Evolutionary aspects of resurrection ecology: Progress, scope, and applications—An overview

Weider, Lawrence J.; Jeyasingh, Punidan D.; Frisch, Dagmar

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“…For example, a recent analysis of a chickadee hybrid zone provided clear evidence of its movement northwards, closely tied to warmer winters (Taylor et al, ). We highlight the potential utility of sediment records from the lakes investigated here, containing Daphnia diapausing eggs, to study the history of hybridization events in relation to the processes of lake eutrophication and/or climate change, across time periods of dozens of years, if not centuries—new genomic methods allow very old Daphnia DNA to be analysed (Lack, Weider, & Jeyasingh, ; Weider, Jeyasingh, & Frisch, ). This system is a promising arena for future investigations of the genetic bases for the maintenance of species divergence and may provide insight into how species boundaries shift in response to anthropogenic change.…”

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“…to study the history of hybridization events in relation to the processes of lake eutrophication and/or climate change, across time periods of dozens of years, if not centuries-new genomic methods allow very old Daphnia DNA to be analysed (Lack, Weider, & Jeyasingh, 2018;Weider, Jeyasingh, & Frisch, 2017). This system is a promising arena for future investigations of the genetic bases for the maintenance of species divergence and may provide insight into how species boundaries shift in response to anthropogenic change.…”

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Daphnia galeata and D. dentifera are geographically and ecologically separated whereas their hybrids occur in intermediate habitats: A survey of 44 Chinese lakes

Šmilauer

et al. 2019

Molecular Ecology

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The idea that hybridization promotes range expansion has received recent attention, but support from field studies is limited. We hypothesized that in the cladoceran waterflea genus Daphnia, parental species are geographically and ecologically separated, whereas hybrids occupy intermediate or occasionally extreme environments, potentially facilitating range expansion of parental species. We assessed the distribution of Daphnia dentifera, Daphnia galeata and their interspecific hybrids across 44 lakes in China (using mitochondrial and microsatellite markers), and related it to geographical and environmental lake descriptors. Parental species were geographically separated: D. dentifera occurred in western and central China, and D. galeata in eastern and central China, whereas hybrids were found in the western and central parts of the country. However, after controlling for geographical differences, the effect of environment on species distribution was strong and significant. Specifically, D. dentifera was present in high‐altitude oligotrophic lakes, D. galeata in low‐altitude eutrophic lakes and hybrids at intermediate to high altitudes, mainly in mesotrophic lakes. Microsatellite data indicated that hybrids were locally produced rather than having migrated from elsewhere; they probably resulted from encounters between expanding D. galeata and resident D. dentifera. The present study provides evidence that hybrids can survive in habitats that are otherwise suitable for only one of their parental species, emphasizing the importance of hybridization in expansion of species gene pools.

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Section: Conclusion: the Usefulness Of Studying Hybrid Zones For Mmentioning

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Daphnia galeata and D. dentifera are geographically and ecologically separated whereas their hybrids occur in intermediate habitats: A survey of 44 Chinese lakes

Šmilauer

et al. 2019

Molecular Ecology

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“…70–100 yr; Weider et al. ). As a consequence, the role of adaptation still tends to be largely ignored or minimized in broad discussions about the effects of climate change on Quaternary biodiversity and in predictive models of the potential impact of anthropogenic climate change on the biota (Davis and Shaw , Jump and Peñuelas , Hoffmann and Sgrò , Catullo et al.…”

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“…Hairston et al 1999, Franks et al 2007) might allow such direct assessments in a few plant and invertebrate species, but these can only go back to a few generations/years in the past (ca. 70-100 yr; Weider et al 2018). As a consequence, the role of adaptation still tends to be largely ignored or minimized in broad discussions about the effects of climate change on Quaternary biodiversity and in predictive models of the potential impact of anthropogenic climate change on the biota (Davis and Shaw 2001, Jump and Peñuelas 2005, Hoffmann and Sgr o 2011, Catullo et al 2015.…”

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Invoking adaptation to decipher the genetic legacy of past climate change

