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Repeated loss of variation in insect ovary morphology highlights the role of developmental constraint in life-history evolution

View ORCID ProfileSamuel H. Church, View ORCID ProfileBruno A. S. de Medeiros, View ORCID ProfileSeth Donoughe, Nicole L. Márquez Reyes, View ORCID ProfileCassandra G. Extavour
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.07.191940
Samuel H. Church
1Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Bruno A. S. de Medeiros
1Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
2Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama
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Seth Donoughe
1Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
3Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Nicole L. Márquez Reyes
4Department of Biology, Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey, Cayey 00736, PR
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Cassandra G. Extavour
1Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
5Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Abstract

The number of offspring an organism can produce is a key component of its evolutionary fitness and lifehistory. Here we perform a test of the hypothesized trade off between the number and size of offspring using thousands of descriptions of the number of egg-producing compartments in the insect ovary (ovarioles), a common proxy for potential offspring number in insects. In contrast to prior claims, we find that ovariole number is not generally negatively correlated with the size of insect eggs, and we highlight several factors that may have contributed to this size-number trade off being strongly asserted in previous studies. We reconstruct the evolutionary history of the nurse cell arrangement within the ovariole, and show that the diversification of ovariole number and egg size have both been largely independent of nurse cell presence or position within the ovariole. Instead we show that ovariole number evolution has been shaped by a series of transitions between variable and invariant states, with multiple independent lineages evolving to have almost no variation in ovariole number. We highlight the implications of these invariant lineages on our understanding of the specification of ovariole number during development, as well as the importance of considering developmental processes in theories of life-history evolution.

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Repeated loss of variation in insect ovary morphology highlights the role of developmental constraint in life-history evolution
Samuel H. Church, Bruno A. S. de Medeiros, Seth Donoughe, Nicole L. Márquez Reyes, Cassandra G. Extavour
bioRxiv 2020.07.07.191940; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.07.191940
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Repeated loss of variation in insect ovary morphology highlights the role of developmental constraint in life-history evolution
Samuel H. Church, Bruno A. S. de Medeiros, Seth Donoughe, Nicole L. Márquez Reyes, Cassandra G. Extavour
bioRxiv 2020.07.07.191940; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.07.191940

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