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text: Elaborate sexual signals are thought to have evolved and be maintained to
serve as honest indicators of signaller quality. One measure of quality is health,
which can be affected by parasite infection. Cnemaspis mysoriensis is a diurnal
gecko that is often infested with ectoparasites in the wild, and males of this
species express visual (coloured gular patches) and chemical (femoral gland secretions)
traits that receivers could assess during social interactions. In this paper,
we tested whether ectoparasites affect individual health, and whether signal quality
is an indicator of ectoparasite levels. In wild lizards, we found that ectoparasite
level was negatively correlated with body condition in both sexes. Moreover, some
characteristics of both visual and chemical traits in males were strongly associated
with ectoparasite levels. Specifically, males with higher ectoparasite levels
had yellow gular patches with lower brightness and chroma, and chemical secretions
with a lower proportion of aromatic compounds. We then determined whether ectoparasite
levels in males influence female behaviour. Using sequential choice trials, wherein
females were provided with either the visual or the chemical signals of wild-caught
males that varied in ectoparasite level, we found that only chemical secretions
evoked an elevated female response towards less parasitised males. Simultaneous
choice trials in which females were exposed to the chemical secretions from males
that varied in parasite level further confirmed a preference for males with lower
parasites loads. Overall, we find that although health (body condition) or ectoparasite
load can be honestly advertised through multiple modalities, the parasite-mediated
female response is exclusively driven by chemical signals.
acknowledgement: "We thank Anuradha Batabyal and Shakilur Kabir for scientific discussions,
and help with sampling and colour analyses. We thank Muralidhar and the central
LCMS facility of the IISc for their technical support with the GCMS.\r\nResearch
funding was provided by the Department of Science and Technology Fund for Improvement
of S&T Infrastructure (DST-FIST), the Department of Biotechnology-Indian Institute
of Science (DBT-IISc) partnership program and a Science and Engineering Research
Board (SERB) grant to M.T. (EMR/2017/002228). Open Access funding provided by Indian
Institute of Science. Deposited in PMC for immediate release."
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ama: Pal A, Joshi M, Thaker M. Too much information? Males convey parasite levels
using more signal modalities than females utilise. Journal of Experimental
Biology. 2024;227(1). doi:10.1242/jeb.246217
apa: Pal, A., Joshi, M., & Thaker, M. (2024). Too much information? Males convey
parasite levels using more signal modalities than females utilise. Journal
of Experimental Biology. The Company of Biologists. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.246217
chicago: Pal, Arka, Mihir Joshi, and Maria Thaker. “Too Much Information? Males
Convey Parasite Levels Using More Signal Modalities than Females Utilise.” Journal
of Experimental Biology. The Company of Biologists, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.246217.
ieee: A. Pal, M. Joshi, and M. Thaker, “Too much information? Males convey parasite
levels using more signal modalities than females utilise,” Journal of Experimental
Biology, vol. 227, no. 1. The Company of Biologists, 2024.
ista: Pal A, Joshi M, Thaker M. 2024. Too much information? Males convey parasite
levels using more signal modalities than females utilise. Journal of Experimental
Biology. 227(1), jeb246217.
mla: Pal, Arka, et al. “Too Much Information? Males Convey Parasite Levels Using
More Signal Modalities than Females Utilise.” Journal of Experimental Biology,
vol. 227, no. 1, jeb246217, The Company of Biologists, 2024, doi:10.1242/jeb.246217.
short: A. Pal, M. Joshi, M. Thaker, Journal of Experimental Biology 227 (2024).
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text: "In nature, different species find their niche in a range of environments,
each with its unique characteristics. While some thrive in uniform (homogeneous)
landscapes where environmental conditions stay relatively consistent across space,
others traverse the complexities of spatially heterogeneous terrains. Comprehending
how species are distributed and how they interact within these landscapes holds
the key to gaining insights into their evolutionary dynamics while also informing
conservation and management strategies.\r\n\r\nFor species inhabiting heterogeneous
landscapes, when the rate of dispersal is low compared to spatial fluctuations
in selection pressure, localized adaptations may emerge. Such adaptation in response
to varying selection strengths plays an important role in the persistence of populations
in our rapidly changing world. Hence, species in nature are continuously in a
struggle to adapt to local environmental conditions, to ensure their continued
survival. Natural populations can often adapt in time scales short enough for
evolutionary changes to influence ecological dynamics and vice versa, thereby
creating a feedback between evolution and demography. The analysis of this feedback
and the relative contributions of gene flow, demography, drift, and natural selection
to genetic variation and differentiation has remained a recurring theme in evolutionary
biology. Nevertheless, the effective role of these forces in maintaining variation
and shaping patterns of diversity is not fully understood. Even in homogeneous
environments devoid of local adaptations, such understanding remains elusive.
