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Loehr J, Sundell J, Immonen M, Väinölä R. Patterns in antipredator armature reduction and maintenance in isolated spring populations of an amphipod crustacean. Ecol Evol 2023; 13:e10423. [PMID: 37649705 PMCID: PMC10463124 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10423] [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: 02/27/2023] [Revised: 07/23/2023] [Accepted: 07/25/2023] [Indexed: 09/01/2023] Open
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Organisms colonizing new habitats can undergo adaptive change due to novel selective landscapes encountered in the new environment. Examples in nature where the development of the same traits has repeatedly occurred on multiple independent occasions upon colonizing a novel habitat represent instances of parallel evolution. Here we test whether the colonization of spring habitat by the principally lacustrine amphipod crustacean Pallaseopsis quadrispinosa has resulted in parallel evolution in armature traits using empirical data on morphology and mitochondrial DNA and through a breeding experiment. Analysis of mtDNA CO1 sequences shows that the spring populations share no common history and have evolved in isolation from each other and from their neighbouring lake populations since deglaciation approximately 12,000 years ago and are now fixed for different haplogroups. Dorsal spines and lateral projections were absent or less developed in all spring populations than in lake populations. Variation in armature development also could be explained by predator presence as populations with fish predators exhibited more developed spines than those without fish. In a laboratory breeding experiment, hybrid Spring × Lake F1 offspring had intermediate development of armature compared to offspring of Lake × Lake and Spring × Spring matings. The results support the hypothesis that armature reduction has independently evolved on multiple occasions in P. quadrispinosa. Recent research has questioned the degree to which parallel evolution actually explains variance in traits. Taking into account the predation regime, sexual dimorphism and mineral composition of the trait, a more precise understanding of the factors influencing parallel evolution emerges.
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- John Loehr
- Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Lammi Biological StationUniversity of HelsinkiLammiFinland
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- Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Lammi Biological StationUniversity of HelsinkiLammiFinland
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- Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Lammi Biological StationUniversity of HelsinkiLammiFinland
- Faculty of Biological and Environmental SciencesUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History LuomusUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
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Villoutreix R, de Carvalho CF, Feder JL, Gompert Z, Nosil P. Disruptive selection and the evolution of discrete color morphs in Timema stick insects. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2023; 9:eabm8157. [PMID: 37000882 PMCID: PMC10065444 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abm8157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2021] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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A major unresolved issue in biology is why phenotypic and genetic variation is sometimes continuous, yet other times packaged into discrete units of diversity, such as morphs, ecotypes, and species. In theory, ecological discontinuities can impose strong disruptive selection that promotes the evolution of discrete forms, but direct tests of this hypothesis are lacking. Here, we show that Timema stick insects exhibit genetically determined color morphs that range from weakly to strongly discontinuous. Color data from nature and a manipulative field experiment demonstrate that greater morph differentiation is associated with shifts from host plants exhibiting more continuous color variation to those exhibiting greater coloration distance between green leaves and brown stems, the latter of which generates strong disruptive selection. Our results show how ecological factors can promote discrete variation, and we further present results on how this can have variable effects on the genetic differentiation that promotes speciation.
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- CEFE, Université Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
- Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, UNIFESP, Diadema 09972-270, Brazil
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
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- CEFE, Université Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
- Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA
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Characterizing phenotypic diversity in marine populations of the threespine stickleback. Sci Rep 2022; 12:17923. [PMID: 36289364 PMCID: PMC9606258 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-22872-z] [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: 10/19/2021] [Accepted: 10/20/2022] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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The threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is an important model for studying the evolution of vertebrate morphology. Sticklebacks inhabit freshwater, brackish, and marine northern hemisphere waters. Anadromous and marine populations (hereafter marine) are assumed to have remained unchanged morphologically from ancestral marine sticklebacks, despite marine environments varying on regional and local scales. Recent studies suggest that genetic and phenotypic structure exists in marine populations, yet the scale of this variation, and its ecological causes remain unclear. Our goal was to assess morphological trait variation in marine stickleback populations around Southern British Columbia (BC) and determine if oceanographic and habitat characteristics were associated with this variation. Between May-July 2019, we sampled 534 sticklebacks from 15 sites around Vancouver Island, a region characterized by a large diversity of oceanographic and habitat features. We characterized trait variation using two-dimensional (2D) geometric morphometric analysis, comparing individuals between oceanographic regions and habitats. We focused on head and body shape. We found that marine sticklebacks varied morphologically among and between regions and habitats, but the variation did not appear to be related to environmental variation. Sexual dimorphism was the largest source of variation, but oceanographic and habitat variables influenced differences between sexes. We concluded that marine sticklebacks offer abundant opportunities for expanding our knowledge of drivers of morphology.
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MacIver MA, Finlay BL. The neuroecology of the water-to-land transition and the evolution of the vertebrate brain. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2022; 377:20200523. [PMID: 34957852 PMCID: PMC8710882 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The water-to-land transition in vertebrate evolution offers an unusual opportunity to consider computational affordances of a new ecology for the brain. All sensory modalities are changed, particularly a greatly enlarged visual sensorium owing to air versus water as a medium, and expanded by mobile eyes and neck. The multiplication of limbs, as evolved to exploit aspects of life on land, is a comparable computational challenge. As the total mass of living organisms on land is a hundredfold larger than the mass underwater, computational improvements promise great rewards. In water, the midbrain tectum coordinates approach/avoid decisions, contextualized by water flow and by the animal's body state and learning. On land, the relative motions of sensory surfaces and effectors must be resolved, adding on computational architectures from the dorsal pallium, such as the parietal cortex. For the large-brained and long-living denizens of land, making the right decision when the wrong one means death may be the basis of planning, which allows animals to learn from hypothetical experience before enactment. Integration of value-weighted, memorized panoramas in basal ganglia/frontal cortex circuitry, with allocentric cognitive maps of the hippocampus and its associated cortices becomes a cognitive habit-to-plan transition as substantial as the change in ecology. This article is part of the theme issue 'Systems neuroscience through the lens of evolutionary theory'.
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- Malcolm A. MacIver
- Center for Robotics and Biosystems, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Behavioral and Evolutionary Neuroscience Group, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
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Wuitchik SJ, Mogensen S, Barry TN, Paccard A, Jamniczky HA, Barrett RD, Rogers SM. Evolution of thermal physiology alters the projected range of threespine stickleback under climate change. Mol Ecol 2022; 31:2312-2326. [PMID: 35152483 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2021] [Revised: 01/21/2022] [Accepted: 02/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used to predict range shifts but could be unreliable under climate change scenarios because they do not account for evolution. The thermal physiology of a species is a key determinant of its range and thus incorporating thermal trait evolution into SDMs might be expected to alter projected ranges. We identified a genetic basis for physiological and behavioural traits that evolve in response to temperature change in natural populations of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Using these data, we created geographical range projections using a mechanistic niche area approach under two climate change scenarios. Under both scenarios, trait data were either static ("no evolution" models), allowed to evolve at observed evolutionary rates ("evolution" models) or allowed to evolve at a rate of evolution scaled by the trait variance that is explained by quantitative trait loci (QTL; "scaled evolution" models). We show that incorporating these traits and their evolution substantially altered the projected ranges for a widespread panmictic marine population, with over 7-fold increases in area under climate change projections when traits are allowed to evolve. Evolution-informed SDMs should improve the precision of forecasting range dynamics under climate change, and aid in their application to management and the protection of biodiversity.
