The effect of sexual selection on adaptation and extinction under increasing temperatures
| Autor: | Jonathan M. Parrett, Robert J. Knell |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Male Hot Temperature Offspring Evolution Population Adaptation Biological Biology Moths Extinction Biological 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology 03 medical and health sciences Animals Mating education General Environmental Science Adaptive capacity education.field_of_study Extinction General Immunology and Microbiology Directional selection General Medicine Mating Preference Animal 030104 developmental biology Sexual selection Female Genetic Fitness Adaptation General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Demography |
| Zdroj: | Proceedings. Biological sciences. 285(1877) |
| ISSN: | 1471-2954 |
| Popis: | Strong sexual selection has been reported to both enhance and hinder the adaptive capacity and persistence of populations when exposed to novel environments. Consequently, how sexual selection influences population adaption and persistence under stress remains widely debated. Here, we present two empirical investigations of the fitness consequences of sexual selection on populations of the Indian meal moth, Plodia interpunctella, exposed to stable or gradually increasing temperatures. When faced with increasing temperatures, strong sexual selection was associated with both increased fecundity and offspring survival compared with populations experiencing weak sexual selection, suggesting sexual selection acts to drive adaptive evolution by favouring beneficial alleles. Strong sexual selection did not, however, delay extinction when the temperature became excessively high. By manipulating individuals' mating opportunities during fitness assays, we were able to assess the effect of multiple mating independently from the effect of population-level sexual selection, and found that polyandry has a positive effect on both fecundity and offspring survival under increasing temperatures in those populations evolving with weak sexual selection. Within stable temperatures, there were some benefits from strong sexual selection but these were not consistent across the entire experiment, possibly reflecting changing costs and benefits of sexual selection under stabilizing and directional selection. These results indicate that sexual selection can provide a buffer against climate change and increase adaptation rates within a continuously changing environment. These positive effects of sexual selection may, however, be too small to protect populations and delay extinction when environmental changes are relatively rapid. |
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