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Bet-hedging, seasons and the evolution of behavioral diversity in Drosophila

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  • Kain, Jamey S.
  • Sarah Zhang
  • Mason Klein
  • Samuel,Aravinthan
  • de Bivort, Benjamin

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Organisms use various strategies to cope with ?uctuating environmental conditions. In diversi?ed bet-hedging, a single genotype exhibits phenotypic heterogeneity with the expectation that some individuals will survive transient selective pressures. To date, empirical evidence for bet-hedging is scarce. Here, we observe that individual Drosophila melanogaster ?ies exhibit striking variation in light- and temperature-preference behaviors. With a modeling approach that combines real world weather and climate data to simulate temperature preference-dependent survival and reproduction, we ?nd that a bet-hedging strategy may underlie the observed interindividual behavioral diversity. Speci?cally, bet-hedging outcompetes strategies in which individualthermal preferences are heritable. Animals employing bet-hedging refrain from adapting to the coolness of spring with increased warm-seeking that inevitably becomes counterproductive in the hot summer. This strategy is particularly valuable when mean seasonal temperatures are typical, or when there is considerable ?uctuation in temperature within the season. The model predicts, and we experimentally verify, that the behaviors of individual ?ies are not heritable. Finally, we model the effects of historical weather data, climate change, and geographic seasonal variation on the optimal strategies underlying behavioral variation between individuals, characterizing the regimes in which bet-hedging is advantageous.

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  • Kain, Jamey S. & Sarah Zhang & Mason Klein & Samuel,Aravinthan & de Bivort, Benjamin, "undated". "Bet-hedging, seasons and the evolution of behavioral diversity in Drosophila," Working Paper 352326, Harvard University OpenScholar.
    • Handle: RePEc:qsh:wpaper:352326
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