HeredityPub Date : 2024-05-08DOI: 10.1038/s41437-024-00686-1
Cortland K. Griswold, Saira Asif
{"title":"Correction: Meiosis at three loci in autotetraploids: Probabilities of gamete modes and genotypes without and with preferential cross-over formation","authors":"Cortland K. Griswold, Saira Asif","doi":"10.1038/s41437-024-00686-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41437-024-00686-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12991,"journal":{"name":"Heredity","volume":"132 6","pages":"331-333"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41437-024-00686-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140892019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ecotype variation in the endemic tree Callicarpa subpubescens on small oceanic islands: genetic, phenotypic, and environmental insights","authors":"Suzuki Setsuko, Kyoko Sugai, Ichiro Tamaki, Kayo Hayama, Hidetoshi Kato","doi":"10.1038/s41437-024-00684-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41437-024-00684-3","url":null,"abstract":"Callicarpa subpubescens, endemic to the Ogasawara Islands, is suggested to have multiple ecotypes in the Hahajima Islands, specifically in the central part of the Ogasawara Islands. In this study, associations between genetic groups and spatial distribution, habitat, leaf morphology, size structure, and flowering time of each genetic group were investigated on Hahajima and the satellite Imoutojima Islands. Genetic groups were identified using EST-SSR markers, revealing four ecotypes named based on morphological features: Dwarf (D), Glabrescent (G), Tall (T), and Middle (M), with M being a result of the hybridization of G and T. Ecotype D, adapted to dry environments, is characterized by small tree size, dense thick leaves with abundant hairs, and is distributed in dry scrub. Ecotype G, adapted to understory of mesic forests, lacks leaf hairs. Ecotype T, adapted to the canopy of mesic forests, has hairy leaves and is tall in tree height. Ecotype M, adapted to the canopy of mesic scrub or edges of mesic forests, has hairy leaves but with a shorter tree height than ecotype T. Flowering peaks differed among all ecotype pairs except G and M, but the flowering times more or less overlapped among all ecotypes, suggesting that pre-mating isolation among ecotypes is not perfect. Post-mating isolation is considered absent, as there were no differences in the results, germination, and survival rates of one-year seedlings among inter- and intra-ecotype crossings. The existence of such ecotypes provides valuable insights into the ongoing speciation processes adapting to the oceanic island environments.","PeriodicalId":12991,"journal":{"name":"Heredity","volume":"132 6","pages":"309-319"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140876345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HeredityPub Date : 2024-04-18DOI: 10.1038/s41437-024-00683-4
Fernando Faria Franco, Danilo Trabuco Amaral, Isabel A. S. Bonatelli, Jared B. Meek, Evandro Marsola Moraes, Daniela Cristina Zappi, Nigel Paul Taylor, Deren A. R. Eaton
{"title":"A historical stepping-stone path for an island-colonizing cactus across a submerged “bridge” archipelago","authors":"Fernando Faria Franco, Danilo Trabuco Amaral, Isabel A. S. Bonatelli, Jared B. Meek, Evandro Marsola Moraes, Daniela Cristina Zappi, Nigel Paul Taylor, Deren A. R. Eaton","doi":"10.1038/s41437-024-00683-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41437-024-00683-4","url":null,"abstract":"Here we use population genomic data (ddRAD-Seq) and ecological niche modeling to test biogeographic hypotheses for the divergence of the island-endemic cactus species Cereus insularis Hemsl. (Cereeae; Cactaceae) from its sister species C. fernambucensis Lem. The Cereus insularis grows in the Fernando de Noronha Islands (FNI), a Neotropical archipelago located 350 km off the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (BAF) coast. Phylogeographic reconstructions support a northward expansion by the common ancestor of C. insularis and C. fernambucensis along the mainland BAF coast, with C. insularis diverging from the widespread mainland taxon C. fernambucensis after colonizing FNI in the late Pleistocene. The morphologically distinct C. insularis is monophyletic and nested within C. fernambucensis, as expected from a progenitor-derivative speciation model. We tested alternative biogeographic and demographic hypotheses for the colonization of the FNI using Approximate Bayesian Computation. We found the greatest support for a stepping-stone path that emerged during periods of decreased sea level (the “bridge” hypothesis), in congruence with historical ecological niche modeling that shows highly suitable habitats on stepping-stone islands during glacial periods. The outlier analyses reveal signatures of selection in C. insularis, suggesting a putative role of adaptation driving rapid anagenic differentiation of this species in FNI.","PeriodicalId":12991,"journal":{"name":"Heredity","volume":"132 6","pages":"296-308"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140611196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HeredityPub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.1038/s41437-024-00682-5
Emanuel M. Fonseca, Nathaniel S. Pope, William E. Peterman, Fernanda P. Werneck, Guarino R. Colli, Bryan C. Carstens
