Structure and dynamics of hybrid zones at different stages of speciation in the common vole ( Microtus arvalis)
Abstract The genetic structure and dynamics of hybrid zones provide crucial information for understanding the processes and mechanisms of evolutionary divergence and speciation. In general, higher levels of evolutionary divergence between taxa are more likely to be associated with reproductive isola...
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crwiley:10.1111/mec.12613 2024-09-15T18:02:48+00:00 Structure and dynamics of hybrid zones at different stages of speciation in the common vole ( Microtus arvalis) Beysard, Mathias Heckel, Gerald Swiss National Science Foundation 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.12613 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fmec.12613 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/mec.12613 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1 Molecular Ecology volume 23, issue 3, page 673-687 ISSN 0962-1083 1365-294X journal-article 2014 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12613 2024-08-30T04:10:04Z Abstract The genetic structure and dynamics of hybrid zones provide crucial information for understanding the processes and mechanisms of evolutionary divergence and speciation. In general, higher levels of evolutionary divergence between taxa are more likely to be associated with reproductive isolation and may result in suppressed or strongly restricted hybridization. In this study, we examined two secondary contact zones between three deep evolutionary lineages in the common vole ( M icrotus arvalis ). Differences in divergence times between the lineages can shed light on different stages of reproductive isolation and thus provide information on the ongoing speciation process in M . arvalis . We examined more than 800 individuals for mitochondrial (mt DNA ), Y ‐chromosome and autosomal markers and used assignment and cline analysis methods to characterize the extent and direction of gene flow in the contact zones. Introgression of both autosomal and mt DNA markers in a relatively broad area of admixture indicates selectively neutral hybridization between the least‐divergent lineages ( C entral and E astern) without evidence for partial reproductive isolation. In contrast, a very narrow area of hybridization, shifts in marker clines and the quasi‐absence of Y ‐chromosome introgression support a moving hybrid zone and unidirectional selection against male hybrids between the lineages with older divergence ( C entral and W estern). Data from a replicate transect further support non‐neutral processes in this hybrid zone and also suggest a role for landscape history in the movement and shaping of geneflow profiles. Article in Journal/Newspaper Common vole Microtus arvalis Wiley Online Library Molecular Ecology 23 3 673 687 |
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Abstract The genetic structure and dynamics of hybrid zones provide crucial information for understanding the processes and mechanisms of evolutionary divergence and speciation. In general, higher levels of evolutionary divergence between taxa are more likely to be associated with reproductive isolation and may result in suppressed or strongly restricted hybridization. In this study, we examined two secondary contact zones between three deep evolutionary lineages in the common vole ( M icrotus arvalis ). Differences in divergence times between the lineages can shed light on different stages of reproductive isolation and thus provide information on the ongoing speciation process in M . arvalis . We examined more than 800 individuals for mitochondrial (mt DNA ), Y ‐chromosome and autosomal markers and used assignment and cline analysis methods to characterize the extent and direction of gene flow in the contact zones. Introgression of both autosomal and mt DNA markers in a relatively broad area of admixture indicates selectively neutral hybridization between the least‐divergent lineages ( C entral and E astern) without evidence for partial reproductive isolation. In contrast, a very narrow area of hybridization, shifts in marker clines and the quasi‐absence of Y ‐chromosome introgression support a moving hybrid zone and unidirectional selection against male hybrids between the lineages with older divergence ( C entral and W estern). Data from a replicate transect further support non‐neutral processes in this hybrid zone and also suggest a role for landscape history in the movement and shaping of geneflow profiles. |
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Beysard, Mathias Heckel, Gerald Structure and dynamics of hybrid zones at different stages of speciation in the common vole ( Microtus arvalis) |
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Beysard, Mathias Heckel, Gerald |
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Structure and dynamics of hybrid zones at different stages of speciation in the common vole ( Microtus arvalis) |
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Structure and dynamics of hybrid zones at different stages of speciation in the common vole ( Microtus arvalis) |
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Structure and dynamics of hybrid zones at different stages of speciation in the common vole ( Microtus arvalis) |
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Structure and dynamics of hybrid zones at different stages of speciation in the common vole ( Microtus arvalis) |
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Structure and dynamics of hybrid zones at different stages of speciation in the common vole ( Microtus arvalis) |
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structure and dynamics of hybrid zones at different stages of speciation in the common vole ( microtus arvalis) |
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