Selection on the joint actions of pairs leads to divergent adaptation and coadaptation of care-giving parents during pre-hatching care
(2024) In Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291(2024).- Abstract
The joint actions of animals in partnerships or social groups evolve under both natural selection from the wider environment and social selection imposed by other members of the pair or group. We used experimental evolution to investigate how jointly expressed actions evolve upon exposure to a new environmental challenge. Our work focused on the evolution of carrion nest preparation by pairs of burying beetles Nicrophorus vespilloides, a joint activity undertaken by the pair but typically led by the male. In previous work, we found that carrion nest preparation evolved to be faster in experimental populations without post-hatching care (No Care: NC lines) than with post-hatching care (Full Care: FC lines). Here, we investigate how this... (More)
The joint actions of animals in partnerships or social groups evolve under both natural selection from the wider environment and social selection imposed by other members of the pair or group. We used experimental evolution to investigate how jointly expressed actions evolve upon exposure to a new environmental challenge. Our work focused on the evolution of carrion nest preparation by pairs of burying beetles Nicrophorus vespilloides, a joint activity undertaken by the pair but typically led by the male. In previous work, we found that carrion nest preparation evolved to be faster in experimental populations without post-hatching care (No Care: NC lines) than with post-hatching care (Full Care: FC lines). Here, we investigate how this joint activity evolved. After 15 generations of experimental evolution, we created heterotypic pairs (NC females with FC males and NC males with FC females) and compared their carrion nest making with homotypic NC and FC pairs. We found that pairs with NC males prepared the nest more rapidly than pairs with FC males, regardless of the female's line of origin. We discuss how social coadaptations within pairs or groups could act as a post-mating barrier to gene flow.
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- Jarrett, Benjamin J.M. LU ; Mashoodh, Rahia ; Issar, Swastika ; Pascoal, Sonia ; Rebar, Darren ; Sun, Syuan Jyun ; Schrader, Matthew and Kilner, Rebecca M.
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- division of labour, nest-building, reproductive isolation
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- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- volume
- 291
- issue
- 2024
- article number
- 20240876
- pages
- 11 pages
- publisher
- Royal Society Publishing
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- pmid:38864319
- scopus:85200767658
- ISSN
- 0962-8452
- DOI
- 10.1098/rspb.2024.0876
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 0b170952-f2a9-436e-a877-4d52eea95069
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- 2024-11-11 13:52:25
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abstract = {{<p>The joint actions of animals in partnerships or social groups evolve under both natural selection from the wider environment and social selection imposed by other members of the pair or group. We used experimental evolution to investigate how jointly expressed actions evolve upon exposure to a new environmental challenge. Our work focused on the evolution of carrion nest preparation by pairs of burying beetles Nicrophorus vespilloides, a joint activity undertaken by the pair but typically led by the male. In previous work, we found that carrion nest preparation evolved to be faster in experimental populations without post-hatching care (No Care: NC lines) than with post-hatching care (Full Care: FC lines). Here, we investigate how this joint activity evolved. After 15 generations of experimental evolution, we created heterotypic pairs (NC females with FC males and NC males with FC females) and compared their carrion nest making with homotypic NC and FC pairs. We found that pairs with NC males prepared the nest more rapidly than pairs with FC males, regardless of the female's line of origin. We discuss how social coadaptations within pairs or groups could act as a post-mating barrier to gene flow.</p>}},
author = {{Jarrett, Benjamin J.M. and Mashoodh, Rahia and Issar, Swastika and Pascoal, Sonia and Rebar, Darren and Sun, Syuan Jyun and Schrader, Matthew and Kilner, Rebecca M.}},
issn = {{0962-8452}},
keywords = {{division of labour; nest-building; reproductive isolation}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{2024}},
publisher = {{Royal Society Publishing}},
series = {{Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences}},
title = {{Selection on the joint actions of pairs leads to divergent adaptation and coadaptation of care-giving parents during pre-hatching care}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.0876}},
doi = {{10.1098/rspb.2024.0876}},
volume = {{291}},
year = {{2024}},
}