Evolution of mate harm resistance in females from Drosophila melanogaster populations selected for faster development and early reproduction.

Autor:	Verma T; Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Berhampur, Odisha, India., Das S; Institute of Animal Welfare and Animal Husbandry, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Celle, Germany., Dhodi Lobo S; Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, Maharashtra, India., Mishra AK; National Institute of Science Education and Research, Odisha, India., Bhattacharyya S; Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, West Bengal, India., Nandy B; Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Berhampur, Odisha, India.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Journal of evolutionary biology [J Evol Biol] 2024 Oct 26. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Oct 26.
DOI:	10.1093/jeb/voae138
Abstrakt:	Interlocus sexual conflict is predicted to result in sexually antagonistic coevolution between male competitive traits, which are also female-detrimental, and mate harm resistance (MHR) in females. Little is known about the connection between life-history evolution and sexually antagonistic coevolution. Here, we investigated the evolution of MHR in a set of experimentally evolved populations, where mate-harming ability has been shown to have substantially reduced in males as a correlated response to the selection for faster development and early reproduction. We measured mortality and fecundity of females of these populations and those of their matched controls, under different male exposure conditions. We observed that the evolved females were more susceptible to mate harm - suffering from significantly higher mortality under continuous exposure to control males within the twenty-day assay period. Though these evolved females are known to have shorter lifespan, substantially higher mortality was not observed under virgin and single-mating conditions. We used fecundity data to show that this higher mortality in the experimentally evolved females was not due to the cost of egg production, and hence can only be attributed to reduced MHR. Further analysis indicated that this decreased MHR is unlikely to be due purely to the smaller size of these females. Instead, it is more likely to be an indirect experimentally evolved response attributable to the changed breeding ecology, and/or male trait evolution. Our results underline the implications of changes in life history traits, including lifespan, to the evolution of MHR in females. (© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology. All rights reserved. For commercial re-use, please contact reprints@oup.com for reprints and translation rights for reprints. All other permissions can be obtained through our RightsLink service via the Permissions link on the article page on our site—for further information please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.)
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