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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24586-8
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [311931-2012, RGPIN-2017-03919, RGPAS-2017-507830, PGS D 331015731]
- Pennsylvania State University
- Eberly College of Science
- Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
- Werner and Hildegard Hesse Research Award in Ornithology
- UBC Four Year Doctoral Fellowship
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Research on two hybridizing species of warblers in western North America found that populations with different mitochondrial DNA haplotypes and nuclear DNA regions may exhibit divergent mitonuclear coadaptation, especially in relation to genes associated with fatty acid oxidation and energy-related signaling transduction. The study suggests that spatial variation in mitonuclear ancestries is correlated with climatic conditions and may underpin cryptic differentiation in this species complex. Little is known about how mitonuclear interactions influence genomic divergence among hybrid and parental lineages.
Divergent mitonuclear coadaptation could facilitate speciation. We investigate this possibility in two hybridizing species of warblers, Setophaga occidentalis and S. townsendi, in western North America. Inland S. townsendi harbor distinct mitochondrial DNA haplotypes from those of S. occidentalis. These populations also differ in several nuclear DNA regions. Coastal S. townsendi demonstrate mixed mitonuclear ancestry from S. occidentalis and inland S. townsendi. Of the few highly-differentiated chromosomal regions between inland S. townsendi and S. occidentalis, a 1.2Mb gene block on chromosome 5 is also differentiated between coastal and inland S. townsendi. Genes in this block are associated with fatty acid oxidation and energy-related signaling transduction, thus linked to mitochondrial functions. Genetic variation within this candidate gene block covaries with mitochondrial DNA and shows signatures of divergent selection. Spatial variation in mitonuclear ancestries is correlated with climatic conditions. Together, these observations suggest divergent mitonuclear coadaptation underpins cryptic differentiation in this species complex. Little is known on how mitonuclear interactions influence genomic divergence among hybrid and parental lineages. A study of hybridizing wood warbler species complex finds a nuclear gene block with mitochondrial functions coevolves with mitochondrial genome, driven by climate-associated divergent selection underlying hybrid-parental population divergence.
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