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Adaptive immune response selects for postponed maturation and increased body size
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Data from: Selection on growth rate and local adaptation drive genomic adaptation during experimental range expansions in the protist Tetrahymena thermophila
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Continuously fluctuating selection reveals extreme granularity and parallelism of adaptive tracking
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Artifacts related to "Using Informed Access Network Selection to Improve HTTP Adaptive Streaming Performance"
<p>This archive contains data related to in the following paper:</p> <p>"Using Informed Access Network Selection to Improve HTTP Adaptive Streaming Performance"</p> <p>(published at the ACM MMSys 2020 conference)</p> <p>Copyright (c) 2020, Theresa Enghardt <theresa@tenghardt.net>, Fachgebiet INET - TU Berlin.</p> <p><br> See https://github.com/fg-inet/MMSys2020_Informed-Access-Network-Selection for more information.</p> <p>This data is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.</p>
Data from: Climate change shifts natural selection and the adaptive potential of the perennial forb Boechera stricta in the Rocky Mountains
Heritable genetic variation is necessary for populations to evolve in response to anthropogenic climate change. However, antagonistic genetic correlations among traits may constrain the rate of adaptation, even if substantial genetic variation exists. We examine potential genetic responses to selection by comparing multivariate genetic variance-covariances of traits and fitness (multivariate Robertson-Price identities) across different environments in a reciprocal transplant experiment of the forb Boechera stricta in the Rocky Mountains. By transplanting populations into four common gardens arrayed along an elevational gradient, and exposing populations to control and snow removal treatments, we simulated future and current climates and snowmelt regimes. Genetic variation in flowering and germination phenology declined in plants moved downslope to warmer, drier sites, suggesting that these traits may have a limited ability to evolve under future climates. Simulated climate change via snow removal altered the strength of selection on flowering traits, but we found little evidence that genetic correlations among traits are likely to affect the rate of adaptation to climate change. Overall, our results suggest that climate change may alter the evolutionary potential of B. stricta, but reduced expression of genetic variation may be a larger impediment to adaptation than constraints imposed by antagonistic genetic correlations.
Perceptual task induces saccadic adaptation by target selection
<p>Dataset from the following publication:</p> <p>Schütz, A. C. & Souto, D. (2015). Perceptual task induces saccadic adaptation by target selection. <em>Front. Hum. Neurosci., 9</em>(566), 1-14. <a>doi:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00566 <span></span></a><a></a></p>
Sexual selection buffers the negative consequences of population fragmentation on adaptive plastic responses to increasing temperatures
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Whether sexual selection facilitates or hampers the ability to plastically respond to novel environments might depend on population structure, via its effects on </span><span>sexual interactions and associated fitness payoffs</span><span>. Using experimentally evolved lines </span><span>of the seed beetle <em>Callosobruchus maculatus,</em> we tested whether individuals evolving under different sexual selection (monogamy vs polygamy) and population spatial structure (metapopulation vs undivided populations) treatments differed in their response across developmental thermal conditions (control, hot or stressful) in a range of fitness and fitness-associated traits. We found that individuals from subdivided populations had lower lifetime reproductive success (LRS) at hot temperatures, but only in lines evolving under relaxed sexual selection, revealing a complex interaction between sexual selection, population structure, and thermal environmental stress on fitness. We also found an effect of population structure on several traits, including fertility and adult emergence success, under exposure to high thermal conditions. Finally, we found a strong negative effect of hot and stressful temperatures in fitness and associated traits. Our results show that population structure can exacerbate the impact of a warming climate, potentially leading to declines in population viability, but that sexual selection can buffer the negative influence of population subdivision on adaptation to warm temperatures</span><span>.</span></p>
Stabilizing selection on a plumage-based foraging adaptation: hooded warblers with average-sized white tail spots live longer
