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Kooyers NJ, Olsen KM. Searching for the bull's eye: agents and targets of selection vary among geographically disparate cyanogenesis clines in white clover (Trifolium repens L.). Heredity (Edinb) 2013; 111:495-504. [PMID: 23900395 PMCID: PMC3833685 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2013.71] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2013] [Revised: 06/13/2013] [Accepted: 06/18/2013] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The recurrent evolution of adaptive clines within a species can be used to elucidate the selective factors and genetic responses that underlie adaptation. White clover is polymorphic for cyanogenesis (HCN release with tissue damage), and climate-associated cyanogenesis clines have evolved throughout the native and introduced species range. This polymorphism arises through two independently segregating Mendelian polymorphisms for the presence/absence of two required components: cyanogenic glucosides and their hydrolyzing enzyme linamarase. Cyanogenesis is commonly thought to function in herbivore defense; however, the individual cyanogenic components may also serve other physiological functions. To test whether cyanogenesis clines have evolved in response to the same selective pressures acting on the same genetic targets, we examined cyanogenesis cline shape and its environmental correlates in three world regions: southern New Zealand, the central United States and the US Pacific Northwest. For some regional comparisons, cline shapes are remarkably similar despite large differences in the spatial scales over which clines occur (40-1600 km). However, we also find evidence for major differences in both the agents and targets of selection among the sampled clines. Variation in cyanogenesis frequency is best predicted using a combination of minimum winter temperature and aridity variables. Together, our results provide evidence that recurrent adaptive clines do not necessarily reflect shared adaptive processes.
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- N J Kooyers
- Department of Biology, Washington University
in St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Biology, Washington University
in St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA
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Alexander JM. Evolution under changing climates: climatic niche stasis despite rapid evolution in a non-native plant. Proc Biol Sci 2013; 280:20131446. [PMID: 23902908 PMCID: PMC3735261 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2013] [Accepted: 07/09/2013] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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A topic of great current interest is the capacity of populations to adapt genetically to rapidly changing climates, for example by evolving the timing of life-history events, but this is challenging to address experimentally. I use a plant invasion as a model system to tackle this question by combining molecular markers, a common garden experiment and climatic niche modelling. This approach reveals that non-native Lactuca serriola originates primarily from Europe, a climatic subset of its native range, with low rates of admixture from Asia. It has rapidly refilled its climatic niche in the new range, associated with the evolution of flowering phenology to produce clines along climate gradients that mirror those across the native range. Consequently, some non-native plants have evolved development times and grow under climates more extreme than those found in Europe, but not among populations from the native range as a whole. This suggests that many plant populations can adapt rapidly to changed climatic conditions that are already within the climatic niche space occupied by the species elsewhere in its range, but that evolution to conditions outside of this range is more difficult. These findings can also help to explain the prevalence of niche conservatism among non-native species.
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- Jake M Alexander
- Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Universitätsstrasse 16, ETH Zentrum CHN, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
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Patterns of cyto-nuclear linkage disequilibrium in Silene latifolia: genomic heterogeneity and temporal stability. Heredity (Edinb) 2013; 112:99-104. [PMID: 24002238 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2013.79] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2012] [Revised: 06/21/2013] [Accepted: 07/01/2013] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Non-random association of alleles in the nucleus and cytoplasmic organelles, or cyto-nuclear linkage disequilibrium (LD), is both an important component of a number of evolutionary processes and a statistical indicator of others. The evolutionary significance of cyto-nuclear LD will depend on both its magnitude and how stable those associations are through time. Here, we use a longitudinal population genetic data set to explore the magnitude and temporal dynamics of cyto-nuclear disequilibria through time. We genotyped 135 and 170 individuals from 16 and 17 patches of the plant species Silene latifolia in Southwestern VA, sampled in 1993 and 2008, respectively. Individuals were genotyped at 14 highly polymorphic microsatellite markers and a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the mitochondrial gene, atp1. Normalized LD (D') between nuclear and cytoplasmic loci varied considerably depending on which nuclear locus was considered (ranging from 0.005-0.632). Four of the 14 cyto-nuclear associations showed a statistically significant shift over approximately seven generations. However, the overall magnitude of this disequilibrium was largely stable over time. The observed origin and stability of cyto-nuclear LD is most likely caused by the slow admixture between anciently diverged lineages within the species' newly invaded range, and the local spatial structure and metapopulation dynamics that are known to structure genetic variation in this system.
