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Local adaptation and ecological differentiation under selection, migration, and drift in Arabidopsis lyrata

Journal

EVOLUTION
Volume 72, Issue 7, Pages 1373-1386

Publisher

WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/evo.13502

Keywords

Arabidopsis; demography simulations; genetic drift; gene flow; local adaptation; reciprocal transplant

Funding

  1. Biocenter Oulu
  2. Eemil Aaltonen Foundation
  3. Academy of Finland's Research Council for Biosciences and Environment [132611]
  4. Academy of Finland (AKA) [132611, 132611] Funding Source: Academy of Finland (AKA)

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How the balance between selection, migration, and drift influences the evolution of local adaptation has been under intense theoretical scrutiny. Yet, empirical studies that relate estimates of local adaptation to quantification of gene flow and effective population sizes have been rare. Here, we conducted a reciprocal transplant trial, a common garden trial, and a whole-genome-based demography analysis to examine these effects among Arabidopsis lyrata populations from two altitudinal gradients in Norway. Demography simulations indicated that populations within the two gradients are connected by gene flow (0.1 < 4N(e)m < 11) and have small effective population sizes (N-e < 6000), suggesting that both migration and drift can counteract local selection. However, the three-year field experiments showed evidence of local adaptation at the level of hierarchical multiyear fitness, attesting to the strength of differential selection. In the lowland habitat, local superiority was associated with greater fecundity, while viability accounted for fitness differences in the alpine habitat. We also demonstrate that flowering time differentiation has contributed to adaptive divergence between these locally adapted populations. Our results show that despite the estimated potential of gene flow and drift to hinder differentiation, selection among these A. lyrata populations has resulted in local adaptation.

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