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Data from: Effects of age, breeding strategy, population density, and number of neighbors on territory size and shape in Savannah Sparrows
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Whole genome demographic models indicate divergent effective population size histories shape contemporary genetic diversity gradients in a montane bumble bee
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Data from: Additive genetic and environmental variation interact to shape the dynamics of seasonal migration in a wild bird population
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Data and code for: Multiple genetic impacts of immigration interact to shape local population persistence versus extinction
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Data and analysis from: Body mass, temperature, and depth shape the maximum intrinsic rate of population increase in sharks and rays
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Data from: Local adaptation in shell shape traits of a brooding chiton with strong population genomic differentiation
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Predation risk shapes the degree of placentation in natural populations of live-bearing fish
<p class="manuscriptABSATZ"><span>The placenta is a complex life-history trait that is ubiquitous across the tree of life. Theory proposes that the placenta evolves in response to high performance-demanding conditions by shifting maternal investment from pre- to post-fertilization, thereby reducing a female's reproductive burden during pregnancy. We test this hypothesis by studying populations of the fish species <i>Poeciliopsis retropinna</i> in Costa Rica. We found substantial variation in the degree of placentation among natural populations associated with predation risk: females from high predation populations had significantly higher degrees of placentation compared to low predation females, while number, size and quality of offspring at birth remained unaffected. Moreover, a higher degree of placentation correlated with a lower reproductive burden and hence likely an improved swimming performance during pregnancy. Our study advances an adaptive explanation for why the placenta evolves by arguing that an increased degree of placentation offers a selective advantage in high predation environments. </span></p>
Data from: Isolation by instability: historical climate change shapes population structure and genomic divergence of treefrogs in the Neotropical Cerrado savanna
Although the impact of Pleistocene glacial cycles on the diversification of the tropical biota was once dismissed, increasing evidence suggests that Pleistocene climatic fluctuations greatly affected the distribution and population divergence of tropical organisms. Landscape genomic analyses coupled with paleoclimatic distribution models provide a powerful way to understand the consequences of past climate changes on the present-day tropical biota. Using genome-wide SNP data and mitochondrial DNA, combined with projections of the species distribution across the late Quaternary until the present, we evaluate the effect of paleoclimatic shifts on the genetic structure and population differentiation of Hypsiboas lundii, a treefrog endemic to the South American Cerrado savanna. Our results show a recent and strong genetic divergence in H. lundii across the Cerrado landscape, yielding four genetic clusters that do not seem congruent with any current physical barrier to gene flow. Isolation by distance (IBD) explains some of the population differentiation, but we also find strong support for past climate changes promoting range shifts and structuring populations even in the presence of IBD. Post Pleistocene population persistence in four main areas of historical stable climate in the Cerrado seems to have played a major role establishing the present genetic structure of this treefrog. This pattern is consistent with a model of reduced gene-flow in areas with high climatic instability promoting isolation of populations, defined here as "isolation by instability", highlighting the effects of Pleistocene climatic fluctuations structuring populations in tropical savannas.
Hump-shaped relationship between aggregation tendency and body size within fish populations
<p>A distribution with high spatial variability may impair the bet-hedging capacity of a population, threatening population sustainability. Although the association between aggregation and life history traits of a species (e.g. body size) has been documented, the relationship between aggregation and size within a population has rarely been explored. As selective over-fishing may induce size truncation in the targeted stocks,it is critical to understand if such a truncation also undermines the distribution patterns of the population. In this study, we examined if and how the 'aggregation tendency' varies among different size classes of a population. Aggregation tendency was quantified as the exponent b of Taylor's power law (<em>V</em> = <em>a</em> × <em>M<sup>b</sup></em>), which measures the change in spatial variance (<em>V</em>) with the mean abundance (<em>M</em>) of a population. We estimated b by size class for each of the nine commercially important fish species in the North Sea, using ICES survey data from 1991 to 2015. Our study found that the relationship between b and body size within a population is hump-shaped, with a peak slightly larger than the 50% mature length of the species. This result indicates larger adults in a population tend to distribute less heterogeneously when abundance increases, suggesting that larger size classes play a critical role in reducing the variability of population distribution. Our findings highlight the importance of considering the combined effects of fishing-induced size truncation and changes in aggregation patterns in fishery management. That is, maintaining the size and spatial structure for the target stocks of selective fisheries is critical for the sustainability of the populations.</p>
Population size shapes trade-off dilution and adaptation to a marginal niche unconstrained by sympatric habitual conditions
