ArticleMolecular ecology2013
Complex trait divergence contributes to environmental niche differentiation in ecological speciation of Boechera stricta.
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- Globally Relaxed Selection and Local Adaptation in Boechera stricta.Genome biology and evolution · 2022Article
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- The Evolution of Sex is Tempered by Costly Hybridization in Boechera (Rock Cress).The Journal of heredity · 2021Article
- Divergence in drought-response traits between sympatric species ofEcology and evolution · 2019Article
- Ancient polymorphisms contribute to genome-wide variation by long-term balancing selection and divergent sorting in Boechera stricta.Genome biology · 2019Article
- Establishing the cell biology of apomictic reproduction in diploid Boechera stricta (Brassicaceae).Annals of botany · 2018Article
- DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE1 Contributes to Freezing Tolerance.Plant physiology · 2018Article
- Plasticity of plant defense and its evolutionary implications in wild populations of Boechera stricta.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2018Article
- Admixture, evolution, and variation in reproductive isolation in the Boechera puberula clade.BMC evolutionary biology · 2018Article
- The Functional Change and Deletion ofFrontiers in plant science · 2018Article
- Young inversion with multiple linked QTLs under selection in a hybrid zone.Nature ecology & evolution · 2017Article
- Phenological shifts of native and invasive species under climate change: insights from the Boechera-Lythrum model.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- Testing the optimal defense hypothesis in nature: Variation for glucosinolate profiles within plants.PloS one · 2017Article
- Environmental versus geographical effects on genomic variation in wild soybean (Glycine soja) across its native range in northeast Asia.Ecology and evolution · 2016Article
- Ecological genetics of range size variation in Boechera spp. (Brassicaceae).Ecology and evolution · 2015Article
- Microgeographic Patterns of Genetic Divergence and Adaptation across Environmental Gradients in Boechera stricta (Brassicaceae).The American naturalist · 2015Article
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Abstract
Ecological factors may contribute to reproductive isolation if differential local adaptation causes immigrant or hybrid fitness reduction. Because local adaptation results from the interaction between natural selection and adaptive traits, it is crucial to investigate both to understand ecological speciation. Previously, we used niche modelling to identify local water availability as an environmental correlate of incipient ecological speciation between two subspecies in Boechera stricta, a close relative of Arabidopsis. Here, we performed several large-scale glasshouse experiments to investigate the divergence of various physiological, phenological and morphological traits. Although we found no significant difference in physiological traits, the Western subspecies has significantly faster growth rate, larger leaf area, less succulent leaves, delayed reproductive time and longer flowering duration. These trait differences are concordant with previous results that habitats of the Western genotypes have more consistent water availability, while Eastern genotypes inhabit locations with more ephemeral water supplies. In addition, by comparing univariate and multivariate divergence of complex traits (Q(ST)) to the genomewide distribution of SNP FST , we conclude that the aspects of phenology and morphology (but not physiology) are under divergent selection. In addition, we also identified several highly diverged traits without obvious water-related functions.
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