Journal
EVOLUTION
Volume 69, Issue 6, Pages 1476-1486Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12663
Keywords
Adaptation; chromosome inversion; Mimulus; phylogeography; population genomics
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- Syracuse University
- National Science Foundation [DEB-1354259]
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/L011336/1]
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/L011336/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [NE/L011336/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [1354259] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Organisms exhibit an incredible diversity of life history strategies as adaptive responses to environmental variation. The establishment of novel life history strategies involves multilocus polymorphisms, which will be challenging to establish in the face of gene flow and recombination. Theory predicts that adaptive allelic combinations may be maintained and spread if they occur in genomic regions of reducedrecombination, such as chromosomal inversion polymorphisms, yet empirical support for this prediction is lacking. Here, we use genomic data to investigate the evolution of divergent adaptive ecotypes of the yellow monkey flower Mimulus guttatus.We show that a large chromosomal inversion polymorphism is the major region of divergence between geographically widespread annual and perennial ecotypes. In contrast, approximate to 40,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms in collinear regions of the genome show no signal of life history, revealing genomic patterns of diversity have been shaped by localized homogenizing gene flow and large-scale Pleistocene range expansion. Our results provide evidence for an inversion capturing and protecting loci involved in local adaptation, while also explaining how adaptive divergence can occur with gene flow.
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