Effects of the demographic transition on the genetic variances and covariances of human life-history traits

Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 747-755

  Bolund, Elisabeth ^a,b   Hayward, Adam ^a   Pettay, Jenni E ^c   Lummaa, Virpi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Genetic correlation; Heritability; Stability of G; Variance covariance matrix

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENETIC VARIATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN EVOLUTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PUBLIC HEALTH;

FINLAND;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84924981805     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12598     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Anderson, K. G. 2006. How well does paternity confidence match actual paternity? Curr. Anthropol. 47:513-520.
2. Arnold, S. J., R. Burger, P. A. Hohenlohe, B. C. Ajie, and A. G. Jones . 2008. Understanding the evolution and stability of the G-matrix. Evolution 62:2451-2461.
3. Björklund, M. 2004. Constancy of the G matrix in ecological time. Evolution 58:1157-1164.
4. Björklund, M., A. Husby, and L. Gustafsson . 2013. Rapid and unpredictable changes of the G-matrix in a natural bird population over 25 years. J. Evol. Biol. 26:1-13.
5. Blows, M. W. 2007. A tale of two matrices: multivariate approaches in evolutionary biology. J. Evol. Biol. 20:1-8.
6. Bolund, E., S. Bouwhuis, J. E. Pettay, and V. Lummaa . 2013. Divergent selection on, but no genetic conflict over, female and male timing and rate of reproduction in a human population. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 280:20132002.
7. Bras, H., J. Van Bavel, and K. Mandemakers . 2013. Unraveling the intergenerational transmission of fertility: genetic and shared-environment effects during the demographic transition in the Netherlands, 1810-1910. The History of the Family 18:116-134.
8. Brown, G. R., K. N. Laland, and M. B. Mulder . 2009. Bateman's principles and human sex roles. Trends Ecol. Evol. 24:297-304.
9. Byars, S. G., D. Ewbank, D. R. Govindaraju, and S. C. Stearns . 2010. Natural selection in a contemporary human population. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107:1787-1792.
10. Cano, J. M., A. Laurila, J. Palo, and J. Merilä . 2004. Population differentiation in G matrix structure due to natural selection in Rana temporaria. Evolution 58:2013-2020.
11. Charmantier, A., and D. Garant . 2005. Environmental quality and evolutionary potential: lessons from wild populations. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 272:1415-1425.
12. Charmantier, A., and D. Reale . 2005. How do misassigned paternities affect the estimation of heritability in the wild? Mol. Ecol. 14:2839-2850.
13. Courtiol, A., J. E. Pettay, M. Jokela, A. Rotkirch, and V. Lummaa . 2012. Natural and sexual selection in a monogamous historical human population. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 109:8044-8049.
14. Courtiol, A., Ian J. Rickard, V. Lummaa, Andrew M. Prentice, Anthony J. C. Fulford, and Stephen C. Stearns . 2013. The demographic transition influences variance in fitness and selection on height and BMI in rural Gambia. Curr. Biol. 23:884-889.
15. Demeny, P. 1968. Early fertility decline in Austria-Hungary: a lesson in demographic transition. Daedalus 97:502-522.
16. Doroszuk, A., M. W. Wojewodzic, G. Gort, and J. E. Kammenga . 2008. Rapid divergence of genetic variance-covariance matrix within a natural population. Am. Nat. 171:291-304.
17. Faurie, C., A. F. Russell, and V. Lummaa . 2009. Middleborns disadvantaged? Testing birth-order effects on fitness in pre-industrial Finns. PLoS One 4:e5680.
18. Fisher, R. A. 1930. The genetical theory of natural selection. Clarendon Press, Oxford, U.K.
19. Garant, D., J. D. Hadfield, L. E. B. Kruuk, and B. C. Sheldon . 2008. Stability of genetic variance and covariance for reproductive characters in the face of climate change in a wild bird population. Mol. Ecol. 17:179-188.