<p><span>Avian flush-pursuit insectivores typically use contrasting white plumage patches in their tails or wings to startle potential prey. Although experimental evidence indicates that the extent of white has been fine-tuned by natural selection to optimize foraging performance, the hypothesis that within-population plumage variation directly influences survival or lifetime reproduction and is subject to stabilizing selection has not been tested. Here I provide such a test using data collected as part of a 14-year study of a colour-ringed breeding population of the hooded warbler (<em>Setophaga</em> <em>citrina</em>), a migratory flush-pursuit insectivore that shows inter-individual variation in the extent of white in the tail that is highly repeatable across molts and likely heritable. As expected under stabilizing selection, warblers with average-sized white tail patches achieved significantly higher long-term apparent survival than individuals with either a lesser or greater extent of white in the tail. Evidence of stabilizing selection was especially strong in males, an observation that is likely related to pronounced sexual habitat segregation on the wintering range. My results provide infrequently observed evidence of stabilizing selection operating in a natural population and also illustrate how stabilizing selection can act on avian plumage traits outside the context of sexual and social signaling.</span></p>
Data from: A multi-dimensional selective landscape drives adaptive divergence between and within closely related Phlox species
<p>Selection causes local adaptation across populations within species and simultaneously divergence between species. However, it is unclear if either the force of or the response to selection is similar across these scales. We show that natural selection drives divergence between closely related species in a pattern that is distinct from local adaptation within species. We use reciprocal transplant experiments across three species of <em>Phlox </em>wildflowers to characterize widespread adaptive divergence. Using provenance trials, we also find strong local adaptation between populations within a species. Comparing divergence and selection between these two scales of diversity we discover that one suite of traits predicts fitness differences between species and that an independent suite of traits predicts fitness variation within species. Selection drives divergence between species, contributing to speciation, while simultaneously favoring extensive diversity that is maintained across populations within a species. Our work demonstrates how the selection landscape is complex and multidimensional.</p>
The accuracy and efficiency of a reference-based adaptive selection algorithm for comparative judgement
<p>Data and R code with article for Frontiers in Education special issue Validity, Reliability and Efficiency of Comparative Judgement to Assess Student Work. [Submitted]</p> <p>Abstract:</p> <p>Several studies have proven that comparative judgement (CJ) is a reliable and valid assessment method for a variety of competences, expert assessment and peer assessment, and CJ is emerging as a possible approach to help maintain standards over time. For consecutive pairs of student works (representations) assessors are asked to judge which representation is better. It has been shown that random construction of pairs leads to very inefficient assessments, requiring a lot of pairwise comparisons to reach reliable results. Some adaptive selection algorithms using information from previous comparisons were proposed to increase the efficiency of CJ. These adaptive algorithms appear however to artificially inflate the reliability of CJ results through increasing the spread of the results. The current article proposes a new adaptive selection algorithm using a previously calibrated reference set. Using a reference set should eliminate the reliability inflation. In a real assessment, using reference sets of different reliability, and in a simulation study it is proven that this adaptive selection algorithm is more efficient without reducing the accuracy of the results and without increasing the standard deviation of the assessment results. As a consequence, a reference-based adaptive selection algorithm produces high and correct reliability values in an efficient manner.</p>
Adaptive immune response selects for increased body size - dataset
<p>The dataset for the manuscript " Adaptive immune response selects for increased body size ". The dataset is packed in ZIP archive 'Dataset_Ejsmond_etal_2022.zip' with variables and description of variables saved in Matlab workspaces.</p>
Stay in shape: assessing the adaptive potential of shell morphology and its sensitivity to temperature in the invasive New Zealand Mud Snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum through phenotypic plasticity and natural selection in Europe
<p>Climate change may force organisms to adapt genetically or plastically to new environmental conditions. Invasive species show a remarkable potential for rapid adaptation. The ovoviviparous New Zealand mud snail (NZMS), <em>Potamopyrgus antipodarum</em>, has successfully established across Europe with two clonally reproducing mitochondrial lineages since its arrival in the first half of the 19th century. Its remarkable variation in shell morphology was shown to be fitness relevant. We investigated the effects of temperature on shell morphology across eleven populations from Germany and the Iberian Peninsula in a common garden across three temperatures. We analysed size and shape using geometric morphometrics. For both, we compared reaction norms and estimated heritabilities. For size, the interaction of temperature and haplotype explained about 50% of the total variance. We also observed more genotype by environment interactions indicating a higher degree of population differentiation than in shape. Across the three temperatures, size followed the expectations of the temperature-size rule, with individuals growing larger in cold environments. Changes in shape may have compensated