Genomes of the extinct Bachman’s warbler show high divergence and no evidence of admixture with other extant Vermivora warblers
Genomes of the extinct Bachman’s warbler show high divergence and no evidence of admixture with other extant Vermivora warblers
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10.1016/j.cub.2023.05.058
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2023-06
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9.2
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Andrew W. Wood;Zachary A. Szpiech;I. Lovette;Brian Tilston Smith;D. P. Toews
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Andrew W. Wood;Zachary A. Szpiech;I. Lovette;Brian Tilston Smith;D. P. Toews
Bachman's warbler1(Vermivora bachmanii)—last sighted in 1988—is one of the only North American passerines to recently go extinct.2,3,4Given extensive ongoing hybridization of its two extant congeners—the blue-winged warbler (V. cyanoptera) and golden-winged warbler (V. chrysoptera)5,6,7,8—and shared patterns of plumage variation between Bachman's warbler and hybrids between those extant species, it has been suggested that Bachman's warbler might have also had a component of hybrid ancestry. Here, we use historic DNA (hDNA) and whole genomes of Bachman's warblers collected at the turn of the 20thcentury to address this. We combine these data with the two extantVermivoraspecies to examine patterns of population differentiation, inbreeding, and gene flow. In contrast to the admixture hypothesis, the genomic evidence is consistent withV. bachmaniihaving been a highly divergent, reproductively isolated species, with no evidence of introgression. We show that these three species have similar levels of runs of homozygosity (ROH), consistent with effects of a small long-term effective population size or population bottlenecks, with oneV. bachmaniioutlier showing numerous long ROH and a FROHgreater than 5%. We also found—using population branch statistic estimates—previously undocumented evidence of lineage-specific evolution inV. chrysopteranear a pigmentation gene candidate,CORIN, which is a known modifier ofASIP, which is in turn involved in melanic throat and mask coloration in this family of birds. Together, these genomic results also highlight how natural history collections are such invaluable repositories of information about extant and extinct species.