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- Sara J.S. Wuitchik
- Department of Biological Sciences University of Calgary 2500 University Dr NW Calgary AB T2N 1N4 Canada
- Informatics Group Harvard University 52 Oxford St Cambridge MA 02138 USA
- Department of Biology Boston University 5 Cummington Mall Boston MA 02215 USA
- Department of Biology University of Victoria 3800 Finnerty Rd Victoria BC V8P 5C2 Canada
- School of Environmental Science Simon Fraser University 8888 University Dr Burnaby BC V5A 1S6 Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences University of Calgary 2500 University Dr NW Calgary AB T2N 1N4 Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences University of Calgary 2500 University Dr NW Calgary AB T2N 1N4 Canada
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- Redpath Museum Department of Biology McGill University 845 Sherbrooke St W Montreal QC H3A 0G4 Canada
- McGill University Genome Center 740 Dr Penfield Avenue Montreal QC H3A 1A5 Canada
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- Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy Cumming School of Medicine University of Calgary 3330 Hospital Dr NW Calgary T2N 4N1 Canada
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- Redpath Museum Department of Biology McGill University 845 Sherbrooke St W Montreal QC H3A 0G4 Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences University of Calgary 2500 University Dr NW Calgary AB T2N 1N4 Canada
- Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre 100 Pachena Rd Bamfield BC V0R 1B0 Canada
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Paccard A, Hanson D, Stuart YE, von Hippel FA, Kalbe M, Klepaker T, Skúlason S, Kristjánsson BK, Bolnick DI, Hendry AP, Barrett RDH. Repeatability of Adaptive Radiation Depends on Spatial Scale: Regional Versus Global Replicates of Stickleback in Lake Versus Stream Habitats. J Hered 2021; 111:43-56. [PMID: 31690947 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esz056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2019] [Accepted: 09/30/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The repeatability of adaptive radiation is expected to be scale-dependent, with determinism decreasing as greater spatial separation among "replicates" leads to their increased genetic and ecological independence. Threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) provide an opportunity to test whether this expectation holds for the early stages of adaptive radiation-their diversification in freshwater ecosystems has been replicated many times. To better understand the repeatability of that adaptive radiation, we examined the influence of geographic scale on levels of parallel evolution by quantifying phenotypic and genetic divergence between lake and stream stickleback pairs sampled at regional (Vancouver Island) and global (North America and Europe) scales. We measured phenotypes known to show lake-stream divergence and used reduced representation genome-wide sequencing to estimate genetic divergence. We assessed the scale dependence of parallel evolution by comparing effect sizes from multivariate models and also the direction and magnitude of lake-stream divergence vectors. At the phenotypic level, parallelism was greater at the regional than the global scale. At the genetic level, putative selected loci showed greater lake-stream parallelism at the regional than the global scale. Generally, the level of parallel evolution was low at both scales, except for some key univariate traits. Divergence vectors were often orthogonal, highlighting possible ecological and genetic constraints on parallel evolution at both scales. Overall, our results confirm that the repeatability of adaptive radiation decreases at increasing spatial scales. We suggest that greater environmental heterogeneity at larger scales imposes different selection regimes, thus generating lower repeatability of adaptive radiation at larger spatial scales.
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- Antoine Paccard
- Redpath Museum and Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Redpath Museum and Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany
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- University of Bergen, Department of Biology, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Aquaculture and Fish Biology, Hólar University College, Sauðárkrókur, Iceland
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- Department of Aquaculture and Fish Biology, Hólar University College, Sauðárkrókur, Iceland
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- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
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- Redpath Museum and Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Redpath Museum and Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Garcia-Elfring A, Paccard A, Thurman TJ, Wasserman BA, Palkovacs EP, Hendry AP, Barrett RDH. Using seasonal genomic changes to understand historical adaptation to new environments: Parallel selection on stickleback in highly-variable estuaries. Mol Ecol 2021; 30:2054-2064. [PMID: 33713378 DOI: 10.1111/mec.15879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2020] [Revised: 02/25/2021] [Accepted: 02/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Parallel evolution is considered strong evidence for natural selection. However, few studies have investigated the process of parallel selection as it plays out in real time. The common approach is to study historical signatures of selection in populations already well adapted to different environments. Here, to document selection under natural conditions, we study six populations of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) inhabiting bar-built estuaries that undergo seasonal cycles of environmental changes. Estuaries are periodically isolated from the ocean due to sandbar formation during dry summer months, with concurrent environmental shifts that resemble the long-term changes associated with postglacial colonization of freshwater habitats by marine populations. We used pooled whole-genome sequencing to track seasonal allele frequency changes in six of these populations and search for signatures of natural selection. We found consistent changes in allele frequency across estuaries, suggesting a potential role for parallel selection. Functional enrichment among candidate genes included transmembrane ion transport and calcium binding, which are important for osmoregulation and ion balance. The genomic changes that occur in threespine stickleback from bar-built estuaries could provide a glimpse into the early stages of adaptation that have occurred in many historical marine to freshwater transitions.
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- Alan Garcia-Elfring
- Department of Biology, Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.,McGill University Genome Center, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Xiong P, Hulsey CD, Fruciano C, Wong WY, Nater A, Kautt AF, Simakov O, Pippel M, Kuraku S, Meyer A, Franchini P. The comparative genomic landscape of adaptive radiation in crater lake cichlid fishes. Mol Ecol 2021; 30:955-972. [PMID: 33305470 PMCID: PMC8607476 DOI: 10.1111/mec.15774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2020] [Revised: 11/21/2020] [Accepted: 11/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Factors ranging from ecological opportunity to genome composition might explain why only some lineages form adaptive radiations. While being rare, particular systems can provide natural experiments within an identical ecological setting where species numbers and phenotypic divergence in two closely related lineages are notably different. We investigated one such natural experiment using two de novo assembled and 40 resequenced genomes and asked why two closely related Neotropical cichlid fish lineages, the Amphilophus citrinellus species complex (Midas cichlids; radiating) and Archocentrus centrarchus (Flyer cichlid; nonradiating), have resulted in such disparate evolutionary outcomes. Although both lineages inhabit many of the same Nicaraguan lakes, whole-genome inferred demography suggests that priority effects are not likely to be the cause of the dissimilarities. Also, genome-wide levels of selection, transposable element dynamics, gene family expansion, major chromosomal rearrangements and the number of genes under positive selection were not markedly different between the two lineages. To more finely investigate particular subsets of the genome that have undergone adaptive divergence in Midas cichlids, we also examined if there was evidence for 'molecular pre-adaptation' in regions identified by QTL mapping of repeatedly diverging adaptive traits. Although most of our analyses failed to pinpoint substantial genomic differences, we did identify functional categories containing many genes under positive selection that provide candidates for future studies on the propensity of Midas cichlids to radiate. Our results point to a disproportionate role of local, rather than genome-wide factors underlying the propensity for these cichlid fishes to adaptively radiate.
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- Peiwen Xiong
- Department of BiologyUniversity of KonstanzKonstanzGermany
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of KonstanzKonstanzGermany
- School of Biology and Environmental ScienceUniversity College DublinDublinIreland
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of KonstanzKonstanzGermany
- National Research Council (CNR) – IRBIMMessinaItaly
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- Department of Molecular Evolution and DevelopmentUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of KonstanzKonstanzGermany
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary BiologyHarvard UniversityCambridgeMAUSA
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- Department of Molecular Evolution and DevelopmentUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and GeneticsDresdenGermany
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- Laboratory for PhyloinformaticsRIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR)KobeJapan
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of KonstanzKonstanzGermany
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Lowey J, Cheng Q, Rogers S, Mee J. Persistence of pelvic spine polymorphism in a panmictic population of brook stickleback (Culaeainconstans) in Alberta, Canada. CAN J ZOOL 2020. [DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2020-0037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In the stickleback family (Gasterosteidae), divergence in pelvic morphology is typically associated with reproductive isolation and ecological niche specialization. In this study, we assessed whether reproductive isolation may be involved in the persistence of within-lake polymorphism in brook stickleback (Culaea inconstans (Kirtland, 1840)). We studied populations of brook stickleback in central Alberta, Canada, that are polymorphic for pelvic reduction (i.e., presence–absence of pelvic spines). We investigated the persistence of the pelvic polymorphisms over 40 generations in five lakes. We found that, of the five populations examined, the frequencies of pelvic phenotypes have remained unchanged in three populations, the polymorphism has persisted with significantly changed frequencies of pelvic phenotypes in one population, and the polymorphism has been lost in one population. Using 10 microsatellite loci, we observed low genetic divergence between individuals with and without pelvic spines in one lake, suggesting a lack of assortative mating among individuals with divergent pelvic phenotypes. This observation suggests that the pelvic polymorphism in brook stickleback persists due to balancing selection in the absence of reproductive isolation, although the selective forces were not evaluated. The significant changes in phenotypic frequencies in two populations are likely associated with environmental disturbances such as species introductions.
