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Phenotypic Plasticity Promotes Balanced Polymorphism in Periodic Environments by a Genomic Storage Effect.
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- Rapid evolution of phenotypic plasticity in patchy habitats.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Partial protection from fluctuating selection leads to evolution towards wider population size fluctuation and a novel mechanism of balancing selection.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Analysis of Complete Mitochondrial Genome ofAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Evolutionary origins of genomic adaptations in an invasive copepod.Nature ecology & evolution · 2020Article
- Extreme copy number variation at a tRNA ligase gene affecting phenology and fitness in yellow monkeyflowers.Molecular ecology · 2019Article
- Phenotypic plasticity promotes recombination and gene clustering in periodic environments.Nature communications · 2017Article
- Seasonally fluctuating selection can maintain polymorphism at many loci via segregation lift.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
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Abstract
Phenotypic plasticity is known to evolve in perturbed habitats, where it alleviates the deleterious effects of selection. But the effects of plasticity on levels of genetic polymorphism, an important precursor to adaptation in temporally varying environments, are unclear. Here we develop a haploid, two-locus population-genetic model to describe the interplay between a plasticity modifier locus and a target locus subject to periodically varying selection. We find that the interplay between these two loci can produce a "genomic storage effect" that promotes balanced polymorphism over a large range of parameters, in the absence of all other conditions known to maintain genetic variation. The genomic storage effect arises as recombination allows alleles at the two loci to escape more harmful genetic backgrounds and associate in haplotypes that persist until environmental conditions change. Using both Monte Carlo simulations and analytical approximations we quantify the strength of the genomic storage effect across a range of selection pressures, recombination rates, plasticity modifier effect sizes, and environmental periods.
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