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Experimentally evolved and phenotypically plastic responses to enforced monogamy in a hermaphroditic flatworm
JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
 
ID 3718947
Author(s) Janicke, Tim; Sandner, Peter; Ramm, Steven A.; Vizoso, Dita B.; Schärer, Lukas
Author(s) at UniBasel Schärer, Lukas
Vizoso, Dita
Year 2016
Title Experimentally evolved and phenotypically plastic responses to enforced monogamy in a hermaphroditic flatworm
Journal Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Volume 29
Number 9
Pages / Article-Number 1713-27
Keywords Simultaneous Hermaphrodite; Experimental Evolution; Sex Allocation; Genital Evolution
Abstract

Sexual selection is considered a potent evolutionary force in all sexually reproducing organisms, but direct tests in terms of experimental evolution of sexual traits are still lacking for simultaneously hermaphroditic animals. Here, we tested how evolution under enforced monogamy affected a suite of reproductive traits (including testis area, sex allocation, genital morphology, sperm morphology and mating behaviour) in the outcrossing hermaphroditic flatworm Macrostomum lignano, using an assay that also allowed the assessment of phenotypically plastic responses to group size. The experiment comprised 32 independent selection lines that evolved under either monogamy or polygamy for 20 generations. While we did not observe an evolutionary shift in sex allocation, we detected effects of the selection regime for two male morphological traits. Specifically, worms evolving under enforced monogamy had a distinct shape of the male copulatory organ and produced sperm with shorter appendages. Many traits that did not evolve under enforced monogamy showed phenotypic plasticity in response to group size. Notably, individuals that grew up in larger groups had a more male-biased sex allocation and produced slightly longer sperm than individuals raised in pairs. We conclude that, in this flatworm, enforced monogamy induced moderate evolutionary but substantial phenotypically plastic responses.

Publisher Wiley
ISSN/ISBN 1010-061X ; 1420-9101
edoc-URL http://edoc.unibas.ch/53154/
Full Text on edoc No
Digital Object Identifier DOI 10.1111/jeb.12910
PubMed ID http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27237934
ISI-Number WOS:000384424500006
Document type (ISI) Journal Article
 
   

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