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Structure and contingency determine mutational hotspots for flower color evolution

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EVOLUTION LETTERS
卷 5, 期 1, 页码 61-74

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JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD
DOI: 10.1002/evl3.212

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anthocyanin pathway; flavonoid; enzymes; evolutionary trajectories; pleiotropy; epistasis; simulations; complex phenotypes; genetic hotspots; predictability of evolution

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  1. National Science Foundation [ACI-1532235, ACI-1532236]
  2. University of Colorado Boulder
  3. Colorado State University
  4. RIO Innovative Seed Grant Program (RISGP) award from the University of Colorado-Boulder
  5. NSF-DEB [1553114]
  6. Division Of Environmental Biology
  7. Direct For Biological Sciences [1553114] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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Evolutionary genetic studies have revealed genomic hotspots and biased patterns of mutations in phenotypic evolution. Using a computational approach to study the anthocyanin pigmentation pathway, it was found that evolutionary changes concentrate at hotspot loci but the type and order of mutations depend on the evolutionary context.
Evolutionary genetic studies have uncovered abundant evidence for genomic hotspots of phenotypic evolution, as well as biased patterns of mutations at those loci. However, the theoretical basis for this concentration of particular types of mutations at particular loci remains largely unexplored. In addition, historical contingency is known to play a major role in evolutionary trajectories, but has not been reconciled with the existence of such hotspots. For example, do the appearance of hotspots and the fixation of different types of mutations at those loci depend on the starting state and/or on the nature and direction of selection? Here, we use a computational approach to examine these questions, focusing the anthocyanin pigmentation pathway, which has been extensively studied in the context of flower color transitions. We investigate two transitions that are common in nature, the transition from blue to purple pigmentation and from purple to red pigmentation. Both sets of simulated transitions occur with a small number of mutations at just four loci and show strikingly similar peaked shapes of evolutionary trajectories, with the mutations of the largest effect occurring early but not first. Nevertheless, the types of mutations (biochemical vs. regulatory) as well as their direction and magnitude are contingent on the particular transition. These simulated color transitions largely mirror findings from natural flower color transitions, which are known to occur via repeated changes at a few hotspot loci. Still, some types of mutations observed in our simulated color evolution are rarely observed in nature, suggesting that pleiotropic effects further limit the trajectories between color phenotypes. Overall, our results indicate that the branching structure of the pathway leads to a predictable concentration of evolutionary change at the hotspot loci, but the types of mutations at these loci and their order is contingent on the evolutionary context.

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