Journal
CURRENT ZOOLOGY
Volume 61, Issue 1, Pages 146-154Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/61.1.146
Keywords
Conservation genetics; Hybridization; Invasive species; Next generation sequencing; Salmonid fish; SNP discovery
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Funding
- NSF [DEB-1258203]
- Bonneville Power Administration [199101903]
- NIH [S10RR029668, S10RR027303, P30GM103324]
- Department of the Interior Northwest Climate Science Center
- NASA [NNX14AB84G]
- NASA [686467, NNX14AB84G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [1258203] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Invasive hybridization and introgression pose a serious threat to the persistence of many native species. Understanding the effects of hybridization on native populations (e.g., fitness consequences) requires numerous species-diagnostic loci distributed genome-wide. Here we used RAD sequencing to discover thousands of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that are diagnostic between rainbow trout (RBT, Oncorhynchus mykiss), the world's most widely introduced fish, and native westslope cutthroat trout (WCT, O. clarkii lewisi) in the northern Rocky Mountains, USA. We advanced previous work that identified 4,914 species-diagnostic loci by using longer sequence reads (100 bp vs. 60 bp) and a larger set of individuals (n = 84). We sequenced RAD libraries for individuals from diverse sampling sources, including native populations of WCT and hatchery broodstocks of WCT and RBT. We also took advantage of a newly released reference genome assembly for RBT to align our RAD loci. In total, we discovered 16,788 putatively diagnostic SNPs, 10,267 of which we mapped to anchored chromosome locations on the RBT genome. A small portion of previously discovered putative diagnostic loci (325 of 4,914) were no longer diagnostic (i.e., fixed between species) based on our wider survey of non-hybridized RBT and WCT individuals. Our study suggests that RAD loci mapped to a draft genome assembly could provide the marker density required to identify genes and chromosomal regions influencing selection in admixed populations of conservation concern and evolutionary interest
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