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ArticleGenome biology and evolution2023

A Long-Standing Hybrid Population Between Pacific and Atlantic Herring in a Subarctic Fjord of Norway.

Mats E Pettersson, Angela P Fuentes-Pardo, Christina M Rochus, Erik D Enbody, Huijuan Bi, Risto Väinölä, Leif Andersson

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Article in Genome biology and evolution, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Mats E PetterssonDepartment of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-7372-9076
Angela P Fuentes-PardoDepartment of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Christina M RochusDepartment of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Erik D EnbodyDepartment of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Huijuan BiDepartment of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Risto VäinöläFinnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Leif AnderssonDepartment of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-4085-6968

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Abstract

Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) and Pacific herring (C. pallasii) are sister species that split from a common ancestor about 2 million years ago. Balsfjord, a subarctic fjord in Northern Norway, harbors an outpost population of Pacific herring within the range of the Atlantic herring. We used whole genome sequencing to show that gene flow from Atlantic herring into the Balsfjord population has generated a stable hybrid population that has persisted for thousands of generations. The Atlantic herring ancestry in Balsfjord was estimated in the range 25-26%. The old age and large proportion of introgressed regions suggest there are no obvious genetic incompatibilities between species. Introgressed regions were widespread in the genome and large, with some in excess of 1 Mb, and they were overrepresented in low-recombination regions. We show that the distribution of introgressed material is non-random; introgressed sequence blocks in different individuals are shared more often than expected by chance. Furthermore, introgressed regions tend to show elevated divergence (FST) between Atlantic and Pacific herring. Together, our results suggest that introgression of genetic material has facilitated adaptation in the Balsfjord population. The Balsfjord population provides a rare example of a stable interspecies hybrid population that has persisted over thousands of years.

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EstuariesFishesAnimalsGenomeHumansNorwayPopulation DynamicsAtlantic herringgene-flowhybridizationPacific herringsubarctic

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