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Brachi B, Villoutreix R, Faure N, Hautekèete N, Piquot Y, Pauwels M, Roby D, Cuguen J, Bergelson J, Roux F. Investigation of the geographical scale of adaptive phenological variation and its underlying genetics in Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol Ecol 2013; 22:4222-4240. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.12396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2012] [Revised: 05/21/2013] [Accepted: 05/23/2013] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- Benjamin Brachi
- Laboratoire Génétique et Evolution des Populations Végétales; UMR CNRS 8198; Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille - Lille 1; F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex France
- Department of Ecology and Evolution; University of Chicago; Chicago IL 60637 USA
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- Laboratoire Génétique et Evolution des Populations Végétales; UMR CNRS 8198; Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille - Lille 1; F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex France
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- Laboratoire Génétique et Evolution des Populations Végétales; UMR CNRS 8198; Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille - Lille 1; F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex France
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- Laboratoire Génétique et Evolution des Populations Végétales; UMR CNRS 8198; Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille - Lille 1; F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex France
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- Laboratoire Génétique et Evolution des Populations Végétales; UMR CNRS 8198; Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille - Lille 1; F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex France
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- Laboratoire Génétique et Evolution des Populations Végétales; UMR CNRS 8198; Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille - Lille 1; F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex France
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- INRA; Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes (LIPM); UMR441; F-31326 Castanet-Tolosan France
- CNRS; Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes (LIPM); UMR2594; F-31326 Castanet-Tolosan France
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- Laboratoire Génétique et Evolution des Populations Végétales; UMR CNRS 8198; Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille - Lille 1; F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex France
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution; University of Chicago; Chicago IL 60637 USA
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- Laboratoire Génétique et Evolution des Populations Végétales; UMR CNRS 8198; Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille - Lille 1; F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex France
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Park S, Jeong G, Jang Y. No reproductive character displacement in male advertisement signals of Hyla japonica in relation to the sympatric H. suweonensis. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-013-1563-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Standing variation boosted by multiple sources of introduction contributes to the success of the introduced species, Lotus corniculatus. Biol Invasions 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-013-0488-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Fontaine MC, Gladieux P, Hood ME, Giraud T. History of the invasion of the anther smut pathogen on Silene latifolia in North America. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2013; 198:946-956. [PMID: 23406496 DOI: 10.1111/nph.12177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2012] [Accepted: 01/09/2013] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Understanding the routes of pathogen introduction contributes greatly to efforts to protect against future disease emergence. Here, we investigated the history of the invasion in North America by the fungal pathogen Microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae, which causes the anther smut disease on the white campion Silene latifolia. This system is a well-studied model in evolutionary biology and ecology of infectious disease in natural systems. Analyses based on microsatellite markers show that the introduced American M. lychnidis-dioicae probably came from Scotland, from a single population, and thus suffered from a drastic bottleneck compared with genetic diversity in the native European range. The pattern in M. lychnidis-dioicae contrasts with that found by previous studies in its host plant species S. latifolia, also introduced in North America. In the plant, several European lineages have been introduced from across Europe. The smaller number of introductions for M. lychnidis-dioicae probably relates to its life history traits, as it is an obligate, specialized pathogen that is neither transmitted by the seeds nor persistent in the environment. The results show that even a nonagricultural, biotrophic, and insect-vectored pathogen suffering from a very strong bottleneck can successfully establish populations on its introduced host.
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- Michael C Fontaine
- Université Paris-Sud, Laboratoire Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, UMR8079, Orsay Cedex, F-91405, France
- CNRS, UMR 8079, Orsay Cedex, F-91405, France
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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- Université Paris-Sud, Laboratoire Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, UMR8079, Orsay Cedex, F-91405, France
- CNRS, UMR 8079, Orsay Cedex, F-91405, France
- Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, USA
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- Université Paris-Sud, Laboratoire Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, UMR8079, Orsay Cedex, F-91405, France
- CNRS, UMR 8079, Orsay Cedex, F-91405, France
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Hodgins KA, Lai Z, Nurkowski K, Huang J, Rieseberg LH. The molecular basis of invasiveness: differences in gene expression of native and introduced common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) in stressful and benign environments. Mol Ecol 2013; 22:2496-510. [PMID: 23294156 DOI: 10.1111/mec.12179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2012] [Revised: 11/14/2012] [Accepted: 11/21/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Although the evolutionary and ecological processes that contribute to plant invasion have been the focus of much research, investigation into the molecular basis of invasion is just beginning. Common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) is an annual weed native to North America and has been introduced to Europe where it has become invasive. Using a custom-designed NimbleGen oligoarray, we examined differences in gene expression between five native and six introduced populations of common ragweed in three different environments (control, light stress and nutrient stress), as well as two different time points. We identified candidate genes that may contribute to invasiveness in common ragweed based on differences in expression between native and introduced populations from Europe. Specifically, we found 180 genes where range explained a significant proportion of the variation in gene expression and a further 103 genes with a significant range by treatment interaction. Several of these genes are potentially involved in the metabolism of secondary compounds, stress response and the detoxification of xenobiotics. Previously, we found more rapid growth and greater reproductive success in introduced populations, particularly in benign and competitive (light stress) environments, and many of these candidate genes potentially underlie these growth differences. We also found expression differences among populations within each range, reflecting either local adaptation or neutral processes, although no associations with climate or latitude were identified. These data provide a first step in identifying genes that are involved with introduction success in an aggressive annual weed.
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- Kathryn A Hodgins
- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Käfer J, Talianová M, Bigot T, Michu E, Guéguen L, Widmer A, Žlůvová J, Glémin S, Marais GAB. Patterns of molecular evolution in dioecious and non-dioecious Silene. J Evol Biol 2012. [PMID: 23206219 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Dioecy (i.e. having separate sexes) is a rather rare breeding system in flowering plants. Such rareness may result from a high probability of extinction in dioecious species because of less efficient dispersal and the costs of sexual selection, which are expected to harm dioecious species' survival on the long term. These handicaps should decrease the effective population size (Ne) of dioecious species, which in turn should reduce the efficacy of selection. Moreover, sexual selection in dioecious species is expected to specifically affect some genes, which will evolve under positive selection. The relative contribution of these effects is currently unknown and we tried to disentangle them by comparing sequence evolution between dioecious and non-dioecious species in the Silene genus (Caryophyllaceae), where dioecy has evolved at least twice. For the dioecious species in the section Melandrium, where dioecy is the oldest, we found a global reduction of purifying selection, while on some, male-biased genes, positive selection was found. For section Otites, where dioecy evolved more recently, we found no significant differences between dioecious and non-dioecious species. Our results are consistent with the view that dioecy is an evolutionary dead end in flowering plants, although other scenarios for explaining reduced Ne cannot be ruled out. Our results also show that contrasting forces act on the genomes of dioecious plants, and suggest that some time is required before the genome of such plants bears the footprints of dioecy.
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- J Käfer
- Univ Lyon 1, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR5558, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive, Villeurbanne, France.
