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Dufresnes C, Dutoit L, Brelsford A, Goldstein-Witsenburg F, Clément L, López-Baucells A, Palmeirim J, Pavlinić I, Scaravelli D, Ševčík M, Christe P, Goudet J. Inferring genetic structure when there is little: population genetics versus genomics of the threatened bat Miniopterus schreibersii across Europe. Sci Rep 2023; 13:1523. [PMID: 36707640 PMCID: PMC9883447 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-27988-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2022] [Accepted: 01/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Despite their paramount importance in molecular ecology and conservation, genetic diversity and structure remain challenging to quantify with traditional genotyping methods. Next-generation sequencing holds great promises, but this has not been properly tested in highly mobile species. In this article, we compared microsatellite and RAD-sequencing (RAD-seq) analyses to investigate population structure in the declining bent-winged bat (Miniopterus schreibersii) across Europe. Both markers retrieved general patterns of weak range-wide differentiation, little sex-biased dispersal, and strong isolation by distance that associated with significant genetic structure between the three Mediterranean Peninsulas, which could have acted as glacial refugia. Microsatellites proved uninformative in individual-based analyses, but the resolution offered by genomic SNPs illuminated on regional substructures within several countries, with colonies sharing migrators of distinct ancestry without admixture. This finding is consistent with a marked philopatry and spatial partitioning between mating and rearing grounds in the species, which was suspected from marked-recaptured data. Our study advocates that genomic data are necessary to properly unveil the genetic footprints left by biogeographic processes and social organization in long-distant flyers, which are otherwise rapidly blurred by their high levels of gene flow.
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- Christophe Dufresnes
- Laboratory for Amphibian Systematic and Evolutionary Research, College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Bat Research Area, Granollers Museum of Natural Sciences, Carrer Palaudaries 102, 08402, Granollers, Spain
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- Department of Animal Biology, Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Change - cE3c, University of Lisbon, 1749-016, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Department of Zoology, Croatian Natural History Museum, Demetrova 1, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Via Selmi 3, 40126, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 7, 128 44, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Chen RS, Soulsbury CD, Lebigre C, Ludwig G, van Oers K, Hoffman JI. Effects of hunting on genetic diversity, inbreeding and dispersal in Finnish black grouse (
Lyrurus tetrix
). Evol Appl 2022; 16:625-637. [PMID: 36969146 PMCID: PMC10033861 DOI: 10.1111/eva.13521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2022] [Accepted: 12/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Intensive hunting activities such as commercial fishing and trophy hunting can have profound influences on natural populations. However, less intensive recreational hunting can also have subtle effects on animal behaviour, habitat use and movement, with implications for population persistence. Lekking species such as the black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix) may be especially prone to hunting as leks are temporally and spatially predictable, making them easy targets. Furthermore, inbreeding in black grouse is mainly avoided through female-biased dispersal, so any disruptions to dispersal caused by hunting could lead to changes in gene flow, increasing the risk of inbreeding. We therefore investigated the impact of hunting on genetic diversity, inbreeding and dispersal on a metapopulation of black grouse in Central Finland. We genotyped 1065 adult males and 813 adult females from twelve lekking sites (six hunted, six unhunted) and 200 unrelated chicks from seven sites (two hunted, five unhunted) at up to thirteen microsatellite loci. Our initial confirmatory analysis of sex-specific fine-scale population structure revealed little genetic structure in the metapopulation. Levels of inbreeding did not differ significantly between hunted and unhunted sites in neither adults nor chicks. However, immigration rates into hunted sites were significantly higher among adults compared to immigration into unhunted sites. We conclude that the influx of migrants into hunted sites may compensate for the loss of harvested individuals, thereby increasing gene flow and mitigating inbreeding. Given the absence of any obvious barriers to gene flow in Central Finland, a spatially heterogeneous matrix of hunted and unhunted regions may be crucial to ensure sustainable harvests into the future.
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- Rebecca S. Chen
- Department of Animal Behaviour University of Bielefeld Bielefeld Germany
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Joseph Banks Laboratories University of Lincoln Lincoln UK
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- UMR DECOD (Ecosystem Dynamics and Sustainability), IFREMER, INRAE Institut Agro Plouzané France
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- Institute of Bioeconomy JAMK University of Applied Sciences Tarvaala Finland
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- Department of Animal Ecology Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO‐KNAW) Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Department of Animal Behaviour University of Bielefeld Bielefeld Germany
- British Antarctic Survey Cambridge UK
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Xuereb A, Rougemont Q, Dallaire X, Moore J, Normandeau E, Bougas B, Perreault‐Payette A, Koop BF, Withler R, Beacham T, Bernatchez L. Re‐evaluating Coho salmon (
Oncorhynchus kisutch
) conservation units in Canada using genomic data. Evol Appl 2022; 15:1925-1944. [DOI: 10.1111/eva.13489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2022] [Revised: 09/20/2022] [Accepted: 09/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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- Amanda Xuereb
- Département de Biologie Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS) Université Laval Québec Québec Canada
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- Département de Biologie Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS) Université Laval Québec Québec Canada
- CEFE, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, UMR 5175, CNRS, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD Univ Paul Valéry Montpellier Montpellier France
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- Département de Biologie Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS) Université Laval Québec Québec Canada
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- Département de Biologie Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS) Université Laval Québec Québec Canada
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- Département de Biologie Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS) Université Laval Québec Québec Canada
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- Département de Biologie Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS) Université Laval Québec Québec Canada
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- Département de Biologie Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS) Université Laval Québec Québec Canada
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- Department of Biology University of Victoria Victoria British Columbia Canada
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- Department of Fisheries and Ocean Pacific Biological Station Nanaimo British Columbia Canada
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- Department of Fisheries and Ocean Pacific Biological Station Nanaimo British Columbia Canada
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- Département de Biologie Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS) Université Laval Québec Québec Canada
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Spies I, Tarpey C, Kristiansen T, Fisher M, Rohan S, Hauser L. Genomic differentiation in Pacific cod using
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eq. Evol Appl 2022; 15:1907-1924. [PMID: 36426128 PMCID: PMC9679252 DOI: 10.1111/eva.13488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2022] [Revised: 09/05/2022] [Accepted: 09/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Patterns of genetic differentiation across the genome can provide insight into selective forces driving adaptation. We used pooled whole genome sequencing, gene annotation, and environmental covariates to evaluate patterns of genomic differentiation and to investigate mechanisms responsible for divergence among proximate Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) populations from the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands and more distant Washington Coast cod. Samples were taken from eight spawning locations, three of which were replicated to estimate consistency in allele frequency estimation. A kernel smoothing moving weighted average of relative divergence (FST) identified 11 genomic islands of differentiation between the Aleutian Islands and Bering Sea samples. In some islands of differentiation, there was also elevated absolute divergence (dXY) and evidence for selection, despite proximity and potential for gene flow. Similar levels of absolute divergence (dXY) but roughly double the relative divergence (FST) were observed between the distant Bering Sea and Washington Coast samples. Islands of differentiation were much smaller than the four large inversions among Atlantic cod ecotypes. Islands of differentiation between the Bering Sea and Aleutian Island were associated with SNPs from five vision system genes, which can be associated with feeding, predator avoidance, orientation, and socialization. We hypothesize that islands of differentiation between Pacific cod from the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands provide evidence for adaptive differentiation despite gene flow in this commercially important marine species.
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- Ingrid Spies
- Resource Ecology and Fisheries Management Division Alaska Fisheries Science Center Seattle Washington USA
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- School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences University of Washington Seattle Washington USA
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- School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences University of Washington Seattle Washington USA
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- Resource Assessment and Conservation Engineering Division Alaska Fisheries Science Center Seattle Washington USA
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- Resource Ecology and Fisheries Management Division Alaska Fisheries Science Center Seattle Washington USA
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Hollenbeck CM, Portnoy DS, Garcia de la Serrana D, Magnesen T, Matejusova I, Johnston IA. Temperature-associated selection linked to putative chromosomal inversions in king scallop ( Pecten maximus). Proc Biol Sci 2022; 289:20221573. [PMID: 36196545 PMCID: PMC9532988 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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The genomic landscape of divergence—the distribution of differences among populations or species across the genome—is increasingly characterized to understand the role that microevolutionary forces such as natural selection and recombination play in causing and maintaining genetic divergence. This line of inquiry has also revealed chromosome structure variation to be an important factor shaping the landscape of adaptive genetic variation. Owing to a high prevalence of chromosome structure variation and the strong pressure for local adaptation necessitated by their sessile nature, bivalve molluscs are an ideal taxon for exploring the relationship between chromosome structure variation and local adaptation. Here, we report a population genomic survey of king scallop (Pecten maximus) across its natural range in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, using a recent chromosome-level genome assembly. We report the presence of at least three large (12–22 Mb), putative chromosomal inversions associated with sea surface temperature and whose frequencies are in contrast to neutral population structure. These results highlight a potentially large role for recombination-suppressing chromosomal inversions in local adaptation and suggest a hypothesis to explain the maintenance of differences in reproductive timing found at relatively small spatial scales across king scallop populations.
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- Christopher M Hollenbeck
- Department of Life Sciences, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, 6300 Ocean Drive, Corpus Christi, TX 78412, USA.,Texas A&M AgriLife Research, College Station, TX, USA
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- Department of Life Sciences, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, 6300 Ocean Drive, Corpus Christi, TX 78412, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Thormøhlensgt 53B, Bergen, Norway
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- Marine Science Scotland, Marine Laboratory, 375 Victoria Road, Aberdeen AB11 9DB, UK
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- Scottish Oceans Institute, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 8LB, UK.,Xelect Ltd, Horizon House, Abbey Walk, St Andrews KY16 9LB, UK
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The first high-density genetic map of common cockle (Cerastoderma edule) reveals a major QTL controlling shell color variation. Sci Rep 2022; 12:16971. [PMID: 36216849 PMCID: PMC9551087 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-21214-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2022] [Accepted: 09/23/2022] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
Abstract
Shell color shows broad variation within mollusc species and despite information on the genetic pathways involved in shell construction and color has recently increased, more studies are needed to understand its genetic architecture. The common cockle (Cerastoderma edule) is a valuable species from ecological and commercial perspectives which shows important variation in shell color across Northeast Atlantic. In this study, we constructed a high-density genetic map, as a tool for screening common cockle genome, which was applied to ascertain the genetic basis of color variation in the species. The consensus genetic map comprised 19 linkage groups (LGs) in accordance with the cockle karyotype (2n = 38) and spanned 1073 cM, including 730 markers per LG and an inter-marker distance of 0.13 cM. Five full-sib families showing segregation for several color-associated traits were used for a genome-wide association study and a major QTL on chromosome 13 associated to different color-traits was detected. Mining on this genomic region revealed several candidate genes related to shell construction and color. A genomic region previously reported associated with divergent selection in cockle distribution overlapped with this QTL suggesting its putative role on adaptation.
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De Araujo Barbosa V, Graham SE, Smith BJ, Hogg ID, McGaughran A. Assessing population genetic structure of three New Zealand stream insects using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA markers. Genome 2022; 65:427-441. [PMID: 35785969 DOI: 10.1139/gen-2022-0021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
Abstract
Assessing genetic differentiation among natural populations can aid understanding of dispersal patterns and connectivity among habitats. Several molecular markers have become increasingly popular in determining population genetic structure for this purpose. Here, we compared the resolution of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) and nuclear single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers for detecting population structure among stream insects at small spatial scales. Individuals of three endemic taxa - Coloburiscus humeralis (Ephemeroptera), Zelandobius confusus (Plecoptera), and Hydropsyche fimbriata (Trichoptera) - were collected from forested streams that flow across open pasture in the North Island of New Zealand. Both COI and SNP data indicated limited population structure across the study area, and small differences observed among these species were likely related to their putative dispersal abilities. For example, fine-scale genetic differentiation between and among neighbouring stream populations for H. fimbriata suggests that gene flow, and hence dispersal, may be more limited for this species relative to the others. Based on the generally similar results provided by both types of markers, we suggest that either COI or SNP markers can provide suitable initial estimates of fine-scale population genetic differentiation in stream insects.
