A vertebrate adaptive radiation is assembled from an ancient and disjunct spatiotemporal landscape
A vertebrate adaptive radiation is assembled from an ancient and disjunct spatiotemporal landscape
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10.1073/pnas.2011811118
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2021-05
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E. Richards;J. A. McGirr;Jeremy R. Wang;M. S. St. John;J. Poelstra;Maria J. Solano;Delaney C. O’Connell;B. Turner;C. Martin
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E. Richards;J. A. McGirr;Jeremy R. Wang;M. S. St. John;J. Poelstra;Maria J. Solano;Delaney C. O’Connell;B. Turner;C. Martin
Significance Most biodiversity evolved in rapid bursts of new species, adaptations, and ecological niches. However, this process of adaptive radiation is poorly understood. We used large-scale genomic sequencing across the entire Caribbean range of pupfishes to understand why radiation in this group is restricted to a single Bahamian island. We found that twofold higher gene flow to this island brought in new combinations of ancient adaptive mutations needed for colonizing novel ecological niches of scale-eating and snail-eating. Adaptation occurred in stages: first selection on feeding behavior, then selection for trophic morphology, and finally refinement through gene coding change. We demonstrate that young, localized radiations can emerge from a vast pool of adaptive genetic variation spread across time and space. To investigate the origins and stages of vertebrate adaptive radiation, we reconstructed the spatial and temporal histories of adaptive alleles underlying major phenotypic axes of diversification from the genomes of 202 Caribbean pupfishes. On a single Bahamian island, ancient standing variation from disjunct geographic sources was reassembled into new combinations under strong directional selection for adaptation to the novel trophic niches of scale-eating and molluscivory. We found evidence for two longstanding hypotheses of adaptive radiation: hybrid swarm origins and temporal stages of adaptation. Using a combination of population genomics, transcriptomics, and genome-wide association mapping, we demonstrate that this microendemic adaptive radiation of novel trophic specialists on San Salvador Island, Bahamas experienced twice as much adaptive introgression as generalist populations on neighboring islands and that adaptive divergence occurred in stages. First, standing regulatory variation in genes associated with feeding behavior (prlh, cfap20, and rmi1) were swept to fixation by selection, then standing regulatory variation in genes associated with craniofacial and muscular development (itga5, ext1, cyp26b1, and galr2) and finally the only de novo nonsynonymous substitution in an osteogenic transcription factor and oncogene (twist1) swept to fixation most recently. Our results demonstrate how ancient alleles maintained in distinct environmental refugia can be assembled into new adaptive combinations and provide a framework for reconstructing the spatiotemporal landscape of adaptation and speciation.