Beds, UK
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Zvenigorod Biological Station of Lomonosov, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology, University of Latvia, Rīga, Latvia
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- Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC, Seville, Spain
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- Behavioural Ecology Group, Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Agrosystems and Bioclimatology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Animal Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Conservation Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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Camacho C, Pérez-Rodríguez L, Abril-Colón I, Canal D, Potti J. Plumage colour predicts dispersal propensity in male pied flycatchers. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-017-2417-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Jaime Potti
- Departamento de Biología AnimalUniversidad de Alcalá, E-28871, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain
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Mueller JC, Edelaar P, Baños-Villalba A, Carrete M, Potti J, Blas J, Tella JL, Kempenaers B. Selection on a behaviour-related gene during the first stages of the biological invasion pathway. Mol Ecol 2017; 26:6110-6121. [PMID: 28926158 DOI: 10.1111/mec.14353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2017] [Revised: 08/30/2017] [Accepted: 09/05/2017] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
Abstract
Human-induced biological invasions are common worldwide and often have negative impacts on wildlife and human societies. Several studies have shown evidence for selection on invaders after introduction to the new range. However, selective processes already acting prior to introduction have been largely neglected. Here, we tested whether such early selection acts on known behaviour-related gene variants in the yellow-crowned bishop (Euplectes afer), a pet-traded African songbird. We tested for nonrandom allele frequency changes after trapping, acclimation and survival in captivity. We also compared the native source population with two independent invasive populations. Allele frequencies of two SNPs in the dopamine receptor D4 (DRD4) gene-known to be linked to behavioural activity in response to novelty in this species-significantly changed over all early invasion stages. They also differed between the African native population and the two invading European populations. The two-locus genotype associated with reduced activity declined consistently, but strongest at the trapping stage. Overall genetic diversity did not substantially decrease, and there is little evidence for new alleles in the introduced populations, indicating that selection at the DRD4 gene predominantly worked on the standing genetic variation already present in the native population. Our study demonstrates selection on a behaviour-related gene during the first stages of a biological invasion. Thus, pre-establishment stages of a biological invasion do not only determine the number of propagules that are introduced (their quantity), but also their phenotypic and genetic characteristics (their quality).
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- Jakob C Mueller
- Department of Behavioural Ecology & Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemical Engineering, University Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemical Engineering, University Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC, Sevilla, Spain.,Department of Physical, Chemical and Natural Systems, University Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Behavioural Ecology & Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany
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Potti J. MATERNAL EFFECTS AND THE PERVASIVE IMPACT OF NESTLING HISTORY ON EGG SIZE IN A PASSERINE BIRD. Evolution 2017; 53:279-285. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1999.tb05353.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/1997] [Accepted: 09/24/1998] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Jaime Potti
- Departamento de Biología Animal; Universidad de Alcalá; E-28871 Alcalá de Henares Madrid Spain
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Camacho C, Sáez-Gómez P, Potti J, Fedriani JM. Nightjars, rabbits, and foxes interact on unpaved roads: spatial use of a secondary prey in a shared-predator system. Ecosphere 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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- Carlos Camacho
- Department of Evolutionary Ecology; Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC; Av. Américo Vespucio 41092 Seville Spain
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- Department of Integrative Sciences; University of Huelva; Campus Universitario El Carmen Av. Andalucía 21071 Huelva Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology; Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC; Av. Américo Vespucio 41092 Seville Spain
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- Department of Conservation Biology; Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC; Av. Américo Vespucio 41092 Seville Spain
- Centre for Applied Ecology “Prof. Baeta Neves”/InBIO; Institute Superior of Agronomy; University of Lisbon; Tapada da Ajuda 1349-017 Lisboa Portugal
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Camacho C, Canal D, Potti J. Natal habitat imprinting counteracts the diversifying effects of phenotype-dependent dispersal in a spatially structured population. BMC Evol Biol 2016; 16:158. [PMID: 27503506 PMCID: PMC4976508 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-016-0724-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2016] [Accepted: 07/18/2016] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Habitat selection may have profound evolutionary consequences, but they strongly depend on the underlying preference mechanism, including genetically-determined, natal habitat and phenotype-dependent preferences. It is known that different mechanisms may operate at the same time, yet their relative contribution to population differentiation remains largely unexplored empirically mainly because of the difficulty of finding suitable study systems. Here, we investigate the role of early experience and genetic background in determining the outcome of settlement by pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) breeding in two habitat patches between which dispersal and subsequent reproductive performance is influenced by phenotype (body size). For this, we conducted a cross-fostering experiment in a two-patch system: an oakwood and a conifer plantation separated by only 1 km. Results Experimental birds mostly returned to breed in the forest patch where they were raised, whether it was that of their genetic or their foster parents, indicating that decisions on where to settle are determined by individuals’ experience in their natal site, rather than by their genetic background. Nevertheless, nearly a third (27.6 %) moved away from the rearing habitat and, as previously observed in unmanipulated individuals, dispersal between habitats was phenotype-dependent. Pied flycatchers breeding in the oak and the pine forests are differentiated by body size, and analyses of genetic variation at microsatellite loci now provide evidence of subtle genetic differentiation between the two populations. This suggests that phenotype-dependent dispersal may contribute to population structure despite the short distance and widespread exchange of birds between the study plots. Conclusions Taken together, the current and previous findings that pied flycatchers do not always settle in the habitat to which they are best suited suggest that their strong tendency to return to the natal patch regardless of their body size might lead to maladaptive settlement decisions and thus constrain the potential of phenotype-dependent dispersal to promote microgeographic adaptation.