changes in size affecting space for brooding embryos. Heritability estimates were relatively high. As indicated by the very low coefficients of variation for clonal repeatability (<em>CV<sub>A</sub></em>), they can probably not be compared in absolute terms. However, they showed some sensitivity to temperature, in haplotype t more so than in z, which was only found in Portugal. The low <em>CV<sub>A</sub></em>-values indicate that genetic variation among European populations is still restricted with low potential to react to selection. A considerable fraction of the genetic variation was due to differences between the clonal lineages. The NZMS has apparently not been long enough in Europe to accumulate significant genetic variation relevant for morphological adaptation. As temperature is obviously not the sole factor influencing shell morphology, their interaction will probably not be a factor limiting population persistence under a warming climate in Europe.</p>
The fundamental principles of natural selection, survival and adaptation
<p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Natural selection was first proposed by Mr. Darwin and Mr. Wallace. Natural selection is a process that, during successive generations, leads to the creation of hereditary traits that increase the probability of survival and reproduction of living organisms in a population. In other words, natural selection selects alleles that have characteristics that help reproduction and survival. Alleles that increase the probability of survival and reproduction are passed on to the next generation. However, I want to argue that the heritable traits that increase the likelihood of survival, adaptation, and reproduction are created by natural selection based on certain fundamental principles. In other words, for living organisms to succeed in survival and adaptation, natural selection selects the hereditary characteristics of alleles based on certain fundamental principles. Fundamental principles: 1-energy and nutrient supply; 2-security supply; 3-adapting to environmental conditions such as temperature and humidity, etc.; 4-reproduction. These are the fundamental principles of natural selection that, if fulfilled, increase the probability of adaptation, survival and reproduction. Previously, these fundamental principles were briefly stated by Mr. Darwin and other biologists. However, the importance, value, and very important role of these fundamental principles in the process of natural selection and evolution have received very little attention. If we explain survival, adaptation, and natural selection without these fundamental principles, the concepts of survival, adaptation, and natural selection will not be correct and these basic and important concepts of biology will be incompletely and wrongly understood.</p> <p> </p>
Data from: Adaptations to climate-mediated selective pressures in humans.
<p>This dataset contains the genotype data in PLINK binary format for the 5 populations genotyped in the Di Rienzo lab and published in </p> <p>Hancock AM, Witonsky DB, Alkorta-Aranburu G, Beall CM, Gebremedhin A, Sukernik R, Utermann G, Pritchard JK, Coop G, Di Rienzo A (2011) Adaptations to climate-mediated selective pressures in humans. PLoS Genet. 7(4):e1001375</p>
data set related to article Typical numerosity adaptation despite selectively impaired number acuity in dyscalculia
<p>This record contains raw data related to article Typical numerosity adaptation despite selectively impaired number acuity in dyscalculia</p>
Data from: Male-male competition causes parasite-mediated sexual selection for local adaptation
<p>Sexual selection has been suggested to accelerate local adaptation and promote evolutionary rescue through several ecological and genetic mechanisms. Condition-dependent sexual selection has mainly been studied in laboratory settings while data from natural populations are lacking. One ecological factor that can cause condition-dependent sexual selection is parasitism. Here, we quantified ectoparasite load (<i>Arrenurus </i>water mites) in a natural population of the common bluetail damselfly (<i>Ischnura elegans</i>) over 15 years. We quantified the strength of sexual selection against parasite load in both sexes and experimentally investigated the mechanisms behind such selection. Then, we investigated how parasite resistance and tolerance changed over time to understand how they might influence population density. Parasites reduced mating success in both sexes, and sexual selection was stronger in males than in females. Experiments show that male-male competition is a strong force causing precopulatory sexual selection against parasite load. Although parasite resistance and male parasite tolerance increased over time, suggestive of increasing local adaptation against parasites, no signal of evolutionary rescue could be found. We suggest that condition-dependent sexual selection facilitates local adaptation against parasites and discuss its effects in evolutionary rescue.</p>
The genetic architecture of temperature adaptation is shaped by population ancestry and not by selection regime
