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text: "Natural environments are never constant but subject to spatial and temporal
change on\r\nall scales, increasingly so due to human activity. Hence, it is crucial
to understand the\r\nimpact of environmental variation on evolutionary processes.
In this thesis, I present\r\nthree topics that share the common theme of environmental
variation, yet illustrate its\r\neffect from different perspectives.\r\nFirst,
I show how a temporally fluctuating environment gives rise to second-order\r\nselection
on a modifier for stress-induced mutagenesis. Without fluctuations, when\r\npopulations
are adapted to their environment, mutation rates are minimized. I argue\r\nthat
a stress-induced mutator mechanism may only be maintained if the population is\r\nrepeatedly
subjected to diverse environmental challenges, and I outline implications of\r\nthe
presented results to antibiotic treatment strategies.\r\nSecond, I discuss my
work on the evolution of dispersal. Besides reproducing\r\nknown results about
the effect of heterogeneous habitats on dispersal, it identifies\r\nspatial changes
in dispersal type frequencies as a source for selection for increased\r\npropensities
to disperse. This concept contains effects of relatedness that are known\r\nto
promote dispersal, and I explain how it identifies other forces selecting for
dispersal\r\nand puts them on a common scale.\r\nThird, I analyse genetic variances
of phenotypic traits under multivariate stabilizing\r\nselection. For the case
of constant environments, I generalize known formulae of\r\nequilibrium variances
to multiple traits and discuss how the genetic variance of a focal\r\ntrait is
influenced by selection on background traits. I conclude by presenting ideas and\r\npreliminary
work aiming at including environmental fluctuations in the form of moving\r\ntrait
optima into the model."
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Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
chicago: Novak, Sebastian. “Evolutionary Proccesses in Variable Emvironments.” Institute
of Science and Technology Austria, 2016.
ieee: S. Novak, “Evolutionary proccesses in variable emvironments,” Institute of
Science and Technology Austria, 2016.
ista: Novak S. 2016. Evolutionary proccesses in variable emvironments. Institute
of Science and Technology Austria.
mla: Novak, Sebastian. Evolutionary Proccesses in Variable Emvironments.
Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2016.
short: S. Novak, Evolutionary Proccesses in Variable Emvironments, Institute of
Science and Technology Austria, 2016.
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text: 'Gene regulation relies on the specificity of transcription factor (TF)–DNA
interactions. Limited specificity may lead to crosstalk: a regulatory state in
which a gene is either incorrectly activated due to noncognate TF–DNA interactions
or remains erroneously inactive. As each TF can have numerous interactions with
noncognate cis-regulatory elements, crosstalk is inherently a global problem,
yet has previously not been studied as such. We construct a theoretical framework
to analyse the effects of global crosstalk on gene regulation. We find that crosstalk
presents a significant challenge for organisms with low-specificity TFs, such
as metazoans. Crosstalk is not easily mitigated by known regulatory schemes acting
at equilibrium, including variants of cooperativity and combinatorial regulation.
Our results suggest that crosstalk imposes a previously unexplored global constraint
on the functioning and evolution of regulatory networks, which is qualitatively
distinct from the known constraints that act at the level of individual gene regulatory
elements.'
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ama: Friedlander T, Prizak R, Guet CC, Barton NH, Tkačik G. Intrinsic limits to
gene regulation by global crosstalk. Nature Communications. 2016;7. doi:10.1038/ncomms12307
apa: Friedlander, T., Prizak, R., Guet, C. C., Barton, N. H., & Tkačik, G. (2016).
Intrinsic limits to gene regulation by global crosstalk. Nature Communications.
Nature Publishing Group. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12307
chicago: Friedlander, Tamar, Roshan Prizak, Calin C Guet, Nicholas H Barton, and
Gašper Tkačik. “Intrinsic Limits to Gene Regulation by Global Crosstalk.” Nature
Communications. Nature Publishing Group, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12307.
ieee: T. Friedlander, R. Prizak, C. C. Guet, N. H. Barton, and G. Tkačik, “Intrinsic
limits to gene regulation by global crosstalk,” Nature Communications,
vol. 7. Nature Publishing Group, 2016.
ista: Friedlander T, Prizak R, Guet CC, Barton NH, Tkačik G. 2016. Intrinsic limits
to gene regulation by global crosstalk. Nature Communications. 7, 12307.
mla: Friedlander, Tamar, et al. “Intrinsic Limits to Gene Regulation by Global Crosstalk.”