Understanding this feedback is crucial, for example in determining the conditions
under which extinction risk can be mitigated in peripheral populations subject
to deleterious mutation accumulation at the edges of species’ ranges\r\nas well
as in highly fragmented populations.\r\n\r\nIn this thesis we explore both uniform
and spatially heterogeneous metapopulations, investigating and providing theoretical
insights into the dynamics of local adaptation in the latter and examining the
dynamics of load and extinction as well as the impact of joint ecological and
evolutionary (eco-evolutionary) dynamics in the former. The thesis is divided
into 5 chapters.\r\n\r\nChapter 1 provides a general introduction into the subject
matter, clarifying concepts and ideas used throughout the thesis. In chapter 2,
we explore how fast a species distributed across a heterogeneous landscape adapts
to changing conditions marked by alterations in carrying capacity, selection pressure,
and migration rate.\r\n\r\nIn chapter 3, we investigate how migration selection
and drift influences adaptation and the maintenance of variation in a metapopulation
with three habitats, an extension of previous models of adaptation in two habitats.
We further develop analytical approximations for the critical threshold required
for polymorphism to persist.\r\n\r\nThe focus of chapter 4 of the thesis is on
understanding the interplay between ecology and evolution as coupled processes.
We investigate how eco-evolutionary feedback between migration, selection, drift,
and demography influences eco-evolutionary outcomes in marginal populations subject
to deleterious mutation accumulation. Using simulations as well as theoretical
approximations of the coupled dynamics of population size and allele frequency,
we analyze how gene flow from a large mainland source influences genetic load
and population size on an island (i.e., in a marginal population) under genetically
realistic assumptions. Analyses of this sort are important because small isolated
populations, are repeatedly affected by complex interactions between ecological
and evolutionary processes, which can lead to their death. Understanding these
interactions can therefore provide an insight into the conditions under which
extinction risk can be mitigated in peripheral populations thus, contributing
to conservation and restoration efforts.\r\n\r\nChapter 5 extends the analysis
in chapter 4 to consider the dynamics of load (due to deleterious mutation accumulation)
and extinction risk in a metapopulation. We explore the role of gene flow, selection,
and dominance on load and extinction risk and further pinpoint critical thresholds
required for metapopulation persistence.\r\n\r\nOverall this research contributes
to our understanding of ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that shape species’
persistence in fragmented landscapes, a crucial foundation for successful conservation
efforts and biodiversity management."
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ama: Olusanya OO. Local adaptation, genetic load and extinction in metapopulations.
2024. doi:10.15479/at:ista:14711
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metapopulations. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:14711
chicago: Olusanya, Oluwafunmilola O. “Local Adaptation, Genetic Load and Extinction
in Metapopulations.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2024. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:14711.
ieee: O. O. Olusanya, “Local adaptation, genetic load and extinction in metapopulations,”
Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2024.
ista: Olusanya OO. 2024. Local adaptation, genetic load and extinction in metapopulations.
Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
mla: Olusanya, Oluwafunmilola O. Local Adaptation, Genetic Load and Extinction
in Metapopulations. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2024, doi:10.15479/at:ista:14711.
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Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2024.
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text: Key innovations are fundamental to biological diversification, but their genetic
basis is poorly understood. A recent transition from egg-laying to live-bearing
in marine snails (Littorina spp.) provides the opportunity to study the genetic
architecture of an innovation that has evolved repeatedly across animals. Individuals
do not cluster by reproductive mode in a genome-wide phylogeny, but local genealogical
analysis revealed numerous small genomic regions where all live-bearers carry
the same core haplotype. Candidate regions show evidence for live-bearer–specific
positive selection and are enriched for genes that are differentially expressed
between egg-laying and live-bearing reproductive systems. Ages of selective sweeps
suggest that live-bearer–specific alleles accumulated over more than 200,000 generations.