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Sultan SE, Horgan-Kobelski T, Nichols LM, Riggs CE, Waples RK. A resurrection study reveals rapid adaptive evolution within populations of an invasive plant. Evol Appl 2012; 6:266-78. [PMID: 23798976 PMCID: PMC3689352 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2012.00287.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2011] [Accepted: 06/04/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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The future spread and impact of an introduced species will depend on how it adapts to the abiotic and biotic conditions encountered in its new range, so the potential for rapid evolution subsequent to species introduction is a critical, evolutionary dimension of invasion biology. Using a resurrection approach, we provide a direct test for change over time within populations in a species' introduced range, in the Asian shade annual Polygonum cespitosum. We document, over an 11-year period, the evolution of increased reproductive output as well as greater physiological and root-allocational plasticity in response to the more open, sunny conditions found in the North American range in which the species has become invasive. These findings show that extremely rapid adaptive modifications to ecologically-important traits and plastic expression patterns can evolve subsequent to a species' introduction, within populations established in its introduced range. This study is one of the first to directly document evolutionary change in adaptive plasticity. Such rapid evolutionary changes can facilitate the spread of introduced species into novel habitats and hence contribute to their invasive success in a new range. The data also reveal how evolutionary trajectories can differ among populations in ways that can influence invasion dynamics.
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- Sonia E Sultan
- Biology Department, Wesleyan University Middletown, CT, USA
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Keller SR, Gilbert KJ, Fields PD, Taylor DR. Bayesian inference of a complex invasion history revealed by nuclear and chloroplast genetic diversity in the colonizing plant, Silene latifolia. Mol Ecol 2012; 21:4721-34. [PMID: 22943057 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2012.05751.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2012] [Revised: 06/12/2012] [Accepted: 06/20/2012] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Species invading new ranges are subject to a series of demographic events that can strongly shape genetic diversity. Describing this demographic history is important for understanding where invasive species come from and how they spread, and is critical to testing hypotheses of postinvasion adaptation. Here, we analyse nuclear and chloroplast genetic diversity to study the invasion history of the widespread colonizing weed, Silene latifolia (Caryophyllaceae). Bayesian clustering and PCA revealed strong population structure in the native range of Europe, and although genotypes from multiple native sources were present in the introduced range of North America, the spatial distribution of genetic variance was dramatically reorganized. Using approximate Bayesian computation (ABC), we compared support for different invasion scenarios, including the number and size of independent introduction events and the amount of admixture occurring between sources of introduced genotypes. Our results supported independent introductions into eastern and western North America, with the latter forming a bridgehead for a secondary invasion into the Great Lakes region of central North America. Despite small estimated founder population sizes, the duration of the demographic bottleneck after the initial introduction appeared extremely short-lived. This pattern of repeated colonization and rapid expansion has effectively eroded the strong population structure and cytonuclear associations present in Europe, but has retained overall high genetic diversity since invasion. Our results highlight the flexibility of the ABC approach for constructing a narrative of the demographic history of species invasions and provide baseline for future studies of evolutionary changes in introduced S. latifolia populations.
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- Stephen R Keller
- Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, 301 Braddock Road, Frostburg, MD 21532, USA.
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Samis KE, Murren CJ, Bossdorf O, Donohue K, Fenster CB, Malmberg RL, Purugganan MD, Stinchcombe JR. Longitudinal trends in climate drive flowering time clines in North American Arabidopsis thaliana. Ecol Evol 2012; 2:1162-80. [PMID: 22833792 PMCID: PMC3402192 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2012] [Revised: 03/21/2012] [Accepted: 03/26/2012] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Introduced species frequently show geographic differentiation, and when differentiation mirrors the ancestral range, it is often taken as evidence of adaptive evolution. The mouse-ear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) was introduced to North America from Eurasia 150–200 years ago, providing an opportunity to study parallel adaptation in a genetic model organism. Here, we test for clinal variation in flowering time using 199 North American (NA) accessions of A. thaliana, and evaluate the contributions of major flowering time genes FRI, FLC, and PHYC as well as potential ecological mechanisms underlying differentiation. We find evidence for substantial within population genetic variation in quantitative traits and flowering time, and putatively adaptive longitudinal differentiation, despite low levels of variation at FRI, FLC, and PHYC and genome-wide reductions in population structure relative to Eurasian (EA) samples. The observed longitudinal cline in flowering time in North America is parallel to an EA cline, robust to the effects of population structure, and associated with geographic variation in winter precipitation and temperature. We detected major effects of FRI on quantitative traits associated with reproductive fitness, although the haplotype associated with higher fitness remains rare in North America. Collectively, our results suggest the evolution of parallel flowering time clines through novel genetic mechanisms.
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Rey O, Estoup A, Vonshak M, Loiseau A, Blanchet S, Calcaterra L, Chifflet L, Rossi JP, Kergoat GJ, Foucaud J, Orivel J, Leponce M, Schultz T, Facon B. Where do adaptive shifts occur during invasion? A multidisciplinary approach to unravelling cold adaptation in a tropical ant species invading the Mediterranean area. Ecol Lett 2012; 15:1266-1275. [PMID: 22906215 DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01849.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2012] [Revised: 03/29/2012] [Accepted: 07/17/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Evolution may improve the invasiveness of populations, but it often remains unclear whether key adaptation events occur after introduction into the recipient habitat (i.e. post-introduction adaptation scenario), or before introduction within the native range (i.e. prior-adaptation scenario) or at a primary site of invasion (i.e. bridgehead scenario). We used a multidisciplinary approach to determine which of these three scenarios underlies the invasion of the tropical ant Wasmannia auropunctata in a Mediterranean region (i.e. Israel). Species distribution models (SDM), phylogeographical analyses at a broad geographical scale and laboratory experiments on appropriate native and invasive populations indicated that Israeli populations followed an invasion scenario in which adaptation to cold occurred at the southern limit of the native range before dispersal to Israel. We discuss the usefulness of combining SDM, genetic and experimental approaches for unambiguous determination of eco-evolutionary invasion scenarios.
