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The genetic basis of divergent pigment patterns in juvenile threespine sticklebacks.
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- The Ecology of Hybrid Incompatibilities.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2024Review
- Disparities in Body Color Adaptability and Ambient Light Color Preference between Wild and Hatchery-Reared Marbled Rockfish (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
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- Shedding light on the circadian clock of the threespine stickleback.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Influence of lighting environment on social preferences in sticklebacks from two different photic habitats. II. Shoaling and mate preferences of lab-bred fishes.Current zoology · 2021Article
- Comparative transcriptomics reveals the molecular genetic basis of pigmentation loss inEcology and evolution · 2020Article
- Dark-rearing uncovers novel gene expression patterns in an obligate cave-dwelling fish.Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution · 2020Article
- High-Density Linkage Map and QTLs for Growth in Snapper (G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2019Article
- Genomics of Developmental Plasticity in Animals.Frontiers in genetics · 2019Review
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- The genetic and molecular architecture of phenotypic diversity in sticklebacks.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- Genomics of Rapid Incipient Speciation in Sympatric Threespine Stickleback.PLoS genetics · 2016Article
- Genetic Architecture of Conspicuous Red Ornaments in Female Threespine Stickleback.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2015Article
- Context-dependent dynamic UV signaling in female threespine sticklebacks.Scientific reports · 2015Article
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Abstract
Animal pigment patterns are important for a range of functions, including camouflage and communication. Repeating pigment patterns, such as stripes, bars and spots have been of particular interest to developmental and theoretical biologists, but the genetic basis of natural variation in such patterns is largely unexplored. In this study, we identify a difference in a periodic pigment pattern among juvenile threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) from different environments. Freshwater sticklebacks exhibit prominent vertical bars that visually break up the body shape, but sticklebacks from marine populations do not. We hypothesize that these distinct pigment patterns are tuned to provide crypsis in different habitats. This phenotypic difference is widespread and appears in most of the freshwater populations that we sampled. We used quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping in freshwater-marine F2 hybrids to elucidate the genetic architecture underlying divergence in this pigmentation pattern. We identified two QTL that were significantly associated with variation in barring. Interestingly, these QTL were associated with two distinct aspects of the pigment pattern: melanophore number and overall pigment level. We compared the QTL locations with positions of known pigment candidate genes in the stickleback genome. We also identified two major QTL for juvenile body size, providing new insights into the genetic basis of juvenile growth rates in natural populations. In summary, although there is a growing literature describing simple genetic bases for adaptive coloration differences, this study emphasizes that pigment patterns can also possess a more complex genetic architecture.
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