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- J. Lowey
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Key Laboratory of Oceanic and Polar Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture, East China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Shanghai 200090, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB T3E 6K6, Canada
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McKinney G, McPhee MV, Pascal C, Seeb JE, Seeb LW. Network Analysis of Linkage Disequilibrium Reveals Genome Architecture in Chum Salmon. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2020; 10:1553-1561. [PMID: 32165371 PMCID: PMC7202013 DOI: 10.1534/g3.119.400972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2019] [Accepted: 02/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Many studies exclude loci that exhibit linkage disequilibrium (LD); however, high LD can signal reduced recombination around genomic features such as chromosome inversions or sex-determining regions. Chromosome inversions and sex-determining regions are often involved in adaptation, allowing for the inheritance of co-adapted gene complexes and for the resolution of sexually antagonistic selection through sex-specific partitioning of genetic variants. Genomic features such as these can escape detection when loci with LD are removed; in addition, failing to account for these features can introduce bias to analyses. We examined patterns of LD using network analysis to identify an overlapping chromosome inversion and sex-determining region in chum salmon. The signal of the inversion was strong enough to show up as false population substructure when the entire dataset was analyzed, while the effect of the sex-determining region on population structure was only obvious after restricting analysis to the sex chromosome. Understanding the extent and geographic distribution of inversions is now a critically important part of genetic analyses of natural populations. Our results highlight the importance of analyzing and understanding patterns of LD in genomic dataset and the perils of excluding or ignoring loci exhibiting LD. Blindly excluding loci in LD would have prevented detection of the sex-determining region and chromosome inversion while failing to understand the genomic features leading to high-LD could have resulted in false interpretations of population structure.
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- Garrett McKinney
- College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 17101 Point Lena Loop Road, Juneau, AK, 99801
- School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, 1122 NE Boat Street, Box 355020, Seattle WA 98195
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- College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 17101 Point Lena Loop Road, Juneau, AK, 99801
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- School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, 1122 NE Boat Street, Box 355020, Seattle WA 98195
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- School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, 1122 NE Boat Street, Box 355020, Seattle WA 98195
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- School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, 1122 NE Boat Street, Box 355020, Seattle WA 98195
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Currey MC, Bassham SL, Cresko WA. Genetic divergence outpaces phenotypic evolution among threespine stickleback populations in old freshwater habitats. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2019; 128:415-434. [PMID: 36846094 PMCID: PMC9957565 DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Species such as threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) that inhabit divergent selective environments and that have diversified on different time scales can be of value for understanding evolutionary processes. Here we synthesize high-resolution genotypic and phenotypic data to explore a largely unstudied distribution of threespine stickleback populations living in oceanic and freshwater habitats along coastal and inland regions of Oregon. Many inland aquatic habitats of Oregon remained unglaciated during the last ice age, meaning that some extant Oregon lake and river stickleback may have descended from freshwater populations established long before more well-studied, post-glacial freshwater populations. To address the degree of congruence between genetic and phenotypic divergence, we directly compared Oregon stickleback to much younger (post-glacial) Alaskan populations. We found phenotypic variation in Oregon stickleback to be primarily partitioned between oceanic and freshwater habitats, as has been documented in other stickleback systems. However, the main axis of genetic divergence was between coastal and inland regions regardless of habitat type. Furthermore, when comparing patterns between Oregon and Alaska we found similar levels of phenotypic divergence, but much greater genetic divergence among Oregon's populations. The Oregon stickleback system therefore appears well suited for future studies linking genotypic and phenotypic change, further extending the utility of this small fish to provide general insights into evolutionary processes.
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- Mark C Currey
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1254, USA
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1254, USA
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1254, USA
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Zhang C, Sun M, Zhang X, Chen S, Nie G, Peng Y, Huang L, Ma X. AFLP-based genetic diversity of wild orchardgrass germplasm collections from Central Asia and Western China, and the relation to environmental factors. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0195273. [PMID: 29641553 PMCID: PMC5894997 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0195273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2017] [Accepted: 03/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Dactylis glomerata L. (orchardgrass) is an important perennial forage species in temperate areas of the world. It is usually used for silage, grazing and hay because of its high nutritional value and reproducibility. Central Asia, Xinjiang and Tibetan Plateau in China possess various special micro-environments that harbor many valuable resources, while different degrees of degradation of the grassland ecosystem occurred due to climatic changing and human activities. Investigating the genetic diversity of wild D. glomerat could provide basis for collection, protection, and utilization of some excellent germplasm resources. Totally 210 individuals from 14 populations—five from Xinjiang, two from Kangding (Tibetan Plateau), and seven from Central Asia were identified using AFLP technology. The average values of Nei’s genetic diversity (Hj) and Shannon information index (Ho) were 0.383 and 0.394 respectively. UPGMA tree, STRUCTURE analysis and principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) showed populations from same region clustered together. AMOVA revealed 35.10% of the genetic differentiation (Fst) occurred among populations. Gene flow (Nm) was limited among all populations. Genetic diversity of D. glomerata was high but limited under isolation-by-distance pattern, resulting in high genetic differentiation and low gene flow among populations. Adjacent regions also exhibited similar results because of the barriers of high mountains. The environmental factors, such as precipitation, elevation, latitude and longitude also had some impacts on genetic diversity and structure pattern of populations.
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- Chenglin Zhang
- Department of Grassland Science, Animal Science and Technology College, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Grassland Science, Animal Science and Technology College, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Grassland Science, Animal Science and Technology College, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Southwest University for Nationalities, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Grassland Science, Animal Science and Technology College, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Grassland Science, Animal Science and Technology College, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Grassland Science, Animal Science and Technology College, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Grassland Science, Animal Science and Technology College, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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Matthews B, Best RJ, Feulner PGD, Narwani A, Limberger R. Evolution as an ecosystem process: insights from genomics. Genome 2017; 61:298-309. [PMID: 29241022 DOI: 10.1139/gen-2017-0044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Evolution is a fundamental ecosystem process. The study of genomic variation of organisms can not only improve our understanding of evolutionary processes, but also of contemporary and future ecosystem dynamics. We argue that integrative research between the fields of genomics and ecosystem ecology could generate new insights. Specifically, studies of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, evolutionary rescue, and eco-evolutionary dynamics could all benefit from information about variation in genome structure and the genetic architecture of traits, whereas genomic studies could benefit from information about the ecological context of evolutionary dynamics. We propose new ways to help link research on functional genomic diversity with (reciprocal) interactions between phenotypic evolution and ecosystem change. Despite numerous challenges, we anticipate that the wealth of genomic data being collected on natural populations will improve our understanding of ecosystems.
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- Blake Matthews
- a Eawag, Department of Aquatic Ecology, Center for Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland
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- a Eawag, Department of Aquatic Ecology, Center for Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland.,b School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, 525 S. Beaver Street, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA
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- c Eawag, Department of Fish Ecology and Evolution, Center for Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland.,d University of Bern, Division of Aquatic Ecology and Evolution, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Bern, Switzerland
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- a Eawag, Department of Aquatic Ecology, Center for Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland
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- a Eawag, Department of Aquatic Ecology, Center for Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland.,e Research Institute for Limnology, University of Innsbruck, Mondsee, Austria
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Hanson D, Hu J, Hendry AP, Barrett RDH. Heritable gene expression differences between lake and stream stickleback include both parallel and antiparallel components. Heredity (Edinb) 2017; 119:339-348. [PMID: 28832577 PMCID: PMC5637370 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2017.50] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2017] [Revised: 07/05/2017] [Accepted: 07/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The repeated phenotypic patterns that characterize populations undergoing parallel evolution provide support for a deterministic role of adaptation by natural selection. Determining the level of parallelism also at the genetic level is thus central to our understanding of how natural selection works. Many studies have looked for repeated genomic patterns in natural populations, but work on gene expression is less common. The studies that have examined gene expression have found some support for parallelism, but those studies almost always used samples collected from the wild that potentially confounds the effects of plasticity with heritable differences. Here we use two independent pairs of lake and stream threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) raised in common garden conditions to assess both parallel and antiparallel (that is, similar versus different directions of lake–stream expression divergence in the two watersheds) heritable gene expression differences as measured by total RNA sequencing. We find that more genes than expected by chance show either parallel (22 genes, 0.18% of expressed genes) or antiparallel (24 genes, 0.20% of expressed genes) lake–stream expression differences. These results correspond well with previous genomic studies in stickleback ecotype pairs that found similar levels of parallelism. We suggest that parallelism might be similarly constrained at the genomic and transcriptomic levels.
