Direct and indirect genetic and fine-scale location effects on breeding date in song sparrows

Ryan R. Germain; Matthew E. Wolak; Peter Arcese; Sylvain Losdat; Jane M. Reid

doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12575

Direct and indirect genetic and fine-scale location effects on breeding date in song sparrows

Ryan R. Germain, Matthew E. Wolak, Peter Arcese, Sylvain Losdat, Jane M. Reid

Aberdeen Centre For Environmental Sustainability

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Abstract

Quantifying direct and indirect genetic effects of interacting females and males on variation in jointly expressed life-history traits is central to predicting microevolutionary dynamics. However, accurately estimating sex-specific additive genetic variances in such traits remains difficult in wild populations, especially if related individuals inhabit similar fine-scale environments.

Breeding date is a key life-history trait that responds to environmental phenology and mediates individual and population responses to environmental change. However, no studies have estimated female (direct) and male (indirect) additive genetic and inbreeding effects on breeding date, and estimated the cross-sex genetic correlation, while simultaneously accounting for fine-scale environmental effects of breeding locations, impeding prediction of microevolutionary dynamics.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1613-1624
Number of pages	12
Journal	Journal of Animal Ecology
Volume	85
Issue number	6
Early online date	30 Aug 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12575
Publication status	Published - Nov 2016

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Acknowledgements

We thank the Tsawout and Tseycum First Nations for generously allowing us continuous access to Mandarte Island, Rebecca Sardell and Pirmin Nietlisbach for paternity assignments, Alastair Wilson and Jarrod Hadfield for helpful discussions, Ben Sheldon and two anonymous reviewers for their comments and the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the European Research Council for funding.

Keywords

associative genetic effects
breeding habitat
emergent trait
lay date
nest location
quantitative genetics
reproduction
sexual conflict

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This is the accepted version of the following article: Germain, R. R., Wolak, M. E., Arcese, P., Losdat, S. and Reid, J. M. (2016), Direct and indirect genetic and fine-scale location effects on breeding date in song sparrows. J Anim Ecol, 85: 1613–1624., which has been published in final form at doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12575. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with the Wiley Self-Archiving Policy [http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html].
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Direct and indirect genetic and fine-scale location effects on breeding date in song sparrows

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