{"title":"Genetic structure and landscape effects on gene flow in the Neotropical lizard Norops brasiliensis (Squamata: Dactyloidae)","authors":"Emanuel M. Fonseca, Nathaniel S. Pope, William E. Peterman, Fernanda P. Werneck, Guarino R. Colli, Bryan C. Carstens","doi":"10.1038/s41437-024-00682-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41437-024-00682-5","url":null,"abstract":"One key research goal of evolutionary biology is to understand the origin and maintenance of genetic variation. In the Cerrado, the South American savanna located primarily in the Central Brazilian Plateau, many hypotheses have been proposed to explain how landscape features (e.g., geographic distance, river barriers, topographic compartmentalization, and historical climatic fluctuations) have promoted genetic structure by mediating gene flow. Here, we asked whether these landscape features have influenced the genetic structure and differentiation in the lizard species Norops brasiliensis (Squamata: Dactyloidae). To achieve our goal, we used a genetic clustering analysis and estimate an effective migration surface to assess genetic structure in the focal species. Optimized isolation-by-resistance models and a simulation-based approach combined with machine learning (convolutional neural network; CNN) were then used to infer current and historical effects on population genetic structure through 12 unique landscape models. We recovered five geographically distributed populations that are separated by regions of lower-than-expected gene flow. The results of the CNN showed that geographic distance is the sole predictor of genetic variation in N. brasiliensis, and that slope, rivers, and historical climate had no discernible influence on gene flow. Our novel CNN approach was accurate (89.5%) in differentiating each landscape model. CNN and other machine learning approaches are still largely unexplored in landscape genetics studies, representing promising avenues for future research with increasingly accessible genomic datasets.","PeriodicalId":12991,"journal":{"name":"Heredity","volume":"132 6","pages":"284-295"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41437-024-00682-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140590920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HeredityPub Date : 2024-03-27DOI: 10.1038/s41437-024-00680-7
Takumi Yokomizo, Yuma Takahashi
{"title":"Plasticity of circadian and circatidal rhythms in activity and transcriptomic dynamics in a freshwater snail","authors":"Takumi Yokomizo, Yuma Takahashi","doi":"10.1038/s41437-024-00680-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41437-024-00680-7","url":null,"abstract":"Organisms have diverse biological clocks synchronised with environmental cycles depending on their habitats. Anticipation of tidal changes has driven the evolution of circatidal rhythms in some marine species. In the freshwater snail, Semisulcospira reiniana, individuals in nontidal areas exhibit circadian rhythms, whereas those in tidal areas exhibit both circadian and circatidal rhythms. We investigated whether the circatidal rhythms are genetically determined or induced by environmental cycles. The exposure to a simulated tidal cycle did not change the intensity of circatidal rhythm in individuals in the nontidal population. However, snails in the tidal population showed different activity rhythms depending on the presence or absence of the exposure. Transcriptome analysis revealed that genes with circatidal oscillation increased due to entrainment to the tidal cycle in both populations and dominant rhythmicity was consistent with the environmental cycle. These results suggest plasticity in the endogenous rhythm in the gene expression in both populations. Note that circatidal oscillating genes were more abundant in the tidal population than in the nontidal population, suggesting that a greater number of genes are associated with circatidal clocks in the tidal population compared to the nontidal population. This increase of circatidal clock–controlled genes in the tidal population could be caused by genetic changes in the biological clock or the experience of tidal cycle in the early life stage. Our findings suggest that the plasticity of biological rhythms may have contributed to the adaptation to the tidal environment in S. reiniana.","PeriodicalId":12991,"journal":{"name":"Heredity","volume":"132 5","pages":"267-274"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41437-024-00680-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140305473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HeredityPub Date : 2024-03-27DOI: 10.1038/s41437-024-00681-6
Erika C. Johnston, Carlo Caruso, Elena Mujica, Nia S. Walker, Crawford Drury
