Evolution favours aging in populations with assortative mating
and in sexually dimorphic populations

J 2018

Evolution favours aging in populations with assortative mating and in sexually dimorphic populations

LENÁRT, Peter, Julie BIENERTOVÁ VAŠKŮ and Luděk BEREC

Basic information

Original name

Evolution favours aging in populations with assortative mating and in sexually dimorphic populations

Authors

LENÁRT, Peter (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Julie BIENERTOVÁ VAŠKŮ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Luděk BEREC (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Scientific reports, LONDON, NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2018, 2045-2322

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10700 1.7 Other natural sciences

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

Impact factor

Impact factor: 4.011

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14110/18:00105077

Organization unit

Faculty of Medicine

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-34391-x

UT WoS

000448732200002

Keywords in English

RED-QUEEN; SENESCENCE; SEX; AGE; MAINTENANCE; ADAPTATION; LONGEVITY; MORTALITY; SELECTION; PARASITES

Abstract

V originále

Since aging seems omnipresent, many authors regard it as an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics. However, recent research has conclusively shown that some organisms do not age, or at least do not age on a scale comparable with other aging organisms. This begets the question why aging evolved in some organisms yet not in others. Here we present a simulation model of competition between aging and non-aging individuals in a sexually reproducing population. We find that the aging individuals may outcompete the non-aging ones if they have a sufficiently but not excessively higher initial fecundity or if individuals mate assortatively with respect to their own phenotype. Furthermore, the aging phenotype outcompetes the non-aging one or resists dominance of the latter for a longer period in populations composed of genuine males and females compared to populations of simultaneous hermaphrodites. Finally, whereas sterilizing parasites promote non-aging, the effect of mortality-enhancing parasites is to enable longer persistence of the aging phenotype relative to when parasites are absent. Since the aging individuals replace the non-aging ones in diverse scenarios commonly found in nature, our study provides important insights into why aging has evolved in most, but not all organisms.

Links

EF15_003/0000469, research and development project

Name: Cetocoen Plus

EF16_013/0001761, research and development project

Name: RECETOX RI

LM2015051, research and development project

Name: Centrum pro výzkum toxických látek v prostředí (Acronym: RECETOX RI)

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR

Citovat

LENÁRT, Peter, Julie BIENERTOVÁ VAŠKŮ and Luděk BEREC. Evolution favours aging in populations with assortative mating and in sexually dimorphic populations. Scientific reports. LONDON: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2018, vol. 8, October, p. 1-11. ISSN 2045-2322. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-34391-x.

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LENÁRT, Peter, Julie BIENERTOVÁ VAŠKŮ and Luděk BEREC. Evolution favours aging in populations with assortative mating and in sexually dimorphic populations. \textit{Scientific reports}. LONDON: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2018, vol.~8, October, p.~1-11. ISSN~2045-2322. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-34391-x.

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