Transgenerational effects of food availability on age at maturity and reproductive output in an asexual collembolan species

Hafer, Nina; Ebil, Syazana; Uller, Tobias; Pike, Nathan

doi:10.1098/rsbl.2011.0139

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“…Many studies have observed maternal effects in response to environmental stimuli such as predation (Walsh et al, ; Walsh, Cooley, Biles, & Munch, ), food availability (LaMontagne & McCauley, ; Lynch & Ennis, ; Saastamoinen, Hirai, & van Nouhuys, ) and temperature (Burgess & Marshall, ; Walsh, Whittington, & Funkhouser, ). These effects may persist into the grand‐offspring generation and beyond (Hafer, Ebil, Uller, & Pike, ; Prizak, Ezard, & Hoyle, ; Walsh et al, ). Theory suggests that maternal effects are evolved adaptive responses to environmental change across generations (Marshall & Uller, ; Mousseau & Fox, ; Uller, ), and may play significant roles in the ecology and evolution of species (Beckerman, Benton, Ranta, Kaitala, & Lundberg, ; Benton, Plaistow, Beckerman, Lapsley, & Littlejohns, ; Kuijper & Hoyle, ).…”

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Maternal diet and age alter direct and indirect relationships between life‐history traits across multiple generations

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Maternal age has important consequences for offspring fitness, with influences on size, development and reproductive schedules. Such maternal age effects may be driven by differential provisioning of resources; yet, little is known about the role of environmental supply of nutritional resources in mediating such effects. We tested the influence of limiting nutritional resource, dietary phosphorus (P), on maternal age effects across multiple generations by examining the potential interactive effects of maternal nutrition and age on daughter and granddaughter life‐history traits in the freshwater crustacean Daphnia pulicaria. Maternal age and diet had significant but contrasting effects on offspring life history. We did not observe any evidence that age effects on offspring life history are mediated by maternal diet. However, granddaughter growth and size at maturation were influenced by the interaction between grandmaternal age and diet, suggesting that the appearance of transgenerational effects of age and diet were delayed by one generation. Because offspring life history is often linked directly and/or indirectly to life history variation in previous generations, we utilized structural equation modelling (SEM) to assess such direct or indirect relationships. SEM revealed striking differences in the relationship between growth, development time and fecundity both within and among generations, depending on the age and diet in the F0 generation. Interestingly, direct and persistent relationships between the F0 generation and the F2 generation are most prevalent when grandmothers are old and fed low P diets, and such relationships are largely driven by fecundity in the F0 generation. Additionally, indirect causal relationships between the F0 generation and F2 generation are most pronounced when grandmothers are young and fed low P diets or when grandmothers are old and fed high P diets. Our results indicate that transgenerational effects of maternal age and environment persist across multiple generations, and vary between successive generations. Further, our examination of the interaction network between life‐history traits of each generation suggest that the mechanisms for such persistent transgenerational effects are highly dependent on maternal condition. A http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.13258/suppinfo is available for this article.

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Maternal diet and age alter direct and indirect relationships between life‐history traits across multiple generations

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“…Transgenerational effects have been suggested to be mediated through epigenetic regulation or egg composition [5]. In order to test this it is necessary to disentangle prenatal and postnatal effects.…”

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Transgenerational effects of parent and grandparent gender on offspring development in a biparental beetle species

Lock

2011

Biol. Lett.

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Parental effects on offspring life-history traits are common and increasingly well-studied. However, the extent to which these effects persist into offspring in subsequent generations has received less attention. In this experiment, maternal and paternal effects on offspring and grand-offspring were investigated in the biparental burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides, using a split-family design. This allowed the separation of prenatal and postnatal transgenerational effects. Grandparent and parent gender were found to have a cumulative effect on offspring development and may provide a selection pressure on the division of parental investment in biparental species.

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“…From the ecotoxicological point of view, the egg number decreases due to the effect of heavy metal contamination (Fountain and Hopkin, 2001;Smit et al, 2004). If evolution biology of F. candida was in the focus of the study, difference between clonal lines (Stam, Leemkule and Ernsting, 1996), life-history traits (Tully and Ferrière, 2008;Hafer et al, 2011), or Wolbachia symbiont presence (Timmermans and Ellers, 2009) were studied. Other parameters as the egg shape, the egg viability, and the egg size are rather involved in ecological and evolution biological studies not in ecotoxicological ones (Stam, Leemkule and Ernsting, 1996;Tully and Ferrière, 2008;Timmermans and Ellers, 2009;Hafer and Pike, 2010;Hafer et al, 2011).…”

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“…If evolution biology of F. candida was in the focus of the study, difference between clonal lines (Stam, Leemkule and Ernsting, 1996), life-history traits (Tully and Ferrière, 2008;Hafer et al, 2011), or Wolbachia symbiont presence (Timmermans and Ellers, 2009) were studied. Other parameters as the egg shape, the egg viability, and the egg size are rather involved in ecological and evolution biological studies not in ecotoxicological ones (Stam, Leemkule and Ernsting, 1996;Tully and Ferrière, 2008;Timmermans and Ellers, 2009;Hafer and Pike, 2010;Hafer et al, 2011). For example, Tully and Ferrière (2008) measured egg size, egg number, clutch size and clutch number to reveal the different life-history strategies of F. candida reacting to different food availability and overcrowding.…”

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The influence of different substrates on the reproduction traits of Folsomia candida (Collembola) in an insecticide test

Szabó

Bakonyi

2017

Columella

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Abstract:The standard OECD tests for Folsomia candida should be performed on the standard OECD soil. However, if it is necessary to measure more parameters than the juvenile number and mortality, the use of different substrates is necessary. But these substrates can modify the results of the experiments comparing to the standard OECD soil, resulting in different toxicity values. In our research, we tested the toxicity of an insecticide, Trebon® 10F to F. candida (Collembola). We tested the dose-dependent effect of Trebon® 10F on the egg number and the egg size on the substrates of (i) plaster of Paris mixed with activated charcoal and (ii) in standard OECD soil on two generation of collembolas.Similarly to our previous study, the insecticide had a dose-dependent negative effect on the parent's egg size in the OECD soil, but on plaster of Paris, no response was found. The egg number did not show any response to the treatments. On the contrary, in the offspring generation, the egg size increased both in OECD and plaster of Paris tests. In the soil test, parent collembolas laid significantly more eggs, while the offspring laid much fewer, compared to the plaster of Paris test. Similar results were found in the case of egg size. In the soil test parent collembolas laid larger, while the offspring laid smaller eggs, compared to the plaster of Paris test.In multigenerational tests (i) Trebon 10F could affect the different generations in the opposite way. The experiment performed on the plaster of Paris (ii) could underestimate toxicity compared to the OECD soil test. This should be taken into account when Ecotoxicologists interpret their data.

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Transgenerational effects of food availability on age at maturity and reproductive output in an asexual collembolan species

Cited by 51 publications

References 15 publications

Maternal diet and age alter direct and indirect relationships between life‐history traits across multiple generations

Maternal diet and age alter direct and indirect relationships between life‐history traits across multiple generations

Transgenerational effects of parent and grandparent gender on offspring development in a biparental beetle species

The influence of different substrates on the reproduction traits of Folsomia candida (Collembola) in an insecticide test

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