{"title":"Complex parental effects impact variation in larval thermal tolerance in a vertically transmitting coral","authors":"Erika C. Johnston, Carlo Caruso, Elena Mujica, Nia S. Walker, Crawford Drury","doi":"10.1038/s41437-024-00681-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41437-024-00681-6","url":null,"abstract":"Coral populations must be able to adapt to changing environmental conditions for coral reefs to persist under climate change. The adaptive potential of these organisms is difficult to forecast due to complex interactions between the host animal, dinoflagellate symbionts and the environment. Here we created 26 larval families from six Montipora capitata colonies from a single reef, showing significant, heritable variation in thermal tolerance. Our results indicate that 9.1% of larvae are expected to exhibit four times the thermal tolerance of the general population. Differences in larval thermotolerance were driven mainly by maternal contributions, but we found no evidence that these effects were driven by symbiont identity despite vertical transmission from the dam. We also document no evidence of reproductive incompatibility attributable to symbiont identity. These data demonstrate significant genetic variation within this population which provides the raw material upon which natural selection can act.","PeriodicalId":12991,"journal":{"name":"Heredity","volume":"132 6","pages":"275-283"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41437-024-00681-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140305472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HeredityPub Date : 2024-03-20DOI: 10.1038/s41437-024-00679-0
Guan-Yu Chen, Shih-Ying Huang, Ming-Der Lin, Thomas Chouvenc, Yung-Hao Ching, Hou-Feng Li
{"title":"Hybrids of two destructive subterranean termites established in the field, revealing a potential for gene flow between species","authors":"Guan-Yu Chen, Shih-Ying Huang, Ming-Der Lin, Thomas Chouvenc, Yung-Hao Ching, Hou-Feng Li","doi":"10.1038/s41437-024-00679-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41437-024-00679-0","url":null,"abstract":"Hybridization between invasive pest species may lead to significant genetic and economic impacts that require close monitoring. The two most invasive and destructive termite species worldwide, Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki and Coptotermes gestroi (Wasmann), have the potential for hybridization in the field. A three-year field survey conducted during the dispersal flight season of Coptotermes in Taiwan identified alates with atypical morphology, which were confirmed as hybrids of the two Coptotermes species using microsatellite and mitochondrial analyses. Out of 27,601 alates collected over three years, 4.4% were confirmed as hybrid alates, and some advanced hybrids (>F1 generations) were identified. The hybrid alates had a dispersal flight season that overlapped with the two parental species 13 out of 15 times. Most of the hybrid alates were females, implying that mating opportunities beyond F1 may primarily be possible through female hybrids. However, the incipient colony growth results from all potential mating combinations suggest that only backcross colonies with hybrid males could sometimes lead to brood development. The observed asymmetrical viability and fertility of hybrid alates may critically reduce the probability of advanced-hybrid colonies being established in the field.","PeriodicalId":12991,"journal":{"name":"Heredity","volume":"132 5","pages":"257-266"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41437-024-00679-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140172230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HeredityPub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.1038/s41437-024-00677-2
Luke Ambrose, Scott L. Allen, Charlie Iro’ofa, Charles Butafa, Nigel W. Beebe
{"title":"Genetic and geographic population structure in the malaria vector, Anopheles farauti, provides a candidate system for pioneering confinable gene-drive releases","authors":"Luke Ambrose, Scott L. Allen, Charlie Iro’ofa, Charles Butafa, Nigel W. Beebe","doi":"10.1038/s41437-024-00677-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41437-024-00677-2","url":null,"abstract":"Indoor insecticide applications are the primary tool for reducing malaria transmission in the Solomon Archipelago, a region where Anopheles farauti is the only common malaria vector. Due to the evolution of behavioural resistance in some An. farauti populations, these applications have become less effective. New malaria control interventions are therefore needed in this region, and gene-drives provide a promising new technology. In considering developing a population-specific (local) gene-drive in An. farauti, we detail the species’ population genetic structure using microsatellites and whole mitogenomes, finding many spatially confined populations both within and between landmasses. This strong population structure suggests that An. farauti would be a useful system for developing a population-specific, confinable gene-drive for field release, where private alleles can be used as Cas9 targets. Previous work on Anopheles gambiae has used the Cardinal gene for the development of a global population replacement gene-drive. We therefore also analyse the Cardinal gene to assess whether it may be a suitable target to engineer a gene-drive for the modification of local An. farauti populations. Despite the extensive population structure observed in An. farauti for microsatellites, only one remote island population from Vanuatu contained fixed and private alleles at the Cardinal locus. Nonetheless, this study provides an initial framework for further population genomic investigations to discover high-frequency private allele targets in localized An. farauti populations. This would enable the development of gene-drive strains for modifying localised populations with minimal chance of escape and may provide a low-risk route to field trial evaluations.","PeriodicalId":12991,"journal":{"name":"Heredity","volume":"132 5","pages":"232-246"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41437-024-00677-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140143319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HeredityPub Date : 2024-03-13DOI: 10.1038/s41437-024-00678-1
