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Jewell CP, Zhang SV, Gibson MJS, Tovar-Méndez A, McClure B, Moyle LC. Intraspecific Genetic Variation Underlying Postmating Reproductive Barriers between Species in the Wild Tomato Clade (Solanum sect. Lycopersicon). J Hered 2020; 111:216-226. [PMID: 32072169 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esaa003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2019] [Accepted: 02/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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A goal of speciation genetics is to understand how the genetic components underlying interspecific reproductive barriers originate within species. Unilateral incompatibility (UI) is a postmating prezygotic barrier in which pollen rejection in the female reproductive tract (style) occurs in only one direction of an interspecific cross. Natural variation in the strength of UI has been observed among populations within species in the wild tomato clade. In some cases, molecular loci underlying self-incompatibility (SI) are associated with this variation in UI, but the mechanistic connection between these intra- and inter-specific pollen rejection behaviors is poorly understood in most instances. We generated an F2 population between SI and SC genotypes of a single species, Solanum pennellii, to examine the genetic basis of intraspecific variation in UI against other species, and to determine whether loci underlying SI are genetically associated with this variation. We found that F2 individuals vary in the rate at which UI rejection occurs. One large effect QTL detected for this trait co-localized with the SI-determining S-locus. Moreover, individuals that expressed S-RNase-the S-locus protein involved in SI pollen rejection-in their styles had much more rapid UI responses compared with those without S-RNase protein. Our analysis shows that intraspecific variation at mate choice loci-in this case at loci that prevent self-fertilization-can contribute to variation in the expression of interspecific isolation, including postmating prezygotic barriers. Understanding the nature of such intraspecific variation can provide insight into the accumulation of these barriers between diverging lineages.
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
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Nováková E, Zablatzká L, Brus J, Nesrstová V, Hanáček P, Kalendar R, Cvrčková F, Majeský Ľ, Smýkal P. Allelic Diversity of Acetyl Coenzyme A Carboxylase accD/ bccp Genes Implicated in Nuclear-Cytoplasmic Conflict in the Wild and Domesticated Pea ( Pisum sp.). Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:E1773. [PMID: 30974846 PMCID: PMC6480052 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20071773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2019] [Revised: 04/04/2019] [Accepted: 04/08/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Reproductive isolation is an important component of species differentiation. The plastid accD gene coding for the acetyl-CoA carboxylase subunit and the nuclear bccp gene coding for the biotin carboxyl carrier protein were identified as candidate genes governing nuclear-cytoplasmic incompatibility in peas. We examined the allelic diversity in a set of 195 geographically diverse samples of both cultivated (Pisum sativum, P. abyssinicum) and wild (P. fulvum and P. elatius) peas. Based on deduced protein sequences, we identified 34 accD and 31 bccp alleles that are partially geographically and genetically structured. The accD is highly variable due to insertions of tandem repeats. P. fulvum and P. abyssinicum have unique alleles and combinations of both genes. On the other hand, partial overlap was observed between P. sativum and P. elatius. Mapping of protein sequence polymorphisms to 3D structures revealed that most of the repeat and indel polymorphisms map to sequence regions that could not be modeled, consistent with this part of the protein being less constrained by requirements for precise folding than the enzymatically active domains. The results of this study are important not only from an evolutionary point of view but are also relevant for pea breeding when using more distant wild relatives.
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- Eliška Nováková
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Palacký University, 78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Palacký University, 78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Geoinformatics, Faculty of Sciences, Palacký University, 78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Mathematical Analysis and Applications of Mathematics, Palacký University, 78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Agronomy, Mendel University, 61300 Brno, Czech Republic.
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- National Center for Biotechnology, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan.
- Department of Agricultural Sciences, Viikki Plant Science Centre and Helsinki Sustainability Centre, University of Helsinki, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland.
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- Department of Experimental Plant Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Charles University, 12844 Prague, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Palacký University, 78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Palacký University, 78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic.
