Data from: Signatures of natural selection between life cycle stages separated by metamorphosis in European eel ...

Background: Species showing complex life cycles provide excellent opportunities to study the genetic associations between life cycle stages, as selective pressures may differ before and after metamorphosis. The European eel presents a complex life cycle with two metamorphoses, a first metamorphosis...

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Main Authors: Pujolar, Jose Martin, Jacobsen, Magnus W., Bekkevold, Dorte, Lobón-Cervia, Javier, Jónsson, Bjarni, Bernatchez, Louis, Hansen, Michael M.
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: Dryad 2016
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.kc1q1
https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.kc1q1
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Summary:Background: Species showing complex life cycles provide excellent opportunities to study the genetic associations between life cycle stages, as selective pressures may differ before and after metamorphosis. The European eel presents a complex life cycle with two metamorphoses, a first metamorphosis from larvae into glass eels (juvenile stage) and a second metamorphosis into silver eels (adult stage). We tested the hypothesis that different genes and gene pathways will be under selection at different life stages when comparing the genetic associations between glass eels and silver eels. Results: We used two sets of markers to test for selection: first, we genotyped individuals using a panel of 80 coding-gene single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) developed in American eel; second, we investigated selection at the genome level using a total of 153,423 RAD-sequencing generated SNPs widely distributed across the genome. Using the RAD approach, outlier tests identified a total of 2413 (1.57 %) potentially ... : SNP raw dataExcel file containing all SNP raw data for 113 individualsSNP_Table_BMCGenomicspaper.xlsx ...