The rotifer and the yeast: An experiment to study how multicellularity could evolve in nature William C. Ratcliff and Jennifer Pentz Georgia Institute.

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The rotifer and the yeast: An experiment to study how multicellularity could evolve in nature William C. Ratcliff and Jennifer Pentz Georgia Institute of Technology

Multicellularity has evolved at least 25 times in the history of life! Grosberg R. K., and R. R. Strathmann Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 38:

Examples of independently-evolved multicellular lineages

Let’s take a moment to imagine the world without multicellular organisms

This is a photo of Mars © NASA

The transition from uni- to multicellularity was one of a few events in the history of life that allowed for the evolution of large and complex organisms we see today This is a photo of Mars © NASA

The transition from uni- to multicellularity was one of a few events in the history of life that allowed for the evolution of large and complex organisms we see today This transition occurred in the deep past (more than 200 million years ago) and most early multicellular forms have been lost to extinction This is a photo of Mars © NASA

The transition from uni- to multicellularity was one of a few events in the history of life that allowed for the evolution of large and complex organisms we see today This transition occurred in the deep past (more than 200 million years ago) and most early multicellular forms have been lost to extinction So how on earth do we study it? This is a photo of Mars © NASA

We could invent a time machine and observe this process as it’s happening …or we could study it in the lab

Time travel in a test tube The left is a picture of the unicellular ancestor and the video is the evolved multicellular ‘snowflake’ yeast.

How did they do this? 24 hour, shaking incubation centrifuge 100g for 10 seconds discard upper 93% of media transfer to fresh media Use gravity to select for clustering genotypes because clusters of cells settle more quickly than single cells.

Independent evolution of the ‘snowflake’ yeast in all 10 replicate populations

Some cool and important properties of snowflake yeast A multicellular life cycle evolved. Snowflake yeast reproduce via multicellular propagules.

A video of snowflake yeast life cycle

Propagules are functionally juvenile maturation reproduction The multicellular propagules turn out to be functionally juvenile, meaning they have to grow back to their parent size before they can reproduce themselves

Two steps are required for the transition to multicellularity

Step 1 – the evolution of clusters The first step in this transition is the evolution of cluster formation from single-celled ancestors This could be beneficial for many reason in nature: Predator evasion Metabolic cooperation UV resistance Y55 - Unicellular Saccharomyces cerevisiae (bakers yeast)

Step 2 – multicellular yeast adapt Three things must be true for multicellular yeast to adapt

Clusters must vary from one another Snowflake Not snowflake (clumpy yeast)

Cluster variation must be heritable Snowflake yeast make more snowflake yeast Clumpy yeast make more clumpy yeast

Cluster variation much affect fitness The three components of Step 2 are known as evolution via natural selection.

Has Step 2 occurred? Do multicellular yeast adapt? Large clusters grow slowly, because internal cells don’t get much food. One possible adaptation for big snowflake yeast: make smaller propagules that grow faster!

How do you make smaller propagules? dead apoptotic, but alive apoptotic and dying Increasing the rate of apoptosis (programmed cell death) allows large clusters to make smaller, faster growing offspring First snowflake yeast to evolve Transfer 60 yeast

Dead cells act as break-points Cells that die from apoptosis act as break-points within the cluster, making propagules smaller. This is a cluster-level trait because increases the fitness of the cluster, not the individual cells undergoing apoptosis (they pay a cost)! This is evidence that multicellular yeast are adapting. They can be considered multicelled individuals.

These experiments clearly show that multicellularity can quickly evolve in a test tube Unicellular ancestor 0 days of evolution Snowflake yeast 60 days of evolution 300 generations! Pictures of populations from every week during the evolution of snowflake yeast Ancestor2 weeks1 week3 weeks4 weeks5 weeks8 weeks6 weeks

But wait! You might be thinking…centrifuges are not found in nature but… that does not mean that conditions favoring cluster formation don’t exist in nature!

What do you think will happen if we feed yeast to a hungry predator (a rotifer)? Snowflake yeast are about as big as the rotifer’s head!

How you will test this hypothesis? Multicellular yeast may avoid predation because they are too big to eat

How you will test this hypothesis? Give hungry rotifers unicellular and multicellular yeast Multicellular yeast may avoid predation because they are too big to eat

How you will test this hypothesis? Give hungry rotifers unicellular and multicellular yeast Examine the ability of the rotifers to eat each yeast strain by counting them in rotifer stomachs Multicellular yeast may avoid predation because they are too big to eat

How you will test this hypothesis? Give hungry rotifers unicellular and multicellular yeast Examine the ability of the rotifers to eat each yeast strain by counting them in rotifer stomachs Analyze these results statistically using a chi- squared test Multicellular yeast may avoid predation because they are too big to eat