Laura Garaud, David Nusbaumer, Lucas Marques da Cunha, Christian de Guttry, Laurie Ançay, Audrey Atherton, Emilien Lasne, Claus Wedekind
{"title":"Parental kinship coefficient but not paternal coloration predicts early offspring growth in lake char","authors":"Laura Garaud, David Nusbaumer, Lucas Marques da Cunha, Christian de Guttry, Laurie Ançay, Audrey Atherton, Emilien Lasne, Claus Wedekind","doi":"10.1038/s41437-024-00678-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41437-024-00678-1","url":null,"abstract":"The ‘good genes’ hypotheses of sexual selection predict that females prefer males with strong ornaments because they are in good health and vigor and can afford the costs of the ornaments. A key assumption of this concept is that male health and vigor are useful predictors of genetic quality and hence offspring performance. We tested this prediction in wild-caught lake char (Salvelinus umbla) whose breeding coloration is known to reveal aspects of male health. We first reanalyzed results from sperm competition trials in which embryos of known parenthood had been raised singly in either a stress- or non-stress environment. Paternal coloration did not correlate with any measures of offspring performance. However, offspring growth was reduced with higher kinship coefficients between the parents. To test the robustness of these first observations, we collected a new sample of wild males and females, used their gametes in a full-factorial in vitro breeding experiment, and singly raised about 3000 embryos in either a stress- or non-stress environment (stress induced by microbes). Again, paternal coloration did not predict offspring performance, while offspring growth was reduced with higher kinship between the parents. We conclude that, in lake char, the genetic benefits of mate choice would be strongest if females could recognize and avoid genetically related males, while male breeding colors may be more relevant in intra-sexual selection.","PeriodicalId":12991,"journal":{"name":"Heredity","volume":"132 5","pages":"247-256"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41437-024-00678-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140119329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HeredityPub Date : 2024-03-12DOI: 10.1038/s41437-024-00676-3
Carolina Pacheco, Helena Rio-Maior, Mónia Nakamura, Francisco Álvares, Raquel Godinho
{"title":"Relatedness-based mate choice and female philopatry: inbreeding trends of wolf packs in a human-dominated landscape","authors":"Carolina Pacheco, Helena Rio-Maior, Mónia Nakamura, Francisco Álvares, Raquel Godinho","doi":"10.1038/s41437-024-00676-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41437-024-00676-3","url":null,"abstract":"Inbreeding can reduce offspring fitness and has substantial implications for the genetic diversity and long-term viability of populations. In social cooperative canids, inbreeding is conditioned by the geographic proximity between opposite-sex kin outside natal groups and the presence of related individuals in neighbouring groups. Consequently, challenges in moving into other regions where the species is present can also affect inbreeding rates. These can be particularly problematic in areas of high human density, where movement can be restricted, even for highly vagile species. In this study, we investigate the socio-ecological dynamics of Iberian wolf packs in the human-dominated landscape of Alto Minho, in northwest Portugal, where wolves exhibit a high prevalence of short-distance dispersal and limited gene flow with neighbouring regions. We hypothesise that mating occurs regardless of relatedness, resulting in recurrent inbreeding due to high kin encounter rates. Using data from a 10-year non-invasive genetic monitoring programme and a combination of relatedness estimates and genealogical reconstructions, we describe genetic diversity, mate choice, and dispersal strategies among Alto Minho packs. In contrast with expectations, our findings reveal relatedness-based mate choice, low kin encounter rates, and a reduced number of inbreeding events. We observed a high prevalence of philopatry, particularly among female breeders, with the most common breeding strategy involving the pairing of a philopatric female with an unrelated immigrant male. Overall, wolves were not inbred, and temporal changes in genetic diversity were not significant. Our findings are discussed, considering the demographic trend of wolves in Alto Minho and its human-dominated landscape.","PeriodicalId":12991,"journal":{"name":"Heredity","volume":"132 4","pages":"211-220"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41437-024-00676-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140109845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}