THE EVOLUTIONARY INTERACTION AMONG SPECIES: Selection, Escalation, and Coevolution

Vermeij, Geerat J.

doi:10.1146/annurev.es.25.110194.001251

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“…Coevolution, or reciprocal evolutionary change driven by selection between multiple taxa, is widely invoked as a force promoting the diversification of life on Earth [1][2][3][4][5]. Over the past two decades, the geographical mosaic theory of coevolution [4,6] has led to great advances in understanding the importance and mechanisms of coevolutionary diversification among populations [4,[7][8][9].…”

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Non-congruent colonizations and diversification in a coevolving pollination mutualism on oceanic islands

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A challenge for coevolutionary theory is how different types of interaction influence the diversification of coevolving clades. Reciprocal specialization is characteristic of certain coevolving, mutualistic interactions, but whether this specialization seen in ecological time constrains changes in patterns of interaction over evolutionary time remains unclear. Here, we examine the co-radiation of Glochidion trees (Phyllanthaceae: Phyllanthus s. l.) and pollinating, seed-predatory Epicephala moths (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) on young (mostly later than 5 Ma) oceanic islands in southeastern Polynesia. Epicephala are the sole known pollinators of Glochidion trees, and show extreme reciprocal specialization in continental Asia. We find that Glochidion and Epicephala diversified across these islands through repeated, non-congruent colonizations, and that one recently colonizing Epicephala lineage has spread across 12 host species in three archipelagos in less than 1 Myr. These results indicate that reciprocal specialization and coadaptation do not prevent dramatic changes in associations between intimately associated taxa over short evolutionary time scales. Not only are these host associations more dynamic than previously recognized, but these changes in patterns of interaction may play an important role in the diversification of coevolving taxa.

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Non-congruent colonizations and diversification in a coevolving pollination mutualism on oceanic islands

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“…Antagonistic interactions have the potential to drive coevolutionary dynamics of adaptive traits: an evolutionary advantage gained by one antagonist is often associated with a disadvantage for the other antagonist, and may therefore prompt a counteradaptation. This may drive stabilizing selection and evolutionary specialization with extreme refinement of the coevolving traits (convergence to an evolutionary equilibrium); or runaway selection and evolutionary escalation with the exaggeration of traits (with the possible extinction of some or all coevolving populations; Matsuda & Abrams 1994;Ferrière 2000); or fluctuating selection and the so-called 'Red Queen dynamics' of perpetual reciprocal changes in the coevolving traits (convergence to a non-equilibrium evolutionary attractor; Van Valen 1973;Stenseth & Maynard Smith 1984;Vermeij 1994). It has been suggested that Red Queen dynamics underlie a large number of important biological processes, some of which are still poorly understood, such as genetic recombination and sexual reproduction (Hamilton et al 1990), the extraordinary diversity of genes related to immune function, resistance and virulence (Salathe et al 2008), and the spatial diversity and local adaptation of exploiter -victim systems (Gandon 2002).…”

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Chaotic Red Queen coevolution in three-species food chains

2010

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Coevolution between two antagonistic species follows the so-called 'Red Queen dynamics' when reciprocal selection results in an endless series of adaptation by one species and counteradaptation by the other. Red Queen dynamics are 'genetically driven' when selective sweeps involving new beneficial mutations result in perpetual oscillations of the coevolving traits on the slow evolutionary time scale. Mathematical models have shown that a prey and a predator can coevolve along a genetically driven Red Queen cycle. We found that embedding the prey-predator interaction into a three-species food chain that includes a coevolving superpredator often turns the genetically driven Red Queen cycle into chaos. A key condition is that the prey evolves fast enough. Red Queen chaos implies that the direction and strength of selection are intrinsically unpredictable beyond a short evolutionary time, with greatest evolutionary unpredictability in the superpredator. We hypothesize that genetically driven Red Queen chaos could explain why many natural populations are poised at the edge of ecological chaos. Over space, genetically driven chaos is expected to cause the evolutionary divergence of local populations, even under homogenizing environmental fluctuations, and thus to promote genetic diversity among ecological communities over long evolutionary time.

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“…The intensiveness of energy consumption of a species can provide an evolutionary pattern as selection criteria in the evolution of species [91,92]. This relates to biological evolution by considering the interactions between species of the same environment, particularly the ability to find, consume and guard resources as the dominant aspect of such evolution.…”

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Thermodynamic Formulation of Living Systems and Their Evolution

Castillo¹,

Vera-Cruz²

2011

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The purpose of this review article is to present some of the recent contributions that show the use of thermodynamics to describe biological systems and their evolution, illustrating the agreement that this theory presents with the field of evolution. Organic systems are described as thermodynamic systems where entropy is produced by the irreversible processes, considering as an established fact that this entropy is eliminated through their frontiers to preserve life. The necessary and sufficient conditions to describe the evolution of life in the negentropy principle are established. Underlining the fact that the necessary condition requires formulation, which is founded on the principle of minimum entropy production for open systems operating near or far from equilibrium, other formulations are mentioned, particularly the information theory, the energy intensiveness hypothesis and the theory of open systems far from equilibrium. Finally suggesting the possibility of considering the lineal formulation as a viable alternative; that is, given the internal constrictions under which a biological system operates, it is possible that the validity of its application is broader than it has been suggested.

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THE EVOLUTIONARY INTERACTION AMONG SPECIES: Selection, Escalation, and Coevolution

Cited by 318 publications

References 50 publications

Non-congruent colonizations and diversification in a coevolving pollination mutualism on oceanic islands

Non-congruent colonizations and diversification in a coevolving pollination mutualism on oceanic islands

Chaotic Red Queen coevolution in three-species food chains

Thermodynamic Formulation of Living Systems and Their Evolution

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