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Contrasting effects of environment and genetics generate a continuum of parallel evolution

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, May 2017
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Title
Contrasting effects of environment and genetics generate a continuum of parallel evolution
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Nature Ecology & Evolution, May 2017
DOI 10.1038/s41559-017-0158
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Yoel E. Stuart, Thor Veen, Jesse N. Weber, Dieta Hanson, Mark Ravinet, Brian K. Lohman, Cole J. Thompson, Tania Tasneem, Andrew Doggett, Rebecca Izen, Newaz Ahmed, Rowan D. H. Barrett, Andrew P. Hendry, Catherine L. Peichel, Daniel I. Bolnick

Abstract

Parallel evolution of similar traits by independent populations in similar environments is considered strong evidence for adaptation by natural selection. Often, however, replicate populations in similar environments do not all evolve in the same way, thus deviating from any single, predominant outcome of evolution. This variation might arise from non-adaptive, population-specific effects of genetic drift, gene flow or limited genetic variation. Alternatively, these deviations from parallel evolution might also reflect predictable adaptation to cryptic environmental heterogeneity within discrete habitat categories. Here, we show that deviations from parallel evolution are the consequence of environmental variation within habitats combined with variation in gene flow. Threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in adjoining lake and stream habitats (a lake-stream 'pair') diverge phenotypically, yet the direction and magnitude of this divergence is not always fully parallel among 16 replicate pairs. We found that the multivariate direction of lake-stream morphological divergence was less parallel between pairs whose environmental differences were less parallel. Thus, environmental heterogeneity among lake-stream pairs contributes to deviations from parallel evolution. Additionally, likely genomic targets of selection were more parallel between environmentally more similar pairs. In contrast, variation in the magnitude of lake-stream divergence (independent of direction) was better explained by differences in lake-stream gene flow; pairs with greater lake-stream gene flow were less morphologically diverged. Thus, both adaptive and non-adaptive processes work concurrently to generate a continuum of parallel evolution across lake-stream stickleback population pairs.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 250 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 81 32%
Student > Master 40 16%
Researcher 30 12%
Student > Bachelor 22 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 5%
Other 26 10%
Unknown 40 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 122 49%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 45 18%
Environmental Science 31 12%
Social Sciences 2 <1%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 <1%
Other 3 1%
Unknown 46 18%
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