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- D Hanson
- Redpath Museum and Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Redpath Museum and Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Redpath Museum and Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Redpath Museum and Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Wallberg A, Schöning C, Webster MT, Hasselmann M. Two extended haplotype blocks are associated with adaptation to high altitude habitats in East African honey bees. PLoS Genet 2017; 13:e1006792. [PMID: 28542163 PMCID: PMC5444601 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2017] [Accepted: 05/01/2017] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Understanding the genetic basis of adaption is a central task in biology. Populations of the honey bee Apis mellifera that inhabit the mountain forests of East Africa differ in behavior and morphology from those inhabiting the surrounding lowland savannahs, which likely reflects adaptation to these habitats. We performed whole genome sequencing on 39 samples of highland and lowland bees from two pairs of populations to determine their evolutionary affinities and identify the genetic basis of these putative adaptations. We find that in general, levels of genetic differentiation between highland and lowland populations are very low, consistent with them being a single panmictic population. However, we identify two loci on chromosomes 7 and 9, each several hundred kilobases in length, which exhibit near fixation for different haplotypes between highland and lowland populations. The highland haplotypes at these loci are extremely rare in samples from the rest of the world. Patterns of segregation of genetic variants suggest that recombination between haplotypes at each locus is suppressed, indicating that they comprise independent structural variants. The haplotype on chromosome 7 harbors nearly all octopamine receptor genes in the honey bee genome. These have a role in learning and foraging behavior in honey bees and are strong candidates for adaptation to highland habitats. Molecular analysis of a putative breakpoint indicates that it may disrupt the coding sequence of one of these genes. Divergence between the highland and lowland haplotypes at both loci is extremely high suggesting that they are ancient balanced polymorphisms that greatly predate divergence between the extant honey bee subspecies. Identifying the genes and genetic changes responsible for environmental adaptation is an important step towards understanding how species evolve. The honey bee Apis mellifera has adapted to a variety of habitats across its worldwide geographical distribution. Here we aim to identify the genetic basis of adaptation in honey bees living at high altitudes in the mountains of East Africa, which differ in appearance and behavior from their lowland relatives. We compare whole genome sequences from highland and lowland populations and find that, although in general they are extremely similar, there are two specific chromosomal regions (representing 1.4% of the genome) where they are strongly differentiated. These regions appear to represent structural rearrangements that are strongly correlated with altitude and contain many genes. One of these genomic regions harbors a set of octopamine receptor genes, which we hypothesize regulate differences in learning and foraging behavior between highland and lowland bees. The extremely high divergence between highland and lowland genetic variants in these regions indicates that they have an ancient origin and were likely to have been involved in environmental adaptation even before honey bees came to inhabit their current range.
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- Andreas Wallberg
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- * E-mail: (MTW); (MH)
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- Department of Livestock Population Genomics, Institute of Animal Science, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
- * E-mail: (MTW); (MH)
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Cheng J, Sedlazek F, Altmüller J, Nolte AW. Ectodysplasin signalling genes and phenotypic evolution in sculpins (Cottus). Proc Biol Sci 2016; 282:rspb.2015.0746. [PMID: 26354934 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Despite their deeply conserved function among vertebrates, ectodysplasin (Eda) signalling genes are involved in microevolutionary change in humans and sticklebacks. If such a dual role is common, Eda signalling genes constitute hotspots for morphological evolution. Variation in sculpin (Cottus) skin prickling and body shape resembles patterns caused by variation in Eda signalling in sticklebacks. We mapped Eda signalling genes and performed quantitative trait locus mapping in crosses between Cottus rhenanus and Cottus perifretum. A genomic region containing the Eda receptor (Edar) was strongly associated with prickling and contributed to shape. The expression of Edar in developing prickles and skeletal elements in Cottus was confirmed by in situ hybridization. Coding sequence changes between Edar alleles in C. rhenanus and C. perifretum exceeded sequence differentiation in other vertebrates. However, it is likely that additional genetic elements besides coding changes affect the phenotypic variation. Although the phenotype in a natural hybrid lineage between C. rhenanus and C. perifretum resembles C. perifretum, the respective coding Edar alleles are not fully fixed (88.6%). Hence, our results support an involvement of Eda signalling in microevolutionary changes, but imply that the Edar gene is affected by multiple evolutionary processes that vary among freshwater sculpins.
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- Jie Cheng
- Department for Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, August-Thienemann Strasse 2, 24306 Plön, Germany Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding, College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
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- Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Medical University of Vienna, 1030 Vienna, Austria Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, NY, USA
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- Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany Institute of Human Genetics, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany
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- Department for Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, August-Thienemann Strasse 2, 24306 Plön, Germany
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Pistore A, Barry T, Bowles E, Sharma R, Vanderzwan S, Rogers S, Jamniczky H. Characterizing phenotypic divergence using three-dimensional geometric morphometrics in four populations of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus; Pisces: Gasterosteidae) in Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. CAN J ZOOL 2016. [DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2015-0239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus L., 1758) is a vertebrate model for the study of the relationship between phenotype and environment in facilitating rapid evolutionary change. Using four populations from a system of lakes in Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, and microcomputed tomography and three-dimensional geometric morphometrics, we test the hypothesis that stickleback populations inhabiting freshwater environments display cranial phenotypes that are intermediate between the putative ancestral form and the low-plated freshwater populations that demonstrate substantial divergence toward new phenotypic optima. We further test the hypothesis that phenotypic covariance structure is disrupted in the context of such putatively recent adaptive events. We report significant phenotypic differences among all four populations that includes a component of sexual dimorphism. Furthermore, we show evidence of disrupted phenotypic covariance structure among these populations. Taken together, these findings indicate the importance of phenotypic quantification as a key step in elucidating both the ecological processes responsible for rapid adaptive radiations and the role of developmental mechanisms in biasing evolutionary change.
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- A.E. Pistore
- McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3280 Hospital Drive Northwest, Calgary, AB T2N 4Z6, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive Northwest, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive Northwest, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive Northwest, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive Northwest, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive Northwest, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
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- McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3280 Hospital Drive Northwest, Calgary, AB T2N 4Z6, Canada
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Quantitative trait locus analysis of body shape divergence in nine-spined sticklebacks based on high-density SNP-panel. Sci Rep 2016; 6:26632. [PMID: 27226078 PMCID: PMC4880927 DOI: 10.1038/srep26632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2015] [Accepted: 05/06/2016] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Heritable phenotypic differences between populations, caused by the selective effects of distinct environmental conditions, are of commonplace occurrence in nature. However, the actual genomic targets of this kind of selection are still poorly understood. We conducted a quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping study to identify genomic regions responsible for morphometric differentiation between genetically and phenotypically divergent marine and freshwater nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius) populations. Using a dense panel of SNP-markers obtained by restriction site associated DNA sequencing of an F2 recombinant cross, we found 22 QTL that explained 3.5-12.9% of phenotypic variance in the traits under investigation. We detected one fairly large-effect (PVE = 9.6%) QTL for caudal peduncle length-a trait with a well-established adaptive function showing clear differentiation among marine and freshwater populations. We also identified two large-effect QTL for lateral plate numbers, which are different from the lateral plate QTL reported in earlier studies of this and related species. Hence, apart from identifying several large-effect QTL in shape traits showing adaptive differentiation in response to different environmental conditions, the results suggest intra- and interspecific heterogeneity in the genomic basis of lateral plate number variation.
