Publication Date:
2014-06-10
Description:
Ecological differences often evolve early in speciation as divergent natural selection drives adaptation to distinct ecological niches, leading ultimately to reproductive isolation. Although this process is a major generator of biodiversity, its genetic basis is still poorly understood. Here we investigate the genetic architecture of niche differentiation in a sympatric species pair of threespine stickleback fish by mapping the environment-dependent effects of phenotypic traits on hybrid feeding and performance under semi-natural conditions. We show that multiple, unlinked loci act largely additively to determine position along the major niche axis separating these recently diverged species. We also find that functional mismatch between phenotypic traits reduces the growth of some stickleback hybrids beyond that expected from an intermediate phenotype, suggesting a role for epistasis between the underlying genes. This functional mismatch might lead to hybrid incompatibilities that are analogous to those underlying intrinsic reproductive isolation but depend on the ecological context.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4149549/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4149549/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Arnegard, Matthew E -- McGee, Matthew D -- Matthews, Blake -- Marchinko, Kerry B -- Conte, Gina L -- Kabir, Sahriar -- Bedford, Nicole -- Bergek, Sara -- Chan, Yingguang Frank -- Jones, Felicity C -- Kingsley, David M -- Peichel, Catherine L -- Schluter, Dolph -- F32 GM086125/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- F32GM086125/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- P30 CA015704/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P50 HG002568/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM089733/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2014 Jul 17;511(7509):307-11. doi: 10.1038/nature13301. Epub 2014 Jun 8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Human Biology and Basic Sciences Divisions, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA [2] University of British Columbia, Biodiversity Research Centre and Zoology Department, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada. ; University of California at Davis, Department of Evolution and Ecology, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA. ; EAWAG, Department of Aquatic Ecology, Center for Ecology, Evolution, and Biogeochemistry, Seestrasse 79, 6047 Kastanienbaum, Switzerland. ; University of British Columbia, Biodiversity Research Centre and Zoology Department, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada. ; 1] Uppsala University, Department of Animal Ecology, Evolutionary Biology Centre (EBC), Norbyvagen 18D, SE-75236 Uppsala, Sweden [2] Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Aquatic Resources, Stangholmsvagen 2, SE-17893 Drottningholm, Sweden. ; Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Developmental Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 279 Campus Drive, Stanford, California 94305, USA. ; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Human Biology and Basic Sciences Divisions, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24909991" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adaptation, Physiological
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Animals
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Biodiversity
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Body Size
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*Ecology
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Feeding Behavior
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*Genetic Speciation
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Phenotype
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Selection, Genetic
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Smegmamorpha/anatomy & histology/*genetics/growth & development/*physiology
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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