Interacting Phenotypes and the Evolutionary Process: I. Direct and Indirect Genetic Effects of Social Interactions

Moore, Allen J.; Brodie, Edmund D.; Wolf, Jason B.

doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1997.tb01458.x

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“…Such non-additive genetic effects arise when (1) the phenotype of a focal individual is affected by interactions with other individuals and (2) this effect is heritable. This defines socalled indirect genetic effects, that are effects of genotypes of other individuals on the phenotype of the focal individual (reviewed by Moore et al, 1997;Bijma, 2014). Among indirect genetic effects are the well-studied maternal effects, i.e., the effects of the mother's genotype on the phenotype of its offspring (McAdam et al, 2014).…”

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Heterospecific Nest Site Copying Behavior in a Wild Bird: Assessing the Influence of Genetics and Past Experience on a Joint Breeding Phenotype

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Breeding site selection is often a joint decision of pair members in species with biparental care and the experience of both pair members may influence the use of information for site selection. Nevertheless, quantitative genetics of joint information use for site selection remains unexplored so far. We used an experimental approach to quantify the relative importance of genetics (heritability) and past experience (age, familiarity with the environment, previous breeding success, previous information use) in heterospecific social information use for nest site selection in wild collared flycatchers (Ficedula albicollis). Flycatchers collect social information from resident tits for nest site selection. We created an apparent preference of tits for a novel nest site feature and recorded choices of flycatchers (copying or rejecting the tit preference). Copying behavior was stronger for naive individuals but also differed between years, which could be explained by contrasting seasonality in the demonstrator species. Past experience as reflected by age affected subsequent use of social information: pairs with a yearling male were more likely to copy the heterospecific preference than pairs with older immigrant males. There was no general pattern in successive individual choices over the years. Accordingly, individual repeatability in copying tit preference was very low. At the pair level, we estimated sex-specific direct and indirect genetic effects on the joint nest site decision and found no sex-specific heritability and no cross-sex genetic correlation. Our results confirm the importance of past experience for social information use and suggest that social information use is highly plastic and most likely not genetically inherited in collared flycatchers. Whether individuals use social information should be related to environmentally-induced changes in the quality of information and thus be context-dependent. Selection may therefore act on the ability to optimally use social information in varying environments and on the processes underlying such adjustment, such as learning, rather than the use of information itself.

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“…In species with biparental care, many breeding traits can be considered as joint (or interacting) phenotypic traits (Moore et al, 1997) because both partners may influence reproductive behaviors such as egg laying, territory defense, breeding site selection, etc. (e.g., Brommer and Rattiste, 2008;Hall et al, 2013).…”

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Heterospecific Nest Site Copying Behavior in a Wild Bird: Assessing the Influence of Genetics and Past Experience on a Joint Breeding Phenotype

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“…One reason for the rapid changes in communication systems is that they involve interacting phenotypes (Moore et al 1997). Interacting phenotypes are those in which the expression of a phenotype depends, at least in part, on an interaction with another individual.…”

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“…Theoretically, interacting phenotypes should evolve much more rapidly than ordinary phenotypes both because of indirect genetic effects (Moore et al 1997(Moore et al , 1998 and social selection (West-Eberhard 1979, 1983, 1984Wolf et al 1999) associated with interacting phenotypes. Rapid evolution of traits involving interactions is common (Moore et al 1997(Moore et al , 1998 especially when the traits are involved in communication (Collins & Cardé 1990;Liu & Haynes 1994;Ritchie & Gleason 1995;Moore et al 1997Moore et al , 1998 or are behaviors associated with speciation (Mayr 1958(Mayr , 1960(Mayr , 1963West-Eberhard 1979, 1983, 1984. Thus, despite the fact that our experimental design may have limited the impact of interacting phenotypes, the rapid change we see in male responses corresponds to previous theoretical and empirical work on evolution of communication associated with speciation.…”

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Inheritance and evolution of male response to sex pheromone in Trichoplusia ni (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

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The evolution of chemical communication in moths has implications for speciation because mate attraction and reproductive isolation are achieved primarily by unique blends of female-produced sex pheromones and the specificity of male responses to these signals. For most organisms, the genetics of speciation remains an open empirical question, but both major gene effects and additive genetic variation are likely to play roles in the diversification of chemical communication that accompanies speciation. In the cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni (Hü bner), a single gene mutation results in females that produce a drastically different signal. We conducted four wind-tunnel experiments to examine the potential role of additive genetic variation in the evolution of male T. ni response to this novel pheromone blend. The heritability of male response to both normal and mutant pheromone signals was tested in two experiments using a father-son regression design. Normal male response to the mutant blend showed a heritability of 0.25. The heritability of normal male response to the normal blend and the mutant male responses to both normal and mutant blends were at or near 0. In a third experiment, we imposed selection on normal male lines for increased response to the mutant pheromone blend. After three generations of selection, normal male response had increased by 24% as compared to only 5% in control lines, confirming the heritability value determined earlier. A fourth experiment showed that the change in the selected lines was due to an improved male response to both the normal and mutant signals.

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“…Parental effects can further be partitioned into effects arising from either genetic variation among parents or variation in environmental factors experienced by the parents. The former have been termed indirect genetic effects (IGE) (Moore et al, 1997; and are of particular interest for the genetics of family interactions and the coadaptation to family life.…”

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Ontogeny in the Family

Kölliker

2005

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When ontogeny takes place in a family, and parents provide essential resources for development, the parents become an environmental component to the development of a wide range of offspring traits. Because differences among parents may partly reflect genetic variation, this environmental component contains genes and may itself evolve. Also, when offspring play an active role in family interactions, offspring become a social environmental component to parents, affecting their behavior in turn, which potentially results in reciprocal social selection. Thus, an evolutionary process of coadaptation to family life, additionally driven by conflicts of interests, may have shaped the expression and development patterns underlying infant behaviors. The complex genetics arising from family interactions can be formalized by extending standard quantitative genetic models. These models demonstrate how the explicit consideration of the family environment can profoundly alter both the expression and evolutionary response to selection of behaviors involved in family interactions. Behavioral genetic studies have begun to unravel the complex genetics underlying infant solicitation behaviors and parental provisioning, although many focus on one side of the interaction. A genetic analysis incorporating interactions among family members explicitly may be critical because the genes underlying the expression of parental provisioning indirectly affect offspring behaviors, and vice versa.

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Interacting Phenotypes and the Evolutionary Process: I. Direct and Indirect Genetic Effects of Social Interactions

Cited by 569 publications

References 68 publications

Heterospecific Nest Site Copying Behavior in a Wild Bird: Assessing the Influence of Genetics and Past Experience on a Joint Breeding Phenotype

Heterospecific Nest Site Copying Behavior in a Wild Bird: Assessing the Influence of Genetics and Past Experience on a Joint Breeding Phenotype

Inheritance and evolution of male response to sex pheromone in Trichoplusia ni (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Ontogeny in the Family

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