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Erickson PA, Glazer AM, Killingbeck EE, Agoglia RM, Baek J, Carsanaro SM, Lee AM, Cleves PA, Schluter D, Miller CT. Partially repeatable genetic basis of benthic adaptation in threespine sticklebacks. Evolution 2016; 70:887-902. [PMID: 26947264 DOI: 10.1111/evo.12897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2015] [Revised: 02/10/2016] [Accepted: 02/23/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The extent to which convergent adaptation to similar ecological niches occurs by a predictable genetic basis remains a fundamental question in biology. Threespine stickleback fish have undergone an adaptive radiation in which ancestral oceanic populations repeatedly colonized and adapted to freshwater habitats. In multiple lakes in British Columbia, two different freshwater ecotypes have evolved: a deep-bodied benthic form adapted to forage near the lake substrate, and a narrow-bodied limnetic form adapted to forage in open water. Here, we use genome-wide linkage mapping in marine × benthic F2 genetic crosses to test the extent of shared genomic regions underlying benthic adaptation in three benthic populations. We identify at least 100 Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) harboring genes influencing skeletal morphology. The majority of QTL (57%) are unique to one cross. However, four genomic regions affecting eight craniofacial and armor phenotypes are found in all three benthic populations. We find that QTL are clustered in the genome and overlapping QTL regions are enriched for genomic signatures of natural selection. These findings suggest that benthic adaptation has occurred via both parallel and nonparallel genetic changes.
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- Priscilla A Erickson
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720
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- Biodiversity Research Centre and Zoology Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720.
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How rapidly can animal populations in the wild evolve when faced with sudden environmental shifts? Uplift during the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake abruptly created freshwater ponds on multiple islands in Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska. In the short time since the earthquake, the phenotypes of resident freshwater threespine stickleback fish on at least three of these islands have changed dramatically from their oceanic ancestors. To test the hypothesis that these freshwater populations were derived from oceanic ancestors only 50 y ago, we generated over 130,000 single-nucleotide polymorphism genotypes from more than 1,000 individuals using restriction site-associated DNA sequencing (RAD-seq). Population genomic analyses of these data support the hypothesis of recent and repeated, independent colonization of freshwater habitats by oceanic ancestors. We find evidence of recurrent gene flow between oceanic and freshwater ecotypes where they co-occur. Our data implicate natural selection in phenotypic diversification and support the hypothesis that the metapopulation organization of this species helps maintain a large pool of genetic variation that can be redeployed rapidly when oceanic stickleback colonize freshwater environments. We find that the freshwater populations, despite population genetic analyses clearly supporting their young age, have diverged phenotypically from oceanic ancestors to nearly the same extent as populations that were likely founded thousands of years ago. Our results support the intriguing hypothesis that most stickleback evolution in fresh water occurs within the first few decades after invasion of a novel environment.
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Jamniczky HA, Barry TN, Rogers SM. Eco-evo-devo in the Study of Adaptive Divergence: Examples from Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Integr Comp Biol 2015; 55:166-78. [DOI: 10.1093/icb/icv018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Three-Dimensional Morphometrics for Quantitative Trait Locus Analysis: Tackling Complex Questions with Complex Phenotypes. Evol Biol 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s11692-015-9318-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Mazzarella AB, Voje KL, Hansson TH, Taugbøl A, Fischer B. Strong and parallel salinity-induced phenotypic plasticity in one generation of threespine stickleback. J Evol Biol 2015; 28:667-77. [DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2014] [Revised: 01/23/2015] [Accepted: 01/26/2015] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- A. B. Mazzarella
- Department of Biosciences; Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis; University of Oslo; Oslo Norway
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- Department of Biosciences; Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis; University of Oslo; Oslo Norway
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- Department of Biosciences; Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis; University of Oslo; Oslo Norway
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- Department of Biosciences; Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis; University of Oslo; Oslo Norway
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- Department of Biosciences; Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis; University of Oslo; Oslo Norway
- Department of Theoretical Biology; University of Vienna; Vienna Austria
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Svanbäck R, Quevedo M, Olsson J, Eklöv P. Individuals in food webs: the relationships between trophic position, omnivory and among-individual diet variation. Oecologia 2015; 178:103-14. [PMID: 25651804 PMCID: PMC4555210 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-3203-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2014] [Accepted: 12/15/2014] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Among-individual diet variation is common in natural populations and may occur at any trophic level within a food web. Yet, little is known about its variation among trophic levels and how such variation could affect phenotypic divergence within populations. In this study we investigate the relationships between trophic position (the population’s range and average) and among-individual diet variation. We test for diet variation among individuals and across size classes of Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis), a widespread predatory freshwater fish that undergoes ontogenetic niche shifts. Second, we investigate among-individual diet variation within fish and invertebrate populations in two different lake communities using stable isotopes. Third, we test potential evolutionary implications of population trophic position by assessing the relationship between the proportion of piscivorous perch (populations of higher trophic position) and the degree of phenotypic divergence between littoral and pelagic perch sub-populations. We show that among-individual diet variation is highest at intermediate trophic positions, and that this high degree of among-individual variation likely causes an increase in the range of trophic positions among individuals. We also found that phenotypic divergence was negatively related to trophic position in a population. This study thus shows that trophic position is related to and may be important for among-individual diet variation as well as to phenotypic divergence within populations.
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- Richard Svanbäck
- Department of Ecology and Genetics/Limnology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, 752 36, Uppsala, Sweden,
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A transposable element insertion confers xenobiotic resistance in Drosophila. PLoS Genet 2014; 10:e1004560. [PMID: 25122208 PMCID: PMC4133159 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2014] [Accepted: 06/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The increase in availability of whole genome sequences makes it possible to search for evidence of adaptation at an unprecedented scale. Despite recent progress, our understanding of the adaptive process is still very limited due to the difficulties in linking adaptive mutations to their phenotypic effects. In this study, we integrated different levels of biological information to pinpoint the ecologically relevant fitness effects and the underlying molecular and biochemical mechanisms of a putatively adaptive TE insertion in Drosophila melanogaster: the pogo transposon FBti0019627. We showed that other than being incorporated into Kmn1 transcript, FBti0019627 insertion also affects the polyadenylation signal choice of CG11699 gene. Consequently, only the short 3'UTR transcript of CG11699 gene is produced and the expression level of this gene is higher in flies with the insertion. Our results indicated that increased CG11699 expression leads to xenobiotic stress resistance through increased ALDH-III activity: flies with FBti0019627 insertion showed increased survival rate in response to benzaldehyde, a natural xenobiotic, and to carbofuran, a synthetic insecticide. Although differences in survival rate between flies with and without the insertion were not always significant, when they were, they were consistent with FBti0019627 mediating resistance to xenobiotics. Taken together, our results provide a plausible explanation for the increase in frequency of FBti0019627 in natural populations of D. melanogaster and add to the limited number of examples in which a natural genetic mutation has been linked to its ecologically relevant phenotype. Furthermore, the widespread distribution of TEs across the tree of life and conservation of stress response pathways across organisms make our results relevant not only for Drosophila, but for other organisms as well.
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Matuszewski S, Hermisson J, Kopp M. Fisher's geometric model with a moving optimum. Evolution 2014; 68:2571-88. [PMID: 24898080 PMCID: PMC4285815 DOI: 10.1111/evo.12465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2014] [Accepted: 05/15/2014] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Fisher's geometric model has been widely used to study the effects of pleiotropy and organismic complexity on phenotypic adaptation. Here, we study a version of Fisher's model in which a population adapts to a gradually moving optimum. Key parameters are the rate of environmental change, the dimensionality of phenotype space, and the patterns of mutational and selectional correlations. We focus on the distribution of adaptive substitutions, that is, the multivariate distribution of the phenotypic effects of fixed beneficial mutations. Our main results are based on an “adaptive-walk approximation,” which is checked against individual-based simulations. We find that (1) the distribution of adaptive substitutions is strongly affected by the ecological dynamics and largely depends on a single composite parameter γ, which scales the rate of environmental change by the “adaptive potential” of the population; (2) the distribution of adaptive substitution reflects the shape of the fitness landscape if the environment changes slowly, whereas it mirrors the distribution of new mutations if the environment changes fast; (3) in contrast to classical models of adaptation assuming a constant optimum, with a moving optimum, more complex organisms evolve via larger adaptive steps.
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- Sebastian Matuszewski
- Mathematics and BioSciences Group, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, A-1090, Vienna, Austria.