Nature Communications, vol. 7, 12307, Nature Publishing Group, 2016, doi:10.1038/ncomms12307.
short: T. Friedlander, R. Prizak, C.C. Guet, N.H. Barton, G. Tkačik, Nature Communications
7 (2016).
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text: Much of quantitative genetics is based on the ‘infinitesimal model’, under
which selection has a negligible effect on the genetic variance. This is typically
justified by assuming a very large number of loci with additive effects. However,
it applies even when genes interact, provided that the number of loci is large
enough that selection on each of them is weak relative to random drift. In the
long term, directional selection will change allele frequencies, but even then,
the effects of epistasis on the ultimate change in trait mean due to selection
may be modest. Stabilising selection can maintain many traits close to their optima,
even when the underlying alleles are weakly selected. However, the number of traits
that can be optimised is apparently limited to ~4Ne by the ‘drift load’, and this
is hard to reconcile with the apparent complexity of many organisms. Just as for
the mutation load, this limit can be evaded by a particular form of negative epistasis.
A more robust limit is set by the variance in reproductive success. This suggests
that selection accumulates information most efficiently in the infinitesimal regime,
when selection on individual alleles is weak, and comparable with random drift.
A review of evidence on selection strength suggests that although most variance
in fitness may be because of alleles with large Nes, substantial amounts of adaptation
may be because of alleles in the infinitesimal regime, in which epistasis has
modest effects.
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ama: 'Barton NH. Data from: How does epistasis influence the response to selection?
2016. doi:10.5061/dryad.s5s7r'
apa: 'Barton, N. H. (2016). Data from: How does epistasis influence the response
to selection? Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.s5s7r'
chicago: 'Barton, Nicholas H. “Data from: How Does Epistasis Influence the Response
to Selection?” Dryad, 2016. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.s5s7r.'
ieee: 'N. H. Barton, “Data from: How does epistasis influence the response to selection?”
Dryad, 2016.'
ista: 'Barton NH. 2016. Data from: How does epistasis influence the response to
selection?, Dryad, 10.5061/dryad.s5s7r.'
mla: 'Barton, Nicholas H. Data from: How Does Epistasis Influence the Response
to Selection? Dryad, 2016, doi:10.5061/dryad.s5s7r.'
short: N.H. Barton, (2016).
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text: Viral capsids are structurally constrained by interactions among the amino
acids (AAs) of their constituent proteins. Therefore, epistasis is expected to
evolve among physically interacting sites and to influence the rates of substitution.
To study the evolution of epistasis, we focused on the major structural protein
of the ϕX174 phage family by, first, reconstructing the ancestral protein sequences
of 18 species using a Bayesian statistical framework. The inferred ancestral reconstruction
differed at eight AAs, for a total of 256 possible ancestral haplotypes. For each
ancestral haplotype and the extant species, we estimated, in silico, the distribution
of free energies and epistasis of the capsid structure. We found that free energy
has not significantly increased but epistasis has. We decomposed epistasis up
to fifth order and found that higher-order epistasis sometimes compensates pairwise
interactions making the free energy seem additive. The dN/dS ratio is low, suggesting
strong purifying selection, and that structure is under stabilizing selection.
We synthesized phages carrying ancestral haplotypes of the coat protein gene and
measured their fitness experimentally. Our findings indicate that stabilizing
mutations can have higher fitness, and that fitness optima do not necessarily
coincide with energy minima.
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full_name: Fernandes Redondo, Rodrigo A
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last_name: Fernandes Redondo
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last_name: de Vladar
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last_name: Bollback
orcid: 0000-0002-4624-4612
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ama: Fernandes Redondo RA, de Vladar H, Włodarski T, Bollback JP. Data from evolutionary
interplay between structure, energy and epistasis in the coat protein of the ϕX174
phage family. 2016. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.4315652.v1
apa: Fernandes Redondo, R. A., de Vladar, H., Włodarski, T., & Bollback, J.