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Vaid N, Laitinen RAE. Diverse paths to hybrid incompatibility in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2019; 97:199-213. [PMID: 30098060 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2018] [Revised: 08/02/2018] [Accepted: 08/08/2018] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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One of the most essential questions of biology is to understand how different species have evolved. Hybrid incompatibility, a phenomenon in which hybrids show reduced fitness in comparison with their parents, can result in reproductive isolation and speciation. Therefore, studying hybrid incompatibility provides an entry point in understanding speciation. Hybrid incompatibilities are known throughout taxa, and the underlying mechanisms have mystified scientists since the theory of evolution by means of natural selection was introduced. In plants, it is only in recent years that the high-throughput genetic and molecular tools have become available for the Arabidopsis genus, thus helping to shed light on the different genes and molecular and evolutionary mechanisms that underlie hybrid incompatibilities. In this review, we highlight the current knowledge of diverse mechanisms that are known to contribute to hybrid incompatibility.
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- Neha Vaid
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany
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Fishman L, Sweigart AL. When Two Rights Make a Wrong: The Evolutionary Genetics of Plant Hybrid Incompatibilities. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY 2018; 69:707-731. [PMID: 29505737 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-042817-040113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Hybrids between flowering plant species often exhibit reduced fitness, including sterility and inviability. Such hybrid incompatibilities create barriers to genetic exchange that can promote reproductive isolation between diverging populations and, ultimately, speciation. Additionally, hybrid breakdown opens a window into hidden molecular and evolutionary processes occurring within species. Here, we review recent work on the mechanisms and origins of hybrid incompatibility in flowering plants, including both diverse genic interactions and chromosomal incompatibilities. Conflict and coevolution among and within plant genomes contributes to the evolution of some well-characterized genic incompatibilities, but duplication and drift also play important roles. Inversions, while contributing to speciation by suppressing recombination, rarely cause underdominant sterility. Translocations cause severe F1 sterility by disrupting meiosis in heterozygotes, making their fixation in outcrossing sister species a paradox. Evolutionary genomic analyses of both genic and chromosomal incompatibilities, in the context of population genetic theory, can explicitly test alternative scenarios for their origins.
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- Lila Fishman
- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana 59812, USA;
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- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA;
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Barnard‐Kubow KB, Galloway LF. Variation in reproductive isolation across a species range. Ecol Evol 2017; 7:9347-9357. [PMID: 29187973 PMCID: PMC5696433 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2017] [Revised: 07/28/2017] [Accepted: 08/01/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Reproductive isolation is often variable within species, a phenomenon that while largely ignored by speciation studies, can be leveraged to gain insight into the potential mechanisms driving the evolution of genetic incompatibilities. We used experimental greenhouse crosses to characterize patterns of reproductive isolation among three divergent genetic lineages of Campanulastrum americanum that occur in close geographic proximity in the Appalachian Mountains. Substantial, asymmetrical reproductive isolation for survival due to cytonuclear incompatibility was found among the lineages (up to 94% reduction). Moderate reductions in pollen viability, as well as cytoplasmic male sterility, were also found between some Mountain populations. We then compared these results to previously established patterns of reproductive isolation between these Mountain lineages and a fourth, widespread Western lineage to fully characterize reproductive isolation across the complete geographic and genetic range of C. americanum. Reproductive isolation for survival and pollen viability was consistent across studies, indicating the evolution of the underlying genetic incompatibilities is primarily determined by intrinsic factors. In contrast, reproductive isolation for germination was only found when crossing Mountain populations with the Western lineage, suggesting the underlying genetic incompatibility is likely influenced by environmental or demographic differences between the two lineages. Cytoplasmic male sterility was also limited in occurrence, being restricted to a handful of Mountain populations in a narrow geographic range. These findings illustrate the complexity of speciation by demonstrating multiple, independent genetic incompatibilities that lead to a mosaic of genetic divergence and reproductive isolation across a species range.
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Selfishness is pervasive and manifests at all scales of biology, from societies, to individuals, to genetic elements within a genome. The relentless struggle to seek evolutionary advantages drives perpetual cycles of adaptation and counter-adaptation, commonly referred to as Red Queen interactions. In this review, we explore insights gleaned from molecular and genetic studies of such genetic conflicts, both extrinsic (between genomes) and intrinsic (within genomes or cells). We argue that many different characteristics of selfish genetic elements can be distilled into two types of advantages: an over-replication advantage (e.g. mobile genetic elements in genomes) and a transmission distortion advantage (e.g. meiotic drivers in populations). These two general categories may help classify disparate types of selfish genetic elements.
