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Campbell CSM, Dutoit L, King TM, Craw D, Burridge CP, Wallis GP, Waters JM. Genome‐wide analysis resolves the radiation of New Zealand's freshwater
Galaxias vulgaris
complex and reveals a candidate species obscured by mitochondrial capture. DIVERS DISTRIB 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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- Department of Zoology University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand
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- Department of Zoology University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand
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- Department of Geology University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand
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- Discipline of Biological Sciences, School of Natural Sciences University of Tasmania Hobart Australia
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Suzuki T, Kuhara N, Tojo K. Phylogeography of Kisaura Ross (Trichoptera: Philopotamidae) of the Japanese Archipelago and the character displacement evolution observed in a secondary contact area between genetically differentiated intra-specific lineages. Zool J Linn Soc 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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In this study we present evidence of an ongoing speciation event in the Japanese Archipelago. The Kisaura nozakii species complex (Philopotamidae) is a group of a small trichopteran insects, and it has been reported that this species has large differences between populations in the copulatory organs (genitalia) of males. Therefore, we conducted molecular phylogenetic analyses based on the mtDNA COI region (658 bp) and genome-wide nDNA single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (16 254 loci) using the K. nozakii species complex and a sister-species, K. borealis. We also conducted principal component analyses (PCA) based on the forewing length and seven morphological characteristics of the male genitalia. It was revealed that the K. nozakii species complex is composed of multiple allopatrically differentiated genetic lineages. However, two genetic lineages were distributed sympatrically/parapatrically in the western area of the Japanese Archipelago, and the occurrence of ‘character displacement’ in the male genitalia was detected in this area. We consider that the evolutionary event in this species complex has high potential to become a model case for elucidating the processes of speciation and species diversification.
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- Tomoya Suzuki
- Faculty of Science, Shinshu University , Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano , Japan
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- Faculty of Science, Shinshu University , Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano , Japan
- Institute of Mountain Science, Shinshu University , Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano , Japan
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De Araujo Barbosa V, Graham SE, Smith BJ, Hogg ID, McGaughran A. Assessing population genetic structure of three New Zealand stream insects using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA markers. Genome 2022; 65:427-441. [PMID: 35785969 DOI: 10.1139/gen-2022-0021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Assessing genetic differentiation among natural populations can aid understanding of dispersal patterns and connectivity among habitats. Several molecular markers have become increasingly popular in determining population genetic structure for this purpose. Here, we compared the resolution of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) and nuclear single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers for detecting population structure among stream insects at small spatial scales. Individuals of three endemic taxa - Coloburiscus humeralis (Ephemeroptera), Zelandobius confusus (Plecoptera), and Hydropsyche fimbriata (Trichoptera) - were collected from forested streams that flow across open pasture in the North Island of New Zealand. Both COI and SNP data indicated limited population structure across the study area, and small differences observed among these species were likely related to their putative dispersal abilities. For example, fine-scale genetic differentiation between and among neighbouring stream populations for H. fimbriata suggests that gene flow, and hence dispersal, may be more limited for this species relative to the others. Based on the generally similar results provided by both types of markers, we suggest that either COI or SNP markers can provide suitable initial estimates of fine-scale population genetic differentiation in stream insects.
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Hamilton, 418394, Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand;
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Hamilton, 418394, Hamilton, New Zealand;
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- University of Waikato, 3717, Department of Science, Hamilton, New Zealand.,Polar Knowledge Canada, 513970, Canadian High Arctic Research Station, Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada;
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- University of Waikato, 3717, School of Science, Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand;
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Suárez D, Arribas P, Jiménez-García E, Emerson BC. Dispersal ability and its consequences for population genetic differentiation and diversification. Proc Biol Sci 2022; 289:20220489. [PMID: 35582805 PMCID: PMC9115014 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Dispersal ability is known to influence geographical structuring of genetic variation within species, with a direct relationship between low vagility and population genetic structure, which can potentially give rise to allopatric speciation. However, our general understanding of the relationship between dispersal ability, population differentiation and lineage diversification is limited. To address this issue, we sampled mitochondrial DNA variation within lineages of beetles and spiders across the Canary Islands to explore the relationships between dispersal ability, differentiation within lineages and diversification. We found positive relationships between population genetic structure and diversification for both beetles and spiders. Comparisons between dispersive and non-dispersive lineages revealed significant differences for both lineage differentiation and diversification. For both taxa, non-dispersive lineages had stronger population genetic structure. Genus-level endemic species richness and proxies for diversification rate within genera were higher in non-dispersive taxa for both beetles and spiders. Comparisons of average and maximum node divergences within genera suggest that species turnover may be higher in non-dispersive genera. Our results reveal a model where dispersal limitation may shape the diversity of lineages across evolutionary timescales by positively influencing intraspecific and species diversity, moderated by higher extinction rates compared to more dispersive lineages.