P. (2016). Data from evolutionary interplay between structure, energy and epistasis
in the coat protein of the ϕX174 phage family. The Royal Society. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4315652.v1
chicago: Fernandes Redondo, Rodrigo A, Harold de Vladar, Tomasz Włodarski, and Jonathan
P Bollback. “Data from Evolutionary Interplay between Structure, Energy and Epistasis
in the Coat Protein of the ΦX174 Phage Family.” The Royal Society, 2016. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4315652.v1.
ieee: R. A. Fernandes Redondo, H. de Vladar, T. Włodarski, and J. P. Bollback, “Data
from evolutionary interplay between structure, energy and epistasis in the coat
protein of the ϕX174 phage family.” The Royal Society, 2016.
ista: Fernandes Redondo RA, de Vladar H, Włodarski T, Bollback JP. 2016. Data from
evolutionary interplay between structure, energy and epistasis in the coat protein
of the ϕX174 phage family, The Royal Society, 10.6084/m9.figshare.4315652.v1.
mla: Fernandes Redondo, Rodrigo A., et al. Data from Evolutionary Interplay between
Structure, Energy and Epistasis in the Coat Protein of the ΦX174 Phage Family.
The Royal Society, 2016, doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.4315652.v1.
short: R.A. Fernandes Redondo, H. de Vladar, T. Włodarski, J.P. Bollback, (2016).
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abstract:
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text: Background and aims Angiosperms display remarkable diversity in flower colour,
implying that transitions between pigmentation phenotypes must have been common.
Despite progress in understanding transitions between anthocyanin (blue, purple,
pink or red) and unpigmented (white) flowers, little is known about the evolutionary
patterns of flower-colour transitions in lineages with both yellow and anthocyanin-pigmented
flowers. This study investigates the relative rates of evolutionary transitions
between different combinations of yellow- and anthocyanin-pigmentation phenotypes
in the tribe Antirrhineae. Methods We surveyed taxonomic literature for data on
anthocyanin and yellow floral pigmentation for 369 species across the tribe. We
then reconstructed the phylogeny of 169 taxa and used phylogenetic comparative
methods to estimate transition rates among pigmentation phenotypes across the
phylogeny. Key Results In contrast to previous studies we found a bias towards
transitions involving a gain in pigmentation, although transitions to phenotypes
with both anthocyanin and yellow taxa are nevertheless extremely rare. Despite
the dominance of yellow and anthocyanin-pigmented taxa, transitions between these
phenotypes are constrained to move through a white intermediate stage, whereas
transitions to double-pigmentation are very rare. The most abundant transitions
are between anthocyanin-pigmented and unpigmented flowers, and similarly the most
abundant polymorphic taxa were those with anthocyanin-pigmented and unpigmented
flowers. Conclusions Our findings show that pigment evolution is limited by the
presence of other floral pigments. This interaction between anthocyanin and yellow
pigments constrains the breadth of potential floral diversity observed in nature.
In particular, they suggest that selection has repeatedly acted to promote the
spread of single-pigmented phenotypes across the Antirrhineae phylogeny. Furthermore,
the correlation between transition rates and polymorphism suggests that the forces
causing and maintaining variance in the short term reflect evolutionary processes
on longer time scales.
acknowledgement: We thank Melinda Pickup, Spencer Barrett, Nick Barton and four anonymous
reviewers for helpful discussions on previous versions of this manuscript. We also thank Jana Porsche for
her efforts in tracking down the more obscure references.
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full_name: Field, David
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last_name: Field
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citation:
ama: Ellis T, Field D. Repeated gains in yellow and anthocyanin pigmentation in
flower colour transitions in the Antirrhineae. Annals of Botany. 2016;117(7):1133-1140.
doi:10.1093/aob/mcw043
apa: Ellis, T., & Field, D. (2016). Repeated gains in yellow and anthocyanin
pigmentation in flower colour transitions in the Antirrhineae. Annals of Botany.
Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcw043
chicago: Ellis, Thomas, and David Field. “Repeated Gains in Yellow and Anthocyanin
Pigmentation in Flower Colour Transitions in the Antirrhineae.” Annals of Botany.
Oxford University Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcw043.
ieee: T. Ellis and D. Field, “Repeated gains in yellow and anthocyanin pigmentation
in flower colour transitions in the Antirrhineae,” Annals of Botany, vol.
