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    Science "Gains and Losses" – How to Balance Gains and Injuries in the Evolution of Antiparasitic Immune Responses

    • Last Update: 2023-01-01
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    Written by | Snow Moon
    | Enzymatic
    parasites can increase the pressure of host evolutionary selection and promote immune evolution
    .
    However, sometimes this selection evolution does not always go in the direction
    of increasing resistance.
    Resistance-based immune responses can have undesirable consequences that affect host survival and reproduction
    by consuming limited resources or inducing autoimmune diseases that reduce host fitness.
    Evolutionary optimization theory suggests that evolutionary increased parasite resistance must be balanced
    against the cost of immune response.
    Only in this way can evolution move in the direction of optimal resistance and immune response
    .
    Populations may evolve to tolerate, allowing infection to persist while reducing infection mortality and reproductive costs
    .
    Tolerance itself is expensive and either drains energy to repair damage or allows infection
    .
    Intraspecific variations in immune costs are rarely studied in a pattern-evolved manner, and there are few models
    of tolerance or resistance.

    Daniel I.
    Bolnick's team from the University of Texas at Austin published an article in Science titled
    Evolutionary gain and loss of a pathological immune response to parasitism
    Modelled on sticklebackfish in two lakes, the study explored the effects
    of balancing gains and damage in tapeworm infection on the evolution of immune tolerance and resistance populations.


    The marine population of the three-spined fish Gasterosteus aculeatus encountered freshwater tapeworms less often and therefore did not evolve resistance
    .
    Later, marine threefish established populations in freshwater, thus evolving resistance
    .
    But infection rates also vary from lake to lake, and sometimes prevalence varies
    even for similar lakes.
    The authors noted that the infection rates of sticklebacks in Lake Roberts and Lake Gaolings
    (R and G) diverged to 0 and greater than 50%, and the two were located in close
    proximity.
    The authors hypothesize that differences in infection prevalence reflect the evolution of resistance in R sticklebacks and tolerance in G
    sticklebacks.
    The authors crossed sticklebacks from R and G and exposed them to schizocephalus tapeworm
    .
    The analysis found that the infection rate of hybrid sticklebackfish with a large proportion of R was low
    .
    When tapeworms reach 50 mg, birds come to fish, and birds are the end hosts
    of tapeworms.
    The growth of tapeworms in the backcrossed sticklebacks is inhibited and does not reach this threshold, protecting the fish from predation
    .

    The contrast found that R sticklebacks produced more ROS in granulocytes after infection and showed severe peritoneal fibrosis
    .
    In vertebrates, parasites cause tissue damage, leading to inflammation, fibroblast proliferation, collagen deposition, and visceral adhesions
    .
    After exposure to the hybrid stickleback tapeworm, the authors' analysis found that the degree of fibrosis was positively correlated
    with R lineage.
    Fibrosis
    rarely occurs in G and G backcrossed sticklebacks, regardless of the degree of infection.
    The lack of fibrosis in the sea-dwelling sticklebacks and laboratory infections suggests that the sticklebacks have repeatedly evolved
    in their fibrosis in freshwater colonization.
    Fibrosis is associated
    with growth inhibition and elimination of tapeworms.
    Fibrosis is a persistent lesion that can persist
    long after an immune response has emerged.
    R sticklebacks can promote ROS production and fibrosis, both reactions can inhibit tapeworm growth, and the volume of tapeworm in hybrid stickleback F2 is 87.
    7%
    smaller than that of non-fibrotic sticklebackfish infected tapeworm.


    But the production of ROS and fibrosis also comes at the cost
    of sticklebacks.
    The analysis found that tapeworm infection disrupted female reproductive capacity, and the nesting ability of male sticklebacks with fibrosis was reduced
    .
    To explore how to balance benefits and harms over evolution, the authors combined
    quantitative trait locus QTL mapping, population genomics, and transcriptomics
    .
    The authors genotyped 647 laboratory hybrids F2 stickleback, G stickleback, and R stickleback with 234 information markers, revealing 7 important QTLs that explained tapeworm, fibrosis, granulomas, and ROS changes
    .
    For example, in ROS QTL on Chr15, the R allele confers higher ROS, but the QTL, R allele on Chr11 reduces ROS
    .
    Reanalyzing whole-genome sequencing of mixed populations, the authors identified several loci that underwent positive selection in G sticklebacks and others that evolved
    in resistant R sticklebacks.
    Within fibrotic QTL, the strongest selection targets include the gene SPL1b, which produces the transcription factor PU.
    1, which regulates fibroblast polarization and tissue fibrosis
    .
    Three profibrotic genes, SPL1 STAT6 Cyp3a48, were missing in the evolutionary selection of G sticklebacks, but were not detected in R
    .
    R sticklebacks will also evolve around
    profibrotic TMEM39A and fibrotic-resistant hnf4a.
    The two are selected
    in opposite directions among the sticklebacks of the two lakes.

    This study shows that in repeated selection evolution, different populations have different resistance to tapeworm resistance and fibrosis, resulting in different
    parasite prevalence.
    These differences are consistent with theoretical models, in which host-parasites co-evolve, replacing steady states, and evolving resistant and tolerant populations
    at different costs.
    This study also provides a model
    for understanding the evolutionary effects of balancing benefits and damage in parasite epidemiology.

    Original link:

    http://doi.
    org/10.
    1126/science.
    abo3411


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