Fine-scale local adaptation in life histories along a continuous environmental gradient in Trinidadian guppies

Functional Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 616-627

  Torres Dowdall, Julián ^a   Handelsman, Corey A ^a   Ruell, Emily W ^a   Auer, Sonya K ^b,c   Reznick, David N ^b   Ghalambor, Cameron K ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Common garden; Fecundity; Phenotypic plasticity; Poecilia reticulata; Predator prey interactions; Reproductive allocation

Indexed keywords

BROOD SIZE; COEXISTENCE; CYPRINID; DRAINAGE NETWORK; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MATURATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SEX ALLOCATION;

CARONI RIVER; GUANAPO RIVER; TRINIDAD [TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO]; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 84861228524     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01980.x     Document Type: Article

References (70)

1. Abrams, P. & Rowe, L. (1996) The effects of predation on the age and size of maturity of prey. Evolution, 50, 1052-1061.
2. Alexander, H.J., Taylor, J.S., Wu, S.S. & Breden, F. (2006) Parallel evolution and vicariance in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) over multiple spatial and temporal scales. Evolution, 60, 2352-2369.
3. Austad, S.N. (1993) Retarded senescence in an insular population of Virginia opossums (Didelphis virginiana). Journal of Zoology, 229, 695-708.
4. Barton, N.H. (2001) The evolutionary consequences of gene flow and local adaptation: future approaches. Dispersal (eds J. Clobert, E. Danchin, A.A. Dhondt & J.D. Nichols ), pp. 329-340. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
5. Bashey, F. (2008) Competition as a selective mechanism for larger offspring size in guppies. Oikos, 117, 104-113.
6. Bassar, R.D., López-Sepulcre, A., Walsh, M.R., Turcotte, M.M., Torres-Mejia, M. & Reznick, D.N. (2010) Bridging the gap between ecology and evolution: integrating density regulation and life-history evolution. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1206, 17-34.
7. Botham, M.S., Kerfoot, C.J., Louca, V. & Krause, J. (2006) The effects of different predator species on antipredator behaviour in the Trinidadian guppy, Poecilia reticulata. Naturwissenschaften, 93, 431-439.
8. Case, T.J. & Taper, M.L. (2000) Interspecific competition, environmental gradients, gene flow, and the coevolution of species' borders. The American Naturalist, 155, 583-605.
9. Charlesworth, B. (1994) Evolution in Age-Structured Populations, 2nd edn. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
10. Chase, J.M. & Leibold, M.A. (2003) Ecological Niches. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
11. Crispo, E., Bentzen, P., Reznick, D.N., Kinnison, M.T. & Hendry, A.P. (2006) The relative influence of natural selection and geography on gene flow in guppies. Molecular Ecology, 15, 49-62.
12. Dudycha, J.L. (2001) The senescence of Daphnia from risky and safe habitats. Ecology Letters, 4, 102-105.
13. Endler, J.A. (1977) Geographic Variation, Speciation, and Clines. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
14. Endler, J.A. (1978) A predator's view of animal color patterns. Evolutionary Biology, 11, 319-364.
15. Endler, J.A. (1991) Variation in the appearance of guppy color patterns to guppies and their predators under different visual conditions. Vision Research, 31, 587-608.
16. Endler, J.A. (1995) Multiple-trait coevolution and environmental gradients in guppies. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 10, 22-29.
17. Endler, J.A. & Houde, A.E. (1995) Geographic variation in female preferences for male traits in Poecilia reticulata. Evolution, 49, 456-468.
18. Fox, C.W. (2000) Natural selection on seed-beetle egg size in nature and the laboratory: variation among environments. Ecology, 81, 3029-3035.
19. Fox, C.W., Czesak, M.E. & Fox, R.W. (2001) Consequences of plant resistance for herbivore survivorship, growth, and selection on egg size. Ecology, 82, 2790-2804.
20. Gadgil, M. & Bossert, W.H. (1970) Life historical consequences of natural selection. The American Naturalist, 104, 1-24.
21. García-Ramos, G. & Kirkpatrick, M. (1997) Genetic models of adaptation and gene flow in peripheral populations. Evolution, 51, 21-28.
