When mother knows best: A population genetic model of transgenerational versus intragenerational plasticity
| Autor: | Michael J. Wade, Guillaume J. Dury |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0106 biological sciences 0301 basic medicine Genotype Offspring Short Communication Population Short Communications Environment Plasticity Biology phenotypic plasticity 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences 03 medical and health sciences Genetic model Animals education Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics cost of plasticity indirect genetic effects Phenotypic plasticity education.field_of_study Models Genetic environmental cues Maternal effect Adaptation Physiological Phenotype 030104 developmental biology Evolutionary biology maternal effects Female Rate of evolution |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Evolutionary Biology |
| ISSN: | 1420-9101 1010-061X |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jeb.13545 |
| Popis: | Many organisms exhibit phenotypic plasticity; producing alternate phenotypes depending on the environment. Individuals can be plastic (intragenerational or direct plasticity), wherein individuals of the same genotype produce different phenotypes in response to the environments they experience. Alternatively, an individual's phenotype may be under the control of its parents, usually the mother (transgenerational or indirect plasticity), so that mother's genotype determines the phenotype produced by a given genotype of her offspring. Under what conditions does plasticity evolve to have intragenerational as opposed to transgenerational genetic control? To explore this question, we present a population genetic model for the evolution of transgenerational and intragenerational plasticity. We hypothesize that the capacity for plasticity incurs a fitness cost, which is borne either by the individual developing the plastic phenotype or by its mother. We also hypothesize that individuals are imperfect predictors of future environments and their capacity for plasticity can lead them occasionally to make a low‐fitness phenotype for a particular environment. When the cost, benefit and error parameters are equal, we show that there is no evolutionary advantage to intragenerational over transgenerational plasticity, although the rate of evolution of transgenerational plasticity is half the rate for intragenerational plasticity, as predicted by theory on indirect genetic effects. We find that transgenerational plasticity evolves when mothers are better predictors of future environments than offspring or when the fitness cost of the capacity for plasticity is more readily borne by a mother than by her developing offspring. We discuss different natural systems with either direct intragenerational plasticity or indirect transgenerational plasticity and find a pattern qualitatively in accord with the predictions of our model. Persistence or extinction of intra‐ and transgenerational plasticity depend on differences in error rate (r) and inherent cost (c). |
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