Our results suggest that new functions evolve through the recruitment of many
alleles rather than in a single evolutionary step.
acknowledgement: "We thank J. Galindo, M. Montaño-Rendón, N. Mikhailova, A. Blakeslee,
E. Arnason, and P. Kemppainen for providing samples; R. Turney, G. Sotelo, J. Larsson,
T. Broquet, and S. Loisel for help collecting samples; Science Animated for providing
the snail cartoons shown in Fig. 1; M. Dunning for help in developing bioinformatic
pipelines; R. Faria, H. Morales, and V. Sousa for advice; and M. Hahn, J. Slate,
M. Ravinet, J. Raeymaekers, A. Comeault, and N. Barton for feedback on a draft manuscript.\r\nThis
work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council (grant NE/P001610/1
to R.K.B.), the European Research Council (grant ERC-2015-AdG693030-BARRIERS to
R.K.B.), the Norwegian Research Council (RCN Project 315287 to A.M.W.), and the
Swedish Research Council (grant 2020-05385 to E.L.)."
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- first_name: Martin D.
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- first_name: Arka
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- first_name: Diego Fernando
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- first_name: James
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transition to live-bearing in marine snails. Science. 2024;383(6678):114-119.
doi:10.1126/science.adi2982
apa: Stankowski, S., Zagrodzka, Z. B., Garlovsky, M. D., Pal, A., Shipilina, D.,
Garcia Castillo, D. F., … Butlin, R. K. (2024). The genetic basis of a recent
transition to live-bearing in marine snails. Science. American Association
for the Advancement of Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adi2982
chicago: Stankowski, Sean, Zuzanna B. Zagrodzka, Martin D. Garlovsky, Arka Pal,
Daria Shipilina, Diego Fernando Garcia Castillo, Hila Lifchitz, et al. “The Genetic
Basis of a Recent Transition to Live-Bearing in Marine Snails.” Science.
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adi2982.
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for the Advancement of Science, pp. 114–119, 2024.
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RK. 2024. The genetic basis of a recent transition to live-bearing in marine snails.
Science. 383(6678), 114–119.
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in Marine Snails.” Science, vol. 383, no. 6678, American Association for
the Advancement of Science, 2024, pp. 114–19, doi:10.1126/science.adi2982.
short: S. Stankowski, Z.B. Zagrodzka, M.D. Garlovsky, A. Pal, D. Shipilina, D.F.
Garcia Castillo, H. Lifchitz, A. Le Moan, E. Leder, J. Reeve, K. Johannesson,
A.M. Westram, R.K. Butlin, Science 383 (2024) 114–119.
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with two themes in common: the concept of optimization in biological systems,
and the use of information-theoretic tools to quantify biological stochasticity
and statistical uncertainty.\r\nChapter 2 develops a statistical framework for
studying biological systems which we believe to be optimized for a particular
utility function, such as retinal neurons conveying information about visual stimuli.
We formalize such beliefs as maximum-entropy Bayesian priors, constrained by the
expected utility. We explore how such priors aid inference of system parameters
with limited data and enable optimality hypothesis testing: is the utility higher
than by chance?\r\nChapter 3 examines the ultimate biological optimization process:
evolution by natural selection. As some individuals survive and reproduce more
successfully than others, populations evolve towards fitter genotypes and phenotypes.
We formalize this as accumulation of genetic information, and use population genetics
theory to study how much such information can be accumulated per generation and
maintained in the face of random mutation and genetic drift. We identify the population
size and fitness variance as the key quantities that control information accumulation
and maintenance.\r\nChapter 4 reuses the concept of genetic information from Chapter
3, but from a different perspective: we ask how much genetic information organisms
actually need, in particular in the context of gene regulation. For example, how
much information is needed to bind transcription factors at correct locations
within the genome? Population genetics provides us with a refined answer: with
an increasing population size, populations achieve higher fitness by maintaining
more genetic information. Moreover, regulatory parameters experience selection
pressure to optimize the fitness-information trade-off, i.e. minimize the information
needed for a given fitness. This provides an evolutionary derivation of the optimization
priors introduced in Chapter 2.\r\nChapter 5 proves an upper bound on mutual information
between a signal and a communication channel output (such as neural activity).
Mutual information is an important utility measure for biological systems, but
its practical use can be difficult due to the large dimensionality of many biological
channels. Sometimes, a lower bound on mutual information is computed by replacing
the high-dimensional channel outputs with decodes (signal estimates). Our result
provides a corresponding upper bound, provided that the decodes are the maximum
posterior estimates of the signal."
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Science and Technology Austria, 2024.