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- Daniel Suárez
- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, CSIC Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA-CSIC), C/Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 3, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands 38206, Spain,School of Doctoral and Postgraduate Studies, University of La Laguna, 38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
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- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, CSIC Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA-CSIC), C/Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 3, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands 38206, Spain
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- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, CSIC Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA-CSIC), C/Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 3, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands 38206, Spain,School of Doctoral and Postgraduate Studies, University of La Laguna, 38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
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- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, CSIC Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA-CSIC), C/Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 3, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands 38206, Spain
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McCulloch GA, Guhlin J, Dutoit L, Harrop TWR, Dearden PK, Waters JM. Genomic signatures of parallel alpine adaptation in recently evolved flightless insects. Mol Ecol 2021; 30:6677-6686. [PMID: 34592029 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2021] [Revised: 09/16/2021] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Natural selection along elevational gradients has potential to drive predictable adaptations across distinct lineages, but the extent of such repeated evolution remains poorly studied for many widespread alpine taxa. We present parallel genomic analyses of two recently evolved flightless alpine insect lineages to test for molecular signatures of repeated alpine adaptation. Specifically, we compare low-elevation vs. alpine stonefly ecotypes from parallel stream populations in which flightless upland ecotypes have been independently derived. We map 67,922 polymorphic genetic markers, generated across 176 Zelandoperla fenestrata specimens from two independent alpine stream populations in New Zealand's Rock and Pillar Range, to a newly developed plecopteran reference genome. Genome-wide scans revealed 31 regions with outlier single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) differentiating lowland vs. alpine ecotypes in Lug Creek, and 37 regions with outliers differentiating ecotypes in Six Mile Creek. Of these regions, 13% (8/60) yielded outlier SNPs across both within-stream ecotype comparisons, implying comparable genomic shifts contribute to this repeated alpine adaptation. Candidate genes closely linked to repeated outlier regions include several with documented roles in insect wing-development (e.g., dishevelled), suggesting that they may contribute to repeated alpine wing reduction. Additional candidate genes have been shown to influence insect fecundity (e.g., ovo) and lifespan (e.g., Mrp4), implying that they might contribute to life history differentiation between upland and lowland ecotypes. Additional outlier genes have potential roles in the evolution of reproductive isolation among ecotypes (hedgehog and Desaturase 1). These results demonstrate how replicated outlier tests across independent lineages can potentially contribute to the discovery of genes underpinning repeated adaptation.
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- Genomics Aotearoa and Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Genomics Aotearoa and Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Genomics Aotearoa and Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Foster BJ, McCulloch GA, Vogel MFS, Ingram T, Waters JM. Anthropogenic evolution in an insect wing polymorphism following widespread deforestation. Biol Lett 2021; 17:20210069. [PMID: 34376076 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Anthropogenic environmental change can underpin major shifts in natural selective regimes, and can thus alter the evolutionary trajectories of wild populations. However, little is known about the evolutionary impacts of deforestation-one of the most pervasive human-driven changes to terrestrial ecosystems globally. Absence of forest cover (i.e. exposure) has been suggested to play a role in selecting for insect flightlessness in montane ecosystems. Here, we capitalize on human-driven variation in alpine treeline elevation in New Zealand to test whether anthropogenic deforestation has caused shifts in the distributions of flight-capable and flightless phenotypes in a wing-polymorphic lineage of stoneflies from the Zelandoperla fenestrata species complex. Transect sampling revealed sharp transitions from flight-capable to flightless populations with increasing elevation. However, these phenotypic transitions were consistently delineated by the elevation of local treelines, rather than by absolute elevation, providing a novel example of human-driven evolution in response to recent deforestation. The inferred rapid shifts to flightlessness in newly deforested regions have implications for the evolution and conservation of invertebrate biodiversity.
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- Brodie J Foster
- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.,Institut Agro, Rennes, France
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- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Ortego J, Gutiérrez-Rodríguez J, Noguerales V. Demographic consequences of dispersal-related trait shift in two recently diverged taxa of montane grasshoppers. Evolution 2021; 75:1998-2013. [PMID: 33646593 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2020] [Revised: 02/03/2021] [Accepted: 02/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Although the pervasiveness of intraspecific wing-size polymorphism and transitions to flightlessness have long captivated biologists, the demographic outcomes of shifts in dispersal ability are not yet well understood and have been seldom studied at early stages of diversification. Here, we use genomic data to infer the consequences of dispersal-related trait variation in the taxonomically controversial short-winged (Chorthippus corsicus corsicus) and long-winged (Chorthippus corsicus pascuorum) Corsican grasshoppers. Our analyses revealed lack of contemporary hybridization between sympatric long- and short-winged forms and phylogenomic reconstructions supported their taxonomic distinctiveness, rejecting the hypothesis of intraspecific wing polymorphism. Statistical evaluation of alternative models of speciation strongly supported a scenario of Pleistocene divergence (<1.5 Ma) with ancestral gene flow. According to neutral expectations from differences in dispersal capacity, historical effective migration rates from the long- to the short-winged taxon were threefold higher than in the opposite direction. Although populations of the two taxa present a marked genetic structure and have experienced parallel demographic histories, our coalescent-based analyses suggest that reduced dispersal has fueled diversification in the short-winged C. c. corsicus. Collectively, our study illustrates how dispersal reduction can speed up geographical diversification and increase the opportunity for allopatric speciation in topographically complex landscapes.
