Rapid Adaptation of a Daphnia magna Population to Metal Stress Is Associated with Heterozygote Excess

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作者
Hochmuth, Jennifer D. [1 ]
De Meester, Luc [2 ]
Pereira, Cecilia M. S. [1 ]
Janssen, Colin R. [1 ]
De Schamphelaere, Karel A. C. [1 ]
机构
[1] Ghent Univ UGent, Lab Environm Toxicol & Aquat Ecol, Environm Toxicol Unit, GhEnToxLab, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
[2] Univ Leuven, KU Leuven, Lab Aquat Ecol Evolut & Conservat, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
关键词
GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; CYCLIC PARTHENOGENESIS; ENZYME POLYMORPHISM; EVOLUTION; COPPER; RESISTANCE; TOLERANCE; EXPOSURE; DIVERSITY; SELECTION;
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10.1021/acs.est.5b00724
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Although natural populations can harbor evolutionary potential to adapt genetically to chemical stress, it is often thought that natural selection leads to a general reduction of genetic diversity and involves costs. Here, a 10 week microevolution experiment was conducted with a genetically diverse and representative sample of one natural Daphnia magna population that was exposed to copper and zinc. Both Cu- and Zn-selected populations developed a significantly higher metal tolerance (i.e., genetic adaptation), indicated by higher reproduction probabilities of clonal lines in Cu and Zn exposures than observed for the original and control populations. The complete recovery of the population densities after 10 weeks of Zn selection (following an initial decrease of 74%) illustrates an example of evolutionary rescue. Microsatellite genotyping revealed a decrease in clonal diversity but no change in allelic richness, and showed an excess in heterozygosity in the Cu- and Zn-selected populations compared to the control and original populations. The excess heterozygosity in metal-selected populations that we observed has important consequences for risk assessment, as it contributes to the maintenance of a higher allelic diversity under multigenerational chemical exposure. This study is, to our knowledge, the first report of an increase in heterozygosity following multigenerational exposure to metal stress, despite a decline in clonal diversity. In a follow-up study with the Zn-selected populations, we observed no effect of Zn selection on the tolerance to heat and cyanobacteria. However, we observed higher tolerance to Cd in the Zn-selected than in the original and control populations if the 20% effective concentration of Cd was considered (cross-tolerance). Our results suggest only limited costs of adaptation but future research is needed to evaluate the adaptive potential of metal-selected populations to novel stressors and to determine to what extent increased heterozygosity is preserved after genetic recombination following periods of sexual reproduction.
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页码:9298 / 9307
页数:10
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