Yoel E. Stuart
Contrasting effects of environment and genetics generate a continuum of parallel evolution
Stuart, Yoel E.; Veen, Thor; Weber, Jesse N.; Hanson, Dieta; Ravinet, Mark; Lohman, Brian K.; Thompson, Cole J.; Tasneem, Tania; Doggett, Andrew; Izen, Rebecca; Ahmed, Newaz; Barrett, Rowan D. H.; Hendry, Andrew P.; Peichel, Catherine L.; Bolnick, Daniel I.
Authors
Thor Veen
Jesse N. Weber
Dieta Hanson
Mark Ravinet
Brian K. Lohman
Cole J. Thompson
Tania Tasneem
Andrew Doggett
Rebecca Izen
Newaz Ahmed
Rowan D. H. Barrett
Andrew P. Hendry
Catherine L. Peichel
Daniel I. Bolnick
Abstract
© 2017 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved. Parallel evolution of similar traits by independent populations in similar environments is considered strong evidence for adaptation by natural selection. Often, however, replicate populations in similar environments do not all evolve in the same way, thus deviating from any single, predominant outcome of evolution. This variation might arise from non-adaptive, population-specific effects of genetic drift, gene flow or limited genetic variation. Alternatively, these deviations from parallel evolution might also reflect predictable adaptation to cryptic environmental heterogeneity within discrete habitat categories. Here, we show that deviations from parallel evolution are the consequence of environmental variation within habitats combined with variation in gene flow. Threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in adjoining lake and stream habitats (a lake-stream 'pair') diverge phenotypically, yet the direction and magnitude of this divergence is not always fully parallel among 16 replicate pairs. We found that the multivariate direction of lake-stream morphological divergence was less parallel between pairs whose environmental differences were less parallel. Thus, environmental heterogeneity among lake-stream pairs contributes to deviations from parallel evolution. Additionally, likely genomic targets of selection were more parallel between environmentally more similar pairs. In contrast, variation in the magnitude of lake-stream divergence (independent of direction) was better explained by differences in lake-stream gene flow; pairs with greater lake-stream gene flow were less morphologically diverged. Thus, both adaptive and non-adaptive processes work concurrently to generate a continuum of parallel evolution across lake-stream stickleback population pairs.
Citation
Stuart, Y. E., Veen, T., Weber, J. N., Hanson, D., Ravinet, M., Lohman, B. K., …Bolnick, D. I. (2017). Contrasting effects of environment and genetics generate a continuum of parallel evolution. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1(6), Article 0158. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0158
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Apr 7, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | May 22, 2017 |
Publication Date | 2017-06 |
Deposit Date | Jan 14, 2020 |
Journal | Nature Ecology & Evolution |
Electronic ISSN | 2397-334X |
Publisher | Nature Research |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 1 |
Issue | 6 |
Article Number | 0158 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0158 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3725758 |
Publisher URL | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0158 |
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