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Candidate genes and adaptive radiation: insights from transcriptional adaptation to the limnetic niche among coregonine fishes (Coregonus spp., Salmonidae).

Abstract：

:In the past 40 years, there has been increasing acceptance that variation in levels of gene expression represents a major source of evolutionary novelty. Gene expression divergence is therefore likely to be involved in the emergence of incipient species, namely, in a context of adaptive radiation. In the lake whitefish species complex (Coregonus clupeaformis), previous microarray experiments have led to the identification of candidate genes potentially implicated in the parallel evolution of the limnetic dwarf lake whitefish, which is highly distinct from the benthic normal lake whitefish in life history, morphology, metabolism, and behavior, and yet diverged from it only approximately 15,000 years before present. The aim of the present study was to address transcriptional divergence for six candidate genes among lake whitefish and European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus) species pairs, as well as lake cisco (Coregonus artedi) and vendace (Coregonus albula). The main goal was to test the hypothesis that parallel phenotypic adaptation toward the use of the limnetic niche in coregonine fishes is accompanied by parallelism in candidate gene transcription as measured by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction. Results obtained for three candidate genes, whereby parallelism in expression was observed across all whitefish species pairs, provide strong support for the hypothesis that divergent natural selection plays an important role in the adaptive radiation of whitefish species. However, this parallelism in expression did not extend to cisco and vendace, thereby infirming transcriptional convergence between limnetic whitefish species and their limnetic congeners for these genes. As recently proposed (Lynch 2007a. The evolution of genetic networks by non-adaptive processes. Nat Rev Genet. 8:803-813), these results may suggest that convergent phenotypic evolution can result from nonadaptive shaping of genome architecture in independently evolved coregonine lineages.

journal_name

Mol Biol Evol

journal_title

Molecular biology and evolution

authors

Jeukens J,Bittner D,Knudsen R,Bernatchez L

doi

10.1093/molbev/msn235

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2009-01-01 00:00:00

pages

155-66

issue

eissn

0737-4038

issn

1537-1719

pii

msn235

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Candidate genes and adaptive radiation: insights from transcriptional adaptation to the limnetic niche among coregonine fishes (Coregonus spp., Salmonidae).