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title: Genetic information and biological optimization
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abstract:
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text: Speciation is a key evolutionary process that is not yet fully understood.
Combining population genomic and ecological data from multiple diverging pairs
of marine snails (Littorina) supports the search for speciation mechanisms. Placing
pairs on a one-dimensional speciation continuum, from undifferentiated populations
to species, obscured the complexity of speciation. Adding multiple axes helped
to describe either speciation routes or reproductive isolation in the snails.
Divergent ecological selection repeatedly generated barriers between ecotypes,
but appeared less important in completing speciation while genetic incompatibilities
played a key role. Chromosomal inversions contributed to genomic barriers, but
with variable impact. A multidimensional (hypercube) approach supported framing
of questions and identification of knowledge gaps and can be useful to understand
speciation in many other systems.
acknowledgement: KJ, MR, and RKB were supported by grants from the Swedish Research
Council (2021-0419, 2021-05243, and 2018-03695, respectively). RKB was also supported
by the Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2021-141), RF by FCT- Portuguese Science Foundation
(PTDC/BIA-EVL/1614/2021 and 2020.00275.CEECIND), and AMW by Norwegian Research Council
RCN (Project number 315287). We thank the members of the Integration of Speciation
Research network for stimulating discussions, the Littorina research community for
important contributions of data and analyses, and Cynthia Riginos for useful comments
on an earlier draft.
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author:
- first_name: Kerstin
full_name: Johannesson, Kerstin
last_name: Johannesson
- first_name: Rui
full_name: Faria, Rui
last_name: Faria
- first_name: Alan
full_name: Le Moan, Alan
last_name: Le Moan
- first_name: Marina
full_name: Rafajlović, Marina
last_name: Rafajlović
- first_name: Anja M
full_name: Westram, Anja M
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last_name: Westram
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- first_name: Roger K.
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last_name: Butlin
- first_name: Sean
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citation:
ama: Johannesson K, Faria R, Le Moan A, et al. Diverse pathways to speciation revealed
by marine snails. Trends in Genetics. 2024. doi:10.1016/j.tig.2024.01.002
apa: Johannesson, K., Faria, R., Le Moan, A., Rafajlović, M., Westram, A. M., Butlin,
R. K., & Stankowski, S. (2024). Diverse pathways to speciation revealed by
marine snails. Trends in Genetics. Cell Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2024.01.002
chicago: Johannesson, Kerstin, Rui Faria, Alan Le Moan, Marina Rafajlović, Anja
M Westram, Roger K. Butlin, and Sean Stankowski. “Diverse Pathways to Speciation
Revealed by Marine Snails.” Trends in Genetics. Cell Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2024.01.002.
ieee: K. Johannesson et al., “Diverse pathways to speciation revealed by
marine snails,” Trends in Genetics. Cell Press, 2024.
ista: Johannesson K, Faria R, Le Moan A, Rafajlović M, Westram AM, Butlin RK, Stankowski
S. 2024. Diverse pathways to speciation revealed by marine snails. Trends in Genetics.
mla: Johannesson, Kerstin, et al. “Diverse Pathways to Speciation Revealed by Marine
Snails.” Trends in Genetics, Cell Press, 2024, doi:10.1016/j.tig.2024.01.002.
short: K. Johannesson, R. Faria, A. Le Moan, M. Rafajlović, A.M. Westram, R.K. Butlin,
S. Stankowski, Trends in Genetics (2024).
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abstract:
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text: Understanding population divergence that eventually leads to speciation is
essential for evolutionary biology. High species diversity in the sea was regarded
as a paradox when strict allopatry was considered necessary for most speciation
events because geographical barriers seemed largely absent in the sea, and many
marine species have high dispersal capacities. Combining genome-wide data with
demographic modelling to infer the demographic history of divergence has introduced
new ways to address this classical issue. These models assume an ancestral population
that splits into two subpopulations diverging according to different scenarios
that allow tests for periods of gene flow. Models can also test for heterogeneities
in population sizes and migration rates along the genome to account, respectively,
for background selection and selection against introgressed ancestry. To investigate
how barriers to gene flow arise in the sea, we compiled studies modelling the
demographic history of divergence in marine organisms and extracted preferred
demographic scenarios together with estimates of demographic parameters. These
studies show that geographical barriers to gene flow do exist in the sea but that
divergence can also occur without strict isolation. Heterogeneity of gene flow
was detected in most population pairs suggesting the predominance of semipermeable
barriers during divergence. We found a weak positive relationship between the
fraction of the genome experiencing reduced gene flow and levels of genome-wide
differentiation. Furthermore, we found that the upper bound of the ‘grey zone
of speciation’ for our dataset extended beyond that found before, implying that
gene flow between diverging taxa is possible at higher levels of divergence than
previously thought. Finally, we list recommendations for further strengthening
the use of demographic modelling in speciation research. These include a more
balanced representation of taxa, more consistent and comprehensive modelling,
clear reporting of results and simulation studies to rule out nonbiological explanations
for general results.