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Hamilton, 418394, Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand;
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Hamilton, 418394, Hamilton, New Zealand;
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- University of Waikato, 3717, Department of Science, Hamilton, New Zealand.,Polar Knowledge Canada, 513970, Canadian High Arctic Research Station, Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada;
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- University of Waikato, 3717, School of Science, Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand;
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Weiss M, Weigand H, Leese F. Individual small in‐stream barriers contribute little to strong local population genetic structure five strictly aquatic macroinvertebrate taxa. Ecol Evol 2022; 12:e8807. [PMID: 35432929 PMCID: PMC9006233 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2022] [Revised: 03/15/2022] [Accepted: 03/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Water flow in river networks is frequently regulated by man‐made in‐stream barriers. These obstacles can hinder dispersal of aquatic organisms and isolate populations leading to the loss of genetic diversity. Although millions of small in‐stream barriers exist worldwide, their impact on dispersal of macroinvertebrates remains unclear. Therefore, we, therefore, assessed the effects of such barriers on the population structure and effective dispersal of five macroinvertebrate species with strictly aquatic life cycles: the amphipod crustacean Gammarus fossarum (clade 11), three snail species of the Ancylus fluviatilis species complex and the flatworm Dugesia gonocephala. We studied populations at nine weirs and eight culverts (3 pipes, 5 tunnels), built 33–109 years ago, mainly in the heavily fragmented catchment of the river Ruhr (Sauerland, Germany). To assess fragmentation and barrier effects, we generated genome‐wide SNP data using ddRAD sequencing and evaluated clustering, differentiation between populations up‐ and downstream of each barrier and effective migration rates among sites and across barriers. Additionally, we applied population genomic simulations to assess expected differentiation patterns under different gene flow scenarios. Our data show that populations of all species are highly isolated at regional and local scales within few kilometers. While the regional population structure likely results from historical processes, the strong local differentiation suggests that contemporary dispersal barriers exist. However, we identified significant barrier effects only for pipes (for A. fluviatilis II and III) and few larger weirs (>1.3 m; for D. gonocephala). Therefore, our data suggest that most small in‐stream barriers can probably be overcome by all studied taxa frequently enough to prevent fragmentation. However, it remains to be tested if the strong local differentiation is a result of a cumulative effect of small barriers, or if larger in‐stream barriers, land use, chemical pollution, urbanization, or a combination of these factors impede gene flow.
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- Martina Weiss
- Aquatic Ecosystem Research University of Duisburg‐Essen Essen Germany
- Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU) University of Duisburg‐Essen Essen Germany
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- Aquatic Ecosystem Research University of Duisburg‐Essen Essen Germany
- Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle Luxembourg City Luxembourg
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- Aquatic Ecosystem Research University of Duisburg‐Essen Essen Germany
- Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU) University of Duisburg‐Essen Essen Germany
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Hierarchical genetic structure and implications for conservation of the world's largest salmonid, Hucho taimen. Sci Rep 2021; 11:20508. [PMID: 34654859 PMCID: PMC8520000 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99530-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2021] [Accepted: 09/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Population genetic analyses can evaluate how evolutionary processes shape diversity and inform conservation and management of imperiled species. Taimen (Hucho taimen), the world’s largest freshwater salmonid, is threatened, endangered, or extirpated across much of its range due to anthropogenic activity including overfishing and habitat degradation. We generated genetic data using high throughput sequencing of reduced representation libraries for taimen from multiple drainages in Mongolia and Russia. Nucleotide diversity estimates were within the range documented in other salmonids, suggesting moderate diversity despite widespread population declines. Similar to other recent studies, our analyses revealed pronounced differentiation among the Arctic (Selenge) and Pacific (Amur and Tugur) drainages, suggesting historical isolation among these systems. However, we found evidence for finer-scale structure within the Pacific drainages, including unexpected differentiation between tributaries and the mainstem of the Tugur River. Differentiation across the Amur and Tugur basins together with coalescent-based demographic modeling suggests the ancestors of Tugur tributary taimen likely diverged in the eastern Amur basin, prior to eventual colonization of the Tugur basin. Our results suggest the potential for differentiation of taimen at different geographic scales, and suggest more thorough geographic and genomic sampling may be needed to inform conservation and management of this iconic salmonid.
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Donati GFA, Zemp N, Manel S, Poirier M, Claverie T, Ferraton F, Gaboriau T, Govinden R, Hagen O, Ibrahim S, Mouillot D, Leblond J, Julius P, Velez L, Zareer I, Ziyad A, Leprieur F, Albouy C, Pellissier L. Species ecology explains the spatial components of genetic diversity in tropical reef fishes. Proc Biol Sci 2021; 288:20211574. [PMID: 34583586 PMCID: PMC8479362 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2021] [Accepted: 09/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Generating genomic data for 19 tropical reef fish species of the Western Indian Ocean, we investigate how species ecology influences genetic diversity patterns from local to regional scales. We distinguish between the α, β and γ components of genetic diversity, which we subsequently link to six ecological traits. We find that the α and γ components of genetic diversity are strongly correlated so that species with a high total regional genetic diversity display systematically high local diversity. The α and γ diversity components are negatively associated with species abundance recorded using underwater visual surveys and positively associated with body size. Pelagic larval duration is found to be negatively related to genetic β diversity supporting its role as a dispersal trait in marine fishes. Deviation from the neutral theory of molecular evolution motivates further effort to understand the processes shaping genetic diversity and ultimately the diversification of the exceptional diversity of tropical reef fishes.
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- Giulia Francesca Azzurra Donati
- Landscape Ecology, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zürich, CH8092 Zürich, Switzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, CH8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Genetic Diversity Centre (GDC), ETH Zürich, CH8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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- CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS EPHE-PSL University, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- Landscape Ecology, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zürich, CH8092 Zürich, Switzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, CH8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, IRD, Montpellier 34095, France
- Centre Universitaire de formation et de recherche de Mayotte, Dembeni 97660, France
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR 248 MARBEC, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Quartier Sorge, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Landscape Ecology, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zürich, CH8092 Zürich, Switzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, CH8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Maldives Whale Shark Research Programme, Popeshead Court Offices, Peter Lane, York, Yorkshire Y01 8SU, UK
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- CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS EPHE-PSL University, IRD, Montpellier, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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- Wildlife Conservation Society, Madagascar Program, Antananarivo, Madagascar
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- MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, IRD, Montpellier 34095, France
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- Maldives Whale Shark Research Programme, Popeshead Court Offices, Peter Lane, York, Yorkshire Y01 8SU, UK
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- Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture, Malé, Republic of Maldives
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- MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, IRD, Montpellier 34095, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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- IFREMER, Unité Écologie et Modèles pour l'Halieutique, rue de l'Ile d'Yeu, BP21105, 44311 Nantes cedex 3, France
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- Landscape Ecology, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zürich, CH8092 Zürich, Switzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, CH8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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Bilska-Zając E, Thompson P, Rosenthal B, Różycki M, Cencek T. Infection, genetics, and evolution of Trichinella: Historical insights and applications to molecular epidemiology. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2021; 95:105080. [PMID: 34509647 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2021.105080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2021] [Revised: 09/04/2021] [Accepted: 09/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Genetic variation in pathogen populations provides the means to answer questions in disease ecology and transmission, illuminating interactions between genetic traits, environmental exposures, and disease. Such studies elucidate the phylogeny, evolution, transmission and pathogenesis of viruses, bacteria and parasites. Here, we review how such studies have fostered understanding of the biology and epidemiology of zoonotic nematode parasites in the genus Trichinella spp., which impose considerable economic and health burdens by infecting wildlife, livestock, and people. To use such data to define ongoing chains of local transmission and source traceback, researchers first must understand the extent and distribution of genetic variation resident in regional parasite populations. Thus, genetic variability illuminates a population's past as well as its present. Here we review how such data have helped define population dynamics of Trichinella spp. in wild and domesticated hosts, creating opportunities to harness genetic variation in the quest to prevent, track, and contain future outbreaks.
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- USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Animal Parasitic Diseases Lab, Beltsville, MD, USA
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- USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Animal Parasitic Diseases Lab, Beltsville, MD, USA
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- National Veterinary Research Institute in Puławy, Poland
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Vendrami DLJ, Peck LS, Clark MS, Eldon B, Meredith M, Hoffman JI. Sweepstake reproductive success and collective dispersal produce chaotic genetic patchiness in a broadcast spawner. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2021; 7:eabj4713. [PMID: 34516767 PMCID: PMC8442859 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abj4713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2021] [Accepted: 07/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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A long-standing paradox of marine populations is chaotic genetic patchiness (CGP), temporally unstable patterns of genetic differentiation that occur below the geographic scale of effective dispersal. Several mechanisms are hypothesized to explain CGP including natural selection, spatiotemporal fluctuations in larval source populations, self-recruitment, and sweepstake reproduction. Discriminating among them is extremely difficult but is fundamental to understanding how marine organisms reproduce and disperse. Here, we report a notable example of CGP in the Antarctic limpet, an unusually tractable system where multiple confounding explanations can be discounted. Using population genomics, temporally replicated sampling, surface drifters, and forward genetic simulations, we show that CGP likely arises from an extreme sweepstake event together with collective larval dispersal, while selection appears to be unimportant. Our results illustrate the importance of neutral demographic forces in natural populations and have important implications for understanding the recruitment dynamics, population connectivity, local adaptation, and resilience of marine populations.
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- David L. J. Vendrami
- Department of Animal Behaviour, Bielefeld University, Postfach 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
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- British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OET, UK
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- British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OET, UK
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- Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Research, Museum für Naturkunde, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OET, UK
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- Department of Animal Behaviour, Bielefeld University, Postfach 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
- British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OET, UK
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Goodall J, Westfall KM, Magnúsdóttir H, Pálsson S, Örnólfsdóttir EB, Jónsson ZO. RAD sequencing of common whelk, Buccinum undatum, reveals fine-scale population structuring in Europe and cryptic speciation within the North Atlantic. Ecol Evol 2021; 11:2616-2629. [PMID: 33767824 PMCID: PMC7981227 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2020] [Revised: 12/21/2020] [Accepted: 01/04/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Buccinum undatum is a subtidal gastropod that exhibits clear spatial variation in several phenotypic shell traits (color, shape, and thickness) across its North Atlantic distribution. Studies of spatial phenotypic variation exist for the species; however, population genetic studies have thus far relied on a limited set of mitochondrial and microsatellite markers. Here, we greatly expand on previous work by characterizing population genetic structure in B. undatum across the North Atlantic from SNP variation obtained by RAD sequencing. There was a high degree of genetic differentiation between Canadian and European populations (Iceland, Faroe Islands, and England) consistent with the divergence of populations in allopatry (F ST > 0.57 for all pairwise comparisons). In addition, B. undatum populations within Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and England are typified by weak but significant genetic structuring following an isolation-by-distance model. Finally, we established a significant correlation between genetic structuring in Iceland and two phenotypic traits: shell shape and color frequency. The works detailed here enhance our understanding of genetic structuring in B. undatum and establish the species as an intriguing model for future genome-wide association studies.
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- Jake Goodall
- Faculty of Life and Environmental SciencesUniversity of IcelandReykjavikIceland
- Department of Aquaculture and Fish BiologyHólar UniversitySauðárkrókurIceland
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- Vör – Marine Research Center in BreiðafjörðurÓlafsvíkIceland
- Fisheries and Oceans CanadaPacific Biological StationNanaimoBCCanada
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- Faculty of Life and Environmental SciencesUniversity of IcelandReykjavikIceland
- Department of Aquaculture and Fish BiologyHólar UniversitySauðárkrókurIceland
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- Faculty of Life and Environmental SciencesUniversity of IcelandReykjavikIceland
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Stewart BD, Jenkins SR, Boig C, Sinfield C, Kennington K, Brand AR, Lart W, Kröger R. Metal pollution as a potential threat to shell strength and survival in marine bivalves. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 755:143019. [PMID: 33160677 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2020] [Revised: 09/18/2020] [Accepted: 10/09/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Marine bivalve molluscs, such as scallops, mussels and oysters, are crucial components of coastal ecosystems, providing a range of ecosystem services, including a quarter of the world's seafood. Unfortunately, coastal marine areas often suffer from high levels of metals due to dumping and disturbance of contaminated material. We established that increased levels of metal pollution (zinc, copper and lead) in sediments near the Isle of Man, resulting from historical mining, strongly correlated with significant weakening of shell strength in king scallops, Pecten maximus. This weakness increased mortality during fishing and left individuals more exposed to predation. Comparative structural analysis revealed that shells from the contaminated area were thinner and exhibited a pronounced mineralisation disruption parallel to the shell surface within the foliated region of both the top and bottom valves. Our data suggest that these disruptions caused reduced fracture strength and hence increased mortality, even at subcritical contamination levels with respect to current international standards. This hitherto unreported effect is important since such non-apical responses rarely feed into environmental quality assessments, despite potentially significant implications for the survival of organisms exposed to contaminants. Hence our findings highlight the impact of metal pollution on shell mineralisation in bivalves and urge a reappraisal of currently accepted critical contamination levels.
