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AMERICAN NATURALIST
卷 184, 期 -, 页码 S91-S100出版社
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/676930
关键词
inbreeding; outcrossing; self-fertilization; experimental evolution
资金
- National Science Foundation [DEB-0640639]
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [1F32GM096482-01]
- NIH National Center for Research Resources
Host-parasite interactions can drive rapid, reciprocal genetic changes (coevolution), provided both hosts and parasites have high heritabilities for resistance/infectivity. Similarly, the host's mating system should also affect the rate of coevolutionary change in host-parasite interactions. Using experimental coevolution, we determined the effect of obligate outcrossing verses partial self-fertilization (mixed mating) on the rate of evolutionary change in a nematode host (Caenorhabditis elegans) and its bacterial parasite (Serratia marcescens). Bacterial populations were derived from a common ancestor. We measured the effects of host mating system on host adaptation to the parasite. We then determined the extent of parasite adaptation to their local host populations. Obligately outcrossing hosts exhibited more rapid adaptation to parasites than did mixed mating hosts. In addition, most of the parasites became adapted to infecting their local hosts, but parasites from obligately outcrossing hosts showed a greater level of local adaptation. These results suggest that host populations evolved along separate trajectories and that outcrossing host populations diverged further than partially selfing populations. Finally, parasites tracking outcrossing host populations diverged further than parasites tracking the partially selfing host populations. These results show that the evolutionary trajectories of both hosts and parasites can be shaped by the host's mating system.
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