22. Ghalambor, C.K., Reznick, D.N. & Walker, J.A. (2004) Constraints on adaptive evolution: the functional trade off between reproduction and fast-start swimming performance in the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata). The American Naturalist, 164, 38-50.
23. Gilliam, J.F., Fraser, D.F. & Alkins-Koo, M. (1993) Structure of a tropical stream fish community: a role for biotic interactions. Ecology, 74, 1856-1870.
24. Godin, J.G.J. & Davis, S.A. (1995) Who dares, benefits: predator approach behaviour in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) deters predator pursuit. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences, 259, 193-200.
25. Grether, G.F., Millie, D.F., Bryant, M.J., Reznick, D.N. & Mayea, W. (2001) Rain forest cover, resource availability, and life history evolution in guppies. Ecology, 82, 1546-1559.
26. Haynes, J.L. (1995) Standardized classification of poeciliid development for life-history studies. Copeia, 1995, 147-154.
27. Houde, A.E. (1997) Sex, Color, and Mate Choice in Guppies. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
28. Huizinga, M., Ghalambor, C.K. & Reznick, D.N. (2009) The genetic and environmental basis of adaptive differences in shoaling behaviour among populations of Trinidadian guppies, Poecilia reticulata. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 22, 1860-1866.
29. Hutchings, J.A. (1993) Adaptive life histories affected by age-specific survival and growth rate. Ecology, 74, 673-684.
30. Johnson, J.B. (2002) Divergent life histories among populations of the fish Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora: detecting putative agents of selection by candidate model analysis. Oikos, 96, 82-91.
31. Jørgensen, C., Auer, S.K. & Reznick, D.N. (2011) A model for optimal offspring size in fish, including live-bearing and parental effects. The American Naturalist, 177, E119-E135.
32. Kawakami, T., Morgan, T.J., Nippert, J.B., Ocheltree, T.W., Keith, R., Dhakal, P. & Ungerer, M.C. (2011) Natural selection drives clinal life history patterns in the perennial sunflower species, Helianthus maximiliani. Molecular Ecology, 20, 2318-2328.
33. Kemp, D.J., Reznick, D.N., Grether, G.F. & Endler, J.A. (2009) Predicting the direction of ornament evolution in Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences, 276, 4335-4343.
34. Kenny, J.S. (1995) Views from the Bridge: A Memoir on the Freshwater Fishes of Trinidad. Triniprint Limited, Barataria, Trinidad and Tobago.
35. Langerhans, R.B. & DeWitt, T.J. (2004) Shared and unique features of evolutionary diversification. The American Naturalist, 164, 335-349.
36. Law, R. (1979) Optimal life histories under age-specific predation. The American Naturalist, 114, 399-417.
37. Levins, R. (1968). Evolution in Changing Environments. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
38. Magurran, A. (2005) Evolutionary Ecology. The Trinidadian Guppy. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.
39. Magurran, A.E. & Seghers, B.H. (1994) Predator inspection behavior covaries with schooling tendency amongst wild guppy, Poecilia reticulata, populations in Trinidad. Behaviour, 128, 121-134.
40. Magurran, A.E., Seghers, B.H., Carvalho, G.R. & Shaw, P.W. (1992) Behavioural consequences of an artificial introduction of guppies (Poecilia reticulata) in North Trinidad: evidence for the evolution of antipredator behaviour in the wild. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences, 248, 117-122.
41. Mariac, C., Jehin, L., Saïdou, A.-A., Thuillet, A.-C., Couderc, M., Sire, P., Judgé, H., Adam, H., Bezançon, G., Pham, J.-L. & Vigouroux, Y. (2011) Genetic basis of pearl millet adaptation along an environmental gradient investigated by a combination of genome scan and association mapping. Molecular Ecology, 20, 80-91.
42. Mazer, S.J. & Damuth, J. (2001) Nature and causes of variation. Evolutionary Ecology. Concepts and Case Studies (eds C.W. Fox, D.A. Roff & D.J. Fairbairn ), pp. 3-15. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.
43. Monro, K., Sinclair-Taylor, T. & Marshall, D.J. (2010) Selection on offspring size among environments: the roles of environmental quality and variability. Functional Ecology, 24, 676-684.
44. Moran, N.A. (1992) The evolutionary maintenance of alternative phenotypes. The American Naturalist, 139, 971-989.
45. Phillip, D.A.T. (1998) Biodiversity of freshwater fishes in Trinidad and Tobago. PhD thesis, University of Saint Andrews, Trinidad and Tobago.