<p>How does niche expansion occur when the habitual (high-productivity) and marginal (low-productivity) niches are simultaneously available? Without spatial structuring, such conditions should impose fitness maintenance in the former while adapting to the latter. Hence, adaptation to a given marginal niche should be influenced by the identity of the simultaneously available habitual niche. This hypothesis remains untested. Similarly, it is unknown if larger populations, which can access greater variation and undergo more efficient selection, are generally better at niche expansion. We tested these hypotheses using a large-scale evolution experiment with <em>Escherichia</em> <em>coli</em>. While we observed widespread niche expansion, larger populations consistently adapted to a greater extent to both marginal and habitual niches. Owing to diverse selection pressures in different habitual niches (constant versus fluctuating environments; environmental fluctuations varying in both predictability and speed), fitness in habitual niches was significantly shaped by their identities. Surprisingly, despite this diversity in habitual selection pressures, adaptation to the marginal niche was unconstrained by the habitual niche's identity. We show that in terms of fitness, two negatively correlated habitual niches can still have positive correlations with the marginal niche. This allows the marginal niche to dilute fitness trade-offs across habitual niches, thereby allowing costless niche expansion. Our results provide fundamental insights into sympatric niche expansion.</p>
Role of individual and population heterogeneity in shaping dynamics of multi-pathogen shedding in an island endemic bat
<p>Dataset for the manuscript "<strong>Role of individual and population heterogeneity in shaping dynamics of multi-pathogen shedding in an island endemic bat</strong>", including information of the bat samples and infection data.</p>
Gene flow between wild trees and cultivated varieties shapes the genetic structure of sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) populations
<p>The sweet chestnut orchards (<em>Castanea sativa</em> Mill.) are traditionally planted in the northern Adriatic region. This study investigates their population structure, as well as the genetic background of three toponymous clonal varieties. Six genomic simple sequence repeat (gSSR) and nine EST-derived SSR (EST-SSR) loci were utilized in this study. We have identified five closely related clones, which represent a singular, polyclonal marron variety, found in all three cultivation areas, acompanied by many hybrids, resulting from the breeding between cultivated and wild chestnuts. </p>
Habitat shapes diversity of gut microbiomes in a wild population of blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus
<p>Microbiome constitutes and important axis of individual variation that, together with genes and the environment, influences an individual's physiology and fitness. Microbiomes are dependent not only on an individual's body condition but also on external factors, such as diet or stress levels, and as such can be involved into feedbacks between the external ecological factors and internal physiology. In our study we used a wild population of blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) to investigate the impact of external habitat composition on the microbiome of adult birds. We hypothesized, that – through differences in plant composition, potentially affecting diet complexity – habitat type may impact the diversity and structure of the gut microbiome. Blue tits breeding in dense deciduous forests tended to have more diverse microbiomes, and significantly different in terms of microbiome composition from birds breeding in open, sparsely forested hay meadows. Distinct study plots also tended to differ in a number of parameters describing microbiome diversity. We observed no microbiome differentiation according to individual characteristics such as sex or age. The study emphasizes, that external environment is one of the important modulators of microbiome diversity and calls for more such studies in wild animal populations.</p>
Data and scripts from: Microbiome composition is shaped by geography and population structure in the parasitic wasp Asobara japonica, but not in the presence of the endosymbiont Wolbachia
<p>The microbial community composition is crucial for diverse life-history traits in many organisms. However, we still lack a sufficient understanding of how the host microbiome is acquired and maintained, a pressing issue in times of global environmental change. Here we investigated to what extent host genotype, environmental conditions, and the endosymbiont <em>Wolbachia</em> influence the bacterial communities in the parasitic wasp <em>Asobara japonica</em>. We sampled multiple wasp populations across ten locations in their natural distribution range in Japan and sequenced the host genome (whole genome sequencing) and microbiome (16S rRNA gene). We compared the host population structure and bacterial community composition of wasps that reproduce sexually and are uninfected with <em>Wolbachia</em> with wasps that reproduce asexually and carry <em>Wolbachia</em>. The bacterial communities in asexual wasps were highly similar due to a strong effect of <em>Wolbachia</em> rather than host genomic structure. In contrast, in sexual wasps, bacterial communities appear primarily shaped by a combination of population structure and environmental conditions. Our research highlights that multiple factors shape the bacterial communities of an organism and that the presence of a single endosymbiont can strongly alter their compositions. This information is crucial to understanding how organisms and their associated microbiome will react in the face of environmental change.</p>
Fig. 2 in Repeatability Analysis Of Egg Shape In A Wild Tree Sparrow (Passer Montanus) Population: A Sensitive Method For Egg Shape Description
Fig. 2. Data collecting method results in 22 co-ordinates of each eggs
Fig. 1 in Repeatability Analysis Of Egg Shape In A Wild Tree Sparrow (Passer Montanus) Population: A Sensitive Method For Egg Shape Description
Fig. 1. Differently shaped eggs characterised with the same egg shape index (ES = 0.7)
Skull shape of a widely-distributed, endangered marsupial reveals little evidence of local adaptation between fragmented populations
<p>The biogeographical distribution of diversity among populations of threatened mammalian species is generally investigated using population genetics. However, intraspecific phenotypic diversity is rarely assessed beyond taxonomy-focused linear measurements or qualitative descriptions. Here, we use a technique widely used in the evolutionary sciences – geometric morphometrics – to characterize shape diversity in the skull of an endangered marsupial, the northern quoll, across its 5,000 km distribution range along Northern Australia. Skull shape is a proxy for feeding, behaviour, and phenotypic differentiation, allowing us to ask if populations can be distinguished and if patterns of variation indicate adaptability to changing environmental conditions. We analysed skull shape in 101 individuals across four mainland populations and several islands. We assessed the contribution of population, size, sex, rainfall, temperature, and geography to skull shape variation using Principal Components Analysis, Procrustes ANOVA, and variation partitioning analyses. The populations harbour similar amounts of broadly overlapping skull shape variation, with relatively low geographic effects. Size predicted skull shape best, coinciding with braincase size variation and differences in zygomatic arches. Size-adjusted differences in populations explained less variation with far smaller effect sizes, relating to changes in the insertion areas of masticatory muscles, as well as the upper muzzle and incisor region. Climatic and geographic variables contributed little. Strikingly, the vast majority of shape variation - 76% - remained unexplained. Our results suggest a uniform intraspecific scope for shape variation, possibly due to allometric constraints or phenotypic plasticity beyond the relatively strong allometric effect. The lack of local adaptation indicates that cross-breeding between populations will not reduce local morphological skull (and probably general musculoskeletal) adaptation because none exists. However, the potential for heritable morphological variation (e.g. specialization to local diets) seems exceedingly limited. We conclude that 3D geometric morphometrics can provide a comprehensive, statistically rigorous phenomic contribution to genetics-based conservation studies.</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>