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- Bryce D Stewart
- Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
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- School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, Menai Bridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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- Department of Environment Food and Agriculture, Isle of Man Government, Isle of Man
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Sea Fish Industry Authority, Grimsby, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
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Benestan LM, Rougemont Q, Senay C, Normandeau E, Parent E, Rideout R, Bernatchez L, Lambert Y, Audet C, Parent GJ. Population genomics and history of speciation reveal fishery management gaps in two related redfish species ( Sebastes mentella and Sebastes fasciatus). Evol Appl 2021; 14:588-606. [PMID: 33664797 PMCID: PMC7896722 DOI: 10.1111/eva.13143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2020] [Revised: 08/27/2020] [Accepted: 09/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Understanding the processes shaping population structure and reproductive isolation of marine organisms can improve their management and conservation. Using genomic markers combined with estimation of individual ancestries, assignment tests, spatial ecology, and demographic modeling, we (i) characterized the contemporary population structure, (ii) assessed the influence of space, fishing depth, and sampling years on contemporary distribution, and (iii) reconstructed the speciation history of two cryptic redfish species, Sebastes mentella and S. fasciatus. We genotyped 860 individuals in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean using 24,603 filtered single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Our results confirmed the clear genetic distinctiveness of the two species and identified three ecotypes within S. mentella and five populations in S. fasciatus. Multivariate analyses highlighted the influence of spatial distribution and depth on the overall genomic variation, while demographic modeling revealed that secondary contact models best explained inter- and intragenomic divergence. These species, ecotypes, and populations can be considered as a rare and wide continuum of genomic divergence in the marine environment. This acquired knowledge pertaining to the evolutionary processes driving population divergence and reproductive isolation will help optimizing the assessment of demographic units and possibly to refine fishery management units.
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- Laura M. Benestan
- CEFEUniv Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE‐PSL UniversityIRD, Univ Paul Valéry Montpellier 3MontpellierFrance
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- Département de biologie, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS)Université LavalQuébecQCCanada
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- Fisheries and Oceans CanadaMaurice‐Lamontagne InstituteMont‐JoliQCCanada
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- Département de biologie, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS)Université LavalQuébecQCCanada
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- Fisheries and Oceans CanadaMaurice‐Lamontagne InstituteMont‐JoliQCCanada
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- Fisheries and Oceans CanadaNorthwest Atlantic Fisheries CentreN.L.St. John’sCanada
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- Département de biologie, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS)Université LavalQuébecQCCanada
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- Fisheries and Oceans CanadaMaurice‐Lamontagne InstituteMont‐JoliQCCanada
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- Institut des sciences de la mer de RimouskiUniversité du Québec à RimouskiRimouskiQCCanada
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Campbell EO, Dupuis JR, Holowachuk J, Hladun S, Vankosky MA, Mori BA. Disjunction between canola distribution and the genetic structure of its recently described pest, the canola flower midge ( Contarinia brassicola). Ecol Evol 2020; 10:13284-13296. [PMID: 33304537 PMCID: PMC7713945 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2020] [Revised: 08/10/2020] [Accepted: 09/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Population genomics is a useful tool to support integrated pest management as it can elucidate population dynamics, demography, and histories of invasion. Here, we use a restriction site-associated DNA sequencing approach combined with whole-genome amplification (WGA) to assess genomic population structure of a newly described pest of canola, the diminutive canola flower midge, Contarinia brassicola. Clustering analyses recovered little geographic structure across the main canola production region but differentiated several geographically disparate populations at edges of the agricultural zone. Given a lack of alternative hypotheses for this pattern, we suggest these data support alternative hosts for this species and thus our canola-centric view of this midge as a pest has limited our understanding of its biology. These results speak to the need for increased surveying efforts across multiple habitats and other potential hosts within Brassicaceae to improve both our ecological and evolutionary knowledge of this species and contribute to effective management strategies. We additionally found that use of WGA prior to library preparation was an effective method for increasing DNA quantity of these small insects prior to restriction site-associated DNA sequencing and had no discernible impact on genotyping consistency for population genetic analysis; WGA is therefore likely to be tractable for other similar studies that seek to randomly sample markers across the genome in small organisms.
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- Erin O. Campbell
- Department of Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition Sciences4‐10 Agriculture/Forestry CentreUniversity of AlbertaEdmontonABCanada
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- Agriculture and Agri‐Food CanadaSaskatoon Research and Development CentreSaskatoonSKCanada
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- Agriculture and Agri‐Food CanadaSaskatoon Research and Development CentreSaskatoonSKCanada
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- Agriculture and Agri‐Food CanadaSaskatoon Research and Development CentreSaskatoonSKCanada
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- Department of Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition Sciences4‐10 Agriculture/Forestry CentreUniversity of AlbertaEdmontonABCanada
- Agriculture and Agri‐Food CanadaSaskatoon Research and Development CentreSaskatoonSKCanada
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Carducci F, Biscotti MA, Trucchi E, Giuliani ME, Gorbi S, Coluccelli A, Barucca M, Canapa A. Omics approaches for conservation biology research on the bivalve Chamelea gallina. Sci Rep 2020; 10:19177. [PMID: 33154500 PMCID: PMC7645701 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-75984-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2020] [Accepted: 09/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The striped venus (Chamelea gallina) is an important economic resource in the Mediterranean Basin; this species has exhibited a strong quantitative decline in the Adriatic Sea. The aim of this work was to provide a comprehensive view of the biological status of C. gallina to elucidate the bioecological characteristics and genetic diversity of wild populations. To the best of our knowledge, this investigation is the first to perform a multidisciplinary study on C. gallina based on two omics approaches integrated with histological, ecotoxicological, and chemical analyses and with the assessment of environmental parameters. The results obtained through RNA sequencing indicated that the striped venus has a notable ability to adapt to different environmental conditions. Moreover, the stock reduction exhibited by this species in the last 2 decades seems not to have negatively affected its genetic diversity. Indeed, the high level of genetic diversity that emerged from our ddRAD dataset analyses is ascribable to the high larval dispersal rate, which might have played a “compensatory role” on local fluctuations, conferring to this species a good adaptive potential to face the environmental perturbations. These findings may facilitate the efforts of conservation biologists to adopt ad hoc management plans for this fishery resource.
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- Federica Carducci
- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy.
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Small-scale population divergence is driven by local larval environment in a temperate amphibian. Heredity (Edinb) 2020; 126:279-292. [PMID: 32958927 DOI: 10.1038/s41437-020-00371-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2020] [Revised: 09/06/2020] [Accepted: 09/08/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Genomic variation within and among populations is shaped by the interplay between natural selection and the effects of genetic drift and gene flow. Adaptive divergence can be found in small-scale natural systems even when population sizes are small, and the potential for gene flow is high, suggesting that local environments exert selection pressures strong enough to counteract the opposing effects of drift and gene flow. Here, we investigated genomic differentiation in nine moor frog (Rana arvalis) populations in a small-scale network of local wetlands using 16,707 ddRAD-seq SNPs, relating levels of differentiation with local environments, as well as with properties of the surrounding landscape. We characterized population structure and differentiation, and partitioned the effects of geographic distance, local larval environment, and landscape features on total genomic variation. We also conducted gene-environment association studies using univariate and multivariate approaches. We found small-scale population structure corresponding to 6-8 clusters. Local larval environment was the most influential component explaining 2.3% of the total genetic variation followed by landscape features (1.8%) and geographic distance (0.8%), indicative of isolation-by-environment, -by-landscape, and -by-distance, respectively. We identified 1000 potential candidate SNPs putatively under divergent selection mediated by the local larval environment. The candidate SNPs were involved in, among other biological functions, immune system function and development. Our results suggest that small-scale environmental differences can exert selection pressures strong enough to counteract homogenizing effects of gene flow and drift in this small-scale system, leading to observable population differentiation.
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Skim-Sequencing Based Genotyping Reveals Genetic Divergence of the Wild and Domesticated Population of Black Tiger Shrimp ( Penaeus monodon) in the Indo-Pacific Region. BIOLOGY 2020; 9:biology9090277. [PMID: 32906759 PMCID: PMC7564732 DOI: 10.3390/biology9090277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2020] [Revised: 08/25/2020] [Accepted: 09/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The domestication of a wild-caught aquatic animal is an evolutionary process, which results in genetic discrimination at the genomic level in response to strong artificial selection. Although black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) is one of the most commercially important aquaculture species, a systematic assessment of genetic divergence and structure of wild-caught and domesticated broodstock populations of the species is yet to be documented. Therefore, we used skim sequencing (SkimSeq) based genotyping approach to investigate the genetic structure of 50 broodstock individuals of P. monodon species, collected from five sampling sites (n = 10 in each site) across their distribution in Indo-Pacific regions. The wild-caught P. monodon broodstock population were collected from Malaysia (MS) and Japan (MJ), while domesticated broodstock populations were collected from Madagascar (MMD), Hawaii, HI, USA (MMO), and Thailand (MT). After various filtering process, a total of 194,259 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) loci were identified, in which 4983 SNP loci were identified as putatively adaptive by the pcadapt approach. In both datasets, pairwise FST estimates high genetic divergence between wild and domesticated broodstock populations. Consistently, different spatial clustering analyses in both datasets categorized divergent genetic structure into two clusters: (1) wild-caught populations (MS and MJ), and (2) domesticated populations (MMD, MMO and MT). Among 4983 putatively adaptive SNP loci, only 50 loci were observed to be in the coding region. The gene ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) analyses suggested that non-synonymous mutated genes might be associated with the energy production, metabolic functions, respiration regulation and developmental rates, which likely act to promote adaptation to the strong artificial selection during the domestication process. This study has demonstrated the applicability of SkimSeq in a highly duplicated genome of P. monodon specifically, across a range of genetic backgrounds and geographical distributions, and would be useful for future genetic improvement program of this species in aquaculture.
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Silva PIT, Silva-Junior OB, Resende LV, Sousa VA, Aguiar AV, Grattapaglia D. A 3K Axiom SNP array from a transcriptome-wide SNP resource sheds new light on the genetic diversity and structure of the iconic subtropical conifer tree Araucaria angustifolia (Bert.) Kuntze. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0230404. [PMID: 32866150 PMCID: PMC7458329 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2020] [Accepted: 08/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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High-throughput SNP genotyping has become a precondition to move to higher precision and wider genome coverage genetic analysis of natural and breeding populations of non-model species. We developed a 44,318 annotated SNP catalog for Araucaria angustifolia, a grandiose subtropical conifer tree, one of the only two native Brazilian gymnosperms, critically endangered due to its valuable wood and seeds. Following transcriptome assembly and annotation, SNPs were discovered from RNA-seq and pooled RAD-seq data. From the SNP catalog, an Axiom® SNP array with 3,038 validated SNPs was developed and used to provide a comprehensive look at the genetic diversity and structure of 15 populations across the natural range of the species. RNA-seq was a far superior source of SNPs when compared to RAD-seq in terms of conversion rate to polymorphic markers on the array, likely due to the more efficient complexity reduction of the huge conifer genome. By matching microsatellite and SNP data on the same set of A. angustifolia individuals, we show that SNPs reflect more precisely the actual genome-wide patterns of genetic diversity and structure, challenging previous microsatellite-based assessments. Moreover, SNPs corroborated the known major north-south genetic cline, but allowed a more accurate attribution to regional versus among-population differentiation, indicating the potential to select ancestry-informative markers. The availability of a public, user-friendly 3K SNP array for A. angustifolia and a catalog of 44,318 SNPs predicted to provide ~29,000 informative SNPs across ~20,000 loci across the genome, will allow tackling still unsettled questions on its evolutionary history, toward a more comprehensive picture of the origin, past dynamics and future trend of the species' genetic resources. Additionally, but not less importantly, the SNP array described, unlocks the potential to adopt genomic prediction methods to accelerate the still very timid efforts of systematic tree breeding of A. angustifolia.