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- Richard N McLaughlin
- Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA .,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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Hämälä T, Mattila TM, Leinonen PH, Kuittinen H, Savolainen O. Role of seed germination in adaptation and reproductive isolation in Arabidopsis lyrata. Mol Ecol 2017; 26:3484-3496. [PMID: 28393414 DOI: 10.1111/mec.14135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2017] [Revised: 03/25/2017] [Accepted: 03/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Seed germination is an important developmental and life history stage. Yet, the evolutionary impact of germination has mainly been studied in the context of dormancy, or for its role in reproductive isolation between species. Here, we aim to examine multiple consequences of genetic divergence on germination traits between two Arabidopsis lyrata subspecies: ssp. petraea (Eurasia) and ssp. lyrata (North America). Postdormancy germination time, a potentially adaptive trait, showed differentiation between the populations, and quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping revealed that the trait variation is mainly controlled by two antagonistic loci. These QTL areas contain several candidate genes with known function in postdormancy germination in A. thaliana. The sequence variation of three genes was consistent with differential selection, and they also included fixed nonsynonymous substitutions with potential to account for the phenotypic differentiation. We further show that the divergence between the subspecies has led to a slight but significant reduction in hybrid germination proportions, indicating incipient reproductive isolation. Comparison of reciprocal F1 and F2 progenies suggests that Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibilities likely act through uniparentally inherited factors. Examination of genomewide transmission ratio distortion further revealed that cytonuclear interactions cause substantial pregermination inviability in the hybrids. These results confirm that seed germination has adaptive potential beyond the dormancy stage and that hybrid seed inviability can be one of the first reproductive barriers to arise during divergence.
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- Tuomas Hämälä
- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.,Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.,Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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Simon M, Durand S, Pluta N, Gobron N, Botran L, Ricou A, Camilleri C, Budar F. Genomic Conflicts that Cause Pollen Mortality and Raise Reproductive Barriers in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics 2016; 203:1353-67. [PMID: 27182945 PMCID: PMC4937478 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.183707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2015] [Accepted: 04/28/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Species differentiation and the underlying genetics of reproductive isolation are central topics in evolutionary biology. Hybrid sterility is one kind of reproductive barrier that can lead to differentiation between species. Here, we analyze the complex genetic basis of the intraspecific hybrid male sterility that occurs in the offspring of two distant natural strains of Arabidopsis thaliana, Shahdara and Mr-0, with Shahdara as the female parent. Using both classical and quantitative genetic approaches as well as cytological observation of pollen viability, we demonstrate that this particular hybrid sterility results from two causes of pollen mortality. First, the Shahdara cytoplasm induces gametophytic cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) controlled by several nuclear loci. Second, several segregation distorters leading to allele-specific pollen abortion (pollen killers) operate in hybrids with either cytoplasm. The complete sterility of the hybrid with the Shahdara cytoplasm results from the genetic linkage of the two causes of pollen mortality, i.e., CMS nuclear determinants and pollen killers. Furthermore, natural variation at these loci in A. thaliana is associated with different male-sterility phenotypes in intraspecific hybrids. Our results suggest that the genomic conflicts that underlie segregation distorters and CMS can concurrently lead to reproductive barriers between distant strains within a species. This study provides a new framework for identifying molecular mechanisms and the evolutionary history of loci that contribute to reproductive isolation, and possibly to speciation. It also suggests that two types of genomic conflicts, CMS and segregation distorters, may coevolve in natural populations.