Lafontaine

Napier

Petit

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Ecology

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Persistence of natural populations during periods of climate change is likely to depend on migration (range shifts) or adaptation. These responses were traditionally considered discrete processes and conceptually divided into the realms of ecology and evolution. In a milestone paper, Davis and Shaw (2001) Science 292:673 argued that the interplay of adaptation and migration was central to biotic responses to Quaternary climate, but since then there has been no synthesis of efforts made to set up this research program. Here we review some of the salient findings from molecular genetic studies assessing ecological and evolutionary responses to Quaternary climate change. These studies have revolutionized our understanding of population processes associated with past species migration. However, knowledge remains limited about the role of natural selection for local adaptation of populations to Quaternary environmental fluctuations and associated range shifts, and for the footprints this might have left on extant populations. Next-generation sequencing technologies, high-resolution paleoclimate analyses, and advances in population genetic theory offer an unprecedented opportunity to test hypotheses about adaptation through time. Recent population genomics studies have greatly improved our understanding of the role of contemporary adaptation to local environments in shaping spatial patterns of genetic diversity across modern-day landscapes. Advances in this burgeoning field provide important conceptual and methodological bases to decipher the historical role of natural selection and assess adaptation to past environmental variation. We suggest that a process called "temporal conditional neutrality" has taken place: some alleles favored in glacial environments become selectively neutral in modern-day conditions, whereas some alleles that had been neutral during glacial periods become under selection in modern environments. Building on this view, we present a new integrative framework for addressing the interplay of demographic and adaptive evolutionary responses to Quaternary climate dynamics, the research agenda initially envisioned by Davis and Shaw (2001) Science 292:673.

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“…One powerful approach to investigate evolution is resurrection ecology (Franks, Hamann, & Weis, 2018; Weider, Jeyasingh, & Frisch, 2018). This approach reconstructs microevolution by comparing within a population the phenotypes of organisms hatched from ancestral eggs with those from descendants hatched from more recent eggs (Orsini et al., 2013).…”

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Thermal evolution offsets the elevated toxicity of a contaminant under warming: A resurrection study in Daphnia magna

Zhang

Jansen

Meester

et al. 2018

Evolutionary Applications

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Synergistic interactions between temperature and contaminants are a major challenge for ecological risk assessment, especially under global warming. While thermal evolution may increase the ability to deal with warming, it is unknown whether it may also affect the ability to deal with the many contaminants that are more toxic at higher temperatures. We investigated how evolution of genetic adaptation to warming affected the interactions between warming and a novel stressor: zinc oxide nanoparticles (nZnO) in a natural population of Daphnia magna using resurrection ecology. We hatched resting eggs from two D. magna subpopulations (old: 1955–1965, recent: 1995–2005) from the sediment of a lake that experienced an increase in average temperature and in recurrence of heat waves but was never exposed to industrial waste. In the old “ancestral” subpopulation, exposure to a sublethal concentration of nZnO decreased the intrinsic growth rate, metabolic activity, and energy reserves at 24°C but not at 20°C, indicating a synergism between warming and nZnO. In contrast, these synergistic effects disappeared in the recent “derived” subpopulation that evolved a lower sensitivity to nZnO at 24°C, which indicates that thermal evolution could offset the elevated toxicity of nZnO under warming. This evolution of reduced sensitivity to nZnO under warming could not be explained by changes in the total internal zinc accumulation but was partially associated with the evolution of the expression of a key metal detoxification gene under warming. Our results suggest that the increased sensitivity to the sublethal concentration of nZnO under the predicted 4°C warming by the end of this century may be counteracted by thermal evolution in this D. magna population. Our results illustrate the importance of evolution to warming in shaping the responses to another anthropogenic stressor, here a contaminant. More general, genetic adaptation to an environmental stressor may ensure that synergistic effects between contaminants and this environmental stressor will not be present anymore.

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Evolutionary aspects of resurrection ecology: Progress, scope, and applications—An overview

Abstract: This perspective provides an overview to the Special Issue on Resurrection Ecology (RE). It summarizes the contributions to this Special Issue, and provides background information and future prospects for the use of RE in both basic and applied evolutionary studies.

Cited by 49 publications

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Daphnia galeata and D. dentifera are geographically and ecologically separated whereas their hybrids occur in intermediate habitats: A survey of 44 Chinese lakes

Daphnia galeata and D. dentifera are geographically and ecologically separated whereas their hybrids occur in intermediate habitats: A survey of 44 Chinese lakes

Invoking adaptation to decipher the genetic legacy of past climate change

Thermal evolution offsets the elevated toxicity of a contaminant under warming: A resurrection study in Daphnia magna

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