PMID- 33755539
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210811
LR  - 20210811
IS  - 1537-5323 (Electronic)
IS  - 0003-0147 (Linking)
VI  - 197
IP  - 4
DP  - 2021 Apr
TI  - Can You Trust Who You See? The Evolution of Socially Cued Anticipatory 
      Plasticity.
PG  - E129-E142
LID - 10.1086/712919 [doi]
AB  - AbstractThe social environment can affect development and fitness. However, we do 
      not know how selection acts on individuals that cue developmental pathways using 
      features of the social environment. Socially cued anticipatory plasticity (SCAP) 
      is a hypothetical strategy whereby juveniles use social cues to alter development 
      to match their adult phenotype to the social environment that they expect to 
      encounter. While intuitively appealing, the evolution of such plasticity is a 
      puzzle, because the cue changes when individuals use it. Can socially cued 
      plasticity evolve when such a feedback occurs? We use individual-based 
      simulations to model evolution of SCAP in an environment that fluctuates between 
      favoring each of two discrete phenotypes. We found that socially cued plasticity 
      evolved, but only when strong selection acted on survival rather than on 
      fecundity differences between adult phenotypes. In this case, the social cue 
      reliably predicted which phenotype would be favored on maturation. Surprisingly, 
      costs to plasticity increased the range of conditions under which it was 
      adaptive. In the absence of costs, evolution led to a state where SCAP 
      individuals could not effectively respond to environmental changes. Costs to 
      plasticity lowered the proportion of the population that used SCAP, which in turn 
      increased the reliability of the social cue and allowed individuals that used 
      socially cued plasticity to switch between the favored phenotypes more 
      consistently. Our results suggest that the evolution of adaptive plasticity in 
      response to social cues may represent a larger class of problems in which 
      evolution is hard to predict because of feedbacks among critical processes.
FAU - Lange, Elizabeth C
AU  - Lange EC
FAU - Travis, Joseph
AU  - Travis J
FAU - Hughes, Kimberly A
AU  - Hughes KA
FAU - M'Gonigle, Leithen K
AU  - M'Gonigle LK
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
DEP - 20210211
PL  - United States
TA  - Am Nat
JT  - The American naturalist
JID - 2984688R
SB  - IM
MH  - *Adaptation, Physiological
MH  - Animals
MH  - *Biological Evolution
MH  - Cues
MH  - *Models, Genetic
MH  - *Phenotype
MH  - Selection, Genetic
MH  - *Social Environment
MH  - *Social Learning
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - alternative phenotypes
OT  - fluctuating environment
OT  - phenotypic plasticity
OT  - social environment
OT  - socially cued anticipatory plasticity
EDAT- 2021/03/24 06:00
MHDA- 2021/08/12 06:00
CRDT- 2021/03/23 17:22
PHST- 2021/03/23 17:22 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/03/24 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/08/12 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1086/712919 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Am Nat. 2021 Apr;197(4):E129-E142. doi: 10.1086/712919. Epub 2021 Feb 11.