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- Matthieu Simon
- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), AgroParisTech, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Saclay, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), AgroParisTech, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Saclay, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), AgroParisTech, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Saclay, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), AgroParisTech, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Saclay, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), AgroParisTech, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Saclay, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), AgroParisTech, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Saclay, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), AgroParisTech, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Saclay, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), AgroParisTech, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Saclay, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France
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Cytonuclear interactions affect adaptive traits of the annual plant Arabidopsis thaliana in the field. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016; 113:3687-92. [PMID: 26979961 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1520687113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Although the contribution of cytonuclear interactions to plant fitness variation is relatively well documented at the interspecific level, the prevalence of cytonuclear interactions at the intraspecific level remains poorly investigated. In this study, we set up a field experiment to explore the range of effects that cytonuclear interactions have on fitness-related traits in Arabidopsis thaliana To do so, we created a unique series of 56 cytolines resulting from cytoplasmic substitutions among eight natural accessions reflecting within-species genetic diversity. An assessment of these cytolines and their parental lines scored for 28 adaptive whole-organism phenotypes showed that a large proportion of phenotypic traits (23 of 28) were affected by cytonuclear interactions. The effects of these interactions varied from slight but frequent across cytolines to strong in some specific parental pairs. Two parental pairs accounted for half of the significant pairwise interactions. In one parental pair, Ct-1/Sha, we observed symmetrical phenotypic responses between the two nuclear backgrounds when combined with specific cytoplasms, suggesting nuclear differentiation at loci involved in cytonuclear epistasis. In contrast, asymmetrical phenotypic responses were observed in another parental pair, Cvi-0/Sha. In the Cvi-0 nuclear background, fecundity and phenology-related traits were strongly affected by the Sha cytoplasm, leading to a modified reproductive strategy without penalizing total seed production. These results indicate that natural variation in cytoplasmic and nuclear genomes interact to shape integrative traits that contribute to adaptation, thereby suggesting that cytonuclear interactions can play a major role in the evolutionary dynamics ofA. thaliana.
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Mandeville EG, Parchman TL, McDonald DB, Buerkle CA. Highly variable reproductive isolation among pairs of Catostomus species. Mol Ecol 2015; 24:1856-72. [PMID: 25703195 DOI: 10.1111/mec.13118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2014] [Revised: 02/11/2015] [Accepted: 02/13/2015] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Hybridization between diverged taxa tests the strength of reproductive isolation and can therefore reveal mechanisms of reproductive isolation. However, it remains unclear how consistent reproductive isolation is across species' ranges and to what extent reproductive isolation might remain polymorphic as species diverge. To address these questions, we compared outcomes of hybridization across species pairs of Catostomus fishes in three rivers in the Upper Colorado River basin, where an introduced species, C. commersoni, hybridizes with at least two native species, C. discobolus and C. latipinnis. We observed substantial heterogeneity in outcomes of hybridization, both between species pairs and across geographically separate rivers within each species pair. We also observed hybridization of additional related species with our focal species, suggesting that reproductive isolation in this group involves interactions of multiple evolutionary and ecological factors. These findings suggest that a better understanding of the determinants of variation in reproductive isolation is needed and that studies of reproductive isolation in hybrids should consider how the dynamics and mechanisms of reproductive isolation vary over ecological space and over evolutionary time. Our results also have implications for the conservation and management of native catostomids in the Colorado River basin. Heterogeneity in outcomes of hybridization suggests that the threat posed by hybridization and genetic introgression to the persistence of native species probably varies with extent of reproductive isolation, both across rivers and across species pairs.
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- Elizabeth G Mandeville
- Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA; Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA
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Correlation between sequence divergence and polymorphism reveals similar evolutionary mechanisms acting across multiple timescales in a rapidly evolving plastid genome. BMC Evol Biol 2014; 14:268. [PMID: 25539645 PMCID: PMC4300152 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-014-0268-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2014] [Accepted: 12/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Background Although the plastid genome is highly conserved across most angiosperms, multiple lineages have increased rates of structural rearrangement and nucleotide substitution. These lineages exhibit an excess of nonsynonymous substitutions (i.e., elevated dN/dS ratios) in similar subsets of plastid genes, suggesting that similar mechanisms may be leading to relaxed and/or positive selection on these genes. However, little is known regarding whether these mechanisms continue to shape sequence diversity at the intraspecific level. Results We examined patterns of interspecific divergence and intraspecific polymorphism in the plastid genome of Campanulastrum americanum, and across plastid genes found a significant correlation between dN/dS and pN/pS (i.e., the within-species equivalent of dN/dS). A number of genes including ycf1, ycf2, clpP, and ribosomal protein genes exhibited high dN/dS ratios. McDonald-Kreitman tests detected little evidence for positive selection acting on these genes, likely due to the presence of substantial intraspecific divergence. Conclusions These results suggest that mechanisms leading to increased nucleotide substitution rates in the plastid genome are continuing to act at the intraspecific level. Accelerated plastid genome evolution may increase the likelihood of intraspecific cytonuclear genetic incompatibilities, and thereby contribute to the early stages of the speciation process. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12862-014-0268-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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Dobler R, Rogell B, Budar F, Dowling DK. A meta-analysis of the strength and nature of cytoplasmic genetic effects. J Evol Biol 2014; 27:2021-34. [DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2014] [Revised: 07/25/2014] [Accepted: 07/27/2014] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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- R. Dobler
- Institute of Evolution and Ecology; University of Tübingen; Tübingen Germany
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- School of Biological Sciences; Monash University; Clayton Vic. Australia
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- UMR 1318; Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin; INRA; Versailles France
- UMR 1318; Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin; AgroParisTech; Versailles France
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- School of Biological Sciences; Monash University; Clayton Vic. Australia
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Sherman NA, Victorine A, Wang RJ, Moyle LC. Interspecific tests of allelism reveal the evolutionary timing and pattern of accumulation of reproductive isolation mutations. PLoS Genet 2014; 10:e1004623. [PMID: 25211473 PMCID: PMC4161300 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2014] [Accepted: 07/23/2014] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Despite extensive theory, little is known about the empirical accumulation and evolutionary timing of mutations that contribute to speciation. Here we combined QTL (Quantitative Trait Loci) analyses of reproductive isolation, with information on species evolutionary relationships, to reconstruct the order and timing of mutations contributing to reproductive isolation between three plant (Solanum) species. To evaluate whether reproductive isolation QTL that appear to coincide in more than one species pair are homologous, we used cross-specific tests of allelism and found evidence for both homologous and lineage-specific (non-homologous) alleles at these co-localized loci. These data, along with isolation QTL unique to single species pairs, indicate that >85% of isolation-causing mutations arose later in the history of divergence between species. Phylogenetically explicit analyses of these data support non-linear models of accumulation of hybrid incompatibility, although the specific best-fit model differs between seed (pairwise interactions) and pollen (multi-locus interactions) sterility traits. Our findings corroborate theory that predicts an acceleration ('snowballing') in the accumulation of isolation loci as lineages progressively diverge, and suggest different underlying genetic bases for pollen versus seed sterility. Pollen sterility in particular appears to be due to complex genetic interactions, and we show this is consistent with a snowball model where later arising mutations are more likely to be involved in pairwise or multi-locus interactions that specifically involve ancestral alleles, compared to earlier arising mutations.
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- Natasha A. Sherman
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
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Genetics of cryptic speciation within an Arctic mustard, Draba nivalis. PLoS One 2014; 9:e93834. [PMID: 24691072 PMCID: PMC3972243 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2013] [Accepted: 03/09/2014] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Crossing experiments indicate that hybrid sterility barriers frequently have developed within diploid, circumpolar plant species of the genus Draba. To gain insight into the rapid evolution of postzygotic reproductive isolation in this system, we augmented the linkage map of one of these species, D. nivalis, and searched for quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with reproductive isolation. The map adds 63 new dominant markers to a previously published dataset of 31 co-dominant microsatellites. These markers include 52 amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs) and 11 sequence-specific amplified polymorphisms (SSAPs) based on retrotransposon sequence. 22 markers displaying transmission ratio distortion were further included in the map. We resolved eight linkage groups with a total map length of 894 cM. Significant genotype-trait associations, or quantitative trait loci (QTL), were detected for reproductive phenotypes including pollen fertility (4 QTLs), seed set (3 QTLs), flowering time (3 QTLs) and number of flowers (4 QTLs). Observed patterns of inheritance were consistent with the influence of both nuclear-nuclear interactions and chromosomal changes on these traits. All seed set QTLs and one pollen fertility QTL displayed underdominant effects suggestive of the involvement of chromosomal rearrangements in hybrid sterility. Interestingly, D. nivalis is predominantly self-fertilizing, which may facilitate the establishment of underdominant loci and contribute to reproductive isolation.
