Journal
EVOLUTIONARY APPLICATIONS
Volume 14, Issue 8, Pages 2012-2024Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/eva.13254
Keywords
genomics; host adaptation; Hymenoptera; parasitoid; quantitative genetics; response to selection
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- National Institute of Food and Agriculture [2017-67013-26526]
- Agricultural Research Service [8010-22000-032-00D]
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In the process of selecting for parasitism behavior of Rhopalosiphum padi in Aphelinus rhamni, the parasitoid showed a rapid response to this selection and reduced parasitism of its original host Aphis glycines. Although there is an association between genetic polymorphisms and parasitism of R. padi, enrichment of candidate genes or gene functions on the contigs where SNP loci associated with parasitism were found is not significant.
Risks of postintroduction evolution in insects introduced to control invasive pests have been discussed for some time, but little is known about responses to selection or genetic architectures of host adaptation and thus about the likelihood or rapidity of evolutionary shifts. We report here results on the response to selection and genetic architecture of parasitism of a suboptimal, low-preference host species by an aphid parasitoid, Aphelinus rhamni, a candidate for introduction against the soy bean aphid, Aphis glycines. We selected A. rhamni for increased parasitism of Rhopalsiphum padi by rearing the parasitoid on this aphid for three generations. We measured parasitism of R. padi at generations 2 and 3, and at generation 3, we crossed and backcrossed parasitoids from the populations reared on R. padi with those from populations reared on Aphis glycines and compared parasitism of both R. padi and Aphis glycines among F-1 and backcross females. Aphelinus rhamni responded rapidly to selection for parasitism of R. padi. Selection for R. padi parasitism reduced parasitism of Aphis glycines, the original host of A. rhamni. However, parasitism of R. padi did not increase from generation 2 to generation 3 of selection, suggesting reduced variance available for selection, which was indeed found. We tested the associations between 184 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) and increased parasitism of R. padi and found 28 SNP loci, some of which were associated with increased and others with decreased parasitism of R. padi. We assembled and annotated the A. rhamni genome, mapped all SNP loci to contigs and tested whether genes on contigs with SNP loci associated with parasitism were enriched for candidate genes or gene functions. We identified 80 genes on these contigs that mapped to 1.2 Mb of the 483 Mb genome of A. rhamni but found little enrichment of candidate genes or gene functions.
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