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- Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, 69978, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- CNRS, Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis, USR. 2936, 09 200, Moulis, France.,CNRS, Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, 118 route de Narbonne, 31 062, Toulouse Cedex, France
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- US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), South American Biological Control Laboratory (SABCL), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), South American Biological Control Laboratory (SABCL), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- CNRS, Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, 118 route de Narbonne, 31 062, Toulouse Cedex, France.,CNRS, UMR Ecologie des Forets de Guyane (CIRAD, CNRS, AgroParisTech, INRA, UAG), Campus Agronomique, BP 316, 97379, Kourou Cedex, France
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- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (IRSNB/KBIN), Brussels, Belgium
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- Smithsonian Institute, Department of Entomology, Natural Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, 20013, USA
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Kolbe JJ, Vanmiddlesworth PS, Losin N, Dappen N, Losos JB. Climatic niche shift predicts thermal trait response in one but not both introductions of the Puerto Rican lizard Anolis cristatellus to Miami, Florida, USA. Ecol Evol 2012; 2:1503-16. [PMID: 22957158 PMCID: PMC3434927 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2012] [Revised: 03/23/2012] [Accepted: 03/26/2012] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Global change is predicted to alter environmental conditions for populations in numerous ways; for example, invasive species often experience substantial shifts in climatic conditions during introduction from their native to non-native ranges. Whether these shifts elicit a phenotypic response, and how adaptation and phenotypic plasticity contribute to phenotypic change, are key issues for understanding biological invasions and how populations may respond to local climate change. We combined modeling, field data, and a laboratory experiment to test for changing thermal tolerances during the introduction of the tropical lizard Anolis cristatellus from Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida. Species distribution models and bioclimatic data analyses showed lower minimum temperatures, and greater seasonal and annual variation in temperature for Miami compared to Puerto Rico. Two separate introductions of A. cristatellus occurred in Miami about 12 km apart, one in South Miami and the other on Key Biscayne, an offshore island. As predicted from the shift in the thermal climate and the thermal tolerances of other Anolis species in Miami, laboratory acclimation and field acclimatization showed that the introduced South Miami population of A. cristatellus has diverged from its native-range source population by acquiring low-temperature acclimation ability. By contrast, the introduced Key Biscayne population showed little change compared to its source. Our analyses predicted an adaptive response for introduced populations, but our comparisons to native-range sources provided evidence for thermal plasticity in one introduced population but not the other. The rapid acquisition of thermal plasticity by A. cristatellus in South Miami may be advantageous for its long-term persistence there and expansion of its non-native range. Our results also suggest that the common assumption of no trait variation when modeling non-native species distributions is invalid.
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Lankau RA. Interpopulation variation in allelopathic traits informs restoration of invaded landscapes. Evol Appl 2012; 5:270-82. [PMID: 25568047 PMCID: PMC3353350 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2011.00218.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2011] [Accepted: 10/18/2011] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Invasive species can show substantial genetic variation in ecologically important traits, across ranges as well within the introduced range. If these traits affect competition with native species, then management may benefit from considering the genetic landscape of the invader. Across their introduced range, Alliaria petiolata populations vary in their investment in allelopathic traits according to invasion history, which could lead to gradients of impact on native species. Red oak (Quercus rubra) seedlings were transplanted into eight A. petiolata-invaded sites that varied in their invasion history and allelochemical concentrations. At each site, an invader removal treatment was crossed with experimental inoculations of native soil biota, to test whether the benefits of these restoration actions differed across invader populations. Q. rubra seedlings grew faster in invader populations with a longer invasion history and lower allelochemical concentrations. Invader removal and soil inoculation interacted to determine seedling growth, with the benefits of soil inoculation increasing in younger and more highly allelopathic invader populations. A greenhouse experiment using soils collected from experimentally inoculated field plots found similar patterns. These results suggest that the impact of this invader varies across landscapes and that knowledge of this variation could improve the efficacy and efficiency of restoration activities.
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- Richard A Lankau
- Illinois Natural History Survey, Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL, USA
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Park I, DeWalt SJ, Siemann E, Rogers WE. Differences in cold hardiness between introduced populations of an invasive tree. Biol Invasions 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-012-0209-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Kooyers NJ, Olsen KM. Rapid evolution of an adaptive cyanogenesis cline in introduced North American white clover (Trifolium repens L.). Mol Ecol 2012; 21:2455-68. [PMID: 22340190 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2012.05486.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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White clover is polymorphic for cyanogenesis (HCN production after tissue damage), and this herbivore defence polymorphism has served as a classic model for studying adaptive variation. The cyanogenic phenotype requires two interacting biochemical components; the presence/absence of each component is controlled by a simple Mendelian gene (Ac/ac and Li/li). Climate-associated cyanogenesis clines occur in both native (Eurasian) and introduced populations worldwide, with cyanogenic plants predominating in warmer locations. Moreover, previous studies have suggested that epistatic selection may act within populations to maintain cyanogenic (AcLi) plants and acyanogenic plants that lack both components (acli plants) at the expense of plants possessing a single component (Acli and acLi plants). Here, we examine the roles of selection, gene flow and demography in the evolution of a latitudinal cyanogenesis cline in introduced North American populations. Using 1145 plants sampled across a 1650 km transect, we determine the distribution of cyanogenesis variation across the central United States and investigate whether clinal variation is adaptive or an artefact of population introduction history. We also test for the evidence of epistatic selection. We detect a clear latitudinal cline, with cyanogenesis frequencies increasing from 11% to 86% across the transect. Population structure analysis using nine microsatellite loci indicates that the cline is adaptive and not a by-product of demographic history. However, we find no evidence for epistatic selection within populations. Our results provide strong evidence for rapid adaptive evolution in these introduced populations, and they further suggest that the mechanisms maintaining adaptive variation may vary among populations of a species.
