Inferring the geographic mode of speciation by contrasting autosomal and sex-linked genetic diversity
- Chu, Jui-Hua Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan - Center for Systems Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Wegmann, Daniel Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Yeh, Chia-Fen Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Lin, Rong-Chien Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Yang, Xiao-Jun Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China
- Lei, Fu-Min Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Yao, Cheng-Te Division of Zoology, Endemic Species Research Institute, Chi-Chi, Nantou, Taiwan
- Zou, Fa-Sheng South China Institute of Endangered Animals, Guangzhou, China
- Li, Shou-Hsien Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
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16.08.2013
Published in:
- Molecular Biology and Evolution. - 2013, vol. 30, no. 11, p. 2519-2530
English
When geographic isolation drives speciation, concurrent termination of gene flow among genomic regions will occur immediately after the formation of the barrier between diverging populations. Alternatively, if speciation is driven by ecologically divergent selection, gene flow of selectively neutral genomic regions may go on between diverging populations until the completion of reproductive isolation. It may also lead to an unsynchronized termination of gene flow between genomic regions with different roles in the speciation process. Here we developed a novel Approximate Bayesian Computation pipeline to infer the geographic mode of speciation by testing for a lack of postdivergence gene flow and a concurrent termination of gene flow in autosomal and sex-linked markers jointly. We applied this approach to infer the geographic mode of speciation for two allopatric highland rosefinches, the vinaceous rosefinch Carpodacus vinaceus and the Taiwan rosefinch C. formosanus from DNA polymorphisms of both autosomal and Z-linked loci. Our results suggest that the two rosefinch species diverged allopatrically approximately 0.5 million years ago. Our approach allowed us further to infer that female effective population sizes are about five times larger than those of males, an estimate potentially useful when comparing the intensity of sexual selection across species.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Biologie
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Biological sciences
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 32977
- DOI 10.1093/molbev/mst140
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/303075
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