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Remington DL, Leinonen PH, Leppälä J, Savolainen O. Complex genetic effects on early vegetative development shape resource allocation differences between Arabidopsis lyrata populations. Genetics 2013; 195:1087-102. [PMID: 23979581 PMCID: PMC3813839 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.113.151803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Costs of reproduction due to resource allocation trade-offs have long been recognized as key forces in life history evolution, but little is known about their functional or genetic basis. Arabidopsis lyrata, a perennial relative of the annual model plant A. thaliana with a wide climatic distribution, has populations that are strongly diverged in resource allocation. In this study, we evaluated the genetic and functional basis for variation in resource allocation in a reciprocal transplant experiment, using four A. lyrata populations and F2 progeny from a cross between North Carolina (NC) and Norway parents, which had the most divergent resource allocation patterns. Local alleles at quantitative trait loci (QTL) at a North Carolina field site increased reproductive output while reducing vegetative growth. These QTL had little overlap with flowering date QTL. Structural equation models incorporating QTL genotypes and traits indicated that resource allocation differences result primarily from QTL effects on early vegetative growth patterns, with cascading effects on later vegetative and reproductive development. At a Norway field site, North Carolina alleles at some of the same QTL regions reduced survival and reproductive output components, but these effects were not associated with resource allocation trade-offs in the Norway environment. Our results indicate that resource allocation in perennial plants may involve important adaptive mechanisms largely independent of flowering time. Moreover, the contributions of resource allocation QTL to local adaptation appear to result from their effects on developmental timing and its interaction with environmental constraints, and not from simple models of reproductive costs.
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- David L Remington
- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina 27402
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Cytoplasmic male sterility contributes to hybrid incompatibility between subspecies of Arabidopsis lyrata. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2013; 3:1727-40. [PMID: 23935000 PMCID: PMC3789797 DOI: 10.1534/g3.113.007815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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In crosses between evolutionarily diverged populations, genomic incompatibilities may result in sterile hybrids, indicating evolution of reproductive isolation. In several plant families, crosses within a population can also lead to male sterile progeny because of conflict between the maternally and biparentally inherited genomes. We examined hybrid fertility between subspecies of the perennial outcrossing self-incompatible Lyrate rockcress (Arabidopsis lyrata) in large reciprocal F2 progenies and three generations of backcrosses. In one of the reciprocal F2 progenies, almost one-fourth of the plants were male-sterile. Correspondingly, almost one-half of the plants in one of the four reciprocal backcross progenies expressed male sterility. In an additional four independent F2 and backcross families, three segregated male sterility. The observed asymmetrical hybrid incompatibility is attributable to male sterility factors in one cytoplasm, for which the other population lacks effective fertility restorers. Genotyping of 96 molecular markers and quantitative trait locus mapping revealed that only 60% of the plants having the male sterile cytoplasm and lacking the corresponding restorers were phenotypically male-sterile. Genotyping data showed that there is only one restorer locus, which mapped to a 600-kb interval at the top of chromosome 2 in a region containing a cluster of pentatricopeptide repeat genes. Male fertility showed no trade-off with seed production. We discuss the role of cytoplasm and genomic conflict in incipient speciation and conclude that cytoplasmic male sterility–lowering hybrid fitness is a transient effect with limited potential to form permanent reproductive barriers between diverged populations of hermaphrodite self-incompatible species.
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Investigating incipient speciation in Arabidopsis lyrata from patterns of transmission ratio distortion. Genetics 2013; 194:697-708. [PMID: 23666938 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.113.152561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Our understanding of the development of intrinsic reproductive isolation is still largely based on theoretical models and thorough empirical studies on a small number of species. Theory suggests that reproductive isolation develops through accumulation of epistatic genic incompatibilities, also known as Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller (BDM) incompatibilities. We can detect these from marker transmission ratio distortion (TRD) in hybrid progenies of crosses between species or populations, where TRD is expected to result from selection against heterospecific allele combinations in hybrids. TRD may also manifest itself because of intragenomic conflicts or competition between gametes or zygotes. We studied early stage speciation in Arabidopsis lyrata by investigating patterns of TRD across the genome in F2 progenies of three reciprocal crosses between four natural populations. We found that the degree of TRD increases with genetic distance between crossed populations, but also that reciprocal progenies may differ substantially in their degree of TRD. Chromosomes AL6 and especially AL1 appear to be involved in many single- and two-locus distortions, but the location and source of TRD vary between crosses and between reciprocal progenies. We also found that the majority of single- and two-locus TRD appears to have a gametic, as opposed to zygotic, origin. Thus, while theory on BDM incompatibilities is typically illustrated with derived nuclear alleles proving incompatible in hybrid zygotes, our results suggest a prominent role for distortions emerging before zygote formation.