20. Gillespie, D. O. S., A. F. Russell, and V. Lummaa . 2008. When fecundity does not equal fitness: evidence of an offspring quantity versus quality trade-off in pre-industrial humans. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 275:713-722.
21. Hadfield, J. 2010. MCMC methods for multi-response generalized linear mixed models: the MCMCglmm R package. J. Stat. Softw. 33:1-22.
22. Hayward, A. D., J. Holopainen, J. E. Pettay, and V. Lummaa . 2012. Food and fitness: associations between crop yields and life-history traits in a longitudinally monitored pre-industrial human population. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 279:4165-4173.
23. Hayward, A. D., I. J. Rickard, and V. Lummaa . 2013. Influence of early-life nutrition on mortality and reproductive success during a subsequent famine in a preindustrial population. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110:13886-13891.
24. Henderson, C. R. 1975. Best linear unbiased estimation and prediction under a selection model. Biometrics 31:423-447.
25. Hill, W. G., and R. Thompson . 1978. Probabilities of non-positive definite between-group or genetic covariance matrices. Biometrics 34:429-439.
26. Kause, A., I. Saloniemi, J.-P. Morin, E. Haukioja, S. Hanhimäki, and K. Ruohomäki . 2001. Seasonally varying diet quality and the quantitative genetics of development time and body size in birch feeding isects. Evolution 55:1992-2001.
27. Kirkpatrick, M. 2009. Patterns of quantitative genetic variation in multiple dimensions. Genetica 136:271-284.
28. Kohler, H. P., J. L. Rodgers, and K. Christensen . 2002. Between nurture and nature: the shifting determinants of female fertility in Danish twin cohorts. Biodemogr. Soc. Biol. 49:218-248.
29. Kruuk, L. E. B. 2004. Estimating genetic parameters in natural populations using the 'animal model'. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 359:873-890.
30. Krzanowski, W. J. 1979. Between-groups comparison of principal components. J. Am. Stat. Assoc. 74:703-707.
31. Laland, K. N., and G. R. Brown . 2011. Sense & nonsense. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, U.K.
32. Lande, R. 1979. Quantitative genetic analysis of multivariate evolution, applied to brain-body size allometry. Evolution 33:402-416.
33. Lande, R., and S. J. Arnold . 1983. The measurement of selection on correlated characters. Evolution 37:1210-1226.
34. Larmuseau, M. H. D., J. Vanoverbeke, A. Van Geystelen, G. Defraene, N. Vanderheyden, K. Matthys, T. Wenseleers, and R. Decorte . 2013. Low historical rates of cuckoldry in a Western European human population traced by Y-chromosome and genealogical data. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 280:20132400.
35. Liu, J., and V. Lummaa . 2014. An evolutionary approach to change of status-fertility relationship in human fertility transition. Behav. Ecol. 25:102-109.
36. Liu, J. H., A. Rotkirch, and V. Lummaa . 2012. Maternal risk of breeding failure remained low throughout the demographic transitions in fertility and age at first reproduction in Finland. PLoS One 7:e34898.
37. Lummaa, V., E. Haukioja, R. Lemmetyinen, and M. Pikkola . 1998. Natural selection on human twinning. Nature 394:533-534.
38. Lynch, M., and B. Walsh . 1998. Genetics and analysis of quantitative traits. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.
39. Milot, E., F. M. Mayer, D. H. Nussey, M. Boisvert, F. Pelletier, and D. Reale . 2011. Evidence for evolution in response to natural selection in a contemporary human population. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108:17040-17045.
40. Moorad, J. A. 2013. A demographic transition altered the strength of selection for fitness and age-specific survival and fertility in a 19th century American population. Evolution 67:1622-1634.
41. Ovaskainen, O., J. M. Cano, and J. Merilä . 2008. A Bayesian framework for comparative quantitative genetics. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 275:669-678.
42. Pettay, J. E., L. E. B. Kruuk, J. Jokela, and V. Lummaa . 2005. Heritability and genetic constraints of life-history trait evolution in preindustrial humans. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102:2838-2843.
