Digest: Multiple selective pressures drive color diversity in moths. (12th January 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lungstrom, Linnea L; Fedder, Zachary
• Is Part Of: Evolution. Volume 77:Number 3(2023)
• Page Start: 928
• Page End: 929
• Publication Date: 2023-01-12
• Subjects: Evolution -- Periodicals; Heredity -- Periodicals; Évolution (Biologie) -- Périodiques; Hérédité -- Périodiques; 338.47004094
• DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpad003
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0014-3820

Abstract

Abstract: How are color polymorphisms maintained within populations? De Pasqual et al. (2022) showed that female wood tiger moths ( Arctia plantaginis ) that were heterozygous for a wing color gene had higher fertility, hatching success, and offspring survival. These findings suggest that the complex interaction between heterozygote advantage and pleiotropic effects maintains color variability through a balance between multiple and competing selective pressures in wild populations.