Additive genetic variance for traits least related to fitness increases with environmental stress in the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria

Chapuis Marie-Pierre, Pélissié Benjamin, Piou Cyril, Chardonnet Floriane, Pagès Christine, Foucart Antoine, Chapuis Elodie, Jourdan-Pineau Hélène. 2021. Additive genetic variance for traits least related to fitness increases with environmental stress in the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria. Ecology and Evolution, 11 (20) : 13930-13947.

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Url - jeu de données - Dataverse Cirad : https://doi.org/10.18167/DVN1/S735JB

Quartile : Q2, Sujet : ECOLOGY / Quartile : Q3, Sujet : EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Résumé : Under environmental stress, previously hidden additive genetic variation can be unmasked and exposed to selection. The amount of hidden variation is expected to be higher for life history traits, which strongly correlate to individual fitness, than for morphological traits, in which fitness effects are more ambiguous. However, no consensual pattern has been recovered yet, and this idea is still debated in the literature. Here, we hypothesize that the classical categorization of traits (i.e., life history and morphology) may fail to capture their proximity to fitness. In the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria, a model organism for the study of insect polyphenism, we quantified changes in additive genetic variation elicited by lifetime thermal stress for ten traits, in which evolutionary significance is known. Irrespective of their category, traits under strong stabilizing selection showed genetic invariance with environmental stress, while traits more loosely associated with fitness showed a marked increase in additive genetic variation in the stressful environment. Furthermore, traits involved in adaptive phenotypic plasticity (growth compensation) showed either no change in additive genetic variance or a change of moderate magnitude across thermal environments. We interpret this mitigated response of plastic traits in the context of integrated evolution to adjust the entire phenotype in heterogeneous environments (i.e., adaptiveness of initial plasticity, compromise of phenotypic compensation with stress, and shared developmental pathway). Altogether, our results indicate, in agreement with theoretical expectations, that environmental stress can increase available additive genetic variance in some desert locust traits, but those closely linked to fitness are largely unaffected. Our study also highlights the importance of assessing the proximity to fitness of a trait on a case-by-case basis and in an ecologically relevant context, as well as considering the processes of canalization and plasticity, involved in the control of phenotypic variation.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : Schistocerca gregaria, variance génétique, plasticité phénotypique, variation phénotypique, stress abiotique, stress thermique

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Mauritanie

Mots-clés libres : Climate Change, Growth, Life history evolution, Morphology, Pest insects, Pigmentation, Stress, Temperature, Viability

Classification Agris : L10 - Génétique et amélioration des animaux
L40 - Anatomie et morphologie des animaux

Champ stratégique Cirad : CTS 4 (2019-) - Santé des plantes, des animaux et des écosystèmes

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