Data from: Experimental evolution of infectious behaviour in a facultative ectoparasite
Parasitic lifestyles have evolved many times in animals, but how such life-history strategies evolved from free-living ancestors remains a great puzzle. Transitional symbiotic strategies, such as facultative parasitism, are hypothesized evolutionary stepping-stones towards obligate parasitism. Howev...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:50|dedup_wf_001::c3ac44bbc9e70ddcaf9358c0e1920f6f 2023-05-15T18:50:34+02:00 Data from: Experimental evolution of infectious behaviour in a facultative ectoparasite Durkin, Emily S. Luong, Lien T. Durkin, E. S. Luong, L. T. 2017-12-21 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9p0nm undefined unknown http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9p0nm https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9p0nm lic_creative-commons oai:services.nod.dans.knaw.nl:Products/dans:oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:100203 10.5061/dryad.9p0nm oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:100203 10|eurocrisdris::fe4903425d9040f680d8610d9079ea14 10|opendoar____::8b6dd7db9af49e67306feb59a8bdc52c 10|openaire____::55045bd2a65019fd8e6741a755395c8c 10|openaire____::9e3be59865b2c1c335d32dae2fe7b254 10|re3data_____::94816e6421eeb072e7742ce6a9decc5f 10|re3data_____::84e123776089ce3c7a33db98d9cd15a8 Life sciences medicine and health care Macrocheles muscaedomesticae Drosophila evolution of parasitism realized heritability Artificial selection infectivity Drosophila hydei psy envir Dataset https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_ddb1/ 2017 fttriple https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9p0nm 2023-01-22T16:53:35Z Parasitic lifestyles have evolved many times in animals, but how such life-history strategies evolved from free-living ancestors remains a great puzzle. Transitional symbiotic strategies, such as facultative parasitism, are hypothesized evolutionary stepping-stones towards obligate parasitism. However, to consider this hypothesis, heritable genetic variation in infectious behaviour of transitional symbiotic strategies must exist. In this study, we experimentally evolved infectivity and estimated the additive genetic variation in a facultative parasite. We performed artificial selection experiments in which we selected for either increased or decreased propensity to infect in a facultatively parasitic mite (Macrocheles muscaedomesticae). Here, infectiousness was expressed in terms of mite attachment to a host (Drosophila hydei) and modeled as a threshold trait. Mites responded positively to selection for increased infectivity; realized heritability of infectious behaviour was significantly different from zero and estimated to be 16.6% (±4.4% SE). Further, infection prevalence was monitored for 20 generations post-selection. Selected lines continued to display relatively high levels of infection demonstrating a degree of genetic stability in infectiousness. Our study is the first to provide an estimate of heritability and additive genetic variation for infectious behaviour in a facultative parasite, which suggests natural selection can act upon facultative strategies with important implications for the evolution of parasitism. Raw data from selection, assay, population density and post-selection experimentsThe first three tabs of the excel file provide the raw data from selection experiment A and include selection, assay and population density data. The last two tabs provide the raw data from selection experiment B and include selection and post-selection data.JEB Selection Data.xlsx Dataset Mite Stepping Stones Unknown Stepping Stones ENVELOPE(-63.992,-63.992,-64.786,-64.786) |
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Life sciences medicine and health care Macrocheles muscaedomesticae Drosophila evolution of parasitism realized heritability Artificial selection infectivity Drosophila hydei psy envir Durkin, Emily S. Luong, Lien T. Durkin, E. S. Luong, L. T. Data from: Experimental evolution of infectious behaviour in a facultative ectoparasite |
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Parasitic lifestyles have evolved many times in animals, but how such life-history strategies evolved from free-living ancestors remains a great puzzle. Transitional symbiotic strategies, such as facultative parasitism, are hypothesized evolutionary stepping-stones towards obligate parasitism. However, to consider this hypothesis, heritable genetic variation in infectious behaviour of transitional symbiotic strategies must exist. In this study, we experimentally evolved infectivity and estimated the additive genetic variation in a facultative parasite. We performed artificial selection experiments in which we selected for either increased or decreased propensity to infect in a facultatively parasitic mite (Macrocheles muscaedomesticae). Here, infectiousness was expressed in terms of mite attachment to a host (Drosophila hydei) and modeled as a threshold trait. Mites responded positively to selection for increased infectivity; realized heritability of infectious behaviour was significantly different from zero and estimated to be 16.6% (±4.4% SE). Further, infection prevalence was monitored for 20 generations post-selection. Selected lines continued to display relatively high levels of infection demonstrating a degree of genetic stability in infectiousness. Our study is the first to provide an estimate of heritability and additive genetic variation for infectious behaviour in a facultative parasite, which suggests natural selection can act upon facultative strategies with important implications for the evolution of parasitism. Raw data from selection, assay, population density and post-selection experimentsThe first three tabs of the excel file provide the raw data from selection experiment A and include selection, assay and population density data. The last two tabs provide the raw data from selection experiment B and include selection and post-selection data.JEB Selection Data.xlsx |
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Data from: Experimental evolution of infectious behaviour in a facultative ectoparasite |
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Data from: Experimental evolution of infectious behaviour in a facultative ectoparasite |
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Data from: Experimental evolution of infectious behaviour in a facultative ectoparasite |
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Data from: Experimental evolution of infectious behaviour in a facultative ectoparasite |
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data from: experimental evolution of infectious behaviour in a facultative ectoparasite |
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