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- Joaquín Ortego
- Department of Integrative Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain
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- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA-CSIC), La Laguna, Tenerife, Canarias, Spain
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Salces-Castellano A, Andújar C, López H, Pérez-Delgado AJ, Arribas P, Emerson BC. Flightlessness in insects enhances diversification and determines assemblage structure across whole communities. Proc Biol Sci 2021; 288:20202646. [PMID: 33593193 PMCID: PMC7935046 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2020] [Accepted: 01/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Dispersal limitation has been recurrently suggested to shape both macroecological patterns and microevolutionary processes within invertebrates. However, because of potential interactions among biological, environmental, temporal, and spatial variables, causal links among flight-related traits, diversification and spatial patterns of community assembly remain elusive. Integrating genetic variation within species across whole insect assemblages, within a simplified spatial and environmental framework, can be used to reduce the impact of these potentially confounding variables. Here, we used standardized sampling and mitochondrial DNA sequencing for a whole-community characterization of the beetle fauna inhabiting a singular forested habitat (laurel forest) within an oceanic archipelago setting (Canary Islands). The spatial structure of species assemblages together with species-level genetic diversity was compared at the archipelago and island scales for 104 winged and 110 wingless beetle lineages. We found that wingless beetle lineages have: (i) smaller range sizes at the archipelago scale, (ii) lower representation in younger island communities, (iii) stronger population genetic structure, and (iv) greater spatial structuring of species assemblages between and within islands. Our results reveal that dispersal limitation is a fundamental trait driving diversity patterns at multiple hierarchical levels by promoting spatial diversification and affecting the spatial configuration of entire assemblages at both island and archipelago scales.
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- Antonia Salces-Castellano
- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA-CSIC), C/Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 3, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands 38206, Spain
- School of Doctoral and Postgraduate Studies, University of La Laguna, 38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
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- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA-CSIC), C/Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 3, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands 38206, Spain
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- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA-CSIC), C/Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 3, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands 38206, Spain
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- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA-CSIC), C/Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 3, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands 38206, Spain
- School of Doctoral and Postgraduate Studies, University of La Laguna, 38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
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- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA-CSIC), C/Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 3, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands 38206, Spain
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- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA-CSIC), C/Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 3, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands 38206, Spain
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McCulloch GA, Foster BJ, Dutoit L, Harrop TWR, Guhlin J, Dearden PK, Waters JM. Genomics Reveals Widespread Ecological Speciation in Flightless Insects. Syst Biol 2020; 70:863-876. [DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syaa094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2020] [Revised: 11/30/2020] [Accepted: 12/02/2020] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Recent genomic analyses have highlighted parallel divergence in response to ecological gradients, but the extent to which altitude can underpin such repeated speciation remains unclear. Wing reduction and flight loss have apparently evolved repeatedly in montane insect assemblages and have been suggested as important drivers of hexapod diversification. We test this hypothesis using genomic analyses of a widespread wing-polymorphic stonefly species complex in New Zealand. We identified over 50,000 polymorphic genetic markers generated across almost 200 Zelandoperla fenestrata stonefly specimens using a newly generated plecopteran reference genome, to reveal widespread parallel speciation between sympatric full-winged and wing-reduced ecotypes. Rather than the existence of a single, widespread, flightless taxon (Zelandoperla pennulata), evolutionary genomic data reveal that wing-reduced upland lineages have speciated repeatedly and independently from full-winged Z. fenestrata. This repeated evolution of reproductive isolation between local ecotype pairs that lack mitochondrial DNA differentiation suggests that ecological speciation has evolved recently. A cluster of outlier single-nucleotide polymorphisms detected in independently wing-reduced lineages, tightly linked in an approximately 85 kb genomic region that includes the developmental “supergene” doublesex, suggests that this “island of divergence” may play a key role in rapid ecological speciation. [Ecological speciation; genome assembly; genomic island of differentiation; genotyping-by-sequencing; incipient species; plecoptera; wing reduction.]
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- Graham A McCulloch
- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Genomics Aotearoa and Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Genomics Aotearoa and Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Genomics Aotearoa and Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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Campbell EO, Dupuis JR, Holowachuk J, Hladun S, Vankosky MA, Mori BA. Disjunction between canola distribution and the genetic structure of its recently described pest, the canola flower midge ( Contarinia brassicola). Ecol Evol 2020; 10:13284-13296. [PMID: 33304537 PMCID: PMC7713945 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2020] [Revised: 08/10/2020] [Accepted: 09/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Population genomics is a useful tool to support integrated pest management as it can elucidate population dynamics, demography, and histories of invasion. Here, we use a restriction site-associated DNA sequencing approach combined with whole-genome amplification (WGA) to assess genomic population structure of a newly described pest of canola, the diminutive canola flower midge, Contarinia brassicola. Clustering analyses recovered little geographic structure across the main canola production region but differentiated several geographically disparate populations at edges of the agricultural zone. Given a lack of alternative hypotheses for this pattern, we suggest these data support alternative hosts for this species and thus our canola-centric view of this midge as a pest has limited our understanding of its biology. These results speak to the need for increased surveying efforts across multiple habitats and other potential hosts within Brassicaceae to improve both our ecological and evolutionary knowledge of this species and contribute to effective management strategies. We additionally found that use of WGA prior to library preparation was an effective method for increasing DNA quantity of these small insects prior to restriction site-associated DNA sequencing and had no discernible impact on genotyping consistency for population genetic analysis; WGA is therefore likely to be tractable for other similar studies that seek to randomly sample markers across the genome in small organisms.