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- Pedro Italo T. Silva
- Plant Genetics Laboratory, EMBRAPA Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, DF, Brasilia, Brazil
- University of Brasília, Cell Biology Department, Campus Universitário, DF, Brasília, Brazil
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- Plant Genetics Laboratory, EMBRAPA Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, DF, Brasilia, Brazil
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- Plant Genetics Laboratory, EMBRAPA Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, DF, Brasilia, Brazil
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- Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária–EMBRAPA Florestas, PR, Colombo, Brazil
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- Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária–EMBRAPA Florestas, PR, Colombo, Brazil
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- Plant Genetics Laboratory, EMBRAPA Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, DF, Brasilia, Brazil
- University of Brasília, Cell Biology Department, Campus Universitário, DF, Brasília, Brazil
- Graduate Program in Genomic Sciences, Universidade Católica de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil
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Colston-Nepali L, Provencher JF, Mallory ML, Franckowiak RP, Sun Z, Robertson GJ, Friesen VL. Using genomic tools to inform management of the Atlantic northern fulmar. CONSERV GENET 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s10592-020-01309-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Clark MS, Peck LS, Arivalagan J, Backeljau T, Berland S, Cardoso JCR, Caurcel C, Chapelle G, De Noia M, Dupont S, Gharbi K, Hoffman JI, Last KS, Marie A, Melzner F, Michalek K, Morris J, Power DM, Ramesh K, Sanders T, Sillanpää K, Sleight VA, Stewart-Sinclair PJ, Sundell K, Telesca L, Vendrami DLJ, Ventura A, Wilding TA, Yarra T, Harper EM. Deciphering mollusc shell production: the roles of genetic mechanisms through to ecology, aquaculture and biomimetics. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2020; 95:1812-1837. [PMID: 32737956 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2020] [Revised: 07/17/2020] [Accepted: 07/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Most molluscs possess shells, constructed from a vast array of microstructures and architectures. The fully formed shell is composed of calcite or aragonite. These CaCO3 crystals form complex biocomposites with proteins, which although typically less than 5% of total shell mass, play significant roles in determining shell microstructure. Despite much research effort, large knowledge gaps remain in how molluscs construct and maintain their shells, and how they produce such a great diversity of forms. Here we synthesize results on how shell shape, microstructure, composition and organic content vary among, and within, species in response to numerous biotic and abiotic factors. At the local level, temperature, food supply and predation cues significantly affect shell morphology, whilst salinity has a much stronger influence across latitudes. Moreover, we emphasize how advances in genomic technologies [e.g. restriction site-associated DNA sequencing (RAD-Seq) and epigenetics] allow detailed examinations of whether morphological changes result from phenotypic plasticity or genetic adaptation, or a combination of these. RAD-Seq has already identified single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with temperature and aquaculture practices, whilst epigenetic processes have been shown significantly to modify shell construction to local conditions in, for example, Antarctica and New Zealand. We also synthesize results on the costs of shell construction and explore how these affect energetic trade-offs in animal metabolism. The cellular costs are still debated, with CaCO3 precipitation estimates ranging from 1-2 J/mg to 17-55 J/mg depending on experimental and environmental conditions. However, organic components are more expensive (~29 J/mg) and recent data indicate transmembrane calcium ion transporters can involve considerable costs. This review emphasizes the role that molecular analyses have played in demonstrating multiple evolutionary origins of biomineralization genes. Although these are characterized by lineage-specific proteins and unique combinations of co-opted genes, a small set of protein domains have been identified as a conserved biomineralization tool box. We further highlight the use of sequence data sets in providing candidate genes for in situ localization and protein function studies. The former has elucidated gene expression modularity in mantle tissue, improving understanding of the diversity of shell morphology synthesis. RNA interference (RNAi) and clustered regularly interspersed short palindromic repeats - CRISPR-associated protein 9 (CRISPR-Cas9) experiments have provided proof of concept for use in the functional investigation of mollusc gene sequences, showing for example that Pif (aragonite-binding) protein plays a significant role in structured nacre crystal growth and that the Lsdia1 gene sets shell chirality in Lymnaea stagnalis. Much research has focused on the impacts of ocean acidification on molluscs. Initial studies were predominantly pessimistic for future molluscan biodiversity. However, more sophisticated experiments incorporating selective breeding and multiple generations are identifying subtle effects and that variability within mollusc genomes has potential for adaption to future conditions. Furthermore, we highlight recent historical studies based on museum collections that demonstrate a greater resilience of molluscs to climate change compared with experimental data. The future of mollusc research lies not solely with ecological investigations into biodiversity, and this review synthesizes knowledge across disciplines to understand biomineralization. It spans research ranging from evolution and development, through predictions of biodiversity prospects and future-proofing of aquaculture to identifying new biomimetic opportunities and societal benefits from recycling shell products.
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- Melody S Clark
- British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, U.K
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- British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, U.K
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- UMR 7245 CNRS/MNHN Molécules de Communications et Adaptations des Micro-organismes, Sorbonne Universités, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.,Proteomics Center of Excellence, Northwestern University, 710 N Fairbanks Ct, Chicago, IL, U.S.A
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- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Rue Vautier 29, Brussels, B-1000, Belgium.,Evolutionary Ecology Group, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, Antwerp, B-2610, Belgium
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- UMR 7208 CNRS/MNHN/UPMC/IRD Biologie des Organismes Aquatiques et Ecosystèmes, Sorbonne Universités, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
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- Centro de Ciencias do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, Faro, 8005-139, Portugal
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- Ashworth Laboratories, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Charlotte Auerbach Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FL, U.K
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- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Rue Vautier 29, Brussels, B-1000, Belgium
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- Department of Animal Behavior, University of Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, Bielefeld, 33615, Germany.,Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, U.K
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Göteburg, Box 463, Göteburg, SE405 30, Sweden
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- Ashworth Laboratories, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Charlotte Auerbach Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FL, U.K
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- Department of Animal Behavior, University of Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, Bielefeld, 33615, Germany
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- Scottish Association for Marine Science, Scottish Marine Institute, Oban, Argyll, PA37 1QA, U.K
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- UMR 7245 CNRS/MNHN Molécules de Communications et Adaptations des Micro-organismes, Sorbonne Universités, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
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- GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, 24105, Germany
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- Scottish Association for Marine Science, Scottish Marine Institute, Oban, Argyll, PA37 1QA, U.K
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- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Rue Vautier 29, Brussels, B-1000, Belgium
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- Centro de Ciencias do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, Faro, 8005-139, Portugal
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- GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, 24105, Germany
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- GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, 24105, Germany
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- Swemarc, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Gothenburg, Box 463, Gothenburg, SE405 30, Sweden
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Zoology Building, Tillydrone Avenue, Aberdeen, AB24 2TZ, U.K
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- Swemarc, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Gothenburg, Box 463, Gothenburg, SE405 30, Sweden
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, U.K
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- Department of Animal Behavior, University of Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, Bielefeld, 33615, Germany
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Göteburg, Box 463, Göteburg, SE405 30, Sweden
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- Scottish Association for Marine Science, Scottish Marine Institute, Oban, Argyll, PA37 1QA, U.K
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- British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, U.K.,Ashworth Laboratories, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Charlotte Auerbach Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FL, U.K
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, U.K
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Perry KD, Keller MA, Baxter SW. Genome-wide analysis of diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella L., from Brassica crops and wild host plants reveals no genetic structure in Australia. Sci Rep 2020; 10:12047. [PMID: 32694639 PMCID: PMC7374630 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-68140-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2020] [Accepted: 06/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Molecular studies of population structure can reveal insight into the movement patterns of mobile insect pests in agricultural landscapes. The diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella L., a destructive pest of Brassica vegetable and oilseed crops worldwide, seasonally colonizes winter canola crops in southern Australia from alternative host plant sources. To investigate movement, we collected 59 P. xylostella populations from canola crops, Brassica vegetable and forage crops and brassicaceous wild host plants throughout southern Australia in 2014 and 2015 and genotyped 833 individuals using RAD-seq for genome-wide analysis. Despite a geographic sampling scale > 3,000 km and a statistically powerful set of 1,032 SNP markers, there was no genetic differentiation among P. xylostella populations irrespective of geographic location, host plant or sampling year, and no evidence for isolation-by-distance. Hierarchical STRUCTURE analysis at K = 2–5 showed nearly uniform ancestry in both years. Cluster analysis showed divergence of a small number of individuals at several locations, possibly reflecting an artefact of sampling related individuals. It is likely that genetic homogeneity within Australian P. xylostella largely reflects the recent colonization history of this species but is maintained through some level of present gene flow. Use of genome-wide neutral markers was uninformative for revealing the seasonal movements of P. xylostella within Australia, but may provide more insight in other global regions where the species has higher genetic diversity.
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- Kym D Perry
- School of Agriculture Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5005, Australia. .,Entomology Unit, South Australian Research and Development Institute, Adelaide, 5001, Australia.
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- School of Agriculture Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5005, Australia
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- School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 3010, Australia.
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Papa Y, Oosting T, Valenza-Troubat N, Wellenreuther M, Ritchie PA. Genetic stock structure of New Zealand fish and the use of genomics in fisheries management: an overview and outlook. NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/03014223.2020.1788612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Yvan Papa
- School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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- School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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- School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
- New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd, Nelson, New Zealand
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- New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd, Nelson, New Zealand
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Much recent marine research has been directed towards understanding the effects of anthropogenic-induced environmental change on marine biodiversity, particularly for those animals with heavily calcified exoskeletons, such as corals, molluscs and urchins. This is because life in our oceans is becoming more challenging for these animals with changes in temperature, pH and salinity. In the future, it will be more energetically expensive to make marine skeletons and the increasingly corrosive conditions in seawater are expected to result in the dissolution of these external skeletons. However, initial predictions of wide-scale sensitivity are changing as we understand more about the mechanisms underpinning skeletal production (biomineralization). These studies demonstrate the complexity of calcification pathways and the cellular responses of animals to these altered conditions. Factors including parental conditioning, phenotypic plasticity and epigenetics can significantly impact the production of skeletons and thus future population success. This understanding is paralleled by an increase in our knowledge of the genes and proteins involved in biomineralization, particularly in some phyla, such as urchins, molluscs and corals. This Review will provide a broad overview of our current understanding of the factors affecting skeletal production in marine invertebrates. It will focus on the molecular mechanisms underpinning biomineralization and how knowledge of these processes affects experimental design and our ability to predict responses to climate change. Understanding marine biomineralization has many tangible benefits in our changing world, including improvements in conservation and aquaculture and exploitation of natural calcified structure design using biomimicry approaches that are aimed at producing novel biocomposites.
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- Melody S Clark
- British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK
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LaCava MEF, Gagne RB, Stowell SML, Gustafson KD, Buerkle CA, Knox L, Ernest HB. Pronghorn population genomics show connectivity in the core of their range. J Mammal 2020; 101:1061-1071. [PMID: 33100929 DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyaa054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2019] [Accepted: 04/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Preserving connectivity in the core of a species' range is crucial for long-term persistence. However, a combination of ecological characteristics, social behavior, and landscape features can reduce connectivity among wildlife populations and lead to genetic structure. Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana), for example, exhibit fluctuating herd dynamics and variable seasonal migration strategies, but GPS tracking studies show that landscape features such as highways impede their movements, leading to conflicting hypotheses about expected levels of genetic structure. Given that pronghorn populations declined significantly in the early 1900s, have only partially recovered, and are experiencing modern threats from landscape modification, conserving connectivity among populations is important for their long-term persistence in North America. To assess the genetic structure and diversity of pronghorn in the core of their range, we genotyped 4,949 genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphisms and 11 microsatellites from 398 individuals throughout the state of Wyoming. We found no evidence of genetic subdivision and minimal evidence of isolation by distance despite a range that spans hundreds of kilometers, multiple mountain ranges, and three interstate highways. In addition, a rare variant analysis using putatively recent mutations found no genetic division between pronghorn on either side of a major highway corridor. Although we found no evidence that barriers to daily and seasonal movements of pronghorn impede gene flow, we suggest periodic monitoring of genetic structure and diversity as a part of management strategies to identify changes in connectivity.
