Sexual selection reveals a cost of pathogen resistance undetected in life-history assays.

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Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
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Titre
Sexual selection reveals a cost of pathogen resistance undetected in life-history assays.
Périodique
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Kawecki T.J.
ISSN
1558-5646 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0014-3820
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
02/2020
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
74
Numéro
2
Pages
338-348
Langue
anglais
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: ppublish
Résumé
Mechanisms of resistance to pathogens and parasites are thought to be costly and thus to lead to evolutionary trade-offs between resistance and life-history traits expressed in the absence of the infective agents. On the other hand, sexually selected traits are often proposed to indicate "good genes" for resistance, which implies a positive genetic correlation between resistance and success in sexual selection. Here I show that experimental evolution of improved resistance to the intestinal pathogen Pseudomonas entomophila in Drosophila melanogaster was associated with a reduction in male sexual success. Males from four resistant populations achieved lower paternity than males from four susceptible control populations in competition with males from a competitor strain, indicating an evolutionary cost of resistance in terms of mating success and/or sperm competition. In contrast, no costs were found in larval viability, larval competitive ability and population productivity assayed under nutritional limitation; together with earlier studies this suggests that the costs of P. entomophila resistance for nonsexual fitness components are negligible. Thus, rather than indicating heritable pathogen resistance, sexually selected traits expressed in the absence of pathogens may be sensitive to costs of resistance, even if no such costs are detected in other fitness traits.
Mots-clé
Costs of resistance, Hamilton-Zuk, experimental evolution, good genes, immunocompetence, trade-offs
Pubmed
Web of science
Open Access
Oui
Financement(s)
Université de Lausanne
Fonds national suisse / Projets / 310030_184791
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15/12/2019 17:23
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21/11/2022 8:22
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