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ArticleEvolution; international journal of organic evolution2016

Habitat heterogeneity favors asexual reproduction in natural populations of grassthrips.

Guillaume Lavanchy, Marie Strehler, Maria Noemi Llanos Roman, Malie Lessard-Therrien, Jean-Yves Humbert, Zoé Dumas, Kirsten Jalvingh, Karim Ghali, Amaranta Fontcuberta García-Cuenca, Bart Zijlstra and 2 more

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Guillaume LavanchyDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Biophore, Lausanne, Switzerland. Guillaume.Lavanchy@unil.ch.
Marie StrehlerDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Biophore, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Maria Noemi Llanos RomanGraduate School-Doctoral program in Biomedical Sciences, National University of Trujillo, Trujillo, Peru.
Malie Lessard-TherrienInstitute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse, Bern, Switzerland.
Jean-Yves HumbertInstitute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse, Bern, Switzerland.
Zoé DumasDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Biophore, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Kirsten JalvinghDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Biophore, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Karim GhaliDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Biophore, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Amaranta Fontcuberta García-CuencaDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Biophore, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Bart ZijlstraDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Biophore, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Raphaël ArlettazInstitute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse, Bern, Switzerland.
Tanja SchwanderDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Biophore, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Abstract

Explaining the overwhelming success of sex among eukaryotes is difficult given the obvious costs of sex relative to asexuality. Different studies have shown that sex can provide benefits in spatially heterogeneous environments under specific conditions, but whether spatial heterogeneity commonly contributes to the maintenance of sex in natural populations remains unknown. We experimentally manipulated habitat heterogeneity for sexual and asexual thrips lineages in natural populations and under seminatural mesocosm conditions by varying the number of hostplants available to these herbivorous insects. Asexual lineages rapidly replaced the sexual ones, independently of the level of habitat heterogeneity in mesocosms. In natural populations, the success of sexual thrips decreased with increasing habitat heterogeneity, with sexual thrips apparently only persisting in certain types of hostplant communities. Our results illustrate how genetic diversity-based mechanisms can favor asexuality instead of sex when sexual lineages co-occur with genetically variable asexual lineages.

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EcosystemGenetic VariationReproduction, AsexualAnimalsThysanopteraAsexualityevolution of sexparthenogenesisTangled BankThysanoptera

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PMID27346066
PMCPMC5129508

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