Ford Antonia G P, Dasmahapatra Kanchon K, Rüber Lukas, Gharbi Karim, Cezard Timothee, Day Julia J
Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
Department of Biology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK.
Mol Ecol. 2015 Jul;24(13):3421-40. doi: 10.1111/mec.13247. Epub 2015 Jun 19.
Studying recent adaptive radiations in isolated insular systems avoids complicating causal events and thus may offer clearer insight into mechanisms generating biological diversity. Here, we investigate evolutionary relationships and genomic differentiation within the recent radiation of Alcolapia cichlid fish that exhibit extensive phenotypic diversification, and which are confined to the extreme soda lakes Magadi and Natron in East Africa. We generated an extensive RAD data set of 96 individuals from multiple sampling sites and found evidence for genetic admixture between species within Lake Natron, with the highest levels of admixture between sympatric populations of the most recently diverged species. Despite considerable environmental separation, populations within Lake Natron do not exhibit isolation by distance, indicating panmixia within the lake, although individuals within lineages clustered by population in phylogenomic analysis. Our results indicate exceptionally low genetic differentiation across the radiation despite considerable phenotypic trophic variation, supporting previous findings from smaller data sets; however, with the increased power of densely sampled SNPs, we identify genomic peaks of differentiation (FST outliers) between Alcolapia species. While evidence of ongoing gene flow and interspecies hybridization in certain populations suggests that Alcolapia species are incompletely reproductively isolated, the identification of outlier SNPs under diversifying selection indicates the radiation is undergoing adaptive divergence.
研究孤立岛屿系统中近期的适应性辐射可以避免因果事件复杂化,从而可能更清晰地洞察产生生物多样性的机制。在此,我们调查了表现出广泛表型多样化的阿尔科拉皮丽鱼科鱼类近期辐射中的进化关系和基因组分化,这些鱼类局限于东非的马加迪湖和纳特龙湖这两个极端苏打湖。我们从多个采样点生成了一个包含96个个体的广泛RAD数据集,发现纳特龙湖内物种间存在基因混合的证据,最近分化的物种的同域种群之间的混合程度最高。尽管存在相当大的环境隔离,但纳特龙湖内的种群并未表现出距离隔离,表明该湖内存在随机交配,尽管在系统基因组分析中,谱系内的个体按种群聚类。我们的结果表明,尽管存在相当大的表型营养差异,但整个辐射过程中的遗传分化极低,这支持了先前较小数据集的研究结果;然而,随着密集采样的单核苷酸多态性(SNP)的能力增强,我们识别出了阿尔科拉皮丽鱼科物种之间的基因组分化峰值(FST异常值)。虽然某些种群中正在进行基因流动和种间杂交的证据表明阿尔科拉皮丽鱼科物种的生殖隔离不完全,但在多样化选择下识别出的异常SNP表明该辐射正在经历适应性分化。