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Gobron N, Waszczak C, Simon M, Hiard S, Boivin S, Charif D, Ducamp A, Wenes E, Budar F. A cryptic cytoplasmic male sterility unveils a possible gynodioecious past for Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS One 2013; 8:e62450. [PMID: 23658632 PMCID: PMC3639211 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2013] [Accepted: 03/21/2013] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Gynodioecy, the coexistence of hermaphrodites and females (i.e. male-sterile plants) in natural plant populations, most often results from polymorphism at genetic loci involved in a particular interaction between the nuclear and cytoplasmic genetic compartments (cytonuclear epistasis): cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS). Although CMS clearly contributes to the coevolution of involved nuclear loci and cytoplasmic genomes in gynodioecious species, the occurrence of CMS genetic factors in the absence of sexual polymorphism (cryptic CMS) is not easily detected and rarely taken in consideration. We found cryptic CMS in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana after crossing distantly related accessions, Sha and Mr-0. Male sterility resulted from an interaction between the Sha cytoplasm and two Mr-0 genomic regions located on chromosome 1 and chromosome 3. Additional accessions with either nuclear sterility maintainers or sterilizing cytoplasms were identified from crosses with either Sha or Mr-0. By comparing two very closely related cytoplasms with different male-sterility inducing abilities, we identified a novel mitochondrial ORF, named orf117Sha, that is most likely the sterilizing factor of the Sha cytoplasm. The presence of orf117Sha was investigated in worldwide natural accessions. It was found mainly associated with a single chlorotype in accessions belonging to a clade predominantly originating from Central Asia. More than one-third of accessions from this clade carried orf117Sha, indicating that the sterilizing-inducing cytoplasm had spread in this lineage. We also report the coexistence of the sterilizing cytoplasm with a non-sterilizing cytoplasm at a small, local scale in a natural population; in addition a correlation between cytotype and nuclear haplotype was detected in this population. Our results suggest that this CMS system induced sexual polymorphism in A. thaliana populations, at the time when the species was mainly outcrossing.
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- Nicolas Gobron
- INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR1318, IJPB Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France
- AgroParisTech, IJPB Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France
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- INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR1318, IJPB Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France
- AgroParisTech, IJPB Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France
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- INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR1318, IJPB Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France
- AgroParisTech, IJPB Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France
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- INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR1318, IJPB Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France
- AgroParisTech, IJPB Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France
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- INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR1318, IJPB Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France
- AgroParisTech, IJPB Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France
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- INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR1318, IJPB Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France
- AgroParisTech, IJPB Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France
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- INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR1318, IJPB Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France
- AgroParisTech, IJPB Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France
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- INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR1318, IJPB Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France
- AgroParisTech, IJPB Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France
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- INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR1318, IJPB Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France
- AgroParisTech, IJPB Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France
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Hu J, Yi R, Zhang H, Ding Y. Nucleo-cytoplasmic interactions affect RNA editing of cox2, atp6 and atp9 in alloplasmic male-sterile rice (Oryza sativa L.) lines. Mitochondrion 2013; 13:87-95. [PMID: 23395688 DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2013.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2012] [Revised: 01/27/2013] [Accepted: 01/29/2013] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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RNA editing plays an important role in the regulation of mitochondrial gene expression in flowering plants. In this study, we examined RNA editing of the mitochondrial genes cox2, atp6 and atp9 in five isonuclear alloplasmic male-sterile lines (IAMSLs) of rice to investigate whether different cytoplasmic types affect RNA editing. Although many editing sites were conserved among the three genes, we found that the editing efficiency of certain sites was significantly different between different IAMSLs or between IAMSLs and their corresponding cytoplasmic donor CMS lines. Furthermore, several editing sites were found to be either present or absent in certain IAMSLs and their corresponding CMS lines. These results indicate that nuclear loci, as well as unknown editing factors within the mitochondria of different cytoplasmic types, may be involved in RNA editing, and they suggest that RNA editing in plant mitochondria is affected by nucleo-cytoplasmic interactions.
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- Jihong Hu
- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, Key Laboratory for Research and Utilization of Heterosis in Indica Rice, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, People's Republic of China
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Caruso CM, Case AL, Bailey MF. The evolutionary ecology of cytonuclear interactions in angiosperms. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2012; 17:638-643. [PMID: 22784826 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2012.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2012] [Revised: 06/08/2012] [Accepted: 06/13/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Interactions between cytoplasmic and nuclear genomes have significant evolutionary consequences. In angiosperms, the most common cytonuclear interaction is between mitochondrial genes that disrupt pollen production (cytoplasmic male sterility, CMS) and nuclear genes that restore it (nuclear male fertility restorers, Rf). The outcome of CMS/Rf interactions can depend on whether Rf alleles have negative pleiotropic effects on fitness. Although these fitness costs are often considered to be independent of the ecological context, we argue that the effects of Rf alleles on fitness should be context dependent. Thus, measuring the cost of restoration across a range of environments could help explain geographic and phylogenetic variation in the distribution of Rf alleles and the outcome of CMS/Rf interactions.
