Journal
EVOLUTION
Volume 75, Issue 7, Pages 1792-1804Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/evo.14262
Keywords
Drosophila melanogaster; natural selection; selection dynamics; sexual selection; spatial heterogeneity
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada
- McMaster University
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship
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Environmental features can alter organism behaviors and phenotypes, influencing natural and sexual selection dynamics. Experimental manipulation of environments has direct and indirect effects on the strength and direction of selection. Spatial environments can impact allele purging dynamics, with sexual selection also playing a role in purging rates.
Environmental features can alter the behaviors and phenotypes of organisms, influencing the dynamics of natural and sexual selection. Experimental environmental manipulation, particularly when conducted in experiments where the dynamics of the purging of deleterious alleles are compared, has demonstrated both direct and indirect effects on the strength and direction of selection. However, many of these studies are conducted with fairly simplistic environments, where it is not always clear how or why particular forms of spatial heterogeneity influence behavior or selection. Using Drosophila melanogaster, we tested three different spatial environments designed to determine if spatial constraint of critical resources influences the efficiency of natural and sexual selection. We conducted two allele purging experiments to (1) assess effects of these spatial treatments on selective dynamics of six recessive mutations, and (2) determine how these dynamics changed when sexual selection was relaxed and spatial area reduced for two of the mutants. Allele purging dynamics depended on spatial environment, however the patterns of purging rates between the environments differed across distinct deleterious mutations. We also tested two of the mutant alleles, and demonstrate sexual selection increased the purging rate.
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