acknowledgement: 'We greatly thank all the corresponding authors of the studies that
were included in our synthesis for the sharing of additional data: Thomas Broquet,
Dmitry Filatov, Quentin Rougemont, Paolo Momigliano, Pierre-Alexandre Gagnaire,
Carlos Prada, Ahmed Souissi, Michael Møller Hansen, Sylvie Lapègue, Joseph Di Battista,
Michael Hellberg and Carlos Prada. RKB and ADJ were supported by the European Research
Council. MR was supported by the Swedish Research Council Vetenskapsrådet (grant
number 2021-05243; to MR) and Formas (grant number 2019-00882; to KJ and MR), and
by additional grants from the European Research Council (to RKB) and Vetenskapsrådet
(to KJ) through the Centre for Marine Evolutionary Biology (https://www.gu.se/en/cemeb-marine-evolutionary-biology).'
article_processing_charge: No
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author:
- first_name: Aurélien
full_name: De Jode, Aurélien
last_name: De Jode
- first_name: Alan
full_name: Le Moan, Alan
last_name: Le Moan
- first_name: Kerstin
full_name: Johannesson, Kerstin
last_name: Johannesson
- first_name: Rui
full_name: Faria, Rui
last_name: Faria
- first_name: Sean
full_name: Stankowski, Sean
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last_name: Stankowski
- first_name: Anja M
full_name: Westram, Anja M
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last_name: Westram
orcid: 0000-0003-1050-4969
- first_name: Roger K.
full_name: Butlin, Roger K.
last_name: Butlin
- first_name: Marina
full_name: Rafajlović, Marina
last_name: Rafajlović
- first_name: Christelle
full_name: Fraisse, Christelle
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last_name: Fraisse
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citation:
ama: De Jode A, Le Moan A, Johannesson K, et al. Ten years of demographic modelling
of divergence and speciation in the sea. Evolutionary Applications. 2023;16(2):542-559.
doi:10.1111/eva.13428
apa: De Jode, A., Le Moan, A., Johannesson, K., Faria, R., Stankowski, S., Westram,
A. M., … Fraisse, C. (2023). Ten years of demographic modelling of divergence
and speciation in the sea. Evolutionary Applications. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13428
chicago: De Jode, Aurélien, Alan Le Moan, Kerstin Johannesson, Rui Faria, Sean Stankowski,
Anja M Westram, Roger K. Butlin, Marina Rafajlović, and Christelle Fraisse. “Ten
Years of Demographic Modelling of Divergence and Speciation in the Sea.” Evolutionary
Applications. Wiley, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13428.
ieee: A. De Jode et al., “Ten years of demographic modelling of divergence
and speciation in the sea,” Evolutionary Applications, vol. 16, no. 2.
Wiley, pp. 542–559, 2023.
ista: De Jode A, Le Moan A, Johannesson K, Faria R, Stankowski S, Westram AM, Butlin
RK, Rafajlović M, Fraisse C. 2023. Ten years of demographic modelling of divergence
and speciation in the sea. Evolutionary Applications. 16(2), 542–559.
mla: De Jode, Aurélien, et al. “Ten Years of Demographic Modelling of Divergence
and Speciation in the Sea.” Evolutionary Applications, vol. 16, no. 2,
Wiley, 2023, pp. 542–59, doi:10.1111/eva.13428.
short: A. De Jode, A. Le Moan, K. Johannesson, R. Faria, S. Stankowski, A.M. Westram,
R.K. Butlin, M. Rafajlović, C. Fraisse, Evolutionary Applications 16 (2023) 542–559.
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abstract:
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text: The concept of a “speciation continuum” has gained popularity in recent decades.
