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Hager ER, Harringmeyer OS, Wooldridge TB, Theingi S, Gable JT, McFadden S, Neugeboren B, Turner KM, Jensen JD, Hoekstra HE. A chromosomal inversion contributes to divergence in multiple traits between deer mouse ecotypes. Science 2022; 377:399-405. [PMID: 35862520 DOI: 10.1126/science.abg0718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
How locally adapted ecotypes are established and maintained within a species is a long-standing question in evolutionary biology. Using forest and prairie ecotypes of deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus), we characterized the genetic basis of variation in two defining traits-tail length and coat color-and discovered a 41-megabase chromosomal inversion linked to both. The inversion frequency is 90% in the dark, long-tailed forest ecotype; decreases across a habitat transition; and is absent from the light, short-tailed prairie ecotype. We implicate divergent selection in maintaining the inversion at frequencies observed in the wild, despite high levels of gene flow, and explore fitness benefits that arise from suppressed recombination within the inversion. We uncover a key role for a large, previously uncharacterized inversion in the evolution and maintenance of classic mammalian ecotypes.
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Affiliation(s)
- Emily R Hager
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Neugeboren B. Community responsibility for the self-neglectful client. J Aging Soc Policy 1990; 3:111-26. [PMID: 10186773 DOI: 10.1300/j031v03n01_09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Self-neglectful clients, including the elderly, are in jeopardy, partly through their refusal to accept community services that could help them; they require protection from the community. These people are alienated and isolated, and need to be integrated into the community. Their individual rights to control their own lives, however, must be protected. It is the responsibility of the community to structure services in a way that will engage these people. A comprehensive community service program appropriate to their needs would integrate formal and informal care systems by interweaving professional services, informal assistance, and mutual aid within structures that facilitate coordination of formal care programs.
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Affiliation(s)
- B Neugeboren
- Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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