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Studying Adaptation: Evolutionary Analysis of Form and Function. Experimental manipulation of traits One can isolate and test the effect of single (or multiple factors) on fitness using well-designed experiments. Adaptive significance of hooked beak. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Studying Adaptation:Evolutionary Analysis

ofForm and Function

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I. Experimental manipulation of traits

One can isolate and test the effect of single (or multiple factors) on fitness using well-designed experiments.

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Adaptive significance of hooked beak

Relationship of overhang length to breakage. The overhangs of 13 birds that suffered breaks were initially longer than those of 111 birds without breaks;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tjJODKZ_bc

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Quantifying the role of pollinator-mediated selection onSilene virginica, S. stellata, and S. caroliniana

S. caroliniana S. virginica S. stellata

18 mm 25 mm 10 mm

Corolla Tube (flower) Length

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Artificial manipulations:Effect of Corolla Tube Length on

Male Reproductive Success

X + 2 STD

X + 2 STD

X

Beak Insertion Difference5

Dudash et al 2011

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Selection on corolla tube length via male reproductive success

S,M,L S,M,L S,M,L

Hummingbirds are agents of selection on S. virginica:-Corolla tube length (++ MRS), p < 0.0001

Dudash et al. 2011 AJB

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Fly that mimics its own predator, the jumping spider

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No effect of treatments on the behavior of OTHER PREDATORS

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II. Evolution in the short-term

Evolution of Wild Barley Populations in the Middle East in Response to Global Climate Change:

WikipediaNevo et al. 2010

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III. Tests of association (within population)

Desert iguanaDipsosaurus dorsalis

Arrow = temp in lab

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Garter SnakeThamnophis elegans

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Percent of C4 species in the Cyperaceae in 25 regions of the USA and Mexico (Teeri et al. Oecolgia 1980

IV. Tests of association Across species

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Phylogenetic approaches

Grey-headed flying foxPteropus poliocephalus

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Variation in testis size among fruit bats and flying foxes

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Scatter diagram of hypothetical data from 40 species, showing the relationship between Y and X

1 2 … 39 40

Treating each species independently reflects a phylogenywhere each species and traits, x and y evolved independently

Adapted from J. Felsenstein)

Phylogenetic Comparisons

(Am. Nat, 1985, 125: 1-15,

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Felsenstein Revisited

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N = 17 N = 11

Returning to Bats and Testis Size:

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Pollination and breeding system evolution in Caribbean Gesnerieae

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G. decapleura Hispaniola

G. viridiflora Puerto Rico

G. fruticosa Hispaniola

Marten-Rodriguez, 2010, New Phytologist

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V. Constraints to Adaptation- lack of genetic variation

Evolution of Heavy Metal Tolerance by Grasses

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Lack of genetic variation explains lack of adaptation of heavy metal tolerance, from Bradshaw, Proc. Roy. Soc. Biol. Ser. B. 1991

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Host Shifts in an Herbivorous Beetle

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VI. ConclusionsHow to test for an adaptation

• Experimental manipulation of trait within species

• Short-term evolutionary “experiments”• Tests of associations• Phylogenetic analysis of trait

association with an environment (group size, etc.)

• Type and amount of genetic variation