(Table 1) Number of alleles per locus and heterozygosity of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) populations in Iceland, supplement to: Kapralova, K H; Morrissey, M B; Kristjánsson, Bjarni K; Ólafsdóttir, G Á; Snorrason, Sigurdur S; Ferguson, M M (2011): Evolution of adaptive diversity and genetic connectivity in Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) in Iceland. Heredity, 106(3), 472-487

• Main Authors: Kapralova, K H, Morrissey, M B, Kristjánsson, Bjarni K, Ólafsdóttir, G Á, Snorrason, Sigurdur S, Ferguson, M M
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2011
• Subjects: Area/locality; Province; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; Sample ID; Sample comment; Salvelinus alpinus; Number; Heterozygosity; Biological sample; International Polar Year 2007-2008 IPY; Arctic; Ferguson; Arctic charr; Iceland; International Polar Year; IPY
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.811936; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.811936

The ecological theory of adaptive radiation predicts that the evolution of phenotypic diversity within species is generated by divergent natural selection arising from different environments and competition between species. Genetic connectivity among populations is likely also to have an important role in both the origin and maintenance of adaptive genetic diversity. Our goal was to evaluate the potential roles of genetic connectivity and natural selection in the maintenance of adaptive phenotypic differences among morphs of Arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus, in Iceland. At a large spatial scale, we tested the predictive power of geographic structure and phenotypic variation for patterns of neutral genetic variation among populations throughout Iceland. At a smaller scale, we evaluated the genetic differentiation between two morphs in Lake Thingvallavatn relative to historically explicit, coalescent-based null models of the evolutionary history of these lineages. At the large spatial scale, populations are highly differentiated, but weakly structured, both geographically and with respect to patterns of phenotypic variation. At the intralacustrine scale, we observe modest genetic differentiation between two morphs, but this level of differentiation is nonetheless consistent with strong reproductive isolation throughout the Holocene. Rather than a result of the homogenizing effect of gene flow in a system at migration-drift equilibrium, the modest level of genetic differentiation could equally be a result of slow neutral divergence by drift in large populations. We conclude that contemporary and recent patterns of restricted gene flow have been highly conducive to the evolution and maintenance of adaptive genetic variation in Icelandic Arctic charr. : Some positions were slightly adapted to match figure, some positions still seem to be slightly off. Data extracted in the frame of a joint ICSTI/PANGAEA IPY effort, see http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.150150