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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Aphid herbivory on macrophytes drives adaptive evolution in an aquatic community via indirect effects.

Martin Schäfer, Antonino Malacrinò, Christoph Walcher, Piet Spaak, Marie Serwaty-Sárazová, Silvana Käser, Thea Bulas, Christine Dambone-Bösch, Eric Dexter, Jürgen Hottinger and 4 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Aphid herbivory on macrophytes drives adaptive evolution in an aquatic community via indirect effects.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Martin Schäfer *Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz 55128, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4580-6337
Antonino Malacrinò *Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634.ORCID 0000-0002-0811-1229
Christoph WalcherDepartment of Aquatic Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland.ORCID 0009-0000-7506-7603
Piet SpaakDepartment of Aquatic Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-0631-373X
Marie Serwaty-SárazováInstitute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster, Münster 48149, Germany.
Silvana KäserDepartment of Aquatic Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland.
Thea BulasDepartment of Aquatic Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland.
Christine Dambone-BöschDepartment of Aquatic Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland.
Eric DexterDepartment of Environmental Sciences, Zoology, University of Basel, Basel 4051, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-2296-9923
Jürgen HottingerDepartment of Environmental Sciences, Zoology, University of Basel, Basel 4051, Switzerland.
Laura BöttnerInstitute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster, Münster 48149, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0742-686X
Christoph VorburgerDepartment of Aquatic Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-3627-0841
Dieter EbertDepartment of Environmental Sciences, Zoology, University of Basel, Basel 4051, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-2653-3772
Shuqing XuInstitute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz 55128, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7010-4604

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) 435681637European Commission (EC) 101125029Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (SNF) 310030_188887Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (SNF) 310030_219529
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Indirect ecological effects occur when the impact of one species on another is mediated by a third species or the shared environment. Although indirect effects are ubiquitous in nature, we know remarkably little about how they may drive ecoevolutionary processes across community boundaries. Here, we show that insect (aphid) herbivory on macrophytes (duckweed) drove the adaptive evolution of a planktonic crustacean (

Indexed as

Adaptation, PhysiologicalAphidsAraceaeBiological EvolutionDaphniaHerbivoryAnimalsEcosystemPhytoplanktonadaptive evolutioncommunity ecologyexperimental evolutionindirect ecological effectsplant-herbivore interaction

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PMID40838887
PMCPMC12403121

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