Heightened among-individual variation in life history but not morphology is related to developmental temperature in reptiles
(2021) In Journal of evolutionary biology 34(11). p.1793-1802- Abstract
Increases in phenotypic variation under extreme (e.g. novel or stressful) environmental conditions are emerging as a crucial process through which evolutionary adaptation can occur. Lack of prior stabilizing selection, as well as potential instability of developmental processes in these environments, may lead to a release of phenotypic variation that can have important evolutionary consequences. Although such patterns have been shown in model study organisms, we know little about the generality of trait variance across environments for non-model organisms. Here, we test whether extreme developmental temperatures increase the phenotypic variation across diverse reptile taxa. We find that the among-individual variation in a key... (More)
Increases in phenotypic variation under extreme (e.g. novel or stressful) environmental conditions are emerging as a crucial process through which evolutionary adaptation can occur. Lack of prior stabilizing selection, as well as potential instability of developmental processes in these environments, may lead to a release of phenotypic variation that can have important evolutionary consequences. Although such patterns have been shown in model study organisms, we know little about the generality of trait variance across environments for non-model organisms. Here, we test whether extreme developmental temperatures increase the phenotypic variation across diverse reptile taxa. We find that the among-individual variation in a key life-history trait (post-hatching growth) increases at extreme cold and hot temperatures. However, variations in two measures of hatchling morphology and in hatchling performance were not related to developmental temperature. Although extreme developmental temperatures may increase the variation in growth, our results suggest that plastic responses to stressful incubation conditions do not generally make more extreme phenotypes available to selection. We discuss the reasons for the general lack of increased variability at extreme incubation temperatures and the implications this has for local adaptation in hatchling morphology and physiology.
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- author
- Noble, Daniel W.A. LU ; Senior, Alistair M. ; Uller, Tobias LU and Schwanz, Lisa E.
- organization
- publishing date
- 2021-11-01
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- developmental stress, life history evolution, meta-analysis, phenotypic plasticity, reptiles
- in
- Journal of evolutionary biology
- volume
- 34
- issue
- 11
- pages
- 10 pages
- publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc.
- external identifiers
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- pmid:34543488
- scopus:85116734969
- ISSN
- 1010-061X
- DOI
- 10.1111/jeb.13938
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2021 European Society for Evolutionary Biology
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- 9da7ef40-7516-48c8-a1b5-a0eae13f2d94
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- 2021-10-27 13:47:36
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title = {{Heightened among-individual variation in life history but not morphology is related to developmental temperature in reptiles}},
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