Continent-wide differentiation of fitness traits and patterns of climate adaptation among European populations of Drosophila melanogaster

Esra Durmaz Mitchell; Envel Kerdaffrec; Ewan Harney; Tania F. Paulo; Marija Veselinovic; Marija Tanaskovic; Venera Tyukmaeva; Teresa Abaurrea Fernandez de Arcaya; Cansu Aksoy; Eliza Argyridou; T. Bailly; Dogus Can; Ezgi Cobanoglu; Nicola Cook; Seda Coskun; Slobodan Davidović; Ekin Demir; Tania Dias; Somayeh Rasouli-Dogaheh; Pedro Duque; Katarina Eric; Pavle Erić; Priscilla Erickson; Filip Filipovski; Bettina Fishman; Amanda Glaser-Schmitt; August Goldfischer; Llewellyn Green; Sonia Janillon; Mihailo Jelic; Hristina Kostic; Lucas E. Kreiman; Natacha Kremer; Manolis Lyrakis; Oleksandr Maistrenko; Sapho-Lou Marti; Megan Mcgunnigle; Miriam Merenciano; Mario S. Mira; Vincent Montbel; Laurence Mouton; Dmitry Mukha; Siddharth Murali; Aleksandra Patenković; Oleksandra Protsenko; Florencia A. Putero; Micael Reis; Natalia V. Roshina; Olga Rybina; Mads Schou; Thibault Schowing; Senel Selin Senkal; Svitlana Serga; Virginie Trieu; Alexander Symonenko; Mikhail Trostnikov; Evgenia A. Tsybul'ko; Joost van den Heuvel; David van Waarde; Ekaterina Veselkina; Cristina Vieira; Xiaocui Wang; Jelle Zandveld; Jessica Abbott; Jean-Christophe Billeter; Herve Colinet; Mehregan Ebrahimi; Patricia Gibert; Jan Hrček; Maaria Kankare; Iryna Kozeretska; Volker Loeschcke; Julian Mensch; Banu Onder; John Parsch; Elena Pasyukova; Marina Stamenkovic-Radak; Eran Tauber; Cristina Vieira; Christian Wegener; Katja M. Hoedjes; Bas Zwaan; Andrea Betancourt; Claudia Fricke; Sonja Grath; Nico Posnien; Jorge Vieira; Martin Kapun; Christian Schlötterer; Paul Schmidt; Élio Sucena; Josefa Gonzalez; Alan O Bergland; Michael Ritchie; Thomas Flatt

doi:10.1093/evlett/qraf014

Title (eng)

Continent-wide differentiation of fitness traits and patterns of climate adaptation among European populations of Drosophila melanogaster

Author

Esra Durmaz Mitchell

Envel Kerdaffrec

Ewan Harney

Tania F. Paulo

Marija Veselinovic

Marija Tanaskovic

Venera Tyukmaeva

Teresa Abaurrea Fernandez de Arcaya

Cansu Aksoy

Eliza Argyridou

T. Bailly

Dogus Can

Ezgi Cobanoglu

Nicola Cook

Seda Coskun

Slobodan Davidović

Ekin Demir

Tania Dias

Somayeh Rasouli-Dogaheh

Pedro Duque

Katarina Eric

Pavle Erić

Priscilla Erickson

Filip Filipovski

Bettina Fishman

Amanda Glaser-Schmitt

August Goldfischer

Llewellyn Green

Sonia Janillon

Mihailo Jelic

Hristina Kostic

Lucas E. Kreiman

Natacha Kremer

Manolis Lyrakis

University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

Oleksandr Maistrenko

Sapho-Lou Marti

Megan Mcgunnigle

Miriam Merenciano

Mario S. Mira

Vincent Montbel

Laurence Mouton

Dmitry Mukha

Siddharth Murali

Aleksandra Patenković

Oleksandra Protsenko

Florencia A. Putero

Micael Reis

Natalia V. Roshina

Olga Rybina

Mads Schou

Thibault Schowing

Senel Selin Senkal

Svitlana Serga

Virginie Trieu

Alexander Symonenko

Mikhail Trostnikov

Evgenia A. Tsybul'ko

Joost van den Heuvel

David van Waarde

Ekaterina Veselkina

Cristina Vieira

Xiaocui Wang

Jelle Zandveld

Jessica Abbott

Jean-Christophe Billeter

Herve Colinet

Mehregan Ebrahimi

Patricia Gibert

Jan Hrček

Maaria Kankare

Iryna Kozeretska

Volker Loeschcke

Julian Mensch

Banu Onder

John Parsch

Elena Pasyukova

Marina Stamenkovic-Radak

Eran Tauber

Cristina Vieira

Christian Wegener

Katja M. Hoedjes

Bas Zwaan

Andrea Betancourt

Claudia Fricke

Sonja Grath

Nico Posnien

Jorge Vieira

Martin Kapun

Christian Schlötterer

Paul Schmidt

Élio Sucena

Josefa Gonzalez

Alan O Bergland

Michael Ritchie

Thomas Flatt

Abstract (eng)

A particularly well-studied evolutionary model is the vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster, a cosmopolitan insect of ancestral southern-central African origin. Recent work suggests that it expanded out of Africa ∼9,000 years ago, and spread from the Middle East into Europe ∼1,800 years ago. During its global expansion, this human commensal adapted to novel climate zones and habitats. Despite much work on phenotypic differentiation and adaptation on several continents (especially North America and Australia), typically in the context of latitudinal clines, little is known about phenotypic divergence among European populations. Here, we sought to provide a continent-wide study of phenotypic differentiation among European populations of D. melanogaster. In a consortium-wide phenomics effort, we assayed 16 fitness-related traits on a panel of 173 isofemale lines from 9 European populations, with the majority of traits measured by several groups using semi-standardized protocols. For most fitness-related traits, we found significant differentiation among populations on a continental scale. Despite inevitable differences in assay conditions among labs, the reproducibility and hence robustness of our measurements were overall remarkably good. Several fitness components (e.g., viability, development time) exhibited significant latitudinal or longitudinal clines, and populations differed markedly in multivariate trait structure. Notably, populations experiencing higher humidity/rainfall and lower maximum temperature showed higher viability, fertility, starvation resistance, and lifespan at the expense of lower heat-shock survival, suggesting a pattern of local adaptation. Our results indicate that derived populations of this tropical fly have been shaped by pervasive spatially varying multivariate selection and adaptation to different climates on the European continent.

Keywords (eng)

Phenotypic VariationFitness TraitsPopulation DifferentiationAdaptionD. MelanogasterEurope

Type (eng)

journal article

Language

[eng]

Persistent identifier

https://phaidra.vetmeduni.ac.at/o:4588

DOI

10.1093/evlett/qraf014

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