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- Erin O. Campbell
- Department of Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition Sciences4‐10 Agriculture/Forestry CentreUniversity of AlbertaEdmontonABCanada
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- Agriculture and Agri‐Food CanadaSaskatoon Research and Development CentreSaskatoonSKCanada
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- Agriculture and Agri‐Food CanadaSaskatoon Research and Development CentreSaskatoonSKCanada
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- Agriculture and Agri‐Food CanadaSaskatoon Research and Development CentreSaskatoonSKCanada
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- Department of Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition Sciences4‐10 Agriculture/Forestry CentreUniversity of AlbertaEdmontonABCanada
- Agriculture and Agri‐Food CanadaSaskatoon Research and Development CentreSaskatoonSKCanada
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Birrell JH, Shah AA, Hotaling S, Giersch JJ, Williamson CE, Jacobsen D, Woods HA. Insects in high-elevation streams: Life in extreme environments imperiled by climate change. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2020; 26:6667-6684. [PMID: 32931053 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2020] [Revised: 08/21/2020] [Accepted: 08/24/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Climate change is altering conditions in high-elevation streams worldwide, with largely unknown effects on resident communities of aquatic insects. Here, we review the challenges of climate change for high-elevation aquatic insects and how they may respond, focusing on current gaps in knowledge. Understanding current effects and predicting future impacts will depend on progress in three areas. First, we need better descriptions of the multivariate physical challenges and interactions among challenges in high-elevation streams, which include low but rising temperatures, low oxygen supply and increasing oxygen demand, high and rising exposure to ultraviolet radiation, low ionic strength, and variable but shifting flow regimes. These factors are often studied in isolation even though they covary in nature and interact in space and time. Second, we need a better mechanistic understanding of how physical conditions in streams drive the performance of individual insects. Environment-performance links are mediated by physiology and behavior, which are poorly known in high-elevation taxa. Third, we need to define the scope and importance of potential responses across levels of biological organization. Short-term responses are defined by the tolerances of individuals, their capacities to perform adequately across a range of conditions, and behaviors used to exploit local, fine-scale variation in abiotic factors. Longer term responses to climate change, however, may include individual plasticity and evolution of populations. Whether high-elevation aquatic insects can mitigate climatic risks via these pathways is largely unknown.
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- Jackson H Birrell
- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, West Glacier, MT, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
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Waters J, Emerson B, Arribas P, McCulloch G. Dispersal Reduction: Causes, Genomic Mechanisms, and Evolutionary Consequences. Trends Ecol Evol 2020; 35:512-522. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.01.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2019] [Revised: 01/23/2020] [Accepted: 01/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Möst MH, Donabauer M, Arthofer W, Schlick-Steiner BC, Steiner FM. Towards an evolutionary history of European-Alpine Trechus ground beetles: Species groups and wing reduction. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2020; 149:106822. [PMID: 32294546 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2019] [Revised: 04/02/2020] [Accepted: 04/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The evolution of flight triggered the rise of pterygote insects, but secondary flightlessness has evolved numerous times and is often associated with reduced gene flow among populations and patterns of diversification. With 85 species most of which are wing reduced, the ground beetle genus Trechus in the European Alps may be one such example. Here, we reconstructed a molecular phylogeny using 72 of these species based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences as a basis for reconstructing their evolutionary history. We rearranged the species into 20 monophyletic species groups, of which five are novel and 15 were already established but with different species allocated. Wing measurements revealed a strong tendency for wing reduction but also variation within and among species, with the few fully-winged species distributed across multiple species groups containing also wing-reduced species. Using character mapping and phylogenetic independent contrasts, we found that neither distribution area, body size, pigmentation, elevational zone, nor hygrophily explained wing status in our sample. Assessing five completely sampled clades, we inferred that each of their ancestors had most likely already been wing reduced. We discuss putative scenarios explaining this pattern and the presence of wing polymorphism across the phylogeny. One plausible scenario would be an already wing-reduced last common ancestor of all Trechus species and multiple regains of full wing length via back mutation and/or hybridisation. Alternatively and possibly more likely, the ancestors were either fully winged, with subsequent rapid and repeated wing reduction explaining the current wing-status pattern, or polymorphic, with long-term polymorphism or reselection acting on standing genetic variation explaining the recent fully-winged species. Either way, Trechus ground beetles are a promising, taxonomically and ecologically diverse system for studying the evolution of flightlessness. Areas for future research include morphological assessment of flight muscles, functional analysis of flight capability, and exploration of the mechanistic and genetic bases of wing and flight evolution.
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- Markus H Möst
- Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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Kaltenbach T, Gattolliat JL. The tremendous diversity of Labiobaetis Novikova & Kluge in Indonesia (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae). Zookeys 2019; 895:1-117. [PMID: 31844411 PMCID: PMC6906171 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.895.38576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2019] [Accepted: 09/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Material collected between 2010 and 2014 on the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Bali, Sumba, Sumbawa, Sulawesi, and Seram unveiled the enormous diversity of Labiobaetis Novikova & Kluge in this country. Five species were reported from Indonesia previously (L. fulmeki (Ulmer), L. obscurum (Ulmer), L. necopinatum (Müller-Liebenau), L. ulmeri (Müller-Liebenau), and L. boettgeri (Ulmer)); all were described from adults only and no species were previously known at larval stage. We identified 18 new species by integrative taxonomy using genetic distance (COI, Kimura-2-parameter) and morphology, and they are described and illustrated based on their larvae. Another species, L. multus (Müller-Liebenau) from Malaysia, was also found in Indonesia, increasing the total number of species in Indonesia to 24. Seven morpho-groups of species are proposed based on morphological characters and a key to the larvae of all species from Indonesia and adjacent countries is provided. The total number of Labiobaetis species worldwide is augmented to 123. The examination of the new species allowed us to slightly modify the generic attributes of the larvae. The interspecific K2P distances are usually between 11% and 24%, the intraspecific distances are usually between 0% and 3%. The remarkable richness of the genus in Indonesia is discussed.
