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dc.contributor.authorPascoal, Sonia
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Xuan
dc.contributor.authorFang, Yongxiang
dc.contributor.authorPaterson, Steve
dc.contributor.authorRitchie, Michael G.
dc.contributor.authorRockliffe, Nichola
dc.contributor.authorZuk, Marlene
dc.contributor.authorBailey, Nathan W.
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-14T00:34:08Z
dc.date.available2019-02-14T00:34:08Z
dc.date.issued2018-03-09
dc.identifier252046669
dc.identifier90c2992c-89f8-4cdd-a9e7-fdf71d5ef6f3
dc.identifier000427007400008
dc.identifier85042107078
dc.identifier.citationPascoal , S , Liu , X , Fang , Y , Paterson , S , Ritchie , M G , Rockliffe , N , Zuk , M & Bailey , N W 2018 , ' Increased socially mediated plasticity in gene expression accompanies rapid adaptive evolution ' , Ecology Letters , vol. 21 , no. 4 , pp. 546-556 . https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12920en
dc.identifier.issn1461-023X
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-7913-8675/work/46761142
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-3531-7756/work/60888420
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/17061
dc.descriptionThis work was funded by Natural 524 Environment Research Council grants (NE/I027800/1, NE/G014906/1, NE/L011255/1).en
dc.description.abstractRecent theory predicts that increased phenotypic plasticity can facilitate adaptation as traits respond to selection. When genetic adaptation alters the social environment, socially mediated plasticity could cause co-evolutionary feedback dynamics that increase adaptive potential. We tested this by asking whether neural gene expression in a recently arisen, adaptive morph of the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus is more responsive to the social environment than the ancestral morph. Silent males (flatwings) rapidly spread in a Hawaiian population subject to acoustically orienting parasitoids, changing the population's acoustic environment. Experimental altering crickets’ acoustic environments during rearing revealed broad, plastic changes in gene expression. However, flatwing genotypes showed increased socially mediated plasticity, whereas normal-wing genotypes exhibited negligible expression plasticity. Increased plasticity in flatwing crickets suggests a coevolutionary process coupling socially flexible gene expression with the abrupt spread of flatwing. Our results support predictions that phenotypic plasticity should rapidly evolve to be more pronounced during early phases of adaptation.
dc.format.extent2054982
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEcology Lettersen
dc.subjectAdaptationen
dc.subjectCoevolutionen
dc.subjectGenetic assmiliationen
dc.subjectGenomic invasionen
dc.subjectPhenotypic plasticityen
dc.subjectRapid evolutionen
dc.subjectSocial environmenten
dc.subjectTeleogryllus oceanicusen
dc.subjectTranscriptomicsen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectQH426 Geneticsen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.subject.lccQH426en
dc.titleIncreased socially mediated plasticity in gene expression accompanies rapid adaptive evolutionen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorNERCen
dc.contributor.sponsorNERCen
dc.contributor.sponsorNERCen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversityen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciencesen
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/ele.12920
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2019-02-14
dc.identifier.grantnumberNe/I027800/1en
dc.identifier.grantnumberNE/G014906/1en
dc.identifier.grantnumberNE/L011255/1en


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