Estimating selection through male fitness: three complementary methods illuminate the nature and causes of selection on flowering time

Proceedings. Biological Sciences
Emily J Austen, A E Weis

Abstract

Our understanding of selection through male fitness is limited by the resource demands and indirect nature of the best available genetic techniques. Applying complementary, independent approaches to this problem can help clarify evolution through male function. We applied three methods to estimate selection on flowering time through male fitness in experimental populations of the annual plant Brassica rapa: (i) an analysis of mating opportunity based on flower production schedules, (ii) genetic paternity analysis, and (iii) a novel approach based on principles of experimental evolution. Selection differentials estimated by the first method disagreed with those estimated by the other two, indicating that mating opportunity was not the principal driver of selection on flowering time. The genetic and experimental evolution methods exhibited striking agreement overall, but a slight discrepancy between the two suggested that negative environmental covariance between age at flowering and male fitness may have contributed to phenotypic selection. Together, the three methods enriched our understanding of selection on flowering time, from mating opportunity to phenotypic selection to evolutionary response. The novel experimental evoluti...Continue Reading

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Apr 19, 2017·The New Phytologist·Emily J AustenJessica R K Forrest
Jan 6, 2018·Evolutionary Applications·Steven J FranksArthur E Weis

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