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Genomic signature of adaptive divergence despite strong nonadaptive forces on Edaphic Islands: A case study of primulina juliae
Wang, Jing Feng, Chao Jiao, Tenglong Von Wettberg, Eric Bishop Kang, Ming
Wang, Jing
Feng, Chao
Jiao, Tenglong
Von Wettberg, Eric Bishop
Kang, Ming
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© The Author(s) 2017.
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10.1093/gbe/evx263
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Both genetic drift and divergent selection are expected to be strong evolutionary forces driving population differentiation on edaphic habitat islands. However, the relative contribution of genetic drift and divergent selection to population divergence has rarely been tested simultaneously. In this study, restriction-site associated DNA-based population genomic analyses were applied to assess the relative importance of drift and divergent selection on population divergence of Primulina juliae, an edaphic specialist fromsouthern China. All populations were found with low standing genetic variation, small effective population size (NE), and signatures of bottlenecks. Populations with the lowest genetic variation were most genetically differentiated from other populations and the extent of genetic drift increased with geographic distance fromother populations. Together with evidence of isolation by distance, these results support neutral drift as a critical evolutionary driver.Nonetheless, redundancy analysis revealed that genomic variation is significantly associated with both edaphic habitats and climatic factors independently of spatial effects. Moreover, more genomic variationwas explained by environmental factors than by geographic variables, suggesting that local adaptationmight have played an important role in driving population divergence. Finally, outlier tests and environment association analyses identified 31 singlenucleotide polymorphisms as candidates for adaptive divergence. Among these candidates, 26 single-nucleotide polymorphisms occur in/near genes that potentially play a role in adaptation to edaphic specialization. This study has important implications that improve our understanding of the joint roles of genetic drift and adaptation in generating population divergence and diversity of edaphic specialists.
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2017-12-01
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Wang J, Feng C, Jiao T, Von Wettberg EB, Kang M. Genomic signature of adaptive divergence despite strong nonadaptive forces on edaphic islands: a case study of Primulina juliae. Genome biology and evolution. 2017 Dec;9(12):3495-508.