Tianjin Key Laboratory of Conservation and Utilization of Animal Diversity, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China.
Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, UK.
Nat Commun. 2024 Jun 12;15(1):5001. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-49344-4.
Theory predicts that compensatory genetic changes reduce negative indirect effects of selected variants during adaptive evolution, but evidence is scarce. Here, we test this in a wild population of Hawaiian crickets using temporal genomics and a high-quality chromosome-level cricket genome. In this population, a mutation, flatwing, silences males and rapidly spread due to an acoustically-orienting parasitoid. Our sampling spanned a social transition during which flatwing fixed and the population went silent. We find long-range linkage disequilibrium around the putative flatwing locus was maintained over time, and hitchhiking genes had functions related to negative flatwing-associated effects. We develop a combinatorial enrichment approach using transcriptome data to test for compensatory, intragenomic coevolution. Temporal changes in genomic selection were distributed genome-wide and functionally associated with the population's transition to silence, particularly behavioural responses to silent environments. Our results demonstrate how 'adaptation begets adaptation'; changes to the sociogenetic environment accompanying rapid trait evolution can generate selection provoking further, compensatory adaptation.
理论预测,在适应性进化过程中,补偿性遗传变化会减少选择变体的负面间接影响,但证据很少。在这里,我们使用时间基因组学和高质量的蟋蟀染色体水平基因组,在夏威夷蟋蟀的野生种群中对此进行了测试。在这个种群中,一个名为 flatwing 的突变使雄性蟋蟀失去了发声能力,并迅速传播,这是一种声学定向寄生虫。我们的采样跨越了一个社会转变期,在此期间 flatwing 固定下来,种群变得沉默。我们发现,在假定的 flatwing 基因座周围的长程连锁不平衡随时间保持不变,并且 hitchhiking 基因具有与 flatwing 相关的负面效应相关的功能。我们使用转录组数据开发了一种组合富集方法,以测试补偿性的、基因组内的协同进化。基因组选择的时间变化在全基因组范围内分布,并与种群向沉默的转变有关,特别是对沉默环境的行为反应。我们的结果表明了“适应会产生适应”的现象;伴随着快速特征进化的社会遗传环境的变化会引发进一步的、补偿性的适应选择。