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- Carlos Camacho
- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC, Av. Américo Vespucio s/n, 41092, Seville, Spain.
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC, Av. Américo Vespucio s/n, 41092, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC, Av. Américo Vespucio s/n, 41092, Seville, Spain
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Mills JA, Teplitsky C, Arroyo B, Charmantier A, Becker PH, Birkhead TR, Bize P, Blumstein DT, Bonenfant C, Boutin S, Bushuev A, Cam E, Cockburn A, Côté SD, Coulson JC, Daunt F, Dingemanse NJ, Doligez B, Drummond H, Espie RHM, Festa-Bianchet M, Frentiu F, Fitzpatrick JW, Furness RW, Garant D, Gauthier G, Grant PR, Griesser M, Gustafsson L, Hansson B, Harris MP, Jiguet F, Kjellander P, Korpimäki E, Krebs CJ, Lens L, Linnell JDC, Low M, McAdam A, Margalida A, Merilä J, Møller AP, Nakagawa S, Nilsson JÅ, Nisbet ICT, van Noordwijk AJ, Oro D, Pärt T, Pelletier F, Potti J, Pujol B, Réale D, Rockwell RF, Ropert-Coudert Y, Roulin A, Sedinger JS, Swenson JE, Thébaud C, Visser ME, Wanless S, Westneat DF, Wilson AJ, Zedrosser A. Archiving Primary Data: Solutions for Long-Term Studies. Trends Ecol Evol 2016; 30:581-589. [PMID: 26411615 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2015] [Revised: 07/14/2015] [Accepted: 07/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The recent trend for journals to require open access to primary data included in publications has been embraced by many biologists, but has caused apprehension amongst researchers engaged in long-term ecological and evolutionary studies. A worldwide survey of 73 principal investigators (Pls) with long-term studies revealed positive attitudes towards sharing data with the agreement or involvement of the PI, and 93% of PIs have historically shared data. Only 8% were in favor of uncontrolled, open access to primary data while 63% expressed serious concern. We present here their viewpoint on an issue that can have non-trivial scientific consequences. We discuss potential costs of public data archiving and provide possible solutions to meet the needs of journals and researchers.
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- Département Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité, UMR 7204 CNRS/MNHN/UPMC, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
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- Instituto de Investigacion en Recursos Cinegeticos (IREC) (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ronda de Toledo s/n, 13005 Ciudad, Real, Spain
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive UMR 5175, Campus CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier CEDEX 5, France
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- Institute of Avian Research, 'Vogelwarte Helgoland', An der Vogelwarte 21 D26386 Wilhelmshaven, Germany
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- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 621 Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USA
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- CNRS,Université Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, UMR 5558, Laboratoire Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive, 43 boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne CEDEX, France
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1/12, 119234 Moscow, Russia
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- UMR 5174 EDB Laboratoire Évolution et Diversité Biologique, CNRS, ENFA, Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier, 31062 Toulouse CEDEX 9, France
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology and Genetics, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Département de Biologie and Centre d'Etudes Nordiques, Université Laval, 1045 avenue de la Médecine, Québec G1V 0A6, Canada
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- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bush Estate, Penicuik, EH26 0QB UK
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- Behavioural Ecology, Department of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany; Evolutionary Ecology of Variation Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany
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- CNRS,Université Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, UMR 5558, Laboratoire Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive, 43 boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne CEDEX, France
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- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, AP 70-275, México DF 04510, México
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- Technical Resource Branch, Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment, 3211 Albert Street, Regina, Saskatchewan, S4S 5W6, Canada
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- Département de Biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 Boulevard de l'Université, Sherbrooke, Québec J1K 2R1, Canada
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- School of Biomedical Sciences and Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, QLD 4059 Australia
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- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
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- Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
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- Département de Biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 Boulevard de l'Université, Sherbrooke, Québec J1K 2R1, Canada
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- Département de Biologie and Centre d'Etudes Nordiques, Université Laval, 1045 avenue de la Médecine, Québec G1V 0A6, Canada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1003, USA
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- Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Animal Ecology, Evolutionary Biology Center, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, Ecology Building, 223 62, Lund, Sweden
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- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bush Estate, Penicuik, EH26 0QB UK
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- CESCO, UMR7204 Sorbonne Universités-MNHN-CNRS-UPMC, CP51, 55 Rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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- Grimso Wildlife Research Station, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) 73091, Riddarhyttan, Sweden
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- Section of Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, 20014 Turku, Finland
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- Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Gent, Belgium
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, PO Box 5685 Sluppen, 7485 Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 75007 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Faculty of Life Sciences and Engineering, University of Lleida, 25198 Lleida, Spain
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- Ecological Genetics Research Unit, Department of Biosciences, PO Box 65 (Biocenter 3, Viikinkaari 1), University of Helsinki, 00014 Helskinki, Finland
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- Laboratoire Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, Equipe Diversité, Ecologie et Evolution Microbiennes, Bâtiment 362, 91405 Orsay CEDEX, France
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- Evolution and Ecology Research Centre and School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Animal Ecology, Evolutionary Biology Center, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- I.C.T. Nisbet and Company, 150 Alder Lane, North Falmouth, MA 02556, USA
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- Department of Animal Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), PO Box 50, 6700 AB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Miquel Marques 21, 07190 Esporles, Mallorca, Spain
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 75007 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Département de Biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 Boulevard de l'Université, Sherbrooke, Québec J1K 2R1, Canada
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- Departamento de Ecologia Evolutiva, Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC, Av. Américo Vespucio s/n, 41092 Seville, Spain
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology and Genetics, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Département des Sciences Biologiques, Université du Québec A Montréal, CP 8888 Cuccursale Centre Ville, Montréal, Québec H3C 3P8, Canada
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- Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024 USA
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- Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, CNRS UMR7178, 23 rue Becquerel 67087 Strasbourg, France
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Nevada Reno, Reno NV 89512, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, PO Box 5003, 1432 Ås, and Norway and Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, PO Box 5685 Sluppen, 7485 Trondheim, Norway
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- UMR 5174 EDB Laboratoire Évolution et Diversité Biologique, CNRS, ENFA, Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier, 31062 Toulouse CEDEX 9, France
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- Department of Animal Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), PO Box 50, 6700 AB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bush Estate, Penicuik, EH26 0QB UK
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- Department of Biology, Center for Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn TR10 9EZ, UK
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- Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental and Health Studies, Telemark University College, 3800 Bø i Telemark, Norway
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Camacho C, Sáez P, Sánchez S, Palacios S, Molina C, Potti J. The road to opportunities: landscape change promotes body-size divergence in a highly mobile species. Curr Zool 2016; 62:7-14. [PMID: 29491885 PMCID: PMC5804134 DOI: 10.1093/cz/zov008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2015] [Accepted: 04/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Landscape change provides a suitable framework for investigating population-level responses to novel ecological pressures. However, relatively little attention has been paid to examine the potential influence of landscape change on the geographic scale of population differentiation. Here, we tested for morphological differentiation of red-necked nightjars Caprimulgus ruficollis breeding in a managed property and a natural reserve situated less than 10 km apart. At both sites, we also estimated site fidelity over 5 years and quantified the potential foraging opportunities for nightjars. Breeding birds in the managed habitat were significantly larger in size—as indexed by keel length—than those in the natural one. However, there were no significant differences in wing or tail length. Immigration from neighboring areas was almost negligible and, furthermore, no individual (out of 1130 captures overall) exchanged habitats between years, indicating strong site fidelity. Food supply for nightjars was equally abundant in both habitats, but the availability of foraging sites was remarkably higher in the managed property. As a result, nightjars—particularly fledglings—in the latter habitat benefited from increased foraging opportunities in relation to those in the natural site. It seems likely that the fine-scale variation in nightjar morphology reflects a phenotypic response to unequal local conditions, since non-random dispersal or differential mortality had been determined not to be influential. High site fidelity appears to contribute to the maintenance of body-size differences between the two habitats. Results from this nightjar population highlight the potential of human-induced landscape change to promote population-level responses at exceedingly small geographic scales.
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- Carlos Camacho
- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC, Av. Américo Vespucio, 41092 Seville, Spain
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- Department of Environmental Biology and Public Health. University of Huelva. Av. Andalucía, 21071 Huelva, Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC, Av. Américo Vespucio, 41092 Seville, Spain
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- Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC, Av. Américo Vespucio, 41092 Seville, Spain, and
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- Sociedad Española de Ornitología. Centro Ornitológico Francisco Bernis. Paseo Marismeño sn, 21750 Huelva, Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC, Av. Américo Vespucio, 41092 Seville, Spain
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Sanz-Aguilar A, Carrete M, Edelaar P, Potti J, Tella JL. The empty temporal niche: breeding phenology differs between coexisting native and invasive birds. Biol Invasions 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-015-0952-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Laaksonen T, Sirkiä PM, Calhim S, Brommer JE, Leskinen PK, Primmer CR, Adamík P, Artemyev AV, Belskii E, Both C, Bureš S, Burgess MD, Doligez B, Forsman JT, Grinkov V, Hoffmann U, Ivankina E, Král M, Krams I, Lampe HM, Moreno J, Mägi M, Nord A, Potti J, Ravussin PA, Sokolov L. Sympatric divergence and clinal variation in multiple coloration traits of Ficedula flycatchers. J Evol Biol 2015; 28:779-90. [PMID: 25683091 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2014] [Revised: 01/23/2015] [Accepted: 02/06/2015] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Geographic variation in phenotypes plays a key role in fundamental evolutionary processes such as local adaptation, population differentiation and speciation, but the selective forces behind it are rarely known. We found support for the hypothesis that geographic variation in plumage traits of the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca is explained by character displacement with the collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollis in the contact zone. The plumage traits of the pied flycatcher differed strongly from the more conspicuous collared flycatcher in a sympatric area but increased in conspicuousness with increasing distance to there. Phenotypic differentiation (PST ) was higher than that in neutral genetic markers (FST ), and the effect of geographic distance remained when statistically controlling for neutral genetic differentiation. This suggests that a cline created by character displacement and gene flow explains phenotypic variation across the distribution of this species. The different plumage traits of the pied flycatcher are strongly to moderately correlated, indicating that they evolve non-independently from each other. The flycatchers provide an example of plumage patterns diverging in two species that differ in several aspects of appearance. The divergence in sympatry and convergence in allopatry in these birds provide a possibility to study the evolutionary mechanisms behind the highly divergent avian plumage patterns.
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- T Laaksonen
- Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland; Finnish Museum of Natural History, Zoology Unit, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Sirkiä PM, Adamík P, Artemyev AV, Belskii E, Both C, Bureš S, Burgess M, Bushuev AV, Forsman JT, Grinkov V, Hoffmann D, Järvinen A, Král M, Krams I, Lampe HM, Moreno J, Mägi M, Nord A, Potti J, Ravussin PA, Sokolov L, Laaksonen T. Fecundity selection does not vary along a large geographical cline of trait means in a passerine bird. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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- Päivi M. Sirkiä
- Department of Biology; Section of Ecology; University of Turku; Turku Finland
- Finnish Museum of Natural History; Zoology Unit; University of Helsinki; Helsinki Finland
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- Department of Zoology and Laboratory of Ornithology; Palacky University; Olomouc Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biology, Karelian Research Centre; Russian Academy of Science; Petrozavodsk Russia
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- Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology; Ural Branch; Russian Academy of Science; Ekaterinburg Russia
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- Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies; University of Groningen; Haren The Netherlands
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- Department of Zoology and Laboratory of Ornithology; Palacky University; Olomouc Czech Republic
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- Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour; School of Life & Environmental Sciences; University of Exeter; Exeter UK
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology; Faculty of Biology; Moscow State University; Moscow Russia
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology; Faculty of Biology; Moscow State University; Moscow Russia
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- Kilpisjärvi Biological Station; University of Helsinki; Helsinki Finland
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- Institute of Systematic Biology; University of Daugavpils; Daugavpils Latvia
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- Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis; University of Oslo; Oslo Norway
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- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva; Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC; Madrid Spain
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences; Department of Zoology; University of Tartu; Tartu Estonia
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- Department of Biology; Section of Evolutionary Ecology; Lund University; Lund Sweden
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology; Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC; Sevilla Spain
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- Biological Station of the Zoological Institute; Russian Academy of Science; Rybachy Russia
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- Department of Biology; Section of Ecology; University of Turku; Turku Finland
- Finnish Museum of Natural History; Zoology Unit; University of Helsinki; Helsinki Finland
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Canal D, Serrano D, Potti J. Exploring heterozygosity-survival correlations in a wild songbird population: contrasting effects between juvenile and adult stages. PLoS One 2014; 9:e105020. [PMID: 25122217 PMCID: PMC4133379 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2014] [Accepted: 06/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The relationship between genetic diversity and fitness, a major issue in evolutionary and conservation biology, is expected to be stronger in traits affected by many loci and those directly influencing fitness. Here we explore the influence of heterozygosity measured at 15 neutral markers on individual survival, one of the most important parameters determining individual fitness. We followed individual survival up to recruitment and during subsequent adult life of 863 fledgling pied flycatchers born in two consecutive breeding seasons. Mark-recapture analyses showed that individual heterozygosity did not influence juvenile or adult survival. In contrast, the genetic relatedness of parents was negatively associated with the offspring’s survival during the adult life, but this effect was not apparent in the juvenile (from fledgling to recruitment) stage. Stochastic factors experienced during the first year of life in this long-distance migratory species may have swamped a relationship between heterozygosity and survival up to recruitment.