It emphasizes speciation as a continuous process that may be studied by comparing
contemporary population pairs that show differing levels of divergence. In their
recent perspective article in Evolution, Stankowski and Ravinet provided a valuable
service by formally defining the speciation continuum as a continuum of reproductive
isolation, based on opinions gathered from a survey of speciation researchers.
While we agree that the speciation continuum has been a useful concept to advance
the understanding of the speciation process, some intrinsic limitations exist.
Here, we advocate for a multivariate extension, the speciation hypercube, first
proposed by Dieckmann et al. in 2004, but rarely used since. We extend the idea
of the speciation cube and suggest it has strong conceptual and practical advantages
over a one-dimensional model. We illustrate how the speciation hypercube can be
used to visualize and compare different speciation trajectories, providing new
insights into the processes and mechanisms of speciation. A key strength of the
speciation hypercube is that it provides a unifying framework for speciation research,
as it allows questions from apparently disparate subfields to be addressed in
a single conceptual model.
acknowledgement: "The authors of this article were supported by LMU Munich (J.B.W.W.),
a James S. McDonnell Foundation postdoctoral fellowship (A.K.H.). P.N. received
funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon
2020 research and innovation program (Grant agreement No. 770826 EE-Dynamics).\r\nWe
thank participants in the 2019 Gordon Conference on Speciation for the extensive
conversation on this topic. Thanks to Dan Funk for providing permission to use data
from Funk et al. 2006, and for comments on the manuscript."
article_processing_charge: No
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author:
- first_name: Daniel I.
full_name: Bolnick, Daniel I.
last_name: Bolnick
- first_name: Amanda K.
full_name: Hund, Amanda K.
last_name: Hund
- first_name: Patrik
full_name: Nosil, Patrik
last_name: Nosil
- first_name: Foen
full_name: Peng, Foen
last_name: Peng
- first_name: Mark
full_name: Ravinet, Mark
last_name: Ravinet
- first_name: Sean
full_name: Stankowski, Sean
id: 43161670-5719-11EA-8025-FABC3DDC885E
last_name: Stankowski
- first_name: Swapna
full_name: Subramanian, Swapna
last_name: Subramanian
- first_name: Jochen B.W.
full_name: Wolf, Jochen B.W.
last_name: Wolf
- first_name: Roman
full_name: Yukilevich, Roman
last_name: Yukilevich
citation:
ama: 'Bolnick DI, Hund AK, Nosil P, et al. A multivariate view of the speciation
continuum. Evolution: International journal of organic evolution. 2023;77(1):318-328.
doi:10.1093/evolut/qpac004'
apa: 'Bolnick, D. I., Hund, A. K., Nosil, P., Peng, F., Ravinet, M., Stankowski,
S., … Yukilevich, R. (2023). A multivariate view of the speciation continuum.
Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution. Oxford University
Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpac004'
chicago: 'Bolnick, Daniel I., Amanda K. Hund, Patrik Nosil, Foen Peng, Mark Ravinet,
Sean Stankowski, Swapna Subramanian, Jochen B.W. Wolf, and Roman Yukilevich. “A
Multivariate View of the Speciation Continuum.” Evolution: International Journal
of Organic Evolution. Oxford University Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpac004.'
ieee: 'D. I. Bolnick et al., “A multivariate view of the speciation continuum,”
Evolution: International journal of organic evolution, vol. 77, no. 1.
Oxford University Press, pp. 318–328, 2023.'
ista: 'Bolnick DI, Hund AK, Nosil P, Peng F, Ravinet M, Stankowski S, Subramanian
S, Wolf JBW, Yukilevich R. 2023. A multivariate view of the speciation continuum.
Evolution: International journal of organic evolution. 77(1), 318–328.'
mla: 'Bolnick, Daniel I., et al. “A Multivariate View of the Speciation Continuum.”
Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution, vol. 77, no. 1,
Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 318–28, doi:10.1093/evolut/qpac004.'
short: 'D.I. Bolnick, A.K. Hund, P. Nosil, F. Peng, M. Ravinet, S. Stankowski, S.
Subramanian, J.B.W. Wolf, R. Yukilevich, Evolution: International Journal of Organic
Evolution 77 (2023) 318–328.'
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...