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- Nicholas J Kooyers
- Department of Biology, Washington University in St Louis, One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1137, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
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Sloan DB, Keller SR, Berardi AE, Sanderson BJ, Karpovich JF, Taylor DR. De novo transcriptome assembly and polymorphism detection in the flowering plant Silene vulgaris (Caryophyllaceae). Mol Ecol Resour 2011; 12:333-43. [PMID: 21999839 DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2011.03079.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Members of the angiosperm genus Silene are widely used in studies of ecology and evolution, but available genomic and population genetic resources within Silene remain limited. Deep transcriptome (i.e. expressed sequence tag or EST) sequencing has proven to be a rapid and cost-effective means to characterize gene content and identify polymorphic markers in non-model organisms. In this study, we report the results of 454 GS-FLX Titanium sequencing of a polyA-selected and normalized cDNA library from Silene vulgaris. The library was generated from a single pool of transcripts, combining RNA from leaf, root and floral tissue from three genetically divergent European subpopulations of S. vulgaris. A single full-plate 454 run produced 959,520 reads totalling 363.6 Mb of sequence data with an average read length of 379.0 bp after quality trimming and removal of custom library adaptors. We assembled 832,251 (86.7%) of these reads into 40,964 contigs, which have a total length of 25.4 Mb and can be organized into 18,178 graph-based clusters or 'isogroups'. Assembled sequences were annotated based on homology to genes in multiple public databases. Analysis of sequence variants identified 13,432 putative single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 1320 simple sequence repeats (SSRs) that are candidates for microsatellite analysis. Estimates of nucleotide diversity from 1577 contigs were used to generate genome-wide distributions that revealed several outliers with high diversity. All of these resources are publicly available through NCBI and/or our website (http://silenegenomics.biology.virginia.edu) and should provide valuable genomic and population genetic tools for the Silene research community.
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- Daniel B Sloan
- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA.
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Lee CR, Mitchell-Olds T. Quantifying effects of environmental and geographical factors on patterns of genetic differentiation. Mol Ecol 2011; 20:4631-42. [PMID: 21999331 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2011.05310.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Elucidating the factors influencing genetic differentiation is an important task in biology, and the relative contribution from natural selection and genetic drift has long been debated. In this study, we used a regression-based approach to simultaneously estimate the quantitative contributions of environmental adaptation and isolation by distance on genetic variation in Boechera stricta, a wild relative of Arabidopsis. Patterns of discrete and continuous genetic differentiation coexist within this species. For the discrete differentiation between two major genetic groups, environment has larger contribution than geography, and we also identified a significant environment-by-geography interaction effect. Elsewhere in the species range, we found a latitudinal cline of genetic variation reflecting only isolation by distance. To further confirm the effect of environmental selection on genetic divergence, we identified the specific environmental variables predicting local genotypes in allopatric and sympatric regions. Water availability was identified as the possible cause of differential local adaptation in both geographical regions, confirming the role of environmental adaptation in driving and maintaining genetic differentiation between the two major genetic groups. In addition, the environment-by-geography interaction is further confirmed by the finding that water availability is represented by different environmental factors in the allopatric and sympatric regions. In conclusion, this study shows that geographical and environmental factors together created stronger and more discrete genetic differentiation than isolation by distance alone, which only produced a gradual, clinal pattern of genetic variation. These findings emphasize the importance of environmental selection in shaping patterns of species-wide genetic variation in the natural environment.
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- Cheng-Ruei Lee
- Department of Biology, Duke University, PO Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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Hopkins R, Levin DA, Rausher MD. Molecular signatures of selection on reproductive character displacement of flower color in Phlox drummondii. Evolution 2011; 66:469-85. [PMID: 22276542 DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01452.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Character displacement, which arises when species diverge in sympatry to decrease competition for resources or reproductive interference, has been observed in a wide variety of plants and animals. A classic example of reproductive character displacement, presumed to be caused by reinforcing selection, is flower-color variation in the native Texas wildflower Phlox drummondii. Here, we use population genetic analyses to investigate molecular signatures of selection on flower-color variation in this species. First, we quantify patterns of neutral genetic variation across the range of P. drummondii to demonstrate that restricted gene flow and genetic drift cannot explain the pattern of flower-color divergence in this species. There is evidence of extensive gene flow across populations with different flower colors, suggesting selection caused flower-color divergence. Second, analysis of sequence variation in the genes underlying this divergence reveals a signature of a selective sweep in one of the two genes, further indicating selection is responsible for divergence in sympatry. The lack of a signature of selection at the second locus does not necessarily indicate a lack of selection on this locus but instead brings attention to the uncertainty in depending on molecular signatures to identify selection.
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- Robin Hopkins
- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA.
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Lachmuth S, Durka W, Schurr FM. Differentiation of reproductive and competitive ability in the invaded range of Senecio inaequidens: the role of genetic Allee effects, adaptive and nonadaptive evolution. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2011; 192:529-541. [PMID: 21736567 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03808.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Genetic differentiation in the competitive and reproductive ability of invading populations can result from genetic Allee effects or r/K selection at the local or range-wide scale. However, the neutral relatedness of populations may either mask or falsely suggest adaptation and genetic Allee effects. In a common-garden experiment, we investigated the competitive and reproductive ability of invasive Senecio inaequidens populations that vary in neutral genetic diversity, population age and field vegetation cover. To account for population relatedness, we analysed the experimental results with 'animal models' adopted from quantitative genetics. Consistent with adaptive r/K differentiation at local scales, we found that genotypes from low-competition environments invest more in reproduction and are more sensitive to competition. By contrast, apparent effects of large-scale r/K differentiation and apparent genetic Allee effects can largely be explained by neutral population relatedness. Invading populations should not be treated as homogeneous groups, as they may adapt quickly to small-scale environmental variation in the invaded range. Furthermore, neutral population differentiation may strongly influence invasion dynamics and should be accounted for in analyses of common-garden experiments.