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- David Canal
- Doñana Biological Station – CSIC, Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Sevilla, Spain
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- Doñana Biological Station – CSIC, Department of Conservation Biology, Sevilla, Spain
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- Doñana Biological Station – CSIC, Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Sevilla, Spain
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Camacho C, Palacios S, Sáez P, Sánchez S, Potti J. Human-induced changes in landscape configuration influence individual movement routines: lessons from a versatile, highly mobile species. PLoS One 2014; 9:e104974. [PMID: 25110888 PMCID: PMC4128739 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2014] [Accepted: 07/16/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Landscape conversion by humans may have detrimental effects on animal populations inhabiting managed ecosystems, but human-altered areas may also provide suitable environments for tolerant species. We investigated the spatial ecology of a highly mobile nocturnal avian species-the red-necked nightjar (Caprimulgus ruficollis)-in two contrastingly managed areas in Southwestern Spain to provide management recommendations for species having multiple habitat requirements. Based on habitat use by radiotagged nightjars, we created maps of functional heterogeneity in both areas so that the movements of breeding individuals could be modeled using least-cost path analyses. In both the natural and the managed area, nightjars used remnants of native shrublands as nesting sites, while pinewood patches (either newly planted or natural mature) and roads were selected as roosting and foraging habitats, respectively. Although the fraction of functional habitat was held relatively constant (60.9% vs. 74.1% in the natural and the managed area, respectively), landscape configuration changed noticeably. As a result, least-cost routes (summed linear distances) from nest locations to the nearest roost and foraging sites were three times larger in the natural than in the managed area (mean ± SE: 1356±76 m vs. 439±32 m). It seems likely that the increased proximity of functional habitats in the managed area relative to the natural one is underlying the significantly higher abundances of nightjars observed therein, where breeders should travel shorter distances to link together essential resources, thus likely reducing their energy expenditure and mortality risks. Our results suggest that landscape configuration, but not habitat availability, is responsible for the observed differences between the natural and the managed area in the abundance and movements of breeding nightjars, although no effect on body condition was detected. Agricultural landscapes could be moderately managed to preserve small native remnants and to favor the juxtaposition of functional habitats to benefit those farm species relying on patchy resources.
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- Carlos Camacho
- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana–CSIC, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana–CSIC, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Environmental Biology and Public Health, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana–CSIC, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana–CSIC, Seville, Spain
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Mueller JC, Edelaar P, Carrete M, Serrano D, Potti J, Blas J, Dingemanse NJ, Kempenaers B, Tella JL. Behaviour-related DRD4 polymorphisms in invasive bird populations. Mol Ecol 2014; 23:2876-85. [PMID: 24750181 DOI: 10.1111/mec.12763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2013] [Revised: 04/09/2014] [Accepted: 04/16/2014] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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It has been suggested that individual behavioural traits influence the potential to successfully colonize new areas. Identifying the genetic basis of behavioural variation in invasive species thus represents an important step towards understanding the evolutionary potential of the invader. Here, we sequenced a candidate region for neophilic/neophobic and activity behaviour - the complete exon 3 of the DRD4 gene - in 100 Yellow-crowned bishops (Euplectes afer) from two invasive populations in Spain and Portugal. The same birds were scored twice for activity behaviour while exposed to novel objects (battery or slice of apple) in captivity. Response to novel objects was repeatable (r = 0.41) within individuals. We identified two synonymous DRD4 SNPs that explained on average between 11% and 15% of the phenotypic variance in both populations, indicating a clear genetic component to the neophilic/neophobic/activity personality axis in this species. This consistently high estimated effect size was mainly due to the repeated measurement design, which excludes part of the within-individual nongenetic variance in the response to different novel objects. We suggest that the alternative alleles of these SNPs are likely introduced from the original population and maintained by weak or antagonistic selection during different stages of the invasion process. The identified genetic variants have not only the potential to serve as genetic markers of the neophobic/neophilic/activity personality axis, but may also help to understand the evolution of behaviour in these invasive bird populations.
