期刊
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY
卷 31, 期 1, 页码 220-237出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16238
关键词
diet; feralisation; gut microbiota; olfaction; population genomics; Sus scrofa
资金
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/S00078X/1]
- European Research Council [ERC-2013-StG-337574-UNDEAD, ERC-2019-StG-853272-PALAEOFARM]
- Natural Environmental Research Council [NE/K005243/1, NE/K003259/1, NE/S007067/1]
- NERC [NE/S00078X/1, NE/K003259/1, NE/S007067/1, NE/K005243/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Domestication and subsequent feralisation lead to the emergence of populations with a combination of wild and human-selected traits. Feral pigs exhibit distinct genetic signatures, responses to natural selection, and features reacquired from their wild ancestors. These findings suggest that feral pigs are an independent evolutionary unit capable of persisting in natural environments with minimal human intervention.
Domestication is an intriguing evolutionary process. Many domestic populations are subjected to strong human-mediated selection, and when some individuals return to the wild, they are again subjected to selective forces associated with new environments. Generally, these feral populations evolve into something different from their wild predecessors and their members typically possess a combination of both wild and human selected traits. Feralisation can manifest in different forms on a spectrum from a wild to a domestic phenotype. This depends on how the rewilded domesticated populations can readapt to natural environments based on how much potential and flexibility the ancestral genome retains after its domestication signature. Whether feralisation leads to the evolution of new traits that do not exist in the wild or to convergence with wild forms, however, remains unclear. To address this question, we performed population genomic, olfactory, dietary, and gut microbiota analyses on different populations of Sus scrofa (wild boar, hybrid, feral and several domestic pig breeds). Porcine single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) analysis shows that the feral population represents a cluster distinctly separate from all others. Its members display signatures of past artificial selection, as demonstrated by values of F-ST in specific regions of the genome and bottleneck signature, such as the number and length of runs of homozygosity. Generalised F-ST values, reacquired olfactory abilities, diet, and gut microbiota variation show current responses to natural selection. Our results suggest that feral pigs are an independent evolutionary unit which can persist so long as levels of human intervention remain unchanged.
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