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Contemporary Evolution during Global Range Expansion in the Monarch Butterfly

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TLpq2408808786

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انگلیسی

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Contemporary Evolution during Global Range Expansion in the Monarch Butterfly

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Freedman, Micah

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Strauss, Sharon Y;Ramirez, Santiago R

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University of California, Davis

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2020

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244

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

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University of California, Davis

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2020

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Species that expand their geographical ranges provide unique opportunities to test fundamental questions in ecology and evolution. Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) are best-known from their ancestral North American range but have greatly expanded their range over recent evolutionary history. The monarch's global range expansion involves three independent expansion events, each characterized by an independent loss of migratory behavior and convergent genomic evolution associated with this loss of migration. Monarchs encounter novel selective environments in their introduced range, including novel host plant species and assemblages. This dissertation focuses on the monarch's global range expansion as an evolutionary experiment. In Chapter 1, I use reduced-representation sequencing of 281 monarchs from North America and 15 locations throughout the Pacific to reconstruct the monarch's Pacific range expansion. In Chapter 2, I focus on the reasons for the monarch's loss of migration and test whether this process is best explained by the absence of migration-associated environmental cues or a breakdown of the mechanisms associated with sensing and integrating these cues. In Chapter 3, I use a combination of more than 6,000 museum specimens and 1,000 experimentally reared monarchs to test how loss of migration has impacted monarch wing morphology, and show that range expansion and loss of migration have both influenced wing morphology in monarchs. In Chapter 4, I focus on host plant adaptation across the monarch's global range and find evidence for local adaptation in larval performance metrics, despite strong inherent differences in milkweed host species and monarch populations. This dissertation combines approaches from population genetics, insect physiology, functional morphology, and chemical ecology and adds to our understanding of (1) contemporary evolution during species range expansions and (2) the basic biology of the monarch, an iconic but increasingly imperiled butterfly species.

Chemical ecology

Evolution

Local adaptation

Migration

Monarch butterfly

Population genetics

Freedman, Micah

Strauss, Sharon Y

Ramirez, Santiago R

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