Journal
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
Volume 38, Issue 5, Pages 1820-1836Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaa322
Keywords
range expansion; adaptation; deleterious mutations; self-incompatibility locus; negative frequency-dependent selection; selective sweeps
Funding
- ERC [648617, 648321]
- Horizon 2020 research and innovation program [ERC-StG 679056 HOTSPOT]
- Ministere de l'Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche (CPER Climibio)
- Biocenter Oulu
- European Fund for Regional Economic Development
- Region Hauts-de-France
- European Research Council (ERC) [648617, 648321] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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The study found that in the populations of the European subspecies Arabidopsis lyrata ssp. petraea, edge populations faced a decline in effective population size and an increase in derived nonsynonymous variants, indicating an increase in the genomic burden of deleterious mutations but a decrease in rare deleterious variants. While the demographic history predicted a slight decrease in per-individual fitness for the range-edge population, it performed well in terms of growth and survival, showing strong resilience to the effect of range expansion.
During range expansion, edge populations are expected to face increased genetic drift, which in turn can alter and potentially compromise adaptive dynamics, preventing the removal of deleterious mutations and slowing down adaptation. Here, we contrast populations of the European subspecies Arabidopsis lyrata ssp. petraea, which expanded its Northern range after the last glaciation. We document a sharp decline in effective population size in the range-edge population and observe that nonsynonymous variants segregate at higher frequencies. We detect a 4.9% excess of derived nonsynonymous variants per individual in the range-edge population, suggesting an increase of the genomic burden of deleterious mutations. Inference of the fitness effects of mutations and modeling of allele frequencies under the explicit demographic history of each population predicts a depletion of rare deleterious variants in the range-edge population, but an enrichment for fixed ones, consistent with the bottleneck effect. However, the demographic history of the range-edge population predicts a small net decrease in per-individual fitness. Consistent with this prediction, the range-edge population is not impaired in its growth and survival measured in a common garden experiment. We further observe that the allelic diversity at the self-incompatibility locus, which ensures strict outcrossing and evolves under negative frequency-dependent selection, has remained unchanged. Genomic footprints indicative of selective sweeps are broader in the Northern population but not less frequent. We conclude that the outcrossing species A. lyrata ssp. petraea shows a strong resilience to the effect of range expansion.
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