期刊
JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
卷 29, 期 9, 页码 1846-1859出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12926
关键词
genetic diversity; local adaptation; major histocompatibility complex; pathogens; sockeye salmon; temperature; temperature variation
资金
- US National Science Foundation
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative
- Harriet Bullitt Professorship
- US National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships [DGE-0718124]
- Directorate For Geosciences [1114918] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Local adaptation to heterogeneous environments generates population diversity within species, significantly increasing ecosystem stability and flows of ecosystem services. However, few studies have isolated the specific mechanisms that create and maintain this diversity. Here, we examined the relationship between water temperature in streams used for spawning and genetic diversity at a gene involved in immune function [the major histocompatibility complex (MHC)] in 14 populations of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) sampled across the Wood River basin in south-western Alaska. The largest influence on MHC diversity was lake basin, but we also found a significant positive correlation between average water temperature and MHC diversity. This positive relationship between temperature and MHC diversity appears to have been produced by natural selection at very local scales rather than neutral processes, as no correlation was observed between temperature and genetic diversity at 90 neutral markers. Additionally, no significant relationship was observed between temperature variability and MHC diversity. Although lake basin was the largest driver of differences in MHC diversity, our results also demonstrate that fine-scale differences in water temperature may generate variable selection regimes in populations that spawn in habitats separated by as little as 1km. Additionally, our results indicated that some populations may be reaching a maximum level of MHC diversity. We postulate that salmon from populations in warm streams may delay spawning until late summer to avoid thermal stress as well as the elevated levels of pathogen prevalence and virulence associated with warm temperatures earlier in the summer.
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