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- Melanie E F LaCava
- Wildlife Genomics and Disease Ecology Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA.,Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
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- Wildlife Genomics and Disease Ecology Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA.,Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Wildlife Genomics and Disease Ecology Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
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- Wildlife Genomics and Disease Ecology Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA.,Department of Biology and Environmental Health, Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, MO, USA
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- Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA.,Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
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- Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Laramie, WY, USA
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- Wildlife Genomics and Disease Ecology Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA.,Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
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Ackiss AS, Larson WA, Stott W. Genotyping-by-sequencing illuminates high levels of divergence among sympatric forms of coregonines in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Evol Appl 2020; 13:1037-1054. [PMID: 32431751 PMCID: PMC7232772 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2019] [Revised: 01/05/2020] [Accepted: 01/07/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Effective resource management depends on our ability to partition diversity into biologically meaningful units. Recent evolutionary divergence, however, can often lead to ambiguity in morphological and genetic differentiation, complicating the delineation of valid conservation units. Such is the case with the "coregonine problem," where recent postglacial radiations of coregonines into lacustrine habitats resulted in the evolution of numerous species flocks, often with ambiguous taxonomy. The application of genomics methods is beginning to shed light on this problem and the evolutionary mechanisms underlying divergence in these ecologically and economically important fishes. Here, we used restriction site-associated DNA (RAD) sequencing to examine genetic diversity and differentiation among sympatric forms in the Coregonus artedi complex in the Apostle Islands of Lake Superior, the largest lake in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Using 29,068 SNPs, we were able to clearly distinguish among the three most common forms for the first time, as well as identify putative hybrids and potentially misidentified specimens. Population assignment rates for these forms using our RAD data were 93%-100% with the only mis-assignments arising from putative hybrids, an improvement from 62% to 77% using microsatellites. Estimates of pairwise differentiation (F ST: 0.045-0.056) were large given the detection of hybrids, suggesting that reduced fitness of hybrid individuals may be a potential mechanism for the maintenance of differentiation. We also used a newly built C. artedi linkage map to look for islands of genetic divergence among forms and found widespread differentiation across the genome, a pattern indicative of long-term drift, suggesting that these forms have been reproductively isolated for a substantial amount of time. The results of this study provide valuable information that can be applied to develop well-informed management strategies and stress the importance of re-evaluating conservation units with genomic tools to ensure they accurately reflect species diversity.
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- Amanda S. Ackiss
- Wisconsin Cooperative Fishery Research UnitCollege of Natural ResourcesUniversity of Wisconsin‐Stevens PointStevens PointWisconsin
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- U.S. Geological SurveyWisconsin Cooperative Fishery Research UnitCollege of Natural ResourcesUniversity of Wisconsin‐Stevens PointStevens PointWisconsin
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- U.S. Geological SurveyGreat Lakes Science CenterAnn ArborMichigan
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D'Aloia CC, Andrés JA, Bogdanowicz SM, McCune AR, Harrison RG, Buston PM. Unraveling hierarchical genetic structure in a marine metapopulation: A comparison of three high-throughput genotyping approaches. Mol Ecol 2020; 29:2189-2203. [PMID: 32147850 DOI: 10.1111/mec.15405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2019] [Revised: 02/05/2020] [Accepted: 03/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Marine metapopulations often exhibit subtle population structure that can be difficult to detect. Given recent advances in high-throughput sequencing, an emerging question is whether various genotyping approaches, in concert with improved sampling designs, will substantially improve our understanding of genetic structure in the sea. To address this question, we explored hierarchical patterns of structure in the coral reef fish Elacatinus lori using a high-resolution approach with respect to both genetic and geographic sampling. Previously, we identified three putative E. lori populations within Belize using traditional genetic markers and sparse geographic sampling: barrier reef and Turneffe Atoll; Glover's Atoll; and Lighthouse Atoll. Here, we systematically sampled individuals at ~10 km intervals throughout these reefs (1,129 individuals from 35 sites) and sequenced all individuals at three sets of markers: 2,418 SNPs; 89 microsatellites; and 57 nonrepetitive nuclear loci. At broad spatial scales, the markers were consistent with each other and with previous findings. At finer spatial scales, there was new evidence of genetic substructure, but our three marker sets differed slightly in their ability to detect these patterns. Specifically, we found subtle structure between the barrier reef and Turneffe Atoll, with SNPs resolving this pattern most effectively. We also documented isolation by distance within the barrier reef. Sensitivity analyses revealed that the number of loci (and alleles) had a strong effect on the detection of structure for all three marker sets, particularly at small spatial scales. Taken together, these results illustrate empirically that high-throughput genotyping data can elucidate subtle genetic structure at previously-undetected scales in a dispersive marine fish.
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- Cassidy C D'Aloia
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB, Canada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Biology and Marine Program, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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Jensen EL, Tschritter C, de Groot PVC, Hayward KM, Branigan M, Dyck M, Clemente‐Carvalho RBG, Lougheed SC. Canadian polar bear population structure using genome-wide markers. Ecol Evol 2020; 10:3706-3714. [PMID: 32313629 PMCID: PMC7160183 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2019] [Revised: 01/23/2020] [Accepted: 02/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Predicting the consequences of environmental changes, including human-mediated climate change on species, requires that we quantify range-wide patterns of genetic diversity and identify the ecological, environmental, and historical factors that have contributed to it. Here, we generate baseline data on polar bear population structure across most Canadian subpopulations (n = 358) using 13,488 genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) identified with double-digest restriction site-associated DNA sequencing (ddRAD). Our ddRAD dataset showed three genetic clusters in the sampled Canadian range, congruent with previous studies based on microsatellites across the same regions; however, due to a lack of sampling in Norwegian Bay, we were unable to confirm the existence of a unique cluster in that subpopulation. These data on the genetic structure of polar bears using SNPs provide a detailed baseline against which future shifts in population structure can be assessed, and opportunities to develop new noninvasive tools for monitoring polar bears across their range.
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- Evelyn L. Jensen
- Department of BiologyQueen’s UniversityKingstonONCanada
- Present address:
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyYale UniversityNew HavenCTUSA
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- Department of Environment and Natural ResourcesGovernment of the Northwest TerritoriesInuvikNTCanada
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- Department of EnvironmentGovernment of NunavutIgloolikNUCanada
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Sunde J, Yıldırım Y, Tibblin P, Forsman A. Comparing the Performance of Microsatellites and RADseq in Population Genetic Studies: Analysis of Data for Pike ( Esox lucius) and a Synthesis of Previous Studies. Front Genet 2020; 11:218. [PMID: 32231687 PMCID: PMC7082332 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2020.00218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2019] [Accepted: 02/24/2020] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Population genetic studies reveal biodiversity patterns and inform about drivers of evolutionary differentiation and adaptation, including gene flow, drift and selection. This can advance our understanding and aid decision making regarding management and conservation efforts. Microsatellites have long been used in population genetic studies. Thanks to the development of newer techniques, sequencing approaches such as restriction site associated DNA sequencing (RADseq) are on their way to replace microsatellites for some applications. However, the performance of these two marker types in population genetics have rarely been systematically compared. We utilized three neutrally and adaptively differentiated populations of anadromous pike (Esox lucius) to assess the relative performance of microsatellites and RADseq with respect to resolution and conclusiveness of estimates of population differentiation and genetic structure. To this end, the same set of individuals (N = 64) were genotyped with both RADseq and microsatellite markers. To assess effects of sample size, the same subset of 10 randomly chosen individuals from each population (N = 30 in total) were also genotyped with both methods. Comparisons of estimated genetic diversity and structure showed that both markers were able to uncover genetic structuring. The full RADseq dataset provided the clearest detection of the finer scaled genetic structuring, and the other three datasets (full and subset microsatellite, and subset RADseq) provided comparable results. A search for outlier loci performed on the full SNP dataset pointed to signs of selection potentially associated with salinity and temperature, exemplifying the utility of RADseq to inform about the importance of different environmental factors. To evaluate whether performance differences between the markers are general or context specific, the results of previous studies that have investigated population structure using both marker types were synthesized. The synthesis revealed that RADseq performed as well as, or better than microsatellites in detecting genetic structuring in the included studies. The differences in the ability to detect population structure, both in the present and the previous studies, are likely explained by the higher number of loci typically utilized in RADseq compared to microsatellite analysis, as increasing the number of markers will (regardless of the marker type) increase power and allow for clearer detection and higher resolution of genetic structure.
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- Johanna Sunde
- Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Centre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial Model Systems, EEMiS, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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De Noia M, Telesca L, Vendrami DLJ, Gokalp HK, Charrier G, Harper EM, Hoffman JI. Population Genetic Structure is Unrelated to Shell Shape, Thickness and Organic Content in European Populations of the Soft-Shell Clam Mya Arenaria. Genes (Basel) 2020; 11:E298. [PMID: 32168796 PMCID: PMC7140805 DOI: 10.3390/genes11030298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2020] [Revised: 03/06/2020] [Accepted: 03/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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The soft-shell clam Mya arenaria is one of the most ancient invaders of European coasts and is present in many coastal ecosystems, yet little is known about its genetic structure in Europe. We collected 266 samples spanning a latitudinal cline from the Mediterranean to the North Sea and genotyped them at 12 microsatellite loci. In parallel, geometric morphometric analysis of shell outlines was used to test for associations between shell shape, latitude and genotype, and for a selection of shells we measured the thickness and organic content of the granular prismatic (PR), the crossed-lamellar (CL) and the complex crossed-lamellar (CCL) layers. Strong population structure was detected, with Bayesian cluster analysis identifying four groups located in the Mediterranean, Celtic Sea, along the continental coast of the North Sea and in Scotland. Multivariate analysis of shell shape uncovered a significant effect of collection site but no associations with any other variables. Shell thickness did not vary significantly with either latitude or genotype, although PR thickness and calcification were positively associated with latitude, while CCL thickness showed a negative association. Our study provides new insights into the population structure of this species and sheds light on factors influencing shell shape, thickness and microstructure.
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- Michele De Noia
- Department of Animal Behavior, University of Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany; (M.D.N.); (D.L.J.V.); (H.K.G.)
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK; (L.T.); (E.M.H.)
- British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OET, UK
- Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK; (L.T.); (E.M.H.)
- British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OET, UK
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- Department of Animal Behavior, University of Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany; (M.D.N.); (D.L.J.V.); (H.K.G.)
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- Department of Animal Behavior, University of Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany; (M.D.N.); (D.L.J.V.); (H.K.G.)
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- University Brest, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, LEMAR, F-29280 Plouzané, France
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK; (L.T.); (E.M.H.)
- British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OET, UK
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- Department of Animal Behavior, University of Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany; (M.D.N.); (D.L.J.V.); (H.K.G.)
- British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OET, UK
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D’Urban Jackson J, Bruford MW, Székely T, DaCosta JM, Sorenson MD, Russo IRM, Maher KH, Cruz-López M, Galindo-Espinosa D, Palacios E, De Sucre-Medrano AE, Cavitt J, Pruner R, Morales AL, Gonzalez O, Burke T, Küpper C. Population differentiation and historical demography of the threatened snowy plover Charadrius nivosus (Cassin, 1858). CONSERV GENET 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s10592-020-01256-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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AbstractDelineating conservation units is a complex and often controversial process that is particularly challenging for highly vagile species. Here, we reassess population genetic structure and identify those populations of highest conservation value in the threatened snowy plover (Charadrius nivosus, Cassin, 1858), a partial migrant shorebird endemic to the Americas. We use four categories of genetic data—mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), microsatellites, Z-linked and autosomal single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)—to: (1) assess subspecies delineation and examine population structure (2) compare the sensitivity of the different types of genetic data to detect spatial genetic patterns, and (3) reconstruct demographic history of the populations analysed. Delineation of two traditionally recognised subspecies was broadly supported by all data. In addition, microsatellite and SNPs but not mtDNA supported the recognition of Caribbean snowy plovers (C. n. tenuirostris) and Floridian populations (eastern C. n. nivosus) as distinct genetic lineage and deme, respectively. Low migration rates estimated from autosomal SNPs (m < 0.03) reflect a general paucity of exchange between genetic lineages. In contrast, we detected strong unidirectional migration (m = 0.26) from the western into the eastern nivosus deme. Within western nivosus, we found no genetic differentiation between coastal Pacific and inland populations. The correlation between geographic and genetic distances was weak but significant for all genetic data sets. All demes showed signatures of bottlenecks occurring during the past 1000 years. We conclude that at least four snowy plover conservation units are warranted: in addition to subspecies nivosus and occidentalis, a third unit comprises the Caribbean tenuirostris lineage and a fourth unit the distinct eastern nivosus deme.