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- J C Mueller
- Department of Behavioural Ecology & Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany
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Camacho C, Canal D, Potti J. Nonrandom dispersal drives phenotypic divergence within a bird population. Ecol Evol 2013; 3:4841-8. [PMID: 24363908 PMCID: PMC3867915 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2013] [Revised: 03/13/2013] [Accepted: 03/14/2013] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Gene flow through dispersal has traditionally been thought to function as a force opposing evolutionary differentiation. However, directional gene flow may actually reinforce divergence of populations in close proximity. This study documents the phenotypic differentiation over more than two decades in body size (tarsus length) at a very short spatial scale (1.1 km) within a population of pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca inhabiting deciduous and coniferous habitats. Unlike females, males breeding in the deciduous forest were consistently larger than those from the managed coniferous forest. This assortment by size is likely explained by preset habitat preferences leading to dominance of the largest males and exclusion of the smallest ones toward the nonpreferred coniferous forest coupled with directional dispersal. Movements of males between forests were nonrandom with respect to body size and flow rate, which might function to maintain the phenotypic variation in this heritable trait at such a small spatial scale. However, a deeply rooted preference for the deciduous habitat might not be in line with its quality due to the increased levels of breeding density of hole-nesting competitors therein. These results illustrate how eco-evolutionary scenarios can develop under directional gene flow over surprisingly small spatial scales. Our findings come on top of recent studies concerning new ways in which dispersal and gene flow can influence microevolution.
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- Carlos Camacho
- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC Av. Américo Vespucio s/n, 41092, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC Av. Américo Vespucio s/n, 41092, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC Av. Américo Vespucio s/n, 41092, Seville, Spain
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Potti J, Blanco G, Lemus JÁ, Canal D. Retraction: infectious offspring: how birds acquire and transmit an avian polyomavirus in the wild. PLoS One 2013; 8. [PMID: 23690907 PMCID: PMC3655198 DOI: 10.1371/annotation/255a6a86-fee6-4663-a23f-36e392e87656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Potti J, Canal D, Serrano D. Lifetime fitness and age-related female ornament signalling: evidence for survival and fecundity selection in the pied flycatcher. J Evol Biol 2013; 26:1445-57. [DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2012] [Revised: 02/14/2013] [Accepted: 02/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- J. Potti
- Department of Evolutionary Ecology; Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC; Seville Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology; Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC; Seville Spain
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- Department of Conservation Biology; Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC; Seville Spain
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Canal D, Jovani R, Potti J. Male decisions or female accessibility? Spatiotemporal patterns of extra pair paternity in a songbird. Behav Ecol 2012. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ars090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Garamszegi LZ, Rosivall B, Rettenbacher S, Markó G, Zsebők S, Szöllősi E, Eens M, Potti J, Török J. Corticosterone, Avoidance of Novelty, Risk-Taking and Aggression in a Wild Bird: No Evidence for Pleiotropic Effects. Ethology 2012. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2012.02049.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Behavioural Ecology Group, Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology; Eötvös Loránd University; Budapest; Hungary
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Biochemistry; University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna; Vienna; Austria
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- Behavioural Ecology Group, Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology; Eötvös Loránd University; Budapest; Hungary
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- Department of Biology; University of Antwerp Wilrijk; Belgium
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology; Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC; Seville; Spain
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- Behavioural Ecology Group, Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology; Eötvös Loránd University; Budapest; Hungary
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Edelaar P, Serrano D, Carrete M, Blas J, Potti J, Tella JL. Tonic immobility is a measure of boldness toward predators: an application of Bayesian structural equation modeling. Behav Ecol 2012. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ars006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Carrete M, Edelaar P, Blas J, Serrano D, Potti J, Dingemanse NJ, Tella JL. Don't neglect pre-establishment individual selection in deliberate introductions. Trends Ecol Evol 2011; 27:67-8; author reply 68-9. [PMID: 22196741 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.11.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2011] [Revised: 11/10/2011] [Accepted: 11/24/2011] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Lehtonen PK, Laaksonen T, Artemyev AV, Belskii E, Berg PR, Both C, Buggiotti L, Bureš S, Burgess MD, Bushuev AV, Krams I, Moreno J, Mägi M, Nord A, Potti J, Ravussin PA, Sirkiä PM, Sætre GP, Winkel W, Primmer CR. Candidate genes for colour and vision exhibit signals of selection across the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) breeding range. Heredity (Edinb) 2011; 108:431-40. [PMID: 22027894 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2011.93] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The role of natural selection in shaping adaptive trait differentiation in natural populations has long been recognized. Determining its molecular basis, however, remains a challenge. Here, we search for signals of selection in candidate genes for colour and its perception in a passerine bird. Pied flycatcher plumage varies geographically in both its structural and pigment-based properties. Both characteristics appear to be shaped by selection. A single-locus outlier test revealed 2 of 14 loci to show significantly elevated signals of divergence. The first of these, the follistatin gene, is expressed in the developing feather bud and is found in pathways with genes that determine the structure of feathers and may thus be important in generating variation in structural colouration. The second is a gene potentially underlying the ability to detect this variation: SWS1 opsin. These two loci were most differentiated in two Spanish pied flycatcher populations, which are also among the populations that have the highest UV reflectance. The follistatin and SWS1 opsin genes thus provide strong candidates for future investigations on the molecular basis of adaptively significant traits and their co-evolution.
