Journal
EVOLUTION
Volume 75, Issue 12, Pages 3098-3114Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/evo.14381
Keywords
Adaptive introgression; coupling of barrier loci; cytonuclear incompatibility; peripatric speciation; Ranunculus; reproductive isolation; tension zone
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- National Science Foundation Macrosystems Biology [NSF-MSB-1340746]
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The study analyzed reproductive isolation and introgression between a range-limited and a widespread species, revealing an asymmetrical mating barrier due to cytonuclear incompatibility. The results indicate weak coupling among barrier loci and extensive introgression as secondary contact was initiated within the last 800 generations. Furthermore, the strength of selection required to account for observed levels of adaptive introgression was estimated.
Hybridization can serve as an evolutionary stimulus, but we have little understanding of introgression at early stages of hybrid zone formation. We analyze reproductive isolation and introgression between a range-limited and a widespread species. Reproductive barriers are estimated based on differences in flowering time, ecogeographic distributions, and seed set from crosses. We find an asymmetrical mating barrier due to cytonuclear incompatibility that is consistent with observed clusters of coincident and concordant tension zone clines (barrier loci) for mtDNA haplotypes and nuclear SNPs. These groups of concordant clines are spread across the hybrid zone, resulting in weak coupling among barrier loci and extensive introgression. Neutral clines had nearly equal introgression into both species' ranges, whereas putative cases of adaptive introgression had exceptionally wide clines with centers shifted toward one species. Analyses of cline shape indicate that secondary contact was initiated within the last 800 generations with the per-generation dispersal between 200 and 400 m, and provide some of the first estimates of the strength of selection required to account for observed levels of adaptive introgression. The weak species boundary between these species appears to be in early stages of dissolution, and ultimately will precipitate genetic swamping of the range-limited species.
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