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- Susanne Lachmuth
- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, University of Potsdam, Maulbeerallee 2, Potsdam, Germany.
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Xia HB, Xia H, Ellstrand NC, Yang C, Lu BR. Rapid evolutionary divergence and ecotypic diversification of germination behavior in weedy rice populations. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2011; 191:1119-1127. [PMID: 21569036 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03766.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Feral plants have evolved from well-studied crops, providing good systems for elucidation of how weediness evolves. As yet, they have been largely neglected for this purpose. The evolution of weediness can occur by simple back mutations in domestication genes (domestication in reverse). Whether the evolutionary steps to weediness always occur in reverse remains largely unknown. We examined seed germination behavior in recently evolved weedy rice (Oryza sativa f. spontanea) populations and their coexisting cultivars in eastern and north-eastern China to address whether 'dedomestication' is the simple reverse of domestication. We found that these weedy populations did not diverge from their progenitors by reverting to the pre-domestication trait of seed dormancy. Instead, they have evolved a novel mechanism to avoid growing in inappropriate environments via changes in critical temperature cues for seed germination. Furthermore, we found evidence for subsequent ecotypic divergence of these populations such that the critical temperature for germination correlates with the local habitat temperature at latitudinal gradients. The origins of problematic plant species, weeds and invasives, have already been studied in detail. These plants can thus be used as systems for studying rapid evolution. To determine whether and how that evolution is adaptive, experiments such as those described here can be performed.
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- Han-Bing Xia
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, Fudan University, Ministry of Education, Handan Road 220, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, Fudan University, Ministry of Education, Handan Road 220, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Conservation Biology, and Center for Invasive Species Research, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0124, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, Fudan University, Ministry of Education, Handan Road 220, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, Fudan University, Ministry of Education, Handan Road 220, Shanghai 200433, China
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Hulme PE. Consistent flowering response to global warming by European plants introduced into North America. Funct Ecol 2011. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01899.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Anderson JT, Willis JH, Mitchell-Olds T. Evolutionary genetics of plant adaptation. Trends Genet 2011; 27:258-66. [PMID: 21550682 DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2011.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 221] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2011] [Revised: 04/11/2011] [Accepted: 04/11/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Plants provide unique opportunities to study the mechanistic basis and evolutionary processes of adaptation to diverse environmental conditions. Complementary laboratory and field experiments are important for testing hypotheses reflecting long-term ecological and evolutionary history. For example, these approaches can infer whether local adaptation results from genetic tradeoffs (antagonistic pleiotropy), where native alleles are best adapted to local conditions, or if local adaptation is caused by conditional neutrality at many loci, where alleles show fitness differences in one environment, but not in a contrasting environment. Ecological genetics in natural populations of perennial or outcrossing plants can also differ substantially from model systems. In this review of the evolutionary genetics of plant adaptation, we emphasize the importance of field studies for understanding the evolutionary dynamics of model and nonmodel systems, highlight a key life history trait (flowering time) and discuss emerging conservation issues.
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- Jill T Anderson
- Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Department of Biology, Duke University, P.O. Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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DeWalt SJ, Siemann E, Rogers WE. Geographic distribution of genetic variation among native and introduced populations of Chinese tallow tree, Triadica sebifera (Euphorbiaceae). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2011; 98:1128-1138. [PMID: 21730337 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1000297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY Invasive plants often display genetically determined variation in patterns of growth and resource allocation between native and introduced genotypes, as well as among genotypes within different regions of the introduced range. We examined patterns of genetic variation within and among native and introduced populations of the tetraploid Chinese tallow tree (Triadica sebifera, Euphorbiaceae) to determine whether nonselective evolutionary processes or the introduction history could contribute to previously observed phenotypic differences between native and introduced populations as well as among introduced populations. METHODS We used six microsatellite markers to study 12 native populations in China, 51 introduced populations in the southeastern USA, and one introduced population in Australia. KEY RESULTS Genetic diversity was greater within and among native populations than introduced populations. Within the southeastern USA, populations in Georgia and South Carolina differed substantially in their genetic composition and had greater genetic diversity than the rest of the southeastern USA. Greater genetic similarity between some populations in the native range and introduced range indicate a common provenance for Georgia and South Carolina populations that could have come from any of several western or southern Chinese populations and a different provenance for other southeastern USA populations and the Australian population, which were most similar to more northeastern Chinese populations. CONCLUSIONS Differences among introduced populations in potentially adaptive traits (e.g., herbivore tolerance, herbivore resistance, growth rates) may result in part from the introduction history, in particular from differences present among source populations in the native range.
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- Saara J DeWalt
- Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, USA.
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Chatterjee N, Mishra A, Soni R, Kulkarni H, Mamtani M, Shrivasatava M. Bayesian estimates of the prevalence of β-thalassemia trait in voluntary blood donors of central India: a survey. Hemoglobin 2011; 34:548-60. [PMID: 21077762 DOI: 10.3109/03630269.2010.526488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Early detection of β-thalassemia (β-thal) trait is important. Voluntary blood donors represent an important group who are accessible and cooperative for this purpose. However, the usefulness of this population in β-thal trait detection programs has not been studied in India. We conducted a hematological survey of 5,045 blood donors who visited the Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Centre, Bhopal in central India. Using robust Bayesian methods, we estimated the prevalence of β-thal trait. The overall prevalence of β-thal trait in the study population was 9.59% [95% confidence interval (95% CI) 8.78-10.4%]. The prevalence of β-thal trait varied across the states of origin and within the state of Madhya Pradesh. We observed a cline effect for β-thal trait prevalence in relation to the latitude (p = 0.024). We conclude that blood donors offer an attractive adjunct to β-thal trait detection in national programs. Our study also offers insights into the β-thal trait gene flow and migration in India.
