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| Author(s): |
Prates, Ivan
[1, 2, 3]
;
Penna, Anna
[4]
;
Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut
[5]
;
Carnaval, Ana Carolina
[1, 3]
Total Authors: 4
|
| Affiliation: | [1] CUNY, Grad Ctr, New York, NY - USA
[2] Smithsonian Inst, Natl Museum Nat Hist, Dept Vertebrate Zool, Washington, DC 20560 - USA
[3] CUNY, City Coll New York, Dept Biol, New York, NY 10021 - USA
[4] Univ Texas San Antonio, Dept Anthropol, San Antonio, TX - USA
[5] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Biociencias, Dept Zool, Sao Paulo - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 5
|
| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION; v. 8, n. 23, p. 11932-11944, DEC 2018. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 4 |
| Abstract | |
Environmental gradients constrain physiological performance and thus species' ranges, suggesting that species occurrence in diverse environments may be associated with local adaptation. Genome-environment association analyses (GEAA) have become central for studies of local adaptation, yet they are sensitive to the spatial orientation of historical range expansions relative to landscape gradients. To test whether potentially adaptive genotypes occur in varied climates in wide-ranged species, we implemented GEAA on the basis of genomewide data from the anole lizards Anolis ortonii and Anolis punctatus, which expanded from Amazonia, presently dominated by warm and wet settings, into the cooler and less rainy Atlantic Forest. To examine whether local adaptation has been constrained by population structure and history, we estimated effective population sizes, divergence times, and gene flow under a coalescent framework. In both species, divergence between Amazonian and Atlantic Forest populations dates back to the mid-Pleistocene, with subsequent gene flow. We recovered eleven candidate genes involved with metabolism, immunity, development, and cell signaling in A. punctatus and found no loci whose frequency is associated with environmental gradients in A. ortonii. Distinct signatures of adaptation between these species are not associated with historical constraints or distinct climatic space occupancies. Similar patterns of spatial structure between selected and neutral SNPs along the climatic gradient, as supported by patterns of genetic clustering in A. punctatus, may have led to conservative GEAA performance. This study illustrates how tests of local adaptation can benefit from knowledge about species histories to support hypothesis formulation, sampling design, and landscape gradient characterization. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/50297-0 - Dimensions US-BIOTA São Paulo: a multidisciplinary framework for biodiversity prediction in the Brazilian Atlantic forest hotspot |
| Grantee: | Cristina Yumi Miyaki |
| Support Opportunities: | BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Thematic Grants |
| FAPESP's process: | 03/10335-8 - Systematics and evolution of the herpetological fauna from Neotropical areas |
| Grantee: | Miguel Trefaut Urbano Rodrigues |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Projects - Thematic Grants |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/50146-6 - Comparative phylogeography, phylogeny, paleoclimate modeling, and taxonomy of neotropical reptiles and amphibians |
| Grantee: | Miguel Trefaut Urbano Rodrigues |
| Support Opportunities: | BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Thematic Grants |