<p class="western"><span>Understanding the genetic architecture of temperature adaptation is key for characterizing and predicting the effect of climate change on natural populations. One particularly promising approach is Evolve and Resequence (E&R), which combines advantages of experimental evolution such as time series, replicate populations and controlled environmental conditions, with whole genome sequencing. </span></p> <p class="western"><span>The recent analysis of replicate populations from two different </span><span><i>Drosophila simulans</i></span><span> founder populations, which were adapting to the same novel hot environment, uncovered very different architectures - either many selection targets with large heterogeneity among replicates or fewer selection targets with a consistent response among replicates. </span></p> <p class="western"><span>Here, we exposed the founder population from Portugal to a cold temperature regime. Although almost no selection targets were shared between the hot and cold selection regime, the adaptive architecture was similar: we identified a moderate number of targets under strong selection (19 selection targets, mean selection coefficient = 0.072) and very parallel responses in the cold evolved replicates. This similarity across different environments indicates that the adaptive architecture depends more on the ancestry of the founder population than the specific selection regime. These observations will have broad implications for the correct interpretation of the genomic responses to a changing climate in natural populations.</span></p> <p class="western"> </p>
Data from: Can conflicting selection from pollinators and nectar-robbing antagonists drive adaptive pollen limitation? A conceptual model and empirical test
<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Pollen limitation is widespread, despite predictions that it shouldn't be. We propose a novel mechanism generating pollen limitation: conflicting selection by pollinators and antagonists on pollinator attraction traits. We introduce a heuristic model demonstrating antagonist-induced adaptive pollen limitation, and present a field study illustrating its occurrence in a wild population. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>For antagonist-induced adaptive pollen limitation to occur, four criteria must be met: 1) correlated attraction of pollinators and antagonists, 2) greater response by antagonists than pollinators to altered investment in attraction traits, 3) reduced investment in pollinator attraction leading to pollen limitation, and 4) higher fitness for plants with reduced investment in pollinator attraction.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>We surveyed nectar robbery and reproductive output for 109 <i>Odontonema cuspidatum </i>(Acanthaceae) plants in a pollen-limited population<i> </i>over two years and used experimental floral arrays to evaluate how flower number affects pollination and nectar robbery. Both pollinators and nectar robbers preferred larger floral displays, and nectar robbery reduced reproductive output, suggesting conflicting selection. Survey and experimental data agreed closely on the optimum flower number under antagonist-induced pollen limitation; this number was substantially overrepresented in the population. While criteria for antagonist-induced adaptive pollen limitation are restrictive, the necessary conditions may often be realized. Considering interactions beyond the plant-pollinator dyad illuminates previously overlooked mechanisms generating pollen limitation. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
Fitness consequences of biochemical adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster populations under simultaneous selection for faster pre-adult development and extended life-span
<p>In holometabolous insect like <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>, critical size is an important time point during larval life, for irreversible commitment to metamorphosis. Here, we studied the impact of restricted growth duration in terms of selection for faster pre-adult development in <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> populations which resulted in the evolution of reduced critical size on adult life history traits. Selection for faster pre-adult development resulted in biochemical adaptation in larval physiology with no compromise in major biomolecules at critical size time point. The flies from the selected populations seem to not only commit to metamorphosis on the attainment of critical size but also seem to channelize resources to reproduction as indicated by similar life-time fecundity of CS and NS flies from selected populations, while the Control CS flies significantly lower life-time fecundity compared to Control NS flies. The flies from selected populations seem to achieve longevity comparable to control flies despite being significantly smaller in size- thus resource constrained due to faster pre-adult development.</p>
Soil moisture incidentally selects for microbes that facilitate locally adaptive plant response
<p>We examined the role of the plant vs the environment in selecting for beneficial microbes to plants in their home moisture environment, in either wet vs dry conditions. To this end, we first conditioned soil microbial communities, selecting for either dry- or wet-adapted soil microbial communities, either with or without plants. After 3 plant generations, we conducted a full reciprocal transplant of each soil community onto wet- and dry-treated plants, using the soil from the prior 3 generations as an inoculum. From plants inoculated with these ‘evolved’ soils, we measured plant biomass and height. We also measured soil nitrogen of the inoculum, and measured inoculum respiration across a water content gradient. <br> </p>
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