43. Pettay, J. E., S. Helle, J. Jokela, and V. Lummaa . 2007. Natural selection on female life-history traits in relation to socio-economic class in pre-industrial human populations. PLoS One 2:e606.
44. Pettay, J. E., A. Charmantier, A. J. Wilson, and V. Lummaa . 2008. Age-specific genetic and maternal effects in fecundity of preindustrial Finnish women. Evolution 62:2297-2304.
45. Pfrender, M. E., and M. Lynch . 2000. Quantitative genetic variation in Daphnia: temporal changes in genetic architecture. Evolution 54:1502-1509.
46. Pigliucci, M. 2006. Genetic variance-covariance matrices: a critique of the evolutionary quantitative genetics research program. Biol. Philos. 21:1-23.
47. Price, T., and D. Schulter . 1991. On the low heritability of life-history traits. Evolution 45:853-861.
48. Robinson, M. R., and A. P. Beckerman . 2013. Quantifying multivariate plasticity: genetic variation in resource acquisition drives plasticity in resource allocation to components of life history. Ecol. Lett. 16:281-290.
49. Roff, D. 2000. The evolution of the G matrix: selection or drift? Heredity 84:135-142.
50. Roff, D. A., J. M. Prokkola, I. Krams, and M. J. Rantala . 2012. There is more than one way to skin a G matrix. J. Evol. Biol. 25:1113-1126.
51. Schluter, D. 1996. Adaptive radiation along genetic lines of least resistance. Evolution 50:1766-1774.
52. Service, P. M., and M. R. Rose . 1985. Genetic covariation among life-history components-the effect of novel environments. Evolution 39:943-945.
53. Sgro, C. M., and A. A. Hoffmann . 2004. Genetic correlations, tradeoffs and environmental variation. Heredity 93:241-248.
54. Singleton, F. 1998. A short history of Finland. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, U.K.
55. Smith, E. A., M. B. Mulder, and K. Hill . 2001. Controversies in the evolutionary social sciences: a guide for the perplexed. Trends Ecol. Evol. 16:128-135.
56. Stearns, S. C., S. G. Byars, D. R. Govindaraju, and D. Ewbank . 2010. Measuring selection in contemporary human populations. Nat. Rev. Genet. 11:611-622.
57. Stearns, S. C., D. R. Govindaraju, D. Ewbank, and S. G. Byars . 2012. Constraints on the coevolution of contemporary human males and females. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 279:4836-4844.
58. Steppan, S. J., P. C. Phillips, and D. Houle . 2002. Comparative quantitative genetics: evolution of the G matrix. Trends Ecol. Evol. 17:320-327.
59. Sundin, J. 1992. Sinful sex-legal prosecution of extramarital sex in preindustrial Sweden. Soc. Sci. Hist. 16:99-128.
60. Tait, L. 1869. Art. XIII-has the law of natural selection by survival of the fittest failed in the case of man? Dub. Quart. J. Med. Sci. 47:102-113.
61. Therneau, T. M. 2014. A package for survival analysis in S. R package version 2.37-7.
62. Vink, J. M., M. Bartels, T. C. E. M. van Beijsterveldt, J. van Dongen, J. H. D. A. van Beek, M. A. Distel, M. H. M. de Moor, D. J. A. Smit, C. C. Minica, L. Ligthart, et al. 2012. Sex differences in genetic architecture of complex phenotypes? PLoS One 7:e47371.
63. Visscher, P. M., W. G. Hill, and N. R. Wray . 2008. Heritability in the genomics era: concepts and misconceptions. Nat. Rev. Genet. 9:255-266.
64. Wilson, A. J., D. Reale, M. N. Clements, M. M. Morrissey, E. Postma, C. A. Walling, L. E. B. Kruuk, and D. H. Nussey . 2010. An ecologist's guide to the animal model. J. Anim. Ecol. 79:13-26.
65. Zampieri, F. 2009. Medicine, evolution, and natural selection: an historical overview. Q. Rev. Biol. 84:333-355.