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Genetic architecture of skeletal evolution in European lake and stream stickleback

Berner, Daniel and Moser, Dario and Roesti, Marius and Buescher, Heinz and Salzburger, Walter. (2014) Genetic architecture of skeletal evolution in European lake and stream stickleback. Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution, 68 (6). pp. 1792-1805.

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Official URL: http://edoc.unibas.ch/dok/A6289028

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Abstract

Advances in genomic techniques are greatly facilitating the study of molecular signatures of selection in diverging natural populations. Connecting these signatures to phenotypes under selection remains challenging, but benefits from dissections of the genetic architecture of adaptive divergence. We here perform quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping using 488 F2 individuals and 2011 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to explore the genetic architecture of skeletal divergence in a lake-stream stickleback system from Central Europe. We find QTLs for gill raker, snout, and head length, vertebral number, and the extent of lateral plating (plate number and height). Although two large-effect loci emerge, QTL effect sizes are generally small. Examining the neighborhood of the QTL-linked SNPs identifies several genes involved in bone formation, which emerge as strong candidate genes for skeletal evolution. Finally, we use SNP data from the natural source populations to demonstrate that some SNPs linked to QTLs in our cross also exhibit striking allele frequency differences in the wild, suggesting a causal role of these QTLs in adaptive population divergence. Our study paves the way for comparative analyses across other (lake-stream) stickleback populations, and for functional investigations of the candidate genes.
Faculties and Departments:05 Faculty of Science > Departement Umweltwissenschaften > Integrative Biologie > Evolutionary Biology (Salzburger)
UniBasel Contributors:Salzburger, Walter
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Wiley
ISSN:0014-3820
e-ISSN:1558-5646
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
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Last Modified:04 Dec 2017 09:11
Deposited On:10 Oct 2014 09:19

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