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Yang Q, Umina PA, Rašić G, Bell N, Fang J, Lord A, Hoffmann AA. Origin of resistance to pyrethroids in the redlegged earth mite (Halotydeus destructor) in Australia: repeated local evolution and migration. PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 2020; 76:509-519. [PMID: 31259466 DOI: 10.1002/ps.5538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2019] [Revised: 06/17/2019] [Accepted: 06/26/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND Halotydeus destructor is a major pest of crops and pastures across southern parts of Australia. This invasive mite has been chemically controlled for over 50 years, but resistance to synthetic pyrethroids and organophosphates is developing. Understanding processes behind the emerging resistance is important for effective management efforts. We undertook a ddRAD pool-sequencing approach to analyse genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism variation in H. destructor population samples at two scales: local resistance across a set of fields, and regional resistance across their Australian range, along with toxicology bioassays to screen for pyrethroid resistance. RESULTS Spatial patterns of genomic variation and resistance at a local scale indicated that genetic similarity among samples was more closely correlated with distance along roads and fence-lines than with straight-line geographic distance. This pattern was particularly strong in resistant samples, which were also more related than susceptible samples, suggesting local spread of resistance within an area after it emerged. By contrast, regional data suggest resistance has emerged repeatedly within parts of Australia. Our de novo annotation of the H. destructor draft genome sequence and Bayesian analysis identified several candidate loci strongly associated with population-level resistance to pyrethroids, located in genomic regions that code for transmembrane transport and signalling proteins that have previously been linked to insecticide resistance in other arthropods. CONCLUSION Our findings highlight multiple independent evolutionary events leading to resistance in H. destructor, and demonstrate the utility and cost-effectiveness of a cross-population, genome-wide association study to reveal processes underlying adaptive evolution in a non-model invasive species. © 2019 Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Qiong Yang
- Pest and Environmental Adaptation Research Group, School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Pest and Environmental Adaptation Research Group, School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
- Sustainable Agriculture, cesar, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Mosquito Control Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston, QLD, Australia
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- Pest and Environmental Adaptation Research Group, School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Institute of Plant Protection, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Government of Western Australia, South Perth, WA, Australia
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- Pest and Environmental Adaptation Research Group, School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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Jenkins TL, Ellis CD, Triantafyllidis A, Stevens JR. Single nucleotide polymorphisms reveal a genetic cline across the north-east Atlantic and enable powerful population assignment in the European lobster. Evol Appl 2019; 12:1881-1899. [PMID: 31700533 PMCID: PMC6824076 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2019] [Revised: 07/09/2019] [Accepted: 07/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Resolving stock structure is crucial for fisheries conservation to ensure that the spatial implementation of management is commensurate with that of biological population units. To address this in the economically important European lobster (Homarus gammarus), genetic structure was explored across the species' range using a small panel of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) previously isolated from restriction-site-associated DNA sequencing; these SNPs were selected to maximize differentiation at a range of both broad and fine scales. After quality control and filtering, 1,278 lobsters from 38 sampling sites were genotyped at 79 SNPs. The results revealed a pronounced phylogeographic break between the Atlantic and Mediterranean basins, while structure within the Mediterranean was also apparent, partitioned between lobsters from the central Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea. In addition, a genetic cline across the north-east Atlantic was revealed using both putatively neutral and outlier SNPs, but the precise driver(s) of this clinal pattern-isolation by distance, secondary contact, selection across an environmental gradient, or a combination of these factors-remains undetermined. Putatively neutral markers differentiated lobsters from Oosterschelde, an estuary on the Dutch coast, a finding likely explained by past bottlenecks and limited gene flow with adjacent North Sea populations. Building on the findings of our spatial genetic analysis, we were able to test the accuracy of assigning lobsters at various spatial scales, including to basin of origin (Atlantic or Mediterranean), region of origin and sampling location. The predictive model assembled using 79 SNPs correctly assigned 99.7% of lobsters not used to build the model to their basin of origin, but accuracy decreased to region of origin and again to sampling location. These results are of direct relevance to managers of lobster fisheries and hatcheries, and provide the basis for a genetic tool for tracing the origin of European lobsters in the food supply chain.
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- Tom L. Jenkins
- Department of Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental SciencesUniversity of ExeterExeterUK
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- Department of Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental SciencesUniversity of ExeterExeterUK
- National Lobster HatcherySouth QuayPadstowUK
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- Department of Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental SciencesUniversity of ExeterExeterUK
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Mynhardt S, Bennett NC, Bloomer P. New insights from RADseq data on differentiation in the Hottentot golden mole species complex from South Africa. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2019; 143:106667. [PMID: 31676418 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2019] [Revised: 10/28/2019] [Accepted: 10/28/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Golden moles (Family Chrysochloridae) are small subterranean mammals, endemic to sub-Saharan Africa, and many of the 21 species are listed as threatened on the IUCN Red List. Most species have highly restricted ranges; however two species, the Hottentot golden mole (Amblysomus hottentotus) and the Cape golden mole (Chrysochloris asiatica) have relatively wide ranges. We recently uncovered cryptic diversity within A. hottentotus, through a phylogeographic analysis of this taxon using two mitochondrial gene regions and a nuclear intron. To further investigate this cryptic diversity, we generated nuclear SNP data from across the genome of A. hottentotus, by means of double-digest restriction-site associated DNA sequencing (ddRADSeq), and mapped reads to the Cape golden mole genome. We conducted a phylogenetic analysis and investigated population differentiation. Our results support the distinctiveness of A. h. meesteri. Furthermore, we provide evidence from nuclear SNPs in support of our previous finding that Central coastal samples represent a unique cryptic lineage that is highly divergent from A. h. pondoliae farther south. Although mtDNA suggests that Umtata may represent a unique lineage sister to A. h. longiceps, mito-nuclear discordance from our RADseq data indicate that these samples may instead be closer to A. h. pondoliae, and therefore may not represent a distinct lineage. We stress the importance of recognizing that understudied populations, such as that of Umtata, may represent populations or ESUs under threat and in need of conservation attention. We present a high-quality filtered SNP dataset, comprising thousands of SNPs, which may serve as a useful resource for future golden mole studies. We have thus added to the growing body of research demonstrating the power and utility of RADseq to investigate population differentiation.
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- Samantha Mynhardt
- Molecular Ecology and Evolution Programme, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield 0028, South Africa; Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield 0028, South Africa.
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- Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield 0028, South Africa; Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield 0028, South Africa.
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- Molecular Ecology and Evolution Programme, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield 0028, South Africa; Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield 0028, South Africa.
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Schmidt DJ, Huey JA, Hughes JM. Genome-Wide SNPs Identify Limits to Connectivity in the Extreme Freshwater Disperser, Spangled Perch Leiopotherapon unicolor (Terapontidae). J Hered 2019; 109:320-325. [PMID: 29228349 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esx101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2017] [Accepted: 11/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The utility of restriction-site associated DNA sequencing (RADseq) to resolve fine-scale population structure was tested on an abundant and vagile fish species in a tropical river. Australia's most widespread freshwater fish, the "extreme disperser" Leiopotherapon unicolor was sampled from 6 locations in an unregulated system, the Daly River in Australia's Northern Territory. Despite an expectation of high connectivity based on life history knowledge of this species derived from arid zone habitats, L. unicolor was not a panmictic population in the tropical lower Daly. Using ~14000 polymorphic RADseq loci, we found a pattern of upstream versus downstream population subdivision and evidence for differentiation among tributary populations. The magnitude of population structure was low with narrow confidence intervals (global FST = 0.014; 95% CI = 0.012-0.016). Confidence intervals around pairwise FST estimates were all nonzero and consistent with the results of clustering analyses. This population structure was not explained by spatially heterogeneous selection acting on a subset of loci, or by sampling groups of closely related individuals (average within-site relatedness ≈ 0). One implication of the low but significant structure observed in the tropics is the possibility that L. unicolor may exhibit contrasting patterns of migratory biology in tropical versus arid zone habitats. We conclude that the RADseq revolution holds promise for delineating subtle patterns of population subdivision in species characterized by high within-population variation and low among-population differentiation.
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- Daniel J Schmidt
- Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia
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- Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia.,Terrestrial Zoology & Molecular Systematics Unit, Western Australian Museum, Welshpool, Western Australia, Australia
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- Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia
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Dorant Y, Benestan L, Rougemont Q, Normandeau E, Boyle B, Rochette R, Bernatchez L. Comparing Pool-seq, Rapture, and GBS genotyping for inferring weak population structure: The American lobster ( Homarus americanus) as a case study. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:6606-6623. [PMID: 31236247 PMCID: PMC6580275 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2019] [Revised: 04/10/2019] [Accepted: 04/13/2019] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Unraveling genetic population structure is challenging in species potentially characterized by large population size and high dispersal rates, often resulting in weak genetic differentiation. Genotyping a large number of samples can improve the detection of subtle genetic structure, but this may substantially increase sequencing cost and downstream bioinformatics computational time. To overcome this challenge, alternative, cost-effective sequencing approaches, namely Pool-seq and Rapture, have been developed. We empirically measured the power of resolution and congruence of these two methods in documenting weak population structure in nonmodel species with high gene flow comparatively to a conventional genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) approach. For this, we used the American lobster (Homarus americanus) as a case study. First, we found that GBS, Rapture, and Pool-seq approaches gave similar allele frequency estimates (i.e., correlation coefficient over 0.90) and all three revealed the same weak pattern of population structure. Yet, Pool-seq data showed F ST estimates three to five times higher than GBS and Rapture, while the latter two methods returned similar F ST estimates, indicating that individual-based approaches provided more congruent results than Pool-seq. We conclude that despite higher costs, GBS and Rapture are more convenient approaches to use in the case of species exhibiting very weak differentiation. While both GBS and Rapture approaches provided similar results with regard to estimates of population genetic parameters, GBS remains more cost-effective in project involving a relatively small numbers of genotyped individuals (e.g., <1,000). Overall, this study illustrates the complexity of estimating genetic differentiation and other summary statistics in complex biological systems characterized by large population size and migration rates.
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- Yann Dorant
- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS)Université LavalQuébecCanada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS)Université LavalQuébecCanada
- Pêches et Océans CanadaInstitut Maurice‐LamontagneMont‐JoliCanada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS)Université LavalQuébecCanada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS)Université LavalQuébecCanada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS)Université LavalQuébecCanada
- Plateforme d'analyses génomiques, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS)Université LavalQuébecCanada
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of New BrunswickSaint JohnCanada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS)Université LavalQuébecCanada
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Hosoya S, Hirase S, Kikuchi K, Nanjo K, Nakamura Y, Kohno H, Sano M. Random PCR-based genotyping by sequencing technology GRAS-Di (genotyping by random amplicon sequencing, direct) reveals genetic structure of mangrove fishes. Mol Ecol Resour 2019; 19:1153-1163. [PMID: 31009151 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2019] [Revised: 04/06/2019] [Accepted: 04/15/2019] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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While various technologies for high-throughput genotyping have been developed for ecological studies, simple methods tolerant to low-quality DNA samples are still limited. In this study, we tested the availability of a random PCR-based genotyping-by-sequencing technology, genotyping by random amplicon sequencing, direct (GRAS-Di). We focused on population genetic analysis of estuarine mangrove fishes, including two resident species, the Amboina cardinalfish (Fibramia amboinensis, Bleeker, 1853) and the Duncker's river garfish (Zenarchopterus dunckeri, Mohr, 1926), and a marine migrant, the blacktail snapper (Lutjanus fulvus, Forster, 1801). Collections were from the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan. PCR amplicons derived from ~130 individuals were pooled and sequenced in a single lane on a HiSeq2500 platform, and an average of three million reads was obtained per individual. Consensus contigs were assembled for each species and used for genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms by mapping trimmed reads onto the contigs. After quality filtering steps, 4,000-9,000 putative single nucleotide polymorphisms were detected for each species. Although DNA fragmentation can diminish genotyping performance when analysed on next-generation sequencing technology, the effect was small. Genetic differentiation and a clear pattern of isolation-by-distance was observed in F. amboinensis and Z. dunckeri by means of principal component analysis, FST and the admixture analysis. By contrast, L. fulvus comprised a genetically homogeneous population with directional recent gene flow. These genetic differentiation patterns reflect patterns of estuary use through life history. These results showed the power of GRAS-Di for fine-grained genetic analysis using field samples, including mangrove fishes.
