Hendricks Sarah, Epstein Brendan, Schönfeld Barbara, Wiench Cody, Hamede Rodrigo, Jones Menna, Storfer Andrew, Hohenlohe Paul
Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, 875 Perimeter Dr., Moscow, Idaho 83844-3051, USA.
School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4236, USA.
Conserv Genet. 2017 Aug;18(4):977-982. doi: 10.1007/s10592-017-0939-5. Epub 2017 Feb 7.
Tasmanian devils face a combination of threats to persistence, including Devil Facial Tumor Disease (DFTD), an epidemic transmissible cancer. We used RAD sequencing to investigate genome-wide patterns of genetic diversity and geographic population structure. Consistent with previous results, we found very low genetic diversity in the species as a whole, and we detected two broad genetic clusters occupying the northwestern portion of the range, and the central and eastern portions. However, these two groups overlap across a broad geographic area, and differentiation between them is modest ( = 0.1081). Our results refine the geographic extent of the zone of mixed ancestry and substructure within it, potentially informing management of genetic variation that existed in pre-diseased populations of the species. DFTD has spread across both genetic clusters, but recent evidence points to a genomic response to selection imposed by DFTD. Any allelic variation for resistance to DFTD may be able to spread across the devil population under selection by DFTD, and/or be present as standing variation in both genetic regions.
袋獾面临着一系列影响其生存的威胁,包括袋獾面部肿瘤病(DFTD),一种传染性癌症流行病。我们使用RAD测序来研究全基因组范围内的遗传多样性模式和地理种群结构。与之前的结果一致,我们发现整个物种的遗传多样性非常低,并且我们检测到两个广泛的遗传簇,一个占据该物种分布范围的西北部,另一个占据中部和东部。然而,这两组在广阔的地理区域内重叠,并且它们之间的分化程度适中(Fst = 0.1081)。我们的结果细化了混合血统区域及其内部亚结构的地理范围,这可能为该物种患病前种群中存在的遗传变异管理提供信息。DFTD已经在两个遗传簇中传播,但最近的证据表明存在对DFTD施加的选择的基因组反应。任何对DFTD具有抗性的等位基因变异可能能够在DFTD的选择下在袋獾种群中传播,和/或作为两个遗传区域中的固定变异存在。