The effects of climate and demographic history in shaping genomic variation across populations of the Desert Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma platyrhinos)
<p>Species often experience spatial <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">environmental </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">heterogeneity </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">across their range</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">populations </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">may exhibit </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">signatures </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">of adaptation to local environmental </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">characteristics.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2"> Other population</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2"> genetic</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2"> processes, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">such as </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">migration and genetic drift, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">can </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">impede the effect</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2"> of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">local adaptation</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">. Genetic drift </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">in particular </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">can have a pronounced effect on population genetic structure during large-scale geographic expansions, where a series of founder effects lead</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2"> to decreases in genetic variation in the direction of the expansion. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">Here </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">we explore the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">genetic diversity</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2"> of a desert lizard that occupies a wide range of environmental conditions and that has experienced post-glacial expansion northwards along two colonization routes. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">Based on our analyses of a large SNP dataset, we find evidence </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">that both </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">climate and demographic history</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">have </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">shape</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">d</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2"> the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">genetic</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2"> structure of</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2"> populations. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">P</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">ronounced genetic differentiation</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2"> was evident </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">between populations occupying cold versus hot desert</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2"> and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">we </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">detected numerous loci </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">with </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">significant association</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2"> with climate. The genetic signal of founder effect</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">, however, is still present in the genomes of the recently expanded populations</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">which</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2"> comprise subsets of genetic variation found in the southern populations, and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">we found substantial evidence that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW235808685 BCX2">genetic diversity of lizards differs along the two colonization routes.</span></p>
Crossing design shapes patterns of genetic variation in synthetic recombinant populations of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
<p>"Synthetic recombinant" populations have emerged as a useful tool for dissecting the genetics of complex traits. They can be used to derive inbred lines for fine QTL mapping, or the populations themselves can be sampled for experimental evolution. In latter application, investigators generally value maximizing genetic variation in constructed populations. This is because in evolution experiments initiated from such populations, adaptation is primarily fueled by standing genetic variation. Despite this reality, little has been done to systematically evaluate how different methods of constructing synthetic populations shape initial patterns of variation. Here we seek to address this issue by comparing outcomes in synthetic recombinant <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i> populations<i> </i>created using one of two strategies: pairwise crossing of isogenic strains or simple mixing of strains in equal proportion. We also explore the impact of the varying the number of parental strains. We find that more genetic variation is initially present and maintained when population construction includes a round of pairwise crossing. As perhaps expected, we also observe that increasing the number of parental strains typically increases genetic diversity. In summary, we suggest that when constructing populations for use in evolution experiments, simply mixing founder strains in equal proportion may limit the adaptive potential.</p>
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