ArticleMolecular ecology2021
Temperature, rainfall and wind variables underlie environmental adaptation in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster.
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- Seasonal variation in wing size and shape of Drosophila melanogaster reveals rapid adaptation to environmental changes.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Genetics of adaptation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Population-scale long-read sequencing uncovers transposable elements associated with gene expression variation and adaptive signatures in Drosophila.Nature communications · 2022Article
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Abstract
While several studies in a diverse set of species have shed light on the genes underlying adaptation, our knowledge on the selective pressures that explain the observed patterns lags behind. Drosophila melanogaster is a valuable organism to study environmental adaptation because this species originated in Southern Africa and has recently expanded worldwide, and also because it has a functionally well-annotated genome. In this study, we aimed to decipher which environmental variables are relevant for adaptation of D. melanogaster natural populations in Europe and North America. We analysed 36 whole-genome pool-seq samples of D. melanogaster natural populations collected in 20 European and 11 North American locations. We used the BayPass software to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and transposable elements (TEs) showing signature of adaptive differentiation across populations, as well as significant associations with 59 environmental variables related to temperature, rainfall, evaporation, solar radiation, wind, daylight hours, and soil type. We found that in addition to temperature and rainfall, wind related variables are also relevant for D. melanogaster environmental adaptation. Interestingly, 23%-51% of the genes that showed significant associations with environmental variables were not found overly differentiated across populations. In addition to SNPs, we also identified 10 reference transposable element insertions associated with environmental variables. Our results showed that genome-environment association analysis can identify adaptive genetic variants that are undetected by population differentiation analysis while also allowing the identification of candidate environmental drivers of adaptation.
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