117, no. 7. Oxford University Press, pp. 1133–1140, 2016.
ista: Ellis T, Field D. 2016. Repeated gains in yellow and anthocyanin pigmentation
in flower colour transitions in the Antirrhineae. Annals of Botany. 117(7), 1133–1140.
mla: Ellis, Thomas, and David Field. “Repeated Gains in Yellow and Anthocyanin Pigmentation
in Flower Colour Transitions in the Antirrhineae.” Annals of Botany, vol.
117, no. 7, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 1133–40, doi:10.1093/aob/mcw043.
short: T. Ellis, D. Field, Annals of Botany 117 (2016) 1133–1140.
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text: "We collected flower colour information on species in the tribe Antirrhineae
from taxonomic literature. We also retreived molecular data from GenBank for as
many of these species as possible to estimate phylogenetic relationships among
these taxa. We then used the R package 'diversitree' to examine patterns of evolutionary
transitions between anthocyanin and yellow pigmentation across the phylogeny.\r\n\r\nFor
full details of the methods see:\r\nEllis TJ and Field DL \"Repeated gains in
yellow and anthocyanin pigmentation in flower colour transitions in the Antirrhineae”,
Annals of Botany (in press)"
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ama: Ellis T, Field D. Flower colour data and phylogeny (NEXUS) files. 2016. doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:34
apa: Ellis, T., & Field, D. (2016). Flower colour data and phylogeny (NEXUS)
files. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:34
chicago: Ellis, Thomas, and David Field. “Flower Colour Data and Phylogeny (NEXUS)
Files.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2016. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:34.
ieee: T. Ellis and D. Field, “Flower colour data and phylogeny (NEXUS) files.” Institute
of Science and Technology Austria, 2016.
ista: Ellis T, Field D. 2016. Flower colour data and phylogeny (NEXUS) files, Institute
of Science and Technology Austria, 10.15479/AT:ISTA:34.
mla: Ellis, Thomas, and David Field. Flower Colour Data and Phylogeny (NEXUS)
Files. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2016, doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:34.
short: T. Ellis, D. Field, (2016).
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text: Hybrid zones represent evolutionary laboratories, where recombination brings
together alleles in combinations which have not previously been tested by selection.
This provides an excellent opportunity to test the effect of molecular variation
on fitness, and how this variation is able to spread through populations in a
natural context. The snapdragon Antirrhinum majus is polymorphic in the wild for
two loci controlling the distribution of yellow and magenta floral pigments. Where
the yellow A. m. striatum and the magenta A. m. pseudomajus meet along a valley
in the Spanish Pyrenees they form a stable hybrid zone Alleles at these loci recombine
to give striking transgressive variation for flower colour. The sharp transition
in phenotype over ~1km implies strong selection maintaining the hybrid zone. An
indirect assay of pollinator visitation in the field found that pollinators forage
in a positive-frequency dependent manner on Antirrhinum, matching previous data
on fruit set. Experimental arrays and paternity analysis of wild-pollinated seeds
demonstrated assortative mating for pigmentation alleles, and that pollinator
behaviour alone is sufficient to explain this pattern. Selection by pollinators
should be sufficiently strong to maintain the hybrid zone, although other mechanisms
may be at work. At a broader scale I examined evolutionary transitions between
yellow and anthocyanin pigmentation in the tribe Antirrhinae, and found that selection
has acted strate that pollinators are a major determinant of reproductive success
and mating patterns in wild Antirrhinum.
