ArticleHeredity2018
Evolution without standing genetic variation: change in transgenerational plastic response under persistent predation pressure.
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- Rapid turnover of a pea aphid superclone mediated by thermal endurance in central Chile.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- BdLT-Seq as a barcode decay-based method to unravel lineage-linked transcriptome plasticity.Nature communications · 2023Article
- A generalised approach to the study and understanding of adaptive evolution.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2023Article
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- Ancestral environment determines the current reaction to ultraviolet radiation in Daphnia magna.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022Article
- Transgenerational exposure to marine heatwaves ameliorates the lethal effect on tropical copepods regardless of predation stress.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Prey life-history influences the evolution of egg mass and indirectly reproductive investment in a group of free-living insect predators.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Eco-evolutionary consequences of habitat warming and fragmentation in communities.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2021Article
- Predator cue-induced plasticity of morphology and behavior in planthoppers facilitate the survival from predation.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Transgenerational non-genetic inheritance has fitness costs and benefits under recurring stress in the clonal duckweedProceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
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- Sex-specific plasticity across generations II: Grandpaternal effects are lineage specific and sex specific.The Journal of animal ecology · 2020Article
- Latitudinal trend in the reproductive mode of the pea aphidEcology and evolution · 2020Article
- Transgenerational plasticity of inducible defences: Combined effects of grand-parental, parental and current environments.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Transgenerational Plasticity in Human-Altered Environments.Trends in ecology & evolution · 2020Review
- An Integrative Framework for Understanding the Mechanisms and Multigenerational Consequences of Transgenerational Plasticity.Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics · 2019Article
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Abstract
Transgenerational phenotypic plasticity is a fast non-genetic response to environmental modifications that can buffer the effects of environmental stresses on populations. However, little is known about the evolution of plasticity in the absence of standing genetic variation although several non-genetic inheritance mechanisms have now been identified. Here we monitored the pea aphid transgenerational phenotypic response to ladybird predators (production of winged offspring) during 27 generations of experimental evolution in the absence of initial genetic variation (clonal multiplication starting from a single individual). We found that the frequency of winged aphids first increased rapidly in response to predators and then remained stable over 25 generations, implying a stable phenotypic reconstruction at each generation. We also found that the high frequency of winged aphids persisted for one generation after removing predators. Winged aphid frequency then entered a refractory phase during which it dropped below the level of control lines for at least two generations before returning to it. Interestingly, the persistence of the winged phenotype decreased and the refractory phase lasted longer with the increasing number of generations of exposure to predators. Finally, we found that aphids continuously exposed to predators for 22 generations evolved a significantly weaker plastic response than aphids never exposed to predators, which, in turn, increased their fitness in presence of predators. Our findings therefore showcased an example of experimental evolution of plasticity in the absence of initial genetic variation and highlight the importance of integrating several components of non-genetic inheritance to detect evolutionary responses to environmental changes.
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