Experimental evolution in the cyanobacterium Trichormus variabilis: increases in size and morphological diversity.

Autor:	Baselga-Cervera B; Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, United States.; Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States., Jacobsen KA; Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, United States., Ford Denison R; Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, United States., Travisano M; Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, United States.; Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States.; The BioTechnology Institute, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, United States.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Evolution; international journal of organic evolution [Evolution] 2023 Apr 27; Vol. 77 (5), pp. 1216-1225.
DOI:	10.1093/evolut/qpad037
Abstrakt:	Cyanobacteria morphology has apparently remained almost unchanged for billions of years, exhibiting remarkable evolutionary stasis. Cyanobacteria appear to have reached their maximum morphological complexity in terms of size, modes of multicellularity, and cellular types by ~2 Ga. This contrasts with the increased complexity observed in other multicellular lineages, such as plants. Using experimental evolution, we show that morphological diversity can rapidly evolve in a species of filamentous cyanobacteria. Since size has such significance with regard to organismal complexity, we subjected the heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium Trichornus variabilis (syn. Anabaena variabilis) to selection for larger size. We observed increases in size of more than 30-fold, relative to the ancestral population, after 45 cycles of selection. Two distinguishable nascent morphological elaborations were identified in all the selected populations: Tangle (long, tangled filaments) and Cluster (clusters of short filaments) morphology. Growth from single cells indicates heritability of the evolved Tangle and Cluster morphological phenotypes. Cyanobacteria evolutionary conservatism is ascribed to developmental constraints, slow evolution rates, or ecological flexibility. These results open opportunities to study possibilities and constraints for the evolution of higher integrated biological levels of organization within this lineage. (© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE).)
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