Maintenance of species boundaries despite ongoing gene flow in ragworts
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Author(s)
Osborne, OG
Chapman, MA
Nevado, B
Filatov, DA
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The role of hybridization between diversifying species has been the focus of a huge amount of recent evolutionary research. While gene flow can prevent speciation or initiate species collapse, it can also generate new hybrid species. Similarly, while adaptive divergence can be wiped out by gene flow, new adaptive variation can be introduced via introgression. The relative frequency of these outcomes, and indeed the frequency of hybridization and introgression in general are largely unknown. One group of closely-related species with several documented cases of hybridization is the Mediterranean ragwort (genus: Senecio) species-complex. Examples of both polyploid and homoploid hybrid speciation are known in the clade, although their evolutionary relationships and the general frequency of introgressive hybridization among them remain unknown. Using a whole genome gene–space dataset comprising eight Senecio species we fully resolve the phylogeny of these species for the first time despite phylogenetic incongruence across the genome. Using a D-statistic approach, we demonstrate previously unknown cases of introgressive hybridization between multiple pairs of taxa across the species tree. This is an important step in establishing these species as a study system for diversification with gene flow, and suggests that introgressive hybridization may be a widespread and important process in plant evolution.
Date Issued
2016-03-14
Date Acceptance
2016-03-07
Citation
Genome Biology and Evolution, 2016, 8 (4), pp.1038-1047
ISSN
1759-6653
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Start Page
1038
End Page
1047
Journal / Book Title
Genome Biology and Evolution
Volume
8
Issue
4
Copyright Statement
© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics & Heredity
Speciation with gene flow
Hybridization
Phylogenetic incongruence
Clade diversification
Introgression
Senecio Asteraceae
Phylogenetic inference
Reproductive isolation
Adaptive radiation
Hybrid speciation
Annual sunflowers
Tree estimation
Mount Etna
Divergence
hybridization
Developmental Biology
Genetics
Publication Status
Published