The Pleistocene species pump past its prime : evidence from European butterfly sister species |
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Author: | Ebdon, Sam1; Laetsch, Dominik R.1; Dapporto, Leonardo2; |
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1Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 2ZEN Laboratory, Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy 3Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Cornwall, UK
4Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, Fife, UK
5Ecology and Genetics Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 6Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC - Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain |
Format: | article |
Version: | published version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 1.6 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2021090945665 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
John Wiley & Sons,
2021
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Publish Date: | 2021-09-09 |
Description: |
AbstractThe Pleistocene glacial cycles had a profound impact on the ranges and genetic make-up of organisms. While it is clear that the contact zones that have been described for many sister taxa are secondary and have formed in the current interglacial, it is unclear when the taxa involved began to diverge. Previous estimates based on small numbers of loci are unreliable given the stochasticity of genetic drift and the contrasting effects of incomplete lineage sorting and gene flow on gene divergence. Here, we use genome-wide transcriptome data to estimate divergence for 18 sister species pairs of European butterflies showing either sympatric or contact zone distributions. We find that in most cases, species divergence predates the mid-Pleistocene transition or even the entire Pleistocene period. We also show that although post-divergence gene flow is restricted to contact zone pairs, they are not systematically younger than sympatric pairs. This suggests that contact zones are not limited to the initial stages of the speciation process, but can involve notably old taxa. Finally, we show that mitochondrial divergence and nuclear divergence are only weakly correlated and mitochondrial divergence is higher for contact zone pairs. see all
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Series: |
Molecular ecology |
ISSN: | 0962-1083 |
ISSN-E: | 1365-294X |
ISSN-L: | 0962-1083 |
Volume: | 30 |
Issue: | 14 |
Pages: | 3575 - 3589 |
DOI: | 10.1111/mec.15981 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1111/mec.15981 |
Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
Field of Science: |
1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology 1183 Plant biology, microbiology, virology |
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Funding: |
This work was supported by an ERC starting grant (ModelGenomLand). SE is supported by an EastBio studentship from the British Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). KL is supported by a fellowship from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC, NE/L011522/1). VD is supported by the Academy of Finland (Academy Research Fellow, decision no. 328895). RV acknowledges support from project PID2019-107078GB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. LD acknowledges support from project ‘Ricerca e conservazione sugli Impollinatori dell’ Arcipelago Toscano e divulgazione sui Lepidotteri del parco’. AH is supported by a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) David Phillips Fellowship (BB/N020146/1). |
Academy of Finland Grant Number: |
328895 |
Detailed Information: |
328895 (Academy of Finland Funding decision) |
Copyright information: |
© 2021 The Authors. Molecular Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |