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Interactions between the developmental and adult social environments mediate group dynamics and offspring traits in Drosophila melanogaster
Developmental conditions can strongly influence adult phenotypes and social interactions, which in turn affect key evolutionary processes such as sexual selection and sexual conflict. While the implications of social interactions in phenotypically mixed populations at the individual level are increa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5472581/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28620201 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03505-2 |
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author | Morimoto, Juliano Ponton, Fleur Tychsen, Ilona Cassar, Jason Wigby, Stuart |
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description | Developmental conditions can strongly influence adult phenotypes and social interactions, which in turn affect key evolutionary processes such as sexual selection and sexual conflict. While the implications of social interactions in phenotypically mixed populations at the individual level are increasingly well known, how these effects influence the fate of groups remains poorly understood, which limits our understanding of the broader ecological implications. To address this problem we manipulated adult phenotypes and social composition in Drosophila melanogaster – by experimentally manipulating the larval density of the group-members – and measured a range of group-level outcomes across the lifespan of groups. Adult groups composed of exclusively low larval-density individuals showed high courtship levels, and low early reproductive rates, group growth rates, offspring mass and offspring eclosion success, relative to high larval-density or mixed larval-density groups. Furthermore, high larval-density groups had lower survival. Offspring mass increased with time, but at a reduced rate in groups when male group members (but not females) were from a mixture of larval-densities; peak reproductive rates were also earlier in these groups. Our results suggest that that variation in developmental conditions experienced by adult group members can modify the reproductive output of groups. |
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spelling | pubmed-54725812017-06-21 Interactions between the developmental and adult social environments mediate group dynamics and offspring traits in Drosophila melanogaster Morimoto, Juliano Ponton, Fleur Tychsen, Ilona Cassar, Jason Wigby, Stuart Sci Rep Article Developmental conditions can strongly influence adult phenotypes and social interactions, which in turn affect key evolutionary processes such as sexual selection and sexual conflict. While the implications of social interactions in phenotypically mixed populations at the individual level are increasingly well known, how these effects influence the fate of groups remains poorly understood, which limits our understanding of the broader ecological implications. To address this problem we manipulated adult phenotypes and social composition in Drosophila melanogaster – by experimentally manipulating the larval density of the group-members – and measured a range of group-level outcomes across the lifespan of groups. Adult groups composed of exclusively low larval-density individuals showed high courtship levels, and low early reproductive rates, group growth rates, offspring mass and offspring eclosion success, relative to high larval-density or mixed larval-density groups. Furthermore, high larval-density groups had lower survival. Offspring mass increased with time, but at a reduced rate in groups when male group members (but not females) were from a mixture of larval-densities; peak reproductive rates were also earlier in these groups. Our results suggest that that variation in developmental conditions experienced by adult group members can modify the reproductive output of groups. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5472581/ /pubmed/28620201 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03505-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Morimoto, Juliano Ponton, Fleur Tychsen, Ilona Cassar, Jason Wigby, Stuart Interactions between the developmental and adult social environments mediate group dynamics and offspring traits in Drosophila melanogaster |
title | Interactions between the developmental and adult social environments mediate group dynamics and offspring traits in Drosophila melanogaster |
title_full | Interactions between the developmental and adult social environments mediate group dynamics and offspring traits in Drosophila melanogaster |
title_fullStr | Interactions between the developmental and adult social environments mediate group dynamics and offspring traits in Drosophila melanogaster |
title_full_unstemmed | Interactions between the developmental and adult social environments mediate group dynamics and offspring traits in Drosophila melanogaster |
title_short | Interactions between the developmental and adult social environments mediate group dynamics and offspring traits in Drosophila melanogaster |
title_sort | interactions between the developmental and adult social environments mediate group dynamics and offspring traits in drosophila melanogaster |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5472581/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28620201 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03505-2 |
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