How to run far: multiple solutions and sex-specific responses to selective breeding for high voluntary activity levels.
The response to uniform selection may occur in alternate ways that result in similar performance. We tested for multiple adaptive solutions during artificial selection for high voluntary wheel running in laboratory mice. At generation 43, the four replicate high runner (HR) lines averaged 2.85-fold more revolutions per day as compared with four non-selected control (C) lines, and females ran 1.11-fold more than males, with no sex-by-linetype interaction. Analysis of variance indicated significant differences among C lines but not among HR for revolutions per day. By contrast, average speed varied significantly among HR lines, but not among C, and showed a sex-by-linetype interaction, with the HR/C ratio being 2.02 for males and 2.45 for females. Time spent running varied among both HR and C lines, and showed a sex-by-linetype interaction, with the HR/C ratio being 1.52 for males but only 1.17 for females. Thus, females (speed) and males (speed, but also time) evolved differently, as did the replicate selected lines. Speed and time showed a trade-off among HR but not among C lines. These results demonstrate that uniform selection on a complex trait can cause consistent responses in the trait under direct selection while promoting divergence in the lower-level components of that trait.
Garland
Theodore
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Department of Biology, University of California, , Riverside, CA 92521, USA. tgarland@ucr.edu
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Malisch
Jessica L
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Kolb
Erik M
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Hannon
Robert M
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Brooke K
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Van Cleave
Shana L
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Kevin M
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D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001947:Breeding; D005260:Female; D040961:Genetic Drift; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008813:Mice, Inbred ICR; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D012641:Selection, Genetic; D012727:Sex Characteristics
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