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Lineage-specific adaptation to climate involves flowering time in North American Arabidopsis lyrata

Walden, Nora and Lucek, Kay and Willi, Yvonne. (2020) Lineage-specific adaptation to climate involves flowering time in North American Arabidopsis lyrata. Molecular Ecology, 29 (8). pp. 1436-1451.

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Abstract

Adaptation to local climatic conditions is commonly found within species, but whether it involves the same intraspecific genomic variants is unknown. We studied this question in North American Arabidopsis lyrata, whose current distribution is shaped by post‐glacial range expansion from two refugia, resulting in two distinct genetic clusters covering comparable climatic gradients. Using pooled whole‐genome sequence data of 41 outcrossing populations, we identified loci associated with three niche‐determining climatic variables in the two clusters and compared these outliers. Little evidence was found for parallelism in climate adaptation for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and for genes with an accumulation of outlier SNPs. Significantly increased selection coefficients supported them as candidates of climate adaptation. However, the fraction of gene ontology (GO) terms shared between clusters was higher compared to outlier SNPs and outlier genes, suggesting that selection acts on similar pathways but not necessarily the same genes. Enriched GO terms involved responses to abiotic and biotic stress, circadian rhythm and development, with flower development and reproduction being among the most frequently detected. In line with GO enrichment, regulators of flowering time were detected as outlier genes. Our results suggest that while adaptation to environmental gradients on the genomic level are lineage‐specific in A. lyrata, similar biological processes seem to be involved. Differential loss of standing genetic variation, probably driven by genetic drift, can in part account for the lack of parallel evolution on the genomic level.
Faculties and Departments:05 Faculty of Science > Departement Umweltwissenschaften > Integrative Biologie > Pflanzenökologie und -evolution (Willi)
UniBasel Contributors:Willi, Yvonne and Lucek, Kay and Hohmann, Nora
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Blackwell
ISSN:0962-1083
e-ISSN:1365-294X
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
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Last Modified:20 Apr 2021 09:58
Deposited On:14 Aug 2020 13:01

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