46. Piché, J., Hutchings, J.A. & Blanchard, W. (2008) Genetic variation in threshold reaction norms for alternative reproductive tactics in male Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences, 275, 1571-1575.
47. Price, T.D. & Kirkpatrick, M. (2009) Evolutionary stable range limits set by interspecific competition. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences, 276, 1429-1434.
48. Reznick, D.N. (1982a) The impact of predation on life history evolution in Trinidadian Guppies: genetic basis of observed life history patterns. Evolution, 36, 1236-1250.
49. Reznick, D.N. (1982b) Genetic determination of offspring size in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata). The American Naturalist, 120, 181-188.
50. Reznick, D.N. & Bryga, H.A. (1996) Life-history evolution in guppies (Poecilia reticulata: Poeciliidae). V. Genetic basis of parallelism in life histories. The American Naturalist, 147, 339-359.
51. Reznick, D.N., Butler, M.J. IV & Rodd, F.H. (2001) Life-history evolution in guppies. VII. The comparative ecology of high- and low-predation environments. The American Naturalist, 157, 126-140.
52. Reznick, D.N. & Endler, J.A. (1982) The impact of predation on life-history evolution in Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Evolution, 36, 160-177.
53. Reznick, D.N., Rodd, F.H. & Cardenas, M. (1996) Life-history evolution in guppies (Poecilia reticulata: Poeciliidae). IV. Parallelism in life-history phenotypes. The American Naturalist, 147, 319-338.
54. Reznick, D.N., Butler, M.J. IV, Rodd, F.H. & Ross, P. (1996) Life-history evolution in guppies (Poecilia reticulata). VI. Differential mortality as a mechanism for natural selection. Evolution, 50, 1651-1660.
55. Reznick, D.N., Bryant, M.J., Roff, D., Ghalambor, C.K. & Ghalambor, D.E. (2004) The effects of extrinsic mortality on the evolution of senescence in guppies. Nature, 431, 1095-1099.
56. Roff, D.A. (1992) The Evolution of Life Histories. Theory and Analysis. Chapman & Hall Inc., New York, NY.
57. Schiesari, L., Peacor, S.D. & Werner, E.E. (2006) The growth-mortality tradeoff: evidence from anuran larvae and consequences for species distributions. Oecologia, 149, 194-202.
58. Seghers, B.H. (1974) Schooling behavior in the guppy Poecilia reticulata: an evolutionary response to predation. Evolution, 28, 486-489.
59. Smith, D.E. & Fretwell, S.D. (1974) Optimal balance between size and number of offspring. The American Naturalist, 108, 499-506.
60. Stearns, S.C. (1992) The Evolution of Life Histories. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.
61. Tomkins, J.L., Hazel, W.N., Penrose, M.A., Radwan, J.W. & LeBas, N.R. (2011) Habitat complexity drives the experimental evolution of a conditionally expressed secondary sexual trait. Current Biology, 21, 569-573.
62. Via, S. & Lande, R. (1985) Genotype-environment interaction and the evolution of phenotypic plasticity. Evolution, 39, 505-522.
63. Volis, S. & Zhang, Y.H. (2010) Separating effects of gene flow and natural selection along an environmental gradient. Evolutionary Biology, 37, 187-199.
64. Walker, J.A., Ghalambor, C.K., Griset, O.L., McKenney, D. & Reznick, D. (2005) Do faster starts increase the probability of evading predators? Functional Ecology, 19, 808-815.
65. Walsh, M.R. & Reznick, D.N. (2008) Interactions between the direct and indirect effects of predators determine life history evolution in a killifish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105, 594-599.
66. Walsh, M.R. & Reznick, D.N. (2009) Phenotypic diversification across an environmental gradient: a role for predators and resource availability on the evolution of life histories. Evolution, 63, 3201-3213.
67. Walsh, M.R. & Reznick, D.N. (2010) Influence of the indirect effects of guppies on life history evolution in Rivulus hartii. Evolution, 64, 1583-1593.
68. Wellborn, G.A. (1994) Size-biased predation and prey life histories. A comparative study of freshwater amphipod populations. Ecology, 75, 2104-2117.
69. Wilbur, H.M. (1977) Propagule size, number, and dispersal pattern in Ambystoma and Asclepias. The American Naturalist, 111, 43-68.
70. WRA. (2001) Integrating the Management of Watersheds and Coastal Areas in Trinidad and Tobago. Water Resource Agency, Ministry of the Environment, Trinidad and Tobago.