Seasonal variation in wing size and shape of Drosophila melanogaster reveals rapid adaptation to environmental changes
Abstract Populations in seasonal fluctuating environments receive multiple environmental cues and must deal with this heterogenic environment to survive and reproduce. An enlarged literature shows that this situation can be resolved through rapid adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster populations. Lo...
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| author | Banu Şebnem Önder Cansu Fidan Aksoy |
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| description | Abstract Populations in seasonal fluctuating environments receive multiple environmental cues and must deal with this heterogenic environment to survive and reproduce. An enlarged literature shows that this situation can be resolved through rapid adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster populations. Long-term monitoring of a population in its natural habitat and quantitative measurement of its responses to seasonal environmental changes are important for understanding the adaptive response of D. melanogaster to temporal variable selection. Here, we use inbred lines of a D. melanogaster population collected at monthly intervals between May to October over a temporal scale spanning three consecutive years to understand the variation in wing size and wing shape over these timepoints. The wing size and shape of this population changed significantly between months and a seasonal cycle of this traits is repeated for three years. Our results suggest that the effects of environmental variables that generated variation in body size between populations such as latitudinal clines, are a selective pressure in a different manner in terms of seasonal variation. Temperature related variable have a significant nonlinear relation to this fluctuating pattern in size and shape, whereas precipitation and humidity have a sex-specific effect which is more significant in males. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c4d73105f0404c3388211db30064b86b2022-12-22T03:05:50ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222022-08-0112111010.1038/s41598-022-18891-5Seasonal variation in wing size and shape of Drosophila melanogaster reveals rapid adaptation to environmental changesBanu Şebnem Önder0Cansu Fidan Aksoy1Genetic Variation and Adaptation Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Hacettepe UniversityGenetic Variation and Adaptation Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Hacettepe UniversityAbstract Populations in seasonal fluctuating environments receive multiple environmental cues and must deal with this heterogenic environment to survive and reproduce. An enlarged literature shows that this situation can be resolved through rapid adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster populations. Long-term monitoring of a population in its natural habitat and quantitative measurement of its responses to seasonal environmental changes are important for understanding the adaptive response of D. melanogaster to temporal variable selection. Here, we use inbred lines of a D. melanogaster population collected at monthly intervals between May to October over a temporal scale spanning three consecutive years to understand the variation in wing size and wing shape over these timepoints. The wing size and shape of this population changed significantly between months and a seasonal cycle of this traits is repeated for three years. Our results suggest that the effects of environmental variables that generated variation in body size between populations such as latitudinal clines, are a selective pressure in a different manner in terms of seasonal variation. Temperature related variable have a significant nonlinear relation to this fluctuating pattern in size and shape, whereas precipitation and humidity have a sex-specific effect which is more significant in males.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18891-5 |
| spellingShingle | Banu Şebnem Önder Cansu Fidan Aksoy Seasonal variation in wing size and shape of Drosophila melanogaster reveals rapid adaptation to environmental changes Scientific Reports |
| title | Seasonal variation in wing size and shape of Drosophila melanogaster reveals rapid adaptation to environmental changes |
| title_full | Seasonal variation in wing size and shape of Drosophila melanogaster reveals rapid adaptation to environmental changes |
| title_fullStr | Seasonal variation in wing size and shape of Drosophila melanogaster reveals rapid adaptation to environmental changes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Seasonal variation in wing size and shape of Drosophila melanogaster reveals rapid adaptation to environmental changes |
| title_short | Seasonal variation in wing size and shape of Drosophila melanogaster reveals rapid adaptation to environmental changes |
| title_sort | seasonal variation in wing size and shape of drosophila melanogaster reveals rapid adaptation to environmental changes |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18891-5 |
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