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Di-Poi C, Lacasse J, Rogers SM, Aubin-Horth N. Extensive behavioural divergence following colonisation of the freshwater environment in threespine sticklebacks. PLoS One 2014; 9:e98980. [PMID: 24914554 PMCID: PMC4051677 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2013] [Accepted: 05/09/2014] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Colonisation of novel environments means facing new ecological challenges often resulting in the evolution of striking divergence in phenotypes. However, little is known about behavioural divergence following colonisation, despite the predicted importance of the role of behavioural phenotype-environment associations in adaptive divergence. We studied the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus), a model system for postglacial colonisation of freshwater habitats largely differing in ecological conditions from the ones faced by the descendants of the marine ancestor. We found that common-environment reared freshwater juveniles were less social, more active and more aggressive than their marine counterparts. This behavioural divergence could represent the result of natural selection that acted on individuals following freshwater colonisation, with predation as a key selection agent. Alternatively, the behavioural profile of freshwater juveniles could represent the characteristics of individuals that preferentially invaded freshwater after the glacial retreat, drawn from the standing variation present in the marine population.
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- Carole Di-Poi
- 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 Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, 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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Miller CT, Glazer AM, Summers BR, Blackman BK, Norman AR, Shapiro MD, Cole BL, Peichel CL, Schluter D, Kingsley DM. Modular skeletal evolution in sticklebacks is controlled by additive and clustered quantitative trait Loci. Genetics 2014; 197:405-20. [PMID: 24652999 PMCID: PMC4012497 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.114.162420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2014] [Accepted: 02/22/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Understanding the genetic architecture of evolutionary change remains a long-standing goal in biology. In vertebrates, skeletal evolution has contributed greatly to adaptation in body form and function in response to changing ecological variables like diet and predation. Here we use genome-wide linkage mapping in threespine stickleback fish to investigate the genetic architecture of evolved changes in many armor and trophic traits. We identify >100 quantitative trait loci (QTL) controlling the pattern of serially repeating skeletal elements, including gill rakers, teeth, branchial bones, jaws, median fin spines, and vertebrae. We use this large collection of QTL to address long-standing questions about the anatomical specificity, genetic dominance, and genomic clustering of loci controlling skeletal differences in evolving populations. We find that most QTL (76%) that influence serially repeating skeletal elements have anatomically regional effects. In addition, most QTL (71%) have at least partially additive effects, regardless of whether the QTL controls evolved loss or gain of skeletal elements. Finally, many QTL with high LOD scores cluster on chromosomes 4, 20, and 21. These results identify a modular system that can control highly specific aspects of skeletal form. Because of the general additivity and genomic clustering of major QTL, concerted changes in both protective armor and trophic traits may occur when sticklebacks inherit either marine or freshwater alleles at linked or possible "supergene" regions of the stickleback genome. Further study of these regions will help identify the molecular basis of both modular and coordinated changes in the vertebrate skeleton.
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- Craig T. Miller
- Molecular and Cell Biology Department, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
- Department of Developmental Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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- Molecular and Cell Biology Department, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Department of Developmental Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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- Department of Developmental Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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- Department of Developmental Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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- Department of Developmental Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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- Department of Developmental Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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- Department of Developmental Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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- Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Department of Developmental Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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Jamniczky HA, Harper EE, Garner R, Cresko WA, Wainwright PC, Hallgrímsson B, Kimmel CB. Association between integration structure and functional evolution in the opercular four-bar apparatus of the threespine stickleback,Gasterosteus aculeatus(Pisces: Gasterosteidae). Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- Heather A. Jamniczky
- Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy and McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health; Faculty of Medicine; University of Calgary; 3280 Hospital Drive NW Calgary AB T2N 3Z6 Canada
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- Institute of Neuroscience; University of Oregon; 222 Huestis Hall Eugene OR 97403 USA
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- Institute of Neuroscience; University of Oregon; 222 Huestis Hall Eugene OR 97403 USA
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution; University of Oregon; 312 Pacific Hall Eugene OR 97403 USA
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- Department of Evolution & Ecology; University of California Davis; 1 Shields Avenue Davis CA 95616 USA
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- Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy; McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health, and Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute; Faculty of Medicine; University of Calgary; 3280 Hospital Drive NW Calgary AB T2N 3Z6 Canada
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- Institute of Neuroscience; University of Oregon; 222 Huestis Hall Eugene OR 97403 USA
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Chávez-Galarza J, Henriques D, Johnston JS, Azevedo JC, Patton JC, Muñoz I, De la Rúa P, Pinto MA. Signatures of selection in the Iberian honey bee (Apis mellifera iberiensis) revealed by a genome scan analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms. Mol Ecol 2013; 22:5890-907. [PMID: 24118235 DOI: 10.1111/mec.12537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2013] [Revised: 09/12/2013] [Accepted: 09/19/2013] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Understanding the genetic mechanisms of adaptive population divergence is one of the most fundamental endeavours in evolutionary biology and is becoming increasingly important as it will allow predictions about how organisms will respond to global environmental crisis. This is particularly important for the honey bee, a species of unquestionable ecological and economical importance that has been exposed to increasing human-mediated selection pressures. Here, we conducted a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-based genome scan in honey bees collected across an environmental gradient in Iberia and used four FST -based outlier tests to identify genomic regions exhibiting signatures of selection. Additionally, we analysed associations between genetic and environmental data for the identification of factors that might be correlated or act as selective pressures. With these approaches, 4.4% (17 of 383) of outlier loci were cross-validated by four FST -based methods, and 8.9% (34 of 383) were cross-validated by at least three methods. Of the 34 outliers, 15 were found to be strongly associated with one or more environmental variables. Further support for selection, provided by functional genomic information, was particularly compelling for SNP outliers mapped to different genes putatively involved in the same function such as vision, xenobiotic detoxification and innate immune response. This study enabled a more rigorous consideration of selection as the underlying cause of diversity patterns in Iberian honey bees, representing an important first step towards the identification of polymorphisms implicated in local adaptation and possibly in response to recent human-mediated environmental changes.
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- Julio Chávez-Galarza
- Mountain Research Centre (CIMO), Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Campus de Sta. Apolónia, Apartado 1172, 5301-855, Bragança, Portugal
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Frazer KK, Russello MA. Lack of parallel genetic patterns underlying the repeated ecological divergence of beach and stream-spawning kokanee salmon. J Evol Biol 2013; 26:2606-21. [DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2013] [Revised: 07/21/2013] [Accepted: 08/25/2013] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- K. K. Frazer
- Department of Biology; The University of British Columbia; Okanagan Campus Kelowna BC Canada
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- Department of Biology; The University of British Columbia; Okanagan Campus Kelowna BC Canada
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Collins S, Rambaut A, Bridgett SJ. Fold or hold: experimental evolution in vitro. J Evol Biol 2013; 26:2123-34. [PMID: 24003997 PMCID: PMC4274015 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2013] [Revised: 07/21/2013] [Accepted: 07/29/2013] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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We introduce a system for experimental evolution consisting of populations of short oligonucleotides (Oli populations) evolving in a modified quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). It is tractable at the genetic, genomic, phenotypic and fitness levels. The Oli system uses DNA hairpins designed to form structures that self-prime under defined conditions. Selection acts on the phenotype of self-priming, after which differences in fitness are amplified and quantified using qPCR. We outline the methodological and bioinformatics tools for the Oli system here and demonstrate that it can be used as a conventional experimental evolution model system by test-driving it in an experiment investigating adaptive evolution under different rates of environmental change.
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- S Collins
- Ashworth Laboratories, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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McEwen JR, Vamosi JC, Rogers SM. Natural selection and neutral evolution jointly drive population divergence between alpine and lowland ecotypes of the allopolyploid plant Anemone multifida (Ranunculaceae). PLoS One 2013; 8:e68889. [PMID: 23874801 PMCID: PMC3715535 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2013] [Accepted: 06/02/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Population differentiation can be driven in large part by natural selection, but selectively neutral evolution can play a prominent role in shaping patters of population divergence. The decomposition of the evolutionary history of populations into the relative effects of natural selection and selectively neutral evolution enables an understanding of the causes of population divergence and adaptation. In this study, we examined heterogeneous genomic divergence between alpine and lowland ecotypes of the allopolyploid plant, Anemone multifida. Using peak height and dominant AFLP data, we quantified population differentiation at non-outlier (neutral) and outlier loci to determine the potential contribution of natural selection and selectively neutral evolution to population divergence. We found 13 candidate loci, corresponding to 2.7% of loci, with signatures of divergent natural selection between alpine and lowland populations and between alpine populations (Fst = 0.074-0.445 at outlier loci), but neutral population differentiation was also evident between alpine populations (FST = 0.041-0.095 at neutral loci). By examining population structure at both neutral and outlier loci, we determined that the combined effects of selection and neutral evolution are associated with the divergence of alpine populations, which may be linked to extreme abiotic conditions and isolation between alpine sites. The presence of outlier levels of genetic variation in structured populations underscores the importance of separately analyzing neutral and outlier loci to infer the relative role of divergent natural selection and neutral evolution in population divergence.
