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- Title
Pervasive G × E interactions shape adaptive trajectories and the exploration of the phenotypic space in artificial selection experiments.
- Authors
Desbiez-Piat, Arnaud; Ressayre, Adrienne; Marchadier, Elodie; Noly, Alicia; Remoué, Carine; Vitte, Clémentine; Belcram, Harry; Bourgais, Aurélie; Galic, Nathalie; Le Guilloux, Martine; Tenaillon, Maud I.; Dillmann, Christine
- Abstract
Quantitative genetics models have shown that long-term selection responses depend on initial variance and mutational influx. Understanding limits of selection requires quantifying the role of mutational variance. However, correlative responses to selection on nonfocal traits can perturb the selection response on the focal trait; and generations are often confounded with selection environments so that genotype by environment (G × E) interactions are ignored. The Saclay divergent selection experiments (DSEs) on maize flowering time were used to track the fate of individual mutations combining genotyping data and phenotyping data from yearly measurements (DSEYM) and common garden experiments (DSECG) with four objectives: (1) to quantify the relative contribution of standing and mutational variance to the selection response, (2) to estimate genotypic mutation effects, (3) to study the impact of G × E interactions in the selection response, and (4) to analyze how trait correlations modulate the exploration of the phenotypic space. We validated experimentally the expected enrichment of fixed beneficial mutations with an average effect of +0.278 and +0.299 days to flowering, depending on the genetic background. Fixation of unfavorable mutations reached up to 25% of incoming mutations, a genetic load possibly due to antagonistic pleiotropy, whereby mutations fixed in the selection environment (DSEYM) turned to be unfavorable in the evaluation environment (DSECG). Global patterns of trait correlations were conserved across genetic backgrounds but exhibited temporal patterns. Traits weakly or uncorrelated with flowering time triggered stochastic exploration of the phenotypic space, owing to microenvironment-specific fixation of standing variants and pleiotropic mutational input.
- Subjects
EXPERIMENTAL design; BIOLOGICAL models; RESEARCH; GENETIC mutation; PHYLOGENY; CORN; ECOLOGY; PLANTS; PHYSIOLOGICAL adaptation; GENE expression; FLOWERS; GENOTYPES; RESEARCH funding; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; STATISTICAL correlation; PHENOTYPES; HORTICULTURE; GENETIC profile
- Publication
Genetics, 2023, Vol 225, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
0016-6731
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/genetics/iyad186