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- P K Lehtonen
- Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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Canal D, Alcaide M, Anmarkrud JA, Potti J. Towards the simplification of MHC typing protocols: targeting classical MHC class II genes in a passerine, the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca. BMC Res Notes 2010; 3:236. [PMID: 20815923 PMCID: PMC2944132 DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-3-236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2010] [Accepted: 09/05/2010] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) has drawn the attention of evolutionary biologists due to its importance in crucial biological processes, such as sexual selection and immune response in jawed vertebrates. However, the characterization of classical MHC genes subjected to the effects of natural selection still remains elusive in many vertebrate groups. Here, we have tested the suitability of flanking intron sequences to guide the selective exploration of classical MHC genes driving the co-evolutionary dynamics between pathogens and their passerine (Aves, Order Passeriformes) hosts. Findings Intronic sequences flanking the usually polymorphic exon 2 were isolated from different species using primers sitting on conserved coding regions of MHC class II genes (β chain). Taking the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca as an example, we demonstrate that careful primer design can evade non-classical MHC gene and pseudogene amplification. At least four polymorphic and expressed loci were co-replicated using a single pair of primers in five non-related individuals (N = 28 alleles). The cross-amplification and preliminary inspection of similar MHC fragments in eight unrelated songbird taxa suggests that similar approaches can also be applied to other species. Conclusions Intron sequences flanking the usually polymorphic exon 2 may assist the specific investigation of classical MHC class II B genes in species characterized by extensive gene duplication and pseudogenization. Importantly, the evasion of non-classical MHC genes with a more specific function and non-functional pseudogenes may accelerate data collection and diminish lab costs. Comprehensive knowledge of gene structure, polymorphism and expression profiles may be useful not only for the selective examination of evolutionarily relevant genes but also to restrict chimera formation by minimizing the number of co-amplifying loci.
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- David Canal
- Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC, Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Av, Américo Vespucio s/n, 41092 Seville, Spain.
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Lehtonen PK, Laaksonen T, Artemyev AV, Belskii E, Both C, Bures S, Bushuev AV, Krams I, Moreno J, Mägi M, Nord A, Potti J, Ravussin PA, Sirkiä PM, Saetre GP, Primmer CR. Geographic patterns of genetic differentiation and plumage colour variation are different in the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca). Mol Ecol 2009; 18:4463-76. [PMID: 19796331 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2009.04364.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The pied flycatcher is one of the most phenotypically variable bird species in Europe. The geographic variation in phenotypes has often been attributed to spatial variation in selection regimes that is associated with the presence or absence of the congeneric collared flycatcher. Spatial variation in phenotypes could however also be generated by spatially restricted gene flow and genetic drift. We examined the genetic population structure of pied flycatchers across the breeding range and applied the phenotypic Q(ST) (P(ST))-F(ST) approach to detect indirect signals of divergent selection on dorsal plumage colouration in pied flycatcher males. Allelic frequencies at neutral markers were found to significantly differ among populations breeding in central and southern Europe whereas northerly breeding pied flycatchers were found to be one apparently panmictic group of individuals. Pairwise differences between phenotypic (P(ST)) and neutral genetic distances (F(ST)) were positively correlated after removing the most differentiated Spanish and Swiss populations from the analysis, suggesting that genetic drift may have contributed to the observed phenotypic differentiation in some parts of the pied flycatcher breeding range. Differentiation in dorsal plumage colouration however greatly exceeded that observed at neutral genetic markers, which indicates that the observed pattern of phenotypic differentiation is unlikely to be solely maintained by restricted gene flow and genetic drift.
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- Paula K Lehtonen
- Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku 20014, Finland.
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Potti J, Blanco G, Lemus JA, Canal D. Infectious offspring: how birds acquire and transmit an avian polyomavirus in the wild. PLoS One 2007; 2:e1276. [PMID: 18060070 PMCID: PMC2093992 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2007] [Accepted: 11/13/2007] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Detailed patterns of primary virus acquisition and subsequent dispersal in wild vertebrate populations are virtually absent. We show that nestlings of a songbird acquire polyomavirus infections from larval blowflies, common nest ectoparasites of cavity-nesting birds, while breeding adults acquire and renew the same viral infections via cloacal shedding from their offspring. Infections by these DNA viruses, known potential pathogens producing disease in some bird species, therefore follow an 'upwards vertical' route of an environmental nature mimicking horizontal transmission within families, as evidenced by patterns of viral infection in adults and young of experimental, cross-fostered offspring. This previously undescribed route of viral transmission from ectoparasites to offspring to parent hosts may be a common mechanism of virus dispersal in many taxa that display parental care.
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- Jaime Potti
- Estación Biológica de Doñana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Pabellón del Perú, Sevilla, Spain.