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- Nirupama Chatterjee
- Thalassaemia Unit, Department of Transfusion Medicine, Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Centre, Karond, Raisen Bypass, Bhopal, India
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Yu Q, Ellen ED, Wade MJ, Delph LF. Genetic differences among populations in sexual dimorphism: evidence for selection on males in a dioecious plant. J Evol Biol 2011; 24:1120-7. [PMID: 21401772 DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02245.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Genetic variation among populations in the degree of sexual dimorphism may be a consequence of selection on one or both sexes. We analysed genetic parameters from crosses involving three populations of the dioecious plant Silene latifolia, which exhibits sexual dimorphism in flower size, to determine whether population differentiation was a result of selection on one or both sexes. We took the novel approach of comparing the ratio of population differentiation of a quantitative trait (Q(ST) ) to that of neutral genetic markers (F(ST) ) for males vs. females. We attributed 72.6% of calyx width variation in males to differences among populations vs. only 6.9% in females. The Q(ST) /F(ST) ratio was 4.2 for males vs. 0.4 for females, suggesting that selection on males is responsible for differentiation among populations in calyx width and its degree of sexual dimorphism. This selection may be indirect via genetic correlations with other morphological and physiological traits.
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- Q Yu
- College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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Chun YJ, LE Corre V, Bretagnolle F. Adaptive divergence for a fitness-related trait among invasive Ambrosia artemisiifolia populations in France. Mol Ecol 2011; 20:1378-88. [PMID: 21306459 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2011.05013.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The impact of natural selection on the adaptive divergence of invasive populations can be assessed by testing the null hypothesis that the extent of quantitative genetic differentiation (Q(ST) ) would be similar to that of neutral molecular differentiation (F(ST) ). Using eight microsatellite loci and a common garden approach, we compared Q(ST) and F(ST) among ten populations of an invasive species Ambrosia artemisiifolia (common ragweed) in France. In a common garden study with varying water and nutrient levels, we measured Q(ST) for five traits (height, total biomass, reproductive allocation, above- to belowground biomass ratio, and days to flowering). Although low F(ST) indicated weak genetic structure and strong gene flow among populations, we found significant diversifying selection (Q(ST) > F(ST) ) for reproductive allocation that may be closely related to fitness. It suggests that abiotic conditions may have exerted selection pressure on A. artemisiifolia populations to differentiate adaptively, such that populations at higher altitude or latitude evolved greater reproductive allocation. As previous studies indicate multiple introductions from various source populations of A. artemisiifolia in North America, our results suggest that the admixture of introduced populations may have increased genetic diversity and additive genetic variance, and in turn, promoted the rapid evolution and adaptation of this invasive species.
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- Young Jin Chun
- Bio-Evaluation Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Cheongwon, Korea.
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Keller SR, Soolanayakanahally RY, Guy RD, Silim SN, Olson MS, Tiffin P. Climate-driven local adaptation of ecophysiology and phenology in balsam poplar, Populus balsamifera L. (Salicaceae). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2011; 98:99-108. [PMID: 21613088 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1000317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY During past episodes of climate change, many plant species experienced large-scale range expansions. Expanding populations likely encountered strong selection as they colonized new environments. In this study we examine the extent to which populations of the widespread forest tree Populus balsamifera L. have become locally adapted as the species expanded into its current range since the last glaciation. METHODS We tested for adaptive variation in 13 ecophysiology and phenology traits on clonally propagated genotypes originating from a range-wide sample of 20 subpopulations. The hypothesis of local adaption was tested by comparing among-population variation at ecologically important traits (Q(ST)) to expected variation based on demographic history (F(ST)) estimated from a large set of nuclear single nucleotide polymorphism loci. KEY RESULTS Evidence for divergence in excess of neutral expectations was present for eight of 13 traits. Bud phenology, petiole length, and leaf nitrogen showed the greatest divergence (all Q(ST) > 0.6), whereas traits related to leaf water usage showed the least (all Q(ST) ≤ 0.30) and were not different from neutrality. Strong correlations were present between traits, geography, and climate, and they revealed a general pattern of northern subpopulations adapted to shorter, drier growing seasons compared with populations in the center or eastern regions of the range. CONCLUSIONS Our study demonstrates pronounced adaptive variation in ecophysiology and phenology among balsam poplar populations. These results suggest that as this widespread forest tree species expanded its range since the end of the last glacial maximum, it evolved rapidly in response to geographically variable selection.
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- Stephen R Keller
- Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA.
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Jenkins C, Keller SR. A phylogenetic comparative study of preadaptation for invasiveness in the genus Silene (Caryophyllaceae). Biol Invasions 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-010-9907-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Ellstrand NC, Heredia SM, Leak-Garcia JA, Heraty JM, Burger JC, Yao L, Nohzadeh-Malakshah S, Ridley CE. Crops gone wild: evolution of weeds and invasives from domesticated ancestors. Evol Appl 2010; 3:494-504. [PMID: 25567942 PMCID: PMC3352506 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2010.00140.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2010] [Accepted: 05/21/2010] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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The evolution of problematic plants, both weeds and invasives, is a topic of increasing interest. Plants that have evolved from domesticated ancestors have certain advantages for study. Because of their economic importance, domesticated plants are generally well-characterized and readily available for ecogenetic comparison with their wild descendants. Thus, the evolutionary history of crop descendants has the potential to be reconstructed in some detail. Furthermore, growing crop progenitors with their problematic descendants in a common environment allows for the identification of significant evolutionary differences that correlate with weediness or invasiveness. We sought well-established examples of invasives and weeds for which genetic and/or ethnobotanical evidence has confirmed their evolution from domesticates. We found surprisingly few cases, only 13. We examine our list for generalizations and then some selected cases to reveal how plant pests have evolved from domesticates. Despite their potential utility, crop descendants remain underexploited for evolutionary study. Promising evolutionary research opportunities for these systems are abundant and worthy of pursuit.
