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Phenotypic and genomic plasticity of alternative male reproductive tactics in sailfin mollies.
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- Transcriptomic changes in the posterior pallium of male zebra finches associated with social niche conformance.BMC genomics · 2024Article
- Genetic and phenotypic diversification in a widespread fish, the Sailfin Molly (Poecilia latipinna).BMC ecology and evolution · 2024Article
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- Genomic tools for behavioural ecologists to understand repeatable individual differences in behaviour.Nature ecology & evolution · 2018Review
- Does male preference play a role in maintaining female limited polymorphism in a Batesian mimetic butterfly?Behavioural processes · 2018Article
- Advancing behavioural genomics by considering timescale.Nature communications · 2018Review
- Behavioural tactic predicts preoptic-hypothalamic gene expression more strongly than developmental morph in fish with alternative reproductive tactics.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Transcriptomics and Fitness Data Reveal Adaptive Plasticity of Thermal Tolerance in Oysters Inhabiting Different Tidal Zones.Frontiers in physiology · 2018Article
- Are some individuals generally more behaviorally plastic than others? An experiment with sailfin mollies.PeerJ · 2018Article
- Relating quantitative variation within a behavior to variation in transcription.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2017Article
- Temporal dynamics of neurogenomic plasticity in response to social interactions in male threespined sticklebacks.PLoS genetics · 2017Article
- The virtual lover: variable and easily guided 3D fish animations as an innovative tool in mate-choice experiments with sailfin mollies-II. Validation.Current zoology · 2017Article
- Natural variation in brain gene expression profiles of aggressive and nonaggressive individual sticklebacks.Behaviour · 2016Article
- Brain Transcriptional Profiles of Male Alternative Reproductive Tactics and Females in Bluegill Sunfish.PloS one · 2016Article
- Using an integrative approach to investigate the evolution of behaviour.Evolutionary applications · 2016Review
- Integrating molecular mechanisms into quantitative genetics to understand consistent individual differences in behavior.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2015Article
- Social context-dependent modification of courtship behaviour in Drosophila prolongata.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Article
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Abstract
A major goal of modern evolutionary biology is to understand the causes and consequences of phenotypic plasticity, the ability of a single genotype to produce multiple phenotypes in response to variable environments. While ecological and quantitative genetic studies have evaluated models of the evolution of adaptive plasticity, some long-standing questions about plasticity require more mechanistic approaches. Here, we address two of those questions: does plasticity facilitate adaptive evolution? And do physiological costs place limits on plasticity? We examine these questions by comparing genetically and plastically regulated behavioural variation in sailfin mollies (Poecilia latipinna), which exhibit striking variation in plasticity for male mating behaviour. In this species, some genotypes respond plastically to a change in the social environment by switching between primarily courting and primarily sneaking behaviour. In contrast, other genotypes have fixed mating strategies (either courting or sneaking) and do not display plasticity. We found that genetic and plastic variation in behaviour were accompanied by partially, but not completely overlapping changes in brain gene expression, in partial support of models that predict that plasticity can facilitate adaptive evolution. We also found that behavioural plasticity was accompanied by broader and more robust changes in brain gene expression, suggesting a substantial physiological cost to plasticity. We also observed that sneaking behaviour, but not courting, was associated with upregulation of genes involved in learning and memory, suggesting that sneaking is more cognitively demanding than courtship.
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