Journal
HEREDITY
Volume 106, Issue 3, Pages 488-499Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2010.164
Keywords
adaptive divergence; genome scan; landscape genomics; salmonid fishes; selection; stocking
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- Danish Natural Science Research Council [272-05-0202]
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Local adaptation is considered a paradigm in studies of salmonid fish populations. Yet, little is known about the geographical scale of local adaptation. Is adaptive divergence primarily evident at the scale of regions or individual populations? Also, many salmonid populations are subject to spawning intrusion by farmed conspecifics that experience selection regimes fundamentally different from wild populations. This prompts the question if adaptive differences between wild populations and hatchery strains are more pronounced than between different wild populations? We addressed these issues by analyzing variation at 74 microsatellite loci (including anonymous and expressed sequence tag- and quantitative trait locus-linked markers) in 15 anadromous wild brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) populations, representing five geographical regions, along with two lake populations and two hatchery strains used for stocking some of the populations. F-ST-based outlier tests revealed more outlier loci between different geographical regions separated by 522 228 km (mean +/- s.d.) than between populations within regions separated by 117 +/- 79 km (mean +/- s.d.). A significant association between geographical distance and number of outliers between regions was evident. There was no evidence for more outliers in comparisons involving hatchery trout, but the loci under putative selection generally were not the same as those found to be outliers between wild populations. Our study supports the notion of local adaption being increasingly important at the scale of regions as compared with individual populations, and suggests that loci involved in adaptation to captive environments are not necessarily the same as those involved in adaptive divergence among wild populations. Heredity (2011) 106, 488-499; doi:10.1038/hdy.2010.164; published online 12 January 2011
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