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- Sho Hosoya
- Fisheries Laboratory, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Hamamatsu, Japan
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- Fisheries Laboratory, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Hamamatsu, Japan
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- Fisheries Laboratory, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Hamamatsu, Japan
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- Department of Applied Aquabiology, National Fisheries University, Shimonoseki, Japan
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- Department of Agriculture, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Kochi University, Nankoku, Japan
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- Okinawa Regional Research Center, Tokai University, Taketomi, Japan
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- Department of Ecosystem Studies, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Vendrami DLJ, De Noia M, Telesca L, Handal W, Charrier G, Boudry P, Eberhart-Phillips L, Hoffman JI. RAD sequencing sheds new light on the genetic structure and local adaptation of European scallops and resolves their demographic histories. Sci Rep 2019; 9:7455. [PMID: 31092869 PMCID: PMC6520335 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-43939-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2018] [Accepted: 04/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Recent developments in genomics are advancing our understanding of the processes shaping population structure in wild organisms. In particular, reduced representation sequencing has facilitated the generation of dense genetic marker datasets that provide greater power for resolving population structure, investigating the role of selection and reconstructing demographic histories. We therefore used RAD sequencing to study the great scallop Pecten maximus and its sister species P. jacobeus along a latitudinal cline in Europe. Analysis of 219 samples genotyped at 82,439 single nucleotide polymorphisms clearly resolved an Atlantic and a Norwegian group within P. maximus as well as P. jacobeus, in support of previous studies. Fine-scale structure was also detected, including pronounced differences involving Mulroy Bay in Ireland, where scallops are commercially cultured. Furthermore, we identified a suite of 279 environmentally associated loci that resolved a contrasting phylogenetic pattern to the remaining neutral loci, consistent with ecologically mediated divergence. Finally, demographic inference provided support for the two P. maximus groups having diverged during the last glacial maximum and subsequently expanded, whereas P. jacobeus diverged around 95,000 generations ago and experienced less pronounced expansion. Our results provide an integrative perspective on the factors shaping genome-wide differentiation in a commercially important marine invertebrate.
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- David L J Vendrami
- Department of Animal Behavior, University of Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany.
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- Department of Animal Behavior, University of Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany.,Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, United Kingdom.,British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 OET, United Kingdom
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- University of Brest, Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR, UMR 6539, UBO/CNRS/IRD/Ifremer), European University Institute for the Sea (IUEM), rue Dumont d'Urville, 29280, Plouzané, France
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- University of Brest, Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR, UMR 6539, UBO/CNRS/IRD/Ifremer), European University Institute for the Sea (IUEM), rue Dumont d'Urville, 29280, Plouzané, France
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- Ifremer, Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (UBO/CNRS/IRD/Ifremer), Plouzané, France
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology and Behavioural Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany
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- Department of Animal Behavior, University of Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany.,British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 OET, United Kingdom
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Bernatchez S, Xuereb A, Laporte M, Benestan L, Steeves R, Laflamme M, Bernatchez L, Mallet MA. Seascape genomics of eastern oyster ( Crassostrea virginica) along the Atlantic coast of Canada. Evol Appl 2019; 12:587-609. [PMID: 30828376 PMCID: PMC6383708 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2018] [Revised: 11/11/2018] [Accepted: 11/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Interactions between environmental factors and complex life-history characteristics of marine organisms produce the genetic diversity and structure observed within species. Our main goal was to test for genetic differentiation among eastern oyster populations from the coastal region of Canadian Maritimes against expected genetic homogeneity caused by historical events, taking into account spatial and environmental (temperature, salinity, turbidity) variation. This was achieved by genotyping 486 individuals originating from 13 locations using RADSeq. A total of 11,321 filtered SNPs were used in a combination of population genomics and environmental association analyses. We revealed significant neutral genetic differentiation (mean F ST = 0.009) between sampling locations, and the occurrence of six major genetic clusters within the studied system. Redundancy analyses (RDAs) revealed that spatial and environmental variables explained 3.1% and 4.9% of the neutral genetic variation and 38.6% and 12.2% of the putatively adaptive genetic variation, respectively. These results indicate that these environmental factors play a role in the distribution of both neutral and putatively adaptive genetic diversity in the system. Moreover, polygenic selection was suggested by genotype-environment association analysis and significant correlations between additive polygenic scores and temperature and salinity. We discuss our results in the context of their conservation and management implications for the eastern oyster.
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- Simon Bernatchez
- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS)Université LavalQuébecQuébecCanada
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
- Fisheries and Oceans CanadaMonctonNew BrunswickCanada
- L’Étang Ruisseau Bar Ltd.ShippaganNew BrunswickCanada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS)Université LavalQuébecQuébecCanada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS)Université LavalQuébecQuébecCanada
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- Fisheries and Oceans CanadaMonctonNew BrunswickCanada
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- Fisheries and Oceans CanadaMonctonNew BrunswickCanada
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- Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS)Université LavalQuébecQuébecCanada
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Hinton JW, Heppenheimer E, West KM, Caudill D, Karlin ML, Kilgo JC, Mayer JJ, Miller KV, Walch M, vonHoldt B, Chamberlain MJ. Geographic patterns in morphometric and genetic variation for coyote populations with emphasis on southeastern coyotes. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:3389-3404. [PMID: 30962900 PMCID: PMC6434562 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2018] [Revised: 12/02/2018] [Accepted: 12/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Prior to 1900, coyotes (Canis latrans) were restricted to the western and central regions of North America, but by the early 2000s, coyotes became ubiquitous throughout the eastern United States. Information regarding morphological and genetic structure of coyote populations in the southeastern United States is limited, and where data exist, they are rarely compared to those from other regions of North America. We assessed geographic patterns in morphology and genetics of coyotes with special consideration of coyotes in the southeastern United States. Mean body mass of coyote populations increased along a west-to-east gradient, with southeastern coyotes being intermediate to western and northeastern coyotes. Similarly, principal component analysis of body mass and linear body measurements suggested that southeastern coyotes were intermediate to western and northeastern coyotes in body size but exhibited shorter tails and ears from other populations. Genetic analyses indicated that southeastern coyotes represented a distinct genetic cluster that differentiated strongly from western and northeastern coyotes. We postulate that southeastern coyotes experienced lower immigration from western populations than did northeastern coyotes, and over time, genetically diverged from both western and northeastern populations. Coyotes colonizing eastern North America experienced different selective pressures than did stable populations in the core range, and we offer that the larger body size of eastern coyotes reflects an adaptation that improved dispersal capabilities of individuals in the expanding range.
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- Joseph W. Hinton
- Warnell School of Forestry and Natural ResourcesUniversity of GeorgiaAthensGeorgia
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- Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation CommissionGainesvilleFlorida
- Present address:
Alaska Department of Fish and GameFairbanksAlaska
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- Department of Physics and Environmental SciencesSt. Mary's UniversitySan AntonioTexas
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- United States Department of AgricultureForest Service Southern Research StationNew EllentonSouth Carolina
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- United States Department of Energy, Environmental Sciences, and BiotechnologySavannah River National LaboratoryAikenSouth Carolina
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- Warnell School of Forestry and Natural ResourcesUniversity of GeorgiaAthensGeorgia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyPrinceton UniversityPrincetonNew Jersey
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Vendrami DLJ, Houston RD, Gharbi K, Telesca L, Gutierrez AP, Gurney‐Smith H, Hasegawa N, Boudry P, Hoffman JI. Detailed insights into pan-European population structure and inbreeding in wild and hatchery Pacific oysters ( Crassostrea gigas) revealed by genome-wide SNP data. Evol Appl 2019; 12:519-534. [PMID: 30847007 PMCID: PMC6383735 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2018] [Revised: 11/02/2018] [Accepted: 11/05/2018] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Cultivated bivalves are important not only because of their economic value, but also due to their impacts on natural ecosystems. The Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) is the world's most heavily cultivated shellfish species and has been introduced to all continents except Antarctica for aquaculture. We therefore used a medium-density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array to investigate the genetic structure of this species in Europe, where it was introduced during the 1960s and has since become a prolific invader of coastal ecosystems across the continent. We analyzed 21,499 polymorphic SNPs in 232 individuals from 23 localities spanning a latitudinal cline from Portugal to Norway and including the source populations of Japan and Canada. We confirmed the results of previous studies by finding clear support for a southern and a northern group, with the former being indistinguishable from the source populations indicating the absence of a pronounced founder effect. We furthermore conducted a large-scale comparison of oysters sampled from the wild and from hatcheries to reveal substantial genetic differences including significantly higher levels of inbreeding in some but not all of the sampled hatchery cohorts. These findings were confirmed by a smaller but representative SNP dataset generated using restriction site-associated DNA sequencing. We therefore conclude that genomic approaches can generate increasingly detailed insights into the genetics of wild and hatchery produced Pacific oysters.
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- The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary StudiesUniversity of EdinburghMidlothianUK
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- Edinburgh Genomics, Ashworth LaboratoriesUniversity of EdinburghEdinburghUK
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- Department of Earth SciencesUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
- British Antarctic Survey, High CrossCambridgeUK
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- The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary StudiesUniversity of EdinburghMidlothianUK
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- Department of Fisheries and AquacultureVancouver Island UniversityNanaimoBritish ColumbiaCanada
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- National Research Institute of AquacultureJapan Fisheries Research AgencyMinami‐IseJapan
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- IfremerLaboratoire des Sciences de l’Environnement Marin (UBO/CNRS/IRD/Ifremer)PlouzanéFrance
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- Department of Animal BehaviorBielefeld UniversityBielefeldGermany
- British Antarctic Survey, High CrossCambridgeUK
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Gamboa M, Watanabe K. Genome-wide signatures of local adaptation among seven stoneflies species along a nationwide latitudinal gradient in Japan. BMC Genomics 2019; 20:84. [PMID: 30678640 PMCID: PMC6346529 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-019-5453-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2018] [Accepted: 01/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Background Environmental heterogeneity continuously produces a selective pressure that results in genomic variation among organisms; understanding this relationship remains a challenge in evolutionary biology. Here, we evaluated the degree of genome-environmental association of seven stonefly species across a wide geographic area in Japan and additionally identified putative environmental drivers and their effect on co-existing multiple stonefly species. Double-digest restriction-associated DNA (ddRAD) libraries were independently sequenced for 219 individuals from 23 sites across four geographical regions along a nationwide latitudinal gradient in Japan. Results A total of 4251 candidate single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) strongly associated with local adaptation were discovered using Latent mixed models; of these, 294 SNPs showed strong correlation with environmental variables, specifically precipitation and altitude, using distance-based redundancy analysis. Genome–genome comparison among the seven species revealed a high sequence similarity of candidate SNPs within a geographical region, suggesting the occurrence of a parallel evolution process. Conclusions Our results revealed genomic signatures of local adaptation and their influence on multiple, co-occurring species. These results can be potentially applied for future studies on river management and climatic stressor impacts. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12864-019-5453-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Maribet Gamboa
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ehime University, Matsuyama, 790-0871, Japan.
