Dutilleul, Morgan, Réale, Denis, Goussen, Benoit orcid.org/0000-0001-7204-7981 et al. (3 more authors) (2017) Adaptation costs to constant and alternating polluted environments. Evolutionary applications. pp. 839-851. ISSN 1752-4563
Abstract
Some populations quickly adapt to strong and novel selection pressures caused by anthropogenic stressors. However, this short-term evolutionary response to novel and harsh environmental conditions may lead to adaptation costs, and evaluating these costs is important if we want to understand the evolution of resistance to anthropogenic stressors. In this experimental evolution study, we exposed Caenorhabditis elegans populations to uranium (U populations), salt (NaCl populations) and alternating uranium/salt treatments (U/NaCl populations) and to a control environment (C populations), over 22 generations. In parallel, we ran common-garden and reciprocal-transplant experiments to assess the adaptive costs for populations that have evolved in the different environmental conditions. Our results showed rapid evolutionary changes in life history characteristics of populations exposed to the different pollution regimes. Furthermore, adaptive costs depended on the type of pollutant: pollution-adapted populations had lower fitness than C populations, when the populations were returned to their original environment. Fitness in uranium environments was lower for NaCl populations than for U populations. In contrast, fitness in salt environments was similar between U and NaCl populations. Moreover, fitness of U/NaCl populations showed similar or higher fitness in both the uranium and the salt environments compared to populations adapted to constant uranium or salt environments. Our results show that adaptive evolution to a particular stressor can lead to either adaptive costs or benefits once in contact with another stressor. Furthermore, we did not find any evidence that adaptation to alternating stressors was associated with additional adaption costs. This study highlights the need to incorporate adaptive cost assessments when undertaking ecological risk assessments of pollutants.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 The Author |
Keywords: | adaptation costs,Caenorhabditis elegans,evolution towards generalism,experimental evolution,life history strategy,pollution,resistance,salt,uranium |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Environment and Geography (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 28 Nov 2017 10:00 |
Last Modified: | 30 Nov 2024 01:08 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12510 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/eva.12510 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:124594 |
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