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- Thomas Kaltenbach
- Museum of Zoology, Palais de Rumine, Place Riponne 6, CH-1005 Lausanne, SwitzerlandMuseum of ZoologyLausanneSwitzerland
- University of Lausanne (UNIL), Department of Ecology and Evolution, CH-1015 Lausanne, SwitzerlandUniversity of LausanneLausanneSwitzerland
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- Museum of Zoology, Palais de Rumine, Place Riponne 6, CH-1005 Lausanne, SwitzerlandMuseum of ZoologyLausanneSwitzerland
- University of Lausanne (UNIL), Department of Ecology and Evolution, CH-1015 Lausanne, SwitzerlandUniversity of LausanneLausanneSwitzerland
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McCulloch GA, Oliphant A, Dearden PK, Veale AJ, Ellen CW, Waters JM. Comparative transcriptomic analysis of a wing-dimorphic stonefly reveals candidate wing loss genes. EvoDevo 2019; 10:21. [PMID: 31516688 PMCID: PMC6728979 DOI: 10.1186/s13227-019-0135-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2019] [Accepted: 08/24/2019] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Background The genetic basis of wing development has been well characterised for model insect species, but remains poorly understood in phylogenetically divergent, non-model taxa. Wing-polymorphic insect species potentially provide ideal systems for unravelling the genetic basis of secondary wing reduction. Stoneflies (Plecoptera) represent an anciently derived insect assemblage for which the genetic basis of wing polymorphism remains unclear. We undertake quantitative RNA-seq of sympatric full-winged versus vestigial-winged nymphs of a widespread wing-dimorphic New Zealand stonefly, Zelandoperla fenestrata, to identify genes potentially involved in wing development and secondary wing loss. Results Our analysis reveals substantial differential expression of wing-development genes between full-winged versus vestigial-winged stonefly ecotypes. Specifically, of 23 clusters showing significant similarity to Drosophila wing development-related genes and their pea aphid orthologues, nine were significantly upregulated in full-winged stonefly ecotypes, whereas only one cluster (teashirt) was substantially upregulated in the vestigial-winged ecotype. Conclusions These findings suggest remarkable conservation of key wing-development pathways throughout 400 Ma of insect evolution. The finding that two Juvenile Hormone pathway clusters were significantly upregulated in vestigial-winged Zelandoperla supports the hypothesis that Juvenile Hormone may play a key role in modulating insect wing polymorphism, as has previously been suggested for other insect lineages.
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- Graham A McCulloch
- 1Department of Zoology, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, 9054 New Zealand
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- 2Genomics Aotearoa and Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, 9054 New Zealand
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- 2Genomics Aotearoa and Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, 9054 New Zealand
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- 1Department of Zoology, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, 9054 New Zealand.,3Landcare Research, Private Bag 92170, Auckland Mail Centre, Auckland, 1142 New Zealand
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- 1Department of Zoology, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, 9054 New Zealand
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- 1Department of Zoology, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, 9054 New Zealand
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Illera JC, Arenas M, López-Sánchez CA, Obeso JR, Laiolo P. Gradual Distance Dispersal Shapes the Genetic Structure in an Alpine Grasshopper. Genes (Basel) 2019; 10:E590. [PMID: 31387238 PMCID: PMC6724060 DOI: 10.3390/genes10080590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2019] [Revised: 08/01/2019] [Accepted: 08/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The location of the high mountains of southern Europe has been crucial in the phylogeography of most European species, but how extrinsic (topography of sky islands) and intrinsic features (dispersal dynamics) have interacted to shape the genetic structure in alpine restricted species is still poorly known. Here we investigated the mechanisms explaining the colonisation of Cantabrian sky islands in an endemic flightless grasshopper. We scrutinised the maternal genetic variability and haplotype structure, and we evaluated the fitting of two migration models to understand the extant genetic structure in these populations: Long-distance dispersal (LDD) and gradual distance dispersal (GDD). We found that GDD fits the real data better than the LDD model, with an onset of the expansion matching postglacial expansions after the retreat of the ice sheets. Our findings suggest a scenario with small carrying capacity, migration rates, and population growth rates, being compatible with a slow dispersal process. The gradual expansion process along the Cantabrian sky islands found here seems to be conditioned by the suitability of habitats and the presence of alpine corridors. Our findings shed light on our understanding about how organisms which have adapted to live in alpine habitats with limited dispersal abilities have faced new and suitable environmental conditions.
