Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Andrew I. Furness, Chris Venditti, Isabella Capellini
Summary: The study analyzes data from over 800 amphibian species and finds that amphibians with direct development and those that lay eggs in terrestrial environments have larger eggs and smaller clutches. The effects of different care behaviors and adaptations on the trade-off vary.
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Biology
Isimeme N. Udu, Michael B. Bonsall, Hope Klug
Summary: Parental care has been gained and lost evolutionarily multiple times. The loss of parental care is influenced by low egg and adult death rates, quick egg maturation, and high level of care provided. Evolutionary hysteresis makes it challenging to lose parental care, particularly when eggs develop slowly.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Xiaoyan Long, Franz J. Weissing
Summary: The study examines the diversity in parental roles between and within species. By using individual-based evolutionary simulations, the authors find that differences in care between males and females can arise from conflicts between the sexes and sexual selection. The study reveals that the care pattern drives sexual selection, and rapid switches between parental care patterns can occur even in constant environments. The findings challenge the predictions of mathematical models and highlight the importance of transient within-sex polymorphisms in parental strategies.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Margaret A. Stanton, Kaitlin R. Wellens, Carson M. Murray
Summary: The study on wild chimpanzee feeding development revealed that offspring exhibit adult-like feeding behaviors between 4 and 6 years of age, with no significant differences between males and females by age 10. The data did not support the needing-to-learn feeding skills hypothesis, but provided support for the expensive brain hypothesis. Further research is needed to evaluate when adolescent chimpanzees can make foraging decisions independently.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Zoology
Juliano Morimoto
Summary: This study found that parental ecological history, including developmental and adult social environments, can modulate the effects of parental age at reproduction on the expression of offspring traits.
Article
Ecology
Ulrika Candolin, Sara Goncalves, Pankaj Pant
Summary: Parental care can affect offspring survival, with male sticklebacks investing more care when receiving more eggs. In disturbed environments, this optimal balance may be distorted, leading to maladaptive parental behavior that reduces offspring survival.
Article
Ecology
Toshiaki Yamamoto, Shigeru Kitanishi, Neil B. Metcalfe
Summary: Offspring traits in masu salmon are influenced by parent genotypes and phenotypes. Maternal and paternal influences have an impact on offspring dispersal distance, growth, and early sexual maturity. Maternal effects were observed in offspring growth, while paternal life history influenced offspring dispersal patterns. Overall, the growth rate and divergence in life history types were environmentally driven in young salmon.
EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Aneesh P. H. Bose, Paul Nuehrenberg, Alex Jordan
Summary: This study compared the social environments of breeding groups with and without dependent offspring in Neolamprologus multifasciatus fish. The presence of dependent offspring led to heightened conflicts among females and contests between dominant males and noncaregiving females. Caregiving females used wider spaces than noncaregiving females, with non-overlapping subterritories within the group's territory. The study highlighted how parental care can influence the makeup of social environments within breeding groups.
Article
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Radoslaw Piotr Radzki, Marek Bienko, Dariusz Wolski, Monika Ostapiuk, Pawel Polak, Malgorzata Manastyrska, Aleksandra Kimicka, Joanna Wolska
Summary: Parental obesity has a programming influence on the skeletal system of offspring, leading to intensified mineralization and increased bone strength. However, obesity also has destructive effects on the skeletal system. Further research is required to understand the metabolic relationship between adipose tissue and bone over time in both animals and humans.
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Psychology, Biological
Olivia L. Brooks, Evan N. Talbott-Swain, Brianne N. Rimmele, Matthew B. Dugas
Summary: A study has found that food has a significant impact on the survival ability of offspring, which is limited by plasticity in their growth and development, thus shaping the evolution of parental care. Comparing the plastic responses of two species of poison frog larvae to egg feeding and food availability, the research shows that hand-reared R. imitator larvae were heavier during metamorphosis when offered eggs. These findings highlight the constraints on the evolution of egg feeding in tadpoles.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Venla Berg, Ralf Kuja-Halkola, Brian M. D'Onofrio, Paul Lichtenstein, Antti Latvala
Summary: Parents with substance misuse may lead to earlier parenthood in their offspring, but this association may be influenced by genetic confounding. Life history theory needs further testing with genetically informative research designs.
EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2021)
Article
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Toshiaki Yamamoto, Shigeru Kitanishi
Summary: This study investigated the influence of paternal life-history form and egg size on offspring life-history traits in masu salmon. The results showed that egg size was related to early-life body size of the offspring, while paternal life-history form had no effect. Additionally, the study found that the movement of offspring within the tributary differed between males and females, but was not influenced by egg size or paternal life-history form. The researchers concluded that environmental conditions play a more significant role than parental genetic effects in shaping offspring life-history traits.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jacqueline Sahm, Madlen A. Prang, Sandra Steiger
Summary: Conflicts over parental investment are common among family members. Offspring have the upper hand in these conflicts, but the presence of a male partner shifts the outcome closer to the parental optimum.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Carlos A. Aguilar-Trigueros, Franz-Sebastian Krah, William K. Cornwell, Amy E. Zanne, Nerea Abrego, Ian C. Anderson, Carrie J. Andrew, Petr Baldrian, Claus Baessler, Andrew Bissett, V. Bala Chaudhary, Baodong Chen, Yongliang Chen, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Coline Deveautour, Eleonora Egidi, Habacuc Flores-Moreno, Jacob Golan, Jacob Heilmann-Clausen, Stefan Hempel, Yajun Hu, Havard Kauserud, Stephanie N. Kivlin, Petr Kohout, Daniel R. Lammel, Fernando T. Maestre, Anne Pringle, Jenna Purhonen, Brajesh K. Singh, Stavros D. Veresoglou, Tomas Vetrovsky, Haiyang Zhang, Matthias C. Rillig, Jeff R. Powell
Summary: Despite the ubiquity of host-fungal symbiotic interactions, the effects of symbiosis on the ecology and evolution of fungal spores involved in dispersal and colonization have been neglected. Through a spore morphology database, we found that symbiotic status correlated with changes in spore size, but this effect varied among different fungal phyla. Symbiosis explained more variation in spore size distribution than climatic variables, and spores of plant-associated fungi have more restricted dispersal potential compared to free-living fungi. Our study advances life-history theory by highlighting the role of symbiosis in shaping reproductive and dispersal strategies among living organisms.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Balazs Vagi, Daniel Marsh, Gergely Katona, Zsolt Vegvari, Robert P. Freckleton, Andras Liker, Tamas Szekely
Summary: This study reveals the association between fertilisation mode and parental care in an early vertebrate group, suggesting that internal fertilisers enable terrestrial reproduction and contribute to the diversity of terrestrial vertebrates.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Evolutionary Biology
Aaron R. Yilmaz, Sarah E. Diamond, Ryan A. Martin
Summary: The study on terrestrial isopods in urban and rural environments reveals different plastic and evolutionary responses to urban heat islands. Body size of isopods is influenced by rearing temperature, with larger size improving desiccation tolerance. The variations associated with urban heat islands may not necessarily contribute to evolutionary changes in physiological traits.
EVOLUTIONARY APPLICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Michael P. Moore, Ryan A. Martin
Summary: This study on dragonflies found that despite some hypotheses being rejected, natural selection in one life-cycle stage imposes trait-dependent constraints on evolution in others.
AMERICAN NATURALIST
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Ryan A. Martin, Lacy D. Chick, Matthew L. Garvin, Sarah E. Diamond
Summary: The study reveals that urbanization affects the survival of ants, and there are differences in adaptation between urban and rural ants. Rural ants in urban environments are more vulnerable in summer, whereas urban ants adapted to rural environments are more vulnerable in winter. The findings suggest that species may not keep pace with anthropogenic change, with urban ants showing lower levels of local adaptation compared to rural ants in their ancestral rural environments.
Article
Ecology
Rudiger Riesch, Marcio S. Araujo, Stuart Bumgarner, Caitlynn Filla, Laura Pennafort, Taylor R. Goins, Darlene Lucion, Amber M. Makowicz, Ryan A. Martin, Sara Pirroni, R. Brian Langerhans
Summary: Cannibalism is rare in the wild among fish species, with most populations and species showing no evidence of cannibalism. Juveniles are the primary victims, with a smaller portion being adult males. Females exhibit more cannibalism, likely due to their larger body size and greater energy requirements for reproduction. Intense resource competition drives cannibalistic behavior.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2022)
Article
Biology
Sarah E. Diamond, Eric G. Prileson, Ryan A. Martin
Summary: This article reviews different lines of evidence used to assess urban adaptation and provides a synthesis of local adaptation to urban and rural environments. While there is support for local adaptation to both urban and rural environments, there is an asymmetry, with urban adaptation being less prevalent. There is also considerable variation among study systems.
CURRENT OPINION IN INSECT SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Noah T. Leith, Kasey D. Fowler-Finn, Michael P. Moore
Summary: Thermal ecology and mate competition interact and can enhance each other, facilitating organism adaptation to the environment. Future research should integrate different methods to understand the evolutionary feedback between these two aspects.
Article
Physiology
Aaron R. Yilmaz, Adrianna Yoder, Sarah E. Diamond, Ryan A. Martin
Summary: The study showed that chronic thermal stress during development under urban heat islands affects the thermal performance traits of urban and rural isopods. Developmental acclimation to high temperatures resulted in a decrease in running speed, while urban isopods exhibited higher heat tolerance under these conditions.
PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Carl-Johan Rubin, Erik D. Enbody, Mariya P. Dobreva, Arhat Abzhanov, Brian W. Davis, Sangeet Lamichhaney, Mats Pettersson, Ashley T. Sendell-Price, C. Grace Sprehn, Carlos A. Valle, Karla Vasco, Ola Wallerman, B. Rosemary Grant, Peter R. Grant, Leif Andersson
Summary: Through studying Darwin's finches, it was found that ancestral haplotype blocks play a crucial role in phenotypic evolution and speciation, serving as key determinants of the unusual phenotypic diversity exhibited by these birds.
Article
Evolutionary Biology
Sarah E. Diamond, Ryan A. Martin, Grace Bellino, K. Nicole Crown, Eric G. Prileson
Summary: This study explores the potential for rapid evolutionary divergence between wild populations of Drosophila tripunctata from rural and urban sites. The results show evidence of higher heat tolerance and weaker cold resistance in flies from urban populations, although the magnitude of phenotypic change lags behind the magnitude of environmental temperature change across the urbanization gradient.
BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Zoology
Ryan A. Martin, Ruediger Riesch, Martin Plath, Naif A. Al Hanoosh, Torsten Wronski
Summary: Reproductive traits are crucial for the fitness of organisms. In this study, we investigated the reproductive biology of Arabian gazelles based on breeding data collected over 16 years. The results showed that offspring survival was influenced by birth weight, with heavier offspring having higher survival rates. We also found significant narrow-sense heritability in birth weight and different effects of maternal and paternal influences on offspring survival.
Article
Evolutionary Biology
Angela P. Fuentes-Pardo, Edward D. Farrell, Mats E. Pettersson, C. Grace Sprehn, Leif Andersson
Summary: Understanding population adaptation is important for preserving biodiversity in the face of overexploitation and climate change. This study focused on Atlantic horse mackerel, a commercially and ecologically important marine fish. The researchers used genomic data and environmental information to analyze population structure and genetic basis of local adaptation. Their findings revealed low population structure but identified key genetic markers associated with adaptation, such as loci discriminating different regions. The study emphasizes the importance of understanding both life history and climate-related selective pressures in shaping population structure in marine fish.
EVOLUTIONARY APPLICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Biology
Eric G. Prileson, Jordan Clark, Sarah E. Diamond, Angie Lenard, Osmary A. Medina-Baez, Aaron R. Yilmaz, Ryan A. Martin
Summary: By studying acorn ants in urban and rural environments under winter conditions, we found that urban ants have higher heat tolerance but no significant difference in cold tolerance, indicating that urban ants retain their ability to adapt to low-temperature conditions while adapting to warmer winters.
JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Alexandru Strugariu, Ryan Andrew Martin
Summary: Disruptive selection occurs when extreme phenotypes have a fitness advantage over intermediate phenotypes. This study investigated the role of interference competition in disruptive selection using Mexican spadefoot toads as a model system. The results suggest that interference competition may play a significant role in driving disruptive selection, as the presence of carnivore tadpoles significantly affected the foraging behavior and growth rates of intermediate tadpoles.
Review
Environmental Studies
Ryan A. Martin, Carmen R. B. da Silva, Michael P. Moore, Sarah E. Diamond
Summary: Decades of research in evolutionary biology have provided insights into the factors that influence the rate of adaptive evolution in response to climate change. This review discusses the contributions of evolutionary biology in predicting the winners and losers of climate change and the methods used to assess evolutionary responses to climate change. It also explores the role of phenotypic plasticity in facilitating or impeding evolutionary change and the importance of considering evolutionary constraints for accurate predictions.
WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-CLIMATE CHANGE
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Robert R. Dunn, Joseph Robert Burger, Elizabeth J. Carlen, Amanda M. Koltz, Jessica E. Light, Ryan A. Martin, Jason Munshi-South, Lauren M. Nichols, Edward L. Vargo, Senay Yitbarek, Yuhao Zhao, Angelica Cibrian-Jaramillo
Summary: Many of the choices made by humans in terms of infrastructure and urban planning have long-lasting impacts, and this applies to the evolutionary future of species as well. In this study, researchers explore the origin of lineages and species in cities, specifically focusing on the unique gray habitats associated with urban areas. They find that these habitats, dominated by human presence, pets, and stored food, are where new lineages are most likely to emerge, despite most previous research focusing on green habitats. The implications of these findings are discussed in the context of different future scenarios.
FRONTIERS IN CONSERVATION SCIENCE
(2022)