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Dynamical trade-offs arise from antagonistic coevolution and decrease intraspecific diversity.


ABSTRACT: Trade-offs play an important role in evolution. Without trade-offs, evolution would maximize fitness of all traits leading to a "master of all traits". The shape of trade-offs has been shown to determine evolutionary trajectories and is often assumed to be static and independent of the actual evolutionary process. Here we propose that coevolution leads to a dynamical trade-off. We test this hypothesis in a microbial predator-prey system and show that the bacterial growth-defense trade-off changes from concave to convex, i.e., defense is effective and cheap initially, but gets costly when predators coevolve. We further explore the impact of such dynamical trade-offs by a novel mathematical model incorporating de novo mutations for both species. Predator and prey populations diversify rapidly leading to higher prey diversity when the trade-off is concave (cheap). Coevolution results in more convex (costly) trade-offs and lower prey diversity compared to the scenario where only the prey evolves.

SUBMITTER: Huang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5727225 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Dynamical trade-offs arise from antagonistic coevolution and decrease intraspecific diversity.

Huang Weini W   Traulsen Arne A   Werner Benjamin B   Hiltunen Teppo T   Becks Lutz L  

Nature communications 20171212 1


Trade-offs play an important role in evolution. Without trade-offs, evolution would maximize fitness of all traits leading to a "master of all traits". The shape of trade-offs has been shown to determine evolutionary trajectories and is often assumed to be static and independent of the actual evolutionary process. Here we propose that coevolution leads to a dynamical trade-off. We test this hypothesis in a microbial predator-prey system and show that the bacterial growth-defense trade-off change  ...[more]

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