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- Christina M Caruso
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada.
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Pyhäjärvi T, Aalto E, Savolainen O. Time scales of divergence and speciation among natural populations and subspecies of Arabidopsis lyrata (Brassicaceae). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2012; 99:1314-1322. [PMID: 22822172 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1100580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY Plant populations that face new environments adapt and diverge simultaneously, and both processes leave footprints in their genetic diversity. Arabidopsis lyrata is an excellent species for studying these processes. Pairs of populations and subspecies of A. lyrata represent different stages of divergence. These populations are also known to be locally adapted and display various stages of emerging reproductive isolation. METHODS We used nucleotide diversity data from 19 loci to estimate divergence times and levels of diversity among nine A. lyrata populations. Traditional distance-based methods and model-based clustering analysis were used to supplement pairwise coalescence-based analysis of divergence. KEY RESULTS Estimated divergence times varied from 130,000 generations between North American and European subspecies to 39,000 generations between central European and Scandinavian populations. In concordance with previous studies, the highest level of diversity was found in Central Europe and the lowest in North America and a diverged Russian Karhumäki population. Local adaptation among Northern and central European populations has emerged during the last 39,000 generations. Populations that are reproductively isolated by prezygotic mechanisms have been separated for a longer time period of ∼70,000 generations but still have shared nucleotide polymorphism. CONCLUSIONS In A. lyrata, reproductively isolated populations started to diverge ∼70,000 generations ago and more closely related, locally adapted populations have been separate lineages for ∼39,000 generations. However, based on the posterior distribution of divergence times, the processes leading to reproductive isolation and local adaptation are likely to temporally coincide.
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Leinonen PH, Remington DL, Leppälä J, Savolainen O. Genetic basis of local adaptation and flowering time variation in Arabidopsis lyrata. Mol Ecol 2012; 22:709-23. [PMID: 22724431 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2012.05678.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Understanding how genetic variation at individual loci contributes to adaptation of populations to different local environments is an important topic in modern evolutionary biology. To date, most evidence has pointed to conditionally neutral quantitative trait loci (QTL) showing fitness effects only in some environments, while there has been less evidence for single-locus fitness trade-offs. At QTL underlying local adaptation, alleles from the local population are expected to show a fitness advantage. Cytoplasmic genomes also can have a role in local adaptation, but the role of cytonuclear interactions in adaptive differentiation has remained largely unknown. We mapped genomic regions underlying adaptive differentiation in multiple fitness components and flowering time in diverged populations of a perennial plant Arabidopsis lyrata. Experimental hybrids for this purpose were grown in natural field conditions of the parental populations in Norway and North Carolina (NC), USA, and in the greenhouse. We found QTL where high fitness and early flowering were associated with local alleles, indicating a role of different selection pressures in phenotypic differentiation. At two QTL regions, a fitness component showing local adaptation between the parental populations also showed signs of putative fitness trade-offs. Beneficial dominance effects of conditionally neutral QTL for different fitness components resulted in hybrid vigour at the Norwegian site in the F(2) hybrids. We also found that cytoplasmic genomes contributed to local adaptation and hybrid vigour by interacting with nuclear QTL, but these interactions did not show evidence for cytonuclear coadaptation (high fitness of local alleles combined with the local cytoplasm).
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Cutter AD. The polymorphic prelude to Bateson–Dobzhansky–Muller incompatibilities. Trends Ecol Evol 2012; 27:209-18. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2011] [Revised: 11/09/2011] [Accepted: 11/10/2011] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Weigel D. Natural variation in Arabidopsis: from molecular genetics to ecological genomics. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2012; 158:2-22. [PMID: 22147517 PMCID: PMC3252104 DOI: 10.1104/pp.111.189845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 242] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2011] [Accepted: 12/05/2011] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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- Detlef Weigel
- Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany.
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