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- Jamie R McEwen
- University of British Columbia, Department of Botany, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Spence R, Wootton RJ, Barber I, Przybylski M, Smith C. Ecological causes of morphological evolution in the three-spined stickleback. Ecol Evol 2013; 3:1717-26. [PMID: 23789080 PMCID: PMC3686204 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2013] [Revised: 03/26/2013] [Accepted: 03/29/2013] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The central assumption of evolutionary theory is that natural selection drives the adaptation of populations to local environmental conditions, resulting in the evolution of adaptive phenotypes. The three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) displays remarkable phenotypic variation, offering an unusually tractable model for understanding the ecological mechanisms underpinning adaptive evolutionary change. Using populations on North Uist, Scotland we investigated the role of predation pressure and calcium limitation on the adaptive evolution of stickleback morphology and behavior. Dissolved calcium was a significant predictor of plate and spine morph, while predator abundance was not. Stickleback latency to emerge from a refuge varied with morph, with populations with highly reduced plates and spines and high predation risk less bold. Our findings support strong directional selection in three-spined stickleback evolution, driven by multiple selective agents.
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- Rowena Spence
- School of Biology, University of St. AndrewsSt. Andrews, KY16 8LB, UK
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- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth UniversityAberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3DA, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of LeicesterLeicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology, University of ŁódźŁódź, Poland
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- School of Biology, University of St. AndrewsSt. Andrews, KY16 8LB, UK
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Roda F, Ambrose L, Walter GM, Liu HL, Schaul A, Lowe A, Pelser PB, Prentis P, Rieseberg LH, Ortiz-Barrientos D. Genomic evidence for the parallel evolution of coastal forms in theSenecio lautuscomplex. Mol Ecol 2013; 22:2941-52. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.12311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2012] [Revised: 02/10/2013] [Accepted: 02/14/2013] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Federico Roda
- School of Biological Sciences; The University of Queensland; St. Lucia Qld 4072 Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences; The University of Queensland; St. Lucia Qld 4072 Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences; The University of Queensland; St. Lucia Qld 4072 Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences; The University of Queensland; St. Lucia Qld 4072 Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences; The University of Queensland; St. Lucia Qld 4072 Australia
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- Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity; School of Earth and Environmental Science; University of Adelaide; Adelaide SA Australia
- Science Resource Centre; Department for Environment and Natural Resources; North Terrace Adelaide South Australia Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences; University of Canterbury; Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand
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- School of Earth, Environmental and Biological Sciences; Queensland University of Technology; Brisbane Qld 4001 Australia
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- Department of Botany; University of British Columbia; 3529-6270 University Boulevard Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
- Biology Department; Indiana University; 1001 E Third Street Bloomington IN 47405 USA
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Flaxman SM, Feder JL, Nosil P. Genetic hitchhiking and the dynamic buildup of genomic divergence during speciation with gene flow. Evolution 2013; 67:2577-91. [PMID: 24033168 DOI: 10.1111/evo.12055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2012] [Accepted: 01/02/2013] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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A major issue in evolutionary biology is explaining patterns of differentiation observed in population genomic data, as divergence can be due to both direct selection on a locus and genetic hitchhiking. "Divergence hitchhiking" (DH) theory postulates that divergent selection on a locus reduces gene flow at physically linked sites, facilitating the formation of localized clusters of tightly linked, diverged loci. "Genome hitchhiking" (GH) theory emphasizes genome-wide effects of divergent selection. Past theoretical investigations of DH and GH focused on static snapshots of divergence. Here, we used simulations assessing a variety of strengths of selection, migration rates, population sizes, and mutation rates to investigate the relative importance of direct selection, GH, and DH in facilitating the dynamic buildup of genomic divergence as speciation proceeds through time. When divergently selected mutations were limiting, GH promoted divergence, but DH had little measurable effect. When populations were small and divergently selected mutations were common, DH enhanced the accumulation of weakly selected mutations, but this contributed little to reproductive isolation. In general, GH promoted reproductive isolation by reducing effective migration rates below that due to direct selection alone, and was important for genome-wide "congealing" or "coupling" of differentiation (F(ST)) across loci as speciation progressed.
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- Samuel M Flaxman
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, N211 Ramaley Hall, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
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Hosoya S, Kai W, Fujita M, Miyaki K, Suetake H, Suzuki Y, Kikuchi K. The genetic architecture of growth rate in juvenile Takifugu species. Evolution 2012; 67:590-8. [PMID: 23356630 DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01781.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Closely related species have often evolved dramatic differences in body size. Takifugu rubripes (fugu) is a large marine pufferfish whose genome has been sequenced, whereas T. niphobles is the smallest species among Takifugu. We show that, unsurprisingly, the juvenile growth rate of T. rubripes is higher than that of T. niphobles in a laboratory setting. We produced F(2) progenies of their F(1) hybrids and found one quantitative trait locus (QTL) significantly associated with variation in juvenile body size. This QTL region (3.5 Mb) contains no known genes directly related to growth phenotype (such as IGFs) except Fgf21, which inhibits growth hormone signaling in mouse. The QTL in Takifugu spp. is distinct from the region previously known to control body size variations in stickleback or tilapia. Our results suggest that in the fish tested herein, genomic regions underlying body size evolution might have different genetic origins. They also suggest that many diverse traits in Takifugu spp. are amenable to genetic mapping.
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- Sho Hosoya
- Fisheries Laboratory, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Maisaka, Shizuoka 431-0214, Japan
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Spence R, Wootton RJ, Przybylski M, Zięba G, Macdonald K, Smith C. Calcium and salinity as selective factors in plate morph evolution of the three‐spined stickleback (
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asterosteus aculeatus
). J Evol Biol 2012; 25:1965-1974. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02585.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2012] [Revised: 05/23/2012] [Accepted: 06/17/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- R. Spence
- School of Biology University of St. Andrews St. Andrews Fife UK
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- Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences Aberystwyth University Aberystwyth Ceredigion UK
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- Department of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology University of Łódź Łódź Poland
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- Department of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology University of Łódź Łódź Poland
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- School of Biology University of St. Andrews St. Andrews Fife UK
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- School of Biology University of St. Andrews St. Andrews Fife UK
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McLEOD KA, SCASCITELLI M, VELLEND M. Detecting small-scale genotype-environment interactions in apomictic dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) populations. J Evol Biol 2012; 25:1667-75. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02549.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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McKinnon JS, Hamele N, Frey N, Chou J, McAleavey L, Greene J, Paulson W. Male choice in the stream-anadromous stickleback complex. PLoS One 2012; 7:e37951. [PMID: 22701589 PMCID: PMC3372497 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2011] [Accepted: 04/30/2012] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Studies of mating preferences and pre-mating reproductive isolation have often focused on females, but the potential importance of male preferences is increasingly appreciated. We investigated male behavior in the context of reproductive isolation between divergent anadromous and stream-resident populations of threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, using size-manipulated females of both ecotypes. Specifically, we asked if male courtship preferences are present, and if they are based on relative body size, non-size aspects of ecotype, or other traits. Because male behaviors were correlated with each other, we conducted a principal components analysis on the correlations and ran subsequent analyses on the principal components. The two male ecotypes differed in overall behavioral frequencies, with stream-resident males exhibiting consistently more vigorous and positive courtship than anadromous males, and an otherwise aggressive behavior playing a more positive role in anadromous than stream-resident courtship. We observed more vigorous courtship toward smaller females by (relatively small) stream-resident males and the reverse pattern for (relatively large) anadromous males. Thus size-assortative male courtship preferences may contribute to reproductive isolation in this system, although preferences are far from absolute. We found little indication of males responding preferentially to females of their own ecotype independent of body size.
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- Jeffrey S McKinnon
- Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America.