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abstract:
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text: The term “haplotype block” is commonly used in the developing field of haplotype-based
inference methods. We argue that the term should be defined based on the structure
of the Ancestral Recombination Graph (ARG), which contains complete information
on the ancestry of a sample. We use simulated examples to demonstrate key features
of the relationship between haplotype blocks and ancestral structure, emphasizing
the stochasticity of the processes that generate them. Even the simplest cases
of neutrality or of a “hard” selective sweep produce a rich structure, often missed
by commonly used statistics. We highlight a number of novel methods for inferring
haplotype structure, based on the full ARG, or on a sequence of trees, and illustrate
how they can be used to define haplotype blocks using an empirical data set. While
the advent of new, computationally efficient methods makes it possible to apply
these concepts broadly, they (and additional new methods) could benefit from adding
features to explore haplotype blocks, as we define them. Understanding and applying
the concept of the haplotype block will be essential to fully exploit long and
linked-read sequencing technologies.
acknowledgement: 'We thank the Barton group for useful discussion and feedback during
the writing of this article. Comments from Roger Butlin, Molly Schumer''s Group,
the tskit development team, editors and three reviewers greatly improved the manuscript.
Funding was provided by SCAS (Natural Sciences Programme, Knut and Alice Wallenberg
Foundation), an FWF Wittgenstein grant (PT1001Z211), an FWF standalone grant (grant
P 32166), and an ERC Advanced Grant. YFC was supported by the Max Planck Society
and an ERC Proof of Concept Grant #101069216 (HAPLOTAGGING).'
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- first_name: Arka
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last_name: Pal
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- first_name: Sean
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last_name: Stankowski
- first_name: Yingguang Frank
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full_name: Barton, Nicholas H
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last_name: Barton
orcid: 0000-0002-8548-5240
citation:
ama: Shipilina D, Pal A, Stankowski S, Chan YF, Barton NH. On the origin and structure
of haplotype blocks. Molecular Ecology. 2023;32(6):1441-1457. doi:10.1111/mec.16793
apa: Shipilina, D., Pal, A., Stankowski, S., Chan, Y. F., & Barton, N. H. (2023).
On the origin and structure of haplotype blocks. Molecular Ecology. Wiley.
https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16793
chicago: Shipilina, Daria, Arka Pal, Sean Stankowski, Yingguang Frank Chan, and
Nicholas H Barton. “On the Origin and Structure of Haplotype Blocks.” Molecular
Ecology. Wiley, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16793.
ieee: D. Shipilina, A. Pal, S. Stankowski, Y. F. Chan, and N. H. Barton, “On the
origin and structure of haplotype blocks,” Molecular Ecology, vol. 32,
no. 6. Wiley, pp. 1441–1457, 2023.
ista: Shipilina D, Pal A, Stankowski S, Chan YF, Barton NH. 2023. On the origin
and structure of haplotype blocks. Molecular Ecology. 32(6), 1441–1457.
mla: Shipilina, Daria, et al. “On the Origin and Structure of Haplotype Blocks.”
Molecular Ecology, vol. 32, no. 6, Wiley, 2023, pp. 1441–57, doi:10.1111/mec.16793.
short: D. Shipilina, A. Pal, S. Stankowski, Y.F. Chan, N.H. Barton, Molecular Ecology
32 (2023) 1441–1457.
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text: The classical infinitesimal model is a simple and robust model for the inheritance
of quantitative traits. In this model, a quantitative trait is expressed as the
sum of a genetic and an environmental component, and the genetic component of
offspring traits within a family follows a normal distribution around the average
of the parents’ trait values, and has a variance that is independent of the parental
traits. In previous work, we showed that when trait values are determined by the
sum of a large number of additive Mendelian factors, each of small effect, one
can justify the infinitesimal model as a limit of Mendelian inheritance. In this
paper, we show that this result extends to include dominance. We define the model
in terms of classical quantities of quantitative genetics, before justifying it
as a limit of Mendelian inheritance as the number, M, of underlying loci tends
to infinity. As in the additive case, the multivariate normal distribution of
trait values across the pedigree can be expressed in terms of variance components
in an ancestral population and probabilities of identity by descent determined
by the pedigree. Now, with just first-order dominance effects, we require two-,
three-, and four-way identities. We also show that, even if we condition on parental
trait values, the “shared” and “residual” components of trait values within each
family will be asymptotically normally distributed as the number of loci tends
to infinity, with an error of order 1/M−−√. We illustrate our results with some
numerical examples.
acknowledgement: NHB was supported in part by ERC Grants 250152 and 101055327. AV
was partly supported by the chaire Modélisation Mathématique et Biodiversité of
Veolia Environment—Ecole Polytechnique—Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle—Fondation
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