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- Juan Carlos Illera
- Research Unit of Biodiversity (UMIB, UO-CSIC-PA), Oviedo University, 33600 Mieres, Spain.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Immunology, University of Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain
- Biomedical Research Center (CINBIO), University of Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Organisms and Systems, GIS-Forest Group, Oviedo University, 33600 Mieres, Spain
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- Research Unit of Biodiversity (UMIB, UO-CSIC-PA), Oviedo University, 33600 Mieres, Spain
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- Research Unit of Biodiversity (UMIB, UO-CSIC-PA), Oviedo University, 33600 Mieres, Spain
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McCulloch GA, Foster BJ, Dutoit L, Ingram T, Hay E, Veale AJ, Dearden PK, Waters JM. Ecological gradients drive insect wing loss and speciation: The role of the alpine treeline. Mol Ecol 2019; 28:3141-3150. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.15114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2019] [Revised: 04/09/2019] [Accepted: 04/19/2019] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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- Department of Zoology University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand
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- Department of Zoology University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand
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- Department of Zoology University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand
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- Department of Zoology University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand
- Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research Auckland New Zealand
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- Department of Biochemistry University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand
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Young MK, Smith RJ, Pilgrim KL, Fairchild MP, Schwartz MK. Integrative taxonomy refutes a species hypothesis: The asymmetric hybrid origin of Arsapnia arapahoe (Plecoptera, Capniidae). Ecol Evol 2019; 9:1364-1377. [PMID: 30805166 PMCID: PMC6374720 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2018] [Revised: 11/02/2018] [Accepted: 11/29/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Molecular tools are commonly directed at refining taxonomies and the species that constitute their fundamental units. This has been especially insightful for groups for which species hypotheses are ambiguous and have largely been based on morphological differences between certain life stages or sexes, and has added importance when taxa are a focus of conservation efforts. Here, we examine the taxonomic status of Arsapnia arapahoe, a winter stonefly in the family Capniidae that is a species of conservation concern because of its limited abundance and restricted range in northern Colorado, USA. Phylogenetic analyses of sequences of mitochondrial and nuclear genes of this and other capniid stoneflies from this region and elsewhere in western North America indicated extensive haplotype sharing, limited genetic differences, and a lack of reciprocal monophyly between A. arapahoe and the sympatric A. decepta, despite distinctive and consistent morphological differences in the sexual apparatus of males of both species. Analyses of autosomal and sex-linked single nucleotide polymorphisms detected using genotyping by sequencing indicated that all individuals of A. arapahoe consisted of F1 hybrids between female A. decepta and males of another sympatric stonefly, Capnia gracilaria. Rather than constitute a self-sustaining evolutionary lineage, A. arapahoe appears to represent the product of nonintrogressive hybridization in the limited area of syntopy between two widely distributed taxa. This offers a cautionary tale for taxonomists and conservation biologists working on the less-studied components of the global fauna.
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- Michael K. Young
- U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish ConservationMissoulaMontana
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- U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish ConservationMissoulaMontana
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- U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish ConservationMissoulaMontana
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- U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish ConservationMissoulaMontana
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Kim JS, Wang AR, Kim MJ, Lee KH, Kim I. Single-nucleotide polymorphism markers in mitochondrial genomes for identifying Varroa destructor-resistant and -susceptible strains of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Mitochondrial DNA A DNA Mapp Seq Anal 2019; 30:477-489. [PMID: 30691316 DOI: 10.1080/24701394.2018.1551385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Mitogenome sequences have a high potential for possessing single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that can be used to identify different strains of an organism bred based on maternal lines. The European honey bee, Apis mellifera ligustica (Hymenoptera: Apidae), with a high-hygienic behaviour (HHB) against the external parasitic mite Varroa destructor has been bred for several years in Korea. To distinguish this strain from low-hygienic behaviour (LHB) strains, the complete mitogenome of the two strains were sequenced using next-generation sequencing techniques to detect SNPs. The two mitogenomes with lengths of 16,449 and 16,426 base pairs (bp) in the HHB and LHB strains, respectively, contained a typical set of genes (13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNA genes, and 22 tRNA genes, plus one non-coding region), exhibited similar-nucleotide compositions, and had an identical gene arrangement compared to other available A. mellifera mitogenomes. The major differences between the HHB and LHB strains included the length of the intergenic spacer sequences located at the COIII and trnG junction (88 vs. 70 bp) and ND4 and ND4L junction (45 vs. 33 bp) and the presence or absence of a duplicated sequence block (CTTTTTTAAAAAAATAAAAA) in the A + T-rich region. Comparison of the mitogenome sequences from the two strains of A. m. ligustica revealed 23 SNPs in 11 protein-coding genes which were confirmed by sequencing of 10 randomly selected individuals from each strain, indicating the usefulness of these SNP markers for identifying the HHB strain of A. m. ligustica. Therefore, mitogenome sequences are a promising genome source for detecting SNP markers, particularly those in inbred female lines.
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- Jong Seok Kim
- a Department of Applied Biology, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences , Chonnam National University , Gwangju , Republic of Korea
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- a Department of Applied Biology, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences , Chonnam National University , Gwangju , Republic of Korea
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- a Department of Applied Biology, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences , Chonnam National University , Gwangju , Republic of Korea
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- a Department of Applied Biology, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences , Chonnam National University , Gwangju , Republic of Korea
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- a Department of Applied Biology, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences , Chonnam National University , Gwangju , Republic of Korea
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Veale AJ, Dearden PK, Waters JM. First complete mitochondrial genome of a Gripopterygid stonefly from the sub-order Antarctoperlaria: Zelandoperla fenestrata. Mitochondrial DNA B Resour 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2018.1546130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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- Andrew J. Veale
- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Veale AJ, Foster BJ, Dearden PK, Waters JM. Genotyping-by-sequencing supports a genetic basis for wing reduction in an alpine New Zealand stonefly. Sci Rep 2018; 8:16275. [PMID: 30389951 PMCID: PMC6215011 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-34123-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2018] [Accepted: 10/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Wing polymorphism is a prominent feature of numerous insect groups, but the genomic basis for this diversity remains poorly understood. Wing reduction is a commonly observed trait in many species of stoneflies, particularly in cold or alpine environments. The widespread New Zealand stonefly Zelandoperla fenestrata species group (Z. fenestrata, Z. tillyardi, Z. pennulata) contains populations ranging from fully winged (macropterous) to vestigial-winged (micropterous), with the latter phenotype typically associated with high altitudes. The presence of flightless forms on numerous mountain ranges, separated by lowland fully winged populations, suggests wing reduction has occurred multiple times. We use Genotyping by Sequencing (GBS) to test for genetic differentiation between fully winged (n = 62) and vestigial-winged (n = 34) individuals, sampled from a sympatric population of distinct wing morphotypes, to test for a genetic basis for wing morphology. While we found no population genetic differentiation between these two morphotypes across 6,843 SNP loci, we did detect several outlier loci that strongly differentiated morphotypes across independent tests. These findings indicate that small regions of the genome are likely to be highly differentiated between morphotypes, suggesting a genetic basis for wing reduction. Our results provide a clear basis for ongoing genomic analysis to elucidate critical regulatory pathways for wing development in Pterygota.