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Forister ML, Dyer LA, Singer MS, Stireman III JO, Lill JT. Revisiting the evolution of ecological specialization, with emphasis on insect–plant interactions. Ecology 2012; 93:981-91. [DOI: 10.1890/11-0650.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 217] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Dalziel AC, Ou M, Schulte PM. Mechanisms underlying parallel reductions in aerobic capacity in non-migratory threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) populations. J Exp Biol 2012; 215:746-59. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.065425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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SUMMARY
Non-migratory, stream-resident populations of threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, have a lower maximum oxygen consumption (ṀO2,max) than ancestral migratory marine populations. Here, we examined laboratory-bred stream-resident and marine crosses from two locations (West and Bonsall Creeks) to determine which steps in the oxygen transport and utilization cascade evolved in conjunction with, and thus have the potential to contribute to, these differences in ṀO2,max. We found that West Creek stream-resident fish have larger muscle fibres (not measured in Bonsall fish), Bonsall Creek stream-resident fish have smaller ventricles, and both stream-resident populations have evolved smaller pectoral adductor and abductor muscles. However, many steps of the oxygen cascade did not evolve in stream-resident populations (gill surface area, hematocrit, mean cellular hemoglobin content and the activities of mitochondrial enzymes per gram ventricle and pectoral muscle), arguing against symmorphosis. We also studied F1 hybrids to determine which traits in the oxygen cascade have a genetic architecture similar to that of ṀO2,max. In West Creek, ṀO2,max, abductor and adductor size all showed dominance of marine alleles, whereas in Bonsall Creek, ṀO2,max and ventricle mass showed dominance of stream-resident alleles. We also found genetically based differences among marine populations in hematocrit, ventricle mass, pectoral muscle mass and pectoral muscle pyruvate kinase activity. Overall, reductions in pectoral muscle mass evolved in conjunction with reductions in ṀO2,max in both stream-resident populations, but the specific steps in the oxygen cascade that have a genetic basis similar to that of ṀO2,max, and are thus predicted to have the largest impact on ṀO2,max, differ among populations.
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- Anne C. Dalziel
- Biodiversity Research Center and Department of Zoology, 6270 University Blvd, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CanadaV6T 1Z4
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- Biodiversity Research Center and Department of Zoology, 6270 University Blvd, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CanadaV6T 1Z4
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- Biodiversity Research Center and Department of Zoology, 6270 University Blvd, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CanadaV6T 1Z4
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Dalziel AC, Vines TH, Schulte PM. REDUCTIONS IN PROLONGED SWIMMING CAPACITY FOLLOWING FRESHWATER COLONIZATION IN MULTIPLE THREESPINE STICKLEBACK POPULATIONS. Evolution 2011; 66:1226-39. [PMID: 22486700 DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01498.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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- Anne C Dalziel
- Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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O'Brien C, Bradshaw WE, Holzapfel CM. Testing for causality in covarying traits: genes and latitude in a molecular world. Mol Ecol 2011; 20:2471–6. [PMID: 21595769 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2011.05133.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Many traits are assumed to have a causal (necessary) relationship with one another because of their common covariation with a physiological, ecological or geographical factor. Herein, we demonstrate a straightforward test for inferring causality using residuals from regression of the traits with the common factor. We illustrate this test using the covariation with latitude of a proxy for the circadian clock and a proxy for the photoperiodic timer in Drosophila and salmon. A negative result of this test means that further discussion of the adaptive significance of a causal connection between the covarying traits is unwarranted. A positive result of this test provides a point of departure that can then be used as a platform from which to determine experimentally the underlying functional connections and only then to discuss their adaptive significance.
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- Conor O'Brien
- Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-5289, USA
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Deagle BE, Jones FC, Chan YF, Absher DM, Kingsley DM, Reimchen TE. Population genomics of parallel phenotypic evolution in stickleback across stream-lake ecological transitions. Proc Biol Sci 2011; 279:1277-86. [PMID: 21976692 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Understanding the genetics of adaptation is a central focus in evolutionary biology. Here, we use a population genomics approach to examine striking parallel morphological divergences of parapatric stream-lake ecotypes of threespine stickleback fish in three watersheds on the Haida Gwaii archipelago, western Canada. Genome-wide variation at greater than 1000 single nucleotide polymorphism loci indicate separate origin of giant lake and small-bodied stream fish within each watershed (mean F(ST) between watersheds = 0.244 and within = 0.114). Genome scans within watersheds identified a total of 21 genomic regions that are highly differentiated between ecotypes and are probably subject to directional selection. Most outliers were watershed-specific, but genomic regions undergoing parallel genetic changes in multiple watersheds were also identified. Interestingly, several of the stream-lake outlier regions match those previously identified in marine-freshwater and benthic-limnetic genome scans, indicating reuse of the same genetic loci in different adaptive scenarios. We also identified multiple new outlier loci, which may contribute to unique aspects of differentiation in stream-lake environments. Overall, our data emphasize the important role of ecological boundaries in driving both local and broadly occurring parallel genetic changes during adaptation.
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- Bruce E Deagle
- Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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Solem O, Berg OK. Morphological differences in parr of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar from three regions in Norway. JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY 2011; 78:1451-1469. [PMID: 21539553 DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2011.02950.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Morphological characters were compared in parr (total length 33-166 mm) of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar sampled from eight wild populations in three regions, three in northern, two in the middle and three in southern Norway, covering a distance of 1700 km (from 70° N to 58° N). On the basis of morphological characters 94·6% of the individuals were correctly classified into the three regions. Discrimination between populations within these three regions also had a high degree of correct classification (89·0-95·8%). Principle component analysis identified largest differences to be in head characters, notably eye diameter and jawbone, with the smallest diameter and head size among the northernmost populations. Fish from the southern rivers had a deeper body form whereas fish from the middle region had larger heads and pectoral fins. This illustrates that S. salar already in the early parr stage has morphological traits, which can be used in discrimination between regions and populations and that these differences are discernible in spite of the volume of escaped farmed fish spawning in Norwegian rivers during the past 30 years.
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- O Solem
- Department of Biology, Realfagbygget, Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU, 7491 Trondheim, Norway.
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Wake DB, Wake MH, Specht CD. Homoplasy: From Detecting Pattern to Determining Process and Mechanism of Evolution. Science 2011; 331:1032-5. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1188545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 291] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Fraser DJ, Weir LK, Bernatchez L, Hansen MM, Taylor EB. Extent and scale of local adaptation in salmonid fishes: review and meta-analysis. Heredity (Edinb) 2011; 106:404-20. [PMID: 21224881 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2010.167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 239] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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What is the extent and scale of local adaptation (LA)? How quickly does LA arise? And what is its underlying molecular basis? Our review and meta-analysis on salmonid fishes estimates the frequency of LA to be ∼55-70%, with local populations having a 1.2 times average fitness advantage relative to foreign populations or to their performance in new environments. Salmonid LA is evident at a variety of spatial scales (for example, few km to>1000 km) and can manifest itself quickly (6-30 generations). As the geographic scale between populations increases, LA is generally more frequent and stronger. Yet the extent of LA in salmonids does not appear to differ from that in other assessed taxa. Moreover, the frequency with which foreign salmonid populations outperform local populations (∼23-35%) suggests that drift, gene flow and plasticity often limit or mediate LA. The relatively few studies based on candidate gene and genomewide analyses have identified footprints of selection at both small and large geographical scales, likely reflecting the specific functional properties of loci and the associated selection regimes (for example, local niche partitioning, pathogens, parasites, photoperiodicity and seasonal timing). The molecular basis of LA in salmonids is still largely unknown, but differential expression at the same few genes is implicated in the convergent evolution of certain phenotypes. Collectively, future research will benefit from an integration of classical and molecular approaches to understand: (i) species differences and how they originate, (ii) variation in adaptation across scales, life stages, population sizes and environmental gradients, and (iii) evolutionary responses to human activities.
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- D J Fraser
- Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
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Sylvester JB, Pottin K, Streelman JT. Integrated Brain Diversification along the Early Neuraxes. BRAIN, BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION 2011; 78:237-47. [DOI: 10.1159/000329840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2011] [Accepted: 05/10/2011] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Genes underlying the evolution of morphological traits have recently been identified in a number of model species. In the stickleback, the metabolic adaptations to a freshwater habitat have now been linked to a well-known hormonal system.
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- Vincent Laudet
- Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, INRA, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France.
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