ArticleEvolution; international journal of organic evolution2019
The role of variation and plasticity in parental care during the adaptive radiation of three-spine sticklebacks.
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- Predator Communities With Invasive Pike Are Associated With Changes in Parental Care and Brain Gene Expression in Wild Alaskan Stickleback.Integrative and comparative biology · 2026Article
- Building neuroanatomical resources for three-spined sticklebacks: Brain areas important for social behavior.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Single-Cell Peptide Profiling to Distinguish Stickleback Ecotypes with Divergent Breeding Behavior.Journal of proteome research · 2025Article
- Paternal response to novel predator exposure correlates with transgenerational response in offspring of threespined stickleback.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Divergence in Reproductive Behaviors Is Associated with the Evolutionary Loss of Parental Care.The American naturalist · 2024Article
- Predator-induced transgenerational plasticity of parental care behaviour in male three-spined stickleback fish across two generations.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Long-term environmental stability does not erode plasticity in nest building responses to changing ambient conditions.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Larval environmental conditions influence plasticity in resource use by adults in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022Article
- Paternal care effects outweigh gamete-mediated and personal environment effects during the transgenerational estimation of risk in fathead minnows.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- The specificity of sperm-mediated paternal effects in threespine sticklebacks.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Phenotypic plasticity might influence evolutionary processes such as adaptive radiations. Plasticity in parental care might be especially effective in facilitating adaptive radiations if it allows populations to persist in novel environments. Here, we test the hypothesis that behavioral plasticity by parents in response to predation risk facilitated the adaptive radiation of three-spine sticklebacks. We compared the behavior of fathers across multiple ancestral (marine) and derived (freshwater) stickleback populations that differ in time since establishment. We measured behavioral plasticity in fathers in response to a predator found only in freshwater environments, simulating conditions marine males experience when colonizing freshwater. The antipredator behavior of males from newly established freshwater populations was intermediate between marine populations and well-established freshwater populations. In contrast to our predictions, on average, there was greater behavioral plasticity in derived freshwater populations than in ancestral marine populations. However, we found greater individual variation in behavioral reaction norms in marine populations compared to well-established freshwater populations, with newly established freshwater populations intermediate. This suggests that standing variation in behavioral reaction norms within ancestral populations might provide different evolutionary trajectories, and illustrates how plasticity can contribute to adaptive radiations.
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