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- Andrew J Veale
- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, 9016, New Zealand
- Department of Environmental and Animal Sciences, Unitec, Auckland, 1025, New Zealand
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- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, 9016, New Zealand
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- Genomics Aotearoa and Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, 9016, New Zealand
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- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, 9016, New Zealand.
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McCulloch GA, Foster BJ, Waters JM. Phylogeography reveals a North Island range extension for New Zealand's only sexually wing-dimorphic stonefly (Stenoperla helsoni). NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/03014223.2018.1527775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Silva-Brandão KL, Peruchi A, Seraphim N, Murad NF, Carvalho RA, Farias JR, Omoto C, Cônsoli FL, Figueira A, Brandão MM. Loci under selection and markers associated with host plant and host-related strains shape the genetic structure of Brazilian populations of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). PLoS One 2018; 13:e0197378. [PMID: 29787608 PMCID: PMC5963752 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0197378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2017] [Accepted: 05/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We applied the ddRAD genotyping-by-sequencing technique to investigate the genetic distinctiveness of Brazilian populations of the noctuid moth Spodoptera frugiperda, the fall armyworm (FAW), and the role of host-plant association as a source of genetic diversification. By strain-genotyping all field-collected individuals we found that populations collected from corn were composed primarily of corn-strain individuals, while the population collected from rice was composed almost entirely of rice-strain individuals. Outlier analyses indicated 1,184 loci putatively under selection (ca. 15% of the total) related to 194 different Gene Ontologies (GOs); the most numerous GOs were nucleotide binding, ATP binding, metal-ion binding and nucleic-acid binding. The association analyses indicated 326 loci associated with the host plant, and 216 loci associated with the individual strain, including functions related to Bacillus thuringiensis and insecticide resistance. The genetic-structure analyses indicated a moderate level of differentiation among all populations, and lower genetic structure among populations collected exclusively from corn, which suggests that the population collected from rice has a strong influence on the overall genetic structure. Populations of S. frugiperda are structured partially due to the host plant, and pairs of populations using the same host plant are more genetically similar than pairs using different hosts. Loci putatively under selection are the main factors responsible for the genetic structure of these populations, which indicates that adaptive selection on important traits, including the response to control tactics, is acting in the genetic differentiation of FAW populations in Brazil.
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- Karina Lucas Silva-Brandão
- Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Universidade de São Paulo, Campus "Luiz de Queiroz", Laboratório de Melhoramento de Plantas, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Universidade de São Paulo, Campus "Luiz de Queiroz", Laboratório de Melhoramento de Plantas, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo, campus Campinas CTI Renato Archer, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Genética e Biologia Molecular, Centro de Biologia Molecular e Engenharia Genética, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Instituto Phytus, Departamento de Entomologia, Rua Duque de Caxias, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz", Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Entomologia e Acarologia, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz", Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Entomologia e Acarologia, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Universidade de São Paulo, Campus "Luiz de Queiroz", Laboratório de Melhoramento de Plantas, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Centro de Biologia Molecular e Engenharia Genética, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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McCulloch GA, Waters JM. Does wing reduction influence the relationship between altitude and insect body size? A case study using New Zealand's diverse stonefly fauna. Ecol Evol 2017; 8:953-960. [PMID: 29375769 PMCID: PMC5773309 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2017] [Revised: 11/19/2017] [Accepted: 11/20/2017] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Researchers have long been intrigued by evolutionary processes that explain biological diversity. Numerous studies have reported strong associations between animal body size and altitude, but insect analyses have often yielded equivocal results. Here, we analyze a collection database of New Zealand's diverse endemic stonefly fauna (106 species across 21 genera) to test for relationships between altitude and plecopteran body size. This insect assemblage includes a variety of wing-reduced (26 spp) and fully winged (80 spp) taxa and covers a broad range of altitudes (0-2,000 m). We detected significant relationships between altitude and body size for wing-reduced, but not fully winged, stonefly taxa. These results suggest that, while the maintenance of flight apparatus might place a constraint on body size in some fully winged species, the loss of flight may free insects from this evolutionary constraint. We suggest that rapid switches in insect dispersal ability may facilitate rapid evolutionary shifts across a number of biological attributes and may explain the inconsistent results from previous macroecological analyses of insect assemblages.