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ehime University, Matsuyama, 790-0871, Japan
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Experimental validation of in silico predicted RAD locus frequencies using genomic resources and short read data from a model marine mammal. BMC Genomics 2019; 20:72. [PMID: 30669975 PMCID: PMC6341687 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-019-5440-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2018] [Accepted: 01/08/2019] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Restriction site-associated DNA sequencing (RADseq) has revolutionized the study of wild organisms by allowing cost-effective genotyping of thousands of loci. However, for species lacking reference genomes, it can be challenging to select the restriction enzyme that offers the best balance between the number of obtained RAD loci and depth of coverage, which is crucial for a successful outcome. To address this issue, PredRAD was recently developed, which uses probabilistic models to predict restriction site frequencies from a transcriptome assembly or other sequence resource based on either GC content or mono-, di- or trinucleotide composition. This program generates predictions that are broadly consistent with estimates of the true number of restriction sites obtained through in silico digestion of available reference genome assemblies. However, in practice the actual number of loci obtained could potentially differ as incomplete enzymatic digestion or patchy sequence coverage across the genome might lead to some loci not being represented in a RAD dataset, while erroneous assembly could potentially inflate the number of loci. To investigate this, we used genome and transcriptome assemblies together with RADseq data from the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) to compare PredRAD predictions with empirical estimates of the number of loci obtained via in silico digestion and from de novo assemblies. RESULTS PredRAD yielded consistently higher predicted numbers of restriction sites for the transcriptome assembly relative to the genome assembly. The trinucleotide and dinucleotide models also predicted higher frequencies than the mononucleotide or GC content models. Overall, the dinucleotide and trinucleotide models applied to the transcriptome and the genome assemblies respectively generated predictions that were closest to the number of restriction sites estimated by in silico digestion. Furthermore, the number of de novo assembled RAD loci mapping to restriction sites was similar to the expectation based on in silico digestion. CONCLUSIONS Our study reveals generally high concordance between PredRAD predictions and empirical estimates of the number of RAD loci. This further supports the utility of PredRAD, while also suggesting that it may be feasible to sequence and assemble the majority of RAD loci present in an organism's genome.
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Population Genomics Applied to Fishery Management and Conservation. POPULATION GENOMICS 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/13836_2019_66] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Weigand H, Weiss M, Cai H, Li Y, Yu L, Zhang C, Leese F. Fishing in troubled waters: Revealing genomic signatures of local adaptation in response to freshwater pollutants in two macroinvertebrates. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2018; 633:875-891. [PMID: 29602123 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2017] [Revised: 03/02/2018] [Accepted: 03/09/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Local adaptation is of fundamental importance for populations to cope with fast, human-mediated environmental changes. In the past, analyses of local adaptation were restricted to few model species. Nowadays, due to the increased affordability of high-throughput sequencing, local adaptation can be studied much easier by searching for patterns of positive selection using genomic data. In the present study, we analysed effects of wastewater treatment plant and ore mining effluents on stream invertebrate populations. The two different anthropogenic stressors have impacted on stream ecosystems over different time scales and with different potencies. As target organisms we selected two macroinvertebrate species with different life histories and dispersal capacities: the caddisfly Glossosoma conformis and the flatworm Dugesia gonocephala. We applied a genome-wide genetic marker technique, termed ddRAD (double digest restriction site associated DNA) sequencing, to identify local adaptation. Ten and 18% of all loci were identified as candidate loci for local adaptation in D. gonocephala and G. conformis, respectively. However, after stringent re-evaluation of the genomic data, strong evidence for local adaptation remained only for one population of the flatworm D. gonocephala affected by high copper concentration from ore mining. One of the corresponding candidate loci is arnt, a gene associated with the response to xenobiotics and potentially involved in metal detoxification. Our results support the hypotheses that local adaptation is more likely to play a central role in environments impacted by a stronger stressor for a longer time and that it is more likely to occur in species with lower migration rates. However, these findings have to be interpreted cautiously, as several confounding factors may have limited the possibility to detect local adaptation. Our study highlights how genomic tools can be used to study the adaptability and thus resistance of natural populations to changing environments and we discuss prospects and limitations of the methods.
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- Hannah Weigand
- Aquatic Ecosystem Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45141 Essen, Germany.
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- Aquatic Ecosystem Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45141 Essen, Germany
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- Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China
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- Aquatic Ecosystem Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45141 Essen, Germany
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RAD Sequencing and a Hybrid Antarctic Fur Seal Genome Assembly Reveal Rapidly Decaying Linkage Disequilibrium, Global Population Structure and Evidence for Inbreeding. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2018; 8:2709-2722. [PMID: 29954843 PMCID: PMC6071602 DOI: 10.1534/g3.118.200171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Recent advances in high throughput sequencing have transformed the study of wild organisms by facilitating the generation of high quality genome assemblies and dense genetic marker datasets. These resources have the potential to significantly advance our understanding of diverse phenomena at the level of species, populations and individuals, ranging from patterns of synteny through rates of linkage disequilibrium (LD) decay and population structure to individual inbreeding. Consequently, we used PacBio sequencing to refine an existing Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) genome assembly and genotyped 83 individuals from six populations using restriction site associated DNA (RAD) sequencing. The resulting hybrid genome comprised 6,169 scaffolds with an N50 of 6.21 Mb and provided clear evidence for the conservation of large chromosomal segments between the fur seal and dog (Canis lupus familiaris). Focusing on the most extensively sampled population of South Georgia, we found that LD decayed rapidly, reaching the background level by around 400 kb, consistent with other vertebrates but at odds with the notion that fur seals experienced a strong historical bottleneck. We also found evidence for population structuring, with four main Antarctic island groups being resolved. Finally, appreciable variance in individual inbreeding could be detected, reflecting the strong polygyny and site fidelity of the species. Overall, our study contributes important resources for future genomic studies of fur seals and other pinnipeds while also providing a clear example of how high throughput sequencing can generate diverse biological insights at multiple levels of organization.
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Klimova A, Ortega‐Rubio A, Vendrami DLJ, Hoffman JI. Genotyping by sequencing reveals contrasting patterns of population structure, ecologically mediated divergence, and long-distance dispersal in North American palms. Ecol Evol 2018; 8:5873-5890. [PMID: 29938100 PMCID: PMC6010798 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2018] [Accepted: 03/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Comparative studies can provide powerful insights into processes that affect population divergence and thereby help to elucidate the mechanisms by which contemporary populations may respond to environmental change. Furthermore, approaches such as genotyping by sequencing (GBS) provide unprecedented power for resolving genetic differences among species and populations. We therefore used GBS to provide a genomewide perspective on the comparative population structure of two palm genera, Washingtonia and Brahea, on the Baja California peninsula, a region of high landscape and ecological complexity. First, we used phylogenetic analysis to address taxonomic uncertainties among five currently recognized species. We resolved three main clades, the first corresponding to W. robusta and W. filifera, the second to B. brandegeei and B. armata, and the third to B. edulis from Guadalupe Island. Focusing on the first two clades, we then delved deeper by investigating the underlying population structure. Striking differences were found, with GBS uncovering four distinct Washingtonia populations and identifying a suite of loci associated with temperature, consistent with ecologically mediated divergence. By contrast, individual mountain ranges could be resolved in Brahea and few loci were associated with environmental variables, implying a more prominent role of neutral divergence. Finally, evidence was found for long-distance dispersal events in Washingtonia but not Brahea, in line with knowledge of the dispersal mechanisms of these palms including the possibility of human-mediated dispersal. Overall, our study demonstrates the power of GBS together with a comparative approach to elucidate markedly different patterns of genomewide divergence mediated by multiple effectors.
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- Anastasia Klimova
- Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste S.C.La PazBaja California SurMexico
- Department of Animal BehaviourBielefeld UniversityBielefeldGermany
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste S.C.La PazBaja California SurMexico
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Weiss M, Weigand H, Weigand AM, Leese F. Genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism data reveal cryptic species within cryptic freshwater snail species-The case of the Ancylus fluviatilis species complex. Ecol Evol 2018; 8:1063-1072. [PMID: 29375779 PMCID: PMC5773296 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2017] [Revised: 09/20/2017] [Accepted: 11/10/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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DNA barcoding utilizes short standardized DNA sequences to identify species and is increasingly used in biodiversity assessments. The technique has unveiled an unforeseeably high number of morphologically cryptic species. However, if speciation has occurred relatively recently and rapidly, the use of single gene markers, and especially the exclusive use of mitochondrial markers, will presumably fail in delimitating species. Therefore, the true number of biological species might be even higher. One mechanism that can result in rapid speciation is hybridization of different species in combination with polyploidization, that is, allopolyploid speciation. In this study, we analyzed the population genetic structure of the polyploid freshwater snail Ancylus fluviatilis, for which allopolyploidization was postulated as a speciation mechanism. DNA barcoding has already revealed four cryptic species within A. fluviatilis (i.e., A. fluviatilis s. str., Ancylus sp. A-C), but early allozyme data even hint at the presence of additional cryptic lineages in Central Europe. We combined COI sequencing with high-resolution genome-wide SNP data (ddRAD data) to analyze the genetic structure of A. fluviatilis populations in a Central German low mountain range (Sauerland). The ddRAD data results indicate the presence of three cryptic species within A. fluviatilis s. str. occurring in sympatry and even syntopy, whereas mitochondrial sequence data only support the existence of one species, with shared haplotypes between species. Our study hence points to the limitations of DNA barcoding when dealing with organismal groups where speciation is assumed to have occurred rapidly, for example, through the process of allopolyploidization. We therefore emphasize that single marker DNA barcoding can underestimate the true species diversity and argue in strong favor of using genome-wide data for species delimitation in such groups.
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- Martina Weiss
- Aquatic Ecosystem ResearchUniversity of Duisburg‐EssenEssenGermany
- Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU)University of Duisburg‐EssenEssenGermany
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- Aquatic Ecosystem ResearchUniversity of Duisburg‐EssenEssenGermany
- Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU)University of Duisburg‐EssenEssenGermany
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- Aquatic Ecosystem ResearchUniversity of Duisburg‐EssenEssenGermany
- Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU)University of Duisburg‐EssenEssenGermany
- Musée National d'Histoire NaturelleLuxembourgLuxembourg
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- Aquatic Ecosystem ResearchUniversity of Duisburg‐EssenEssenGermany
- Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU)University of Duisburg‐EssenEssenGermany
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Attard CRM, Beheregaray LB, Sandoval-Castillo J, Jenner KCS, Gill PC, Jenner MNM, Morrice MG, Möller LM. From conservation genetics to conservation genomics: a genome-wide assessment of blue whales ( Balaenoptera musculus) in Australian feeding aggregations. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2018; 5:170925. [PMID: 29410806 PMCID: PMC5792883 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.170925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2017] [Accepted: 01/02/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Genetic datasets of tens of markers have been superseded through next-generation sequencing technology with genome-wide datasets of thousands of markers. Genomic datasets improve our power to detect low population structure and identify adaptive divergence. The increased population-level knowledge can inform the conservation management of endangered species, such as the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus). In Australia, there are two known feeding aggregations of the pygmy blue whale (B. m. brevicauda) which have shown no evidence of genetic structure based on a small dataset of 10 microsatellites and mtDNA. Here, we develop and implement a high-resolution dataset of 8294 genome-wide filtered single nucleotide polymorphisms, the first of its kind for blue whales. We use these data to assess whether the Australian feeding aggregations constitute one population and to test for the first time whether there is adaptive divergence between the feeding aggregations. We found no evidence of neutral population structure and negligible evidence of adaptive divergence. We propose that individuals likely travel widely between feeding areas and to breeding areas, which would require them to be adapted to a wide range of environmental conditions. This has important implications for their conservation as this blue whale population is likely vulnerable to a range of anthropogenic threats both off Australia and elsewhere.
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- Catherine R. M. Attard
- Molecular Ecology Lab, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia
- Cetacean Ecology, Behaviour and Evolution Lab, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia
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- Molecular Ecology Lab, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia
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- Molecular Ecology Lab, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia
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- Centre for Whale Research, PO Box 1622, Fremantle, Western Australia 6959, Australia
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- Blue Whale Study, C/- Post Office, Narrawong, Victoria 3285, Australia
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, PO Box 423, Warrnambool, Victoria 3280, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, PO Box 423, Warrnambool, Victoria 3280, Australia
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- Molecular Ecology Lab, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia
- Cetacean Ecology, Behaviour and Evolution Lab, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia
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