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Both C, Artemyev AV, Blaauw B, Cowie RJ, Dekhuijzen AJ, Eeva T, Enemar A, Gustafsson L, Ivankina EV, Järvinen A, Metcalfe NB, Nyholm NEI, Potti J, Ravussin PA, Sanz JJ, Silverin B, Slater FM, Sokolov LV, Török J, Winkel W, Wright J, Zang H, Visser ME. Large-scale geographical variation confirms that climate change causes birds to lay earlier. Proc Biol Sci 2004; 271:1657-62. [PMID: 15306284 PMCID: PMC1691776 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 317] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Advances in the phenology of organisms are often attributed to climate change, but alternatively, may reflect a publication bias towards advances and may be caused by environmental factors unrelated to climate change. Both factors are investigated using the breeding dates of 25 long-term studied populations of Ficedula flycatchers across Europe. Trends in spring temperature varied markedly between study sites, and across populations the advancement of laying date was stronger in areas where the spring temperatures increased more, giving support to the theory that climate change causally affects breeding date advancement.
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- Christiaan Both
- Netherlands Institute of Ecology, PO Box 40, 6666ZG Heteren, The Netherlands.
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Goyache J, Ballesteros C, Vela AI, Collins MD, Briones V, Hutson RA, Potti J, García-Borboroglu P, Domínguez L, Fernández-Garayzábal JF. Corynebacterium sphenisci sp. nov., isolated from wild penguins. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1009-1012. [PMID: 12892119 DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.02502-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Six unidentified gram-positive, rod-shaped organisms recovered from the cloacae of apparently healthy wild penguins were characterized by phenotypic and molecular taxonomic methods. Chemotaxonomic investigations revealed the presence of a cell wall based on meso-diaminopimelic acid and long-chain cellular fatty acids of the straight-chain saturated and monounsaturated types, consistent with the genus Corynebacterium. Corynomycolic acids, which are characteristic of the genus, were also detected, albeit in small amounts. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequencing studies showed that the unidentified organisms were phylogenetically related to corynebacteria and represent a novel subline associated with a small subcluster of species that includes Corynebacterium xerosis, Corynebacterium amycolatum and Corynebacterium freneyi. The unknown isolates were readily distinguished from their closest phylogenetic relatives and all other Corynebacterium species with validly published names by using a combination of biochemical and chemotaxonomic criteria. Based on both phenotypic and 16S rRNA gene sequence considerations, it is proposed that the unknown isolates recovered from penguins be classified as a novel species in the genus Corynebacterium, Corynebacterium sphenisci sp. nov. The type strain is CECT 5990T (= CCUG 46398T).
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- J Goyache
- Departamento de Patología Animal I (Sanidad Animal), Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Patología Animal I (Sanidad Animal), Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Patología Animal I (Sanidad Animal), Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- School of Food Biosciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AP, UK
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- Departamento de Patología Animal I (Sanidad Animal), Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- School of Food Biosciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AP, UK
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- Departamento de Biología Animal, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, 28871 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Patología Animal I (Sanidad Animal), Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Patología Animal I (Sanidad Animal), Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Potti J, Moreno J, Yorio P, Briones V, García-Borboroglu P, Villar S, Ballesteros C. Bacteria divert resources from growth for magellanic penguin chicks. Ecol Lett 2002. [DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00375.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Until recently, analyses of gender-dependent differences in viability selection and the ontogeny of sexual size dimorphism have been plagued by difficulties in determining the sex of nestling birds on the basis of morphology. Recently, this problem was overcome using molecular sex identification to report for the first time body-size-mediated antagonistic selection on the viability of male and female collared flycatchers. We used molecular sex identification to analyse natural selection on fledgling viability, sexual size dimorphism and effects of parasites in relation to gender in a Mediterranean population of the related pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca. There was directional positive selection on fledgling weight but no selection on tarsus length. Fledgling weight was the most important determinant of fledgling survival, with heavier fledglings having increased viability. Although selective trends were of the same sign for both sexes, only among female fledglings were selection differentials and gradients statistically significant. Therefore, similar trends in selection were revealed in analyses of a data set where sex was ignored and in separate analyses using same-sex sibship trait means. Mite nest ectoparasites negatively affected fledgling weight, and the effects were stronger in female than male fledglings. There was no effect of parasitism on the tarsus length in males, as previously reported in retrospective analyses performed without knowledge of sex until recruitment. Overall, selection on fledgling viability on the basis of morphological traits and hatching date was not confounded by an individual's gender.
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- J Potti
- Departamento de Biología Animal, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Alcalá, E-28871 - Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
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Moreno J, Yorio P, Garcia-Borboroglu P, Potti J, Villar S. Health state and reproductive output in Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus). ETHOL ECOL EVOL 2002. [DOI: 10.1080/08927014.2002.9522758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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