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- Graham A McCulloch
- School of Biological Sciences The University of Queensland Brisbane Qld Australia
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Moon KL, Chown SL, Fraser CI. Reconsidering connectivity in the sub-Antarctic. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2017; 92:2164-2181. [DOI: 10.1111/brv.12327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2016] [Revised: 02/09/2017] [Accepted: 02/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- Katherine L. Moon
- School of Biological Sciences; Monash University; Clayton 3800 Australia
- Fenner School of Environment and Society; Australian National University; Acton 2601 Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences; Monash University; Clayton 3800 Australia
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- Fenner School of Environment and Society; Australian National University; Acton 2601 Australia
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Hotaling S, Finn DS, Joseph Giersch J, Weisrock DW, Jacobsen D. Climate change and alpine stream biology: progress, challenges, and opportunities for the future. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2017; 92:2024-2045. [PMID: 28105701 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2016] [Revised: 12/04/2016] [Accepted: 12/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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In alpine regions worldwide, climate change is dramatically altering ecosystems and affecting biodiversity in many ways. For streams, receding alpine glaciers and snowfields, paired with altered precipitation regimes, are driving shifts in hydrology, species distributions, basal resources, and threatening the very existence of some habitats and biota. Alpine streams harbour substantial species and genetic diversity due to significant habitat insularity and environmental heterogeneity. Climate change is expected to affect alpine stream biodiversity across many levels of biological resolution from micro- to macroscopic organisms and genes to communities. Herein, we describe the current state of alpine stream biology from an organism-focused perspective. We begin by reviewing seven standard and emerging approaches that combine to form the current state of the discipline. We follow with a call for increased synthesis across existing approaches to improve understanding of how these imperiled ecosystems are responding to rapid environmental change. We then take a forward-looking viewpoint on how alpine stream biologists can make better use of existing data sets through temporal comparisons, integrate remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) technologies, and apply genomic tools to refine knowledge of underlying evolutionary processes. We conclude with comments about the future of biodiversity conservation in alpine streams to confront the daunting challenge of mitigating the effects of rapid environmental change in these sentinel ecosystems.
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- Scott Hotaling
- Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, U.S.A
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- Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, U.S.A.,Departamento de Recursos Hídricos y Ciencias Ambientales, Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, West Glacier, MT 59936, U.S.A
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- Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, U.S.A
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- Freshwater Biological Laboratory, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Fraser CI, McGaughran A, Chuah A, Waters JM. The importance of replicating genomic analyses to verify phylogenetic signal for recently evolved lineages. Mol Ecol 2016; 25:3683-95. [PMID: 27238591 DOI: 10.1111/mec.13708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2015] [Revised: 04/27/2016] [Accepted: 05/18/2016] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Genomewide SNP data generated by nontargeted methods such as RAD and GBS are increasingly being used in phylogenetic and phylogeographic analyses. When these methods are used in the absence of a reference genome, however, little is known about the locations and evolution of the SNPs. In using such data to address phylogenetic questions, researchers risk drawing false conclusions, particularly if a representative number of SNPs is not obtained. Here, we empirically test the robustness of phylogenetic inference based on SNP data for closely related lineages. We conducted a genomewide analysis of 75 712 SNPs, generated via GBS, of southern bull-kelp (Durvillaea). Durvillaea chathamensis co-occurs with D. antarctica on Chatham Island, but the two species have previously been found to be so genetically similar that the status of the former has been questioned. Our results show that D. chathamensis, which differs from D. antarctica ecologically as well as morphologically, is indeed a reproductively isolated species. Furthermore, our replicated analyses show that D. chathamensis cannot be reliably distinguished phylogenetically from closely related D. antarctica using subsets (ranging in size from 400 to 10 000 sites) of the 40 912 parsimony-informative SNPs in our data set and that bootstrap values alone can give misleading impressions of the strength of phylogenetic inferences. These results highlight the importance of independently replicating SNP analyses to verify that phylogenetic inferences based on nontargeted SNP data are robust. Our study also demonstrates that modern genomic approaches can be used to identify cases of recent or incipient speciation that traditional approaches (e.g. Sanger sequencing of a few loci) may be unable to detect or resolve.
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- Ceridwen I Fraser
- Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Act, 2601, Australia
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- CSIRO Land and Water, Black Mountain Laboratories, Clunies Ross Street, Canberra, Act, 2601, Australia
- School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, 30 Flemington Road, Melbourne, Vic, 3010, Australia
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- John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Act, 2601, Australia
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- Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, 9016, New Zealand
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Noguerales V, García-Navas V, Cordero PJ, Ortego J. The role of environment and core-margin effects on range-wide phenotypic variation in a montane grasshopper. J Evol Biol 2016; 29:2129-2142. [DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2016] [Revised: 06/04/2016] [Accepted: 06/06/2016] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- V. Noguerales
- Grupo de Investigación de la Biodiversidad Genética y Cultural; Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos - IREC (CSIC, UCLM, JCCM); Ciudad Real Spain
- Department of Integrative Ecology; Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC); Sevilla Spain
| | - V. García-Navas
- Department of Integrative Ecology; Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC); Sevilla Spain
| | - P. J. Cordero
- Grupo de Investigación de la Biodiversidad Genética y Cultural; Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos - IREC (CSIC, UCLM, JCCM); Ciudad Real Spain
| | - J. Ortego
- Department of Integrative Ecology; Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC); Sevilla Spain
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