Data from: Slow development as an evolutionary cost of long life
| Main Authors: | Lind, Martin I., Chen, Hwei-yen, Meurling, Sara, Guevara Gil, Ana Cristina, Carlsson, Hanne, Zwoinska, Martyna K., Andersson, Johan, Larva, Tuuli, Maklakov, Alexei A. |
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| Format: | info dataset Journal |
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, 2018
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/4979891 |
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- Life-history theory predicts a trade-off between early-life fitness and life span. While the focus traditionally has been on the fecundity-life span trade-off, there are strong reasons to expect trade-offs with growth rate and/or development time. We investigated the roles of growth rate and development time in the evolution of life span in two independent selection experiments in the outcrossing nematode Caenorhabditis remanei. First, we found that selection under heat-shock leads to the evolution of increased life span without fecundity costs, but at the cost of slower development. Thereafter, the putative evolutionary links between development time, growth rate, fecundity, heat-shock resistance and life span were independently assessed in the second experiment by directly selecting for fast or slow development. This experiment confirmed our initial findings, since selection for slow development resulted in the evolution of long life span and increased heat-shock resistance. Because there were no consistent trade-offs with growth rate or fecundity, our results highlight the key role of development rate – differentiation of the somatic cells per unit of time – in the evolution of life span. Since development time is under strong selection in nature, reduced somatic maintenance resulting in shorter life span may be a widespread cost of rapid development.
- Juvenile data femalesDevelopment time to maturation, area at maturation and juvenile growth rate for females from development-selected lines.devselected_juvenile_female.xlsxJuvenile data malesDevelopment time to maturation, area at maturation and juvenile growth rate for males from development-selected lines.devselected_juvenile_males.xlsxAge-specific reproduction and size - femalesAge-specific size and reproduction for females. Day 0 = day of maturation. Size was not measured every day.female size repr.xlsxTotal reproduction and lambda - femalesTotal reproduction over lifespan and lambda for individual females.female totrep lambda.xlsxHeatshock resistance males and femalesHeatshock resistance (alive/dead) per plate for both males and femalesheatshock.xlsxAge-specific reproduction and size - malesAge-specific size and reproduction for development-selected males. Note that traits were not measured every day.males size repr.xlsxTotal reproduction and lambda - malesTotal reproduction and lambda for males. Note that this is based upon the subset of times measured.males totrep lambda.xlsxMortality-selected lines: juvenile traitsDevelopment time (h), area at maturity and juvenile growth rate of females from mortality-selected lines.mortalityselected.xlsxSurvival: matricide includedSurvival of development-selected lines. Matricide treated as dead. See other file for matricide censored.survival_incl_matricide.xlsxSurvival: matricide censoredSurvival of development-selected lines. Worms dying of matricide are censored in this dataset.survival.xlsx