Transgenerational plasticity of inducible defenses: combined effects of grand-parental, parental and current environments

Tariel, Juliette; Plénet, Sandrine; Luquet, Émilien

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“…These studies have been mainly conducted across two consecutive generations (i.e. effect of parental environment on offspring phenotype), except (Parker et al, 2015;Müller et al, 2016b;Bal et al, 2017;Tariel et al, 2019) who performed a threegeneration experiment. when offspring are themselves exposed to the same cue.…”

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Epigenetic inheritance and intergenerational effects in mollusks

Fallet

Luquet

David

et al. 2020

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List of abbreviations 5mC5-methylcytosine, a cytosine that has been modified by the addition of a methyl group on its 5th carbon ADP Adenosine diphosphate AFLP Amplified fragment length polymorphism BLAST Basic Local Alignment Search Tool BS-Seq Bisulfite sequencing BS-PCR-Seq PCr amplification after bisulfite sequencing followed by sequencing Cd Cadium meDIP-seq Methylated DNA Immunoprecipitation sequencing MiRNAs Micro RNAs MSAP Methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism MS-PCR Methylation-specific PCR pCO2 partial pressure of C02 PCR Polymerase chain reaction PTMs Post-Translational Modifications pH potential of Hydrogen qPCR quantitative Polymerase chain reaction RT-qPCR quantitative reverse transcription PCR RNA Ribonucleic acid RRBS Reduced representation bisulfite sequencing SAM S-adenosyl methionine SDS-PAGE Sodium Dodecil Sulfate PolyAcrylamide Gel Electrophoresis UV-HPLC Ultraviolet High performance liquid chromatography Abstract Recent insights in evolutionary biology have shed light on epigenetic variation that interacts with genetic variation to convey heritable information. An important characteristic of epigenetic changes is that they can be produced in response to environmental cues and passed on to later generations, potentially facilitating later genetic adaptation. While our understanding of epigenetic mechanisms in vertebrates is rapidly growing, our knowledge about invertebrates remains lower, or is restricted to model organisms. Mollusks in particular, are a large group of invertebrates, with several species important for ecosystem function, human economy and health. In this review, we attempt to summarize the literature on epigenetic and 4 intergenerational studies in mollusk species, with potential importance for adaptive evolution. Our review highlights that two molecular bearers of epigenetic information, DNA methylation and histone modifications, are key features for development in mollusk species, and both are sensitive to environmental conditions to which developing individuals are exposed. Further, although studies are still scarce, various environmental factors (e.g. predator cues, chemicals, parasites) can induce intergenerational effects on the phenotype (life-history traits, morphology, behaviour) of several mollusk taxa. More work is needed to better understand whether environmentally-induced changes in DNA methylation and histone modifications have phenotypic impacts, whether they can be inherited through generations and their role in intergenerational effects on phenotype. Such work may bring insight into the potential role of epigenetic in adaptation and evolution in mollusks.

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Epigenetic inheritance and intergenerational effects in mollusks

Fallet

Luquet

David

et al. 2020

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“…However, developmental conditions were found to influence the average response across many individuals from the same population (West-Eberhard 2003;Stamps and Groothuis 2010). Moreover, few evolutionary biology studies demonstrated that ancestral environments can influence the behaviour of offspring (Bestion et al 2014;Mateo 2014;Tariel et al 2019). For instance, juvenile common lizards Zootoca vivipara born from mothers exposed to predator cues increased their activity on average when face to predator cues compared to juveniles from non-exposed mothers that decreased their activity (Bestion et al 2014).…”

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“…escape, refuge use, freezing, vigilance) may be expressed when predator cues are detected (Tollrian and Harvell 1999). Such detection can trigger long-lasting effects on average anti-predator behaviour of future life stages (Relyea 2003;Beaty et al 2016) and even across generations (Storm and Lima 2010;Giesing et al 2011;Keiser and Mondor 2013;Bestion et al 2014;Luquet and Tariel 2016;Tariel et al 2019), allowing a pre-adaptation to predation risk. At the individual level, although one set of studies highlighted that cues of predator presence during development change the between-individual variation in anti-predator behavioural reaction norm (Urszán et al 2015(Urszán et al , 2018, how parental environmental can influence it is still an open question.…”

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How past exposure to predation affects personality and behavioural plasticity?

Tariel

Plénet

Luquet

2019

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When behaviour is observed multiple times on animals from the same population, betweenindividual difference in mean behaviour (personality) and in behavioural plasticity are often reported. While the developmental environment might explain such an individual difference, the effect of parental environment is still unexplored -a surprising observation as parental carry-over effect are now well-known to influence the average phenotype and plastic responses of offspring-.We tested whether parental and developmental exposure to predator cues impacted the immediate behavioural predator-induced response in the snail Physa acuta at both mean level (average response) and individual level (between-individual variation). Two generations of snails were reared in laboratory without or with exposure to predator cues. Then, escape behaviour was repeatedly assessed on adult snails in the presence or absence of predator cues.Both parental and developmental exposure to predator cues acted additively towards a lower average behavioural plasticity. At the individual level, developmental exposure induced higher differentiation in personality trait but not in behavioural plasticity while parental environment did not influence the between-individual differences.These results highlight that past environments can strongly influence behaviour at the population level and that they should be taken into consideration when investigating why individuals differ in behaviour.

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“…Within-generation phenotypic plasticity refers to the ability of a given genotype to alter its phenotype in response to the environment it experiences, while parental environmental effects refer to the ability of a given genotype to alter the phenotypes of its progeny in response to parental environments (Fox and Moussseau 1998;Schlicting and Pigliucci 1998;Uller 2008;Mousseau et al 2009;Herman and Sultan 2011;Bell and Hellman 2019). Environmental effects on phenotypes have sometimes been shown to persist even into grandprogeny or more distant descendants (Herman et al 2012;Shama and Wegner 2014;Alvarez et al 2020;Tariel et al 2020). There is renewed interest in the ability of environmentally induced phenotypes to be stably transmitted across organismal generations, and this phenomenon is frequently addressed within the con-text of epigenetic inheritance (e.g.…”

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Genetic differences in the temporal and environmental stability of transgenerational environmental effects

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Bleich

Donohue

2021

Evolution

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Environments influence the expression of phenotypes of individuals, their progeny, and even their grandprogeny. The duration of environmental effects and how they are modified by subsequent environments are predicted to be targets of natural selection in variable environments. However, little is known about the genetic basis of the temporal persistence of environmental effects and their stability of expression across subsequent environments, or even the extent to which natural genotypes differ in these attributes of environmental effects. We factorially manipulated the thermal environment experienced in three successive generations, to quantify the temporal persistence and environmental stability of temperature effects in contrasting genotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana. We found that genotypes differed in the manner in which environmental effects dissipated across successive generations, the manner in which responses to ancestral environments were stably expressed in present environments, the manner in which ancestral environments altered responses to present environments, and in the manner in which ancestral environments altered fitness in present conditions. Genetic variation exists in nature for these trait-specific environmental responses, suggesting that the temporal persistence and stability of environmental effects in variable environments have the potential to evolve in response to natural selection imposed by different environments and sequences of environments.

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Transgenerational plasticity of inducible defenses: combined effects of grand-parental, parental and current environments

Cited by 6 publications

References 66 publications

Epigenetic inheritance and intergenerational effects in mollusks

Epigenetic inheritance and intergenerational effects in mollusks

How past exposure to predation affects personality and behavioural plasticity?

Genetic differences in the temporal and environmental stability of transgenerational environmental effects

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