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- Norman C Ellstrand
- Department of Botany & Plant Sciences and Center for Conservation Biology, University of California Riverside, CA, USA
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- Department of Botany & Plant Sciences and Center for Conservation Biology, University of California Riverside, CA, USA
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- Department of Botany & Plant Sciences and Center for Conservation Biology, University of California Riverside, CA, USA
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- Department of Botany & Plant Sciences and Center for Conservation Biology, University of California Riverside, CA, USA
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- Department of Botany & Plant Sciences and Center for Conservation Biology, University of California Riverside, CA, USA
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- Department of Botany & Plant Sciences and Center for Conservation Biology, University of California Riverside, CA, USA
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- United States Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Assessment Arlington, VA, USA
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Verhoeven KJF, Macel M, Wolfe LM, Biere A. Population admixture, biological invasions and the balance between local adaptation and inbreeding depression. Proc Biol Sci 2010; 278:2-8. [PMID: 20685700 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 170] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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When previously isolated populations meet and mix, the resulting admixed population can benefit from several genetic advantages, including increased genetic variation, the creation of novel genotypes and the masking of deleterious mutations. These admixture benefits are thought to play an important role in biological invasions. In contrast, populations in their native range often remain differentiated and frequently suffer from inbreeding depression owing to isolation. While the advantages of admixture are evident for introduced populations that experienced recent bottlenecks or that face novel selection pressures, it is less obvious why native range populations do not similarly benefit from admixture. Here we argue that a temporary loss of local adaptation in recent invaders fundamentally alters the fitness consequences of admixture. In native populations, selection against dilution of the locally adapted gene pool inhibits unconstrained admixture and reinforces population isolation, with some level of inbreeding depression as an expected consequence. We show that admixture is selected against despite significant inbreeding depression because the benefits of local adaptation are greater than the cost of inbreeding. In contrast, introduced populations that have not yet established a pattern of local adaptation can freely reap the benefits of admixture. There can be strong selection for admixture because it instantly lifts the inbreeding depression that had built up in isolated parental populations. Recent work in Silene suggests that reduced inbreeding depression associated with post-introduction admixture may contribute to enhanced fitness of invasive populations. We hypothesize that in locally adapted populations, the benefits of local adaptation are balanced against an inbreeding cost that could develop in part owing to the isolating effect of local adaptation itself. The inbreeding cost can be revealed in admixing populations during recent invasions.
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- Koen J F Verhoeven
- Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Boterhoeksestraat 48, 6666 Heteren, The Netherlands.
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Woodward FI. Discovering biodiversity and its dynamics. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2010; 187:557-559. [PMID: 20659247 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03389.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Grivet D, Sebastiani F, Alia R, Bataillon T, Torre S, Zabal-Aguirre M, Vendramin GG, Gonzalez-Martinez SC. Molecular Footprints of Local Adaptation in Two Mediterranean Conifers. Mol Biol Evol 2010; 28:101-16. [DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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- S R Keller
- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4328, USA.
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KELLER STEPHENR, OLSON MATTHEWS, SILIM SALIM, SCHROEDER WILLIAM, TIFFIN PETER. Genomic diversity, population structure, and migration following rapid range expansion in the Balsam Poplar,Populus balsamifera. Mol Ecol 2010; 19:1212-26. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2010.04546.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Colautti RI, Eckert CG, Barrett SCH. Evolutionary constraints on adaptive evolution during range expansion in an invasive plant. Proc Biol Sci 2010; 277:1799-806. [PMID: 20164098 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.2231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Biological invasions may expose populations to strong selection for local adaptation along geographical gradients in climate. However, evolution during contemporary timescales can be constrained by low standing genetic variation and genetic correlations among life-history traits. We examined limits to local adaptation associated with northern migration of the invasive wetland plant purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) using a selection model incorporating a trade-off between flowering time and size at reproduction, and common garden experiments of populations sampled along a latitudinal transect of approximately 1200 km in eastern North America. A strong trade-off between flowering time and size at reproduction caused early-flowering plants to be smaller with reduced seed production in northern populations. Northward spread was associated with a decline in genetic variance within populations and an increase in genetic skew for flowering time and size, with limited genetic variation for small, early-flowering genotypes. These patterns were predicted by our selection model of local adaptation to shorter growing seasons and were not consistent with expectations from non-adaptive processes. Reduced fecundity may limit population growth and rates of spread in northern populations. Identifying genetic constraints on key life-history traits can provide novel insights into invasion dynamics and the causes of range limits in introduced species.
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- Robert I Colautti
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Antoniazza S, Burri R, Fumagalli L, Goudet J, Roulin A. Local adaptation maintains clinal variation in melanin-based coloration of European barn owls (Tyto alba). Evolution 2010; 64:1944-54. [PMID: 20148951 DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.00969.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Ecological parameters vary in space, and the resulting heterogeneity of selective forces can drive adaptive population divergence. Clinal variation represents a classical model to study the interplay of gene flow and selection in the dynamics of this local adaptation process. Although geographic variation in phenotypic traits in discrete populations could be remainders of past adaptation, maintenance of adaptive clinal variation requires recurrent selection. Clinal variation in genetically determined traits is generally attributed to adaptation of different genotypes to local conditions along an environmental gradient, although it can as well arise from neutral processes. Here, we investigated whether selection accounts for the strong clinal variation observed in a highly heritable pheomelanin-based color trait in the European barn owl by comparing spatial differentiation of color and of neutral genes among populations. Barn owl's coloration varies continuously from white in southwestern Europe to reddish-brown in northeastern Europe. A very low differentiation at neutral genetic markers suggests that substantial gene flow occurs among populations. The persistence of pronounced color differentiation despite this strong gene flow is consistent with the hypothesis that selection is the primary force maintaining color variation among European populations. Therefore, the color cline is most likely the result of local adaptation.
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- Sylvain Antoniazza
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
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