acknowledgement: "I am indebted to many people for their support during my PhD, but
I particularly wish to thank Nick Barton for his guidance and intuition, and for
encouraging me to take the time to look beyond the immediate topic of my PhD to
understand the broader context. I am also especially grateful to David Field his
bottomless patience, invaluable advice on experimental design, analysis and scientific
writing, and for tireless work on the population surveys and genomic work without
most of my thesis could not have happened. \r\n\r\nIt has been a pleasure to work
with the combined strengths of the groups at The John Innes Centre, University of
Toulouse and IST Austria. Thanks to Enrico Coen and his group for hosting me in
Norwich in 2011 and especially for setting up the tag experiment. \r\n\r\nI thank
David Field, Desmond Bradley and Maria Clara Melo-Hurtado for organising field collections,
as well as Monique Burrus and Christophe Andalo and a large number of volunteers
for their e ff orts helping with the field work. Furthermore I thank Coline Jaworski
for providing seeds and for her input into the design of the experimental arrays,
and Matthew Couchman for maintaining the database of. \r\n\r\nIn addition to those
mentioned above, I am grateful to Melinda Pickup, Spencer Barrett, and four anonymous
reviewers for their insightful comments on sections of this manuscript. I also thank
Jana Porsche for her e ff orts in tracking down the more obscure references for
chapter 5, and Jon Bollback for his advice about the analysis. \r\n\r\nI am indebted
to Jon Ågren for his patience whilst I finished this thesis, and to Sylvia Cremer
and Magnus Nordborg for taking the time to read and evaluate the thesis given a
shorter deadline than was fair. \r\n\r\nA very positive aspect of my PhD has been
the supportive atmosphere of IST. In particular, I have come to appreciate the enormous
support from our group assistants Nicole Hotzy, Julia Asimakis, Christine Ostermann
and Jerneja Beslagic. I also thank Christian Chaloupka and Stefan Hipfinger for
their enthusiasm and readiness to help where possible in setting up our greenhouse
and experiments. "
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short: T. Ellis, The Role of Pollinator-Mediated Selection in the Maintenance of
a Flower Color Polymorphism in an Antirrhinum Majus Hybrid Zone, Institute of
Science and Technology Austria, 2016.
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text: "Evolution of gene regulation is important for phenotypic evolution and diversity.
Sequence-specific binding of regulatory proteins is one of the key regulatory
mechanisms determining gene expression. Although there has been intense interest
in evolution of regulatory binding sites in the last decades, a theoretical understanding
is far from being complete. In this thesis, I aim at a better understanding of
the evolution of transcriptional regulatory binding sequences by using biophysical
and population genetic models.\r\nIn the first part of the thesis, I discuss how
to formulate the evolutionary dynamics of binding se- quences in a single isolated
binding site and in promoter/enhancer regions. I develop a theoretical framework
bridging between a thermodynamical model for transcription and a mutation-selection-drift
model for monomorphic populations. I mainly address the typical evolutionary rates,
and how they de- pend on biophysical parameters (e.g. binding length and specificity)
and population genetic parameters (e.g. population size and selection strength).\r\nIn
the second part of the thesis, I analyse empirical data for a better evolutionary
and biophysical understanding of sequence-specific binding of bacterial RNA polymerase.
First, I infer selection on regulatory and non-regulatory binding sites of RNA
polymerase in the E. coli K12 genome. Second, I infer the chemical potential of
RNA polymerase, an important but unknown physical parameter defining the threshold
energy for strong binding. Furthermore, I try to understand the relation between
the lac promoter sequence diversity and the LacZ activity variation among 20 bacterial
isolates by constructing a simple but biophysically motivated gene expression
model. Lastly, I lay out a statistical framework to predict adaptive point mutations
in de novo promoter evolution in a selection experiment."
acknowledgement: This PhD thesis may not have been completed without the help and
care I received from some peo- ple during my PhD life. I am especially grateful
to Tiago Paixao, Gasper Tkacik, Nick Barton, not only for their scientific advices
but also for their patience and support. I thank Calin Guet and Jonathan Bollback
for allowing me to “play around” in their labs and get some experience on experimental
evolution. I thank Magdalena Steinrueck and Fabienne Jesse for collaborating and
sharing their experimental data with me. I thank Johannes Jaeger for reviewing my
thesis. I thank all members of Barton group (aka bartonians) for their feedback,
and all workers of IST Austria for making the best working conditions. Lastly, I
thank two special women, Nejla Sag ̆lam and Setenay Dog ̆an, for their continuous
support and encouragement. I truly had a great chance of having right people around
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text: "Genotypic, phenotypic and demographic data for 2128 wild snapdragons and
1127 open-pollinated progeny from a natural hybrid zone, collected as part of
Tom Ellis' PhD thesis (submitted) February 2016).\r\n\r\nTissue samples were sent
to LGC Genomics in Berlin for DNA extraction, and genotyping at 70 SNP markers
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in controlled conditions, and their effect on plant mating. Data were collected
as part of Tom Ellis' PhD thesis , submitted February 2016.\r\n\r\nWe placed a
total of 36 plants in a grid inside a closed organza tent, with a single hive
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